Thought Taxi Driver was going to be about a beta orbiter who quits his job to volunteer for a presidential candidate

>thought Taxi Driver was going to be about a beta orbiter who quits his job to volunteer for a presidential candidate
>it ends up being the story of a based man cleaning up the streets

What other movies capture the feeling of Taxi Driver

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As for feel?
All of Scorcese's films "feel" like a scorcese

The fact that there are people that actually think Travis Bickle is a hero still boggles my mind

I don't think he's a hero, the movie clearly shows he's not right in the head and even the loli prostitute questions why does he think he's so much better.

>thought Taxi Driver was going to be about a beta orbiter who quits his job to volunteer for a presidential candidate
That would actually be interesting. Can you name one movie with a similar plot?

I don't think it was supposed to give the impression that he cared about the degenerates, he just wanted to be an hero and get away from his apparently shitty bachelor life and his mouldy apartment. Travis was just a fatalist looking for a cause.

youtube.com/watch?v=o0CChQG3D0A I found Travis Bickle pretty relatable

Pic related plus the Death Wish series and maybe the Dirty Harry series is what you're looking for.

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Unironically Drive

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you are not supposed to relate to him, it was a modern young werther

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I remember when I first watched it and these lines were exact the same as my life.

d-fens literally did everything wrong

Taxi Driver is extremely relateable

Travis should've stayed in the marines, he was a killer thru and thru.

>"All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift, driving his cab throughout decaying mid-'70s New York City, wishing for a "real rain" to wash the "scum" off the neon-lit streets. Chronically alone, Travis cannot connect with anyone, not even with such other cabbies as blowhard Wizard (Peter Boyle). He becomes infatuated with vapid blonde presidential campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), who agrees to a date and then spurns Travis when he cluelessly takes her to a porno movie. After an encounter with a malevolent fare (played by Scorsese), the increasingly paranoid Travis begins to condition (and arm) himself for his imagined destiny, a mission that mutates from assassinating Betsy's candidate, Charles Palatine (Leonard Harris), to violently "saving" teen hooker Iris (Jodie Foster) from her pimp, Sport (Harvey Keitel). Travis' bloodbath turns him into a media hero; but has it truly calmed his mind? Written by Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver is an homage to and reworking of cinematic influences, a study of individual psychosis, and an acute diagnosis of the latently violent, media-fixated Vietnam era. Scorsese and Schrader structure Travis' mission to save Iris as a film noir version of John Ford's late Western The Searchers (1956), aligning Travis with a mythology of American heroism while exposing that myth's obsessively violent underpinnings. Yet Travis' military record and assassination attempt, as well as Palatine's political platitudes, also ground Taxi Driver in its historical moment of American in the 1970s.

I didn't know Travis was an ex-marine.

>I didn't know Travis was an ex-marine.

Really? Were you sleep during the first 10 minutes of the movie?

>Employing such techniques as Godardian jump cuts and ellipses, expressive camera moves and angles, and garish colors, all punctuated by Bernard Herrmann's eerie final score (finished the day he died), Scorsese presents a Manhattan skewed through Travis' point-of-view, where De Niro's now-famous "You talkin' to me" improv becomes one more sign of Travis' madness. Shot during a New York summer heat wave and garbage strike, Taxi Driver got into trouble with the MPAA for its violence. Scorsese desaturated the color in the final shoot-out and got an R, and Taxi Driver surprised its unenthusiastic studio by becoming a box-office hit. Released in the Bicentennial year, after Vietnam, Watergate, and attention-getting attempts on President Ford's life, Taxi Driver's intense portrait of a man and a society unhinged spoke resonantly to the mid-'70s audience -- too resonantly in the case of attempted Reagan assassin and Foster fan John W. Hinckley. Taxi Driver went on to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but it lost the Best Picture Oscar to the more comforting Rocky. Anchored by De Niro's disturbing embodiment of "God's lonely man," Taxi Driver remains a striking milestone of both Scorsese's career and 1970s Hollywood.

Also, what is the problem of Hollywood with violence? The movie only has one shooting and it was too much violent... Something similar happened to Scarface, the critics made negative reviews about the movie because of too much violence.

Maybe, the phase is very slow and that jazz music also helps.

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What did you think about Scorsese acting? I think is pretty good.

>it ends up being the story of a based man cleaning up the streets
Not really. It's a story about how the life of a disturbed, lonely young man spirals more and more out of control (as told from the warped perspective of said disturbed young man.)

I know I'll get flak for this, but I think Black Swan is like the female version of Taxi Driver in that regard

Travis Bickle was a hero. He served his country in Vietnam, that alone should make him hero, and he saved a girl from pimps. That too alone should qualify him as hero.

Women cannot understand spiraling self inflicted isolation. They're all the same, just creatures of socialization who can't form their own opinions.

Who would win?

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>serving in Nam
>hero

ehh, if we could stay away from the troops circlejerk I think we'd have a better conversation about this movie.

watch King of Comedy, also Scorsese and De Niro and it's also about a man who's a little bit fucked in the head.

He literally was a hero in the end. Explain pic related if you think otherwise.

but the girl in Black Swan was super isolated and extremely sheltered. The only constant person in her life was her psycho mom; she had no real friends

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It's actually about a beta orbiter who becomes a psychopath.

