Nope, but now I got it in my watchlist. That one inspired Marty to approach gangsters like he did?

He's said it was one of the big inspirations for how he approached moral conflict in his films on a visual and thematic level, and how it brings the viewer into the criminal world. I think the relationship between the brothers in Force of Evil and Pacino/DeNiro in Irishman is very much parallel. It may still be on Criterion, highly recc'd

Damn I haven’t seen it either. But if it inspired Marty, especially with displaying moral conflict and theme

Great write-up @sentient_sherm_bag I'd never considered the audience in the cinema! Travis always struck me as a racist but I never put together how class and race intersect in the story like that, Schrader's always really insightful on that front, Blue Collar is a really great example

Funnily enough I'd legit forgotten that Ace was originally going to be black, when I said I took issue with some of the screenplay changes I was mainly going off of an interview with Schrader where he said that his original script was entirely from Travis's POV, and any scenes without him were Scorsese's input, I feel like those are the weakest in the movie, I haven't read the original screenplay tho so I may be wrong about the stuff I'm assigning to Scorsese

He directs the hell out of it though, I love Schrader's Bressonian direction, but he never would have thought to move the camera during the phone call, the montages of late-night NYC in the 70s with THAT score are reason enough to watch the movie

silence is my favorite 2000s Scorsese i think

Oh damn, I had no idea the Albert Brooks scenes weren't in the script from the beginning! You've got me wanting to find the original screenplay, assuming it's out there in some form

And I completely agree, Scorsese's camera work is beyond compare in it and Schrader, for as much as I adore the guy, clearly got an education in movement and framing from Taxi Driver that he carried with him throughout the rest of his career. Scorsese's ability to reference shots from films he loved or just absorbed, before the internet or even video stores came into prominence, is practically savant-like.

Trivial case in point: there's a (at most) two second shot-reverse-shot in the cab when Senator Palantine looks at Bickle's drivers license that almost exactly mimics a shot from the completely insignificant 1935 D*** Powell musical Broadway Gondolier (which is about a cab driver who pretends to be Italian to get a singing career, lol) down to the dialog. Why even do it? Who could possibly have clocked it besides him? He's truly a human encyclopedia of film history

Underrated

Marty could’ve easily sweeped if he dropped

2024 sweep so soon

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This is getting a theater release right?

Yes it is, specifically for you

I’m still wondering

Start with the Martin Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon, which teams two of the director’s favorite collaborators, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, in a fact based drama about the murders of members of the Osage Nation and the birth of the FBI. Killers was adapted by Eric Roth from the David Grann book, and we’ve known it would likely be Cannes-bound since Deadline broke the story last July. The film likely will follow the successful release template of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood several years ago, which gave that film a global profile and helped it remain relevant in Oscar season. Here, Paramount will follow Cannes by giving Killers a full theatrical release before it then lands on Apple TV+. All eyes will be on that strategy as streamers weigh turning films into culturally relevant properties with press and P&A before they land exclusively on streaming sites.

Like we didn’t know drop the trailer @MartinScorsese

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-23/apple-to-splash-1-billion-a-year-on-films-to-break-into-cinemas#xj4y7vzkg

Full theatrical run highly possible now with this move from Apple

Soon

Thelma needs to edit these movies without him

Hey Marty what's your fave Yeat song?

Yeah no Taxi Driver is a better film