Taxi Driver
Insomniac cabbie's descent
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran working as a New York City cabdriver.
The film's portrayal of urban alienation and violence made it a landmark of 1970s cinema.
You talkin' to me? is its most quoted line. (Lowercase taxi driver is someone who drives a taxi.)
- De NiroOscar-winning American actor
- neo-noirRevived hardboiled crime genre
- psychodramaTherapy through enacted scenes
- cinematographyMotion picture visual craft
Travis Bickle · screenplay · 1970s · isolation · violence · vigilante · mohawk · mirror
Scorsese
- De NiroOscar-winning American actor
- neo-noirRevived hardboiled crime genre
- psychodramaTherapy through enacted scenes
Travis Bickle · cinematography · screenplay · 1970s · isolation · violence · vigilante · mohawk · mirror · soundtrack
- 1976 FilmsRocky, Carrie, The Omen, Marathon Man, Logan's Run
- 1976bicentennial, Concorde, Nadia Comaneci, punk rock, Ramones
- ScorseseGoodfellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, Casino, The Irishman
- 70sdisco, bell-bottoms, Saturday Night Fever, pet rock, leisure suits
- 70s CinemaThe Godfather, Star Wars, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
Taxi DriverMary Poppins
My Neighbor Totoro · Forrest Gump · La La Land · Enchanted · Paddington
Taxi DriverDie Hard
Yippee-ki-yay thriller
Top Gun · The Avengers · Transformers · popcorn movie · summer blockbuster
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