#في_الحضارة #محمد_السعدني #دوستويفسكي How did the creative genius of Dostoevsky and Martin Scorsese come together in the film "Taxi Driver"? What is the dramatic background of Travis Bickle that we didn't see in the film? What does a person do when the way others perceive them is the only proof of their existence? How do they face a society that despises them yet simultaneously needs their validation? And what do they do when they get the chance for that validation from the girl of their dreams? Will they even be able to see her for who she truly is? What if you discover that your tendency to self-destruct is stronger than your love? How will you deal with the moment of rejection? The moment of falling in the eyes of the one you love? Are the standards of masculinity and femininity fixed or do they change with evolving social norms? How does society's perception of a person shift from criminal to hero, even though it's the same person with the same motives and the same actions? Sources 👇 Taxi Driver (1976) — Directed by Martin Scorsese, Written by Paul Schrader https://catalog.afi.com/Film/67969-TA... Taxi Driver Screenplay - Written by: Paul Schrader https://bluecatscreenplay.com/wp-cont... Notes from Underground (1864) — Fyodor Dostoevsky https://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/6... Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky — Translated by Anis Zaki Hassan, Al-Ahliya Publishing and Distribution, 2017. / 25897305 Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre, Translated by Abd al-Rahman Badawi, 1966, Dar al-Adab - Beirut. / 9518625 Simon Weil: The Gap and Compensation, translated by Ahmed Fathi Ismail, Boring Books website, February 7, 2021 https://boringbooks.net/2021/02/simon... Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory, Judith Butler, Theatre Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 519-531, published by The Johns Hopkins University. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3207893 “La crisi dell’eroe: Rappresentazione cinematografica del sottosuolo” The Crisis of the Hero: The Cinematographic Representation of the Underground (2023) — Michelangelo Socci https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/it... Screen Writer: Paul Schrader (1976) — Interview by Richard Thompson, filmcomment. A discussion about translating the European existential hero into an American context, Travis's crisis, and directing his destructive impulse toward others. https://www.filmcomment.com/article/p... Martin Scorsese Tells All: Blood and Guts Turn Me On! (1976) — Richard Goldstein and Mark Jacobson https://www.villagevoice.com/martin-s... Source of Scorsese's statements about the film's ending, the character's military background, and the story behind the mohawk hairstyle. Financial Control Board, New York State — New York State Archives https://www.archives.nysed.gov/node/3... A historical reference on the 1975 New York financial crisis and the institutional response to it.