Lumpy, let me steal your avatar.  Travis Bickle is one hardcore mother fucker.  

Damn, I don't know what else to say.  Bickle's the man dude.  Anyway, nuf' beers for me.  Bickle's my new role model.  Fucking killing pimps and shit.  And that mohawk...that mohawk.  Awesome man.  Just Hardcore... shit.

Good times...  Taxi Driver.  Good times Lumpy, glad I saw it.  Good ol' Travis Bickle...

...Fuckin' pimps....

Are you talkin to me?

Great movie Lumpy...

I'm, so glad I finally saw it...good times man.

Travis Bickle......-> One Hardcore Mother Fucker.

Quoted: Lumpy, let me steal your avatar.  Travis Bickle is one hardcore mother fucker.   Damn, I don't know what else to say.  Bickle's the man dude.  Anyway, nuf' beers for me.  Bickle's my new role model.  Fucking killing pimps and shit.  And that mohawk...that mohawk.  Awesome man.  Just Hardcore... shit. Good times...  Taxi Driver.  Good times Lumpy, glad I saw it.  Good ol' Travis Bickle... ...Fuckin' pimps....

I was disappointed when I found out the mohawk on Robert Deniro is fake.  

Overall a good movie though.

After inquiring into Lumpy's avatar awhile back I found a copy of that movie for like $10 and grabbed it up. Good flick!!

Quoted: After inquiring into Lumpy's avatar awhile back I found a copy of that movie for like $10 and grabbed it up. Good flick!!

Indeed!

It's about time I watched that movie after asking Lumpy about (actually problu over) 6 mo's ago on what his avatar was all about!  I'm so cheap, I should have just bought it at blockbuster when i was in Tucson  so many months ago after learning about the almight Travis Bickle avatar.  Ah well, good times still.

Good night all, and hope for better times ahead without the booze.  I'm so glad I finally watched that flick.....................g'night.

If I hear "Good Times" again, I am gonna

Quoted: I remember the first time I drank and posted. I think I am gonna watch Taxi Driver again.

My second I believe, but definately not my last.  

Pretty good grammar for 11 beers, eh?

Excellent movie...

Quoted: If I hear "Good Times" again, I am gonna

I love u too a320az

i saw it for the 1st time this past winter.  awesome movie!

Quoted: Pretty good grammar for 11 beers, eh?

On a week night?

Quoted: Quoted: Pretty good grammar for 11 beers, eh? On a week night?

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Quoted: Are you talkin to me?

I don't see no one else here!

Trivia for
Taxi Driver (1976)
Various studios considered producing this film; one suggested Neil Diamond for the lead role.


Brian De Palma was also considered to direct but the producers were dragged to a private screening of Mean Streets (1973) (Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese's previous collaboration) before they told Scorsese he could direct, but only if he got De Niro to play the lead.


Harvey Keitel was originally offered Albert Brooks's part as the campaign worker. But decided to take the role as the pimp, even though in the script he was black and only had about five lines.


Rock Hudson was once considered for the role of Charles Palantine, but was not able to due to his commitment to the TV series, "McMillan and Wife" (1971).


De Niro worked twelve hour days for a month driving cabs as preparation for this role. He also studied mental illness.


De Niro's mohawk was not real. Makeup artist Dick Smith (II) created a bald cap that was glued to De Niro's head and the mohawk was made of thick horse hair.


The scene where Travis Bickle is talking to himself in the mirror was completely ad-libbed by Robert De Niro.


Bernard Herrmann wasn't going to write the score for this film, but agreed to do it when he saw the scene where Bickle pours Schnapps on his bread.


Harvey Keitel rehearsed with actual pimps to prepare for his role. The scene where his character and Iris dance is improvised, and is one of only two scenes in the film that don't focus on Bickle.


Director Martin Scorsese claims that the most important shot in the movie is when Bickle is on the phone trying to get another date with Betsy. The camera moves to the side slowly and pans down the long, empty hallway next to Bickle, as if to suggest that the phone conversation is too painful and pathetic to bear.


