Taxi Driver
1976 Directed by Martin Scorsese
Synopsis
On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
Robert De Niro stars as Travis Bickle in this oppressive psychodrama about a Vietnam veteran who rebels against the decadence and immorality of big city life in New York while working the nightshift as a taxi driver.
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"You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. . . . "
Unbelievable in absolutely every way. Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a truly stunning piece of cinema and history. No film that I've ever seen manages to so perfectly showcase urban decay and human alienation the way it's done here.
Taxi Driver plays out almost like a novel. It can feel very episodic at times yet it never once losses any of it's momentum. Scorsese uses suspense in a slow-burn kind of way. Building it very slowly but surely. Then releasing, with intensity like I've never seen before. Without comparing one master to another,…
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I find it strange that this movie is so popular. I see 'bros' quoting it and they always have this next to Goodfellas and The Sopranos and Entourage in their collection of movies. I think a lot of people like it for the wrong reasons. They like the violence and the guns and DENIRO. But for me this is the quintessential art house film. It's ambiguous in it's meaning, it has no plot, it's main character has a lot of mental issues, it's meandering. And all of the characters in this movie, save for the Presidential campaign's employees are completely fucked up. But maybe I'm not giving these 'bros' enough credit. Maybe they feel just as lonely as Travis Bickle…
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If I ever had any doubts about Taxi Driver being one of if not the best character study ever put on film this re-watch certainly perished them. It's hard to really review something like this and still sound fresh as it's one of those movies everyone just knows is an absolute masterpiece in every regard. It helped put two incredibly important Hollywood figures in the spotlight. Martin Scorsese, despite some rough years in the 00's is by far one of the most interesting directors of the US and his filmography is by far the most impressive. With this and Raging Bull he has made two of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, both of which regularly appearing on…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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* 35 years of Taxi Driver - Classic Sessions - Digitally restored in 4k *
I was so happy when I knew that I would have the opportunity to see this amazing masterpiece of cinema on the big screen! One of my favorite movies of all time from one of my favorite directors, the great Martin Scorsese.
I love this movie but watching it on the theatre made me love it even more. It's an amazing experience. This movie gets better and better everytime we saw it that I'm out of words to describe what I feel everytime I watch it, specially this time. It is perfect in every way possible.This movie will be always timeless.
"All the animals come out at night" -
Noticed this time how frequently Scorsese crowds the frame with twitching junkies, street toughs and especially minorities; it's a great, subtle device to put us in Travis' head, as the "scum" he dreads is almost always literally right by his side. Taxi Driver remains a perfect hallucinatory vision of New York in the seventies and one of the best explorations of the mind of a mentally disturbed protagonist. Scorsese's expressionistic filmmaking style has rarely been as perfectly suited to its subject matter, and yet this time, some of the most compelling shots were static close-ups of Travis. In scenes like the one where he seeks help from Wizard (Peter Boyle), De Niro's performance is at once frightening and empathetic. The…
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Travis Bickle: un tercio psicópata, un tercio gañan, un tercio tipo encantador. Él es toda la peli... y eso que Harvey Keitel y Jodie Foster están muy bien. Gran trabajo con la cámara de Scorsese, que tiene un genial cameo, además.
Lo que no me ha gustado tanto ha sido el guión, da demasiados tumbos. Además ese final no le pega nada.
No me ha parecido obra maestra pero está muy bien.
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This movie to me is like going into the mind of Paul Schrader or should I say, 'Being Paul Schrader.' This is what Paul Schrader envisions when being in deep isolation and detached from the world he sees differently through a cocktail/bar filtered lens... Every shot looks very sophisticated in a sense of how it looks at night which is on point of what it would look like being in a 70s smoking cocktail bar lounge. It's a movie about loneliness and the constant tired repetitiveness of the adult world. Travis Bickle (played brilliantly as the insomniacal taxi driving war vet) works endlessly night/day as a taxi driver and he's not liking the way things look when go bumping in…
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Fantástica dirección de Scorsese, nos lleva en un taxi por todo Nueva York, y nos logra transmitir la locura y la etapa nocturna de la ciudad. No se centra únicamente en mostrarnos a los ciudadanos de la ciudad, nos demuestra la vida nocturna propia de una ciudad que esta inundada de droga, sexo e inmigración.
El trabajo y los movimientos de cámara del director son exquisitos, todo acompañado por la fantástica banda sonora de Herrmann. Un guión redondo que hace que los actores estén fantásticos y explotados al 100%.
Destacar al protagonista Robert y a la joven Jodie Foster, dos personajes con bastantes taras que intentan y conviven en una ciudad que esta fuera de su terreno confortable, aunque ellos insistan de que no y que pertenecen a la jungla de NY.
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Sweet Saint DeNiro this blu ray transfer is amazing! When your memory of a movie is a crappy VHS copy on a tiny little TV, you can't really appreciate how well shot the film is. This is like watching a whole new movie. Also, the movie happens to be one of the greatest American films ever made, so there's that.
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"You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. . . . "
Unbelievable in absolutely every way. Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a truly stunning piece of cinema and history. No film that I've ever seen manages to so perfectly showcase urban decay and human alienation the way it's done here.
Taxi Driver plays out almost like a novel. It can feel very episodic at times yet it never once losses any of it's momentum. Scorsese uses suspense in a slow-burn kind of way. Building it very slowly but surely. Then releasing, with intensity like I've never seen before. Without comparing one master to another,…
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"All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."
Sigue manteniéndose en mi top 10 por varias razones, los diálogos, la actuación magistral de De Niro, el soundtrack y una dirección bastante sólida de Scorsese.
De lo mejor que he visto y no estoy exagerando.
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This is my second viewing and I find this still so perplexing especially towards the end.
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"37 pushups in a winter-rate seaside motel/I feel like Travis Bickle..."
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