Netflix: Only 7 days left to see the movie where Leonardo DiCaprio felt betrayed

A favorite actor of Martin Scorsese – and currently starring in his latest film, Assassins of Flower Moon – Leonardo DiCaprio has long been a big fan of the American director. An excitement that largely predates the first collaboration between the two men on New York Gangs.

And since then they have met many times. But of all the films Martin Scorsese has made, there is one that holds a special place in his heart. DiCaprio admires the taxi driver the most, going so far as to call him “The greatest independent film ever madeDuring A Interview with journalist Charlie Rose.

But it was at the AlloCiné microphone in 2010, promoting Shutter Island, that Leonardo DiCaprio’s return to the Taxi Driver scene really set him apart. He talks about the impact the film had on him when he discovered it at the age of 15.

“This is the first movie where the hero betrayed me emotionally. I felt close to Travis Bickle, I had empathy and compassion for him. And then there was the scene where he takes Sybil Shepherd to a porn movie. I was so embarrassed… I used to hear and understand the inability to communicate with others.

We later find out that he is a sociopath and completely insane! This scene is the moment he betrays you for the first time. (…) I was really ashamed of him and this had never happened to me before. (…) This is what Scorsese does better. Exploring these dark and uncomfortable places of the human condition. This is what determines his strength as a filmmaker.“

Immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s popular consciousness, Taxi Driver has become the director’s classic neo-noir crime film, starring Robert De Niro as a sleepless, lonely and highly unstable taxi driver who roams the grimy streets of New York at night.

You have until November 30th to see Taxi Driver before it leaves the Netflix catalog.

Video of Leonardo DiCaprio revisiting this famous scene from Taxi Driver: