"Driver" mashup

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Another trailer mashup, this time selling the idea of a warm and uplifting Taxi Driver. Very well edited by Steven Santos...but I think we all got the idea with that Shining trailer that went around a couple of years ago.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 1, 2006 at 11:07 AM

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Dave at Garfield Ridge says ...

Jeffrey, The Shining trailer's not even a year old, it first appeared online last fall.

Guess everything seems "old" online these days. One year old online might as well be on Compuserve or Prodigy for all it matters.

Posted by Dave at Garfield Ridge at August 1, 2006 11:34 AM

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Larry says ...

The Shining might have been one of the first to do it right, but no one's ever topped the Ten Commandments mashup.

Posted by Larry at August 1, 2006 12:01 PM

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Sugar Tits & Retarded Binoscope says ...

My vote goes to West Side Story. It's brilliant.

Posted by Sugar Tits & Retarded Binoscope at August 1, 2006 12:06 PM

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Mathew says ...

This might top the Shining mashup. The Shining trailer was pure satire and while I think Santos was going for the same thing here, he's actually struck something deeper: It's the trailer I think Travis Bickle would would want for his life story. Travis was a nut but in his heart wanted to be a good man, do the right thing and lusted for popularity. Also isn't it amazing how much more natural the acting was back in the 70's? Compare even this trailer with all of its heapings of sentimentality to the one for The Departed and Taxi Driver seems like a much more 'real' film.

Posted by Mathew at August 1, 2006 12:12 PM

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ArchiveGuy says ...

I suppose this is the best they could do with the footage available from the film, but it doesn't quite work. An uplifting trailer but the protagonist never really smiles (without looking creepy at least), swelling music but no real footage that inspires dramatic interest, and it's far from seamless in mixing & mashing quotes together in a very non-fluid way. "The Shining" did this much better--from the music mix to the way it really communicated a vibe about the fake film.

I'm sure there'll be more down the pike, but TD is ultimately too morose (even visually) to make this experiment work.

Posted by ArchiveGuy at August 1, 2006 12:54 PM

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gh says ...

'Shining' is still the king of the mash-up, but this was great too, because you could actually imagine the Taxi Driver script forced through the system in this day and age turning out just like that.

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Mathew -- that's a good point about Bickle.

Posted by gh at August 1, 2006 1:42 PM

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