Is this the most /ourguy/ character ever put to film? Open to suggestion

Is this the most /ourguy/ character ever put to film? Open to suggestion.

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Am a bit of a filmlet, just finished watching it.

>works out and takes action to his beliefs
>picks up a super hot girl
>hangs out with a kinky teen
We wish he was /ourguy.

absolutely, anyone who says no or that they don't relate to/understand him is either a woman or a soyboy, i'm not even joking

also this

It's hard not to sympathize with him, especially since you can just get a glimpse of the pain that he's carrying around. I would highly recommend reading the original screenplay for more character development (as with anything like that, take what you want, and leave the rest)

Did Paul Schrader ever write anything close to it again? Mishima was very good but Taxi Driver is definitely something else.

It's weird, almost none of his other movies are quite like Taxi Driver. I think it ended up that way because he wrote Travis as an exaggerated version of himself at that time

Why was he so lonely bros?

He was God's lonely man

there's some gay subtext about 'muh war' but it was really unnecessary, Travis was just a man that exists among many others like him that go unseen, maladapted to a strange world

At least they didn't beat us over the head with Vietnam flashbacks or something ridiculous like that

Ironically though, if he was in a kinder environment, he probably would have been just fine

This is a salient point
Travis does a good job of capturing that hopeless, almost insane anxiety and frustration that comes from being essentially stuck in your life with seemingly no way out. However, he's still too self actualized and dedicated to his solutions to the perceived problems to truly represent this place, although if you accept the idea that the end is a dream and Travis died as a possibly insane man who killed 3 low level thugs for seemingly no reason, it's a bit closer to home

Travis would probably not have been so self actualised and dedicated had he been born in the Internet age.

No he is

No, goose in br2049 is maximum /ourguy/

fuck off niggers

t.underage

>there's some gay subtext about 'muh war' but it was really unnecessary
what the fuck does that mean? if he had PTSD that would be very meaningful and relevant to his character. and yes, there were a lot of signs he had PTSD. the film was very nuanced and subtle in how it approached vietnam so your criticism is bizarre. it barely even made reference to the war

>Ironically though, if he was in a kinder environment, he probably would have been just fine
total nonsense. what fucking film did you guys watch?

>However, he's still too self actualized and dedicated to his solutions
this is incredible. self actualized and dedicated to his solutions? he was extraordinarily confused and in the midst of an existential crisis. he went from telling a presidential candidate that they would fix everything to wanting to kill him. then he gives up entirely on the idea and decides to go kill some other people. this is all in a short period of time

If anything it's Gabe from the Todd Solondz movie Dark Horse

No, Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049 is.

As relatable as the character is I think it's giving online mouth-breathers too much credit that they're as autistic, psychotic or homicidal as Travis.

He still bothered to get in shape, buy the guns, make a spring loaded arm holster, and actually attempted to kill Palantine before successfully killing the guys in the brothel
He was extraordinarily confused, yes, but in the moment he was still able to display resoluteness and dedication to what, in his mind, appeared to be the best way forward. He wasn't some guy who was furious at his life but still went home everyday and spent all of his free time either jacking it, watching TV, or sleeping

>resoluteness and dedication to what, in his mind, appeared to be the best way forward.
Only in his mind, his "resoluteness" is shown to be shaky at best, he is volatile and unpredictable. Yes, he attempted to kill Palantine but he failed in that, he didn't have a plan at all, cowered and fled. When he was working out and showing dedication, he still ate like shit. Watch the climax again and you realise that for all his supposed training Travis was actually very incompetent, it looks as if he's doing things by accident and his shooting is inaccurate wasting all of his bullets and failing once again to kill himself.

I don't want to be that guy that says you didn't understand the movie, but Travis was a failure and failure is his legacy. He becomes a cult hero in the movie and in popular culture to illustrate the fine line between the two categories.

Wrong.

Maybe he does have PTSD, but when you consider when Travis was involved in Vietnam, it seems unlikely.

