"Yeah, I'm talkin' to YOU...punk."
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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As long as the actor is good, I ignore his politics.
One, not necessarily #1.
Home from the Hills. Four great actors and one great actress. One great plot.
Just saying.
When he stuck his finger in the girl’s mouth, it was threatening and surprising to the point I couldn’t believe anyone could had scripted it.
*SHUDDER*
I’m going to go put Caddy Shack in the player to wash that scene OUT of my head, LOL!
Nice to know someone else appreciated the performance as much as I did.
Again...*SHUDDER*
Yup. Although, Billy Bob Thornton still gives great bad.
You can’t compare old Studio System stuff like ‘Home from the Hill’ to New Hollywood films like TD. Actually, Scorsese was quite influenced by Vincente Minnelli’s color sceheme. VM made HFTH.
Yep. All that Jazz was just horrible when I saw it as a teenager.
Please don’t be humor or sarcasm impaired. It’s the only way we can keep our sanity around here, sometimes.
Beer (or your adult beverage of choice) works too. :-)
NYC was so bad they shot a lot of NYC movies in Toronto.
Early Clint Eastwoods, The Mechanic (original), Most Coen Brother’s
"Yeah, I'm talkin' to YOU...punk."
“As long as the actor is good, I ignore his politics. “
It’s hard with the ones who won’t shut up.
“DiCaprio trying to play Travis Bickle at any age.”
Word is he’s playing Tony Montana in the Scarface remake.
I’ll try not to be.
Humor is basically how I get through life with a smile.
:)
TRAVIS BICKLE,,,
How could You Not Love the Guy?
With Those Angry Puppies !?!
I try hard to, but I have to draw the line when they get really outspoken. There are some actors I simply won’t watch the movie any more. Samuel L. Jackson is one of them.
What do you consider a great film?
Mask the reality - they reveled in it! That was one of the knocks against filming in places like Toronto - it wasn't "gritty" enough, and therefore couldn't come across as authentically "New York."
It's hard to overstate what Giuliani accomplished in turning the city around.
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