5 most valuable minutes

I selected these five minutes because they were the climax of the film. It is where the whole film has been leading up to after Travis goes out to buy the guns and make all the contraptions to be able to use them he finally does use them. All the suspense about when he was finally going to snap and use the pays off in how he fights of the gang members to save Iris and almost dies in the process. Those five minutes are what the entire movie led up to and are the one of the few intense part of the movie and allow for the conclusion the movie to be what it is.

            Those Five minutes relate to Martin Scorsese body of work because His other bodies of work talk about concepts such as redemption and modern crime and violence and that extract shows just that. It shows Travis redemption because after just living in New York and talking about how he doesn’t like the city and how its all garbage and should be flushed away he actually does something to help “flush it away” and in the process saves a teenager. After struggling in deciding on what he should do, and in almost killing the senator he does something beneficial and redeems himself from just a taxi cab driver to a hero to some. This extract also shows modern crime and violence as the crime is keeping a child prostitute and the violence is in Travis in a heated gunfight with the gangsters.

            

This extract relates to the narrative plot structure because it is the climax of the movie. It shows how all the things that Travis experienced all tie up in the end. With the man telling him about how he was going to shoot his wife, to him buying guns and how he hates all the garbage that live in the city. It ties up all those points with Travis using the gun the man told him about to go and try to fix the problem of the garbage living in the town.

            This extract shows Martin Scorsese intent with how Travis Bickle is trying t break away from the social dystopia that he lives in. Scorsese use the themes of violence to show the social dystopia. It shows how society was controlled but Travis tries to break out of that society by going against it, which he does by killing of the gang members who run that part of society.

            The 5 minutes reveals how Taxi Driver is part of the rise of the Anti hero genre. The Anti-hero is a hero who isn’t perfect and doesn’t have heroic qualities but because of that the audience is more able to relate to the protagonist. The 70’s anti hero was one who was darker than before and went out and crushed all his opponents to get what he wants, this related to the American people because its reflected America in the Vietnam war. Travis goes out and kills those who he thought were his enemies just so he could get what he wanted to save Iris. Travis making the motion of trying to kill himself shows how the hero is society has become darker.

 Arrival of a train that camera dosnt move it stays in the same spot and creates good depth, while in Damsel in distress the camera moves around to show the emotion if the actor. In arrival of train it is one continuos shot while Damsel has lots of jump cuts. The Train shows story through long shot while the Damsel shows the story through many shots and through the actors interaction

 Constructive Editing is the idea that every angle and shot will show a new idea to the story. The Kuleshov affect is that the placement will proceed the actors thoughts, that the ideas of the film should be conveyed through details put together. Eisinstien belived that the film was in constatnt change and should be comunicated throught the edit. In "Odessa step" the technique is used with incomplete and jump shots to provide the moral for the shot.


Brazen didnt belive in the classical and formalistic editing styles because he belived they destroyed the scenes effectivness and change how the audiance percieves the shot. He belived that these types of edit were harmful for the audiances perception. The realist films are al about isolation, with the use of deep focus and long shots.

Anti Hero

Historical factors that influenced the Anti- Hero were  the American Culture. After WW2 America had a new culture, America was a new country after the war and they wanted a new hero. They wanted someone who was rebelling like they were and they wanted a human hero someone they could relate to. They expressed post how Post war America was not always a nice place to live, how the paranoia of the cold war was looming on everyones mind. It represented that how After WW2 America became very powerful but at a heavy price. With the Korean war the anti hero came to represent one who chases down and crushes all enemies at all costs, they would gain little and lose everything. With the cicil rights movements the anti hero could be seen as someone fighting for equality. in the 70's the anti hero became darker and more evil. The anti hero contradicts the classic hero because it has flaws he is not all powerful person who knows what is right and wrong, makes the right decisions and has a happy ending The anti hero would do the wrong thing and for the wrong reasons he had flaws and those flaws the audience could relate with. The Anti hero would do what he believed was right not what was always right and the Anti hero would leave messages in people lives long after the film he was in ended.

itensified

Our hollywood cinema is now fast, with dramatic action sequences, fast paced shots and sequels coming out faster and faster, with endless remakes which is used to create more and more money for the producers. Continuity is getting more intensified because everything s going faster from movies coming out to the shots in the movies, "Its hard to imagine a full length narrative movie with an asl of 1.5 seconds" cutting has become so fast that narrative movies have become almost. incomprehensible. Another way cinema has become more intensified is with more shot cutting, with cutting after every dialog ends it ads an added intensity as the audience is exposed to more shots and more action and more of a narrative structure, "in the 1930's to the 1960's most films had between 300-700 shots... most films now include over 1000 shots. Another way is that there are more extremes with the lenses with more extreme lenses there is more to show and more dramatic exposures, "Therefore filmmakers have used long lens for establishing shots deep for ground and background and grotesque close ups". With these more intensified aspects for film making we lose the full structure of a film we still have the story from start to finish but we have some much more added to how we tell the story not just the story itself.