Drive - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[carl]

Although many stunt drivers are credited, Ryan Gosling did a number of stunts himself, after completing a stunt driving car crash course.

[mathew]

Locations were picked by Nicolas Winding Refn while Ryan Gosling drove him around the city at night. Refn chose Los Angeles as the shooting site due to budget concerns.

[caroline]

The title sequence is hot-pink, which was inspired by Risky Business (1983)' editing table.

[carl]

The film premiered on May 20, in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. At its first showing to the media, it received abundant praise and received "some of the best responses of the festival", but one positive review said it "can't win, won't win" Cannes's top prize. It was greeted with hoots and howls of joy from the media, with viewers cheering on some of the scenes featuring extreme violence. It also received a 15-minute standing ovation from the crowd.

[alyssa]

"Trying to work in a more reality arena for a character like that," Nicolas Winding Refn originally auditioned porn stars for Blanche. He was unable to find anyone with the necessary acting talent. After meeting with Christina Hendricks, he decided to cast her, feeling her "powerhouse" persona would click with the character.

[lynn]

Nicolas Winding Refn replaced Neil Marshall as director. Refn was hand-picked by Ryan Gosling for the project.

[norma]

Ron Perlman won the role of Nino after explaining to Nicolas Winding Refn that he wanted to play "a Jewish man who wants to be an Italian gangster because that's what [he is], a Jewish boy from N.Y."

[aaron]

Bryan Cranston revealed in a 2012 interview that he ad-libbed many of his scenes in this film.

[camila]

Although this is a quiet crime thriller, the trailers gave the impression that it was a car chase film like the "Fast and Furious" films. One woman even sued because she did not get that sort of film.

[ruby]

The movie's tagline is the same tagline that was used for No Country for Old Men (2007) ("There are no clean getaways").

[veronica]

There are many references to Taxi Driver (1976) in this film. One is the scene in which Driver sits alone eating pie. This is the same thing the protagonist, Travis Bickle, did in Taxi Driver. Refn has expressed an esteemed admiration for Taxi Driver director Martin Scorsese.

[jessica]

After Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn removed much of the Driver's dialogue, Bryan Cranston felt that his character, Shannon, should make up for the lack of talking in the film, and thus made Shannon a motormouth. Much of his dialogue is improvised.

[kristina]

Drive (2011) was the inspiration for the incredibly popular indie game," Hotline Miami," according to its creator, Jonatan Söderström.