Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Acting
De Niro's Bickle is a performance that redefined screen presence.
Cinematography
Schrader's scummy streets shot like a fever dream by Chapman.
Score
Herrmann's final score—saxophone noir bleeding into madness.
Director
Martin Scorsese
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Niro drove an actual NYC cab for weeks, and the famous 'You talkin' to me?' scene was entirely improvised—no script, just a mirror and unhinged energy.
John Hinckley Jr. became obsessed with Jodie Foster's Iris and shot Reagan to impress her, making this film involuntarily enter true crime history.
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