In Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle appears to be very sceptical of the people that surround his life. When he is driving around the streets of New York City, we see how he has negative perceptions of almost everyone that walks the streets. He calls them scum and parasites, and believes that there is a huge amount of people that need to be removed. This is enhanced by the fact that he works the night shift around the crime-ridden areas.
As well as the people he sees in the streets, there are the passengers that enter his taxi. There are very few times that he communicates with them, and feels that they are inevitably unpleasant, whilst checking them out in the mirror in his cab.
In terms of the influence this has on our film, our main character Chris Chesters is placed into a socially awkward situation in which everyone he surround by has, at least within his mind, some kind of horrible history or personal life. It is a similar paranoia that Travis Bickle has, although less violent and more fearful.
Chesters will barely, if at all, speak to any of the fellow passengers and instead we will hear his thoughts about them in his head, much like Travis in Taxi Driver.
Hopefully the characterisation of Chris Chesters will be even a hundredth as good as that of Travis Bickle...!
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