![]() ![]() Schrader decided to make Bickle a Vietnam vet because the national trauma of the war seemed to blend perfectly with Bickle's paranoid psychosis, making his experiences after the war more intense and threatening. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone'. that was when the metaphor of the taxi occurred to me. After visiting a hospital for a stomach ulcer, Schrader wrote the screenplay for Taxi Driver in 'under a fortnight', recalling that 'When I was talking to the nurse, I realised I hadn't spoken to anyone in weeks. ![]() Following a divorce and a breakup with a live-in girlfriend, he spent a few weeks living in his car. ![]() The writer also used himself as inspiration in a 1981 interview with Tom Snyder on the 'Tomorrow' show, Schrader related his experience living in New York City while battling chronic insomnia, which led him to frequent pornographic bookstores and theaters because they remained open all night. In writing the script, Schrader was inspired by the diaries of Arthur Bremer (who shot presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972), by Jean- Paul Sartre's existential novel Nausea and John Ford's film The Searchers. ![]()
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