Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many screenings as he can, Liam is always watching new movies and television shows.
The Big Picture Although the industry has innumerable young and talented directors working today, there’s no living filmmaker who represents the institution of filmmaking quite like the great Martin Scorsese. With over half a century and dozens of great films under his belt, Scorsese is perhaps the most influential artist of his generation, and seems to still approach his craft with the same enthusiasm that he did in his youth.
Given the critical challenge that the role presented, Scorsese needed to ensure that the actor cast as Bickle was capable of crafting a character who was both compulsively watchable and utterly terrifying; while the audience needed to be somewhat engaged in Bickle’s trauma, it needed to be clear that he presented a danger to society at large. Given how few actors could have pulled off these dueling responsibilities, it is unsurprising that Scorsese turned to Hoffman for the role.
Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' Would've Been a Risk for Dustin Hoffman While turning down what would become a quintessential American classic was certainly a major blunder, Hoffman’s concerns about Taxi Driver were not entirely unreasonable. The film had a notoriously challenging production, and began shooting in the midst of a garbage workers strike that left the set stinking.
How Would 'Taxi Driver' Have Changed Hoffman's Career? Close While Hoffman’s refusal may linger as one of his greatest regrets, Robert De Niro proved to be the perfect actor to play Bickle. Having previously worked with Scorsese on Mean Streets, De Niro understood the intense tone and flagrant dark humor that his director required.
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