Title: Taxi Driver
Original Title: Taxi Driver
Year: 1976
Info
- Country: USA
- Length: 112 Minutes (1 hour 52 min)
- Budget: $1,300,000
- Genre: Drama Thriller
- Studios: Columbia Pictures
- Distributor: Columbia Pictures
- Age rating: 18 (Suitable only for adults)
Release Dates
- UK: February 10 2017
- United States: February 08 1976
Plot
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a former soldier who fought in the Vietnam War, and since he returned from there, he suffer from insomnia. Then he decides to start working as a night taxi driver in the city of New York. Travis is not a very sociable person, who is not related to anyone and spends the day alone and watching movies, fantasizing about a girl who is a volunteer for a political campaign, Travis decides to take action and begin voluntary in the same campaign policy approach her. He is depressed, he see night after night as decadent society, and fears that one day he can go crazy. This happens when he meets Iris, one underage prostitute and Matthew "Sport" Higgins, her pimp.
Directed by Martin Scorsese, 'Taxi Driver' is one of his most iconic films. The cast is completed with Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel and Cybill Shepherd between others.
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Trivia
The intense work of De Niro
Robert De Niro worked fifteen hour days for a month driving cabs as preparation for this role. He also studied mental illness.
A totally unknown face
Robert De Niro has said that, despite having won an Oscar for 'The Godfather: Part II', he was still a relatively unfamiliar face and was only actually recognized once while driving a New York cab during his research for this film.
The loaded gun of the writer
Paul Schrader wrote the script of ''Taxi Driver'' in ten days via two drafts, one after the other. As he was writing, he kept a loaded gun on his desk for motivation and inspiration.
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