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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Welcome to the weekend, people! It’s late Saturday night, so your weekend is already half over, so apologies for that, but I have Marty Scorsese (I call him Marty because we’re totally besties) and a shoe-less Robert De Niro (I call him Robert because we’re totally not besties) on the set of Taxi Driver to help you get over the fact that the weekend is already coming to a close.
I figure following up yesterday’s Kubrick pic was going to be difficult, so you can’t go wrong with Scorsese. Click to enlargen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s pic(s) will reboot your Sunday.
-Eric Vespe
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Readers Talkback
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Whatever happened to that rumored Taxi Driver sequel? www.nonipplesonthesuit.com
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how can we make him more of a hero? Will Shia sign up for a three picture deal? Taxi Driver 2 Drive Harder?
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...or Bobbie. Or...the laziest man alive. Wasting his proven talents on so much crap. God i get depressed when i think of what he's made in the last twenty years. There were some good movies between all that crap but no great performance. No Johhny Boy,Travis Bickle, Vito Corleone, Michael, Jake Lamotta, Rupert Pupkin, Noodles, Capone, JACK WALSH, Jimmy Conway or Max Cady. I miss that Bob...
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'Cause thats what the kids are clamoring for these days, more Travis Bickle.
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Nov. 11, 2012, 2:47 a.m. CST
The mountain of coke must have helped, because Scorsese has never topped this.
by justmyluck
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That looks like Bobby has a really big long monkey toe.
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Looks like the negative was flipped, note the image on Bobby D's shirt.
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Note the seam. Also, Scorsese's watch, flies on their pants, Coke can in the back...
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Nov. 11, 2012, 7:17 a.m. CST
That belt buckle is to be lauded and applauded
by Fuck disney with a rusty chainsaw
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... in a good way. When Keitel and Foster are dancing along to Betsy's theme, it is so frustrating for the viewer that we start to feel the growing madness that Travis feels. The fact that the soothing sax is almost always associated with Betsy and the horror horns are associated with Iris completely flips the traditional use of music in film on its head. Suddenly soothing jazz signifies growing madness and blaring horns signify moral action (Iris surprising him in the street reminds him that she is a victim in need of help). The two pieces of music blend together during that amazing overhead shot leading into the tracking shot of the massacre on the stairs at the end and we're left to wonder, was Travis' violent rampage justified despite the underlying madness that motivated it? When the sax comes in again as Betsy enters his cab during the epilogue, I think it is the clearest proof (along with that glance in the rearview right before the credits) that the madness is growing again since his obsession with (and ultimate rejection by) Betsy started it all. Ultimately then, the final "horror" string cue might be read as an uplifting ending, seeing as how the horror music thoughout the rest of the movie implied Travis' conscience rather than madness. Fucking love this movie. Wish I was alive in the 70s...
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Nov. 11, 2012, 7:57 a.m. CST
Herrmann liked to imply that the cycle was going to start again. I think this is no exception. Read "Heart at Fire's Center"
by Fuck disney with a rusty chainsaw
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Seriously, even Bobby's t-shirt looks like it's three weeks overdue for a washing machine.
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Followed closely by the lame and hokey Apocalypse Now.
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Will check it out
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what is the least singularly overrated movie ever made? I'd go with Edward Scissorhands.
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-a little bit.
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Nov. 11, 2012, 9:17 a.m. CST
Still hard for me to believe that Rupert Pupkin, Jack Walsh, and Max Cady are the same person. Unbefuckinlievable.
by jawsfan
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Well done, sir, well done.
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I used to think that. Then I saw "The Departed", and Hugo.
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Looks weird
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It's too bad we gotta grow old. Great pic of those guys in their youth!
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http://taxidriverrevisited.com/
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Since Hobbit news has been a little slow in forthcoming. http://imgur.com/a/fHnbj#7
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Nov. 11, 2012, 12:15 p.m. CST
As Stallone once said- I look like a 37 year old superhero. Forever. Fuck age.
by UltraTron
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Perhaps more so Scorsese at this particular point in time (admittedly giving him bonus points since he's been heavily involved in the uber-restoration of 'Once Upon A Time In America'), but still...
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E.T. being the exception, all these movie brats made their best films with facial hair. I can't say this is fact, but something about beards and bell-bottoms brought out their best. --I'm being funny so don't come after me with examples shooting this theory down. --Actually, no, let's ALL come up with some examples, could be fun. Burple, I kinda feel toward you the way I feel toward a dude I knew in film school, who said "Raging Bull" 'wasn't all that.' I wonder whatever happened to him?
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Not this Disneyfied toned down tourist trap we have today
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Oh well. At least they didn't cast him as a Hobbit.
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Nov. 11, 2012, 5:50 p.m. CST
Taxi Driver wouldn't be set in NYC today, maybe Baltimore?
by sunwukong86
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A really good wig by Dick Smith. He had other film obligations, so couldn't do it for real.
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Nov. 12, 2012, 5:23 a.m. CST
Taxi Driver: One of the most visually raw and arresting movies ever...
by Darkness
driving languidly along to the escoteric jazz of Bernard Herrmann - pure class. Not even Marty could reach these heights again.
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Taxi Driver overrated and Apocalypse Now hokey and lame. My first belly-laugh of the day. HA!
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Nov. 12, 2012, 9:13 a.m. CST
Just watched the blu up until he's about to pop. Gotta finish it. I forget what interrupted me.
by UltraTron
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Nov. 12, 2012, 9:14 a.m. CST
Never even thought of the Mohawk as fake. Dick smith is the cat's pajamas and smoking jacket
by UltraTron
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Nov. 12, 2012, 11:09 a.m. CST
What about the third member of that classic? Paul Schrader? Talk about underrated. Blue Collar and Hardcore are both great examples of '70s style cinema.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
He and Larry Kasden should team up and write some classic shit.
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Good idea but not well executed directorially. Schrader took awhile to grow... Amazing screenwriter though. The prose in Taxi Driver's script is beyond reproach. Poetic, even.
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