Drives with a View - III
ByTrisha GuptaTrisha Gupta / Updated: Dec 27, 2020, 07:19 IST
Continuing our series on films about cabbies, we look at why
Paul Schrader and
Travis Bickle, seems so eerily prescient today
Halfway through Martin Scorsese s 1976 neo-noir classic
Taxi Driver, we hear a campaign speech from a US Presidential candidate. “Walt Whitman, the great American poet, said, ‘I am the man, I suffered, I was there’,” intones the fictitious Charles Palantine. “No more will we fight the wars of the few through the hearts of the many..” Palantine s words, like most dialogues in Paul Schrader s much-mythified script, speak to as well as for the film s cabdriver hero,