Yah, American Graffiti and Mean Streets were both released in 1973 so you cannot say for sure who is the pioneer! But Scorsese used the music in an original-trademark way(source music 100%) and Lucas used it as a backround music (mostly) as an effect to recreate the late 60’s feeling! (in a way for example, it was used later in Forrest Gump. Not very original)
The dinner-restaurant scenes in Taxi Driver are FULL of memorable and cool dialogues, as they are in QT’s movies.
I’m saying this from that point of view!
[quote]damn so scorscese stole it from matt groenig?!?!?wTF?!?![/quote]That was a nice joke tho! 