Travis Bickle Essays

Taxi Driver is a 1970’s movie written by Paul Schrader, directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring Robert De Niro as the main character Travis Bickle. This movie describes Travis as a schizotypal personality disorder trait who works as a cab driver in New York City. His mental illness has several thoughts including odd beliefs or magical thinking that influence behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms. Also, unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions, odd thinking, and

The former chapter was about individual models which make Travis Bickle and his loneliness, but this chapter is about the society which alienated him. Taxi Driver was released in 1976, and behind it, there is the social background of the United States from 1960s to 1970s. The main character, Travis Bickle lives in New York, the United States in the 1970s, when there were incidents related to Taxi Driver. According to Iannucci, “Historically, Taxi Driver appeared after a decade of war in Vietnam (1976)

The film features Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and Cybill Shepard. Scorsese illustrates the life of an ex-marine with what would appear to be insomnia; however, it is not explicitly stated in the film. The ex-marine, Travis Bickle, becomes a taxi driver. While working long hours, Travis encounters the people he calls the “scum” of the streets. He becomes intolerant of the “scum” and eventually takes drastic measures to take on the people men that were taking advantage of a young girl, Iris. This film’s

The film Taxi Driver is about Travis Bickle, an insomniac taxi driver that is discharged honorably from the US Marine. Travis is a lonely and unhappy being operating in the dirty New York City. Travis decides to become a taxi driver to deal with his chronic insomnia. Other than driving people at night, Travis also likes to spend time in theaters that air porn movies and he also keeps a diary of his activities. During his work, he meets a client with the name Betsy and gets infatuated with her. Betsy

In the film Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, a middle aged man with no proclaimed direction in life in the beginning of the film. He soon enough, through his convictions about the "scum of the city," a love lost, and perhaps mental instability as a result of the Vietnam war, finds meaning in his life and carries it out through controversial actions. According to Merriam-Webster judging is defined as: "to form an opinion about (something or someone) after careful thought." Whether it be taking a girl out

age. With these two sets of personalities, we can see the side of Travis that some may consider “toxic masculinity”. Travis is overly-sexual, due to his addiction to porn, and he does not know how to switch it and off once he is around Betsy. On the other hand, when he is with Iris, he feels the need to step in and become a father figure to the young

The man is Travis Bickle, ex-Marine, veteran of Vietnam, writer of devoted celebration notes to his guardians, taxi driver, and executioner. The film seldom strays a long way from the individual, profoundly subjective route in which he sees the city and gives it a chance to wound him. Travis often changes his perspective of whether he is in control of his predetermination or whether his fate is foreordained. Before all else of the film, Travis whines about being forlorn and not having wherever to

The Trials and Tribulations of John Hinckley Jr. The United States have seen some famed court cases that stir up a large amount of controversy. These court cases usually will cause mass protests against the verdict of the trial which is what the John Hinckley Jr. v. United States trial did. John Hinckley Jr. was the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. In the 1982 Court Case of United States v. Hinckley, the innocent verdict correctly

The 12 Biggest Badass Movie Vigilantes “Revenge is sweet and not fattening,” Alfred Hitchcock noted—and indeed it is, especially on the big screen. For some reason, it's always sweeter when it’s delivered outside the justice system, by citizens unafraid to take the law into their own hands. Here are 12 of the most monumental movie vigilantes, but please, don't repeat their epic cinematic actions at home. 12. Paul Kersey (Death Wish I-V) After his wife gets murdered and his daughter sexually

over a stove top flame. And when he begins practicing his tough guy persona in the mirror, we can see a man who has a fractured psyche. In the famous “Are you talking to me?” scene, we see that the camera is not on Travis, but on his reflection. We are watching his mirror image, and Travis is listening just as closely as we are. It shows that he listens to those voices in his head more than those in real life, and that he truly has a detached view of the world. His mind fits the mold of a Gothic

The scene where Travis is with Betsy at the coffee shop lays the foundation for a major theme of the movie. Betsy says to Travis “that he reminds her of the Kris Kristofferson song ‘Walking Contradiction’ ‘he’s a prophet, he’s a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction’.” Travis being a walking contradiction is fitting, he’s an alienated Vietnam vet, uneducated, possibly psychotic, yet he has a keen sense of awareness and insight that one would not expect. He’s returned home from war to a country that

During my initial high school years I was nothing more than a rather apathetically inept student, letting life guide my direction with no deliberate volition. This would go on to affect my grades as in 9th grade where I began to go from a good student, eager to learn, to a decent student, begrudgingly attending school with minimal effort. As I shifted from my rather decadent school (which had felt more like an open city) to a more strict and parental school, my grades began to improve as I had acquired

representations can reflect a collective concerns and understandings. Taxi Driver is a 1976 drama film which was directed by Martin Scorsese, an American filmmaker who was born and raised in New York City. The film follows a Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle(Robert de Niro) who works as a night-time New York City taxi driver while battling his mental instability.

Italian author Roberto Saviano’s ‘Gomorrah’ has sold 2.25 million copies in Italy and 8 million copies around the world. There are some plays, a movie and several TV adaptions from the book; these last ones written and produced by Saviano himself. Honestly, I haven’t read the book, but I feel as if I have already read part of it. Back when it was published (even a few months earlier…), it was impossible not to see it or hear about it everywhere. The author and the book were closely associated and

Chapter1 Formative Years in the City: New York in Fantasy, New York in Reality Woody Allen, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935, and raised in a middle class Jewish neighborhood from Flatbush to Brooklyn, often fantasized Manhattan in his childhood as a place of infinite possibility and grandeur with all its sophisticated people dancing and socializing in duplex penthouses and fancy nightclubs. As he narrates in Radio Days (1987): “My most vivid memory connected with an old radio song

extremely tough and devoid of any “soft” emotions over his career. The unwillingness to be vulnerable depicted in his poems can often be found in film with the anti-hero archetype. From Gosling’s Driver, to Gibson’s (and Hardy’s) Mad Max, DeNiro’s Travis Bickle and now Roland Møller’s “Danny,” the calloused exterior of broken protagonists continue to prevail as one of the most alluring character molds of any story—literature or film.

The film La Haine (1995) directed by Mathieu Kassovitzs is a French movie set in an inter-racial housing project Paris suburb. Against the backdrop of police high handedness , brutality and social inequality fuelled by hate and violence from restive youths, this drama in a new genre known as Benlieue films mirrors the social problems of migrant slum dwellers with disillussioned youths bedeviled with a bleak future and hopelessness. When considering the theoretical framework in which banlieue movie

nostalgic golds and sepias (the consoling colours of infantile memory and adult self-delusion) while the late 1950s present-day 7 / 12 is rendered in icily comfortless blues and greys. Similarly, Taxi Driver’s heavy reliance on the perceptions of Travis Bickle, the least reliable narrator in 1970s cinema, is evoked using many powerful expressionist effects that Bertolucci had made his own – but, again, with no concomitant importation of his political