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Martin Scorsese (b. Nov 17, 1942) is an Italian-American filmmaker who, with the help of two gigantic eyebrows living on his forehead has been a driving force in Hollywood for nearly half a century.

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Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle Paul Schrader was inspired to write the script after reading the published diary of Arthur Bremer, the man who was convicted of shooting presidential hopeful George Wallace. Eerily, Bremer was 26 years old in 1976 (the year the film was released), the same age as Travis Bickle in the film. And Schrader himself was 26 when he first wrote the screenplay, in 1972. 

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle

Paul Schrader was inspired to write the script after reading the published diary of Arthur Bremer, the man who was convicted of shooting presidential hopeful George Wallace. Eerily, Bremer was 26 years old in 1976 (the year the film was released), the same age as Travis Bickle in the film. And Schrader himself was 26 when he first wrote the screenplay, in 1972. 


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winnith: Drive - A Lynchian Taxi Driver? I can’t say that Drive is a direct iteration of Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, but there are certainly many similarities between the main characters. The Driver and Travis Bickle both have dark pasts that make it difficult for them to communicate with the rest of the world. Yet, they have a very strong sense of what is right and wrong, and will do anything in their power to defend their beliefs - ANYTHING. Both of them enter a path of no return once they discover someone (and perhaps in a deeper sense - SOMETHING) that they need to protect. The biggest difference between the structure of these two films is that the audience goes along for the ride in Travis Bickle’s transformation as a rogue defender, while the Driver’s actions come as a surprise each and every time. The transformation is in the audience, and not in the character.

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Drive - A Lynchian Taxi Driver?

I can’t say that Drive is a direct iteration of Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, but there are certainly many similarities between the main characters.

The Driver and Travis Bickle both have dark pasts that make it difficult for them to communicate with the rest of the world. Yet, they have a very strong sense of what is right and wrong, and will do anything in their power to defend their beliefs - ANYTHING. Both of them enter a path of no return once they discover someone (and perhaps in a deeper sense - SOMETHING) that they need to protect. The biggest difference between the structure of these two films is that the audience goes along for the ride in Travis Bickle’s transformation as a rogue defender, while the Driver’s actions come as a surprise each and every time. The transformation is in the audience, and not in the character.

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Taxi Driver (1976)

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Robert De Niro’s costume from Taxi Driver (1976) has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center by director and screenwriter Paul Schrader The costume includes the boots, plaid shirt, and jacket worn by De Niro in the film. “The boots are the boots I was wearing when I wrote the Taxi Driver script (along with Western shirts and a leather military jacket),” Schrader said. “The boots fit De Niro, so they ended up in the film. Bob had wanted me to give them to him, but I kept them, as they had sentimental value. When Bob called to tell me he’d given his papers and effects to the Harry Ransom Center, I realized it was time for the Taxi Driver clothes to take their place in the De Niro closet.” The costume will be available to researchers who visit the Ransom Center. “This is a great example of how costume contributes to character,” said Steve Wilson, the Ransom Center’s Associate Curator of Film. “We have this plaid, Western, all-American shirt, with a military jacket, because his character is a Vietnam vet. The jacket’s still got the name on the back and the paratrooper patches on the sleeves. It signals to the audience that his character is still attached to the military.”

Robert De Niro’s costume from Taxi Driver (1976) has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center by director and screenwriter Paul Schrader

The costume includes the boots, plaid shirt, and jacket worn by De Niro in the film. “The boots are the boots I was wearing when I wrote the Taxi Driver script (along with Western shirts and a leather military jacket),” Schrader said. “The boots fit De Niro, so they ended up in the film. Bob had wanted me to give them to him, but I kept them, as they had sentimental value. When Bob called to tell me he’d given his papers and effects to the Harry Ransom Center, I realized it was time for the Taxi Driver clothes to take their place in the De Niro closet.” The costume will be available to researchers who visit the Ransom Center.

“This is a great example of how costume contributes to character,” said Steve Wilson, the Ransom Center’s Associate Curator of Film. “We have this plaid, Western, all-American shirt, with a military jacket, because his character is a Vietnam vet. The jacket’s still got the name on the back and the paratrooper patches on the sleeves. It signals to the audience that his character is still attached to the military.”

THE A-Z OF MARTIN SCORSESE I - INSANITY, BORDERLINE You don’t have to be nuts to be in a Martin Scorsese movie but it definitely helps. His protagonists wrestle with big questions of success, mortality and damnation in the same way that Tarzan used to wrestle crocs: dangerously, exhaustingly and regularly to the death. The ladies in their lives might get a handbag out it, but it usually gets bloody along the way. Behind his fizzing pop soundtracks and crackle of gunfire, you can hear the psyches of Scorsese’s protagonists fracturing. Their tragic flaw is often obsession, whether with fame (The King Of Comedy), power (Casino), status (GoodFellas), revenge (Cape Fear) or very big aeroplanes (The Aviator), but some are just plain dosed up on the crazy. Many, like Travis Bickle or Rupert Pupkin, are God’s lonely men, while others, like Teddy Daniels in Shutter Island, are decent men lost in their own lives. You wouldn’t leave any of them in charge of your children. Empire Online

THE A-Z OF MARTIN SCORSESE

I - INSANITY, BORDERLINE

You don’t have to be nuts to be in a Martin Scorsese movie but it definitely helps. His protagonists wrestle with big questions of success, mortality and damnation in the same way that Tarzan used to wrestle crocs: dangerously, exhaustingly and regularly to the death. The ladies in their lives might get a handbag out it, but it usually gets bloody along the way. Behind his fizzing pop soundtracks and crackle of gunfire, you can hear the psyches of Scorsese’s protagonists fracturing. Their tragic flaw is often obsession, whether with fame (The King Of Comedy), power (Casino), status (GoodFellas), revenge (Cape Fear) or very big aeroplanes (The Aviator), but some are just plain dosed up on the crazy. Many, like Travis Bickle or Rupert Pupkin, are God’s lonely men, while others, like Teddy Daniels in Shutter Island, are decent men lost in their own lives. You wouldn’t leave any of them in charge of your children.

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“I got some bad ideas in my head.” - Taxi Driver, 1976

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this may seem like a random gathering of travis bickle quotes but it really is a travis bickle appreciation post drawing attention to all the beautiful things he says to betsy that i love and are so adorable and sweet :3

this may seem like a random gathering of travis bickle quotes but it really is a travis bickle appreciation post drawing attention to all the beautiful things he says to betsy that i love and are so adorable and sweet :3

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Taxi Driver (1976)

Taxi Driver (1976)

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