Giovedì notte a New York Martin Scorsese e Paul Schrader si sono ritrovati accanto su un palco, dopo 35 anni, per presentare il nuovo restauro di Taxi Driver.
Dopo la cerimonia di premiazione a Cannes del 1976, nella quale Taxi Driver aveva conquistato la Palma d’Oro, i due non erano più saliti su un palco per parlare del loro film.
L’occasione newyorkese è stata quindi un modo per fare i conti con la mitologia che ha nel frattempo avvolto il film sul tassista interpretato da un fenomenale Robert De Niro.
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“Marty and I have talked about this film over the years, but the last time we were actually on the same podium together was at Cannes in 1976,” Schrader told moderator Kent Jones and a capacity crowd at the Director’s Guild Theater in Manhattan. “In the intervening, what, 35 years, I’m sure we have both evolved our own mythology — which may not, in fact, coincide with each other.” Audience laughs. “In which case I would defer to his mythology”
I due hanno discusso dei piccoli aneddoti che hanno accompagnato la travagliata produzione, Scorsese ha parlato delle influenze di Fassbinder sul look del film e sul ruolo della censura:
“Well, the imposing part was to cut the picture for an R,” he said. “We were getting an X. […] I didn’t know what else to do. I did have to cut some of the flowing-blood sort of thing. But again — and that’s when I first realized it, too — some of those things, I’m used to it. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but there’s a person there with a pump and this little wire. ‘Yeah, that looks fine to me. Maybe a little more?’ And you don’t realize how it looks to other people.”
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