Taxi Driver

Name: Taxi Driver
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ISBN: 9780851703930

ISBN-10: 0851703933

ISBN-13: 9780851703930

Edition: 2000

Authors: Amy Taubin

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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 forTaxi Driver(1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs ofMean Streets(1973) and The Godfather Part II(1974), signed up,Taxi Driverbecame 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,…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 3/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 79
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English