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Taxi Driver Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2020-08-07 19:36:44
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Taxi Driver Full Length Reaction

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Anonymous

No more breaking bad??

Anonymous

Nice! You gotta do ‘The King of Comedy’ next

Carlos Hurtado

I've been excited to see this ever since I heard some reviewers compare it to Joker.

Joe Lazarus

As a method actor, Robert De Niro actually received his chauffeur's license and drove a cab for a couple of months to get into his character. The actor's name who played the Pimp with the long hair is Harvey Keitel.. you had seen him before because he played Mr White in Reservoir Dogs and Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction, the guy who helped John Travolta and Sam Jackson get rid of the body. ALSO Martin Scorsese played a small role in Taxi Driver that you missed... he was the crazy bearded passenger Travis picked up that was telling him that he was going to shoot his wife with a 44 magnum.

Dan Hensley

So excited for this! This is my second favorite movie of all time. 1st being American Beauty. It will be about an hour until I can watch it, and after I might be compelled to write another comment. But I just thought you should know how happy this makes me!

Dan Hensley

Yes, what Joe Lazarus Rodriguez said above is true^^^ I was gonna comment the same things. You're not the only one who believes the post-shooting scenes are a dream. I kinda go back and forth on it myself. The meaning of the ending changes depending on which you believe. I have no doubt that was intentional. Basically, if it's a dying dream, it makes sense that he would see himself as a hero and revered by Betsy in the end even though we know he is a sociopath and a tragic (not triumphant) figure. Travis always wanted to be a hero and "clean" the "scum" off the streets. I believe he sees Iris as someone who would appreciate him for his actions and "saving" her and that's why he clings to her.

Dan Hensley
>>41815213

Alternatively, if the ending is real, then it is the media who ends up branding him as a hero. Which is probably the worst thing they could to someone with his mindset as it will likely lead to more violence. There is a lot of irony in the fact that he is seen by the media in that way, because if he had been successful in shooting Sen. Palantine then they would've called him a monster. Which he is, albeit a sad one. The last shot of the movie is him looking into the rear view mirror and seeing something that angers him, which indicates that his rampage has only just begun.

Fai

I enjoyed your commentary on this movie a lot, although I think you're giving Travis way too much credit thinking that he planned the whole thing. He hadn't even been to the building yet when he gave the secret service guy that fake address. He only found that place by following Iris around and making an "appointment" with her. The cops just showed up there because there was a giant gunfight and I'm sure some ppl called the cops. Also, he definitely wanted to kill the Senator, but he failed. That's why he then went to kill the pimp. If he was planning that from the start, he wouldn't have sent Iris that letter before he headed out to assassinate Palantine. I'm sure he thought about killing the pimp before for sure, but that wasn't his original plan. Travis is an extremely lonely and depressed person. And in my eyes, I think he felt very insignificant and worthless deep down. That's why he lied to his parents about his life, and it's why he was so hyper fixated on finding a romantic attachment. He wanted someone to love him and to love in order to give his life meaning. He wanted to be important and someone that means something to ppl. When his try at a romantic relationship failed, he then fixated on Palantine. If he becomes the guy that assassinates the most promising presidential candidate, he automatically becomes someone of note. Someone important that all the papers will write about. In his perspective, it would give his life meaning. That's also why he was so interested in helping Iris. It was another way for him to try to be important to someone and to give his life a purpose. Also, I think the ending was just his dying fantasy. It really doesn't make sense on a lot of levels for it to be real. First, logically, it makes no sense. But also thematically with the movie, it can't really be real in my opinion. Those long and lingering shots after the shoot-out, showing the carnage Travis has wrought in all its gory detail and the scene outside the building with all the cops and riff-raff, I think shows something that you actually pointed out earlier in the movie. Travis has become what he said he hated at the beginning. He's just another one of the low-lives causing chaos in the city. His crime scene is like any other, especially from other ppl's perspectives, which is one of the reasons I think those scenes were shot from a birds-eye view. To drive home the fact that even though we as the audience know Travis and everything that drove him to that point, anyone else viewing that scene would just see it as another crime, another violent act in a city riddled with crime. Since 1970's New York suffered extremely high crime rates. But again, these are just my thoughts on the film. Again, as always, I enjoyed your commentary on how the film was shot and the dialogue, which like you said, is very meaningful in this movie. So thank you for another great reaction and sorry for this essay lol

