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| Nelson_Mandela 07/08/19 11:51:10 AM #170: | #18. Taxi Driver https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Taxi_driver_movieposter.jpg/800px-Taxi_driver_movieposter.jpg Dir: Martin Scorsese Genre: Suspense/Thriller Year: 1976 Taxi Driver is the original character study about the socially awkward loner. In a weird twist of irony, it is also the first movie that these socially awkward loners related to--and what so much continue to base their lives on. Scorsese and De Niro truly created one of the most compelling characters in all of fiction in Travis Bickle, and the specter of this performance still lingers to this day. Martin Scorsese is on this list more than any other director, and Taxi Driver is perfectly indicative of why. It's simultaneously hyper-realistic and abstractly experimental, as Scorsese is able to balance the character study with a nightmarish representation of the social rot of 1970s New York City. He really captures not only a time and place, but a feeling of the social unrest of this time--the crime, the sex, the powderkeg ready to explode to create the bizarre alt-reality of the 80s. The irony of the hero-worship of Travis Bickle is rightfully predicted in the ending of the film itself, which just gets where society was headed. Taxi Driver is a momentous achievement and Scorsese's magnum opus. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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