2. Taxi Driver (1976)
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Drama
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Diahnne Abbott
Box Office: Made over $ 12 million in rentals (USA)
Random fact: Due to her age Jodie Foster could not do some of the more explicit scenes. Instead her older sister Connie Foster was used as a double.
Cool quotes:-
*Iris: God, you're square.
Travis Bickle: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. Your full of sh*t, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those ****in' 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 F with bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?
Travis Bickle: The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.
Travis Bickle: June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.
Travis Bickle: ****... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.
..and lastly, maybe the best quote of all time in cinematic history.
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[into a mirror]
Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who do the F do you think you're talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok. Huh?*
Travis Bickle will go on the list of great characters -- He is just so creepy, but interesting. This film is so disturbing that it's almost stomach turing, but in a good way. The best Robert De Niro film is probably this one. He consructed a sort of sadistic character that i thought was great -- It was a nice touch to his role. I don't know any other actor that could do that. It was ingenious to me. I thought that the violence at the end was nessacary. The violence was yes very bloody and brutal but nessacary. It was a great and classic ending
This movie is not for the squimish or very young. You have been warned....