During one of David Mark's 42nd street cash pick-ups, the film completely rips the "Taxi Driver" B-Roll footage depicting 1970s New York.
That's weird, considering the rest of the film did a somewhat decent job at depicting each decade, but to actually take some other film's footage...
i didn't notice that, but since i've see TD a gagillion times I'm going to take a second look at those scenes tomorrow. Thanks for the head's up.
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to be exact, it's at 19:50 minutes in. i, too, have seen TD many times, so when i immediately saw it, it caught me off-guard (normally, you would hear travis talking about, "how all the animals come out at night...")
weird, huh? personally, i think taking another film's footage is heresy to the film-making process. btw, the sequence in TD is starting from 5:40 minutes in.
*beep* you have a good eye/memory. I thought that you were just joking. But I rewatched it and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I thought that there was something different in that scene, the lighting/ film style but didn't pick it up and I thought that the movie was crap so I didn't think about going back through it.
shareThanks for pointing that out. I was wondering how they made such a wide shot look so realistic. But since the footage was given credit, I don't have a problem with them using it.
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They acknowledge it in the end credits. It's not like they stole it.
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Just to add to this brew: Martin Scorsese himself re-used footage from TAXI DRIVER for his documentary about Fran Lebowitz (PUBLIC SPEAKING) apparently to illustrate New York City while Fran offers her recollections from the era.
shareYep I noticed this immediately. Very naughty of Mr. Jarecki, and not very clever either, he really should have tried a little harder to find a way to depict the city at the time in his own way, this basically amounts to cinematic defeatism. Ah well, I'm sure he's still a very nice guy.
I didnt notice, but they do acknowledge it in the credits, and apparently they also used footage from Midnight Cowboy.