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Taxi Driver - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2024-10-05 12:00:05
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Young Blood Priest

I was 13 when I first saw this movie at a friend’s house and it freaked me out at that age.

Young Blood Priest

Chops is slang for mouth so busting your chops is hitting you in the mouth.

WayneC

Jodie Foster's stalker attempted to assasssinate President Reagan.

Haye Zeus

A movie so great it inspired a much more mediocre version of it starring a clown. And no im not talking about the movie Quick Change starring Bill Murray. A deep cut for some of ya’ll out there.

Young Blood Priest

Errol Flynn was an action hero back in the day starting in the silent movies. They showed his impressions outside the Chinese theater in Blazing Saddles. Harvey Korman said “How did he do such fantastic stunts with such little feet!”

Haye Zeus

Also i’d highly recommend King of Comedy. My personal fav Scorsese and Deniro

China Andronicus

Martin Scorsese is actually the man in the cab who goes to spy on his wife. I always thought that he could have made quite a terrific actor had he wanted to. He does wonderfully in this film. Errol Flynn is where the term “in like Flynn” comes from, if you’ve heard that. He was handsome and one of THE leading men. His version of Robin Hood is the best, also featuring Claude Rains and Olivia de Havilland. The score is by Bernard Herrmann, the man who did the music for Psycho. I believe it was the last score he wrote before he died.

Lana Gorgeous

You guys missed it, but the guy who was going to kill his wife was none other than the director Martin Scorsese. He was also in the end credits but you guys talked over it. Also John Hinckley saw this movie and became fixated with Jodie Foster and tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. Jodi was a student at Yale I believe and needed protection from him. https://www.famous-trials.com/johnhinckley/529-obsession; https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-06-26/jodie-foster-and-the-trauma-that-has-stopped-her-doing-theater-for-40-years.html

Young Blood Priest

Deniro’s war movie is The Deer Hunter. A great movie but another one I saw at too early an age. I’m far too empathetic for my own good. 😞

REDR58

Peter Boyle was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania and was a classmate of my best friend’s mother. So that’s my connection to Hollywood.

Simon Pegged Me

There's a debate over the ending of the film: Is it real, or is it imagined, Travis Bickle dreaming a heroic end to his life as he bleeds out? I think it's the latter. The harp woven into the soundtrack as the camera leaves his body in the tenement started me thinking that. But mostly, I felt the ending was too perfect from Travis's point of view to be real: he survives; he isn't charged with a crime; Iris reunites with her parents and everything between them is swell; he has the respect of his peers, the admiration of the city, and the respect and desires of the woman who rejected him. Nothing in the movie up to that point lead me to believe any of those outcomes were likely. The world Scorsese created didn't have any redemption in it. But there are compelling arguments that the ending is real, including statements from the writer to that effect. I point it out because you did seem surprised that he had survived the shooting.

Charlie Keeler

Travis' breakfast seems his spin on milk toast..but not troasted and it was peach brandy I think

Monica Alarcon

Peter Boyle (Wizard) played the Monster in Young Frankenstein...

Brandon

RIP Kris Kristopherson. That's Scorsese himself as the customer with the cheating wife and the .44 magnum. You guys were definitely right that Travis got ideas from that scene, rather than thinking the customer is "sick" as he described himself. He has a second cameo sitting on some steps when we see Betsy for the first time. The way the world sees Travis as a hero is indeed creepy AF. He only pivoted to shooting up a low income ghetto apartment full of pimps at the last minute. How often do people say things like "someone needs to flush the scum off these streets" only to be horrified when a vigilante takes things into his own hands? The way Scorsese forces us to linger on the crime scene afterwards is some of his best film making. Society has vindicated his behavior because they aren't privy to his dark inner thoughts like we are. He'll never see himself in the wrong. That final shot of him catching a glimpse of himself in the rearview mirror tells me that he's going to do something again, and probably worse. The real tragedy here is with Iris, though. People have this view that Travis saved an innocent girl, but really, the damage is already done. She's seen the lowest of the low when it comes to humanity, yet still begged for one man's life before Travis shot him in the head in front of her. Realistically she needs a lot of therapy that she might not have gotten in 1976. I always pictured her as a young runaway, so who's to say she's being returned to a happy and healthy home life? There's an interpretation that the closing scene is actually a fantasy going through Travis' mind as he bleeds to death, but I personally think the ending is very real and very intentional. I've always had a huge crush on Cybill Shepherd. If it were actually available to stream anywhere, there might be people in these comments that would be trying to get you to watch 'Moonlighting' as a future TV series to react to. Cybil Shepherd was already known when that show debuted in the mid 80's, but her co-star at the time was an unknown Bruce Willis.

Stanley Etienne

This film and another Scorsese film called the King of Comedy, also starring DeNiro, were the inspiration for the film Joker. Or some might say Joker was a rip off of those two films.

