Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

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<p>At 26, Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is slipping slowly into isolation and violence on the streets of New York City. Trying to solve his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the people who hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) to desert her pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel) and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a `lone crazed gunman'.</p> <p><b>DVD BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:</b></p> <p>"Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver" Featurette </p> <p>"Producing Taxi Driver" Featurette</p> <p>"Influence and Appreciation" Documentary</p> <p>Robert De Niro, Oliver Stone, Roger Corman and others pay tribute to Scorsese and the film</p> <p>"God’s Lonely Man" Documentary</p> <p>"Travis’ New York Locations" Featurette</p> <p>Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese Introduction</p> <p>New Feature-length Commentary by Writer Paul Schrader </p> <p>New Feature-length Commentary by Professor Robert Kolker</p> <p>"Taxi Driver Stories" Featurette</p> <p>"Making Taxi Driver" Documentary </p> <p>Animated Photo Galleries </p> <p>"Including Scorsese at Work" Photo Montage </p> <p>Original Screenplay Read Along</p>
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one of these days i'm gonna get organiz-ized
i can't believe i waited this long to finally watch this classic.this is one brilliant film.De Niro is excellent as the title character AKA Travis Bickel.Martin Scorsese directed this masterpiece.i don't wanna to oversell this film,but it's something else.i'm not gonna give any of the plot away,because i think any way who goes into this should view it without any preconceived notions.DE Niro is brilliant here,that much i'll say.i also loved the look of the film,the style,the colours.if you haven't seen it,i would highly recommend it.for me,Taxi Driver is a 5/5

Great classic movie!!
Amazon has never let me down. I received this dvd in perfect condition and in a timely manner. Thanks.

SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND WATCHING IT
I saw this movie when it was released to the theaters in the '70s. In New York City. In a moviehouse in Times Square. The theatre was full of blacks and there were roaches running up the walls and cum all over the seats and this is the only way to see this movie: Sit right in the middle of the theater of action while it is all over the screen. I walked out with my friends after it was over into the late afternoon sun and none of us needed to say anything. This totally is a New York movie about going insane in New York City and cathartically divesting yourself of the whole mess you find yourself in in a very lethal way and getting away with it, then returning to normalcy, having been cleansed of the demons which drove you into madness in the first place. Heavy duty. Love this movie.

Hard-hitting 70s urban drama.
Taxi Driver stars Robert Di Nero as Travis Bickell, an isolated, alienated Viet Nam vet living in NYC, during the mid-70s. Travis inhabits a world of violence, crime, and sleaze, as he makes his way through NY as a nighttime taxi driver. His personal life is empty, and he has no intimate friends, family, or romantic attachments.

Travis negotiates his life in the Big Apple as best he can, without much morale support at all. When Travis becomes acquainted with a teen-age prostitute named Iris, he's determined to save her from her low-life pimp, and get her off the streets. And Travis is willing and able to use deadly means, to accomplish this mission.

There couldn't have been a better actor to play Travis, than Di Nero. It's as if he was born to play Travis. He does a superb job, of conveying Travis's acute sense of anguish, rage, and steely determination, to rescue Iris from her sordid existence. An excellent supporting cast graces this film too; especially Jody Foster as Iris, Harvey Keitel as the vile pimp, and Peter Boyle as a fellow taxi driver, and confidante to Travis.

Taxi Driver is a magnificent, hard-hitting urban drama. The genius involved in crafting this utterly compelling film, makes it among the best movies of all time. Highly recommended, for those that like a film with deep, meaningful emotional impact.

HERE IS!
If you want a sappy uplifting movie, go buy 'You Light Up My Life" or "The Sound Of Music." If you dare to peer into the seedy side of life and the descent into madness, HERE IS!

Martin Scorcese's classic Taxi Driver is the quintessential "Through The Looking Glass" examination of how a man becomes an island in a city of millions. The Classic Anti-Hero, Travis Bickle, (Robert DeNero, "Henry Krinkle") is all too pathetic, all too pitiful in the way that he wrenches from you pure disgust of his persona. Everyone sometime in life have felt that crushing loneliness he goes through, but few people compound that loneliness in layers as he does. It seems that his every action feeds his problems until he loses contact with reality, and his fantasies take control to turn him into a killing machine. Through Travis' eyes and mind we see the worst of society. Travis seems to incorporate all these defects into his own personality.

Through stop action, repeating a scene and close ups of Travis' diary you get a glimpse into Travis' twisted mind. Travis prefers to stare at dissolving Alka Seltzer than to pay attention to reality. Travis cannot accept life as it is. He sees people as either scum or angels. Yet he can only relate to the things he hates the most.

Scorsesee in his commentary states that the ending of Taxi Driver is a portrayal of the anti-hero becoming the hero, only to be cocked and ready to be triggered again into another "episode." I think that the ending is merely Travis' psychotic fantasy dream as he is dying. Real life does not operate the way Travis dreams it must operate. As in the movie "All That Jazz" the main character's death is all choreographed in his own mind.

Dare to relive this nighhtmare! DeNiro's performance is so realisticly tragic that even the camera at times cannot take looking at him, and would rather pan an empty hallway than look at Travis and his pitiful condition!

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