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Remakers Mark 18, Part 2 {Taxi Driver}: The Saxophone Self

March 11, 2014 By Kyle

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Poster courtesy of IMPAwards.comIn Part Two of our discussion of Taxi Driver, we start out by sharing lots of great casting suggestions from friends and fans of the show, including a couple that had us second guessing our choices. Then we reveal which of our choices were the official recasting picks. After that we dive into a discussion and appreciation of the original, including the role of the anti-hero throughout time, wondering whether it might be possible to provide more of a background story for Travis without venturing into cliché-land, a tribute to the dirty old New York City that Taxi Driver showed so well. We also talked about Scorsese’s history with New York, and speculate as to what really happens at the end of the film. Finally, in the spirit of the many Scorsese/DeNiro films, we each provide a director/actor pairing who’s films we have greatly enjoyed.

Taxi Driver

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Actors and Actresses Discussed

  • Michael Fassbender
  • Shia LeBouf
  • Kathryn Bigelow
  • Danny McBride
  • Wes Anderson
  • Jim Jarmusch
  • Dane DeHaan
  • Christian Bale
  • Aziz Ansari
  • Andrew Lincoln
  • Idris Elba
  • Jonny Lee Miller
  • Bradley Cooper
  • Paul Dano
  • Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Robert DeNiro
  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Oliver Stone
  • Cybill Shepherd
  • Emily Blunt
  • Jodie Foster
  • Saoirse Ronan
  • Albert Brooks
  • Paul Scheer
  • Leonard Harris
  • Aaron Eckhart
  • Harvey Keitel
  • Ed Norton
  • Heath Ledger
  • Tim Burton
  • Johnny Depp
  • Wes Anderson
  • Bill Murray
  • Sam Raimi
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Billy Wilder
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Dominique Pinon

Movies and Links Discussed

  • Goodfellas
  • Gangs of New York
  • Hugo
  • Shutter Island
  • Raging Bull
  • Kundun
  • Drive
  • Only God Forgives
  • Valhalla Rising
  • Little Caesar
  • The Public Enemy
  • Scarface (1932)
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Dexter
  • The Dark Knight
  • Game of Thrones
  • Mean Streets
  • Taxi Driver
  • New York, New York
  • The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Roger Ebert’s review of ‘Taxi Driver’, along with discussion of the ending

Next movie – When Harry Met Sally…

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