WayneC

Some more trivia from IMDB: "Before Jodie Foster was eventually cast as Iris, there were more than two hundred fifty applicants for the role, including newcomers Carrie Fisher, Mariel Hemingway, Bo Derek, Kim Cattrall, Rosanna Arquette, Kristy McNichol, and Michelle Pfeiffer." "This was the last Columbia Pictures feature to use the Torch Lady logo in her classic appearance."

Odd Thomas

One of those films I respect rather than enjoy. I hate the 70s. For more Jodie Foster I recommend Panic Room - it's David Fincher! For more De Niro I recommend Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Stardust. A great Albert Brooks movie is Drive with Ryan Babygoose

Reid Mclellan
>>151473414

Joker was good, Joaquin Phoenix was amazing, but Todd Phillips literally took Taxi driver and King of comedy and smashed them together, then made Joker the main character and Gotham the backdrop instead of New York

djKENTO

The specifics Simone doesn’t know would also make a WILD movie. A guy shot President Ronald Fucking Reagan to try and impress Jodie Foster.

Reid Mclellan

You guys should throw Cape fear (1991) on your backlog if you haven't already

REDR58

As someone who loves movies from the 1970s, here are some of my favorite crime/drama films from that period. I’m sure I’ve recommended some of these before, but, eh: The French Connection (1971) directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider (from Jaws). Dirty Harry (1971) directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood. Serpico (1973) directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino. Magnum Force (1973) sequel to Dirty Harry, directed by Ted Post and again starring Eastwood. It’s not the best of the series but worth a watch. The Conversation (1974) directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale (Fredo from The Godfather movies). Death Wish (1974) directed by Michael Winner. It has 4 sequels but I cannot recommend any of them as they get worse and worse and are not really worth your time. Stick with the first only and then move on. Three Days of the Condor (1975) directed by directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. French Connection II (1975) directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gene Hackman. Excellent sequel to The French Connection. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino and John Cazale. All the President’s Men (1976) directed by Alan Pakula and starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Saturday Night Fever (1977) directed by John Badham (WarGames) and starring John Travolta. Black Sunday (1977) directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern (father of Laura Dern). The Great Train Robbery (1978) aka The First Great Train Robbery in Britain, directed by Michael Chrichton (author of Jurassic Park) and starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland. Coma (1978) also directed by Michael Crichton and starring Geneviève Bujold (Canadian!) and Michael Douglas. The Deer Hunter (1978) directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and and John Cazale. If you watch this and his 2 other movies above, you will have seen all 5 of the movies Cazale made as he died aged 42 in 1978 from lung cancer. Escape from Alcatraz (1979) directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood and Fred Ward (from Tremors).

Stanley Etienne

You guys should also watch Raging Bull, staring DeNiro and directed by Scorsese. Probably DeNiro's best performance besides Taxi Driver, and maybe Scorsese's best film in my opinion.

Shane Driscoll

I wonder the sugar motif was (at least on a subconscious level) due to the fact that Scorsese was famously dealing with a serious cocaine addiction when he made the film.

Brendan Rafferty

Yes… Scorsese played the angry husband in the cab… But he also has a smaller more subtle cameo earlier in the film. When we first see Cybil Sheppard’s character slowly walking down the street and into the campaign headquarters, Scorsese is the guy sitting on the corner checking her out as she slowly walks by

mky
>>151502410

Scorsese tells Travis to pull over...George says, "What the hell's wrong with this guy?"...and I think, "He's all stressed out from directing this movie." ;)

REDR58

Speaking of “moonlighting” Cybil Sheppard is probably best known for the TV series “Moonlighting” which was extremely popular and also helped get Bruce Willis to be a household name and opened the way to his movie career: https://youtu.be/pPZI9aQLhgk?si=a_vqjyQs75X2cLKx The guy talking to Bickel at the beginning of the movie about the cab driving is Joe Spinell who was featured as the loan shark Gazzo in the first 2 Rocky movies and Willi Cicci in Godfather Part I and II. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818874/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Michael LaPorte

I've always viewed the film from a sort of Freudian perspective. Travis is self-proclaimed as "God's loneliest creature"; Betsy is the only woman he knows, even as he invents the idea of her in his head before actually approaching her. When she rejects him, he seeks retribution against Palantine, whom he sees as the male competition for her attention - the same relationship he sees between Iris and Sport. I don't think he goes to that apartment at the end with any sort of virtuous intention, I think he views Sport in exactly the same way he views Palantine, as someone who is obstructing his connection with a woman - though he wouldn't admit as much to himself. As for the ending, I've always thought of the whole post-shootout epilogue as a false narration that's going through Travis' head as he's dying on that couch. It's too against the tone of the rest of the story, it feels like wishful thinking, and we've seen that Travis' perspective is unreliable.

beecroft adams

Hugo is a lovely film and Sexy Beast is an unsettling film both with Ben Kingsley. I haven't seen anyone react to them but they're worth watching.

