Robert De Niro has shared the backstory at the back of one of the crucial unforgettable moments in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece “Taxi Driver,” revealing that the enduring scene was once partly improvised.
All over an look on “Live with Kelly and Mark” on Thursday, the 81-year-old actor recalled how one of the crucial absolute best moments in movie come from spontaneous improvisation. “Some of the best stuff, not always, is when it’s improvised,” De Niro advised hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.
In “Taxi Driver,” De Niro’s portrayal of mad cabbie Travis Bickle birthed one of the crucial memorable scenes in cinema historical past: status in entrance of a reflect, Bickle talks to himself and issues a gun at his mirrored image as he imagines dealing with off with a foe.
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to?” De Niro, as Bickle, famously calls for of his confidential adversary. “You talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who the f–k do you think you’re talking to?”
All over his chat with Ripa and Consuelos, De Niro stated that the scene wasn’t completely scripted. “The producer [of the film] … said on some show that Marty had said it was all improvised. We had something [on the page], I forget exactly but Marty remembers a lot better than I do,” the actor shared.
“It seemed right,” De Niro added, reflecting at the life. “It was done spontaneously. You don’t know what’s going to [happen]. That’s the fun of working, especially with someone like Marty Scorsese. It’s nice to be able to go here and there, go off, following the scene or the thrust of the story, but you can go here and there. You never know when that stuff is usable.”
De Niro’s efficiency in “Taxi Driver” earned him an Academy Award nomination for Perfect Actor. The trophy ended up getting to the past due Peter Finch for his function in “Network.”
In 2003, Bickle was once ranked because the thirtieth largest film villain in film historical past by way of the American Movie Institute of their “AFI 100 Years…100 Heroes & Villains” record.
Even if plans for a “Taxi Driver” sequel had been mentioned within the early 2000s, with De Niro and Scorsese running with screenwriter Paul Schrader, the challenge was once in the long run unloved in 2013 when the well-known director grew upset with the script.
Just about 50 years since “Taxi Driver,” De Niro’s efficiency continues to steer movie and prevailing tradition. When the “Goodfellas” famous person made a cameo in a “Debbie Downer” sketch on Sunday’s “SNL 50: The Anniversary Special,” Debbie (Rachel Dratch) answered to De Niro’s request for a straw by way of asking, “You talking to me? You talking to me?”
