Scorsese and Vertigo's influence on Taxi Driver

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Scorsese owes much to Godard in Taxi Driver. In fact, Schoonmaker and Marty still utilize the jump cut; pioneered by Godard in Breathless. Also, does the end of this clip remind you of another filmmaker?

The Godfather (1972) Michael sinks when he feels the weight of "the strings". In Godfather 2 Fredo sinks from the weight of his betrayal. Both like puppets. "And I refused to be a fool dancing on the strings held by all those big shots. I don't apologize, that's my life."

G'nite.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. ~ Martin Scorsese

The Color of Money

No Direction Home

The King of Comedy The Wolf of Wall Street

Felicidades a mi amigo Jay Glennie, por su maravilloso libro sobre el making of de una de mis películas favoritas: RAGING BULL (1980) del gran Martin Scorsese. Y que honor tener esta edición firmada y numerada que ha llegado hoy a mi casa. ¡ Un libro espectacular ! 😎🙏🏼 🎥 📚

Taxi Driver The Aviator

Killers of the Flower Moon has begun filming in OK.

Sidney Lumet discloses Marlon Brando's "Test" he gives directors.

G'nite.