{"id":12187,"date":"2017-08-23T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:26:24","slug":"baby-driver-2017-edgar-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12187","title":{"rendered":"Baby Driver (2017, Edgar Wright)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would like to play the soundtrack a couple times then watch this again.  Editing videos to the beat of pop songs is something I do all the time, but somehow I never see it done to this extent in a Major Motion Picture &#8211; and especially not to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion songs.  So this was sheer delight until the plot started catching up in the second half &#8211; it&#8217;s not the increasing darkness I mind so much as there being so much plot in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Ansel &#8220;Baby&#8221; Elgort (<em>Divergent<\/em> trilogy, fake <em>Carrie<\/em> remake) is the driver, working with crazed criminals including Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm and Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez (<em>From Dusk Till Dawn<\/em>: the TV series) for big boss Kevin Spacey.  Baby falls for <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7259\">Lady Rose<\/a> Lily James and tries to get out of this criminal life, but they pull him back in.  Buncha musicians in minor roles, some dodgy character moments, but it&#8217;s all done with such panache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would like to play the soundtrack a couple times then watch this again. Editing videos to the beat of pop songs is something I do all the time, but somehow I never see it done to this extent in a Major Motion Picture &#8211; and especially not to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion songs. So this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,157,1672,710,534],"class_list":["post-12187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-edgar-wright","tag-jamie-foxx","tag-kevin-spacey","tag-pop-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12242,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12187\/revisions\/12242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}