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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
I have to say, after 7 stressful, hectic crazy-ass days navigating Comic-Con and edit bay visit, a half-dozen interviews and Southern California traffic I’m starting to see things a little more from a Travis Bickle perspective.
Don’t worry, I haven’t shaved my head into a Mohawk or started hanging out with underaged prostitutes, but it did make me want to select today’s BTS pic.
In fact, this picture was one of the first I gathered when starting this column. You can’t go wrong with ‘70s Scorsese and De Niro.
Take a look (and click to make bigger):
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare, the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic features the lovely Maria taking a breather on set. See ya’ then!
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
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MOAUAHAHAHAHAHA
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Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, and Robert De Niro - movie heaven!
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...but it sure smells good!
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Sometime in the new millennium he decided to cash in, only putting in a few good performances here and there.
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And I don't want to hear otherwise.
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that you should see.
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Without a doubt!
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SCOTTPILGRIM SUCKS MY BALLS!
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Followed by Goodfellas and then taxi driver, but they are all such different films that besides director and actor, it's impossible to compare them
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Grow that shit back, bro.
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are you talkin to me?
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Quint, did y'all ever run a story on IESB founder Robert Sanchez being on the run from the cops for weeks due to allegations of him drugging and raping his step daughter on film? I want the scoop! Apparently the guy is still missing/on the run.
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Is Leo Di Marty's new Bobby De?
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Jul 28, 2010 11:57:25 AM CDT
What's wrong with hanging out with underage prostitutes?
by royston lodge
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This one doesn't seem particularly 'unseen', though that may be due to my Scorsese-fanatical brother. DeNiro talking to Scorsese pics are pretty atypical though.
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Raging Bullwinkle always tickled me, check it out if you haven't seen it.
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They have four new posters from Green Lantern up. Wonder how AICN missed that.
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Martin Scorsese:"Have you ever seen what a .44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy? Now that you should see. What a .44 Magnum will do to a woman's pussy that you should see? "»
DeNiro: "Yeah Sure let's roll." -
An overly depressing film, a bit dated on some spots, but DeNiro's at his best.
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as my first question, "...So! Your skinny teenage body almost got the president killed and started World War 3. Any comments on that?", and then just laugh as she gets up and walks away.
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in the back seat is a hoot. Listening to his hyper verbal rhythms from back then...priceless.
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Raging Bull - DeNiro's outstanding performance aside - doesn't actually have a plot, leaving the film to be carried along the strength of character. Also, like every Scorcese movie, trimming 40 minutes off it wouldnt have hurt.
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in that alongside Albert Brooks.
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Those were the days.
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score. The man's work with Hitchcock, Harryhausen, Welles, etc. was legend.
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Jul 28, 2010 12:36:55 PM CDT
Ijnteresting thing about the "you talking to be line"
by redbull_werewolf
It was stolen from a Twilight Zone episde from 1960, the episode was called something like "nervous man in a 4 dollar room" and the character (a low level mafia thug) says "You talking to me" right into the mirror. Not sure if it was intentionally stolen or if anyone from production has ever mentioned it as an homage, but clearly Taxi driver did not invent the famous line... or even the way it's said since the TZ episode had the character saying it into a mirror as well
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But I sure remember it better than most things.
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Harry posted those posters under his "green lantern kid" artical yesterday.
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And the "Raging Bull" vs. "Taxi Driver" is always going to come down to a matter of opinion. I'm quite content to say they are both masterpieces. God what I wouldn't give to see that era Scorcese again. I enjoyed The Departed and parts of Gangs of New York tremendously, but they aren't anywhere in the same league as TD or RB.
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One of my top three movies. Cinema brilliance, cool pic too. Did anyone ever notice scorsese kneeling by the entrance to the campaign office? Kinda an easter egg.
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They don't make movies like that anymore.
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Thanks, I saw the kid but missed the posters.
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that while I appreciate the importance and quality of Taxi Driver, it is not a film I enjoy viewing repeatedly. I have seen it about a half dozen times over the years and while I admire it as an important film to come out of the amazing decade of film production that was the 1970s, I can't say I have ever enjoyed watching it.
There are many Scorsese films I love, so I wonder if it has more to do with Schrader, who's directing efforts I find to be hit and miss, but who's writing and subject matter are generally interesting, but always challenging. -
I love taxi driver and in contrast to WeylandYutani I enjoy watching it. But Raging Bull I find a miserable experience through and through.
