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Baby Driver

Before we watched 'The Fly' we watched three clips from Edgar Wright's  'Baby Driver'. Baby Driver is also about a getaway driver, but unlike Blue Song and The Fly, Baby Driver is a full length feature so we can compare the differences in narrative and character development.

The Opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMuUVw7TOM

Unlike Blue Song and The Fly, the opening to Baby Driver also includes the driving, wheras the other two only show the driver's progression as they wait. Here we see Baby (Ansel Elgort) waiting outside the bank for his cohort, dancing enthusiastically to the song he's listening to. When they return, they jump in the car and he accelerates backwards before going on to cleverly outsmart the police and safely complete the mission. From this opening scene there is already more character and narrative development. For character development we can deduce that Baby loves his music, has a cheeky streak, is clever, and is an incredibly good getaway driver. For narrative development we know that the bank heist as been successful as he manages to shake the police.

Mission Planning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpkmd00Zls (we watched a clip with a bit more at the start but I couldn't find it)

In this scene Baby is planning his next mission with Bats and two others. While they are explaining the plan Baby appears to not be listening, his music on and playing (which the audience hears too) but at the end he take out his headphone and explains the plan in full detail. This adds further to his character development as we learnt that he's attentive and can lip read. We also learn during this scene that he wears his headphones as he has tinnitus from an accident when he was younger and uses the music to block it out. We also learn that he's been a getaway driver since he was very young. This is a lot more character development than can be achieved in a short film as they tend to lack/do not explain  characters backstories.
More is added to the narrative also as we learn he's done this alot and will be doing it again.

Diner Scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzg_R7bDfqY

In this scene, Baby, Bats and the couple go into the diner. The waitress, Debora, who is Baby's love interest nearly gets shot by Bats in this scene after she annoys him and he goes to shoot her only to be stopped by Baby. This gives him more character development as we see he now has someone to lose. He has also been quite passive for the most part and he's now being more authoritative showing a turning point in both the narrative development and his character development.

 The narrative and characters are a lot more developed in this than they are in Blue Song and The Fly.



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