1. Taxi Driver: an offspring of the "noir" genre.
... generalized at the end of the fifties. Second the flashback, which is a recurrent technique in the " film noir", isn't used at all in the Scorcese's Movie for reasons of narrative structure: Taxi Driver is the linear time story of a step by step sinking of it's main protagonist. And finally the defect of the two main archetypal figures of the genre: the ... and in order to give more weight to the assertion according to which the Scorcese's movie can be considered as a "legitime offspring" of the genre, one can draw an interesting parallel between "the first age" of the "film noir" - whi...
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