He then brawls with the bouncer, whom he manages to kill with his knife.
Travis is shot several times but manages to kill the two men. He enters the building and engages in a shootout with Sport and one of Iris's clients, a jewish mobster. That evening, Travis drives to the brothel where Iris works, and shoots her pimp, Sport. However, he is chased away by Secret Service agents who see him drawing his gun. Soon after, Travis cuts his hair into a mohawk and attends a public rally where he plans to assassinate Palantine. Travis solicits her and tries to persuade her to stop prostituting herself. On his trips around the city, Travis regularly encounters Iris, a child prostitute whom he fantasizes about saving. One night, Travis shoots and kills a man attempting to rob a convenience store. He also begins attending Palantine's rallies to scope out their security. At home, Travis practices drawing his weapons, and modifies one to allow him to hide and quickly deploy it from his sleeve.
A fellow taxi driver refers him to a black market gun dealer, "Easy" Andy, from whom Travis buys four handguns. In an attempt to find an outlet for his rage, Travis begins a program of intense physical training. However, Wizard dismisses them and assures him that he will be fine. Enraged, he storms into the campaign office where she works, and berates her before he is ordered to leave.Įxperiencing an existential crisis and seeing various counts of prostitution throughout the city, Travis confides in fellow taxi driver nicknamed Wizard about his violent thoughts. He attempts to reconcile with her, to no avail. During their date Travis takes Betsy to a porn theater, which repulses her and causes her to leave. Betsy confesses that she feels a special connection to Travis, and agrees to go on another date with him. Travis enters the campaign office where she works, and asks her out for coffee, to which she agrees. Travis becomes infatuated with Betsy, a campaign volunteer for senator and presidential candidate Charles Palantine. He frequents the porn theaters on 42nd Street and keeps a diary in which he consciously attempts to include aphorisms, such as "you're only as healthy as you feel." He is disgusted with the crime and urban decay he witnesses, and dreams about ridding "the scum off the streets".
Travis takes a job as a night shift taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia and loneliness. Marine and Vietnam War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and living alone in New York City. Travis Bickle is a 26-year-old honorably discharged U.S. In 1994, the film was considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the US Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2012, Sight & Sound named it the 31st-best film ever in its decennial critics' poll, ranked with The Godfather Part II, and the fifth-greatest film of all time on its directors' poll. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, the film received numerous accolades including the 1976 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, and four nominations at the 49th Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro), and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster).ĭespite having generated further controversy since 1981 for its role in John Hinckley Jr.'s motive to attempt to assassinate then- President Ronald Reagan, the film has remained popular, culturally significant and inspirational of its time. The film was theatrically released by Columbia Pictures on February 7, 1976, where it was a critical and commercial success, despite generating controversy for its graphic violence at the climactic ending, and casting of then 12-year-old Foster in the role of a child prostitute. Production concluded that same year, with a score being composed by Bernard Herrmann in his final score, which he finished just several hours before his death the film is dedicated to him. With cinematographer Michael Chapman, filming began in the summer of 1975 in New York City, with actors taking pay cuts to ensure that the project could be completed on a low budget of $1.9 million. With The Wrong Man (1956) and A Bigger Splash (1973) as inspiration, Scorsese wanted the film to feel like a dream to audiences. Set in a decaying and morally bankrupt New York City following the Vietnam War, the film follows Travis Bickle (De Niro), a taxi driver and veteran, and his deteriorating mental state as he works nights in the city. Taxi Driver is a 1976 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks.
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