The Detective doesn't appear to have a supervisor or follow any laws or rules (although his partner Red Plainclothesman played by Matt Clark does have a conscience and would like to see the Detective fail).
#DRIVE 2011 MOVIE DRIVER#
The Driver never appears to have any other type of job or skill besides his driving. The city is never named but it's all downtown Los Angeles (director Hill would use many of the same locations in his 1984 retro action film STREETS OF FIRE). It's just a description: the Driver, the Detective, the Connection, or Glasses. Hill's THE DRIVER takes place in a stylized world. Will the Detective catch the Driver red handed this time?
When they return to the train station, the Detective and a gaggle of cops are waiting. The Driver and the Player chase Teeth through the dark urban streets culminating in Teeth crashing his car in a large warehouse. Teeth steals the Player's purse with the correct bus locker key. The Exchange Man hops on a train, pursued by the Detective. The Player sends one of her accomplices the Exchange Man (Denny Macko) to switch bags and keys with her. She can help him change the stolen money for new money. The Driver takes the stolen cash and puts it in a locker at the train station. The Driver shoots Glasses before Glasses can return the favor. The Driver takes them to a warehouse picked by Glasses but away from the Detective. So Glasses and the Kid (Frank Bruno) pull off the job. But he doesn't want trigger happy Teeth to join them. The Detective challenges the Driver, dares him to pull off another heist. The Connection meets with the Driver but he doesn't want to work with shooters (aka bank robbers with guns). Glasses reaches out to the Connection (Ronee Blakley) to contact the Driver about the job. So the Detective tries to set up the Driver, extorting a hot head criminal named Glasses (Joseph Walsh) and his accomplice Teeth (Rudy Ramos) to hire the Driver to help them rob a bank so the Detective can catch him after the fact. He brings the Player in to ID the Driver at a line-up but she won't give him up (the Driver has paid her off to be his silent alibi). The Detective is obsessed with catching him. In pursuit of the Driver is the Detective (Bruce Dern). They were late exiting the casino almost resulting in the Driver getting apprehended. The Driver exhibits his skills as he avoids five police cars in pursuit. A group of casino patrons including a woman known as the Player (French actress Isabelle Adjani) watch as the Driver peels away with the two crooks. The film opens with the Driver waiting for two bag men to emerge from a casino they have just robbed. He's just the Driver (although Bruce Dern likes to call him Cowboy). Director Hill even borrows (or steals) using a similar train station locker, bait and switched locker keys, and pursuit on a train scene in THE DRIVER that he wrote for THE GETAWAY. He has to be adept at handling a car while chased by cops or double-crossing partners or mobsters. He needs to know all the escape and backup routes. Without a good getaway driver, the whole robbery could be over before it started if the driver's not there on time. Hill must have remembered he dispatched the getaway driver early in that film. Hill wrote the screenplay for THE GETAWAY which starred Steve McQueen. It's not surprising that writer/director Walter Hill came up with the idea and made THE DRIVER.
#DRIVE 2011 MOVIE DRIVERS#
And ironically, both leading men who play drivers are named Ryan: Ryan O'Neal in THE DRIVER and Ryan Gosling in DRIVE. Both films are set in Los Angeles (makes sense with all the highways and streets available in the City of Angels). Although not a remake (but definitely inspired by), DRIVE is like a first cousin once removed to THE DRIVER. Two films have given the getaway driver his due: Walter Hill's THE DRIVER (1978) and Nicholas Winding Refn's DRIVE (2011). He doesn't even make it back to the hideout after the bank robbery before Al Lettieri shoots him. The driver is often portrayed as a stooge, discarded quickly after the robbery is pulled off like in Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY (1972). The flashy parts go to the brains of the operation or the muscle or the trigger man. Like a drummer in a rock band, the role of the getaway driver is overlooked. When it comes to heist films, the getaway driver usually gets the short end of the stick.
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