10 Movie Titles With Double Meanings Everyone Missed

Drive is a dark and grisly character tale centring on Ryan Gosling’s protagonist of an unnamed getaway driver. It examines his connection to himself and the world around him before it all reaches a violent and twisted confusion. In that sense, it’s very typical of director Nicolas Winding Refn’s style, and is considered by many to be his best work to date.

The title is fairly straightforward at first, as driving is a central motif of the story. With Gosling’s driver working as a getaway driver, it’s easy to imagine that he hears the command ‘drive!’ fairly often too.

The movie also though examines a person’s drive; what compels them forward, why do they make the decisions they do, why do they make mistakes?

Gosling’s character wears a scorpion jacket throughout, in reference to the scorpion and the frog crossing the lake. Halfway through, the scorpion stings the frog and they both die; when the frog asks the scorpion why, he simply replies it’s in his nature.

It’s deliberately vague whether Gosling is the scorpion here, stinging and self sabotaging due to his own drive, or whether he’s the frog being marked by a scorpion, and is doomed to be stung.