As a group we were all very influenced by the film 'Taxi Driver.' Mainly we were influenced by the main character 'Travis Bickle.' Travis is a Vietnam veteran who becomes a night time taxi driver in order to cope with his insomnia. During this time he sees a lot of crimes including the prostitution of a 12 year old girl. Because of this Travis decides confront all the people responsible for this prostitution and kills them all. What makes Travis an effective character is his transformation throughout the film. For example at the beginning of the film he is pretty much just an average guy. However, during the end he looks drastically different as he has shaved off most of his hair to form a mohawk.
We wanted our villains in the film to be very similar to Travis Bickle in the sense that they lead a normal life during the daytime but become psycopathic at night. However instead of preventing crimes our characters would commit them instead. We also wanted our characters to change their appearance during this time and decided on the idea of masks as this would make our characters mysterious and the audience would not be aware of their appearance.
-Jack Windsor
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