History Film / Drive

* RetiredCompleteMonster: Bernie rose according to back story created by the director and AlbertBrooks.

''Drive'' is a 2011 crime thriller directed by NicolasWindingRefn, based on a 2005 novel of the same name by James Sallis, and starring [[TheNotebook Ryan]] [[BlueValentine Gosling]] as [[NoNameGiven The Driver]], a stuntman/mechanic in LA who moonlights as a getaway driver for robberies. Driver is completely isolated and detached from just about everyone else in the world besides his boss Shannon ([[BreakingBad Bryan]] [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Cranston]]) and a young woman, Irene ({{Carey Mulligan}}), he begins to become emotionally attached to.

''Drive'' is a 2011 crime thriller based on a 2005 novel of the same name by James Sallis, starring [[TheNotebook Ryan]] [[BlueValentine Gosling]] as [[NoNameGiven The Driver]] a stuntman/mechanic in LA who moonlights as a getaway driver for robberies. Driver is completely isolated and detached from just about everyone else in the world besides his boss Shannon ([[BreakingBad Bryan]] [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Cranston]]) and a young woman, Irene ({{Carey Mulligan}}), he begins to become emotionally attached to.

* TooDumbToLive: Nino for his brilliant plan to [[spoiler: try and rob the East Coast mob]] and thinking he could get away with it scot free.

*** [[FanDumb Or that woman shouldn't have been an idiot.]]

* AffablyEvil: Bernie Rose. [[spoiler: Hell, he genuinely apologizes to Shannon when he slits his wrist and comforts him while as dies, and is visibly shaken with his death afterward]]

* WifeBeater: Averted with Standard. He gives dangerous vibes during his return party and sounds a bit patronizing, but it turns out he genuinely loves his son and wife. It's also clear that he is suspicious about the Driver's and Irene's relationship, but he doesn't act up on it and even gives them a moment alone together to finish things.

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Depending on how you interpret the ending.]]

->''If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours no matter what. I don't sit in while you're running it down; I don't carry a gun...''

* GutPunch: [[spoiler: Blanche]] getting [[YourHeadASplode]] a face full of buckshot]] sends the movie almost instantly from low key, character-driven romance to a considerably BloodierAndGorier RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Doubly so because the only previous on screen death had been very understated.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The movie cuts from Cliff Robertson's quiet, abstract score or '80s-esque pop music to extremely brutal action with a silent background.

* OneSceneWonder: ChristinaHendricks as Blanche.
** Definitely YourMileageMayVary. She didn't have many scenes, which would qualify, but she didn't make a lot of impact in them, either. She certainly didn't ''steal'' them, though, and her most memorable moment's not really a bit of amazing acting. [[YourHeadAsplode Or acting at all]].

* UnresolvedSexualTension: The first half of the film is mostly Driver and Irene having mundane conversations and staring at each other. And the romantic undercurrent is strong enough to sink an aircraft carrier.

* BlofeldPloy: Played with. Bernie is piping mad at Nino for trying to pull off a heist, screwing up and potentially getting them both killed by the East Coast mob. To show his dissatisfaction he stabs a Mook in the eye with a fork, stabs him in the throat with a knife and tells Nino "And now you get to clean up one of my messes." The Mook participated in the heist so was a loose end to be killed like anyone else involved. It was the manner of his death that was meant to show Nino how pissed off Bernie was.