... the 1970's. Many of the thematic elements in "Taxi Driver" are borrowed from other movies which exhibit distinct film noir qualities. In his essay, "Notes on Film Noir," Paul Schrader, who wrote the "Taxi Driver" screenplay, outlines his view of film noir as a genre. Schrader points out ... attachment to water. His repeated insistence that a "real rain " will come and clean up the corruption, his constant driving through the rain at night, suggest that water is something he cannot escape, and that its cleansing powers, its ability to wash away the filth, like his own, is impotent ... in...

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... 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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