It still shocks me today the amount of people who are yet to see this film. You can ask almost anybody if they know the lines from it and they will, but have they all seen it? Hell no.
Someone asked me to reccommend a good film the other day, so I said how bout Taxi Driver....'What's that then?'. This film is awesome. I'm not saying that The Departed was bad, far from it, it was brilliant, but if any Scorsese film was going to win an Oscar, it SHOULD have been this one.
I personally consider this film to be at the top of Robert De Niro's acting career as he plays Bickle so well. This film is a classic, but I think that goes without saying seeing as it produced some of the most iconic lines in cinema and has affected so many films and film makers throughout time. The score composed by Bernard Herrmann, was his last before he died and is a monument to his talent and may he never be forgotten. The diegetics of this film shaped it as much as the direction and the acting abilities of an amazing cast.