Baby Driver Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
50 of the most interesting Baby Driver easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Baby Driver movie message.
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Director
Edgar Wright
Production
Sony Pictures
Stars
Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González
IMDB score
7.6
Baby Driver Movie Trivia
The colour red is symbolic of violence or blood. Bats always wears red clothing to show that his blood lust is something that's a part of him. Buddy and Darling also have red light reflected on their faces, Darling when she tells Buddy to kill Bats, and Buddy in the cop car
Doc (Kevin Spacey) is accompanied by Killer Mike and Big Boi, both of which contributed to he film's soundtrack (Chase me & Run The Jewels)
Baby Driver Movie Easter Eggs
: A large portion of Baby's dialogue is something he has previously heard in the movie. This is because Baby is a sampler, he takes audio from other sources and integrates them into his life. He also does this with his mixtapes.
When Baby looks at all of his cassette tapes, one of the tapes says Red Line. This is a reference to the 2009 film REDLINE which is a Japanese animated movie about racing. Both films feature a protagonist who is an exceptional driver most likely without equal.
The music video for Mint Royale - Blue Song is breifly seen on TV. The music video was directed by Edgar Wright and was used as inspiration for the opening scene for Baby Driver (Link Below)
They were instructed to use Michael Myers Halloween masks for their second robbery, but JD misunderstood and got them Mike Myers masks instead. Mike Myers was given special filmmakers' thanks at the credits.
As Baby's channel surfing, the music video for 'Blue Song' by Mint Royale appears on the TV. The opening scene of Baby Driver was based on that music video.
Doc calls an elevator for Baby before saying "you're going up in the world!" However, Baby instead opts to take the stairs, showing how he'd rather get to the top by living an honest life than taking the easy road of crime.
The full lyrics of the song playing "Harlem Shuffle" are illustrated through subtle street writing and graffiti or the actions of the actors.
Costume details in Baby Driver
Amongst other colors, the color green is used as a symbol of home and comfort for Baby. His apartment with Joe is painted green, when he goes on the run he puts on a green jacket, and when he surrenders to the police he gives that jacket to Debora, who is his home when he's free.
Baby Driver movie hidden details
Baby flips through the channels at one point and later repeats all of the dialogue he hears from the TV.
J.D. (Right) is the only gunman in the second robbery to not wear a shoulder strap with his shotgun, later when when they swap cars he accidentally leaves it behind.
After the heist goes wrong, and he is running away from Buddy and the cops, Baby holds his fingers to his neck because iPod was just destroyed and he needs a beat to run too.
Before Buddy initiates a gunfight that kills a few cops, he turns his head towards the side, looking at the red tail light. Earlier in the film, Darling says, "When Buddy sees red, you'll see nothing but black."
Baby passes by a man arguing with his business partner on the phone, who is late for their meeting. When Baby is walking back with the coffees, the same man can be seen scolding his partner to be on time.
After Baby's iPod gets destroyed, he feels his pulse to get some sort of beat.
Baby's inmate number appears as graffiti on the wall during the opening titles of the movie.
Baby's secret stash has $100 bills include bills before and after the new $100 bill was released in 2010, signifying the length of Baby's tenure with Doc.
the scene where Baby is driving for Goodfellas pizza, Baby doesn't carry the pizzas in an insulated pizza delivery sleeve like most pizza delivery personnel do. This is because he can deliver the pizza so quickly that they actually don't have the chance to get cold.
Baby's inmate number is '28071978', a reference to the release date of The Driver (28 July 1978), a movie that influenced Edgar Wright.
Baby doesn't drink wine on his date with Debora because he's the driver
Had a unique writing process. Most movies would write the action sequences, then find which music synched best. For this movie, Edgar Wright found fast paced music, then wrote the scene to synch almost perfectly with the song, i.e., Hocus Pocus.
Jon Bernthal's character says this line before leaving the elevator. He is not seen or mentioned ever again.
When Doc says Baby is squared what he owes him, we see B2 or B?. Baby squared
When Baby's iPod gets shot, he takes his pulse to give himself an alternate music-like beat to distract from his tinnitus while he flees.
As Baby leaves the junkyard after watched the silver Taurus get crushed, the stripped remains of the WRX from the opening chase sequence can be seen.
It is shown that Baby Driver Zeroed his Odometer (Possibly to know the distance of each Heist Pursuit). The Odometer shows the distance accurately in the ongoing first pursuit.
At one point Baby flips through random channels. Throughout the movie he ends up referencing every line said on the t.v.
Baby notices a cop car speed in front of him. Later (2:33 in this vid), Griff assumes they're going to take off going forward, but Baby knows there are cops in front, so he reverses.
You can see graffiti of a black love heart in the background. After Baby sees Deborah, his eventual love interest in the film, that love heart turns red
The toy car Baby is playing with in the heist brief foreshadows the upcoming confrontation.
Baby's jacket still has a security tag because he stole the jacket from a mall while running from the police.
When Darling says to Bats "...when [Buddy] sees red, you'll see nothing but black", Buddy is looking at Bats who is wearing red and Bats is looking at Buddy who is wearing black.
(2017) Buddy's real name is revealed to be Jason Van Horn. Buddy Van Horn is a famous stunt coordinator/film director.
Bats, while talking about his former wheelman dying flashes a gun tattoo on his hand with his trigger finger pulled.
"Lets go away for awhile", an interlude on Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is playing. At the end of the scene Baby asks Debora if she wants to run away with him.
After the first heist in Baby Driver (2017), Griff warns him: "One of these days, Baby, you're gonna get blood on your hands." In the next scene Doc gives him his iconic gloves, which are blood red.
If you watch the film with headphones or properly placed surround sound speakers, every time we see Baby in 'Baby Driver' (2017) wearing only one of his headphones, you'll hear the song he is listening to through that ear only
many scenes when Baby doesn't have earbuds in, you can hear hissing/ringing, due to the character's tinnitus
Baby Driver is a film full of details but I don't believe anyone has seen this Lyric one yet
When Bats said:"I got enough demons right here playing music all the time." He wasn't just saying. The proof is when they were leaving after the gunfire with the Butcher, he finished 'Tequila' just by listening to a few seconds of it after checking on Baby's earbuds.
: After Bats shoots a guard and Baby sees a murder for the first time with his own eyes, the raindrops and light from the ultraviolet glasses look like blood drops
: the opening sequence shows how crucial it is that babys' life syncs with his music. however, when he sees debora for the first time, he gets off-track and the lyrics on the street briefly don't line up with the song. proving "she doesn't belong in this world."
Which is set in Atlanta, the station Baby turns to after stealing a car towards the end is the actual number 1 station for classic rock in the Atlanta area, 97.1 the river.
When Baby steals the car after the botched job, he starts cycling through radio stations, stopping on a station playing the song Radar Love, a classic rock song. The station is on the channel 97.1, the predominant classic rock station in Atlanta, where the movie takes place
Characters are killed off only after their real names are revealed. Leon, Monica, and Jason all die, Miles' name is revealed last and he survives.
Each song that involves the word "Baby" describes the scene of what is currently going on
All the dryers are full & running. They alternate between all red, all yellow, or all blue.
The scene where his apartment has been ransacked, the albums lying on the floor make up the movie soundtrack.
When Baby is at the junkyard watching Doc's car wreckage, he starts having memories of his childhood and accident. While doing this, you can hear his mom's tape playing backwards because, you know, he's going back in time.