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Taxi Driver (1976)

Drama | 114 minutes
3,90 4.436 votes

Genre: Filmnoir / Thriller

Duration: 114 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Cybill Shepherd

IMDb score: 8,2 (954.157)

Releasedate: 9 February 1976

Taxi Driver plot

"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."

War veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a taxi driver. He is a lonely man obsessed with pornography and violence. His life continues to decline, and he slowly loses himself in his paranoia. He grows increasingly irritated by the thugs that walk the streets at night, and it's only a matter of time before he springs into action, helping to save a young prostitute (Jodie Foster).

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Mescaline

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After 11 years it was high time for a revision, and certainly now that Joker has come out, which is clearly reaping the benefits of Taxi Driver.
What a wonderful review it was! De Niro who portrays his character lifelike and not at all over the top and a story that gets all the space to work towards the end in a very effective way. This is something I often miss in contemporary films, the peace and space needed to develop a character effectively and also to make it human, something that Scorsese fortunately understands.

Those little touches, like that the camera is going to film an empty hall when De Niro completely ruins it on the phone with his "flame" as if it was too embarrassing to keep watching.
As a viewer you understand exactly what is going through Travis and that it will slowly but surely come to an eruption .

Great to look back on those classics, Good Fellas will soon be reviewed again.

4.5*

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VanRippestein

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Beautiful film, especially because of the time frame and the acting. Not as masterly as some here think the film is. Because honestly: is that phone conversation really so painful that you can't bear to watch it or is it an artificial trick that comes across as smart if you know it?

The film is full of this kind of inside jokes (effervescent tablet, rotating camera). When I was a film student, I was very receptive to those kinds of facts, but now I find them somewhat in the way of the film. Anyway, that says more about the canonization of the film (and myself). The film still looks great.

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umbra

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Have seen this pass regularly, now finally watched it in UHD. What a young De Niro and yes certainly Foster (albeit in a supporting role), apparently this film has pretty much kick-started their career and rightly so. Then judge especially about De Niro, who already played a very strong, sublime role here, really a bliss and pleasure, to see him also in this film. The film itself, honestly, I expected it to be even more raw and harder, but even then the film builds this up so well in one way or another, how you see that Travis (De Niro) is annoyed by so much in his ' one environment and see him gradually prepare (which covers most of the film), for a portion of cold-blooded and uncompromising violence and revenge on a gang of bastards, to which you are treated, in the last fifteen minutes. But it knocked so hard for me and brought even more realistic picture. Even though I often drool over the top, unrealistically hard-hitting violence from start to finish. This 'Taxi Driver' had me with me right away and you feel 1 with Travis throughout the entire film. Also that I only see a film from 1976, now 46 years later, for the first time and have not experienced any disadvantage with this at all, on the contrary, the age of the film survives the test of time without any difficulty and the final conclusion is therefore that I can't help but give full marks for this, 10/10.

Robert De Niro really has the qualities of the better actor, very strong in both crime films and the better comedy I bow deeply to such toppers And then Martin Scorsese as director, who has already delivered masterpieces, really thick combination !

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