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Taxi Driver, The Accused and Silence of the Lambs.

posted 4 years ago by TheMan18 (12560)
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Does anyone feel like these three movies have quite a lot in common, besides starring Jodie Foster, and almost in a way come across as "The Jodie Foster Trilogy".

In all three films she basically portrays a woman, although in one film a young girl, who is in some kind of grievous trouble and danger and must fight in order to stay alive and do everything in her powers to overcome dangerous obstacles or a mental humiliation.

Not to mention, all three films, two of which won Oscars, were award winners (did Taxi Driver win an Oscar?) and put Jodie Foster on the map in various ways.

Also, was the semen throwing incident in Silence of the Lambs an unofficial tribute to The Accused? Imagine if Hannibal Lecter or even Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver came across those evil perpetrators from The Accused, what would happen then?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I can’t see how those three movies could be more different.

All great, but other than Foster’s name in the credits, they really don’t share any similarities. To me, anyway.

[–] moviechatterer (13451) 4 years ago

some kind of grievous trouble and danger and must fight
pretty much every film ever ,
barring the rom coms and some of the comedies

[–] TheMan18 (12560) 4 years ago

Even some comedies and romantic comedies have had some of those elements or references to as such. Remember "There's Something About Mary (1998). Pretty Woman (1990) also dealt with some potential dangers and threats associated with the profession, and the beginning of the film had a body of possibly a dead hooker and she was a victim of attempted assault as such towards the end.

And when it also came to stuff like gender reversal violence including of which kind you know, like in 2001's Tomcats or the notorious "40 Days and 40 Nights" (2002) and 2005's "Wedding Crasher", whose female characters were guilty of criminal offenses against men and it was inappropriately somewhat portrayed for laughs or as a double standard.