Taxi Driver
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Taxi Driver 40th Anniversary Reunion Plans Announced
Having originally opened in February 1976, ‘Taxi Driver’ remains one of the most acclaimed and controversial films that De Niro and director Martin Scorcese have ever made. In honour of its 40th anniversary, New York’s Tribeca Film Festival (of which De Niro himself is one of the founders) will host a screening of the classic, followed by a talk with the principal cast and crew. After the screening on 21 April, Scorcese, De Niro, writer Paul Schrader and co-stars Jodie Foster and Cybill Sheppa
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Is The Ending Of Taxi Driver Totally Different From What You Thought?
The upbeat conclusion of Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic is actually Travis Bickle’s delusion as he lies bleeding out on a sofa in Harvey Keitel’s brothel having been shot multiple times in a gun battle with child prostitute Iris’s (Jodie Foster) pimp and his accomplices. How likely is it a film as bleak as ‘Taxi Driver’ would have a happy ending?
