{"id":67598,"date":"2023-09-24T20:43:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/?p=67598"},"modified":"2023-09-24T20:43:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:43:20","slug":"taxi-driver-commercial-featuring-robert-de-niro-as-travis-bickle-draws-comment-from-paul-schrader-films-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beststarnews.com\/tv-movies\/taxi-driver-commercial-featuring-robert-de-niro-as-travis-bickle-draws-comment-from-paul-schrader-films-screenwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Driver Commercial Featuring Robert De Niro As Travis Bickle Draws Comment From Paul Schrader, Films Screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"
Writer-director Paul Schrader has reacted to a report that Robert De Niro will reprise his iconic Taxi Driver<\/em> role of Travis Bickle for an Uber commercial being filmed this week in London. <\/p>\n The report indicates De Niro will be riffing on Bickle’s classic lines in a series of spots. The 1976 Martin Scorsese film is set in a noirish New York, with De Niro’s Travis Bickle cab driver slowly deteriorating into a vigilante. De Niro was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor. <\/p>\n Schrader noted the Uber ad report in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n “Ouch,” he wrote. “Why Bob would do this is beyond my reckoning. But I haven’t seen it. If I’m lucky I never will.”<\/p>\n The line believed to be used in the Uber ad shows the deeply disturbed Bickle beginning to talk to himself in the mirror, role-playing imagined scenarios. “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Well, then who the hell else are you talking – You talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who the f**k do you think you’re talking to?” <\/p>\n Schrader is currently shooting Oh, Canada<\/em> with Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi.<\/p>\nMust Read Stories<\/h2>\n
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