Posted on 05/06/2016 1:56:29 PM PDT by Borges
“Every day, for 40 f%^&% years, one of you has stopped me on the street and said, ‘You talkin’ to me?’” groused Robert De Niro at a recent Q&A at the Tribeca Film festival reuniting the makers of “Taxi Driver”. Martin Scorsese, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Cybil Shepherd and screenwriter Paul Schrader all swapped anecdotes, and De Niro led the audience in one last rendition of his most famous line, in an effort to expunge the ghost. He’s not the only one haunted by the role, which remains the template for every young Hollywood actor eager to put the lucre of blockbuster dollars behind them with a walk on the indie wild side: Christian Bale in “The Machinist”, Ryan Gosling in “Drive”, Sam Rockwell in “Seven Psychopaths”, in which he plays an actor who believes himself to be the illegitimate son of Travis Bickle. They all believe that. “‘Taxi Driver’ is the ultimate independent-movie performance,” Leonardo DiCaprio has said. “Playing a character like Travis Bickle is every young actor’s wet dream.”
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We once had many on this website who could speak to that experience personally but I think they’ve all departed.
“You postin’ to me? You postin’ to me??”
LOL! :)
“Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum and garbage off the streets”.
All the same Yukio was one messed up dude.
I’ve never seen this movie and probably never will.
HOWEVER - my Sister and I went to see the remake of, ‘Cape Fear’ with Di Nero as the terrorizing bad guy.
We have never screamed and jumped and held on to one another so much in any other movie we had ever seen!
Di Nero was PURE EVIL in that film...and I thought the original with Robert Mitchum was scary enough!
*SHUDDER*
Di Nero has earned my respect time and again...and I hope to heck he never stalks me, LOL!
...and the closest they ever got was Rudy! ;)
That movie flat out sucks! Worst thing DeNiro ever did. Watch it, if you can, and tell me how that piece of crap resembles a decent flick.
Give me an example of a ‘decent flick’.
I just watched Saturday Night Fever recently all the way through for the first time, and I was impressed at how filthy, graffiti-sprayed, and gritty the city was.
And I think it was accurate.
I really dislike that city.
I know DiCaprio is a liberal weenie, but I thought his portrayal of Howard Hughes in “The Aviator” was pretty well done.
That’s true, but he was a more interesting subject than totally normal people would be.
Agreed.
As to the article, I like seeing typecast good guys play bad roles. Many can’t pull it off, though.
Sylvester Stallone never got out of the Rocky frame to the point it’s boring to watch him. You know how it’s going to end. But if he played a bad guy, he is so locked into his Rocky character, it would be as hard to root against him as Tommy Lee Jones’ bad guy character in The Package.
I guess it has to do with being able to disappear within a character, shedding preconceptions. Nobody was ever better at that then Dustin Hoffman.
I like Leonardo Di Caprio.
It saved John Travolta's career. Problem was, he was a little too good at it and now he's stuck...
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