If you remember the line in Taxi Driver, there is Cybill Shepherd (Betsy), having coffee with Travis (Robert De Niro), this is full of living-off-the-dirt cogency. Its a first date coffee deal. She says flat-out, with perfection, “You are the most unusual person I have ever met. Easy, high-heels walking confidently on the older and better metropolis kind of thing. She goes on musing a bit while calmly sipping her coffee, in a very self-contained but seeking conversational way that happens only in New York . . . that he (Travis) reminds here of the character in a Kris Kristofferson song; and declares to Travis (De Niro) that he is a walking contradiction, like in that Kris Kristofferson song.” She asks him if he has the record. He doesn’t. She seems amused, enchanted, and flattered by Travis, but taken Only by surprise and not more -- much too experienced and intuitive and intelligent to be shocked by any stretch of the imagination, that’s how well she acted. So she is Not Utterly surprised but is rather delighted on the outside and in this way she carries her relationship with him until it ends, an attitude, perhaps; but we never know how deep it is inside of her. The record album (The Pilgrim) -- never mentioned by name -- is something he doesnt have, as established. I think she asks him what kind of music he likes, and he says that he doesnt know, like Denzel Washington (Crissy) said to Pita (actress name?) when she asked him the same question while he was trying to protect her as a child bodyguard in Mexico City, where kidnappings are daily business. This is similar to Harvey Kartel’s role with Agnus, played by Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. Like Crissy (Denzel Washington) in Man On Fire, so is Travis (Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver -- a walking contradiction. The films bear that out. Sad about Tony Scott. Aside from the mind-blowing caste and script writer Paul Schrader and Director Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster, a tribute to De Niro where Robin Williams is the DJ, said on state at the podium that Bobs (De Niros) no-nonsense and disciplined approach to her and her acting on in Taxi Driver, was where she learned to act. There has probably not been a film so packed with changing cinema and changing American societys view itself, that has had such a caste. IMO.ww.youtube/watch?v=fMVUILVM0Xw
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:40:10 +0000
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