Baby Driver could be described as an action-musical-romantic comedy bonanza.
It could also (more accurately) be described as the film with this year’s most addictive soundtrack, backed up by Hollywood stars Kevin Spacey, John Hamm and Jamie Foxx.
With the movie taking its title from the 1969 soul tune, ‘Baby Driver’ by Simon and Garfunkel, it’s no surprise the soundtrack is tipped to top music charts.
At the time of writing this, the film’s Spotify playlist already has more than 124,000 followers and counting.
Appearing on The Project last night, the stars of the movie, Ansel Elgort and Lily James, described how important the soundtrack was.
“With this movie the soundtrack is so integral, the whole movie moves with the music… It’s like watching a two-hour music video,” Elgort told the panel.
It’s an apt description considering most of the 30 songs on the soundtrack are heard in their entirety rather than just the brief snippets we’ve become accustomed to in Hollywood productions.
James described how the director, Edgar Wright, used the music as the inspiration for most of the film’s scenes, saying Wright “wrote every single scene to a specific piece of music”.