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Summary: Descend Into One Man's Hell
Review: Travis Bickle is one of the most confused and violent characters ever to grace the screen. He is an ex-marine who becomes a taxi driver. He is disgusted by all the filth and scum he sees in New York City, but he drives in the city's worst neighborhoods and picks up the slimiest of characters. In voice overs, we hear him describe some of the debauchery that goes on in his cab. He sees a beautiful young woman working in the campaign offices of a Presidential candidate. He gets up the nerve to ask her out and they go to a luncheonette and have a nice conversation. Then on another date he takes her to a pornographic movie and she is revolted by this and then spurns him. One of the heartbreaking scenes in the movie is Travis calling her on a pay phone to apologize. Martin Scorcese pans away from Travis and shows a long corridor while he is being rejected. This sends Travis over the edge. He gets a mohawk and plans an assassination attempt on the candidate which is aborted. He also meets a 13 year old hooker named Iris. He can't understand why she subjects herself to this life and why she is with a creepy pimp named Sport. In the film's bloody climax, Travis kills Sport and ends up in a blood bath while Iris looks on horrified. Robert De Niro plays Travis as powderkeg waiting to burst. He lets Travis slowly slide into his own personal hell before finally exploding. Cybil Shepard is charmingly beautiful as the campaign worker and Albert Brooks provides some levity as her co-worker. Jodie Foster served noticed as Iris. She plays the character with seeming self-assurance, but with an underlying fragility an amazing achievement for the then 13 year old. Peter Boyle plays Wizard, who doles out philosophies on life to Travis, with an all-knowing nature. Harvey Keitel plays Sport with the right amount heavy handiness and smarm. The film established Martin Scorcese as a top-flight director.
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Summary: Taxi Driver: Great Movie
Review: For Me, one of the best movies of all time. Watching Taxi Driver is a haunting experience for it's realistic portrayal of loneliness in the city. Great acting by De Niro and the cast, music by Bernard Herrmann, script by Paul Schraeder and everything else. As for the DVD extras, it has enough features that make most viewers happy though it could still improve. A Worthy Buy.
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Summary: travis
Review: would of been way musch better if it was made in the 90's.
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Summary: Boy, Does This Film Hold Up To Test Of Time!
Review: I've seen this film at least five times prior to seeing it again last night. It is as fresh and as perfect as the day it was made and I enjoyed every moment again. It seems every actor in it became either a major film or tv star in the years after it was made 25 years ago. Robert DeNiro is at his finest as Travis Bickel, a New York taxi driver, who slips further and further into a breakdown state. He can't sleep so drives his cab all night long. He runs into an amazing cast of characters on the city's streets including Jodie Foster, a teenage prostitute who has Harvey Keitel as her pimp; Cybill Shepard as the idealized woman he wants to court (his idea of a date is taking her to a porno movie!); Albert Brooks as a political worker; Peter Boyle as a fellow cabbie; director Martin Scorsese in a cameo role as an obsessed husband watching his wife carry on an affair from the back of Travis's cab. The soundtrack I've had for years too as it is the most gorgeous saxophone accompaniment. Perhaps the most perfect aspect that struck me this time though was the writing. Paul Schaefer's screenplay was dead on. He grabbed ahold of Travis Bickel's paranoid, alienated world and delivered it dead-on to us. If only other film-makers understood the need to start with an absolutely first rate script, perhaps more films would be winners like this one too.
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Summary: One of the best movies
Review: This movie rocks and it would have been better if it was made today then back then cause the Generation X era would have loved it. I'm a junior at school and no one there has seen the movie cause they are all interested in movies such as The matrix which was highly overated. And one thing, how coome women despise this movie, I mean Travis Bickle saves Iris at the end. My favorite part is when Sport and Travis meet for the first time. Their acting display and dialogue is unbelievable. Great movie 5 stars.
