VICE Movie Club wasn’t going to let the first American-made film from Danish nerd Nicolas Refn slide by unnoticed. He managed to get a violent noir filled with slow-as-lean Hollywood iconography and nods to Kenneth Anger (the scorpion), Tobe Hooper, and Gaspar Noé (who consulted on the elevator stomp) into a thousand-plus theaters. Many people, including a few of the folks below, believe it’s the best movie of the year. But it’s also inspired its share of unhinged devotion, from the guy whose Drive fandom inspired him to toss a wiener at Tiger Woods, to the people this Halloween weekend who were decked out in $200 white satin scorpion jackets and $900 handsome guy goon masks. So let’s see if we can strip away the layers of hype, shall we?
I did not know Gaspar Noé was involved with Drive. now I do it makes perfect sense.
