I recently read Amy Taubin's excellent Taxi Driver volume in
the BFI Film Classics series. However, one thing tripped me
up. She wrote:
"As Christopher Sharrett notes in his essay 'The American
Apocalypse: Scorsese's Taxi Driver', each of the guns Travis
buys references a specific macho hero: the Magnum is favoured
by Dirty Harry, the Walther PPK and the .25 automatic by
James Bond, the snub nose Smith and Wesson
.38 by Mike Hammer."
It's been a while since I've read any Spillane, but wasn't
Hammer's
"Betsy" a .45?
Mark
ps -- it was really nice to see Taxi Driver on a real movie
screen again last night at AFI. Quite a movie, which also
draws a lot on The Searchers (along with Bremer's Assassin's
Diary and Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground).
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