Analysis Of Taxi Driver

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Unlike most films, Baby Driver integrates sound and cinematography in a unique manner, creating a symphonic orchestra of film composition. The initial heist and getaway of the film is a prime example of how audible and visual filmmaking can have such a large influence on each other, creating a piece of cinema that is driven by a distinct beat. Although in most films no actions are arbitrary, Baby Driver takes this premise to an entirely different level, directing every action to sync with the music in the scene: whether it be diegetic or non-diegetic to the character. Within the first five minutes of the film, the audience is introduced to the characters, setting, plot, and general motivations of the story without any dialogue. The opening scene employs a brilliantly creative combination of cinematography, music, and directing to convey the characters’ location, purpose, and emotion. This scene also sets the mood and tone for the rest of the movie. Director Edgar Wright and Director of Photography Bill Pope’s manipulation of mise-en-scène—through the use of sound, shot composition, and direction—creates a masterful scene of cinema that captivates the audience, pulling them into the world of crime and the story of a reluctant getaway driver. Each shot and beat is perfectly paired with a specific purpose to communicate the story to the audience. As a result, the opening scene of Baby Driver is an archetypal example of how to communicate a story to an audience without any

While in Hollywood, Hinckley first viewed the 1976 film Taxi Driver, which gave dramatic meaning to his miserable and depressed state of life. Hinckley became obsessed with this film watching it over 15 times in a few years. Robert DeNiro portrays a psychotic taxi driver who thinks about political assassination throughout the film and also rescues a vulnerable female prostitute names Iris who was played by Jodie Foster (The Biography.com, “John Hinckley Jr. Biography”). When watching the movie, it gave Hinckley ideas of

The first, loathed persons often appear as someone without name in the film and Travis unintentionally hates them, for example, he is angry with pedestrians and describes them as “garbage”. He despises those people, as if he was God who looks down sinful people in a metropolitan city, Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Daniel Pink in his book titled Drive talks about the reasons to motivations and how people work to better themselves. There are different reasons to what keeps people motivated. For some it is mastery, to get better at what they do, while for others it may be the reward they are seeking at the end. Both in which have different mindsets mastery is when someone wants to get better at something for there own satisfaction, while for others it is to get satisfaction through their paycheck and profit. Motivation in work forces is money and profit. As long as people are getting what they want productivity continues, however once they stop receiving their rewards productivity decreases. This makes total sense people because as humans, people seek rewards

Much like Noah, he believes that he will be saved, while everyone else in the world perishes from the torrents of water. Later in the film, Travis feels compelled to take action against this sleaze. He wants to help purify the world by eliminating the sleaze by whatever methods he deems appropriate. Even if this means killing his fellow man, then so be it.

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Travis in the movie is the protagonist, and lives by the lower class ruling. Travis is more intelligent than the typical lower class (proletariat). One can tell because of the thoughts he writes down in his diary. Travis falls under the category of a stereotypical low class laborer. He works long hours; normally from 6 in the evening until 6 in the morning, and works 6, sometimes even 7 days a week. He writes a lot about his trips that he makes while driving the taxi. The writing in his diary show he is against the low life people who he sees, and who live on the streets. He says, “All the animals come out at night. Whores, scum, beggars, junkies, fairies. Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” (Approximately 7 minutes into the film.). This is also a possible foreshadowing event on what he plans to do later in the

In Taxi Driver, Scorsese manages his camera angles and editing to emphasize Travis seeing the world through glass or mirrors, especially the windshield and rear-view mirror of the taxi, through which all major characters enter Taxi Driver: Betsy through the panes of an all-- glass office; Palantine through his rear-view mirror; and Iris and Sport in a fleeting glance in his mirror. As Travis meets with a black-market gun dealer, and in this scene the weapon literally becomes the organ of perception. Scorsese situates his camera on Travis' arm as that arm takes the weapon and slowly pans it across the window looking down on the street below. Finally, in the scene which has made Travis Bickle a cinematic icon ("Are you talking to me?"), Travis looks into his mirror, challenges imaginary adversaries, and draws his various weapons in assault. The ambiguity of the image is poignant: Travis looks into a mirror and makes a self-destructive gesture foreshadowing his attempted suicide at the climax of the film, and Travis peers through the looking glass and

Taxi Driver (1976) follows Travis Bickle’s life in New York after being honorably discharged. The film is a psychological thriller that deals with Travis Bickle’s mental instability and desire to do something meaningful with his life. The narrative centers around Travis’ loneliness and disconnect from society.

New York City that is depicted in Taxi Driver seems to be too real to be true. It is a place where violence runs rampant, drugs are cheap, and sex is easy. This world may be all too familiar to many that live in major metropolitan areas. But, in the film there is something interesting, and vibrant about the streets that Travis Bickle drives alone, despite the amount of danger and turmoil that overshadows everything in the nights of the city. In the film “Taxi Driver” director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader find and express a trial that many people face, the search for belonging and acceptance.

Typical, it is 7:31 am Monday morning and I am running late. Knowing it will take approximately twenty minutes for me to make it to 8:00 am lecture on time, I grab my book bag hastily lock my apartment door and fly down the slightly stained cement stairs. In less than sixty-seconds, I miraculously made it from the third to the first floor without falling. I congratulate myself and hop in my old reliable dusty gray, 2011 Toyota. At last, I arrive to campus just in time to park in the closest lot near the School of Nursing building making it to my first lecture of the day with ten minutes to spare. This seems like a small and normal morning routine for some, for others who do not have