Drive - A Lynchian Taxi Driver?
I can’t say that Drive is a direct iteration of Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, but there are certainly many similarities between the main characters.
The Driver and Travis Bickle both have dark pasts that make it difficult for them to communicate with the rest of the world. Yet, they have a very strong sense of what is right and wrong, and will do anything in their power to defend their beliefs - ANYTHING. Both of them enter a path of no return once they discover someone (and perhaps in a deeper sense - SOMETHING) that they need to protect. The biggest difference between the structure of these two films is that the audience goes along for the ride in Travis Bickle’s transformation as a rogue defender, while the Driver’s actions come as a surprise each and every time. The transformation is in the audience, and not in the character.
Both brilliant films. I want to watch them back-to-back now.
(Source: winnith)
Drive - A Lynchian Taxi Driver?
I can’t say that Drive is a direct iteration of Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, but there are certainly many similarities between the main characters.
The Driver and Travis Bickle both have dark pasts that make it difficult for them to communicate with the rest of the world. Yet, they have a very strong sense of what is right and wrong, and will do anything in their power to defend their beliefs - ANYTHING. Both of them enter a path of no return once they discover someone (and perhaps in a deeper sense - SOMETHING) that they need to protect. The biggest difference between the structure of these two films is that the audience goes along for the ride in Travis Bickle’s transformation as a rogue defender, while the Driver’s actions come as a surprise each and every time. The transformation is in the audience, and not in the character.
Both brilliant films. I want to watch them back-to-back now.
(Source: winnith)
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