The camera continues to focus on her as an image, an erotic object, and the males as bearers of the look. Leeloo continues to wear revealing outfits throughout the film which code her as "sexy." There are no other important women in the film, and this is particularly obvious in the scenes with the President of the United States...
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There are no women in any positions of political power, which we know because there are no shots of women with the President. (If there are, they are buried in the background and have no speaking roles; if they are present they are secretaries rather than people of authority or power). The "bad guys," Mr...
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taxi driver I love how this use of characters is used.	1 / 275
taxi driver There has been much discussion about the ending, in which we see newspaper clippings about Travis' "heroism," and then Betsy gets into his cab and seems to give him admiration instead of her earlier disgust...	1 / 167
taxi driver This furthers the view that Travis’ personality and psyche are fragmented and disassociated from one another. An unusual editing technique is also used here, which is the Jump Cut backwards or “rewind” of Travis’ threatening VO as he turns towards the camera in slow motion...	2 / 421
Taxi Driver: A modern version of the Western Film Similarly enough, one night on the job, Travis sees a young girl named Iris, who is no older than fourteen, working the streets just as well as any other prostitute...	3 / 721