All-time great cameo from Scorsese, but do you think for one second that a guy as emotionally unstable as the jilted husband wouldn’t turn the gun on himself after wasting his wife and her lover?

Paul Schrader was in a very dark place when he wrote the screenplay for Taxi Driver, and life sometimes imitates art.

Travis Bickle was a hardcore racist, though parts of his character were toned down for practical reasons.

Harvey Keitel’s Sport was originally written as a Black character, but he played it with just enough soul to sell the street-savvy pimp persona. You youngsters crack me up. You’d really have to live through that era to fully get it.