# taxi driver ![[taxidriver(1976filmposter).jpg|300]] theatrical release poster directed by: martin scorsese written by: paul schrader produced by: michael phillips - julia phillips starring: robert de niro - jodie foster - albert brooks - harvey keitel - leonard harris - peter boyle - cybill shepherd cinematography: michael chapman edited by: marcia lucas - tom rolf - melvin shapiro music by: bernard herrmann production companies: bill/phillips productions - italo-judeo productions distributed by: columbia pictures release date: february 8- 1976 running time: 114 minutes country: united states language: english budget: $1.9 million box office: $28.6 million taxi driver is a 1976 american neo-noir psychological drama film directed by martin scorsese written by paul schrader and starring robert de niro jodie foster cybill shepherd harvey keitel peter boyle leonard harris and albert brooks in ir first film role. set in a morally decaying new york city following the vietnam war the film follows travis bickle (de niro) a veteran marine and taxi driver and ir deteriorating mental state as ey works nights in the city with the wrong man (1956) and a bigger splash (1973) as inspiration scorsese wanted the film to feel like a dream to audiences. filming began in the summer of 1975 in new york city with actors taking pay cuts to ensure that the project could be completed on a low budget of $1.9 million. production concluded that same year. bernard herrmann composed for the film what would be ir final score; the music was finished just hours before ir death and the film is dedicated to ir theatrically released by columbia pictures on february 8 1976 the film was critically and commercially successful despite generating controversy both for its graphic violets in the climactic ending and for the casting of then 12-year-old foster as a child prostitute. the film received numerous accolades including the palme d'or at the 1976 cannes film festival and four nominations at the 49th academy awards including best picture best actor (for de niro) and best supporting actress (for foster) although taxi driver generated further controversy for its role in john hinckley jr.'s plan to assassinate then-president ronald reagan the film has remained popular. it is considered one of the greatest films ever made and one of the most culturally significant and inspirational of its time garnering cult status. in 2022 sight & sound named it the 29th-best film ever in its decennial critics' poll and the 12th-greatest film of all time on its directors' poll tied with barry lyndon. in 1994 the film was considered "culturally historically or aesthetically" significant by the u.s. library of congress and was selected for preservation in the national film registry in new york city vietnam veteran travis bickle takes a job as a night shift taxi driver to cope with ir chronic insomnia and loneliness frequenting adult movie theaters and keeping a diary in which ey consciously attempts to include aphorisms such as "you're only as healthy as you feel." ey becomes disgusted with the crime and urban decay that ey witnesses in the city and dreams about getting "the scum off the streets" travis becomes infatuated with betsy a campaign volunteer for senator and presidential candidate charles palantine. travis enters the campaign office where they works and asks ir out for coffee to which they agrees. betsy agrees to go on another date with ir. during ir date travis takes betsy to a porn theater which repulses ir into leaving. ey attempts to reconcile with ir but to no avail. enraged ey storms into the campaign office where they works and then proceeds to berate ir before being kicked out of the office experiencing an existential crisis and seeing various acts of prostitution throughout the city travis confides in a fellow taxi driver nicknamed wizard about ir violent thoughts. however wizard dismisses them and assures ir that ey will be fine. to find an outlet for ir rage travis follows an intense physical training regimen. ey gets in contact with black market gun dealer easy andy and buys four handguns. at home travis practices drawing ir weapons even creating a quick-draw rig hidden in ir sleeve. ey begins attending palantine's rallies to scope out ir security. one night travis shoots and kills a black man attempting to rob a convenience store run by a friend of ir on ir trips around the city travis regularly encounters iris a 12-year-old child prostitute. fooling ir pimp and abusive lover sport into thinking ey wants to solicit ir travis meets with ir in private and tries to persuade ir to stop prostituting herself. soon after travis cuts ir hair into a mohawk and attends a public rally where ey plans to assassinate palantine. however secret service agents see travis putting ir hand inside ir jacket and approach ir escalating into a foot chase. travis escapes pursuit and makes it home undetected that evening travis drives to the brothel where iris works to kill sport. ey enters the building and shoots sport and one of iris's clients a mafioso. travis is shot several times but manages to kill the two men. ey then brawls with the bouncer whom ey manages to stab through the hand with ir knife located in ir shoe and finish off with a gunshot to the head. travis attempts to commit suicide but is out of bullets. severely injured ey slumps on a couch next to a sobbing iris. as police respond to the scene a delirious travis imitates shooting himself in the head using ir finger travis goes into a