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I could not agree more. I would never say it's a bad film, but I just never got what everyone else got out of it.
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Look at him. He's got his hand under his shirt.
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Same with RAGING BULL... important film, I grant you. But in repeated viewings... hide the razorblades...
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Goodfellas is a much better film than Taxi Driver. And is a joy for repeated viewings. I've seen it twenty times from beginning to end. I've only seen Taxi Driver four times.
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Jul 28, 2010 1:47:08 PM CDT
Sucker Punch trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dzikBZTUy8
by chadiwack
KABOOM!
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But TD had a classic Bernard Herrmann score.
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is the downward spiral that his lead characters go through. Every single one of his films follows that one thread.
Taxi Driver - Travis loses his sanity only to emerge as a hero
Raging Bull - Lamotta went from world champion to a drunk abuser who lost all credibility
GoodFellas - Liotta's character succumbs to cocaine addiction and loses everything
Casino- Deniro's character loses everything rather systematically.
Bringing out the Dead - Frank is losing nis humanity due to all that his job exposed him to.
Departed Dealt with it bith with Jacks character and with Damon's character.
All of them have the similar underlying theme. I would post the rest but need to give some thought to it first. -
Wow. & let's just take our hats off to Scorsese - - for me every film he makes is an event. I was at university in the early 90s (the VHS years!) and we used to watch TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL, and GOODFELLAS again and again, hypnotised. And they were meaty films, we'd really talk about them, not just get off on them. You know, if the guy above who says TAXI DRIVER is over-rated by pretentious fanboys could have just seen the love for that film... man, I'm sorry you're missing out. What's your poison, then, sir? (Hey, by the way, let's all give KING OF COMEDY some love too! And AFTER HOURS while we're at it.)
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Jul 28, 2010 2:39:45 PM CDT
THE_CHOPPAH, Taxi Driver was a classic long before AICN
by mattmanreturns
But, I suspect you don't care about the facts, as you're simply trolling.
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by which i mean it's the one film in his catelog that can be watched over and over again. Raging bull is great, but it's a duty to watch, same with taxi driver, they are more of a once a year type film, but i could watche goodfellas once a week and not tire of it. His new films are also alot to handle, shutter island was great, but i have no need to return to it any time soon
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...you're the one that's square. Your full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fuckin' 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 fuck with a bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?
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Deniro has this look on his face like he's kind of annoyed like he has something he needs to get done. Maybe he has to go wash the cum and blood off the back seat or something and Marty is just getting in the fuckin' way.
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that can make me physically ill, but in a good way - specially Taxi Driver. It's depressing and bleak and awkward as hell... King of Comedy is mostly just awkward.
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"No. No I don't."
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Both at the top of their game.
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always pulls me right out of the film. very disturbing that great directors like he and Tarantino have an obsession with wanting to be racist on screen in their own films, thinking it's super-edgy but it's just creepy and disgusting
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Raging Bull is basically an asshole who acts assholish and at the end "woops sorry bout that folks", although technically it was pretty good especailyl how the only color was through olds chool cameras and the fight scenes.
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A movie so ridiculously over the top, Pesci has a more meaty character than his 1 note psycho of Goodfellas and every scene with him here is comedy gold.
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Yeah RAGING BULL is great, but it can't touch TAXI DRIVER.
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Tangerine's post up there reminded me of one objective critique of 1970s cinema, the period which is seen by many as the best and most favorite period of cinema (for me its the 60s), yes it was a time for more creativity with more ideas as opposed to the older studio system era, however it does have its shortcomings in that since now pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was ok, the violence, sex, profanity was overdone where it didnt add to story but seemed more like exploitation wtih filmmakers doing it for the sake of the ability to do it, sort of a splurge after years of not being allowed to, this basically translates to a teenager or someone becoming of legal age and splurging on loads of vices. It's purey for shock value and ages badly, a character saying fuck every minute back then might have been seen as "this is so cool and daring and better than the old hokey studio movies of before!", and Scorsese was one of these pioneers, nowadays its not really cool just distasteful. All of the greatest movies are that way not because of violence, sex, profanity. Godfather 1 and 2 for example have beautiful characterization, mythical storlines that will forever transcend time, all the best 70s movies are so for the exact same reasons why the best pre-70s movies are looked as best. And i mentioned that 60s is my favorite, that decade had that bit of creativitiy (although not at the level of 70s cinema) while at the same time retaining its class without resorting to cheap shock tricks generally speaking.
