TAXI DRIVER (Great Intro Included)

aRyan · October 30th, 2009, 08:01 PM

What can be said that hasn't been already. Quite possibly the best movie ever made. Let's talk about this incredible movie!

Listen to the speech from the beginning of the movie here. Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

YouTube - Best Of Taxi Driver

C_R · October 30th, 2009, 08:27 PM

I liked it, thanks.

aRyan · October 30th, 2009, 09:27 PM

You've never seen the movie before??? Please, download it and let me know how you like it!

C_R · October 30th, 2009, 10:04 PM

I'll get on that tomorrow, and report back. lol.

Calgacus · October 30th, 2009, 11:07 PM

Yeah I love this film, a great tale of loneliness, despair and desperation. Although I was a bit disappointed when I found out DeNiro never shaved his head for the part...

"As for the mohawk haircut, it's not real. He never did shave his head. The make-up people invented a special hair paste that made his real hair stay as close to his skull as possible, and then they'd add a shaven head and the mohawk in two separate pieces.
Also, the mohawk was never in the script. Apparently Scorcese had run into some guy who'd been in Vietnam who told him that when people over there ”went over the hill”, i.e. was going to die in battle sacrificing for their people/country, they'd shave their head like that as a sort of ”don't fuck with me, I'm going over the hill”-statement. Schrader says he didn't know if this was true. Maybe it just became part of the legend, a part of all the stories about what happened in Vietnam."

ec_nana · October 30th, 2009, 11:34 PM

Classic. De Niro was intense and Jodie Foster was amazing.

Ending was handled pretty well but it kinda left the audience hanging.

Kopfschuss · November 2nd, 2009, 05:42 AM

I thought everyone has seen this movie

Guillotine · November 8th, 2009, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Calgacus

Yeah I love this film, a great tale of loneliness, despair and desperation. Although I was a bit disappointed when I found out DeNiro never shaved his head for the part...

"As for the mohawk haircut, it's not real. He never did shave his head. The make-up people invented a special hair paste that made his real hair stay as close to his skull as possible, and then they'd add a shaven head and the mohawk in two separate pieces.
Also, the mohawk was never in the script. Apparently Scorcese had run into some guy who'd been in Vietnam who told him that when people over there ”went over the hill”, i.e. was going to die in battle sacrificing for their people/country, they'd shave their head like that as a sort of ”don't fuck with me, I'm going over the hill”-statement. Schrader says he didn't know if this was true. Maybe it just became part of the legend, a part of all the stories about what happened in Vietnam."

I may be wrong, but I read somewhere he couldn't shave his head as he was acting for another movie at the same time

aRyan · November 11th, 2009, 01:08 PM

It was some fake skin.

Hey guill, have you ever seen Seul Contre Tous?

Guillotine · November 11th, 2009, 05:45 PM

I have all Gaspar Noé's movies (lot of short ones), also met him at a cinema convention. I have recommended the movie in a topic few days ago. It's a great movie, maybe my fav from him. You should watch Carne (~40 mins), this is a kind of a preamble for Seul

aRyan · November 11th, 2009, 06:01 PM

Do you know of some copies with english subs embedded into the video? I can't get subtitles to work with movies for some reason..

Guillotine · November 11th, 2009, 06:32 PM

I never look for english subs for obvious reasons, yet I think it would be easier to find subs first, and then use VLC player, it's got a very simple use of the subs. Try these subs for Carne: http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subt...86354/carne-en
(I don't know why they used the thumbnail of Irreversible)

October 30th, 2009, 08:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
C_R Rigor Mortis Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2,757	I liked it, thanks. __________________ Rod: Let’s get out of 'ere Bill, there’s six Stoke fans staring right at us. Bill: Right, which one's staring at me. Rod: The one with the burberry cap on. Please don't start Bill. Bill: Right see you you cunt, I'll cut you first. shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits.

October 30th, 2009, 09:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
aRyan Happy Thanksgiving! Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12,389	You've never seen the movie before??? Please, download it and let me know how you like it! __________________ <currently thinking of new sig.. please stand by>

October 30th, 2009, 10:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
C_R Rigor Mortis Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2,757	I'll get on that tomorrow, and report back. lol. __________________ Rod: Let’s get out of 'ere Bill, there’s six Stoke fans staring right at us. Bill: Right, which one's staring at me. Rod: The one with the burberry cap on. Please don't start Bill. Bill: Right see you you cunt, I'll cut you first. shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits.

October 30th, 2009, 11:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
Calgacus Real Horrorshow Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hürtgen Forest Posts: 2,158	Yeah I love this film, a great tale of loneliness, despair and desperation. Although I was a bit disappointed when I found out DeNiro never shaved his head for the part... "As for the mohawk haircut, it's not real. He never did shave his head. The make-up people invented a special hair paste that made his real hair stay as close to his skull as possible, and then they'd add a shaven head and the mohawk in two separate pieces. Also, the mohawk was never in the script. Apparently Scorcese had run into some guy who'd been in Vietnam who told him that when people over there ”went over the hill”, i.e. was going to die in battle sacrificing for their people/country, they'd shave their head like that as a sort of ”don't fuck with me, I'm going over the hill”-statement. Schrader says he didn't know if this was true. Maybe it just became part of the legend, a part of all the stories about what happened in Vietnam." Attached Thumbnails __________________ DO NOT OWN CHIMPS.

October 30th, 2009, 11:34 PM	#6 (permalink)
ec_nana U . R . V Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,559	Classic. De Niro was intense and Jodie Foster was amazing. Ending was handled pretty well but it kinda left the audience hanging. __________________ Rage becomes truly horrifying when everyone has forgotten how the poison got into their system and no one knows, or cares, how to get it out. We, humans, are nothing but flies to the Gods who played us for their sport.

November 2nd, 2009, 05:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
Kopfschuss Pain brings victory Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,237	I thought everyone has seen this movie __________________

November 11th, 2009, 01:08 PM	#9 (permalink)
aRyan Happy Thanksgiving! Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12,389	It was some fake skin. Hey guill, have you ever seen Seul Contre Tous? __________________ <currently thinking of new sig.. please stand by>

November 11th, 2009, 06:01 PM	#11 (permalink)
aRyan Happy Thanksgiving! Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12,389	Do you know of some copies with english subs embedded into the video? I can't get subtitles to work with movies for some reason.. __________________ <currently thinking of new sig.. please stand by>

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