Taxi Driver: This man is lonely as blood

Eleonore 2021-10-19 09:47:46

In 1976, Uncle Martin’s Taxi Driver has already won the Palme d’Or, plus the Cannes Best Director Award in 86 years, and the Best Director Award in Venice in 90 years. Uncle Martin is really a well-known art among the directors of New Hollywood. Movie big cow. However, I swiped the Oscars again, and I didn't even have a single prize... But the directed "Infernal Affairs" that he shot in 2006 really made me want to grab the top spot, and it has a lot of glory in various small awards in North America. It broke me even more, and it became the most popular Oscar when I watched it. But this kind of film can win prizes? Probably the closest to Oscar was "Angry Bull", or this time "Infernal Affairs". The actors in his films have also won numerous awards, and Uncle Martin has been stimulated many times.

At this time, I will go back to watch "Taxi Driver", it is really a classic work. This is a masterpiece of his tenth year of graduation. After "Bad Streets" and "The Godfather II", Robert De Niro's acting skills in this film have reached the limit. As for "Once Upon a Time in America", De Niro It’s as relaxed as playing a ticket—when I watched these films, I kept thinking of "Deer Hunter" and "Angry Bull", which were two films that were shown in class. Then I thought of the analogy of Teacher Chen Yu: "De Niro, or Al Pacino, or even Jiang Wen, this kind of actors are like SONY or PHILIPS color TVs. The advertisements are always on the second page of the newspaper, but when the front page of the TCL, Changhong changes When you change, you suddenly find that they are still there." De Niro's straight eyes are really unforgettable.

"Taxi Driver" is an American story in the context of modernism. Travis drove a car wandering the streets of New York, having nothing to do, having money, watching pornographic movies, and chasing crushes, so it was also a two-stage noir. Movies-to assassinate the presidential candidate for one femme fatale, bloodbath the brothel for another femme fatale. There is no clear reason for these. Under the modernist system, boring people, superfluous people, unreasonable love and vaguely motivated violence, after the trauma of the Vietnam War, write about the mental state of the "lost generation" in the United States. It is precisely this kind of profound exploration and writing of human nature that brought Uncle Martin the Palme d'Or trophy.

There are several details in the film that are very interesting. One is a supporting role played by Uncle Martin himself, a man who wants to kill his wife and his wife’s lover with a 0.44 pistol. Uncle Martin’s beard is really good-looking. It doesn’t matter which reminds me of various Italian stars and famous Italian director Nanni. · Moratti. The second is De Niro's classic line: "You talking to me?" The original Ma Xiaojun's monologue on the mirror in "Sunny Day" came from here. The third is the young prostitute played by Zhu Di Foster. The various gossips brought about by this not only give us a deeper understanding of the "life imitation art" in the film level, but also really surprised me at the development of American girls. Speed, such a plump breast at the age of twelve...Apart from

that, the most fascinating thing about the film is the jazz-style soundtrack and the gorgeous night view of New York. The melancholic tune of the saxophone and the neon lights reflected and transmitted on the glass turn the chaotic and dirty New York nightlife into a delicate tune. And the last bloody gunfight was like De Niro's punk head, a rock variation inserted in jazz minor. In this changing night, De Niro wandered like a ghost, his eyes shining like a wolf in the night. It was the pain of a generation. His insomnia was American insomnia, and his emptiness was the emptiness of Americans in the 1970s. His resistance was powerful but not knowing where to make resistance. There was no reason or purpose, only accidental victims. And he suddenly changed from a terrorist to a social hero. He seemed to be a happy ending, but he made a joke in the United States. The seemingly compromising Master Martin was still very hard in his bones, and he quietly hid his cynicism. His eyes passed through De Niro's eyes to stare at the audience outside the screen. He said, hey, stop for a while.

This lonely man. Loneliness can be as lonely as snow, or it can be as lonely as blood like De Niro.

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Taxi Driver quotes

  • Travis Bickle: You're a young girl, you should be at home. You should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school, you know, that kind of stuff.

  • Travis Bickle: Shit... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.