Martin Scorsese threatened to get a gun to protect ‘Taxi Driver’ from studio cuts
About 40 years have passed Martin ScorseseThe Oscar -winning director, who shot the theaters “Taxi driver” theaters, still remembers the extreme measures he took to convince the Studio 1976 to entire green.
Apple TV+’s “Mr. Scorsese” in a preview clip for the documentary, together with 82 -year -old director Steven Spielberg, the studio (Columbia Pictures) reminded about his concerns about the bloody content of the film.
“Marty was very upset,” Spielberg, 78, He said at the beginning of the clip. “I’m getting a phone in the office and ‘Steve, Steve, this marty. Can you come home?’ He said.
Jodie Foster claims that Robert de Niro was ‘scared’ at the age of 12 in the ‘taxi driver’.
“They wanted me to cut all blood spur.” “They wanted me to cut the man who lost his hand …”
“Do you have a gun?” An interviewer asks him behind the scenes.
“I will buy one,” he confesses.
“So you said you’d get a gun?” The interviewer asks. “And what to do with the gun?”
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“I don’t know. I was angry. I said I would threaten them … Maybe I was just going to shoot or nothing else. I mean, I just threatened. I just threatened. What I want to do, not with a gun, I go in, I learn where the rough segment is and they take them away. I will destroy the film.
“Spielberg, ‘Marty, Stop. Marty you can’t do that.’ I said … how much they said, the more I said I would do it, “he continues.
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Spielberg, probably Scorsese, said the American’s Cinema Film Association “torn”.
“What if we took the whole line and made it feel like a painting,” Scorsese said.
“He saved the film because he didn’t have to cut any of violence, he just had to reduce it to a kind of brown.”
Scorsese representative Fox News did not respond immediately to Digital’s request for comments.
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The film, starring Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro, received four candidates including the best film, Best Actor (De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Foster) at the 49th Academy Awards.
Moving in 2024 since the age of 3, Foster opened a tension -filming experience.
“First, Martin Scorsese and ‘Alice doesn’t live here anymore’ I worked when I was about 10 years old,” he said in an interview W Magazine. “When I was 12, I made more films than Niro or Scorsese.”
“They were absolutely afraid of me. ‘What are we doing with this 12 -year -old boy?” What were my hot pants and Corkies or these platform shoes called. “
Foster played a child prostitute in the 1976 drama. De Niro was 31 years old during shooting and he was moving for about ten years. Scorsese managed seven full -length films and a series of shorts.
Emily Trainham from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