De Niro claimed that the final shoot-out scene took particularly long, because of both technical problems and the humor which arose from the tension created by the carnage in the scene.


Due to the bloody content of the brothel shootout scene, cinematographer Michael Chapman agreed to desaturate the colors in post-production. This explains why the blood appears to be pink instead of red in that scene. Later, when the DVD was being prepared, Scorsese wanted to replace it with the original shot, with the blood in its original vivid redness, but no print of that original scene could be found, so the DVD still has the muted colors.


Due to her age Jodie Foster could not do some of the more explicit scenes. Instead her older sister Connie was used as a double.


In the shootout, Robert De Niro gets shot in the neck. In the shootout in Mean Streets (1973) De Niro also gets shot in the neck.


Legendary composer Bernard Herrmann died on Christmas Eve of 1975, just hours after completing the recording sessions for Taxi Driver.


When Travis calls Betsy from a payphone to apologize for having taken her to a porno movie, he makes that call from the lobby of The Ed Sullivan Theater (1697 Broadway).


The sex film Travis takes Betsy to see is Kärlekens språk (1969).


Taxi Driver was filmed by Columbia Pictures. There's a scene early in the movie where a guy leaving Palantine campaign headquarters holds the door open for Betsy as she goes in. The guy is wearing a white Tee-shirt inside-out. You can see a large Columbia Studios logo (backwards) showing through his shirt.


The girl with whom Jodie Foster studied in order to prepare for her role as Iris also appears in the film, as Iris' friend on the street.


Director Martin Scorsese's mother appears in the picture of Iris' parents cut out from the newspaper. The picture is hanging on Travis' wall at the end of the movie.


Due to injuries sustained in an accident during the production of the 1975 movie "The Farmer," actor George Memmoli (qv) had to decline the bit-part of the Travis's disturbed passenger who was ultimately played by the film's director Martin Scorsese


The small role of an infuriated husband who wants to kill his wife out of jealousy was intended for an actor who didn't show up at the set, so director Martin Scorsese played it.


Director Cameo: [Martin Scorsese] sitting down, behind Betsy as she walks into the Palantine campaign headquarters in slow-motion. He also appears as the irate husband in Bickle's cab.


Scorcese was reluctant to edit the climactic (and very bloody shoot out) to avoid an X rating. However, he was amused by the changes ordered by the MPAA, because they made the final scene even more shocking than had originally been intended.


In Paul Schrader's original screenplay, the characters of Sport, the Mafioso and the hotel clerk were all black. Scorcese felt that, combined with other events in the film, this would have stacked the deck too much towards racism, and suggested that those characters be changed to white men. Schrader relented.


Jeff Bridges was considered for the part of Travis Bickle.


De Niro's famous "You talkin' to me?" lines were entirely improvised. The screenplay details for that scene consisted only of "Travis looks in the mirror".


The record that Travis buys for Betsy is "The Silver Tongued devil and I" by Kris Kristofferson. In the restaurant, they quote from a song on the album, "Pilgrim Chapter 33" ("he's a prophet...").


'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.


The producers were looking for a "Cybill Shepherd" type to play the female lead in the film. When agent Sue Mengers heard this, she reportedly called them and asked why not hire Cybill Shepherd.


Travis' name was an homage to the Mick Travis character in If.... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973), the latter of which was supposedly one of Martin Scorsese's favorite films at the time.


According to Amy Taubin's book, the Character of Iris was partially inspired by Schrader's memory of 1950's Coppertone ads. One of Jodie Foster's first acting jobs was a Coppertone commercial.


While it may be true that the scene where 'Robert de Niro' 's stands before the mirror and asks his reflection "You talking to me? Well, I don't see anyone else here" was improvised, the exchange is a quotation from Shane (1953) where Alan Ladd and Ben Johnson square up to one another just before their barroom brawl.