There’s a new green band trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive and if you aren’t looking close enough you’ll swear it is the exact same trailer as the red band version that premiered back in June. Well, it is… and it isn’t.
Take a look at the screen capture above of Albert Brooks as he’s about to teach someone a lesson with a knife. Yeah, that’s a fork in that guy’s head. Now take a look at the same screen capture from the new green band trailer.
Uh, where did the fork go? I would like to finish my spaghetti guys!
As far as I can tell that is the only difference between the two trailers. The moment lasts approximately one second and the MPAA deemed it enough to say one was only appropriate for audiences 17 and over while the one where Brooks is still about to stab someone in the throat with a knife is fine for all audiences. Just don’t give me any of that fork in the eye business.
EDIT: I’ve also just been informed the womens’ breasts have been blurred around 2:07 mark. I guess I was paying too close of attention to Ryan Gosling about to hammer a bullet into a guy’s head to notice.
Well, you can check out that new trailer directly above (and watch the red band Like I said before, I wouldn’t advise watching the theatrical trailer, green or red.
Drive hits theaters on September 16 and you can read my A+ review from Cannes right here and it’s so good I may have to catch it in Toronto while I’m there, that is if time allows.
Drive is a fast paced action thriller that focuses on a Hollywood stunt driver (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous men (Albert Brooks) after agreeing to aid the ex-con boyfriend (Oscar Isaac) of his beautiful neighbor (Carey Mulligan) in a job that goes dangerously awry. The only way he can keep her safe and stay alive is to do what he does best: Drive.
