Scorsese + Rossellini

Martin Scorsese with Robert De Niro and Jodi Foster during the filming of the diner scene in Taxi Driver.

Martin Scorsese on the Importance of Visual Literacy

I think it is good if a young person wants to express themselves and take a video camera and go out. They’re going to find that they have to frame the image, and in framing the image, they’re going to find that they have to interpret what they want to say to an audience. And how do you point the audience’s eye to look where you want them to look and to get the point, the emotional, psychological point that you want to get across to them. They’re going to have to make that decision. The real making of the filmmaker’s when they look through that viewfinder to tell the story, and I don’t mean just telling a story man goes, you know, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. No, I mean a story could be rain hitting a tree, leaves. That could be your story, you know, but how?

Taxi Driver

Robert De Niro with Martin Scorsese, director, Raging Bull (1980)

Happy 70, Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese!

raging bull

Sound effects for punches landing were made by squashing melons and tomatoes. Sound effects for camera flashes going off were sounds of gunshots. The original tapes were deliberately destroyed by the sound technicians, to prevent then being used again.

Martin Scorsese on the set of Taxi Driver (1976).

Taxi Driver & Drive

 

That’s it, you’re a Scorpion.

Iris to Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.

Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver & Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive.

Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier