Nicholas Refn

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In the “Drive” directed by Nicolas Refn, the driver starts off as a professional in his career of offering repairs and getaway services for clients organized by Shannon (IMDB). The Driver’s professional code of work breaks loose when he met Irene and her son, Benicio – neighbor in the apartment – and he develops a close connection with her (Rotten tomatoes). Nicolas Refn uniquely presents the movie in such a dramatic way that events surrounding all scenes are stylistically combined to produce an expertly designed film. Furthermore, Nicolas incorporates an effective cinematography style which coupled with excellent staging actors, yields a perfect epic turn of events. The direction of “Drive” seems to have borrowed ideologies from “The Transporter …show more content…
Nicolas Refn uses a strategic cinematography style in the starting scenes which make the audience to expect more in later scenes, which is a way of ensuring that viewers remain glued to their screens with the same effect as binge watching (Ebert). It is important to ensure that viewers stay up to the final scene by making such an attractive and suspense by creating introduction in the “Drive” to keep the viewers waiting for more. Cinematography also appears in the “Drive” through captivating introduction and repetition of scenes that occur in high speed motion or those which utilize complex logic. The application of this style plays an important role in making an insistence on the quality standard of the movie (Thomson). Cinematography gives the movie a higher degree of realism and naturalism of all events complimented with unique reasoning style that is both suitable to both the common and critical viewers. By playing the movie frame by frame, the cinematography content is brought out with an enhanced clarity which repeats and highlights the themes presented in the

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