Taxi Driver Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvY_5ENtndY

LISTEN YOU FUCKERS, YOU SCREW HEADS
HERE IS A MAN WHO WOULD NOT TAKE IT ANYMORE, WHO WOULD....NOT......LET.....

LISTEN YOU FUCKERS, YOU SCREW HEADS
HERE IS A MAN WHO STOOD UP AGAINST THE SCUM, THE CUNTS, THE DOGS, THE FILTH, THE SHIT

HERE IS SOMEONE WHO STOOD UP

HERE IS.....

I have a parallel life to Travis right now:
>work night stocking shelves at a store
>take transit so I see all of the drug addicts, homeless and trash that pollute the city
>desperately lonely but have little chance to fix it
>work, sleep, eat, repeat

Taxi Driver was shit.

>>34844630
Kys, edgy faggot

>>34844647

>likes Taxi Driver
>calls me edgy

oy vey

>>34844630

Irrespective of your utterly shit opinion about the film, it's still objectively the most robot movie that is well known.

>>34844463
Haven't seen it OP but gonna watch it right now. Make another thread in a couple of hours pls

I watch it every year on my birthday

>>34844670

>taxi driver
>robot movie

The only robot thing about Taxi Driver is the thirstiness for PTP, everything is normie shit.

The film is very anti-nigger, seeing as Travis is a racist and the movie is from his perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkDJHkAKtG8

This was best scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mks9E7kdhGY

I always felt for him in this scene too, De Niro really nailed the sense of loneliness and isolation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCuN6H3V6_Q

Fuck it, gonna watch Taxi Driver tonight for the 10th time

isnt that an old movie? normally movies from brfore 2000 really suck

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>>34844463
>friend watches Taxi Driver
>recommends it to me as Travis reminds him of me
>figure Travis is a cool, stoic kind of character
>eventually get around to watching it about a year later
>find out he's an autistic sperg with an obsession for a little girl prostitute
>mfw

>>34844711
Did you really think this bait was even worth posting? Do better, anon.

I can definitely relate to Travis. Great movie overall.

>>34844730
have you ever actually seen an 80s movie? the camera work is amateurish and the dialogue awkward as fuck. that job interview in the shining was the worst piece of garbage ive ever seen

>>34844757
Taxi Driver was made in the 70s, retard.

>>34844713

That's not the way I see it. He's just a guy who cannot make it in this world and in particular has no luck with girls. So he is fed up with life and looking for a cool way to an hero and he fantasises about taking some scum out with him. And then the opportunity arises and he does it.

What's NOT robot about that?

>>34844788
so even older? yuck

*spoilers*

He was a robot in many ways I think.

Outwardly, there wasn't much wrong with guy. He was good looking, had served in the Marines, even got a date with a hot piece of ass like Betsy. He had a basic but steady job earning enough to afford his own place and buy shitloads of guns. He was just one of those guys who inexplicably never fit in, "God's lonely man" as he put it.

He tries to connect with people but you can see he's shy and awkward. He actually charms Betsy and has a real chance with her but is so socially inept and self-destructive he takes her to a fucking porn cinema and ruins his chances completely.

He's a porn addicted racist, incredibly lonely and hates society. He starts spouting redpill stuff about women after he gets shunned by Betsy but you can't blame her really. He's lacking in the social skills and personality type to fit into a vain, normie world. At least he didn't just kill innocent people, he took out some genuine human garbage in his misguided attempts to save Iris.

I always felt for him and could relate. Like many robots, his life could have been completely different had luck and life been kinder to him. He just never fit in and once loneliness and misanthropy set in, its really fucking hard to change your ways

>>34844463
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>>34844929
you genuine donkeys did not understand that Travis Bickle was mentally ill and his "politics" were his own self-defense mechanism for coping with his insanity. you should not be able to relate to him completely because his perception of the world is literally crazy and demented. that was the whole point of the fucking movie.

>>34845061

Very one dimensional way of looking at it. He was driven mad by a society which he saw as sick and his own loneliness and desperation. He's a Vet so maybe he had PTSD.

>>34844660
>liking taxi driver is edgy
>taxi driver is a multi award winning iconic film
hmmmmm,
>>34844757
>old films have bad camerawork and cinematography
>citizen kane exists
>films used to rely on good cinematography because they couldnt cheat with cgi and special effects were difficult.

>>34845061
This is completely true. That was the point of the movie. I suppose it speaks volumes about me that so much of what he says resonates.

>>34844567
Best scene IMO.

The fact he needs a second tale really sums up his psychology. Brutal.

>>34845061
you replied to at least one post that didnt disagree with your point of view. youre just eager to believe nobody here but you understood the movie.

