Taxis that appear in movies [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.28]

Taxi from "Taxi Driver"

There were a lot of different characters, so I ended up with a work that is easy to understand and features a taxi in the title role. The checkered yellow cab with its round shape and black and white checkered pattern, driven by Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver," is synonymous with the yellow cab. In this film, which is set in the 70s, the big Ford and Plymouth taxis that appeared in Breakfast at Tiffany's have completely disappeared from New York, and it is these taxi cabs that crawl around the city. Introduced in the late 1950s and virtually unchanged until production ceased in the 1980s, its perfected form is truly the ancestor of the futuristic taxi in ``The Fifth Element.'' Travis is also a former Marine, so with that in mind, Corben and his taxi can be considered a sci-fi comedy version of Taxi Driver.

Travis, who has returned from the Vietnam War and suffers from insomnia, becomes increasingly dissatisfied and lonely as he drives around New York at night as a taxi driver, and eventually armed himself with a gun and attempts to release the dangerous energy he has hidden inside. ``Taxi Driver'' depicts. By observing the city from a low vantage point, Travis grows disgusted and dissatisfied with it, leading him to go insane, but perhaps it's because he's in a taxi that he can see the city up close.

Taxis appear in movies, sometimes as an icon, sometimes as a device to convey a story. The three movies and three taxis listed here are all completely different in style, but all are set in New York, and all involve yellow taxis. I think the yellow car is an important character in movies because it is always there and plays a variety of roles, no matter how different the era or world view. It's fun to see the differences in individuality stand out because the trademark has been established.

Illustrations and text: Mizumaru Kawahara

Born in 1991. Illustrator. In addition to illustrations and covers for magazines and books, there are also illustration columns for movies and books. New movie reviews are currently being serialized in "SPUR" (Shueisha).

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