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In Reply to: Strongly second Stephen Hayes posted by Harmonia on November 2, 2000 at 16:17:28:
going with the taxi driver argument, I must say that I have heard and subscribe to arguments that the deer hunter is the prequel to taxi driver. It provides an interesting way to interpret both movies, maybe deer hunter as an explanation as to what made him who he is in taxi driver. If your bored, sit down and watch both and observe the similarities. In taxi driver, he only really lives when he feels he is doing something heroic, like shooting up those drug dealers. How does a soldier who was a hero in the war react to a return to society where he can no longer be heroic-in the sense of a soldier, this is what deer hunter and taxi driver are about. Maybe explains his attraction to politics-a highly civilized form of heroics in our society-we expect our politicians to save the world and make it a better place and our soldiers to preserve and protect the freedoms our politicians have fought for-go and fight and preserve and spread freedom and democracy-yada yada. Then again, maybe I'm just full of karamazovian buffonery.
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- taxi driver prequel/sequel - Jules 11:47:39 11/09/00 (1)
- Taxi Driver: 1976 and Deer Hunter: 1978..not to mention Scorsese vs Cimino (nt) - OwenMeany 07:02:22 11/10/00 (0)
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