Taxi Driver (1976), directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, stars Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle — a sleepless, alienated Vietnam veteran driving a cab through a New York City he perceives as a sewer, building toward a violent act of self-appointed salvation.
Why It Matters
- De Niro's You talkin' to me? monologue is one of the most famous scenes in American cinema
- Bernard Herrmann's final score — completed two hours before his death — is one of cinema's greatest
- Jodie Foster's twelve-year-old Iris is a performance of extraordinary complexity
Schrader wrote the script in ten days during a personal breakdown. Scorsese directed it as a fever dream of American masculinity and urban despair. The film's ambiguous, blood-soaked ending refuses easy moral resolution and continues to generate debate.
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