10 Greatest Musical Moments In Martin Scorsese Movies
8. Taxi Driver: Jackson Browne - Too Late For The Sky
As Jackson Browne’s bittersweet and melancholy tune plays on the TV with young lovers slow dancing along on American Bandstand, Travis Bickle stares straight ahead, his gun held purposefully to his own head.
As his gaze lingers on the screen and the lyrics begin to resonate, you can almost see him getting lost in the music and wallowing in his own loneliness. He sits in silence looking every bit the outsider compared to the smiling faces onscreen.
Taxi Driver is perhaps more renowned in music terms for its striking, jazz-influenced Bernard Herrmann score and while Hermann’s work is what gives Taxi Driver its dreamlike aesthetic, it’s this moment soundtracked by Browne that gives one of its most powerful and telling moments.