Cited: 1) Mean Streets. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Perf. Harvey Keitel‚ Robert De Niro. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.‚ 1973. DVD. 2) Italianamerican. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Perf. Catherine Scorsese‚ Charles Scorsese. Scorsese Productions‚ Inc. 1974. VHS. 3) Taxi Driver. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Perf. Harvey Keitel‚ Robert De Niro. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.‚ 1976. DVD. 4) Scorsese‚ Martin‚ Ian Christie‚ and David Thompson. Scorsese on Scorsese.
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Taxi Driver (1976) comes across Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (played by Robert de Niro‚ famously known for his part in The Godfather 2)who is 26‚ a loner in the mean streets of New York City‚ almost obsessively‚ reflects on the ugly corruption of life around him‚ and becomes increasingly disturbed over his own loneliness and alienation. Every phase of his life‚ he remains a complete outsider‚ failing to make emotional contact with anyone. Unable to sleep night after night‚ he goes the local pornography
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long until he becomes uncomfortable with them in this state and finds a possible chemical cure he is given permission to try on one patient and eventually all‚ making a change in fifteen lives with this phenomenal awakening. The cast includes Robert De Niro starring as Leonard Lowe and Robin Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer as well as Ruth Nelson as Mrs. Lowe‚ Alice Drummond as Lucy‚ and John Heard as Dr. Kaufman. No one knows weather the chemical cure‚ levodopa (L-dopa) was worth making a change in
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“Apparently no strictly logical distinctions can capture the variety of factors which create the genres we have” (Nicholas and Price‚ 1998) This quote demonstrates the complexity of allocating a particular genre to a film‚ as various aspects need to be considered. Although concrete groupings such as horror‚ science-fiction‚ crime and drama exist‚ the majority of movies contain more than one aspect which renders them difficult to categorise. For example‚ the difference between an ‘action’ and a
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power to bring entire sequences to life.” I will be exploring the creative use of both scores and popular music in his films‚ in regard to this and elaborating further. In the book conversations with martin Scorsese (2011‚ p.350) Scorsese talks to Robert Schikel about how he uses music differently to other directors and how the way in which he uses music in films
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Calogero witnesses a shooting in the street involving local big shot gangster‚ Sonny (Chazz Palimentri)‚ but refuses to grass him to the police. Sonny grows fond of the child and begins to teach him how things are conducted on streets. Calogero’s father (Robert DeNiro) is a working man who wants his child to grow up and make his money honestly‚ and does not want him to mix with Sonny. Despite his father’s disapproval‚ for eight years he continues to see Sonny‚ and receives a ’street’ education from him.
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Taxi Driver: The Filth of the Streets and of Self The opening shot is Robert DeNiro’s character‚ Travis Bickle’s eyes in the review mirror intensely gazing at the city. It then transitions to the view outside of the taxi to the colorful‚ hectic streets of New York City. This exaggerates the importance of the taxi itself and the main character’s point of view from within it. Bickle is a veteran Marine who can’t sleep and decides to take the job of driving the long hours. He narrates the film as
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: This book analyzes the roots of themes and characters in the films of Martin Scorsese. I focused on the analysis of Taxi Driver. The young Scorsese was angry with the church because its view on sex were not consistent with his experiences. In addition‚ Scorsese was also angry about women‚ which was very evident in his early films such as Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. The author compares Taxi Driver to other Scorsese films and points out their distinct similarities and analogous characters‚
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In Alexander Mackendrick’s 1957 classic‚ Sweet Smell of Success‚ the character of J.J. Hunsecker is extremely powerful‚ respected and lonely. This is also true of the character Jerry Langford in Scorsese’s 1983 film‚ The King of Comedy. Both character’s share positions of supremacy and therefore can be easily contrasted with reference to their similarities and differences. J.J. is the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York‚ thus yielding authority with his command over the press. Jerry is
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but we do have to take a more critical look at the information departed from the media. In this movie a war is created when allegations of sexual misconduct are directed at the president 11 days before the election. Mr. Fix-It‚ Conrad Brean (Robert DeNiro) is called on by the President’s staff to take the heat off of the President. He comes up with the brilliant idea to create a false war with Albania. "Why Albania?" "Well‚ what do you know about Albania?" "Nothing." "Exactly." He hires
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