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In response to
"I saw a couple of YouTube videos about Edgar Wright's filmmaking yesterday before seeing Baby Driver."
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Mop
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I think you are considering some of the wrong characters protagonists. (spoilers)
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I might go so far as to say that Baby was the only protagonist. Deborah and his foster father are possibilities, but I view them more as supporting characters. All the other main characters are antagonists in one way or another.
Another way we differ (that is probably tied to you viewing Bats as a protagonist) is that I feel we are supposed to care when people die. Baby is obviously bothered and shaken when someone is killed on one of the jobs. As such, we as an audience are supposed to be bothered and shaken when someone in the crew he's driving kills someone. The same goes for when they are about to kill someone.
We are also supposed to care when the antagonists die, but in a different way. Baby killing Bats is both a good and bad thing, but mostly good. Baby is conflicted, doesn't want to do it, but sees it as the only way to save lives. Which I agree with. Baby actually struggled with it more than I feel most people should. The bad is that Baby was forced to kill someone to save other people, which is a terrible position to be in. John Hamm's character and his gf were crazy, violent people. She died justifiably in a shootout with police. Hamm's character died in a situation of him or Baby. The biggest feeling for that should probably be relief. Spacey's character's death is a mixture of relief and sadness. Relief in that Baby would finally be free of doing jobs for him (his death is the only way that happens). Sadness mostly because he died trying to save Baby.
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