Taxi Driver, and Martin Scorsese's Subtle Talent for Horror
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Taxi Driver, and Martin Scorsese's subtle talent for horror
Across a career lasting more than 50 years, Martin Scorsese has created some shocking imagery worthy of the darkest horror films. NB: The following contains spoilers for Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino and to a lesser extent Shutter Island. Even today, the scene has the power to shock. New York loner Travis Bickle, head shaved into a mohawk, fists clenched, marches up to a rundown building, pulls a gun, and starts shooting. What foll…
Fifty years ago, on February 9, 1976, "Taxi Driver," directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, opened in American cinemas. "No other film has portrayed urban soullessness so powerfully," critic Pauline Kael wrote in The New Yorker. The article "Taxi Driver" by Martin Scorsese: A Masterpiece About Loneliness, Obsession, and New York comes from the website Everything That Matters.
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