Taxi Driver (1976)

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Wikidata Q47221, film, IMDb tt0075314, TMDB 103: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Paul Schrader as writer-director hallmark: man writing in a notebook (‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding); 12 more episodes agree.

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In the store as #156, Taxi Driver (1976).

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Murder by Contract: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Murder by Contract ⇒ Taxi Driver (the host's read). Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver.
    “very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Thief: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (craft): Taxi Driver ⇒ Thief (the host's read). Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature.
    “Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

Connected to

Raging Bull: 3 lines unmapped ×1 contrast ×1 theme ×1

  1. contrast (genre contrast): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy.
    “Taxi driver is a straight drama.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)

Murder by Contract: 2 lines lineage ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (scene resemblance): Murder by Contract → Taxi Driver. The hotel-room exercise scenes in Murder by Contract are all Travis Bickle.
    “that's all Travis Bickle”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:42 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)

The Wolf of Wall Street: 2 lines theme ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. theme (shared theme): The Wolf of Wall Street → Taxi Driver. All Scorsese movies are about guys chasing something they think will ease unresolved pain.
    “all the Scorsese movies are all about these unresolved pains, you know, the desire to be more famous, the desire to be more successful”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Alien Resurrection: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Alien Resurrection → Taxi Driver. One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig.
    “So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Eric Roberts: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (performance model): Eric Roberts → Taxi Driver. A speaker thinks the Snyder performance would have been more interesting if influenced by Travis Bickle.
    “It would have been interesting if this was sort of like more influenced by Travis Bickle as a performance.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:01:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fargo: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (voyeuristic framing): Fargo → Taxi Driver. The shot of Jerry rehearsing his phone call from the hallway is likened to Taxi Driver's payphone scene.
    “It's like the fucking taxi driver, uh, payphone scene.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 1:41:36 · Zach Cregger (0.40 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Jodie Foster → Taxi Driver. Foster has always played steely people in peril, going all the way back to Taxi Driver.
    “and that goes all the way back to taxi driver.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

Killers of the Flower Moon: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dim protagonist): Killers of the Flower Moon → Taxi Driver. Ernest joins Scorsese's lineage of dim men wreaking havoc: Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle, Henry Hill.
    “You could say this is true of Jake Lamata. You could say this is true of Travis Bickle. You could say this is true of Henry Hill.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Network: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Network → Taxi Driver. Network is the extravagant experiment of collaborators at their peak; Taxi Driver is daring too, but less so.
    “Taxi Driver is pretty pretty daring, but network is an extravagant experiment and a collision of people at the absolute height of their powers all working together.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:42:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Princess Mononoke: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (creator vs studio): Princess Mononoke → Taxi Driver. The no-cuts sword story is paired with Scorsese's story of nearly holding Columbia hostage over a recut of Taxi Driver.
    “Scorsese has that story about the night that he almost had a mental breakdown when Columbia wanted to recut taxi driver”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 1:25:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Rocky: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Rocky → Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver may be more cinematically important in movie history, but All the President's Men is the perfect Oscar movie and Scorsese should have won director.
    “I would go, all the president's been for a movie, and I would go Scorsese for best director.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Taxi Driver. A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them.
    “Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Star 80: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (scene echo): Star 80 → Taxi Driver. Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75.
    “Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Killing: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (modern noir): The Killing → Taxi Driver. Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs.
    “this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55 sure it was them)

Thief: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Thief → Taxi Driver. Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature.
    “Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Jodie Foster → Taxi Driver. Foster has always played steely people in peril, going all the way back to Taxi Driver.
    “and that goes all the way back to taxi driver.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (genre contrast): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver is a straight drama while Raging Bull is a brutal comedy and tragedy.
    “Taxi driver is a straight drama.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:33:11 · David Krumholtz (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Network → Taxi Driver. Network is the extravagant experiment of collaborators at their peak; Taxi Driver is daring too, but less so.
    “Taxi Driver is pretty pretty daring, but network is an extravagant experiment and a collision of people at the absolute height of their powers all working together.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:42:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Thief → Taxi Driver. Scorsese used wet streets in Taxi Driver before Mann made it a signature.
    “Scorsese did a little bit in taxi driver”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Alien Resurrection → Taxi Driver. One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig.
    “So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (creator vs studio): Princess Mononoke → Taxi Driver. The no-cuts sword story is paired with Scorsese's story of nearly holding Columbia hostage over a recut of Taxi Driver.
    “Scorsese has that story about the night that he almost had a mental breakdown when Columbia wanted to recut taxi driver”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang · 1:25:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Rocky → Taxi Driver. Taxi Driver may be more cinematically important in movie history, but All the President's Men is the perfect Oscar movie and Scorsese should have won director.
    “I would go, all the president's been for a movie, and I would go Scorsese for best director.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (influence): Murder by Contract → Taxi Driver. Murder by Contract is called a huge influence on Taxi Driver.
    “very well-known for murder by contract, which was a huge influence on taxi driver”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:34 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (performance model): Eric Roberts → Taxi Driver. A speaker thinks the Snyder performance would have been more interesting if influenced by Travis Bickle.
    “It would have been interesting if this was sort of like more influenced by Travis Bickle as a performance.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:01:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (character study trilogy): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies.
    “It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. theme (scene echo): Star 80 → Taxi Driver. Every scene of Star 80 is likened to the porno scene in Taxi Driver turned up to 75.
    “Like every scene of this movie is like the porno scene in Taxi Driver, but amped up to 75.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:02:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Taxi Driver. A list of distressed-New-York movies made in about six years, with this film among them.
    “Mean streets, taxi driver, Death Wish, the Warriors”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:47:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. theme (shared theme): The Wolf of Wall Street → Taxi Driver. All Scorsese movies are about guys chasing something they think will ease unresolved pain.
    “all the Scorsese movies are all about these unresolved pains, you know, the desire to be more famous, the desire to be more successful”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (6)

  1. unmapped (audience empathy): Raging Bull → Taxi Driver. Both make you find something to relate to in a despicable man.
    “which is true taxi driver too.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 0:31:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (voyeuristic framing): Fargo → Taxi Driver. The shot of Jerry rehearsing his phone call from the hallway is likened to Taxi Driver's payphone scene.
    “It's like the fucking taxi driver, uh, payphone scene.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 1:41:36 · Zach Cregger (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (unexplained protagonist): The Wolf of Wall Street → Taxi Driver. The underground man of Taxi Driver is cited as another Scorsese lead who simply is as he is.
    “Jake Lamata or Rupert Pupkin or um, the underground man and taxi driver, like, They just are as they are.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:21:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (dim protagonist): Killers of the Flower Moon → Taxi Driver. Ernest joins Scorsese's lineage of dim men wreaking havoc: Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle, Henry Hill.
    “You could say this is true of Jake Lamata. You could say this is true of Travis Bickle. You could say this is true of Henry Hill.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:24:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (scene resemblance): Murder by Contract → Taxi Driver. The hotel-room exercise scenes in Murder by Contract are all Travis Bickle.
    “that's all Travis Bickle”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:55:42 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (modern noir): The Killing → Taxi Driver. Patton calls Murder by Contract chilling and unsettling and not like earlier noir, and says the same of The Killing as one of the most modern noirs.
    “this is one of the noirs that feels the most modern to me”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 0:56:25 · Patton Oswalt (0.55 sure it was them)

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