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Travis
Travis Travis carries the Latin crossroads in its etymology — the man who lives at the intersection, who mediates between routes and destinations, who has seen everyone who passes. Schrader's Travis Bickle gave the name its defining modern literary shadow: the observer who absorbs the traffic of a city until his interior life becomes indistinguishable from the urban disorder around him. A character named Travis tends to be defined by what they witness and absorb rather than what they actively initiate, a man of the threshold.
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Travis Bickle
Taxi Driver — Paul Schrader
The insomniac, alienated Vietnam veteran whose taxi rounds through a nightmarish New York City lead him to vigilante violence, one of American cinema's most disturbing portraits of urban anomie.
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