The film 'Drive' has quickly reached cult status and it's soundtrack is not far behind. The film cleverly uses music to subtly provide dialogues to its audience and is used to identify different characters within the film.
The atmospheric electronic score by Cliff Martinez (former drummer of Red Hot Chilli Peppers) captures the emotion which cannot be on film, with its blatantly titled music , such as ‘Skull Crushing’ or ‘Rubber Head’, if you have seen the film you know what I mean. But even with the music’s directness, while watching the film you forget it’s there and its only when you listen to the soundtrack again on its own, you clearly remember the scenes and what your exact emotion at the time where. The film has a tonal cohesion that is perfect that as an audience I feel as though I’m tapping into the character mindset. An example being,
the situation is a tense and stressful one but the music is calm, cool and collected very much like The Driver himself.
Another thing that the music did in the film was blatantly tell the audience what to feel what in the absence of dialogue which was a large amount of the time when considering that The Driver is a silent loner, who let only his actions do the talking.
The music married perfectly to the characters, the story and the emanated the mood of the film in such a way that fans of the movie flocked to get the soundtrack to further elongate their experience of the film.
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