Article: Loathing Sends `Taxi Driver' to Brink

Article: It's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history: the moment ...
Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  October 3, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... picks his own favourites It's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history: the moment in Taxi Driver when sociopathic Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle stands in front of a mirror, talking to himself. He's about to liberate his damsel in distress ...

Article: On the outside, looking in: the iconography of the outsider in ...
Textile;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... is from the film Taxi Driver (Martin Scorcese ... as the character Travis Bickle, head shaved into ... the man himself, Travis Bickle, who in Taxi Driver, spurned by the ... Initially, the Travis Bickle character is presented ...

Article: Playing the victim; Jodie Foster goes Travis Bickle ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... a pistol-packin' vigilante plagued by emotional demons. It's as if, three decades after Taxi Driver, Foster wanted to play the Travis Bickle role. The new film hammers the point home by having her shoot a bodega robber and rescue a young ...

Article: MOVIE REVIEW; YOU AIMIN' AT ME? Jodie Foster goes Travis ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... a pistol-packin' vigilante plagued by emotional demons. It's as if, three decades after Taxi Driver, Foster wanted to play the Travis Bickle role. The new film hammers the point home by having her shoot a bodega robber and rescue a young ...

Article: FILM: Where's Travis Bickle when you need him? The ...
The Independent on Sunday;  April 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... accounts, had Paul Schrader when he wrote the screenplay for Taxi Driver " so any rhymes between Byck and Travis Bickle are strictly coincidental. Yet it's hard to get Taxi Driver out of your head when watching The Assassination of Richard Nixon ...

Article: Travis Bickle: still crazy after all these years
The Boston Globe;  February 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Niro as psychotic Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" in 1976. It ... But much of "Taxi Driver" has never been ... teeth, De Niro's Travis Bickle not only left a ... elements emerge from "Taxi Driver," too, with ...

Article: Bonehead-O; 1.The original: De Niro as Travis ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 23, 2008 ;     521 words ... ... than to sing one of his songs. But here he is, looking a dead ringer for Robert De Niros character Travis Bickle in the 1976 film Taxi Driver. Sporting his semi-skinhead, Vietnam war veteran-style, combined with a combat jacket and his ...