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It is every bit as about something as Taxi Driver, and may even be more savvy as to what it is about than Taxi Driver, with its chess games and card bluffs to avoid racism and misogyny thicker in the script.īut, Gerber, whose Duck would decry the lack of peaceful nonviolent philosophy in a fucking up racists movie, saw something more in Travis Bickle and the movie around him. It is centrally about the bigoted sins of Japan and tearing their eyes out on a rainy dock because fuck them. The Street Fighter is not simply about violence for the display of violence.
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Chiba’s Tsurugi fucks up a lot of guys, but primarily, specifically, elitist organized crime, rapists and racists.
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The woman whose kidnapping drives much of the plot is also mixed race. The title street fighter, played by Sonny Chiba – genius, beloved man, actor, union organizer who faced racist aspersions himself, for his hair and looks – does not simply fuck guys up, as another white writer would have a character-as-mouth say in True Romance. I imagine him feeling little reason to question it.ĭirected by Ozawa Shigero who would return to themes of racism and racial injustice in later sequels, The Street Fighter is about a mixed-race man incredibly frustrated at his nation’s racism, at the racism that destroyed his childhood, his family, that kills people. When Steve Gerber, brilliant writer, beloved man said this, in an interview with The Comics Journal, when he attacked martial arts movies in a Howard the Duck comic, Gerber was looking at the two movies, and specifically at The Street Fighter via the gaze he had available to him. In Taxi Driver, it is there to make a very important character statement about Travis Bickle.” “With The Street Fighter the violence is the entertainment. They are called catchphrases because they are viral. By Travis Hedge Coke on FebruPatricia Highsmash