Product Description

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144883 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

Customer Reviews

The masterpiece in print
For diehard fans of this cult classic this script is indispensible. It allows for the fanatic to further get inside the physche of Travis Bickle, the haunted Vietnam war vet who can no longer take the horrors of a modern New York society. The reader can see Travis' emotions boil to the surface. It also allows the you to have the benefit of seeing the original harrowing Paul Schrader script from which Martin Scorsese created his cinematic perfection. Furthermore, a brilliant interview between Schrader and Scorsese provides intriguing reading into the minds behind the masterpiece.

An interesting document.
For those for whom Taxi driver is a cult movie, it is a real boring to read that book since they already know everything by heart. Nevertheless, this screenplay is worth buyig because of the interview between Schrader and Scorcese at the beginning of the book. It is very instructive if one wants to know how a creator perceives his work.