Taxi Driver - 1976
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Martin Scorsese
Paul Schrader
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Genre: Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
Tagline: On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
Plot Outline: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, This film is about loneliness, about the isolation of a is Bickle lives. Travis is an misunderstood guy who is seeking desperately for some kind of company because as he says 'loneliness has followed me all my life, everywhere' but at the same time he seems not to do anything to avoid his situation and it is seen when he goes with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) to a porn cinema. At the end of the film the character makes real his most violent fantasies, with a look of certain soldiers from Vietnam, and he behaves like this because of his loneliness, his alienation and because he does not find any sense to his life. The violent behaviour becomes Travis into a hero, although he had killed many people and he could do it again. Although he acts with an extreme violence the spectator understand him and the reasons why he acts that way.
Actors
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| Robert De Niro | | Travis Bickle (as Robert DeNiro) |
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Cybill Shepherd
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| Peter Boyle | | Wizard |
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Jodie Foster
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| Harvey Keitel | | 'Sport' Matthew |
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| Leonard Harris | | Sen. Charles Palantine |
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| Albert Brooks | |
Tom
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| Diahnne Abbott | |
Concession girl
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Frank Adu
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Gino Ardito
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| Victor Argo | | Melio (as Vic Argo) |
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| Garth Avery | | Iris' friend |
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| Harry Cohn | |
Cabbie in Bellmore
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Copper Cunningham
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| Brenda Dickson-Weinberg | | Soap opera woman (as Brenda Dickson) |
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Runtime: 113 min / Spain:110 min (cut version)
Country: USA
Language: Swedish / English
Color: Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix: Dolby SR (re-release) / Stereo
Certification: Australia:MA
(TV rating) / Canada:R
(Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) / Italy:VM14 / New Zealand:R18 / Argentina:18 / Australia:R / Canada:13+
(Quebec) / Chile:18 / Finland:K-16 / France:-12
(re-rating) / France:-16
(original rating) / Hong Kong:IIB / Ireland:18 / Israel:18 / Japan:R-15 / Netherlands:16 / Norway:18 / Peru:18 / Portugal:M/18 / Singapore:M18 / South Korea:18 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 / UK:18
(video rating) (1986) (cut) / UK:18
(video re-rating) (1993) (uncut) / UK:X
(original rating) (cut) / USA:R / West Germany:16
Trivia: In Paul Schrader's original screenplay, the characters of Sport, the Mafioso and the hotel clerk were all black. Martin Scorsese felt that, combined with other events in the film, this would have stacked the deck too much towards racism, and suggested that those characters be changed to white men. Schrader relented.
Goofs: Continuity: When Travis gets back into his cab after buying the Kris Kristofferson album, the beacon on the top reads "3S96", which is consistent with real New York taxis, which have their medallion number on their roof beacon. (Medallion numbers are always 4 digits, with the second being a letter.) In the next shot, the roof beacon reads "TAXI", which is never on a New York City taxi's roof beacon, but is often used in movies and TV shows.
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 9 nominations
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