He does one more job for him and, he thinks, he's finally out. Baby is almost squared off with Doc at the film's beginning.
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Story is simple, Baby stole Doc's car and to pay off the debt, Baby has been his getaway driver for every subsequent heist for, seemingly, years. So his relationship with music, even more than his budding romance with Debora, is key to moving the story forward to where they want it to go. Music is also explored as Baby's security blanket and something he uses to feel connected to his mother, who died in an car accident when he was younger. So, naturally, it would make sense that the things that happen to him or the members of the gang he is reluctantly a part of would be set to music. This is something that they discuss on some of the special features, but music, as a result of Baby's tinnitus which causes him to depend on music to drown it out before it becomes something that he can't live without, is how he sees the world.
Music, as pretentious as this sounds, really is as major a character in the film as Baby, Debora, Doc, Buddy, Bats, Darling, etc, etc. It's not that music is added later to match the action sequences, the action and even the actors' movements were meant to be synchronized with it. The action sequences are choreographed around the music. This is probably one of the most unique approach to an action film in recent memory. I mean it's obviously not a musical in the sense that you're probably thinking of (Bollywood, Broadway, old Hollywood movies).
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How to describe this movie? I mean, simply put, it's a musical heist movie. That's neither here nor there and, quite frankly, if he had stayed on, we might not have gotten this and, really, I'd rather see him explore his vision unimpeded as opposed with the specter of Marvel hanging behind him overseeing his every decision. I'm sure, even with Wright behind the wheel (pun not intended), it still would have been the same homogenized Marvel vision, but I feel that he would have been able to add his own vision to where it still felt something uniquely his. That's why I was so disappointed to see that he had left Ant-Man prior to filming. So, yea, you could say that I am quite a fan of this guy and his vision. This is going up on Letterboxd, where this is the first Wright movie I've reviewed, but over on Flixster/RottenTomatoes, not one of his movies (that I've reviewed) have received anything less than four stars.
I'm not saying he's one of the few, but there's plenty of people that have tried to do the same things he has without nearly the same level of critical success. He's got something that not many directors have and that's a keen eye for creating stylish, exciting action (if the film calls for it, at least) and creating create characters that you become totally invested in.
Perhaps not always commercially (see Scott Pilgrim vs The World, which while I absolutely LOVED, was a major flop), but always creatively. Edgar Wright has a pretty stellar reputation when it comes to being a successful filmmaker.
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