Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

  • Director: Martin Scorsese
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: February 9, 1976
  • Runtime: 1h 54min
  • Sound mix: Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Tài Xế Taxi
  • "Taxi Driver" is an American feature film directed by Martin Scorsese in 1976 and written by Paul Schrader . The film tells the story of what happened in New York after the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Taxi Driver. At this time, the United States was quite embarrassed and confused. He drove a taxi every day to witness the fall of New York, but in the end he became a public hero in a dramatic way. 
    The film won the Golden Palm Award at the 29th Cannes International Film Festival in 1976 . 

    Details

    • Release date February 9, 1976
    • Filming locations 202 East 13th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Bill/Phillips

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,300,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $28,262,574

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $116,458

    Gross worldwide

    $28,570,902

    Movie reviews

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    • By Crystal 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      Some people are just passersby

      After learning that President Reagan was assassinated because of this movie, I came to watch it. After watching it, I thought about it a lot and felt that it was necessary to write something. There is a scene in the movie where Lavis called Bessie to apologize to her, but Bessie ignored him, so an angry Lavis rushed into Bessie's office and asked her why she ignored him. For this scene, I think many people have a feeling of deja vu. They will definitely encounter this in their life. They were...

    • By Kaela 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      Just kidding, don't watch

      I think the moral of this film is not a simple social phenomenon. First of all, it can start from his attempted assassination of the president. Why did he choose to leave instead of continuing the assassination in a heroic way (there is some bullshit here), I personally think it is for a kind of The complete abandonment of society, he believes that both criticizing and affirming society share a common goal, which is to recognize and regard society as the great Other of this ideal, and to...

    • By Makayla 2022-04-23 07:01:08

      A lonely hero in a dirty city

      From the very first shot of the film, the film has gripped my soul firmly, as if waves of electricity were flowing through my body, burning every nerve and every cell. With the sound of the heavy and tense intermittently sharp orchestral music, the exhaust of the taxi fills the entire screen, creating a chaotic haze, which brings an incomparable sense of depression and loss. Then the melodious, soothing and slightly sad saxophone jazz sounded, and the changing light and shadow flowed on the...

    • By Bartholome 2022-04-22 07:01:02

      Ironic hero's journey

      The post-Vietnam War America seems to be chaotic. So as an introverted protagonist who likes to think and write and can't sleep, he gets more and more uncomfortable when he comes back from the battlefield. From trying to exercise like a colleague and turning a blind eye, to really unable to choose to come forward, but I really don't think he will Buying four guns in one go...
      In fact, the devil and the hero are only in one thought, because the protagonist's field of vision is very narrow,...

    • By Aisha 2022-04-22 07:01:02

      foam and mirror

      A series of before-and-after contrasts are full of irony, and the ending balances the film.
          The smoke from the engine at the beginning slowly drove out of the yellow taxi, and then he made a close-up of his eyes, and the color reflected on his face with the neon outside the window. When the camera was aimed at the street scene, Travis saw the lights and feasts, and the smoke was smoky. .
          The reason why he became a taxi driver was due to insomnia, and insomnia was due to the...

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    • By Tara 2023-09-06 21:13:34

      What is shown in the movie is the current China,,,, confused,, helpless,,, all kinds of dirty,,,, all kinds of urbanization,,, penetrating three points,,, that sense of distance between people, that kind of soul The emptiness in the sky, the loneliness in the city. ....

    • By Olen 2023-08-20 15:54:09

      I haven't seen this one, 5 stars to the Korean one that doesn't exist in our...

    • By Annamae 2023-08-07 04:41:51

      The one I've seen is the Korean one. The German journalist in the play was buried in Gwangju when he...

    • By Duane 2023-08-03 03:47:22

      Lao Ma's masterpiece, I can't say how good it is, but I just like this feeling. That kind of aimless sense of detachment, lonely, lonely, bizarre city lights and feasts, and there are ghosts, snakes and spirits on the street. They are confused and confused, want to change something but choose to go down like this. See what a textured soundtrack and photography is all about. Moreover, the social significance of this film is far greater than the film...

    • By Vivianne 2023-06-16 14:47:55

      Borrowed land. Democracy never kneels...

    Movie plot

    Lavis, a Vietnam War veteran who has just returned from the battlefield in Vietnam and suffered from severe insomnia, lives by driving a night taxi in New York City. Lavis is a socially maladaptive man who relies on pornography to dispel his insomnia, but seeing the corruption and darkness of the metropolitan nightlife every day makes him more lonely and empty. Just as Travis was bored, a girl named Bessie stepped into his eyes. In his...
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    Continuity: When Travis's passenger is a cuckold husband, the fare charged by the taxi is wrong.
    Coherence: When Iris and Travis were eating, the number of toast slices changed incorrectly.
    Coherence: During the first meeting with Betty for coffee, there was a shot of Travis above his head showing him starting to wave his arms above the tabletop. But the next shots we saw were some of Travis's previous shots, his hands and arms were...
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    I can only say that people who like movies do not like this movie. This work, which clearly has the characteristics of a "sworn generation", is Scorsese accurately portraying the situation of Americans after the end of the Vietnam War in the most Hollywood way. It not only showed a unique artistic charm in the style of commercial films, but also won the unanimous approval of the Cannes judges who admire art films.  (Mtime.com)
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    Movie quotes

    • Travis Bickle: Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.

    • Travis Bickle: May 26th. Four o'clock p.m. I took Betsy to Charles Coffee Shop on Columbus Circle. I had black coffee and apple pie with a slice of melted yellow cheese. I think that was a good selection. Betsy had coffee and a fruit salad dish. She could have had anything she wanted.

    • Travis Bickle: I called Betsy again at her office and she said maybe we'd go to a movie together after she gets off work tomorrow. That's my day off. At first she hesitated but I called her again and then she agreed. Betsy, Betsy. Oh no, Betsy what? I forgot to ask her last name again. Damn. I got to remember stuff like that.