... Hollywood. It is interesting to notice that the same year Taxi Driver obtained the "Palme d' Or" in Cannes! As a specialist of the "film noir" genre - he wrote the "essential" essay Notes on Film Noir - Paul Schrader, the writer of the Taxi Driver scenario refuses to accept "film noir" as a genre as western or peplum are. He prefers to refer to it ... than the one which is typical of the "noir" genre. As soon as the film opens, the spectator is straight plunged in a very characteristically dark landscape. The first shot shows a night view of a drenched decrepit street. Their are open se...

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