Monica Alarcon

This is a great movie to end the week with. I don't remember which movie they're doing tomorrow but I'm sure nothing can top this...

zak

Interesting quote from Schrader on the ending, and Scorsese seems to share the sentiment, "A number of people have attributed the ending of Taxi Driver as a fantasy. I don't have a problem with that ending, but it's not what I intended.". I also remember reading somewhere DeNiro wanted to do a sequel, but Schrader said something to the effect of, that would be pointless because Travis definitely does something like this again a few weeks later.

Johnny Liu

Apparently the original script goes even harder on the nihilism and racial edge, Schrader wrote it in a way where Travis has a more subconscious hatred for black people, and in the end, all of the people trafficking Iris that Travis gets into a gunfight with were written to be black. Scorsese told him they couldn't do this (for the obvious reasons), but there are still little manifestations of it in the film, one is the lingering shot of Travis looking at the pimp in the cafe early on, and the second is before the 'bad ideas in my head' talk with Wizard, there is another eerie lingering shot of him staring down at the black people in the alley.

BangDroid

I'm a huge Everybody Loves Raymond fan (staring Peter Boyle as Frank) and I only saw Taxi Driver for the first time a few years ago. But I realized that first time watching that he cameos Wizard's monologue in ELR and that scene made me laugh so much and still does! For most people I guess it would've been the other way around but both scenes now bring me so much joy. Here's both scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmrRb9GM84E

Richard Copping

One thing that might not be picked up by younger viewers is that if Travis was in the Marines and was discharged in 1973, he almost certainly was in Vietnam.

LazyArtist

Oh yeah-- Broadcast News is crazy watchable. And Cybill Shepherd, The Last Picture Show... Classic. ...Remarkable films.

LazyArtist

For reference, see John Hinckley, Jr. (Who is, btw, walking around free these days.)

punterjoe

To me, Albert Brooks will always be Hank Scorpio. Although I also love him from his string of quirky films in the 1980s & 90s like "Dafanding Your Life", "Lost in America" and "Real Life" - where he kind of predicted reality TV. "The Muse" - with Sharon Stone is also an interesting watch if you're a fan of Brooks' sense of humour.

Ian Hunter (NewbieInOttawa)

Good list there, joe! "Mother" is another Albert Brooks film which is pretty damn funny. I'd totally forgotten about him on the Simpsons, and man, does Hank Scorpio seem a little *too* close to the mindset of a lot of the new crop of entrepreneurs/CEOs around nowadays. And of course, Albert's brother Super Dave Osborne (RIP) was super popular around Canada thanks to his own show (spun off from Letterman way back when.)

JoeE

Regarding the credits, I think the as credits were negotiated, as in we can’t give u top billing but we can make your name stick out, so instead of just being Peter Boyle you’ll b Peter Boyle as wizard

Gary Fixler

Everyone probably knows this, but Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein, and his brother was Bob Einstein, aka Super Dave Osborne. When I figured this out years ago, I spent a while wondering if they were the guys who started Einstein Bros Bagels (they weren't).

Imnot Acop

I love at the end the little touch of having the audio go a little funky as he paranoidly fixed the mirror. It's a nice extra reminder that this dude is still just a ticking time bomb.

Trevor S Bright

Yeah, the stalker fan of Jodie Foster, John Hinckley, emulated Travis Bickle to the point of dressing like him with the Mohawk and actually shooting President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Thankfully Reagan survived, but Hinckley also wounded a police officer, a Secret Service agent, and the White House Press Secretary James Brady. Brady was disabled as a result and apparently complications from his old wounds resulted in his death 33 years later. Hinckley had said he did all this to "impress" Jodie. Martin Scorsese was so guilt-ridden when this happened, he considered quitting filmmaking altogether. Hinckley beforehand had written love letters and made phone calls to Jodie a few years before the assassination attempt. When she rebuffed him, he made plans to go down in history to be her equal which 1st led to his plan of shooting President Jimmy Carter (Happy 100th Birthday!), until complications arose, time passed, and the newly elected Reagan took office. Hinckley spent decades in a mental hospital after being judged "not guilty by reason of insanity" until 2016 when he was released under heavy restriction to live at his mom's home. Hinckley has since gone on record with his remorse in a TV interview where he apologized to the Reagan family and James Brady's family and Jodie Foster. He even recently tweeted that "violence is not the answer" after the 1st assassination attempt on Donald Trump...so it looks like Hinckley is doing better and rehabilitated at least.

Philipp Roensch

Always heard so much about it and feared it to be more glorifying of Travis, but this is sill so much of Martins deft hand at dark characters, creating a well appreciated dual picture. For my two cents, Travis is still an unstable person, don't know if in the beginning he is somewhere on an anti-social behavior spectrum, but definitely projecting a lot and condemning whole groups of people in his mind. You are right, he switches just to the next target he has a gripe with or that is just easiest, not really a great heroic cause behind it. In the end, I found the drive with Betsy also so out of focus and dreamy, his heroic dreams could also have been all in his coma. Joker was of course inspired by it, but so must have been Rorchach from Watchmen right?

LadyFinger

I think final shot of his eyes shaded in red looking in the rear view mirror is supposed to raise the question you asked of "when will he kill again"