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" Travis Bickle A disturbed Vietnam war veteran who has no buddies or bros, other than his fellow taxi drivers, and is driven by his obsession with a young prostitute."
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"'You talking to me?'In the 1976 classic "Taxi Driver," Robert De Niro's lead character, Travis Bickle, entered this phrase into American culture while rehearsing a hypothetical confrontation in front of a mirror. De Niro ad-libbed the line, which is now standard fare for anyone who's eager to escalate an argument into a fight."
" Taxi Driver was one of those milestone films for me that really made me look at film and art in general in a very different way. Before then it was horror and science fiction flicks all the way, but here was a film set in nineteen seventies New York about this troubled guy and his war with urban decay and alienation...and I absolutely loved it. I first watched it when I was fifteen and it immediately became my favourite film, I even bought it on VHS which was pretty rare back then as all my"
" Travis Bickle: I first saw her at Palantine Campaign headquarters at 63rd and Broadway. She was wearing a white dress. She appeared like an angel. Out of this filthy mess, she is alone. They... cannot... touch... her."
"Let me be honest with you, "Taxi Driver" is my favorite Scorsese film because, unlike his future works, it gives us a series of uneasy answers. The movie follows a New York cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), who is suffering from depression and is slowly going insane. During his craze, he forms a failed relationship with Betsy (Cybil Shepherd), shapes his hair into a mohawk, encourages Iris (Jodie Foster) out of prostituting herself, and attempts to assassinate Senator Charles Palantine "