The Urban Loneliness Syndrome: Taxi Driver | Movie Review

If a few years before, Scorsese's (re) meeting with Robert De Niro had meant a crucial event in the lives of both artists, it was no less what happened in 1974, and again thanks to Brian De Palma, the director knew to screenwriter Paul Schrader. The story of Schrader, who in time would also become an important director, is well known: raised in strict Calvinism, until the age of 17 it was impossible for him to see a movie. Once he did, he completely fell in love with the medium, and made up all the time he lost, becoming a die-hard movie buff and a highly regarded writer of and about cinema. A friendship soon emerged between him and Scorsese that derives from mutual respect, with certain common characteristics, such as a fervent passion for cinema, which would result in four films written by the former and directed by the latter.