Martin Scorsese discusses Taxi Driver Part 1

[keerkhor]

You guys all need to look into Paul Schrader's work. All of the movies he's done have been just as deep and intense as taxi driver: Light Sleeper, Mishima, Hardcore, American Gigolo, Affliction even Cat People. The man is SUPER underrated. He also wrote Raging Bull, Bringing Out the Dead and Last Temptation for scorsese.

[Therealtaxidriver]

Somebody ought to ask this ungrateful deadbeat when he's gonna pay his debts.

[badLuckrapp]

Greatest movie ever ...I wish easy Andy became a movie lol there's a kid I know a lot of you don't like hip hop but he raps by the name easy Andy in dedication to taxi driver YouTube "easy Andy EDK high quality goods" he's great

[Therealtaxidriver]

All you may think you know about this film is nothing but pure bullshit. This film was commissioned by the late pederast director Stanley Kubrick as a means to defame the true character of the person who made national headlines by actually accomplishing the rescue which serves as the one redeeming value of this sensationalist film. In return for stealing the wind out of the actual taxi driver's sails these three rats then put a mafia hit on him which although proved near fatal failed miserably.

[gatheringleaves]

@Therealtaxidriver

What the hell are you talking about?

[scorjamsey]

@freezazoid yea he had, but he's referring to when he tried to get involved with the project around 1971/ 72 as it had been written then. Julia phillips never took him that seriously until he had success with mean streets, then Paul Shrader wanted him and Deniro as a team who had success with the godfather part 2.

[freezazoid]

0:42 hadn't he done Mean Streets? he didn't mention that one... weird.

[VICTOR28CHARLIE]

‎"Listen you fuckers, you screwheads, here's a man who would not take it anymore, who would not let... Listen you fuckers you screwheads, here's a man who would not take it anymore, a man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is someone who stood up."

[tubey47]

Sooo humble yet so brilliant. Amazing.

[bpatrice49]

The whole question of one era of filmmaking vs another can be put alot more simply than people think. In my humble opinion the late 60's until the early 80's was the golden era of American cinema. Whilst many may diasgree and claim films today are as good, what those people have to accept no matter what is that movies like Taxi Driver CAN NOT be made today. It just can't happen. Studios don't dare cover such dark material. There's no argument with that point.

[charmander4533]

@bpatrice49 Yes they can, there is no level of violence that can't be accomplished in film today or any subject too risky. You should watch more movies.

[bpatrice49]

@charmander4533 Please give me an example of a mainstream film with mainstream hollywood stars in it that could be considered in the genre of Taxi Driver? The violence is not the point. These types of dark character driven films seldom ever get made in mainstream hollywood anymore. The character film died out after the 70's

[charmander4533]

@bpatrice49 That's definitely not what you first said. You were complaining that hollywood couldn't make a film this dark anymore, when there is clearly no level of violence or horrifying concept they wouldn't make. It's not that they can't make a good character piece because they're afraid, there are just very few with the talent to do so.

[bpatrice49]

@charmander4533 Yeah. I didn't mean to imply that Hollywood cannot protray violence like this anymore, since cinema grew collectively more violent throughout the 80's and 90's. I think that films covering the really harsh/dark side of life(like Tazi driver/badlands/Midnight cowboy etc) are films that don't get made anymore. I put it down to who controls cinema now, relative to the 70's, which in hindsight was a crazy period.

[charmander4533]

@bpatrice49 No one "controls" cinema, you fool

[bpatrice49]

@charmander4533 You f*cking moron! Any major studio has to green light a project in order for it to be made. hence why mainstream big budget and indie cinema have so little in common. The studio system in America/Hollywood is vastly different today than it was in the 1970's. So by 'control' I mean have most influence and say in determining what gets made. 

[charmander4533]

@bpatrice49 Movies have the exact same problems today as they did at any time in the past whether it's 30 years ago or 60 /books?id=lU4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10­2#v=onepage&q&f=false

[grski88]

@MiKKA335 Any "intelligent" movie-watcher should understand that films, like all art, is subjective. "Shawshank" is a nice film and I like it; however, I personally don't find it as interesting as "Taxi Driver," "There Will Be Blood," "Papillon" or others of the like.

@schnoepie I think "Pulp Fiction" is a fine film but calling it the single greatest movie of the last 30 years? That's hardly a fact.

[nottheduck1]

movies today don't have that gritty look, they are way to polished looking and that loses a lot.

[tbtbtwotwos]

the atmosphere in which these films are made has changed. i think there's a certain atmosphere that goes with the great films of the past. the personality of the community of filmmakers: actors, directors, writers, producers, etc. is different from what it is now. i think that's why scorsese's picture the departed is not as good as his old stuff. i mean whats the standout film right now? the hurt locker? avatar? these two films barely having anything classic about them.

