Taxi Driver
1976’s Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, has gone down in history as one of the best-reviewed and most beloved movies ever made, and its score played a big part in that. Tom Scott’s stunning sax solo in the main theme stands out as one of the most breathtaking audio moments, but the whole film is filled with exceptional music.
Inspiration, despair, joy, and anger are all personified through the music, which almost becomes a character in and of itself, moving up and down in line with the rollercoaster-like emotional and psychological state of the movie’s protagonist, Travis Bickle.