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"Nicolas Winding Refn has compared his movie Drive to a Grimm fairytale. The filmmaker, who &amp;#039;won the Best Director&amp;#039; prize at Cannes for the movie, told The Guardian that the characters in Drive were like those in the Brothers Grimm stories. Refn said: &amp;quot;I read Grimm fairytales to my daughter a few years ago, and the idea with Drive was similar. You have the driver [Ryan Gosling] who&amp;#039;s like a knight, the innocent maiden [Carey Mulligan], the evil king [Albert Brooks] and the dragon [Ron Perlman]. They&amp;#039;re all archetypes. &amp;quot;It takes place in a city of millions but you never really see anyone. That isolates them, makes it very specific.&amp;quot; He added of Gosling&amp;#039;s unnamed lead character: &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s the man we all aspire to be. But he wasn&amp;#039;t meant to live in the real world. He&amp;#039;s too noble, too innocent. &amp;quot;In the old days knights would put a sword between themselves and a woman. And in Los Angeles, a man like this exists.&amp;quot; Drive was released in the US on June 17 and opens in the UK on September 23. Mulligan has reportedly signed on to star in Winding Refn&amp;#039;s sex thriller I Walk With The Dead, while fellow Drive star Christina Hendricks could take the lead role in a possible Wonder Woman adaptation. &amp;gt; Ryan Gosling, Refn &amp;quot;mentally f***ed&amp;quot; for &amp;#039;Drive&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Ryan Gosling&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Drive&amp;#039;: In Pictures Watch the Drive trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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