#215: Taxi Driver , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Drama/Drame

Annee/Year: 1976

Country: US

Format: Blu Ray

Taxi Driver. What better opportunity to review a classic movie than it's transfer on Blu Ray. This great film from director Martin Scorcese has recently been gloriously trasnfered on blu ray through an extensive restoration project of the highest quality.

After having played in the godfather, Scorcese cast Robert DeNiro in the role of the taxi driver/vietnam veteran Travis Bickle. This sis the story of this nevrotic cabby who descends more and more into paranoia as he observes the vermin inhabiting the New York city around him. He falls in love with a young woman Cybill Shepherd from the upper side but the relation quickly makes a turn for the worst when she figures how illeterate Travis really is. Later on he focuses on trying to free a young prostitute played by Jodie Foster from her pimp played by Harvey Keitel. The attempt does not work and fianlly the movie ends in a blood bath when he takes his anger against the pimp and his group. Strangely the end shows Travis as a hero in the newspaper. Definitely referred to as a classic but not one of my personnal preferate.

Taxi Driver. Si vous n'avez jamais vu ce classique de Martin Scorcese, maintenant est le bon moment. Après une magnifique restauration ce film a été récemment mis sur Blu Ray. Robert De Niro y incarne le rôle d`un vétéran du Viet-nam qui devient chauffeur de taxi à New-York.
La il oberserve la violence et la misère sous tout ses aspects. Travis tombe en amour avec une jolie femme sophistiquée qui le rejette vite lorsqu`elle apprend a quel point il est illettré.
par la suite Travis se met en tête de sauver une jeune prostituée (Jody Foster) de son pimp (Harvey Keitel). Après qu`il s`apercoive qu`elle ne veut pas être sauvée; travis se met en tête d`éliminer son pimp et ses amis dans un bain de sang. On croirais que ce film se ternine mal pour travis mais au cotnraire le film se termine par son éloge comme héros dans les journeaux.
Vu par plusieurs comme vrai classique moderne; ce film n`est pas personnellement un de mes préféré.

Great quotes:

Travis Bickle: Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
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Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me
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Travis Bickle: I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
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Travis Bickle: [Travis is trying his guns on the mirror] Huh? Huh?
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Faster than you, fucking son of a... Saw you coming you fucking... shitheel. [Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: I'm standing here; you make the move. You make the move. It's your move...
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Don't try it you fuck.
[Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.
[Draws]
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Travis Bickle: I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union.
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Iris: God, you're square.
Travis Bickle: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. You're full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fuckin' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussy for peanuts? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one that's square, man. I don't go screwing fuck with a bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/fullcredits#cast

Entertainment rating: 7/10
Cast/acting rating: 8.5/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 3/10
Wide audience: 6/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10