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Taxi Driver (1976)

Name: Taxi Driver
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: drama film, film noir, action film
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 8.2

Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Directed by Martin Scorsese · Cut by Marcia Lucas · Music by Bernard Herrmann · 114 min

How it was made

Robert De Niro obtained an actual taxi driver's licence and drove a cab around New York between flights from Rome, where he was shooting Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 at the time.
De Niro lost 35 pounds for the role and repeatedly listened to a taped reading of the diaries of would-be assassin Arthur Bremer to prepare.
Travis Bickle's mohawk haircut was suggested by actor Victor Magnotta, a Vietnam veteran playing a Secret Service agent, who explained its association with soldiers about to go into Special Forces combat.
Title designer Dan Perri built the opening titles from second-unit footage using a colour-treatment and slit-scan process to create the film's stylised, neon-lit sequence.
Scorsese desaturated the colour of the final shootout specifically to secure an R rating from the MPAA.
The shootout scene was filmed inside an actual apartment, and the crew had to cut through the ceiling to get the tracking shot; the sequence took three months of preparation.

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Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976) with Robert De Niro — Serious Feather · 51 min
Taxi Driver. Commentary with director Martin Scorsese (2007) — Special Features · 17 min
Asi se hizo TAXI DRIVER - Parte 1/4 (Making Of subtitulado al español) — Kitus Cine · 30 min
Martin Scorsese on How He Directed Taxi Driver — The Director's Cut · 9 min
Taxi Driver (1976) Stories — Featurettes and stuff · 22 min
Taxi Driver (1976) Storyboard to Film Comparison — Featurettes and stuff · 8 min
Taxi Driver Location Then and Now — Featurettes and stuff · 5 min
Taxi Driver Cast Q&A Tribeca Film Festival 40th Anniversary — Featurettes and stuff · 42 min

Elsewhere

More by Martin Scorsese

What Happens at Night
The Wager
A Life of Jesus
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? — 1963
It's Not Just You — 1964
The Big Shave — 1967
Who's That Knocking at My Door — 1967
Street Scenes — 1970
Woodstock — 1970
Boxcar Bertha — 1972
Mean Streets — 1973
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore — 1974
Italianamerican — 1974
New York, New York — 1978
The Last Waltz — 1978
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince — 1978
Raging Bull — 1980
The King of Comedy — 1982
After Hours — 1985
The Color of Money — 1986
The Last Temptation of Christ — 1988
New York Stories — 1989
Goodfellas — 1990
Made in Milan — 1990
Cape Fear — 1992
Scorsese X 4: Four Short Films By Martin Scorsese — 1992
The Age of Innocence — 1993
Casino — 1995
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies — 1995
Kundun — 1997

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