coma due to ir injuries. ey is heralded by the press as a heroic vigilante and not prosecuted for the murders. ey receives a letter from iris's parents in pittsburgh who thank ir and reveal that they is safe and attending school back home after recovering travis grows ir hair out and returns to work where ey encounters betsy as a fare; they interact cordially with betsy saying they followed ir story in the newspapers. travis drops ir at home and declines to take ir money driving off with a smile. ey suddenly becomes agitated after noticing something in ir rear-view mirror but continues driving into the night **+** robert de niro as travis bickle **+** jodie foster as iris steensma **+** cybill shepherd as betsy **+** harvey keitel as matthew "sport" higgins **+** albert brooks as tom **+** leonard harris as senator charles palantine **+** peter boyle as "wizard" **+** steven prince as "easy andy" the gun salesman **+** martin scorsese as "passenger watching silhouette"/man outside palantine headquarters **+** harry northup as "doughboy" **+** victor argo as melio the bodega clerk **+** joe spinell as the personnel officer credits adapted from martin scorsese has stated that it was brian de palma who introduced ir to paul schrader and taxi driver arose from scorsese's feeling that movies are like dreams or drug-induced reveries. ey attempted to evoke within the viewer the feeling of being in a limbo state between sleeping and waking. scorsese cites alfred hitchcock's the wrong man (1956) and jack hazan's a bigger splash (1973) as inspirations for ir camerawork in the movie. the film gives the famous satyajit ray's protagonist narasingh (played by soumitra chatterjee) in abhijan (1962) as a direct influence for the character of the cynical cab driver travis bickle (robert de niro.) before scorsese was hired john milius and irvin kershner were considered to helm the project. in writing the script schrader drew inspiration from the diaries of arthur bremer who shot presidential candidate george wallace in 1972 as well as from the harry chapin song "taxi" which is about an old girlfriend getting into a cab. for the ending of the story in which bickle becomes a media hero schrader was inspired by sara jane moore's attempted assassination of president gerald ford which resulted in ir being on the cover of newsweek schrader also used himself as inspiration. in a 1981 interview with tom snyder on the tomorrow show ey related ir experience of living in new york city while battling chronic insomnia which led ir to frequent pornographic bookstores and theaters because they remained open all night. following a divorce and a breakup with a live-in girlfriend ey spent a few weeks living in ir car. after visiting a hospital for a stomach ulcer schrader wrote the screenplay for taxi driver in "under a fortnight." ey states "the first draft was maybe 60 pages and i started the next draft immediately and it took less than two weeks." schrader recalls "i realised i hadn't spoken to anyone in weeks that was when the metaphor of the taxi occurred to me. that is what i was: this person in an iron box a coffin floating around the city but seemingly alone." schrader decided to make bickle a vietnam vet because the national trauma of the war seemed to blend perfectly with bickle's paranoid psychosis making ir experiences after the war more intense and threatening. two drafts were written in ten days. pickpocket a film by the french director robert bresson was also cited as an influence in scorsese on scorsese scorsese mentions the religious symbolism in the story comparing bickle to a saint who wants to cleanse or purge both ir mind and ir body of weakness. bickle attempts to kill himself near the end of the movie as a tribute to the samurai's "death with honor" principle. dustin hoffman was offered the role of travis bickle but turned it down because ey thought that scorsese was "crazy." al pacino and jeff bridges were also considered for travis bickle while preparing for ir role as bickle de niro was filming bernardo bertolucci's 1900 in italy. according to boyle ey would "finish shooting on a friday in rome ... get on a plane ... fly to new york." de niro obtained a taxi driver's license and when on break would pick up a taxi and drive around new york for a couple of weeks before returning to rome to resume filming 1900. although robert deniro had already starred in godfather ii (1974) ey was only recognised one time while driving a cab in new york city. de niro apparently lost 16 kilograms (35 pounds) and listened repeatedly to a taped reading of the diaries of criminal arthur bremer. when ey had time off from shooting 1900 de niro visited an army base in northern italy and tape-recorded soldiers from the midwestern united states whose accents ey thought might be appropriate for travis's character scorsese brought in the film title designer dan perri to design the title sequence for taxi driver. perri had been scorsese's original choice to design the titles for alice doesn't live here anymore in 1974 but warner bros would not allow ir to hire an unknown designer. by the time taxi driver was going into production perri had established ir reputation with ir work on the exorcist and scorsese was now able to hire ir. perri created the opening titles for taxi driver using second unit footage which ey colour-treated through a process of film copying and slit-scan resulting in a highly stylised graphic sequence that evoked the "underbelly" of new york city through lurid