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Robert De Niro
Jodie Foster
Cybill Shepherd
Harvey Keitel
Peter Boyle
Albert Brooks

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A Vietnam vet is a taxi driver who obsesses over a woman, while at the same time he tries to save a young prostitute. His mental instability makes him go to the extreme in certain situations.

04/03/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The odyssey of insanity

This is one of most brilliant scripts ever. It should be called The odyssey of insanity.
Why is he insane? City filled with "scum" is one big reason, enviroment in which 12 year old girl is prostitue is not enviroment where someone wants to live. Another reason is that main character is not very good in relationship with people, or is it better to say that he is completely alone and as such he doesnt see people in very positive light. One person he saw in positive light is that girl he took to porn film not knowing how is she going to react on that. That for sure scared her, and he felt even bigger hostility toward his enviroment. he had to do something. And at this point everyone can feel what he feels and that is something we have to thank for to writer and director. First he tries to ...

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4/4 

08/23/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Taxi Driver review

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, is a former Marine and a taxi driver who enjoys pornography and women. He meets Betsy (Cybill Shepard), campaign volunteer for New York Senator Charles Palantine. Bickle encounters a 12 year old prostitute named Iris (Jodie Foster). He finds a way to let Iris escape from Sport (Harvey Keitel). An enthralling screenplay, endearing score and excellent cinematography that showed the hellish streets, the picture exemplifies societies vile. Flow of the film was flawlessly accomplished. Foster and De Niro were brilliant in their roles; you see the charm in Iris and the recluse nature of Travis. Some memorable quotes: Travis Bickle – “Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” “All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go...

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4/4 

11/05/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

You talkin' to me?

In my first viewing of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, I thought it was a very well made film and respected the fact that it was in fact one of the greatest films ever made. However, I simply didn't like it as much as other people did. There was something missing that made Scorsese's other films so great, that little spark that worked well in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and even Casino. But in my second viewing I saw what made this film a true masterpiece. And boy was it clear.

Taxi Driver is the story of Travis Bickle. Travis is a psychopath. He grows tired of the scum and the cockroaches that infest the streets. He is soon driven to violence and even goes as far as to attempt to assasinate a senator and save a young hooker from her pimp.

The film is pretty much a one man show that ri...

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4/4