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Geographies of Desire: Postsocial Urban Space and Historical Revision in the Films of Martin Scorsese

Geographies of Desire: Postsocial Urban Space and Historical Revision in the Films of Martin... sabine haenni I was stupid . . . New York meant freedom to me. --Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence (1993) in a key moment in martin scorsese's ta xi driver (1976), the taxi driver, Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), picks up a new customer, Senator and presidential hopeful Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris). When Travis recognizes Palantine, the latter asks, "What is the one thing about this country that bugs you most?" After some hesitation, Travis answers: Well, whatever it is, he [the president] should clean up this city here because this city here is like an open sewer, you know. It's full of filth and scum. Sometimes I can hardly take it. Whoever becomes the president should just really clean it up, know what I mean? Sometimes I go out and I smell it. I get headaches it's so bad, you know. It's like . . . they just never go away, you know. It's like the president should clean up this whole mess here. He should just flush it right down the fucking toilet.1 When you live in a city, there's a constant sense that the buildings are getting old, things are breaking down, the bridges http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Film and Video University of Illinois Press

Geographies of Desire: Postsocial Urban Space and Historical Revision in the Films of Martin Scorsese

Haenni, Sabine.
Journal of Film and Video , Volume 62 (1) – Feb 21, 2010
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sabine haenni I was stupid . . . New York meant freedom to me. --Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence (1993) in a key moment in martin scorsese's ta xi driver (1976), the taxi driver, Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), picks up a new customer, Senator and presidential hopeful Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris). When Travis recognizes Palantine, the latter asks, "What is the one thing about this country that bugs you most?" After some hesitation, Travis answers: Well, whatever it is, he [the president] should clean up this city here because this city here is like an open sewer, you know. It's full of filth and scum. Sometimes I can hardly take it. Whoever becomes the president should just really clean it up, know what I mean? Sometimes I go out and I smell it. I get headaches it's so bad, you know. It's like . . . they just never go away, you know. It's like the president should clean up this whole mess here. He should just flush it right down the fucking toilet.1 When you live in a city, there's a constant sense that the buildings are getting old, things are breaking down, the bridges

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Journal of Film and Video – University of Illinois Press

Published: Feb 21, 2010

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