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Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Taxi Driver |
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Robert DeNiro stars in Martin Scorsese' classic film, Taxi Driver. He plays Travis Bickle, an ex-marine in the Vietnam war, feeling he is unappreciated by his country. He hates all the scum on the streets of New York as he drives past it all. The prostitutes, the pimps and the drug dealers, he wants that all to be flushed down the toilet, to be gone. He notices Betsey (Cybill Shepherd) a young woman working for senitor Pallentine, trying to get him ellected. She rejects him after a date and Travis is convinced she's like all the rest, not caring and pretentious. He comes across a 13 year old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) and her disgusting pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel). In the end Travis saves Iris and kills Sport and 2 other lowlifes and is called a hero in the papers.
--Alex Panetta, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Taxi Driver |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- white collar fraud/theft
Criminal enemy is...
- drug dealers
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar worker
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
unclothed?
- partially transparent clothes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
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