[mattknowsfilm]

@tbtbtwotwos That's what people said in the 1970's, that the older films were more stylistic. Their are plenty of rcent films out there right now, few as they are, that are worthy of classics: There Will Be Blood, The Social Network, No Country For Old Men, United 93. Remember, the 1970's had a lot of great films, but also had a lot of crap films like today.

[shnoepie1]

@mattknowsfilm Lol, United 93 a classic... The Social Network, There Will Be Blood classics? These are very flawed movies and nowhere near being classics. The past decade had very few truely great movies. Even the 90's were a lot better and the 70s was filmmaking heaven, especially compared to the past ten years. Think about it this way. Can you name recent movies in the same league as Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator II, Short Cuts, Seven, The Usual Suspects, etc.

[grski88]

@shnoepie1 "Terminator II, Short Cuts, Seven, ect"?????

'There Will Be Blood' is a far superior film to those you just listed even 'Shawshank' & 'Pulp Fiction' is pushing it.

[shnoepie1]

Pulp Fiction is probably the single greatest movie of the past 30 years, with the most recent movie coming close to its brilliance being Raging Bull. TII, Short Cuts, Seven (wether you like m or not) were original pieces of art, groundbreaking movies. Anyway teh '90 had a movement of truely original and gifted auteurs: QT, Linklater, PT Anderson, Zwigoff, Clark, Solondz, Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, etc. The past decade has not given us any interesting new filmmakers,

[ledlunar]

@shnoepie1 Forgot Danny Boyle and Christopher Nolan. 

[tbtbtwotwos]

the atmosphere in which these films are made has changed. i think there's a certain atmosphere that goes with the great films of the past. the personality of the community of filmmakers: actors, directors, writers, producers, etc. is different from what it is now. i think that's why scorsese's picture the departed is not as good as his old stuff. i mean whats the standout film right now? the hurt locker? avatar? these two films are barely good.

[Therealtaxidriver]

Thank God for the internet! I'm sure you would all be interseted to know that these two creeps Deniro, and Scorsese stole the idea, the story, and the main character from a real Taxi Driver and from an actual incident that same person was involved in back around 1970 when he and the girl he rescued were both thirteen and fifteen.

They were ordered to make this film by the late film director Stanley Kubrick who I was introduced to by the late Diane Arbus in 1964.

davemcgovernjr@yahoo.com

[scottmanduzy]

The Departed was way overrated. Score has made far superior films.

Mean Sts.

Taxi

Raging Bull

Goodfellas

King of comedy

[JoseCampilloCornejo]

@scottmanduzy Don't forget Casino!

[scottmanduzy]

@JoseCampilloCornejo I was somewhat dissapointed with Casino. Too much voice-over narration. my dad and I were staying at the Riviera when they filmed there.

[leroyinc]

@scottmanduzy Yeah, it did have a lot of narration, didn't it? I liked it anyway.

[mastermovies10000]

@scottmanduzy the departed was an awesome movie,not as good as his others but still one of the best

[inrwizards]

@scottmanduzy still think it was one of his best. not his best, but one of them

[tombstone86]

the subtitle and the scorsese's talking isn't synchronized i think

[TheDicamillo]

Taxi Driver is my all time favourite film.

[wreyoG]

@TheDicamillo same here

[Briand774]

where did you get this interview?

[8jagernath4]

good job on uploading these selections

[adamzanzie]

It's on the new 2-Disc DVD.

[jackbyrnes86]

Greatest director ever! Love the film!

[malows1234]

@jackbyrnes86 martin scorsese is not the greatest director of all time you FUCK. HE IS ONE of the greatest ARTISTS of all time. geezzzez stop underrating the MAESTRO that is scorsese.

[jackbyrnes86]

@malows1234 Hahaha... I literally can't stop laughing at how lame and stupid your comment is! By the way, you might want to check out some of the comments on your channel! It clearly shows that a lot of people think your a douche! Allow me to quote one of them (by a guy named Frederick0220): "Suck your mom's dick and seek professional help while you're at it." Hahahahaha...

[malows1234]

@jackbyrnes86 lol it was a joke. yes i think he is the greatest director alive jezzez calm the shit down lolz. i love scorsese so much. i would suck his cock if he asked (figuratively) so dont send me comments about being a fagit. but seriously the man is genius in and out and in and out. i mean especially taxi driver and raging bull.

[MrBillcale]

@jackbyrnes86 maybe behind fellini

[kingcaesar5]

i love seeing how a masterpiece comes together, please post the rest.