THE QUESTION THE INSPIRATION

MY QUESTION IS how does radicalism define Midnight Cowboy and Taxi Driver as companion pieces? It’s a comparative film analysis of two overlapping films out there from a similar era and they explore similar themes. I have three areas of how I structure my essay: Character Direction, Interception and Directorial Decisions [which] includes how they used their environment because they are both set in New York City.

I’M VERY PASSIONATE about film, and I considered doing a literary analysis, but I thought this would be more challenging because it’s not something I have done for school before. I wanted to do something new that related to my interests, specifically ’60s and ’70s films. [It] was an experimental era and socially we were progressing and I feel like the entire style of filmmaking shifted at that time.