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Taxi Driver

Paperback • 2012 • English • 1. edition

Taxi Driver

By Amy Taubin

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About the book

Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a p...Show more

Films, cinema
Individual film directors, film-makers
Film: styles and genres

Book details

ISBN

9781844574995

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published year

2012

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Taxi Driver

Format

Paperback

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