210 Taxi Driver (1976)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
210 Taxi Driver (1976)
- The scene where Travis Bickle is talking to himself in the mirror was
completely ad-libbed by 'Robert DeNiro' (qv).
- 'Bernard Herrmann' (qv) wasn't going to write the score for this film, but
agreed to do it (his last) when he saw the scene where Bickle pours Schnapps
on his cereal.
- 'Harvey Keitel' (qv) rehearsed with actual pimps to prepare for his role.
The scene where his character and Iris dance is improvised, and is one of
only two scenes in the film that don't focus on Bickle.
- Director 'Martin Scorsese' (qv) claims that the most important shot in the
movie is when Bickle is on the phone trying to get another date with Betsy
The camera moves to the side slowly and pans down the long, empty hallway
next to Bickle, as if to suggest that the phone conversation is too painful
and pathetic to bear.
- DeNiro worked as a taxi driver as part of his preparation for this
role. He also studied mental illness.
- DeNiro claimed that the final shoot-out scene took particularly long,
because of technical problems and the humor which arose from the tension
created by the carnage in the scene.
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): sitting down, behind Betsy as she walks into
the Palantine campaign headquarters in slow-motion. He also appears as the
irate husband in Bickle's cab.
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