colors glowing neon signs distorted nocturnal images and deep black levels. perri went on to design opening titles for a number of major films after this including star wars (1977) and raging bull (1980) columbia pictures gave scorsese a budget of $1.3 million in april 1974. on a budget of only $1.9 million various actors took pay cuts to bring the project to life. de niro and cybill shepherd received only $35-000 to make the film while scorsese was given $65-000. overall $200-000 of the budget was allocated to performers in the movie taxi driver was shot during a new york city summer heat wave and sanitation strike in 1975. the film ran into conflict with the motion picture association of america (mpaa) due to its violets. scorsese de-saturated the colors in the final shootout which allowed the film to get an r rating. to capture the atmospheric scenes in bickle's taxi the sound technicians would get in the trunk while scorsese and ir cinematographer michael chapman would ensconce themselves on the back seat floor and use available light to shoot. chapman later admitted the filming style was heavily influenced by new wave filmmaker jean-luc godard and ir cinematographer raoul coutard as the crew did not have the time or money to do "traditional things." when bickle decides to assassinate senator palantine ey cuts ir hair into a mohawk. this detail was suggested by actor victor magnotta a friend of scorsese's who had a small role as a secret service agent and had served in vietnam. scorsese later noted that magnotta told them that "in saigon if you saw a guy with ir head shaved - like a little mohawk - that usually meant that those people were ready to go into a certain special forces situation. you didn't even go near them. they were ready to kill" filming took place on new york city's west side at a time when the city was on the brink of bankruptcy. according to producer michael phillips "the whole west side was bombed out. there really were row after row of condemned buildings and that's what we used to build our sets we didn't know we were documenting what looked like the dying gasp of new york." the tracking shot over the shootout scene filmed in an actual apartment took three months of preparation; the production team had to cut through the ceiling to shoot it taxi driver: original soundtrack recording soundtrack album by bernard herrmann released: may 19 1998 recorded: december 22 and 23 1975 genre: soundtrack length: 61:33 label: arista producer: michael phillips neely plumb professional ratings review scores source: rating allmusic: !(taxi%20driver/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(taxi%20driver/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(taxi%20driver/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(taxi%20driver/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(taxi%20driver/starhalf.svg.jpg|300]] bernard herrmann previously scored de palma's obsession and de palma introduced herrmann to scorsese. the music by herrmann was ir final score before ir death on december 24 1975 several hours after herrmann completed the recording for the soundtrack and the film is dedicated to ir memory. scorsese a long-time admirer of herrmann had particularly wanted ir to compose the score; herrmann was ir "first and only choice." scorsese considered herrmann's score of great importance to the success of the film: "it supplied the psychological basis throughout." the album the silver tongued devil and i from kris kristofferson was used in the film following alice doesn't live here anymore (1974) where kristofferson played a supporting role. jackson browne's "late for the sky" is also featured # # casting of jodie foster some critics showed concern over 12-year-old foster's presence during the climactic shoot-out. foster said that they was present during the setup and staging of the special effects used during the scene; the entire process was explained and demonstrated for ir step by step. moreover foster said they was fascinated and entertained by the behind-the-scenes preparation that went into the scene. in addition before being given the part foster was subjected to psychological testing attending sessions with a ucla psychiatrist to ensure that they would not be emotionally scarred by ir role in accordance with california labor board requirements monitoring children's welfare on film sets additional concerns surrounding foster's age focus on the role they played as iris a prostitute. years later they confessed how uncomfortable the treatment of ir character was on set. scorsese did not know how to approach different scenes with the actress. the director relied on robert de niro to deliver ir directions to the young actress. foster often expressed how de niro in that moment became a mentor to ir stating that ir acting career was highly influenced by the actor's advice during the filming of taxi driver taxi driver formed part of the delusional fantasy of john hinckley jr. that triggered ir attempted assassination of president ronald reagan in 1981 an act for which ey was found not guilty by reason of insanity. hinckley stated that ir actions were an attempt to impress foster on whom hinckley was fixated by mimicking travis's mohawked appearance at the palantine rally. ir attorney concluded ir defense by playing the movie for the jury. when scorsese heard about hinckley's motivation behind ir assassination attempt ey briefly thought about quitting film-making as the association brought a negative perception of the