Ian A

Really dug watching this with you! Really didn't care for the movie though, a little too bleak for me and I at least wanna have a hero/antihero I can get behind for 5 minutes. Travis was to me just unlikeable from the start. All in all glad I watched this as had been in my list of things I'd never seen to watch. Oh and the pimp is Harvey Keitel. The older heist guy from Reservoir Dogs. Can't remember which color. :)

Dan Hensley
>>41815213

I had mentioned his sociopathy before, and that is the common thread through this movie as his psyche gets darker and darker and more of his mental state is revealed to the audience. Travis is unable to connect with other people and thats why, as you pointed out a few times, he mimics others behavior to fit in. He does not understand why a woman would not want to go to a dirty theater and said that he had seen a couple there before so he thought it was normal. He only adopts his support of Palantine because of Betsy, and pretty much tells her he will believe in whatever she believes in. The only real emotion I feel like he shows in this film is possibly compassion for Iris. Typically a sociopath wouldn't try to save Iris but I think that everything Travis does comes from a need to feel wanted, loved, and appreciated. When he realizes Betsy can no longer do that for him, he moves on to Iris. In killing her pimp/pedo ring, he finally feels that he has done something people will love him for. Travis himself cannot stand the "pushers", "thugs", and other "scum" in the city but becomes exactly what he hates by the end. He is just as Betsy said he was, "A walking contradiction." He is not capable of seeing himself that way though.

brandonlikesmovies
>>41815430

Yeah after watching it back while editing the full length I definitely realized I was wrong about several things at the end haha. I really appreciated reading through your comment though, it definitely gave me a lot of great perspectives about the movie!

brandonlikesmovies
>>41815561

Glad you were still able to enjoy watching along even though it wasn't your favorite, I totally can see where you're coming from!

brandonlikesmovies
>>41815213

Excellent thoughts Dan! Really liked reading your thoughts and perspectives, definitely agree with what you said about him only doing things to want to feel appreciated

Anonymous

Joe Spinell who played the loan shark "Gazzo" - Rocky was in the first scene.

Xclusive

Amazing movie this will always be one of my favorites, i really hope you watch Cape Fear another Martin Scorsese movie starring Robert De'Niro but this time as a psychopath and a very convincing one at that! also there is a movie called Blood Diamond which really is fantastic starring Leonardo Dicaprio it would be awesome if you covered that too really powerful and emotional movie!! :)

Anonymous

Loved your reaction/commentary as always Brandon. I agree with the assessment of many others here that the ending is likely a dream. Though it's also likely that Scorsese wanted to leave it up to the audience to draw their own conclusions. De Niro's portrayal of Travis was certainly mesmerizing and he succeeds at painting the character as being full of contradictions, while it's certainly difficult to love him, it's not that easy to hate him either...for me anyway! The film deserves its status as a classic. By the way, you were spot on, the taxi driver 'friend' of Travis was Peter Boyle from Everybody Loves Raymond. And Jodie Foster shows the promise as an actor that we all know she became, especially as she was only 14 here! Also, in an disturbing instance of 'life imitating art', Foster would be stalked by John W. Hinckley, Jr. (who later became President Regan's would be assassin), he developed an obsession with her after watching Taxi Driver. According to him he tried to assassinate Regan to 'impress' her. Also, yes it was nominated for 4 Oscars, but it only lost to Rocky in the best picture category, it actually lost to 'Network' for Best Leading Actor and Best Supporting Actress (Foster). Incidentally Network is also a film well worth a watch! During your reaction here I believe you alluded to the possibility that some might have a higher appraisal of 'older' films than is warranted, this may or may not be true. But I'd argue that essentially the 'bad' or even mediocre films of bygone ages simply disappear, and the great ones remain. I've just had to re watch Network so that I could make this comment with assurance. Network's two Oscar wins (*edit four Oscar wins!) were not a fluke, it is a great one.

Anonymous

Brandon - Check out Cape Fear (1991). Another Scorsese/DeNiro collaboration. It's a remake of a 1962 film that starred Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck who have cameos in the remake.