... Stallone) - which defends so well this American ideal - for the best film's Oscar in 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 ... Though it has to be conceded that the environment of Taxi Driver seems to be poorer and lower than the one which is typical of the "noir" genre. As soon as the film opens, the spectator is straight plunged i...

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