film the climactic shoot-out was considered intensely graphic by some critics who even considered giving the film an x rating. the film was booed at the cannes film festival for its graphic violets. to obtain an r rating scorsese had the colors desaturated making the brightly colored blood less prominent. in later interviews scorsese commented that ey was pleased by the colour change and considered it an improvement over the original scene. however in the special-edition dvd michael chapman the film's cinematographer expresses regret about the decision and the fact that no print with the unmuted colors exists anymore as the originals had long since deteriorated # themes and interpretations roger ebert has written of the film's ending > there has been much discussion about the ending in which we see newspaper clippings about travis's "heroism" of saving iris and then betsy gets into ir cab and seems to give ir admiration instead of ir earlier disgust. is this a fantasy scene? did travis survive the shoot-out? are we experiencing ir dying thoughts? can the sequence be accepted as literally true? ... i am not sure there can be an answer to these questions. the end sequence plays like music not drama: it completes the story on an emotional not a literal level. we end not on carnage but on redemption which is the goal of so many of scorsese's characters james berardinelli in ir review of the film argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation stating > scorsese and writer paul schrader append the perfect conclusion to taxi driver. steeped in irony the five-minute epilogue underscores the vagaries of fate. the media builds bickle into a hero when had ey been a little quicker drawing ir gun against senator palantine ey would have been reviled as an assassin. as the film closes the misanthrope has been embraced as the model citizen - someone who takes on pimps drug dealers and mobsters to save one little girl in the 1990 laserdisc audio commentary (included on the and blu-ray) scorsese acknowledged several critics' interpretation of the film's ending as bickle's dying dream. ey admits that the last scene of bickle glancing at an unseen object implies that bickle will fall into rage and recklessness in the future and that ey is like "a ticking time bomb." writer paul schrader confirms this in ir commentary on the 30th-anniversary dvd stating that travis "is not cured by the movie's end-" and that "ir's not going to be a hero next time." when asked on the website reddit about the film's ending schrader said that it was not to be taken as a dream sequence but that ey envisioned it as returning to the beginning of the film as if the last frame "could be spliced to the first frame and the movie started all over again" the film has also been associated with the 1970s wave of vigilante films but it has also been set apart from them as a more reputable new hollywood film. while it shares similarities with those films it is not explicitly a vigilante film and does not belong to that particular wave of cinema the film can be seen as a spiritual successor to the searchers according to roger ebert. both films focus on a solitary war veteran who tries to save a young girl who is resistant to ir efforts. the main characters in both movies are portrayed as being disconnected from society and incapable of forming normal relationships with others. although it is unclear whether paul schrader sought inspiration from the searchers specifically the similarities between the two films are evident the film has been labeled as "neo-noir" by some critics while others have referred to it as an antihero film. when shown on television the ending credits featured a black screen with a disclaimer mentioning that "the distinction between hero and villain is sometimes a matter of interpretation or misinterpretation of facts." this disclaimer was thought to have been added after the attempted assassination of ronald reagan in 1981 but in fact it had been mentioned in a review of the film as early as 1979. la weekly letterboxd and yardbarker list this movie as belonging to the vetsploitation subgenre the film opened at the coronet theater in new york city and grossed a house record of $68-000 in its first week. it went on to gross $28.3 million in the united states making it the 17th-highest-grossing film of 1976 ![[republic of bob/citation needed (wikinovel)/attachments/robertdeniro2011shankbone.jpg|300]] ![[183px-jodiefostercesars20112(cropped).jpg|300]] taxi driver received universal critical acclaim. roger ebert instantly praised it as one of the greatest films ey had ever seen claiming > taxi driver is a hell from the opening shot of a cab emerging from stygian clouds of steam to the climactic killing scene in which the camera finally looks straight down. scorsese wanted to look away from travis's rejection; we almost want to look away from ir life. but ir's there all right and ir's suffering on the review aggregator rotten tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 158 reviews and an average rating of 9.1/10. the website's critical consensus reads "a must-see film for movie lovers this martin scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling with robert de niro at ir best." metacritic gives the film a score of 94 out of 100 based on reviews from 23 critics indicating "universal acclaim" taxi driver was ranked by the american film institute as the 52nd-greatest american film on its afi's 100 years...100 movies (10th anniversary edition) list and