The many books, interviews, museum exhibits, and retrospectives attest to this fact, consistently spinning narratives of an auteur seemingly emerging from the head of Zeus – inspired by the films that he viewed as a sickly child and born to the "mean streets" that he recreated in his cinematic world. In Mean Streets , this involved the actor suggesting lines and ideas for scenes. In Taxi Driver , it meant that De Niro had a great deal of control and autonomy over the portrayal of his character and how he would speak. Robert Kolker describes the scene as one that reveals Martin Scorsese's attentiveness to ethnographic detail. Mean Streets marked a transition for the director and the actor as well as their official entry into the so‐called Hollywood Renaissance. Scorsese stated that in Taxi Driver , what the actor did went beyond mere acting, stating instead that he actually became the Travis Bickle character.


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    Title :

    When Marty Met Bobby


    Subtitle :

    Collaborative Authorship in Mean Streets and Taxi Driver


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2021-03-22


    Size :

    20 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English