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

Taxi Driver

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

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.

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 Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

taxi driver, robert de niro, jodie foster

Robert De Niro

Taxi Driver // dir. Martin Scorsese