Page One: “Taxi Driver” (1976)

Written by Paul Schrader

All that description of Travis Bickle capped off with a portent of things to come:

As the earth moves toward the
sun, Travis Bickle moves toward violence.

As Ovid says, “The seeds of change lie within.” At the very beginning of the story, the first few lines in the script introducing the Protagonist, Schrader plants those “seeds.” Seeds of violence. Become who you are, Travis Bickle.

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