The Making of Taxi Driver

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The making of
TAXI DRIVER
There are a hantlful of films that literally changed the nature of modern cinema. The Film Frontier series examines the inspiration, creation, and influence of movies that often shocked audiences and critics in their time but in retrospect have become regarded as genuine classics.
Martin Scorsese created one such film in Taxi Driver, its main protagonist Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) being seen as a cipher for much that troubled America in the traumatic post-Vietnam years of the early 1970s.
Tracing Scorsese's many influences that led to Taxi Driver, from John Ford westerns to film noir thrillers, and the film's impact on the work of countless other directors, The making of Taxi Driver explores how this modern classic came together. And, 3Q years on, describes how the film has achieved genuine cult status with subsequent generations of movie audiences.

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The making of
TAXI DRIVER
There are a hantlful of films that literally changed the nature of modern cinema. The Film Frontier series examines the inspiration, creation, and influence of movies that often shocked audiences and critics in their time but in retrospect have become regarded as genuine classics.
Martin Scorsese created one such film in Taxi Driver, its main protagonist Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) being seen as a cipher for much that troubled America in the traumatic post-Vietnam years of the early 1970s.
Tracing Scorsese's many influences that led to Taxi Driver, from John Ford westerns to film noir thrillers, and the film's impact on the work of countless other directors, The making of Taxi Driver explores how this modern classic came together. And, 3Q years on, describes how the film has achieved genuine cult status with subsequent generations of movie audiences.

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"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is one of the ley films of the 1970s. In Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), the Vietnam vet turned New York taxi driver, Scorsese created a character who summed up the seething discontents of an America still traumatized by Vietnam and Watergate. A slave to pornography and junk food, obsessed with guns, Travis was very different from the heroes of traditional Hollywood films, but struck an immediate rapport with audiences worldwide.
Taxi Driver was influenced by everything from Dostoevsky novels to John Ford westerns, Godard movies, film noir thnllers, and screenwriter Paul Schrader's memories of living rough. The movie's impact has been felt in unexpected ways: in the actions of the Jodie Foster-obsessed John Hinckley, who tried to assassinate President Reagan after seeing the film 15 times; in the music of British punk bands; in the work of countless other later filmmakers, trying to make gritty, urban thnllers.
The making of Taxi Driver explores how the film came together; looks at some of the myths surrounding the movie, and asks why, 30 years on, it still has such resonance with modern audiences. Vissza