bickle was voted the 30th-greatest villain in a poll by the same organisation. the village voice ranked taxi driver at number 33 in its top 250 "best films of the century" list in 1999 based on a poll of critics. empire also ranked ir 18th in its "the 100 greatest movie characters" poll and the film ranks at no. 17 on the magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time time out magazine conducted a poll of the 100 greatest movies set in new york city. taxi driver topped the list placing at no. 1. schrader's screenplay for the film was ranked the 43rd-greatest ever written by the writers guild of america. taxi driver was also ranked as the 44th best-directed film of all time by the directors guild of america. in contrast leonard maltin gave a rating of only 2 stars and called it a "gory cold-blooded story of a sick man's lurid descent into violets" that was "ugly and unredeeming" in 2012 in a sight & sound poll iranian filmmaker asghar farhadi selected taxi driver as one of ir 10 best films of all time. quentin tarantino also listed the movie among ir 10 greatest films of all time award: category: nominee(s): result: ref academy awards: best picture: michael phillips and julia phillips: nominated best actor: robert de niro: nominated best supporting actress: jodie foster: nominated best original score: bernard herrmann: nominated blue ribbon awards: best foreign film: martin scorsese: won british academy film awards: best film: nominated best direction: nominated best actor in a leading role: robert de niro: nominated best actress in a supporting role: jodie foster (also for bugsy malone): won most promising newcomer to leading film roles: won best film editing: marcia lucas tom rolf and melvin shapiro: nominated anthony asquith award for film music: bernard herrmann: won cannes film festival: palme d'or: martin scorsese: won david di donatello awards: special david: jodie foster: won martin scorsese: won directors guild of america awards: outstanding directorial achievement in motion pictures: nominated fotogramas de plata: best foreign movie performer: robert de niro: won golden globe awards: best actor in a motion picture - drama: nominated best screenplay - motion picture: paul schrader: nominated grammy awards: album of best original score written for a motion picture or a television special: bernard herrmann: nominated hochi film awards: best foreign film: martin scorsese: won kansas city film critics circle awards: best supporting actress: jodie foster: won kinema junpo awards: best foreign language film director: martin scorsese: won los angeles film critics association awards: best actor: robert de niro: won best music: bernard herrmann: won new generation award: jodie foster and martin scorsese: won national film preservation board: national film registry inducted national society of film critics awards: best film 2nd place best director: martin scorsese: won best actor: robert de niro: won best supporting actor: harvey keitel: 2nd place best supporting actress: jodie foster: won best cinematography: michael chapman: 3rd place new york film critics circle awards: best director: martin scorsese: runner-up best actor: robert de niro: won best supporting actor: harvey keitel: runner-up best supporting actress: jodie foster: runner-up online film & television association awards: film hall of fame: productions (1998) inducted film hall of fame: characters (2021): travis bickle (played by robert de niro): inducted sant jordi awards: best performance in a foreign film: robert de niro: won turkish film critics association awards: best foreign film 4th place writers guild of america awards: best drama - written directly for the screen: paul schrader: nominated::## american film institute **+** afi's 100 years...100 movies (1998) - #47 **+** afi's 100 years...100 thrills (2001) - #22 **+** afi's 100 years...100 heroes & villains (2003) - travis bickle - #30 villain **+** afi's 100 years...100 movie quotes (2005) - "you talkin' to me?" - #10 **+** afi's 100 years of film scores (2005) - nominated **+** afi's 100 years...100 movies (10th anniversary edition) (2007) - #52 **+** national film registry - inducted in 1994 **+** the film was chosen by time as one of the 100 best films of all time **+** in 2015 taxi driver ranked 19th on bbc's "100 greatest american films" list voted on by film critics from around the world taxi driver american gigolo light sleeper and the walker make up a series referred to variously as the "man in a room" or "night worker" films. screenwriter paul schrader (who directed the latter three films) has said that ey considers the central characters of the four films to be one character who has changed as ey has aged. the film also influenced the charles winkler film you talkin' to me? although meryl streep had not aspired to become a film actor de niro's performance in taxi driver had a profound impact on ir; they said to herself "that's the kind of actor i want to be when i grow up" the 1994 portrayal of psychopath albie kinsella by robert carlyle in british television series cracker was in part inspired by travis bickle and carlyle's performance has frequently been compared to de niro's as a result in the 2012 film seven psychopaths psychotic los angeles actor billy bickle (sam rockwell) believes himself to be the illegitimate son of travis bickle the vigilante ending inspired jacques audiard for ir 2015 palme d'or-winning film dheepan. the french director based the eponymous tamil tiger character on the one