Twenty years later, director martin scorseses seminal. Marine, is a lonely, depressed young man living on his own in new york city. Harvey keitel took part in an onstage discussion about his career, to a packed audience, at the marrakech film festival. If you ever liked what you were doing, you wouldnt be my woman. Harvey keitel talks youth, taxi driver, and working with great.
Travis can hardly believe how repulsive and vile this guy is, he is literally lost for words. He also spends time in seedy porn theaters and keeps a diary. He becomes a taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the citys boroughs. Legendary thespian harvey keitel plays an important role as iriss. Harvey keitel, albert brooks, peter boyle, and writer paul schrader. Taxi driver 1976 travis bickle, a mentally unstable vietnam war veteran, works as a nighttime taxi driver in new york city where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. Travis becomes infatuated with betsy, a campaign volunteer for senator and. Keitel has since been in six scorsese films, including mean streets, taxi driver, the last temptation of christ, and now, the irishman. Taxi driver is martin scorseses frighteningly plausible case history of such a person.
Im very proud to have worked on this film with marty, jodie, harvey, cybill, paul, michael and. He has starred in films such as mean streets 1973, taxi driver 1976, the. Travis bickle is a fictional character who is the protagonist of the 1976 film taxi driver directed by martin scorsese. Since as far back as i can remember, ive been a fan of harvey keitel. An oscar and golden globe award nominee, he has appeared in films such as martin scorseses mean streets 1973 and taxi driver. Taxi driver is a 1976 american crimevigilante film directed by martin.
I had written the character of the pimp that harvey keitel plays as black, and. Taxi driver windshield sticker by jonmac1982 redbubble. A reenactment of the scene between sport and travis bickle from the 1976 film taxi driver. American actor and producer harvey keitel was born on may, 1939 in brooklyn, new york city, to miriam klein and harry keitel.
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