What Taxi Driver Teaches Us About Storytelling

Ever wonder how they wrote one of the greatest character studies of all time, Taxi Driver? Hear from Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese as they discuss the creation of the anti-hero Travis Bickle, how to create story from the perfect metaphor, and more insight into the writing process!

Chapters:
00:00 Preface
00:29 1. The Inspiration
01:49 2. Creating Stories Through Metaphor
04:48 3. Creating Travis Bickle
09:26 4. You Talkin' To Me?
10:18 5. Script Format
10:52 6. Study Yourself

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Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks. Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film tells the story of Travis Bickle, a lonely taxi driver who descends into insanity as he plots to assassinate both the presidential candidate for whom the woman he is infatuated with works, and the pimp of an underage prostitute he befriends.

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