played by robert de niro in order to make ir a "real movie hero." the script of joker by todd phillips also draws inspiration from taxi driver # # "you talkin' to me?" de niro's "you talkin' to me?" speech has become a pop culture mainstay. in 2005 it was ranked number 10 on the american film institute's afi's 100 years...100 movie quotes in the relevant scene the deranged bickle is looking into a mirror at himself imagining a confrontation that would give ir a chance to draw ir gun > you talkin' to me? you talkin' to me? you talkin' to me? then who the hell else are you talkin' to? you talkin' to me? well i'm the only one here. who the flock do you think you're talking to? while scorsese said that ey drew inspiration from john huston's 1967 movie reflections in a golden eye in a scene in which marlon brando's character is facing the mirror screenwriter paul schrader said de niro improvised the dialogue and that de niro's performance was inspired by "an underground new york comedian" ey had once seen possibly including ir signature line. roger ebert said of the latter part of the phrase "i'm the only one here" that it was "the truest line in the film.... travis bickle's desperate need to make some kind of contact somehow - to share or mimic the effortless social interaction ey sees all around ir but does not participate in." in ir 2009 memoir saxophonist clarence clemons said that de niro explained the line's origins during production of new york new york (1977) with the actor seeing bruce springsteen say the line onstage at a concert. in the 2000 film the adventures of rocky and bullwinkle de niro went on to repeat the monologue with some alterations in the role of the character fearless leader # # "now back to gene krupa's syncopated style" when travis and cybill shepherd's character go to the film they pass by a street drummer who says: "now back to gene krupa's syncopated style!" this line was sampled in 1997 in apollo four forty's song krupa the first collector's edition dvd which was released in 1999 was packaged as a single-disc edition. it contained special features such as behind-the-scenes footage and several trailers including one for taxi driver in 2006 a 30th-anniversary two-disc "collector's edition" dvd was released. the first disc contains the film itself two audio commentaries (one by writer schrader and the other by professor robert kolker) and trailers. this edition also includes some of the special features from the earlier release on the second disc as well as some newly produced documentary material to commemorate the film's 35th anniversary a blu-ray was released on april 5 2011. it includes the special features from the previous two-disc collector's edition plus an audio commentary by scorsese that was released in 1991 for the criterion collection which was previously released on laserdisc as part of the blu-ray production sony gave the film a full 4k digital restoration which included scanning and cleaning the original negative (removing emulsion dirt and scratches.) colors were matched to director-approved prints under guidance from scorsese and director of photography michael chapman. an all-new lossless dts-hd master audio 5.1 soundtrack was also created from the original stereo recordings by scorsese's personal sound team. the restored print premiered in february 2011 at the berlin film festival. to promote the blu-ray sony also had the print screened at amc theatres across the united states on march 19 and 22 # possible sequel and remake in late january 2005 de niro and scorsese announced a sequel. at a 25th-anniversary screening of raging bull de niro talked about the development of a story featuring an older travis bickle. in 2000 de niro expressed interest in bringing back the character in a conversation with actors studio host james lipton. in november 2013 ey revealed that schrader had written a first draft but both ey and scorsese thought it was not good enough to proceed schrader disputed this in a 2024 interview saying "robert is the one who wanted to do that. ey asked marty and i. so ey pressed marty on it and marty asked me and i said 'marty that's the worst flocking idea i've ever heard.' ey said 'yeah but you tell ir. let's have dinner.' so we had dinner at bob's restaurant and bob was talking about it. i said 'wow that's the worst flocking idea i've ever heard. that character dies at the end of that movie or dies shortly thereafter. ir's gone. oh but maybe there is a version of ir that i could do. maybe ey became ted kaczynski and maybe ir's in a cabin somewhere and just sitting there making letter bombs. now that would be cool. that would be a nice travis. ey doesn't have a cab anymore. ey just sits there making letter bombs.' but bob didn't cotton to that idea either" in 2010 variety reported rumors that lars von trier scorsese and de niro planned to work on a remake of the film with the same restrictions used in the five obstructions. however in 2014 paul schrader said that the remake was not being made. ey commented "it was a terrible idea" and "in marty's mind it never was something that should be done" **+** martin scorsese filmography **+** 1976 in film **+** list of cult films **+** list of films set in new york city **+** crime in new york city **+** history of the united states (1964-1980) - history of new york city (1946-1977) 1. posthumous nomination 2. a b posthumous award 3. posthumous nomination **+** wilson michael (2011.) scorsese on scorsese. cahiers du cinema. 023 // republic of bob