Talk:You talkin' to me? (phrase)

WWE
I cut the entire WWE section because it is a relatively insignificant event in the multitude of parodies of this quote. I'm not even sure this deserves an article, but that's a conversation for another time.--The Grza July 7, 2005 02:05 (UTC)

Annie James, not Hallie Parker
Actually, it's Annie James, and not Hallie Parker who is confronted by the fiancee. Annie was pretending to be Hallie, who already met the woman. Twoflower 01:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Missing verb
"The scene was completely by De Niro". "Improvised"? McPhail 17:36, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Ad-libbing and such
The article says: "Many people mistakenly believe that the scene was completely ad-libbed by De Niro. The script originally only had the following words in parenthesis: "(Travis looks into the mirror)."

However, De Niro did not create either the famous quoted words "You talkin' to me?" or the idea of using them while talking to himself in the mirror but took them directly from Episode 039 of The Twilight Zone titled "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" [1] originally broadcast on October 14, 1960, over 15 years before "Taxi Driver.""

Besides the fact that there's no evidence that DeNiro got the quote from The Twilight Zone or the fact that it probably came from Shane (which came out a full seven years earlier), saying DeNiro did not ad-lib the line is a misnomer. He DID ad-lib it regardless of whether or not he was referencing another film. ~ Dancemotron (talk) 04:53, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The source used is nothing more than a video of the TZ episode. It has no information about DeNiro taking the quote from the episode. I removed all of the TZ information. Ward3001 (talk) 05:22, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Kids these days... the line is MUCH older than any of these. It dates at least to a little film noir piece called This Gun For Hire (1942) - the Alan Ladd character says it to the Veronica Lake character in the train, when she accuses him of stealing her five dollar bill. The scene is iconic enough that it was "quoted" in L. A. Confidential (1997): it is the scene that's on Lynn Bracken's (Kim Basinger) movie screen when Bud White (Russell Crowe) first knocks on her door and sends her tough-guy-acting client home, and the dialog is clearly audible. Robert de Niro's character seems to me to be taking a cue from Alan Ladd's tough guy character, just as Lynn Bracken's client did 20 years later (on screen; or, "in universe," 20 years earlier). I've often wondered if Curtis Hanson picked that particular scene from This Gun For Hire as a nod to Taxi Driver. Jeh (talk) 02:44, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Bert as De Niro
Should the sesame street cover version be cited, too ? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IXmHqPWxUw :) &mdash; MFH:Talk 14:58, 30 June 2010 (UTC)