The Hire - starring Clive Owen and BMW's -
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Ambush (2001)
Note: While escorting an elderly man to an undisclosed location, The Driver is confronted by a van full of armed men and is warned that the old man has stolen a large amount of diamonds. The old man claims to have swallowed the diamonds and that the men will likely cut him open to retrieve them. The Driver decides at the last minute to help him, participating in a car chase and shootout with the van. The Driver eventually evades his pursuers and watches their destruction. He then delivers the old man to a town nearby and asks the merchant if he did indeed swallowed the diamonds. The client merely chuckles and walks away. The Driver then leaves.
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Featured the BMW 740i
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Chosen (2001)
Note: The Driver protects a holy Asian child that was brought to America by boat. The child gives the Driver a gift but says that he is not supposed to open it yet. After being pursued by many armed assassins, and being grazed in the ear, he delivers the boy to another holy man. The Boy however signals silently to the Driver that the man is not actually a monk, indicated by his footwear. The Driver defeats the impostor holy man and rescues the boy. As he leaves the Driver opens the gift which is revealed to be a Hulk bandage for his bleeding ear.
Directed by Ang Lee
Featured the BMW 540i
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The Follow (2001)
Note: The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way to tail someone. As he follows her he begins to fear what he might learn of her apparently tragic life. He discovers the wife is fleeing the country and returning to her mother's, and that she's been given a black eye, likely by her husband. He returns the money for the job, refusing to tell where the wife is, and drives off telling the manager never to call him again.
With Forest Whitaker, Mickey Rourke, and Adriana Lima
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
Featured the BMW 330i Coupé and the Z3 roadster
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Note: The Driver is chosen by a spoiled and shallow celebrity to drive her to a venue. Unbeknownst to her, her manager has actually hired the Driver to teach the celebrity a lesson. Pretending to escape her pursuing bodyguards, the Driver recklessly drives through the city, tossing the hapless celebrity all around the backseat. They arrive at the venue, where she is thrown out of the car and photographed by paparazzi in an embarrassing end on the red carpet.
With Madonna
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Featured the BMW M5
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Note: The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs tells the Driver about the horrors he saw as a photographer, but he regrets his inability to help war victims. Jacobs answers the driver curiosity about why he is a photographer by saying how his mother taught him to see. He gives the Driver the film needed for a New York Times story and also his dog tags to give to his mother. When they reach the border, they are confronted by a guard who begins to draw arms as Jacobs begins taking pictures, trying to get himself killed. The Driver drives through a hail of gunfire to the border, but finds Jacobs killed by a bullet through the seat. The Driver arrives in America to visit Jacobs' mother and share the news of him winning the Pulitzer Prize and hand over the dog tags, only to discover that she is blind.
With Stellan Skarsgård
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Featured the BMW X5 4.4i
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Hostage (2002)
Note: The Driver is hired by the FBI to help defuse a hostage situation. A disgruntled employee has kidnapped a CEO and has hidden her, demanding $5,088,042. The Driver delivers the money, writing the sum on his hand as instructed by the hostage taker. After he is told that he holds the life of a person in his hand, he is ordered to burn the money. As he complies, the federal agents break in and attempt to subdue the man, who shoots himself in the head before he reveals where the woman is hidden. The Driver then tries to find the hostage before she drowns in the trunk of a sinking car. As a twist, the kidnapped woman is revealed to be the hostage taker's lover. She coldly taunts the dying man in the hospital.
Directed by John Woo
Featured the BMW Z4 3.0i
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Ticker (2002)
Note: In an unnamed foreign country, the Driver drives a wounded man who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by a bullet, causing a display on it to begin counting down, and it to leak an unknown fluid from the bullet hole. The Driver manages to cause the helicopter to crash, but refuses to proceed without knowing the contents of the damaged briefcase. It is revealed that the man guards a human heart for transplant to a statesman (shown in military uniform), whose life and peacemaking is needed for the continued freedom of the country's people. The case is delivered by the Driver in time for the surgery. Also present are another military officer whom the passenger had said would take over the country with tyranny if his superior died (and whose uniform matches the soldiers who had tried to intercept the heart), and US agents who ensure that he does not interfere with the surgery, and so is forced to give up his attempt to take the country by force.
With Don Cheadle, Ray Liotta, F. Murray Abraham, Robert Patrick and Dennis Haysbert
Directed by Joe Carnahan
Featured BMW Z4 3.0i
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Beat the Devil (2002)
Note: The Driver drag-races the Devil on the Las Vegas Strip, in order to earn James Brown his soul who traded it for fame and fortune. If The Driver loses, his soul will be the devil's too. The Devil's car is almost as fast as The Driver's - and as a result, crashes into a train. Having won the race, The Driver leaves James Brown in the desert. Throughout the film, Brown had worried he was getting old and unable to do his moves, but in the desert he finds he still can. The final scene shows Marilyn Manson complaining the devil's music is disturbing his bible reading, much to the devil's fear.
With James Brown, Gary Oldman, Danny Trejo and Marilyn Manson
Directed by Tony Scott
Featured BMW Z4 3.0i
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Note: After the disappearance of geneticist Dr. Nora Phillips and the exposure of the Molecular Genetics company's illegal activities in human cloning, the FBI carries out a raid on the facility in order to arrest and take custody of its key people. One surviving specimen, Lily, is escorted by a ruthless mercenary and gunman named Holt to be delivered to an unnamed customer who bought the specimen. The Driver is hired to transport the package to the rightful location with Holt "babysitting" him, ordering the hired driver to evade the FBI forces. En route to delivering Lily, the Driver develops a strong dislike for Holt's violent and inhuman treatment of Lily as an object rather than a human being. He kicks the mercenary out of the car by subduing him and holding him at gunpoint. Holt pursues the Driver and tries to stop the car with a sniper rifle via helicopter, but the Driver incapacitates Holt's comrades and leaves him in the middle of the road to be arrested by the FBI, after a long and intense chase. Eventually, the Driver delivers Lily to the extraction point where she informs him that Dr. Phillips created her along with three others, who are now gone. She's surprised to learn that Dr. Phillips is the actual customer who takes maternal custody of Lily and leaves the soil with her at the docks.
With Jon Bernthal, Dakota Fanning, and Vera Farmiga
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Featured BMW 5 Series (G30)
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The BMW film series 'The Hire' was (orginally) a series of eight short films (averaging about ten minutes each) produced for the Internet in 2001 and 2002. A form of branded content, all eight films featured popular filmmakers from across the globe, starred Clive Owen as the "Driver", and highlighted the performance aspects of various BMW automobiles.
(Source: Wikipedia)
(Source: Wikipedia)
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