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Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse.Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one of the two or three definitive films of the 1970s. De Niro is mesmerising as Travis Bickle – pent-up, bigoted, steadily slipping into psychosis, the personification of American masculinity post-Vietnam. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster give fine support and Scorsese brought in Bernard Herrmann, the greatest of film composers, to write what turned out to be his last score. Crucially, Scorsese rooted Taxi Driver in its New York locations, tuning the film's violence into the hard reality of the city. Technically thrilling though it is, Taxi Driver is profoundly disturbing – finding, as Amy Taubin shows, racism, misogyny and gun fetishism at the heart of American culture.In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Amy Taubin considers Taxi Driver anew in the context of contemporary politics of race and masculinity in the US, and draws on an exclusive interview with Robert De Niro about his memories of making the film. (provided by publisher)

Taxi driver (Motion picture : 1976)

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Een kijkje achter de schermen bij een van de meest opvallende en succesvolle bedrijven Uber is het meest opvallende en marktverstorende bedrijf van dit moment. Het is voor veel bedrijven een marktvoorbeeld geworden, maar de meningen over hen zijn verdeeld en hun strategie is zeker niet onomstreden. Toch fascineert hun businessmodel en -strategie zowel voor- als tegenstanders; hun succes valt niet te negeren. De CEO, Travis Kalanick, wordt vaak gezien als de nieuwe Steve Jobs: keihard, briljant, vernieuwend en een van de interessantste zakenmensen van het moment. De door hem opgezette bedrijfscultuur is extreem darwinistisch. Met de komst van de zelfrijdende auto, directe levering op elk tijdstip, en de all-inclusive service-op-aanvraag heeft het er alle blijk van dat de toekomst van Uber alleen nog maar stralender zal worden. Bron : http://www.bol.com

uber --- Taxi's --- Transport --- Elektronische handel --- Marketingstrategieën --- Cybermarketing --- Bedrijfsstrategieën --- Startende ondernemingen --- economie --- Taxi --- Marketingstrategie --- Bedrijfsstrategie --- Startende onderneming --- Onlinemarketing

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Gordon, Douglas, --- Scorsese, Martin, --- Influence. --- Gordon, Douglas --- Scorsese, Martin --- Taxi driver (Motion picture : 1976)

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Un bureau de femmes architectes et urbanistes entreprend de réaménager le quartier Maritime à Molenbeek. Invitées par les médias locaux, elles exposent leur projet. Du jeu de rôle à la réalité, au pied du chantier de Tour et Taxi, où poussent des logements luxueux, le bureau des femmes s'emparent du pouvoir d’exprimer les aménagements dont le quartier aurait besoin.

Atelier collectif --- Femme --- Architecte --- Urbanisme --- Quartier --- Restructuration urbaine --- Années 2010 --- Molenbeek --- Bruxelles --- Tour et Taxi

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All around the world, new companies are creating and joining a new economic model. The activity of these companies is based on their platforms. Through these, the potential customers and sellers are connected. This model is called « sharing economy ». The sharing is not a new idea, but sell through the disposal technology widens the scale. This model does not change what we consume, but the way we consume (Petit, 2016). The studies show that this phenomenon will take more and more scale in the coming years.

In the light of this phenomenon dimension, it pushes aside the traditional companies. Indeed, it leaves nobody indifferent. Generally, the sharing economy companies do not follow the current regulations. It is the case of the company « Uber ». It is a platform which gets in touch people who want a race and people who propose transports. Uber attacks an ancestral sector, which operates with national regulations. The Brussels-Capital Region did not escape this phenomenon. Nowadays, more than 500 vehicles from Uber circulate in the capital streets. This company is, all around the world and including in Brussels, hauled before the court for unfair competition. Uber, which is not respecting the regulations, would allow to propose taxi industry similar services, at unbeatable prices. Monopolizing a part, at least, of the demand, this company arrival would damage the financial health of the sector companies.

With this report, entitled « The impact of the Uber arrival on the profitability of the taxi industry, study of the Brussels-Capital Region », we would like to highlight the reasons of the sharing economy appearance, the stake that it represents for the future, an understanding of the Uber functioning and its implications in the taxi industry. Then, an financial health analysis of the sector will be made trough major actors interviews and taxi industry companies financial statement analysis. The objective of the research is to compare the theoretical and practical results and provide a clarification of the situation of the Belgium market.

Sharing economy, Taxi industry, Uber, Belgium, Brussels, Financial situation, Profitability --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Comptabilité & audit