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The most over rated film of all time.
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Even the violence is over-the-top. A head in the vice till the eye pops out of its socket? And ya gotta love a movie where Scorsese casts Don Rickles AND Joe Bob Briggs. I can understand where Goodfellas is his most accessable. We follow Henry Hill, who is basically a likable guy, as he climbs the criminal ladder, and we can relate to him, if even to a degree. Travis Bickle and Jake La Motta are such damaged people that we view them almost clinically.
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I'm going to have to agree that I find Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to be films that are much easier to respect in a clinical fashion then actually enjoy. I'm not trying to troll, clearly the films are very accomplished, and should be viewed at least once by anyone with an interest in cinema history. However, I personally have fulfilled that duty and have no real desire to see either of them again anytime soon.
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Not Robert DeNiro.
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"Its the Godfather, but two years from now, and its all Jewish!" Maybe I mention Louie , because its filmed in New York, but real New York, not movie or Woody Allen New York.
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While I think Taxi Driver is Scorsese's best and most perfect film, Bringing Out the Dead is my favorite to watch. The role Cage was born to play. I actually like him in this movie.
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It's tough for ME to score.
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and Scorsese's a hack?
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Jul 28, 2010 7:26:07 PM CDT
Yea! We get a behind the scenes pic from Metropolis tomorrow?
by sith witch
Save the children, Maria!
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For knowing the actual quote is "scum off the streets," but something about the word, as opposed to trash, makes it seem so much, I don't know, dirtier. I always go back and forth between this and Raging Bull, too- not just as Scorsese's best, but my personal favorite. Earlier, Anything But Tangerines pointed out the "Dead Nigger Storage" and Scorsese's cameo connection, which is an interesting point, but I remember reading or seeing in an interview (I think it was the Scorsese on Scorsese feature that ran on TCM, actually) that Marty only filled in after the scene's original actor couldn't shoot it, for whatever reason. That still leaves the question about Tarantino, however, who was working from his own script and had probably written the part knowing it would be his cameo.
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But somehow I prefer Goodfellas.
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Jul 28, 2010 11:56:28 PM CDT
Tarantino's Pulp Fiction scene was written for Steve Buscemi
by natecore
but he passed b/c of prior commitments and thats why he only appeared as Jack Rabbit Slim's Buddy Holly waitor. Thats at least the story the 2 disk DVD told me.
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Taxi Driver is my absolute favourite movie. Acting, directing, music, editing, camera, everything is flawless. De Niro is an absolute beast in this one!!
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no savage curtain.
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You made a valid criticism based on personal taste. It's clear Hollywood was blowing a long-delayed load with the more extreme depictions of sex and violence in the late 60s/early 70s, but, for the most part, it felt real, it felt natural. As for excessive profanity or whatever today, it only feels distasteful because, really, Hollywood screenwriters aren't as adept at writing natural-sounding dialogue as the mainstream writers were in the 1970s.
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Your post beat me to it. Films like The Wild Bunch, Bonnie & Clyde, Who's Afraid Of Viginia Woolf, and I Am Curious Yellow (released in 1967!)helped bridge the gap between the '60s and '70s. And the European influence persuaded directors to use their personal vision (as opposed to the studios) to guide their films. Lets use this as an example: '60s Coppola, Finian's Rainbow/'70s Coppola The Godfathers, The Conversation, Apocolypse Now.
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but it had to be said.
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I see what you mean, and the movies i was thinking of were mostly from Scorsese, catching a clip of Mean Streets where a character is rattling off fuck like a machinegun and so on. A movie like Texas Chainsaw Massacre though is a masterpiece and it barely even has any gore in it, its that dripping atmosphere and the delapitated rural settings which look so beautiful. I guess i was thinking more on Scorsese's 70s movies. A movie like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly doesnt rely anything on using extremes, no profanity, the violence is stock style of people falling over, and forever transcends time. I agree that writers dont have any clue nowadays, the biggest was how different the dialogue in Predator and Predators felt. Both have plenty of profanity and yet Predator manages to sound like it's adults speaking while in Predators it's just a bunch of teenagers, i mean "want to see something fucked up?" what the heck is that??
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who's gonna argue with him. says his favorite scene isn't the are you talking to me. but the one with the tv set, as deniro rocks it back and forth.
Jodie's acting at such a young age, only dakota might come close to matching that depth. isn't it about time for porno theaters to make a comeback, with the new 3-d technology avail?
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