His new film with luc besson is feistily violent and he still hankers after making a sequel to taxi driver. Taxi driver was my favorite film back in my last years of high school 20032005. A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in new york city, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute. Taxi driver succeeded in an intimate tone, but, naturally, there was something much bigger being executed in drivers visage. Taxi driver still taking audiences for a shocking ride. I like it more since i understand it more along with.
Written by paul schrader, taxi driver is an homage to and reworking of cinematic influences, a study of individual psychosis, and an acute diagnosis of the latently violent, mediafixated vietnam era. Le film est regulierement cite par les critiques, les realisateurs et les spectateurs. Everett collectionrex feature the violent conclusion to taxi driver was shocking in its day. These were the days where he was still roughandtumble, a few miles off from the neon peculiarities of after hours and the grimy americanism of raging bull. Taxi driver is very effective portrayal of new york, loneliness, violence and does it so well that no film afterwards has managed to capture it. Martin scorsese has made a lot of great movies, but taxi driver could still make a claim for being his best movie. I was thinking that i wouldnt like it as much as i did back then, but the opposite happened. Taxi driver went on to win the palme dor at the cannes film festival, but it lost the best picture oscar to the more comforting rocky. But taxi driver isnt a transitional film by any measure. When it comes to taxi driver, the least a method actor can do is learn to drive a cab.
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