>>34845061

>his perception of the world is literally crazy and demented

He spends his life surrounded by scum like pimps, hookers, robbing niggers, corrupt politicians and all the other crazy shit he witnesses in NYC. I prefer to think he was a damaged guy driven even more insane by the shit he had to witness on a daily basis.

What are some overlooked qualities to the movie in your opinion?

Mine are:

>military drum sounds throughout, especially when he's buying guns and on the street there's that mad drummer guy

>when the pimp dies the camera zooms in on his body and we see he is wearing a ring with an eye on it on one of his fingers, meaning he has Iris (prostitute) wrapped around his finger

>the politician (who seems like a good guy) is campaigning under the slogan "We The People", but due to his experiencing the shitty sides of town, and at night, Travis sees this as a threat rather than a promise

>that humorous line where Travis says "I have headaches all the time. I think I have stomach cancer"

>the girl (can't remember her name) represented a flower amid all the trash of New York, but when they break up the flowers Travis sent her are shown rotting in his apartment

>>34844929
I wouldn't say he's porn-addicted, he just figures that's normal. He returns from the war and is now an adult. All he sees as prostitutes and whores at night, and due to his autism he thinks the porn theatre is a normal place now since couples go there. It's like a robot taking a girl back to his place and trying to fuck her in the ass right away since he feels she expects that from him. He's just an innocent, naive guy who finds himself in this degenerate adult world he doesn't understand and his efforts to fit into it make it obvious how retarded he is. When he's sincere and totally himself, as when he storms into the Palantine headquarters to talk to Betsy, he is a great guy. But then he freaks out and tries to impress her and fucks up big time. Also note that he kills the pimp etc at night. Travis's bad side always comes out at night, which is really the only time of day he ever experiences. He sees the bad side of humanity at night and therefore, like a good pessimist, assumes people are always like that. At the end we see Betsy getting into his taxi again and it's at night, but Travis doesn't try anything, he's unleashed his anger, he's done what needed to be done.

>>34845361

Yeah, I guess you're right. Its also easy to forget that the film is set in 1976 and porn wasn't even available on VHS so maybe it was a lot more "normal" to go to porn cinemas back then, especially in a seedy shithole like NYC was back then.

"All the animals come out at night". And he gets sucked into that world due to the job.

I would've enjoyed it more if Travis died at the end, but I don't really know why.

>>34846780
Read the theories that claim that the final scenes are dying dreams.

>>34844702
it sound like you didn't watch it or pay attention at all. travis is essentially schizotypal.

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Quite unrelated, but still sort of related
Has anyone here read Notes from Underground? It's a pretty robot-tier novel

>>34845248
nice finds

>saw Taxi Driver
>found it very comfy; music, the 70s New York at night
>was very accurate in it's depiction of loneliness
>shows that even when surrounded by people, one can be lonely
>live in NYC as well
>about Tavis's age
>work shitty boring job
>tfw the scene when he points the gun at the TV is how I spend a lot of my time (except it's on a computer and I don't point my gun at it unless it's for /k/ memes)

>>34847205
Ya i read it, I also have Steppenwolf

>>34844708
I was watching the special features, and scorsase said travis hated them because travis hated dealers, and pimps, who happened to all be black.
But then the pimp he ends up killing is white.

>>34847205
Scorsase mentions Notes from underground in the special features for the movie. said it relates to the movie.

>>34846780

The ending was deliberately ambiguous. It could be seen as the fantasy of a dying man or a comment on society immortalising killers and hero worship.

If you think about it realistically, Bickle would probably have faced multiple murder charges, regardless of the fact he killed "bad guys". He may even have been linked to an attempted assassination of Palantine as a result of his actions.

I liked the ending. There would not have been a happy ending regardless. Iris would have been seriously mentally scarred for life after what she witnessed, not to mention the abuse she had suffered prior. Travis was beyond help, the weird part where he looks in the rear view mirror right at the end is said to signify his paranoia/mental illness still being present

>>34847383

I like how his racism is always implied subtly just by the way he stares at blacks, even ones who are friendly like Charlie T. He refers to them as spooks at the beginning, but apart from that, everything else is implied.

In all fairness, most of the blacks in the film are portrayed as scum. Pimps, feral youths, hookers, the store robber etc. So I don't think he was racist just for the sake of it.

>>34847572
Ya exactly
I think this is the commentary i saw a lot of good stuff
https://youtu.be/AsiNmT9Kwqo

>>34847383
>tfw Scorsese made the pimp white so that there wouldn't be a race riot

>>34847719

lol at that scene with Scorsese playing that cuck whose wife is fucking the BBC.

"You know who lives there? A nigger lives there. And I'm gonna kill him"

>>34844463
He used a Walther though, right?

