Essay about Taxi Driver, Directed by Martin Scorsese

Traffic. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Perf. Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid.

The film that I will be analysing is “The Shawshank Redemption”. The Shawshank redemption is a film that was directed by Frank Darabont in 1994 and it was set in 1947. This film is about a young hotshot banker named Andy Dufresne who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. For this crime he was given a double life sentence and he was sent to Shawshank prison to serve this sentence. While in prision Andy makes a couple of friends and his best friend in prison is named Red. Red runs the black market in shawshank prison and he knows how to get things. Over the span of 20 years Andy earns the respect of his fellow prisoners and he also earns the respect of some of the guards by doing their taxes for them in return for just a couple of favours. The extract that I have chosen to analyze is the rooftop scene.

Unfortunately for Bickle, he is never able to get close enough to get to the candidate. After his plan completely fails, Bickle then begins to form an interest in saving a young 12-year-old prostitute by the name of Iris, played by Jodie Foster. In order to save her, Travis goes to the hotel that Iris works at and shoots her ‘pimp’ and murders him along with the hotel manager and the client of Iris. After seeing this film, Hinckley Jr. starts to form an obsession for Jodie Foster. He also began to believe that he saw himself in Travis Bickle. Hinckley Jr. was so infatuated with Taxi Driver that he saw the movie a total of fifteen times. He felt that in order to win Jodie Foster over, and to get her to even know he existed, was to assassinate the president of the United States. This would be the start of something that would lead to the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan.

Hitchcock’s notoriously elaborate Rear Window set (under the art direction of J. Macmillan Johnson and Hal Pereira) is so significant because it contains the entirety of the movie. The rest of the city is a mere suggestion, hinted at by cars and pedestrians passing by a narrow strip of alleyway. Therefore, the real analysis of city life that Rear Window explores is that of the relationship between neighbors. In his essay The Metropolis and Mental Life, Georg Simmel comments that the city dweller must avoid overstimulation by practicing “reserve” among others and that,

Travis troubles with relationships with others around him, and finally that situation ruins him, like attempts to assassinate a politician and massacre of pimps. Travis gradually gets his mental disorder, because of not only himself, but relationships with others around him. Although Travis thinks himself as a lonely man, he lives in New York, a metropolitan city, where filled with many others. Travis sometimes has communication with others around him, but such his awkward communication doesn’t useful to relieve his anxiety.

‘I know you know.’ The man stood there shaking his head. ‘Well, I can take you to where we were going.’ ‘Fine hop in my car.’ He directed her to a neighborhood not far away, where she parked in front of a run-down house.” Kelley cared so much she had a drug addict get in her car just so he could show her where Adam might be.

Whether you're stuck on the 405 freeway during rush hour, on the 15 freeway heading back from a long-weekend vacation, or driving through the busy streets of Hollywood, traffic on the highways and streets of Los Angeles can often be a hassle. In Dagoberto Gilb's short story Love in L.A., first published in 1986, the troubles of traffic are experienced first hand by our main character Jake. Jake is a common fellow with a steady occupation who is merely trying to make his way to work through the busy streets of Hollywood. As he is working his way through the piled traffic, not paying complete attention to the road in front of him, Jake crashes into the back of a Toyota. In the midst of exchanging information with the driver of the Toyota,

Tommy’s rising music career takes him on the road and into the world of drugs. He eventually

Travis enjoyed getting out of his comfort zone.Travis lives back in his hometown with two kids and his own playground.He lives the life that others only dream of.Travis Pastrana has broken many bones and many records.Travis Pastrana’s life is different from from most more dangerous and more

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

New York City is the centerpoint of thousands of films and pieces of literature, a city whose charm can be felt through words or pictures. Lights, brighter than life itself, blend with a cacophony of car horns and shouts to create an addictive mix of chaos. The glamour and sparkle of New York City is dramaticized to be an all encompassing feeling of wonder that one keeps with them for the rest of their lives. In the spring of this past year, the band program I participated in was given the once in a lifetime chance to perform in New York. Being obsessed with the city since I was a child, I gladly leapt at the opportunity. However, actually navigating the fabled concrete jungle makes one realize that New York City is not the shining beacon of wonder and amazement that it is thought to be.

Taxis are in a rush. That’s a known fact (that I thought as I did my usual ritual of staring down a cab driver today). It’s also a vital part of the game Crazy Taxi. The arcade-style driving game has you speeding around a time, picking up customers and dropping them off as quick as you can. It’s fun, and an excellent time and/or quarter sink.

Wallström wasn't the only actor who got inspired by an iconic not-so-mentally-stable movie character. Rami found was influenced by Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle (played by Robert DeNiro), who also happens to be an unstable loner living in New York. Darren Aronofsky’s masterpiece Pi was another source of inspiration for him.

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Scorsese film Taxi driver displayed distinct messages through gender stereotypes, old-fashioned references and character development. Throughout the film sexual references towards woman had been made not only through the dirty movies but through characters as well. The audience often sees Travis return to a diner where all of his taxi friends are eating. Every time the camera shows his friends talking they are always talking about women in