Taxi Driver - first scene

Robert de Niro give a great performance in this movie

This is what uber does nowadays. Rs dead ace naw just playin yall um yea im the troof git at me um jus celebrating r saviors birthday. Robert D is my hero. You targets dont get it. Read it 1 more time if you can

I reckon every actor was born to play one particular role in their career above all other...........and for me, De-Niro was born to play Travis Bickle more than any other role he ever played (including Raging Bull).

I just realized the guy at the desk is the same guy who played the killer in Maniac (1980), I recognize those bug eyes

The micromovements in his face, when he said his age was 26 😂

You gonna break my chops?

Re: filmmaking, yes, this was a brilliant way to fully flesh out the main character with a mini job interview. So much gained here in such a small space. Setting, theme, character and the groundwork for the plot. Scorsese man….

Ah I see - you spend your nights travelling around alone on the subway and busses because you can’t sleep. You don’t seem to have gone to school much and you don’t know what moonlighting is. When can you start? Imagine doing this in 2023!? Ah the seventies a more simpler time …

Interviews are not like this anymore. You just apply online & get a email confirmation lol . I was also thinking what the heck is moonlighting 😂

I think that manager is the gangster from Rocky

I was a 13 year old kid flipping the channels late at night in 1988.

I stumbled upon this first scene and it hooked me in.

ROBERT DE NIRO...ALWAYS THE BEST...HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM LI...ALWAYS THANKSFUL FOR YOUR BRILLIANT FILMS🎉🎉🎉🎉..KISS❤❤❤❤❤❤ BEST ACTOR OF THIS F***WORLD....EXTRAORDINARY

Everything changed when he said he was in the Marines 🫡

I've seen this flick 12 times and each one was like a different film and experience. How many movies can do that?

This film would never get made today. No one has the balls. Now it's all comic book movies and Disney films.

may i say that, though this is by far his finest directed film, the opening scene is ‘appropriate’ enough not per the classical intro # of matters to be answeredealt thru the plot, but rather a promisetup of a self variant story’s inevitable universal end.

The grittiness of 1976 NYC streets is its own character in this movie. Pure brilliance

Joe Spinell has a habit of appearing in the best films ever -- including the cult classics Forbidden Zone and Maniac.

And even when he's not the lead character, he never failed to give 100 percent and leave an impression.

He was supposed to star in Maniac 2 as a Childrens TV show host who becomes a vigilante after receiving fanmail from abused kids, and it would have been AWESOME. R.I.P.

I'm in school buddy

Only thing worse than 10 seconds of ads is the 20 seconds of useless footage you put in front of this clip

It's also a crucial scene in that it establishes something that isn’t really mentioned again: Bickle is a Viet Nam vet. Does he have PTSD?

You'll never get movies that dare to look this gritty and grimey again

Travis hated drugs in this film

World class acting

dont break his chops, aight?

Travis Bickle is the closest American cinema ever came to creating a Celinian anti- hero

Having watched this film quite a few times now, I think it may be a tad deeper than we realise. I wonder if Scorsese actually made a film referencing MK Ultra psychological manipulation. There are plenty of clues if you watch and listen.

Taxi Driver's New York is like the gates of hell! This foreboding atmosphere that Scorsese managed to capture into the flick is to me what gave the movie its enduring appeal (because 70s NY really was as decadent as the movie portrays).

Ah, the 70s. When you could actually walk into a place and just get a job instead of jumping through a thousand hoops.

i cant sleep

hey he's got a lot going on. I gotta commend him for at least getting a job n shit. he's functioning

Anybody have a problem with the line "there's porno theatres for that."?
If a man applying for a hack license says he can't sleep, aren't there other alternatives? Some guy off the street says he can't sleep nights and the tlc rep says "there are porno theatres for that."

his smile 😁😁😁😁♥️♥️♥️

PTS syndrome in war veterans is always hard to live with.

THE ORCHESTRA IS IMPERATIVE TO THE OPENING SCENE, AND YOU CUT IT…. U SHUD BE SHOT

WHY ARE YOU FUCKING WITH THE MUSIC AT THE START YOU DUMB MONKEY??????!!!!!!!! FOR YOUR SHITTY CHANNEL

Spinell was GREAT as Maniac

u can be lonely with millions around you

What was the big deal just because he said he had a clean conscious?

Greatest movie of all time to me. De Niro and Scorcese had a passion to this project where there’s no conglomerate studio backing them, just passion and a good story to tell. The display of loneliness Travis goes threw in Ny and thinks he needs to be the hero like In the western’s. Simply timeless 💎 I almost forgot I didn’t give Paul Shrader his props for writing the movie man’s a genius.

Noice

Great intro. It tells you so much about him proficiently. So there’s no wasted in time in a drawn out backstory.

The only fictional character I can actually relate to. Im done with my early 20s and this is my final day being a 26 years old kid. It's been one heck of a experience and I here's to more lonely nights wondering in the depths of my consciousness.

Man I never realized you can see Wizard in the background joking it up.

Taxi is a superb movie. The good old days when DeNiro was a talented actor. Then he became a hack later in his career and suffers from extreme TDS. Also started to believe he was a tough guy like many of the characters he portrayed when, in fact, he's the poster boy for being a pussy with no cojones. He caved in to big pharma and didn't include the documentary "Vaxxed" in his film festival. He facilitated Harvey Weinstein's serial rapes and molestations, he caved in to his ex-wife's compulsive spending, he said he wanted to punch a US President in the face. DeNiro is a loser and a wimp.

Dang Deniro was hot back then I had no idea. Beautiful face.

age: 26

He was a kid

Introducing one of the greatest film characters of all time.

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