Guillermo Del Toro Makes The Case For Why You Must See ‘Baby Driver’
By Ben Pearson/June 28, 2017 1:30 pm EST
Here is the original tweet…
13 Tweets on BABY DRIVER. 1: A long, long time ago (my generation’s youth) a maverick filmmaker named Walter Hill made two promises-
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) June 27, 2017
And in the interest of easy reading, here are the rest of the tweets written out in a larger paragraph:
(Note: He’s since clarified that he was “too jazzed” and “too high on film” when typing the second tweet, and he initially mentioned Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets instead of Streets of Fire.) That’s some high praise, and it’s especially poignant considering the “debacle” Wright went through with Marvel Studios and Ant-Man a few years ago. And look, all of this praise isn’t to say that the film is up on a pedestal and has completely avoided criticism. Writer/performer/activist Gaby Dunn raised some valid points on Twitter about the film’s female characters: https://twitter.com/gabydunn/status/879917803326722048 https://twitter.com/gabydunn/status/879919466737356800
Del Toro tweeted something else early this morning that I think is just as valid and works well as a response to those criticisms. (To be clear, I’m using his comment as a response to Dunn’s comments – this was not something del Toro tweeted at her):
Art is arrangement and selection. It cannot be everything for everyone. It cannot encompass the world, it rephrases it from a single POV
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) June 28, 2017
Two things can be true at the same time: some of Baby Driver’s female characters aren’t as engaging, exciting, or interesting as its male characters; and Baby Driver still kicks ass. While the film isn’t perfect, I found it to be a fun, thrilling look into Wright’s psyche and exactly the type of original film we desperately need more of as we float through a sea of often-underwhelming sequels, remakes, and movies based on stories that have fallen into the public domain.
Baby Driver is in theaters now.