Probably one of the best movies ever made

I don't think there's a movie that comes close to being this good with its subject matter either

>that scene where Travis watching American Bandstand staring at the empty shoes

That should not hit me in my feels but it does.

This movie should do the trick.

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Why does Sup Forums like taxi driver so much. We end up talking about it alot

I think it is one of the best movies about lonely men, frustation and madness but saying that is one of the best movies ever made I think is a bit too much.

its no good glorifying destructive behavior. There are better male behavior to glorify. And I don't think Taxi Driver glorifies it, its just that many modern loners tend to see themselves in travis bickle because they've played too many shooters and believe they could win a shootout in dingy gangster den

Conservatives and alt rightward dint get that sort of thing. They're the same people that think American History X is pro racism and The Punisher and Judge Dredd are good guys.

the same reason Sup Forums talks about Drive so much, autistic main character we can relate to. plus Taxi Driver is objectively a great film.

Do you know where you are?

Not particularly about someone cleaning up the streets but Barry's isolation and dealings with others is definitely reminiscent of themes from Taxi Driver.

It's got layers

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Judge Dredd and Punisher are good guys though.

I don't see the conection between Barry and Travis.

Barry was a guy that has to left his village because the woman he loved was married by his fathers to a important guy, a general, then I think he was challenged and left the place. Then he gets in many places he didn't even dream, all to survive and come back some day as a great man.

And he return to his village as a broken man after being rich.

Barry's father died in the first scene and you're thinking about his uncle's family marrying off his cousin. Barry's only connections he truly cared about were taken from him and he died inside when he did realize he cared for Lady Lyndon because he didn't kill Bullingdon sparing him for her sake but in the process what humanity he showed was a mistake because he was banished then broken even further.

Well OP, you might like Scorsese's very own "The King of Comedy". To me it really feels like Taxi Driver's kid brother that tries to imitate his cool brother and fails in the process, but still transmits some of the feelings the original did.

Anybody else seen Scorsese's End of Innocence?

>End of Innocence
It's The Age Of Innocence

It was boring as fuck and I only liked Winona so fuck it.

You're partly right. It's supposed to be relateable in a way that disgusts us by the end of the movie. By understanding Travis, you are supposed to be repulsed by him (thus demonstrating a clear difference in values, and elucidating a message of the film)

at was dull, i'll grant that but it looked sumptuous and I do like tales set in repressive times

I will you fucking faggot

except that Deniro's character was better in King of Comedy

It was either a hallucination (thus demonstrating that Travis is still a fucking shitheel) or it was real and is meant to satirize the ways we glorify violence committed in the name of justice despite not knowing the full story.

Both wrong. It was Betsy being a 2-bit dime, changing her opinion of Travis after hearing the news, signifying Travis in the right, and society in the wrong.

I couldn't stop thinking about the irish hordes in the five points because Daniel Day Lewus played the main character. It's probably retardation on my part associating that with Bill but I will say DDL can play vastly different people.

Ok let's get this clear.

He lied to his parents about being in the Secret Service. What makes you think he didn't lie to the boss about being a vet?

He states he hates the degeneracy yet he partakes in his own way.

He states "No more pills" he stopped taking his medications and continued his downward spiral.

He cuts a damn Mohawk into his head.

He was going to off a presidential candidate but because he knew the security were onto him he fled the scene. And then chooses a softer target.

He was a loose cannon with screws flying out by the end of the movie. He wasn't a hero.

Great movie, one of my favorites. But he was just a disturbed man who had a fever for ultra violence.

Was the final scene in the film a dying hallucination or did it actually happen

He had a military jacket that had his last name embroidered, as well as a Viet Cong flag in his apartment. He also had scars on his back, which could possibly be war-related.

Heavenly Creatures and Monster were good examples of violent, inverted females. They are both based off of real life stories.

The entire premise of the movie is that travis is a returning Vet trying to assimilate back into society
the rest of your points are valid

Can we stop this dying dream meme. Same idiots who say Mac in The Thing was feeding Childs gasoline at the end

The irony of the ending is that Travis is some fucked-up guy who is glorified as a hero when he could very well go nuts and kill a politician or innocent next time. Yet he's still out there doing his own thing. The weird noise he hears at the end implies this

>entire movie has 1 scene
>considered Kino for all time

One scene? The shootout? Thats my wife up there? The robbery? You talking to me?

I think you should go back and rewatch it.

how is he not? at the very least he's an anti hero

is this movie out yet? I can't seem to find it

Is that the music from Hoteline Miami?

>He cuts a damn Mohawk into his head.
what does this have to do with being or not being a hero

That sound at the end is spooky

i want another hotline miami game so bad

It wasn't a hallucination, he was imagining she was their, and thinking what he would say to her. He wasn't a schizo he was autistic.

She was there
and she wanted his infamous D
travis wins in the end
though hes still whacko

This movie really does get better with every watch. If Scorsese and De Niro never made anything else, they should still be considered national treasures for giving us this.

>it ends up being the story of a based man cleaning up the streets
if that's what you got from the movie try john wick or some other action flick