- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (21 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571203159
- ISBN-13: 978-0571203154
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 60,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an escape from his insomnia, his barren apartment and his gnawing sense of self-disgust, which threatens to erupt in revenge against the sordid, unlovely world through which he travels. When his tentative efforts at a relationship with elegant political campaign worker Betsy come to naught, Travis conceives of an assassination attempt upon her boss, Senator Charles Palantine. But as he cruises the streets at night, Travis encounters a hapless child prostitute, Iris, and her sinister pimp, sport. Travis's mounting psychosis acquires a new focus, and violence erupts . . .
One of the key films of the 1970s and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, Taxi Driver was the first of several potent collaborations between Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese. Inspired by Ford's The Searchers, Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, the diaries of real-life gunman Arthur Bremer, and an especially tormented period in Schrader's own life, Taxi Driver remains a devastating portrait of a man in urban purgatory.
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Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1946, Paul Schrader was raised in a Calvinist household where movies were proscribed. He made up for lost time by becoming first a gifted critic, then the screenwriter of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, then the director of a string of cerebral and provocative films, including Blue Collar (1978), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima (1985), Patty Hearst (1988), The Comfort of Strangers (1990), Affliction (1997), Autofocus (2002), Dominion (2005), The Walker (2007), and Adam Resurrected (2008)..
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For diehard fans of this cult classic this script is indispensible. It allows for the fanatic to further get inside the physche of Travis Bickle, the haunted Vietnam war vet who can no longer take the horrors of a modern New York society. The reader can see Travis' emotions boil to the surface. It also allows the you to have the benefit of seeing the original harrowing Paul Schrader script from which Martin Scorsese created his cinematic perfection. Furthermore, a brilliant interview between Schrader and Scorsese provides intriguing reading into the minds behind the masterpiece.
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Loved the film and i like reading screenplays so thought i'd buy it. What i got was a really good read that is impeccably well written and is genuinely fun despite the first 10 pages being a bit slow as you start to adapt to reading this kind of form. A good edition all over. However my only flaw with this copy is that it is not the screenplay used in the film, having seen it and read it now there are obviously many major cuts, additions, scene alterations and extra dialogue in the film that was not in the screenplay or even mentioned that its scenes had been altered like say in the 'Pulp Fiction' screenplay. Wouldn't bother me as much if it at least acknowledged this on the copy itself or on the synopsis on Amazon. But don't get me wrong still worth buying!
2 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those for whom Taxi driver is a cult movie, it is a real boring to read that book since they already know everything by heart. Nevertheless, this screenplay is worth buyig because of the interview between Schrader and Scorcese at the beginning of the book. It is very instructive if one wants to know how a creator perceives his work.
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