If you hadnt noticed, Hollywood is a bit obsessed with The Familiar these days.
EnterBaby Driver, the latest film from British director Edgar Wright.
Wright is a Have Your Cake and Eat It Too kind of filmmaker.
InBaby Driver, Wright attempts to use soundtrack to give us the interior life of our protagonist.
Thankfully, for this movie, where Babys character fails, the originality of this world delights.
We dont need to be convinced that it is real to enjoy its offerings.
Wright rewards the media literate audience.
As I mentioned before, Wright makes movies for people who understand and obsess over movies.
Unlike many of what Hollywood has to offer, Wright assumes a certain media literacy from his audience.
Satire and homage dont work, otherwise.
Mr. Treacher reallyishiding a shotgun under that puffy jacket.
Wright rewards the viewer who pays attention.
Edgar Wrights depth of homage.
Wrights style of homage has always tended toward the deep pastiche rather than the shallow parody.
Its an important non-American reference to keep in mind when discussing the American sensibilities ofBaby Driver.
