Cupla things about Taxi Driver

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2006)

Years ago I was watching Taxi driver on channel 5 (nyc) and they showed the film in its entirety (sp?). Because of the enigmatic nature of the film fox offered up an analysis that the film was made to show how the media has such power over how events are viewed.
They said that the film was made to show that the media is often wrong but will actually "change events". Don't know how much of that describes Taxi Driver although it certainly is an element.
One tidbit that you may or may not know is that Robert Deniro gets heavily into the character he is playing (at least back then). I saw an interview with Albert Brooks who said that he met Deniro for the first time at a party right before they started to film Taxi Driver. He obviously was "low man" in acting circles compared to Deniro so he was excited and approached him to tell him that he was thrilled to be working with him. Deniro just stared at him (in travis bickle character style) and completely freaked Brooks out. Brooks spoke very highly of that moment!!