Jan 28, 2014. You talkin' to me? One possible source of confusion is that Paul Schrader's original script for Taxi Driver specifies. Taxi Driver (1976 movie.

— Travis Bickle, A character has just gotten a new gun and checks himself out in the mirror. What does he do? Nine times out of ten, he starts, quoting 's famous monologue from. He doesn't even need a real gun - if he just wants to feel badass there's always the trusty. Of course, when De Niro did it, it was 10 times cooler. He also had a retractable handgun strapped to his forearm, which none of the imitators seem to have.

Neither one of these defects seems to stop writers from inserting this scene at every opportunity. It doesn't matter what the character's background or psychological profile is: It seems that all TV characters, once given a gun, will immediately start to fantasize about verbally harassing people.

For some reason, everyone seems to remember the line as ' In some cases, the characters may literally be talking to you. In this case, it's. • In III, Balto and his friends encounter a moose who keeps saying 'Are you talkin' to me?' Before attacking them. When another moose arrives and challenges the first one, the first moose still asks 'Are you talkin' to me?'

This makes the other moose say 'Yeah, I'm talkn' to you!' • This happened, sans gun, in: Pumbaa launches into the first half of the speech after a hyena, then ends it with the line, ' • One of the personas adopted by the Genie in.

'Are you talkin' to me? Did you rub my lamp?' • This happened, sans gun in the sixth movie, The Secret of Saurus Rock' Littlefoot says this line. Chris Calloway: I don't see nobody else standin' there. • Note: Shane is played by.Alan Ladd. • In live action movie, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro) did this as an obvious.

Although there was no gun and mirror involved; it was just a case of asking if they were talking to him. • Vincent Cassel does a French version of this in the film. Marty wakes up and sees that's he's alone with a gun. Cut to Marty wearing his gunbelt over his long underwear, quoting the scene to his reflection.

• • The short film Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom features a scene where the eponymous character, while shaving, looks at his reflection in the mirror and quotes the monologue. • In, one character does this in a bathroom mirror.

While wearing a squirrel costume. • Parodied in the remake of: when one of the swapped twins is addressed by a character she hasn't seen yet, she responds 'You talkin' to me?' - and gets an answer: 'What are you, Robert De Niro? Yes, I'm talking to you.' • The Ankh Morpork Watch in 's novels has the motto 'Fabricati Diem, Pvnc', which is Latin for 'Make My Day, Punk'. In-story, Fred Colon that it translates as 'To Protect and Serve'.

The full motto is in fact 'Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter,' but has been rendered partially unreadable over time. This supposedly means 'Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly.' • Later in the same novel, Vimes channels Eastwood while using a as a weapon 'This is Lord Mountjoy Quickfang Winterforth IV, the hottest dragon in the city! It can blow your head clean off!' • once featured someone doing the '.44 Magnum' speech from 'Dirty Harry'. Bits of the same speech have no doubt turned up in other shows, the most oft-quoted part being 'Do ya feel lucky, Punk?!' (Technically, a; the actual line is 'You'd better ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky'?

Well, do you, punk?' ) • 'Other shows', such as the first movie when Optimus introduces Ironhide. • Occurs in, where one of the villains does it while carrying out an armed robbery.

Of course the detectives recognize the quote, and even catch the guy when they see him doing it again. • In In America, a documentary series where the British actor travels around the US in a black cab, he gets to fire a.44 Magnum revolver. He does the whole speech (as well as the speech), quoting it correctly. And makes it entirely non-threatening, because he's the only person in the world who could do that. And everyone loves him for it. • In an old sketch, models pinky rings in the mirror and launches into mouthed verbal abuse at his reflection.

• Parodied in with. • did a series of trailers for starring Gregory Peck, or stock character Sid Dithers, or Woody Allen ('I know what you're thinking, that violence isn't really my thing; that my idea of violence is a plaid jacket with striped pants, but.are you talking to me?' ) • episode 'Small Potatoes' featured a baddie who disguised himself as Agent Mulder and returned to D.C. In his place. He clowns around in Mulder's room a bit, first practicing brandishing his FBI badge — then he segues into '.you talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? I'm the only one here, you must be talkin' to me.'

• Lampshaded in the episode 'Folsom Prison Blues'. As Dean and Sam are locked up in the county jail, Dean gets approached by one of the inmates with 'You talking to me?!' Dean's response. Moe: Well, that was an antique.

•! Telechargement Motorola Phone Tools Gratuitous Space. , 'Mugged', has Arnold doing it after getting some karate lessons. Spoofed somewhat when Arnold's Grandpa, who was in the next room, replied 'No, I wasn't saying anything.'

Garrison does it in the episode 'Weight Gain 4000' while buying a gun to kill Kathie Lee Gifford. • In the educational release,, Tad tells his fairy godbug Edison that he's cuckoo and Parker asks him 'Are you talkin' to me? Well, I don't see nobody else, so you must be talkin' to me.'

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• Big Daddy did it at the beginning of episode 'Big Wanda'. He kept asking the question during his sleep.

• The old Nick show had a little shout out in the pilot near the end of the episode depicting a sheep in a taxi promptly saying 'You talkin' to me?' • Before Taxi Driver, people made do with, where Abraham and Sampson go through a similar speech, 'Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?' 'No, but I do bite my thumb, sir.' People were still quoting this in the 19th century.

See www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/009499.html for an example at the Monroe White House, where the British minister Sir Charles Vaughan saw the French minister Count de Serurier, directly across from him, bite his thumb every time Vaughan made a remark. 'Do you bite your thumb at me, Sir?' Vaughan finally challenged.

'I do,' was the Frenchman's reply - just like people quoting Taxi Driver nowadays, to be macho. • Ludacris's 'Slap' contains a which pays tribute to the iconic Taxi Driver scene.

• Used in a for the search engine Bing by a woman seemingly suffering from information overload. • New York City's Museum of the Moving Image once had a series of interactive exhibits to demonstrate different technological tricks of the movie trade. One of the exhibits was on dialogue looping, which let visitors record their own voice in on an existing film clip.Guess which clip.