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Summary: Purely Historical Value
Review: A film classic (apparently) about a Vietnam veteran who becomes a taxi driver and then lets himself be broken down by the misery and the meaninglessness of modern society.Seen with Year 2000 eyes, »Taxi Driver« does not have a great deal of appeal. It has purely historical value. The best things you can say about this film is the very beautiful photographing and cameraing, plus that it is interesting to watch very young Robert DeNiro's and even younger Jodie Foster's already then great talents. You also get glimpses of Harvey Keitel and Jeff Goldblum. Do watch »Taxi Driver«, 'cause it is one of those classics that you have to have seen. But don't expect too much.
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Summary: A fine film about alienation.
Review: Travis Bickle (De Niro) is an ex-Marine with a problem, he cannot sleep. So, he gets a job driving a taxi in the New York night. He is a man without fear so he will go anywhere anytime and of course, this means that he always sees the worst of the city. Travis is almost totally lacking in social skills and this leads to a disastrous date with Betsy (Shepherd) and an ever increasing sense of alienation from and disgust with the world around him. A chance encounter with Iris (Foster) a child prostitute, increases Travis' sense that he must do something about the city. He wavers between taking action against the man in control of Betsy, politician Charles Palantine for whom Betsy is a campaign worker and the man in control of Iris, Sport (Keitel) her pimp. A close brush with secret service men who spot him in a crowd makes his decision and Travis decides to free Iris in a bloody shootout. It's not a bad plot but the movie is really about the alienation of one man from the city around him. In this, De Niro is totally convincing he is in the city but not of the city. He has a hard job too. A social misfit cannot be given a sharp snappy script. Instead, such a person will at times be an embarrassment to those around him and De Niro portrays this perfectly. This definitely a "must see" film. It is well paced and keeps the audience's attention throughout. The settings and the atmosphere of the dark side of the city are convincing. My only reservation is the ending. I cannot see how Travis' action would have been viewed in the way that the film showed.
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Summary: : )
Review: Cause he can't read lips, Hard of hearing Travis asks: "You talking to me?"
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Summary: the quintessence of alienation cinema
Review: "Notes from the underground"-it's the title of a Dostoyevsky book. Actually it's one of his best. If you've read it you could maybe appreciate more the Scorsese movie. "God's lonely man"-that's Travis Bickle,the Vietnam veteran who spends his life driving a cab through the seedy streets of New York. He observes without taking any part. He despises the pimps, the prostitutes and the junkies. He welcomes the rain that will sweep the city clean of its filth. He haunts the streets as he begins a mesmerizing descent into his own personal hell. He's drawn to two women in particular: there's Betsey, the unattainable blonde campaign worker for a president wannabe, and there's Iris, a child whore who is in the thrall of a brutal pimp. At a certain point of the movie he sets out to win over these two women and at the same time atone for his own sins in an orgy of violence. His original plan to kill the candidate is foiled by the Secret Service, so he decides to descend into the squalor to redeem himself by rescuing Iris. Like every kind of underdog Travis takes out his anger on the guy below him rather than the guy above him. He contemplates his arsenal before beginning his rampage. He is wearing faded combat fatigues and has designed a complicated holster contraption that would allow him to draw and fire much faster. He is surveying his handywork in a full-length mirror. "You talking to me" - he says as he spins and draws on a non existent opponent, savouring this moment. It's the picture of a man on the brink of the abyss! A truly wonderful moment of genuine movie magic! Travis Bickle is a man who is in emotional pain throughout the movie. The pain and torment that Bobby De Niro endures on screen as Travis goes far beyond simply acting. To give that feeling of rejection, the feeling of really being angry, the fear of not being able of making relationships survive, to understand the pain and play it so convincingly he would have had to endure at least some of it. Undisputably one of the best performances in the cinema history!
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Summary: "Must watch" classic
Review: "Taxi Driver" is a must see movie for Robert De Niro fans. Flawless Direction and a superb support cast including Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle and Cybil Shepherd. The origin of the line "Are you lookin' at me?" and much more. I recomend this to anyone who doesn't have too weak a stomach. 5 stars.
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