Among his best known roles, Johnson portrays the mutant cab driver Benny in the 1990 hit science fiction film, Total Recall. He also starred in the Broadway. Charater Profiles with Pictures: Links. Benny is the cab driver that Douglas Quaid uses to escape trouble when he is being chased. Benny claims he.

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It takes all types of characters to make a movie interesting. One variety of character you may have come across in movies is cab drivers. These may have the main role in a film or simply play a role that is relevant to the storyline. In fact, it might surprise you if you take the time to think about and realize just how many movies do feature a cab driver. Here are five of the most memorable cab drivers in movie history.

1. Travis Bickle – Taxi Driver

This is a neo-noir psychological thriller that was directed by Martin Scorsese. It was written by Paul Schrader and starred Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Leonard Harris, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, and Peter Boyle. It is set in New York City after the Vietnam War and is about a socially malfunctioning loner who is a cab driver who befriends an underage prostitute. This movie won the 19756 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 1994, it was selected by the US Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.

2. Korben Dallas – The Fifth Element

This English-language French science-fiction movie was released in 1997. It was directed and co-written by Luc Besson. The movie is set in the 23rd-century and is a story about a cab driver who becomes responsible for the survival of planet Earth. This was a massive commercial success as it grossed $263 million at the box office on a budget of $90 million. Until the release of ‘The Intouchables’ in 2011, this was the highest grossing French movie of all time. Bruce Willis plays the lead role of cab driver Korben Dallas and the movie also stars Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm.

3. The Ghost of Christmas Past – Scrooged Novecento wide font free.

‘Scrooged’ is a Christmas comedy movie that was released in 1988. It is a modern adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’, a novel written by Charles Dickens. The lead role was played by Bill Murray and the movie was directed by Richard Donner. In the film, Murray’s character is picked up in a cab with a rather scary driver who soon introduces himself as the Ghost of Christmas Past. This role was played by David Johansen.

4. Johnny Cab – Total Recall

‘Total Recall’ is based on Philip K. Dick’s novel ‘We Can Remember it for You Wholesale.’. It was adapted into a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, and Jon Povill, while Paul Verhoeven directed the movie. This 1990 science-fiction action film starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. Johnny Cab is a robotic driver who is played by Robert Picardo. The cab driver is ultimately destroyed by Schwarzenegger’s character, Doug Quaid.

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5. Max – Collateral

Written by Stuart Beattie and directed by Michael Mann, this neo-noir crime film was released in 2004. It stars Jamie Foxx as Max, a cab driver, and Tom Cruise as Vincent, a professional contract killer. The cab driver becomes the hostage of the hitman in this movie. It also stars Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg and Bruce McGill. On a budget of $65 million, ‘Collateral’ grossed $217 million at the worldwide box office.

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A 1990 Sci-fi film based on the Phillip K. Dick short story 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale', Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is on its face a sci-fi take on a spy thriller, set in memories implanted into a bored construction worker of the future.. or is it? Because of all the Alternate Character Interpretation, the film is often called 'The thinking man's action movie.'

Douglas Quaid (Arnold S.) is tired of life Twenty Minutes Into the Future. His literal life's dream is to get his ass to Mars as a way of escaping his humdrum existence. A commercial for the Rekall brand 'Ego Trip' induces Quaid to try one of the trips, which are just implanted memories of a vacation that he'd never be able to take in person. Quaid elects for an enhanced set of fake memories that cast him in the role of a super spy.. sort of a memory novella that he will remember living through. When something goes wrong with the procedure, he discovers that his entire life is a lie, and that he is, in reality, a super spy working under deep cover. Or is he?

The viewer is constantly challenged to decide if Quaid's experiences are real or all just a result of his 'ego trip'. The film is also well known for its special effects and over-the-top gore, like someother notable Verhoeven films. Highlights include tons of cool guns, three-breasted mutants and a bizarre NES tie-in game (Or do they?)

A terrible remake starring Colin Farrell was released in 2012 to universal loathing.

• A-Team Firing: Richter's goons surround Hauser's hologram on all sides, firing from less than 10 feet away without ever hitting each other, even though the bullets should be passing right through the hologram.
• Adaptation Expansion: Philip K. Dick's short story 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale'.
• All Just a Dream: ..Or Was It a Dream?
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The Mars Resistance base after Cohaagen's forces attack.
• An Arm and a Leg: Richter gets both his arms ripped off in his death scene.
• Artistic License Physics:
  • Mars is roughly under half an AU from Earth at closest approach, meaning it should take at least three minutes each way for the video phones to send messages.
  • There are so many things wrong with Mars in this film. The finale is especially egregious though: melting the frozen core of the planet fills the atmosphere with water, turning Mars into an earth-like, perfectly viable planet.
  • In the fight scene in the memory implantation suite on Mars, one of the technicians attacks Quaid with a slender metal rod, but between the more than meter of metal and his own strength, he's not able to even raise a bruise on Quaid when he parries the rod with his bare forearm, but it's still strong enough for Quaid to drive it through his attacker's skull. Being able to drive the thick metal lug that had held one of the restraining cuffs to the chair (before Quaid simply lifts the restraint straight up out of the arm) into another technician's neck and create a rather neat, circular wound is similarly silly (OK, it's an Arnold fight scene, so the laws of physics tend to go out the window, but things really should make more sense than that).
  • Mars has 38% of the Earth's surface gravity. While people and objects would clearly still be bound to the planetary surface, people would walk and objects would fall differently.
  • Or these are clues that these events are not real..
• Automated Automobiles: Johnny Cab on Earth.
• Badass Spaniard/Spicy Latina: Melina.
• Big Bad Friend: Benny and, believe it or not, Hauser.
• Body Horror: Mutants, especially Kuato.
• Bond One-Liner: Expected, for a Ahnold film.
  • 'Consider that a divorce.'
  • 'See you ad da pardy, Richta!'
• Breaking the Bonds: Quaid breaks metal shackles twice.
• Broken Record:

