This text is of the opening credits of ‘Taxi Driver’ directed by Martin Scorsese we first see inter-titles of Columbia Pictures who produced the film and then actor Robert De Niro in large text emphasising the scale of his fame was huge back in the 70’s due to films like ‘The Godfather: Part 2’ and Scorsese and De Niro’s first collaboration in ‘Mean Streets’. We then hear a tremendously powerful and post-film noir non diegetic score by Bernard Hermann with a strong sense of jazz. The visual imagery transition fades from black to abundant smoke rising from the floor almost representing hell with the red colours. We then see a taxi cab drive through the some smoke and establishing this vehicle as a heroic presence through the score and how the cab is dominating the screen. The imagery represents New York in that time as hell on earth with pimps and prostitution plaguing the street, the film is a complex character study of Travis Bickle and we see the world through his eyes therefore his perception of the city is emphasised through the visual imagery. The notion of looking through Travis eyes is illustrated on the shot of his eyes framed on a close up. The non diegetic score is constantly contradicting itself because we hear the beautiful chilled jazz and then the extreme dramatic post-film noir tempo, thus representing the personality of New York City through Travis’ eyes, it can be beautiful and dramatic or repugnant in this case. This visual imagery parallels the score with the blurred depth of field showing vague city lights and through mise en scene romantic colours of red and orange, Scorsese is playing with idea of how unattractive things can be beautiful.