Taxi Driver (Bowery Boys Movie Club)

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

EPISODE 282: Welcome to the Bowery Boys Movie Club, a new podcast exclusively for our Patreon supporters where Tom and Greg discuss classic New York City films from an historical perspective. As we are currently prepare the newest episode for our patrons, we thought we'd give our regular listeners a taste of the very first episode (which was released back in September). In the Bowery Boys Movie Club, we'll be revisiting some true cinematic classics and sprinkling our recaps with trivia, local details and personal insight -- and lots of spoilers of course. In this inaugural episode, the Bowery Boys take a trip to Times Square in the 1970s (not to mention Columbus Circle, the East Village and even Cadman Plaza in Downtown Brooklyn) in Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece Taxi Driver. How does the director use New York’s unique geography to tell his story and categorize his three main characters? What does this film have to say about New York City in the 1970s? And how much has the city changed since Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, and Jodie Foster starred in this grim, noir-ish thriller? FEATURING: Diners, cafeterias, porn theaters and old elevated highways! boweryboyshistory.com patreon.com/boweryboys Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Greg Young.
0:01.5	And this is Tom Myers.
0:03.6	Surprise, we're in your feet again.
0:06.1	What are we doing here, Greg?
0:07.8	Well, we're in a little bit of a Hollywood mood.
0:11.2	My favorite movie from last year was a movie called First Reformed,
0:16.8	which was written and directed by Paul Schrader,
0:20.1	who was Justice Week nominated for the first time ever for an Academy Award for First Reformed.
0:27.8	Paul Schrader also wrote the movie Taxi Driver.
0:32.4	This is the first time he was nominated.
0:34.3	He wasn't actually nominated for Taxi Driver.
0:36.6	No, nor for Raging Bull, which is insane.
0:40.4	So because of this and being in a Hollywood frame of mind right now,
0:44.3	I thought that we would squeeze in a little extra surprise for you
0:49.6	in between our regular Barry Boy's podcast episodes.
0:53.5	Because as you may or may not know, we've actually started a new series,
0:57.9	a new podcast series exclusively for our followers on Patreon.
1:02.7	We call this the Barry Boy's movie club.
1:06.0	And in this, we discuss a particular New York City based film.
1:11.3	We do a recap, but also kind of infuse the story with very New York City centric trivia.
1:17.9	Right, we've done this on Taxi Driver.
1:20.2	We did it on Ghostbusters.
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