• • 'Two weeks. Two weeks.. two weeks, twoweekstwotweekstwoweeks..'
• Bulletproof Human Shield: Quaid uses a dead bystander this way.
• Catapult Nightmare: At the beginning, Douglas Quaid wakes up with a jolt from a nightmare of dying of suffocation on Mars.
• Cat Fight: Between Lori and Melina.
• Chase Fight: Between Quaid and Richter as Benny drives Quaid to the Last Resort.
• Chekhov's Gun: The hologram wrist device and the drilling machine.
• Cool Guns: Look for Pancor Jackhammers street sweepers whenever Richter is really pissed off. Also the cool magazine-on-the-back Calico weapons.
• Crapsack World: Mars is definitely this. It's basically a backwater colony whose inhabitants are exploited to mine valuable minerales for Earth, have mutated due to prolonged exposure to radiation and are forced to pay for the very air they breathe.
• Cuckoo Nest: During the Red Pill, Blue Pill scene.
• Cyberpunk: The dystopia with Mega-Corp elements put the film squarely in this genre.
• Dark Action Girl: Lori, Quaid's wife.
• Dark Is Not Evil/Light Is Not Good: Ironically, the script makes lovable blonde girl-next-door Lori a villain, while the dark-skinned, slutty ('sleazy,' to use Quaid's term), and rude Melina is the sympathetic one.
• Disguised in Drag: Quaid in the 'fat woman' suit.
• Disney Villain Death: Richter.
• Divorce Requires Death: *gunshot* 'Consider that a divorce.'
• Domed Hometown: The Mars colony.
• Doppleganger Spin: Quaid's wrist Hologram device gives him a single image version.
• The Dragon: Richter to Cohaagen.
• Drill Tank: Coincidentally, defeated with a drill.
• Elevator Action Sequence: The final fight between Richter and Quaid.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Richter is definitely upset at the loss of his lover.
  • And Cohaagen over the loss of his friend, Hauser.
• Every Car Is a Pinto: The Johnny Cab that Quaid drives into a wall.
• Evil All Along: Hauser. Mindfuck, much?
• Excuse Me, Coming Through: Well, he was carrying a gun, what did you expect?
• Explosive Decompression: This happens whenever the glass domes of the Mars station are broken.
• Eye Scream: The eyes of characters exposed to the near-vacuum atmosphere of Mars. Even if they recover from suffocation, they should be blind after their eyes have taken that kind of abuse. But then, the entire movie seems to be a case of Eyes Are Unbreakable.
• Fade to White:
  • This was done to suggest the possibility that Quaid was being lobotomised as suggested earlier by Dr. Edgemar.
  • Or, you know, that's just his vacation ending.
• Fake Memories: Rekall's business model.
• Fake Static: Richter (blaming sunspots), when Cohaagen is trying to give him orders.
• Faux Action Girl: Subverted by Quaid's 'wife' Lori. At one point, she seems to be becoming one, then proceeds to start kicking ass all over again.
• The Funday Pawpet Show: Cast Member Arthur Branswagger's signature song is the parody 'Total Recallin'.
• Girl of My Dreams: Melina to Quaid.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Quaid's memory implantation at Rekall. Supposedly.
• Gorn: Tons of it.
• Groin Attack: Multiple examples.
• Handy Cuffs: Quaid, after he's captured by the bad guys on Mars.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: 'I never wanted this. I wanted Hauser back. But no. You had to be Quaid!'
• Hologram: Generated by a wrist device.
• Hot Chick in a Badass Suit: Lori on Mars.
• Human Shield: The poor bastard on the escalator with the backpack.
• I Don't Pay You to Think: Cohaagen gives a version of this as he berates a subordinate:

