50 of the most interesting Drive 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 Drive movie message.
A mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor in this action drama.
Genre
Crime, Drama
Director
Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars
Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
IMDB score
7.8
Drive 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)
Drive 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.
Initially received an X-Rating due to the graphic violence of the final shootout. To attain an R-Rating, Martin Scorsese had the colors de-saturated, making the brightly colored blood less prominent, a change he considered a big improvement on what was originally shot
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)
Th time, i notice the director, Martin Sorcesse as a background character!
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.
When the Kid goes into the movie trailer to take a mask, you can see 3 head sculpts of Christina Hendricks that were used for her death scene.
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.
Travis actually gets that "organizized" poster he joked to Betsy about
Costume details in Drive
Bryan Cranston's character, Shannon, has a tattoo of an upside down horseshoe on his neck. The character is described as being extraordinarily unlucky, and in some cultures an upside down horseshoe is considered bad luck.
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.
Robert De Niro is shown dumping sugar into his drink seconds after his voiceover says he had black coffee, underscoring both the narrator's unreliability and penchant for sweets.
Drive 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.
(2017) Buddy's real name is revealed to be Jason Van Horn. Buddy Van Horn is a famous stunt coordinator/film director.
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.
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.
A few references are made of Travis Bickle's service in the armed forces: when asking for a job, he says he was a marine; his green M-65 field jacket; but probably the subtlest hint is how he rolls up and packs away his sleeping bag during the day, like any good soldier would.
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.
The Driver mentions to his associates over the phone about giving them a 5 minute window during a heist. Later on during the heist, it takes him approximately 5 minutes (from opening the car door to parking his car at the Clippers game) to escape the police.