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"Sight and Sound is the last word on Scorsese's powerhouse." -- Film Comment
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Illustrated Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalized with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace. This story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse. Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one of the two or three definitive American films of the 1970s. De Niro is mesmerising as Travis Bickle-pent up, bigoted, steadily slipping into psychosis, the personification of American post-Vietnam masculinity. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster give fine support and Scorsese brought in Bernard Herrmann, the greatest of film composers, to write what turned out to be his last score. Crucially, Scorsese rooted Taxi Driver in its New York locations, tuning the film's violence into the hard reality of the city. Technically thrilling though it is, Taxi Driver is profoundly disturbing-finding, as Amy Taubin shows, racism, misogyny and gun fetishism at the heart of American culture.
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"Sight and Sound is the last word on Scorsese's powerhouse." -- Film Comment
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Illustrated Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalized with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace. This story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse. Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one of the two or three definitive American films of the 1970s. De Niro is mesmerising as Travis Bickle-pent up, bigoted, steadily slipping into psychosis, the personification of American post-Vietnam masculinity. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster give fine support and Scorsese brought in Bernard Herrmann, the greatest of film composers, to write what turned out to be his last score. Crucially, Scorsese rooted Taxi Driver in its New York locations, tuning the film's violence into the hard reality of the city. Technically thrilling though it is, Taxi Driver is profoundly disturbing-finding, as Amy Taubin shows, racism, misogyny and gun fetishism at the heart of American culture.
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Perhaps the place to begin is with John Hinckley III, the man who, in 1981, tried to shoot President Ronald Reagan so that, as the defence explained at his trial, 'he could effect a mystical union with Jodie Foster', the actress who played a preteen prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and who, at the time of Hinckley's assassination attempt, was a freshman at Yale University. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Perhaps the place to begin is with John Hinckley III, the man who, in 1981, tried to shoot President Ronald Reagan so that, as the defence explained at his trial, 'he could effect a mystical union with Jodie Foster', the actress who played a preteen prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and who, at the time of Hinckley's assassination attempt, was a freshman at Yale University. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Times Square, Travis Bickle, The Searchers, Mean Streets, Arthur Bremer, Columbus Circle, Robert De Niro, World War, Bernard Herrmann, Cape Fear, Robert Warshow New!
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- Taxi Driver (Faber Film) by Paul Schrader on 21 pages
- The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey on page 19, and Back Matter
- An Assassin's Diary by Arthur Bremer on page 38
- - Davy Crockett (The Virginia Experience) by Carole Marsh on page 37
- Queen Christina (BFI Film Classics) by Marcia Landy in Back Matter
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- Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Mark Pizzato on 8 pages
- Faith In Film: Religious Themes In Contemporary Cinema by Christopher Deacy on page 69, and Back Matter
- Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last Seduction by David Butler on page 166, and page 185
- New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction by Geoff King in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Scorsese on Scorsese: Revised Edition by David Thompson in Back Matter
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