>>34847852
He's only a cuck if he accepts it.

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>>34844630
Your opinion shall be disregarded.

>>34848008

Well he's getting cucked whether he likes it or not.

Least he intends to put a stop to it

WHATA44MAGNUMSGONNADOTOAPUSSYYOUSHOUDSEE!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSdVO7FKh7Q

who else watch this scene daily for motivation

>>34844463
Just watched it. It is actually uncomfortable how much this character has in common with me. He isn't just like me, he IS me. I've been training for revenge for 6 months. I've been practicing weapons in front of a mirror. Fuck it's right down to the fact that people call me cowboy.

This scared me.

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reminder: scorsese is GOAT

>>34847852
i have pic related hanging in my office and the normies have no idea why

>>34847882
He says he uses a Walther PPK and uses one at the range, but the gun he carries is an Astra Constable (kind of a copy). Same goes for the "Colt 25" which is a Smith & Wesson Escort in reality, but on the range it changes to a Sterling Arms.

I hate that there are so many mistakes in a film where guns play such an important part.

>>34845125

He was certainly driven mad and his killing Sport and his associates at the end probably cant be understood as an act of measured political rebellion. He was just as willing to kill Senator Pamlip(whatever) who most likely also wanted to clean up the streets, represent working people like Travis, etc. His outrage, whether or not its caused by society isn't safely directed at any part of society, he just wanted to kill.

If anything, the real critique of society in the movie isn't the presence of pimps, addicts, gangsters, etc. everyone knows that shit is bad, it wouldnt make for a very interesting movie if that was the big target. one of the big statements was that mainstream society held Travis up as a hero for killing the pimps and gangsters (a almost comically black and white bad guy that everyone can agree on) and they didn't realize or didn't care that he was out of his mind and got really close to killing a prominent politician which would have made him a villain / terrorist. Message i got from it is more, idk, the madness or schizophrenia of society as a whole as opposed to the film being revenge-porn on degenerates. i'm not saying thats how u saw the film, i cant really tell from your post but i wanted to give my input somewhere.

>>34847852
>tfw BBC memes existed in the 70s

>>34845125


like if anything, the film is anti-people who go nuts and celebrate the killing of degenerates like the pimps, gangsters, etc. travis is clearly insane, unstable etc. and everyone was so quick to make him into a hero b/c he did something that most american's would emotionally and unquestioningly approve of.

lots of symbols that support this reading i feel. The military drum music which links his persona to the somewhat insane anger of american military power (willing to storm into a country like vietnam and enter into an ill-advised war b/c they're paranoid about communism)

his "we the people" badge that he wears all the time emphasizes his status as someone who would later become a "folk-hero" except in this case the people who held him up as a hero are made to look very foolish because he's actually unstable, violent, insane.

the violence at the end of the film is almost making fun of the audience. even though travis is insane and unstable (and almost kills a politician for no reason, something most audience members would find despicable if someone did that in real life), we all root for travis when he kills the gangsters and find a perverse pleasure in how violent that last scene is. I was incredibly excited and hyped up when he blew that guys hand apart the first time i saw it. It's supposed to make the audience realize how far they're willing to go to cheer on the killing of a scumbag like Sport. shows the audience how prone they are to mob-like violence, hatred, as opposed to measured justice. you're supposed to find travis relatable and appealing despite his obvious insanity, and it works for everyone who watches the movie, which is sort of scary, i guess

>>34849342
>spend time on /k/
>buy a shitload of guns
>quickdraw in the mirror and talk to myself
>wear M65 field jacket
>watch taxi driver
>o shit lmao

Maybe Travis represents an archetype for young men who never found their place in society

This is a VERY comfy thread

Reminds me of the "times you acted like the Driver" threads from a few years back

>>34845430
He also doesn't avoid going to those places as the other taxi drivers do ("some won't even take spooks"). Maybe because of the war Travis is unable to shut that part of life, or himself, out. Even right at the beginning when he seems a stable guy applying for a job, in the upper part of the shot we see a small window into the garage through which two people are arguing violently in the distance. It serves as an insight into Travis's own mind. Just as when he's writing in his room there's the sound of people screaming at each other in their apartments. He can't escape it. He doesn't appear to have any family. He has no friends. Nobody. He can't sleep so he simply drives around New York, detached from everyone else by the vehicle he drives and his job inside it, a pure observer, since nobody in those days rode up front with the taxi driver. The other taxi guy tries to sell him a piece of porcelain from some celebrity's house but he doesn't care. Someone tries to sell him drugs but he doesn't care. Iris tries to sell him her pussy but he doesn't care. He is totally detached from the world around him, immersed in his own innocence which he is reluctant to sacrifice for the sake of, what exactly? Drugs, sex, and everything else he sees around him? He has a chance to love people, to rejoin society, when he meets Betsy. She is his "angel" come to save him from the pit of despair he's in. But their conversation is stilted and the only thing which unites them is their loneliness, which itself is the thing that drives them apart. And thus she becomes "just like the rest of them", the "them" being the "people" that "We The People" Palantine is recruiting to take over the city. Travis can't let that happen. His persecution is now total and inescapable. His only ally has abandoned him. He is at war, and in a final desperate attempt he tries to rescue the only symbol of innocence he has left in life, which is the fading innocence of young Iris, his only friend.

