This is a movie that can hardly find fault in skills, content and thoughts.
new Hollywood movie kid Martin Scorsese has since started his own path to master.
"Taxi Driver" was born in the 1970s, and a movie and the world are in a stage of change.
French New Wave, Italian New Realism, German Expressionism , the old Hollywood system is no longer popular.
and the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States' failure in Vietnam War , the domestic economy declined, and the hippie generation became the Beat generation. These events all affected the development of the movie.
scorsese integrates them all into "Taxi Driver".
Then take its essence for your own use. Scorsese's style was formed, and the name of a film sociologist spread like wildfire.
movie opens with a psychedelic atmosphere and the subjective perspective of Travis, played by de Niro . From this moment on, it sets the tone of "Taxi Driver" Expressionist .
Travis used his first person to examine the absurd, bizarre and upside down New York. The people trapped in it were dirty and filthy, and they were confused all day long, companion with garbage and companion with sin.
The dark corners of the street are full of dirt and dirt. In the towering tall buildings and alleys, they do despise things, parasitize under the eaves of the dark alleys, with the humbleness of living silence and the filth of being dark.
Travis is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he doesn't want to live such a bad life.
He tried to change and scoffed at these self-deprecating men and women in his diary, but no one who writes diaries or those who write diaries are serious is serious.
Travis is a semi-normal and half-crazy contradiction. He always wants to get rid of decadence, but he can no longer get rid of loneliness and an unchanging life.
Scorsese uses three lens language, several compositions, a story, and the ending scene scheduling and audio-visual language to express that Travis is difficult to enter society, so he has started again.
Travis met Bessie, and it was the holy and flawless angel in his heart.
I thought the date with Bessie was a new beginning, but Travis didn't do that at all.
His habit of being used to but unreasonable has not changed. The place where he fell in love with Bessie is not a romantic coffee shop or an intoxicating bar, but an adult cinema.
This shows that Travis still does not know how to interact with others, nor does he know the worldly ways. He is only suitable to live in his own world and be a lonely patient without anyone disturbing him.
Scorsese also kept telling the audience in the movie that Travis is such a person.
When he was having dinner with Bessie and Iris in a restaurant, Scorsese used forward and reverse strikes, but the camera was dispatched differently when switching between Travis, Bessie, Travis and Iris. When the
shot was given to Travis, there was only a close-up or close-up of him.
But when the lens is given to Bessie and Iris, the perspective will come from Travis's shoulders, and the picture will change from one person to two people. What this lens design wants to highlight is Travis's incompetence.
There is another shot that can better illustrate the director's intention.
Bessie didn't want to interact with Travis anymore. Travis called to explain why he took Bessie to the adult theater and told him about his feelings.
At this time, the conversation between Travis and Bessie was not over yet, but the camera moved to the empty corridor with an open door at the end. When Travis hung up the phone and walked from the corridor to the street, the director did not give the street any pictures.
Instead, the camera turned around, and many withered flowers appeared on the screen, and the meaning was self-evident.
Director wanted to show that Travis was alone after all, forcibly entering society and communicating with others, and would only welcome the tragic ending after the blooming.
In composition, Travis's sense of loneliness is also very strong.
Travis was always at the edge of the picture when he was having dinner with his colleagues, listening to others talking and laughing, and speaking without saying anything, like a transparent person. At the end of
, Travis took a crazy act and then became the hero who saved the girl.
took the initiative to join the chat with colleagues, and his encounter with Bessie was no longer hysterical. It seemed to be healing, but in fact it was just a cycle of improvement. He was still the same as himself.
At the end of the film, Travis rushed into the Phoenix Tower and shot the madam, landlord, and consumer. This scene was dispatched by Travis' soul.
After Travis completed the massacre, he lay on the sofa and fired three shots at his head with his bloody hand as a gun. Then the camera rose, from flat shot to down shot, slowly moved from indoor to stairs and then outside the house, then slowly took off, and the panoramic view switched to long view.
This is not a normal human perspective, it represents Travis' imagination.
He thought that if he punished his sin, he would clear his body and complete his self-salvation, so he left his disgusting body, let his soul leave his body, and become a human again.
The plot has developed to this point, and combined with Travis' relief for Bessie, everyone thought that Travis had become a normal person and had officially accepted society.
Kravis's eyes in the rearview mirror finally turned into the beginning again, confused and fiercely lit up his eyes.
Then the picture is divided into two, the rearview mirror perspective and the Travis perspective. Both perspectives are chaotic New York City, and the background music becomes tense.
indicates that as long as New York is unstable for a day, Travis will be separated and confused, and it is impossible to return to normal, because the dirty and messy environment will eventually lead him astray.
In terms of script structure and narrative method, "Taxi Driver" is different from old Hollywood. Scorsese changes Hollywood movies in the way of the new wave.
movies are not like classic Hollywood, with too many drama conflicts , forming a closed-loop story structure and a happy ending, and there are no stereotyped characters and natural and smooth continuous editing.
"Taxi Driver" breaks the conventional movie logic of the old Hollywood convention. The narrative in
focuses on the stream of consciousness, and editing uses to jump to , which makes it difficult for the audience to guess the direction of the movie.
For example, after Travis broke up, everything around him was hinting that Travis bought a gun and killed the person who made him disappointed, so that he could enjoy it. Travis also bought guns step by step, exercised, and practiced gun skills as the audience thought.
But after being ready, the person Travis revenge was not Bessie, but the presidential candidate Palantin. After the assassination failed, he played the cards according to logic and walked towards Fenglou and shot those who he thought were garbage.
This technique of offending the audience and playing with the audience in applause Hitchcock is often used.
However, in the 1950s and 1960s, Hollywood abandoned this technique in order to fight the impact of the TV industry and pursued a family fun that satisfies all the audience's imagination in exchange for box office.
and Scorsese picked it up, and combined it with a dark and low atmosphere, a cold tone, a decayed city, a broken social system, and a small person at the bottom. noir movie was born from this.
Of course, there are more than these in "Taxi Driver".
Previous Hollywood movies are aimed at the elite class, but Scorsese has given his movies the authenticity of new realism .
He did not advocate a beautiful and prosperous era, but instead turned the camera to the public, recording their living conditions and states in the form of a movie, making his movies have a deep mark of the times and full of documentary sense. It is a pity that this landmark movie, which is not favored by the Oscars back then. Fortunately, Cannes Film Festival discovered its goodness and crowned "Taxi Driver" with the Palme d'Or .
But the saddest thing is that with the aging of the four new Hollywood four heroes, Scorsese, Spielberg , Lucas , and Coppola , now Hollywood has lost its artistic and innovativeness back then.
blindly eat old money and excessive worship of super-English movies, making movies just a pastime.
A grain of sand in the era finally became a mountain, but now it is going to be eaten by later generations. How can people not worry about where is the spring of world movies?