• I Have a Family: Benny the cab driver has four kids to feed, and likes to bring it up to potential fares. ?
• Imminent Danger Clue: Quaid realizes Lori and the doctor are about to kill him from the bead of sweat rolling down the doctor's head.
• Indy Hat Roll: Quaid, right after arriving on Mars, to escape enemy pursuit.
• In Working Order: The switch that activates the alien device.
• It's a Small World After All: Mars has one red light district (Venusville), and is arranged into sectors that number enough to be designated letters of the alphabet. Since we don't know how much of Mars was colonized, it's possible that the human population there all lives in the same city.
• La Résistance: Kuato's martian rebels.
• Lockdown: Happens twice.
• Look Behind You!: How the Hologram wrist device is used.
• Lotus Eater Machine: Rekall has one, and will plug you in for a modest fee.
• Manchurian Agent: Quaid.
• Mind Screw: Quaid's entire adventure follows the plot of the super spy vacation he orders, as described by the Rekall salesman. Coincidence?!? Or was it?
• Minion Shipping: Richter and Lori.
• The Mole: Benny, and technically Quaid as well.
• Moment Killer: While Quaid and Melina are kissing in the catacombs.
• Mook Lieutenant: Everett.
• Multi Boobage: The triple-breasted hooker.
• My Girl Is Not a Slut: Richter, about Lori.

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• Neck Snap: In Quaid's first fight against Cohaagen's goons, one of them checks out this way in a rather gratuitous fashion.
• No Ontological Inertia:
  • Quaid and Melina, who somehow instantly recover from Decompression fairly quickly, despite it being previously shown to turn people into jelly.
  • It seems that the Alien reactor also managed to bring the pressure to Earth-Norm, but it still shouldn't have been that fast.
• No OSHA Compliance: Rather than kicking in automatically, the emergency pressure doors in the Mars spaceport terminal have to be manually activated while potentially (as happens in the film) fighting against being sucked into a near-vacuum.
• Note to Self:: The video messages Hauser leaves for Quaid.
• One World Order: Cohaagen.
• Or Was It a Dream?: The ending is intentionally ambiguous about the nature of Quaid's fantasy. If it was a dream, has it Gone Horribly Wrong, or not? Does the film end with him being lobotomized, or is that just the end of his vacation?? It all comes down to whether the the scene between when they start the implantation process and when Quaid wakes up in the Johnny Cab is a part of the hallucination or if it really happened. And there's absolutely nothing that says one way or the other.
• Planetville: Even the presence of other tropes reinforce this. For example, the atmospheric pressurization is so fast that if it was interpreted as accurate, it not only shrinks the colony to appreciable city-size, but the whole damn planet.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  • Benny! Screw you!
  • 'See you at the party, Richter!'.
  • From the bomb itself: 'Get ready for a surpriiiise!'
• Product Placement: Fuji Film, Jack in the Box, Pepsi, and more.
• Psychic Powers: Kuato and a number of other mutants.
• Publisher Chosen Title: See Adaptation Expansion above.
• Punch Clock Villain: Lori.
• Put Their Heads Together: Quaid to two of the Mooks who attacked him after he left Rekall.
• Rare Guns: The Pankor Jackhammer, though it is actually a Cobray Sweet Streeper made to look like one. It's not very convincing, but damn if it doesn't look cool.
• Red Herring Shirt: Quaid masquerading as a woman.
• Red Light District: Venusville on Mars.
• Red Pill, Blue Pill: A choice offered to Quaid by a Rekall psychologist.
• The Red Planet: Quaid spends most of the film on Mars.
• Shout Out: To Capricorn One.
• Spare Body Parts: A prostitute on Mars has extra assets.
• Spiteful Spit: Melina to Cohaagen.
• Taking You with Me: Richter and Johnny Cab both try this on Quaid.
• The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Hauser leaves instructions to Quaid, anticipates how Quaid is going to react at various points, and seems to know roughly how long it'll take him to remove the tracking device, before continuing (theoretically justified by some sort of basic AI programmed to judge responses, like the JohnnyCabs, but nothing like that's actually mentioned).
• Terraform: Mars, at the end of the movie.
• These Hands Have Killed: Quaid does this right after he slaughters the five agents trying to kill him on Earth, before he goes back to his 'wife' Lori. He actually has their blood on his hands at the time.
• This Is a Drill: Quaid to Benny.
• Title Drop:

• Twenty Minutes Into the Future: We have seen the future, and it is the public transportation system of Mexico City.
• Uncle Tomfoolery: Benny the cab driver, until he reveals himself as a mutant collaborator. And especially after that turns out to be a lie and he was Evil All Along.
• Video Phone: Used a lot on Mars. Talking to someone on Mars was as easy as phoning them up on Earth. In fact, Cohaagen (when on Mars) uses his vid phone to call Richter (on Earth) without any technical difficulties.
• Villainous Breakdown: Richter has a brief one after Lori's death, but pulls himself together quite quickly after nearly killing himself and his head goon.
• The War of Earthly Aggression: Mars Resistance version.
• Wham! Line:

• Xanatos Roulette: Cohaagen's plan.
  • Lampshaded:

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• Your Head Asplode: Subverted, where the exploding head is a bomb-rigged animatronic prosthesis which Quaid wears as part of a costume. His deception uncovered, he tosses the head to his pursuers, in whose hands it cracks wise and then asplodes. Also averted and played straight, since the thin Martian atmosphere causes one bad guy's head to asplode. Arnie and his gal narrowly avoid the same fate.
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Hauser basically says this to Quaid, pointing out that that's his body, and he wants it back. So Try Not to Die.