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>>34845061
>>34850095
>unstable, violent, insane
In some ways yes but he did literally nothing wrong, he was someone with nothing to lose and killed a bunch of low-lifes who were engaged in literal child prostitution
If you think killing them was not a good and moral act, you're the crazy one
I think Scorsese is a very nuanced director who often takes a step back from pushing his morals on the movie: He portrays things as they are and lets the viewer decide what they think of it. Yes it was ultraviolent and brutal, and Travis is a lonely and in some ways deceptive character (pretending to be interested in politics to get close to the girl).
Nonetheless, instead of being one dimensional "crazy, lonely, Vietnam veteran", I think he is a much deeper and more realistic character than that, who essentially is someone who, because he was such a reject and loner with nothing to lose, took actions that others could not that were ultimately good, if not for the right reasons.
Additionally I see some people who see to take issues with the perceived racism of Travis's desire to "clean up the streets". However, everyone he ends up killing is white. It's just the nature of NYC that many of the people on "the streets" are black, it's a very ethnically diverse city and anyone who thinks the film is racist or that Travis is a racist character is, I think, rather misled.

>>34844463
I really like Taxi Driver because I think it gave normies a lot more understanding of the "collapsing" process that can happen when you don't know how to solve your problems.

In other words, it doesn't view "evil people" as a different race, but as an unfortunate event that normies could have done something about if they had cared.

>>34851022
check'd also desu this

Anyone have a good time roleplaying as travis in gta, or being you as a taxi driver?
i just tried in 5, but i couldn't find a bomber jacket for trevor so it wasn't complete.
Got cowboy boots, and shades though.
Going to try gta4 next because the location is correct.

>>34847317
Aye, I read Steppenwolf a couple years ago. Good book. The protagonist eventually gets laid though, which bothers me.

This is my favorite monologue from the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9PCcx7i4xQ

You talkin to me?
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?

org-mode.el

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This is an amazing movie, in equal parts due to Scorsese, De Niro, and Paul Schrader. Plus the soundtrack is amazing despite being a bit repetitive. I honestly find the driving scenes with Travis' narration to be maximum comfy.
One thing I find interesting is that many people who don't relate to Travis will say something along the lines of "all of his problems were caused by himself, he subconsciously sabotages his own efforts to be happy" but I think this is just the usual just world fallacy bullshit people spout to try to vilify someone for trying their best and being unable to succeed at fitting into an uninviting world. He acts the way he does because he wants to believe in a society full of good honest people but his time on the streets and other people's reactions to him only prove to him how unfit the world is compared to his ideals.
This isn't a sign of someone who is mentally ill, but of someone viewing the world from the outside looking in. He never got dragged into regular society due to his time in the army, and returned still possessing his childlike optimism and naivete. For example he believes he can speak to an older colleague for genuine advice and just gets the regular "just b urself" spiel. I'm sure many robots feel very similarly to this, although their missing out on regular society was caused by different factors such as childhood and teenage ostracism. Of course anyone not acclimatised to the degenerate world around us would feel upset to see what happens on the streets every day.
Martin Scorsese is extremely based and seems redpilled as fuck too, I love this movie for giving an accurate look inside the mind of a robot even if many regular viewers will miss the point or try to victim-blame Travis.
Also young De Niro is pretty cute, no homo.

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>>34853826
>One thing I find interesting is that many people who don't relate to Travis will say something along the lines of "all of his problems were caused by himself, he subconsciously sabotages his own efforts to be happy" but I think this is just the usual just world fallacy bullshit people spout to try to vilify someone for trying their best and being unable to succeed at fitting into an uninviting world.
Absolutely. Him taking the girl to the porn theater because he actually thought she would enjoy it because he didn't know any better is very much him "Just being himself", the classic normie meme for happiness.
>Of course anyone not acclimatised to the degenerate world around us would feel upset to see what happens on the streets every day.
This may be what turns some normies against Travis and the movie in general. It really challenges the 'good things happen to good people' cheery normie worldview.