Taxi Driver
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:23:59 +1100
Here's an odd thing. `Taxi Driver' was on cable the other day and as I
watched I noticed some startling little details :
1) A character alienated and angry in New York (duh (: )
Okay ... that's obvious. But how about this?
2) ... who sees an idiosyncratic drummer (not at Radio City Music Hall but
on the street ... the one who says `And now Gene Vincent's syncopated
style')
3) Who is very concerned about buying a particular record for the object of
his affections
4) Who is very concerned about the fate of a teenage hooker.
There were more, but these ones all clustered up as I was thinking about
it. The only real notable difference is of course the ending. Call me crazy
but I've always found the end of `Taxi Driver' pretty weak - wouldn't it
have been a lot more psychologically interesting if Travis Bickle had've
had all these fantasies about becoming famous through a slaughter but
*didn't* carry them out?
(Speaking of `A Clockwork Orange' ... my boyfriend went as Alex to a fancy
dress party yesterday (I went as Lara Croft, from Tomb Raider (: )
Camille
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