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Travis Bickle (De Niro), an alienated, sexually repressed young man from the Midwest, has recently been discharged from the Marines. He suffers from insomnia and consequently takes a job as taxi driver in New York and volunteers to work the overnight shift. Bickle spends his spare time watching pornography in seedy theaters and driving around purposelessly.
Bickle is horrified by what he considers the moral decay around him, and when Iris (Foster), a 12½ year-old prostitute, gets in his cab one night, he becomes obsessed with saving her despite her complete lack of interest in the idea.
Bickle is also obsessed with Shepherd's character, an aide for a New York State Senator. She agrees to a date with Bickle, but he takes her to a pornographic film, and she leaves, disgusted.
Bickle then plans to assassinate the Senator. When this fails, he kills Iris's pimpA male manager of a brothel is called a pimp a female brothel manager is known as a madam or a shimp . Street prostitutes may or may not have a pimp. Although this is looked down upon in the social circles in which a pimp resides, the relationship between (Keitel). He is wounded in the fight, and seems to be dying.
The climactic shoot-out was, for its era, intensely graphic, and retains much of its visceral impact today. To attain an "R" rating, Scorsese altered the colors in the scene to make the brightly-colored blood less prominent.
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Roger EbertRoger Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Chicago Sun-Times film critic and the first author to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism ( 1975 award "for his film criticism during 1974"). Through his newspaper reviews, books, television shows, lectures, and p has written of the film's ending, "There has been much discussion about the ending, in which we see newspaperBrookgreen Gardens Pawleys Island, South Carolina A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint, containing a journal of current news in a variety of topics. These topics can include political clippings about Travis' 'heroism', and then Betsy gets into his cab and seems to give him admiration instead of her earlier disgust. Is this a fantasy scene? Did Travis survive the shoot-out? Are we experiencing his dying thoughts? Can the sequence be accepted as literally true? ... I am not sure there can be an answer to these questions. The end sequence plays like musicMusic often an art/ entertainment, is a total social fact whose definitions vary according to era and culture," according to Jean Molino. 1 It is often contrasted with noise. According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez: "The border between music and no, not drama: It completes the story on an emotional, not a literal, level. We end not on carnage but on redemption, which is the goal of so many of Scorsese's characters."Taxi Driver was a financial success, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976 and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was #47 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years, 100 Movies, and #22 on its 100 Years, 100 Thrills. It is consistently in the top 50 on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Bernard Herrmann, who is noted for his work with Alfred Hitchcock (especially Psycho), scored Taxi Driver. The soundtrack was the last he completed before his death.Roger Ebert selected Taxi Driver as a Great Film, alongside Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia and others. [1]
Some critics have argued Taxi Driver is perhaps the first film to address--however indirectly--the impact of the Vietnam War on soldiers who fought in the conflict. For example, when Bickle determines to assassinate Senator Palantine, he cuts his hair into a mohawk. This detail was suggested by actor Victor Magnotta, a friend of Scorsese's who had a small role as a Secret Service agent, and who had served in Vietnam. Scorsese later noted that Magnotta had "talked about certain types of soldiers going into the jungle. They cut their hair in a certain way; looked like a mohawk ... and you knew that was a special situation, a commando kind of situation, and people gave them wide berths ... we thought it was a good idea."
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