Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver (1976)
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Posts tagged Robert De Niro.
Robert De Niro in New York, New York (1977)
#70s bobby de niro was a creation of serious obscenity.
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Robert De Niro, in Once Upon A Time In America
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Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver, recalls that during planning of the film, Robert De Niro admitted he had himself come up with an idea for a similar script seven years earlier. In it, he saw himself as playing a would-be assassin who wanders into the United Nations building and, at random, picks a foreign ambassador out of the crowd, then stalks and kills the man. Struck by the similarities between their two stories, Schrader insisted on interpreting De Niro’s concept according to Freudian dream-symbolism, asking the actor to try to guess what the gun actually represented, why the setting had been the U.N.
When De Niro shrugged and shook his head, Schrader insisted that the gun represented the actor’s talent, ready to go off, a loaded gun that people were at that point still unaware of, but which would eventually have to be fired. When that happened, the entire world would be forced to sit up and take notice. That is De Niro, the anonymous man of hidden genius, searching for success and exploding into the popular imagination.
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Robert De Niro photographed by Santi Visalli in NYC, 1973
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You have no idea that, years later, people in cars will recognize you on the street and shout, “You talkin’ to me?” I don’t remember the original script, but I don’t think the line was in it. We improvised. For some reason it touched a nerve. That happens.
—Robert De Niro on Taxi Driver, 1976
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Happy 68th birthday, Robert De Niro
THAT FACE.
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