Was Robert De Niro’s famous “Are you talkin’ to me?” line from Taxi Driver improvised?(Photo Credit –Facebook)

It was during the gritty, neon-lit haze of 1976, when Martin Scorsese dropped a film that would etch itself into cinematic history for decades to come. His cinematic masterpiece ‘Taxi Driver’ provided a glimpse of a dark, feverish descent into urban alienation, and introduced audiences to Travis Bickle, an ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, working as a taxi-driving insomniac whose paranoia and disdain for the city’s decay simmered into something unforgettable.

And, of course, no moment in the film resonates quite like that scene – the mirror, the gun, and the line that would cement itself in pop culture forever, “Are you talkin’ to me?”

The iconic line wasn’t just another scripted monologue. In fact it was pure, unfiltered Robert De Niro and furthermore, it was improvised, raw, and eerily perfect, that...