I wanted that feel more, because Nino (Ron Perlman) is, you know, a Jewish man who wants to be an Italian gangster. were more like restaurant-oriented, where being a New Yorker you’re used to just walking in and getting a slice. But also a place that basically looks like a front for something else,” said Refn. “ was shot in the valley, and it was difficult to find because I wanted a real ‘New York’ kind of pizza shop, where you walk in from the street to get a slice. The film crew also placed a common hallway with doors opened into the actual apartment sets. It was once an old hotel and has often been used as film locations for movies.ĭriver’s and Irene’s apartments were built from scratch to function like practical locations.
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The film location used for the apartments where Driver (Gosling) and Irene (Mulligan) live are in the Los Angeles Park Plaza Hotel Apartments, located across from MacArthur Park. The Los Angeles’ Park Plaza Hotel Apartments Here are 12 of the film locations featured in Drive.ġ. Without further ado, let’s visit Refn’s Los Angeles. “It’s almost a mythological story, not a story about today or yesterday or tomorrow, so it was important that the movie have an almost indefinable time period,” states Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC, the movie’s director of photography in an intereview with American Cinematographer. So I decided that those were the places where I would find the locations within.” “That’s how when you do these low budget movies, you always have to think economically. “Because I didn’t have a lot of money to shoot the movie with I decided to come up with these three hubs, where I would shoot the film: one was in Echo Park, one was in the Valley, and one was in downtown L.A,” shares the director. as the three main film locations for Drive.
Refn picked the Valley, Echo Park and downtown L.A. “So that was the idea-to create a movie about traveling into something I didn’t know.” “I wanted to live the life of a European filmmaker in Los Angeles, coming to a city that I didn’t know, that I only knew from cinema and mythology,” Refn recalls in his interview with Movieline. One of the reasons Refn agreed to direct Drive was because its setting is in L.A. In addition to the understated, top-notch acting caliber of its two main stars Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, Drive has another winning combination - its minimal but effective script, its pulsating Eurovision soundtrack of synth-based melodies, and its haunting film locations … showcasing the gritty, real-life neighborhoods of Los Angeles rarely mentioned in guide books. The movie (screenplay by Hossein Amini) is based on the 2005 James Sallis pulp-novel of the same name. Even though it has been snubbed by the Oscars this year, Drive - the “fairytale” stylishly directed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn - is still one of my top 5 favorite 2011 films.
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