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    Very good‚Madam.Sure‚will take you there in plenty good time for your meeting‚Madam.This way better‚less traffic‚less car jams.Half hour should make it‚Madam‚so not to worry. What is it you say‚Madam?Yes‚yes‚ha‚ha‚been taximan for twenty years now‚Madam.Long time ago‚Singapore not like this–so crowded so busy.Last time more peaceful‚not so much taximen‚or so much cars and buses. Yes‚Madam‚can make a living.So so.What to do.Must work hard if wants to success in Singapore.People like us‚no

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    Taxi Driver: A Hero In the movie Taxi Driver‚ there are many different views on the main character‚ Travis Bickle. There are different opinions on whether he is a maniac or a hero. It is hard to have a satisfying answer to this question‚ but it is safe to say that what he did‚ at least in his mind‚ was the right thing to do. Besides when he attempted to assassinate senator Palantine‚ But that was done for the movie to show a political message. That message is that sometimes political leaders

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    with your best. Being a taxi driver is not an exemption. Yet despite being a challenging job‚ it is an awesome opportunity for meeting different kinds of people and going to different places. From Taxi Register‚ being a taxi driver requires one to be sociable‚ polite and friendly. I surely agree with it. No passenger would like to ride a cab whose driver looks so uninviting. At all times I try my best to be courteous‚ polite and accommodating to my passengers. As a taxi driver I know that I am

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    major challengers that Uber has had to face would be the long-standing taxi industry. “Undisrupted since the early 20th century”‚ the taxi industry was dominating the car-for-hire sector of the market (Posen‚ 2015‚ p.405). When taxi service was shifting from the hors-drawn carriage to automobiles‚ there was a huge expansion in an industry that was not very well regulated‚ so as a result there was an “over-populated” supply of taxis which often lead to territorial wars over passengers (Posen‚ 2015‚ p

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    unique intensity that transcends throughout all of his performances on screen. He is an actor that believes in the style of Method Acting and has shown an unshakable commitment to his craft throughout his career. His performance in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver demonstrates how significant an actor can be. De Niro perfectly embodies the character of Travis Bickle- a man who

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    an example. It used to be paradise but now it’s a fakery tourist destination. When you fly over the islands all of the other islands are nice and green‚ but when you go over O’ahu you visually perceive Waikiki and Honolulu buildings. "The Big Yellow Taxi" is one of Joni Mitchell’s best musical compositions‚ however it is different of her work in general‚ both in terms of music and subject matter. Mitchell distinguished in interviews that she was inspired to write the musical composition by a trip to

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    The “Are You Talkin’ to Me?” scene in Taxi Driver is one of the most famous and widely imitated scenes in cinematic history. Travis Bickle is talking to himself and the world as a whole while he points his gun and threatens into that mirror. This is a breaking point in Travis’ life and his psyche. He has become more and more disassociated with reality and now he must act on his objections to the world. Scorsese shows Travis’ skewed point of view through a number of effective mise-en-scene‚

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    Genre Film Knight 3 May 1995 Taxi Driver as Radicalized Film Noir In his film Taxi Driver‚ Martin Scorcese presents a world where characters are subsumed in the  urban landscape‚ vertical planes obscure the horizon‚ and hazy lights reflect off streets perpet­ ually slick with rain. Scorcese combines realistic settings with expressionist cinematography to  construct a stylized vision of meaninglessness‚ in which a psychopathic protagonist moves from  street to street without direction‚ f

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    How does "Taxi Driver" subvert classical Hollywood genre and narrative? "Taxi driver" subvert the classical Hollywood genre due to its ending. In a classical Hollywood genre‚ the story is supposed to end with a resolution‚ but in this film we do not learn the true ending‚ because the one we do see is quite obscure and unexpected; Betsy in the back of Travis’ cab. There are many signs that this ending may be a figment of Travis’ imagination such as the way we are never shown Betsy actually sitting

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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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