Behind the Music of Baby Driver, With Director Edgar Wright

Posted on July 6, 2017 by admin

“In the opening scene of Baby Driver, Baby (Ansel Elgort) sits behind the wheel fiddling with his click-wheel iPod. He cues up Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms” and lip syncs into an invisible microphone, making an otherwise private experience a performance. As three robbers jump in the getaway car, Spencer’s fiery track sets the tone for the first of many breakneck chases—much as the song itself planted the movie’s initial seed. When Baby Driver writer-director Edgar Wright first heard “Bellbottoms” sometime around 1995, he wasn’t a filmmaker yet, but visions of car chases danced in his head. “It was as close to synesthesia as I’ll probably ever come: ‘When I listen to this song, I think of a car chase—what is the movie that goes with this vision?’” says Wright…”

Link: http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/behind-the-music-of-baby-driver-with-director-edgar-wright/

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Baby Driver: References to Jon Spencer / JSBX

Posted on July 3, 2017 by admin

Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB7E0geIeV8

Baby sits back, cranks up “Bellbottoms” by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and air guitars his way through the sequence while the others rob a bank and exit in a hurry. That’s when things really get going as Baby steps on the gas and maneuvers away from the cops with heart-pounding, exhilarating polish. It’s a car chase for the ages.

http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/entertainment/review-baby-driver-toe-tapping-engine-revving-jolt-article-1.3278196

“The first time we see Baby in action, he’s sitting in his red Subaru, lip-syncing to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s ‘Bellbottoms’.”

http://www.gamesradar.com/baby-driver-review/

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Soundtracking with Edgar Wright: Podcast

Posted on July 1, 2017 by admin

The new episode of Soundtracking with Edith Bowman features Edgar Wright discussing the music featured in Baby Driver and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

nb. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Jon Spencer are mentioned several times throughout the show.

Stream Here: https://audioboom.com/posts/6066615-episode-47-edgar-wright-on-the-music-of-baby-driver

Download on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/soundtracking-edith-bowman/id1140497332

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“How a New York band inspired ‘Baby Driver’ 20 years ago”

Posted on June 30, 2017 by admin

“You might already know this, but the new movie Baby Driver opens with an absolutely virtuosic broad-daylight Atlanta car chase set to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s deathless romp “Bellbottoms.” If this isn’t enough to convince you to see this movie, then you and I are not the same. Wright cuts the car chase so that all the big moments arrive at big moments in the song, and by the time it ends, you’re left panting. It’s a trick that Wright pulls again and again in the movie, setting all of its scenes to great old pop and funk and instrumental tracks.”

Link: http://nypost.com/2017/06/29/how-a-new-york-band-inspired-baby-driver-20-years-ago/

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‘Baby Driver’: How Edgar Wright Staged the Crime Movie’s Musical Action Scenes

Posted on June 29, 2017 by admin

“”Bellbottoms,” The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (1995)

I mean, that song was never not going to be in the movie. It all starts there, with that weird moment of synesthesia – it wasn’t even “Oh, I know this will be the opening of a movie.” It was just something that appeared to me when I heard the song. But over the years, I had this sequence, and I knew it was the germ of something but I didn’t know what.

Then I thought: What if the getaway driver is listening to that track? Suddenly, it was the starting point for some sort of diegetic action-musical … taking what I love about the movies of Tarantino and John Landis and Scorsese and putting it into one full movie. Or American Graffitti, which is really the first diegetic musical. It’s one of the first movies I can think of where the pop soundtrack really isn’t a score – it’s all coming from whatever people are listening to onscreen.”

Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/baby-driver-edgar-wright-on-staging-those-musical-action-scenes-w489919

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