At the start of the film he says he was discharged in May 1973. By the time he was discharged, american combat troops weren't even in Vietnam at all, and american involvement had been reduced for years at that point. Unless he did several tours, he probably wouldn't have seen combat at all. But he does have that scar on his back, so who knows.

Right.

>he went from telling a presidential candidate that they would fix everything
he was bullshitting

Yes, I'm right that you're wrong.

I don't know, Ronnie was pretty /ourguy/
>bipolar lunatic
>delusions of grandeur
>only action he ever got was from raping a passed out Anna Faris
>accuses brown guy of terrorism based on his brown skin

Oh yeah, he still lives with his alcoholic mother too

You're wrong that you're right.

I plan on watching this rather soon is it kino?

It's a shit seth rogen movie what the fuck do you think

Incorrect.

Its pre 2010's so there is a tiny chance for something passable

No there isn't idiot

This. travis is a pathetic loser who likes to think of himself as above and better than the people he drives around and isolates himself even more from humanity. Agent Kino overcomes his lack of humanity and in the end becomes more human than human

Fuck you proved me wrong with your stellar argument and repeating digits

The only good Seth Rogan movie

kill yourself, even if this is ironic which it probablty isnt

just drown yourself

I'll vouch for it. It's the only Rogen movie I can stomach and I really like it. Got Ray Liotta in it too.

you guys realize that he was in the process of losing his mind, right? yes, he was lonely and depressed, but it went quite a bit further than that. he was delusional, paranoid and in the midst of an existential crisis. travis is fairly stupid and thus cannot understand what he is going through. the film is him struggling to make sense of it, which happens to a lot of "normal" people who experience mental illness. they are dumb and receive no real help, they only get terrible advice from people who wish they could help (the wizard scene). the final scene is meant to tell you that travis is not OK and never will be

You're probably not a woman so you're definitely a soyboy, kill yourself retard

hold up.
are there people in this thread that actually think travis was a sympathetic character?
like, that they were supposed to identify with him and conceive his actions as vindicated in some way?
because that would be astonishingly stupid.

Wovld yov gvy's fvck Lavren Mayberry? I wovld.

>hold up
>are there ....?
>like
>because that would be
>astonishingly stupid

you talk like a complete faggot, no wonder you dont get it

Nah dude if there was internet and video games in the 70s he'd be neet. He literally spends his free time in a porno theatre, you don't think he'd just stay in and jerk off if he could?

correct movie
WRONG character
>You see the woman in the window? Do you see the woman in the window?...I want you to see that woman, because that's my wife. But that's not my apartment. That's not my apartment. You know who lives there? Huh? I mean, you wouldn't know who lives there - I'm just saying, "But you know who lives there?" Huh? A nigger lives there. How do ya like that?

How were people supposed to sympathize with him?

yes please tell me what i don't get

>act with true passion for the craft, without any fear
>still gets constantly mocked and berated for being different and weird
>becomes a complete outcast in LA after being rejected by so many people that he's forced to make a movie completely on his own
>pours all of his heart, soul, and passion into making something that he was convinced would be the next great american film
>audiences everywhere simply just laugh at him for even suggesting that he could create anything outside of a comedy movie
>holds back his tears even though the rest of society is tearing apart his insides because of their reaction to his magnum opus
>grits his teeth and plays along to save face even though deep down he's a heavily damaged person

absolutely /ourguy/

no, that would be Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in Happiness.

I like this reaction pic this will be an important addition to my collection

Not that guy, but Travis is sympathetic as a sad, lonely man who can't fit in with other people no matter how hard he tries. His actions are NOT vindicated, and he's only held as a hero because he killed some low lives instead of the senator.

Despite his psychotic actions, it's shown that Travis is not evil, but depressed, mentally ill, and misunderstood

>was a self-made multi millionaire before any of this
Yeah...... no

Underrated post
I think Taxi Driver predicted our type, but in this post-ironic age /ourguy/ is absolutely Swanson from The Comedy (2012)

/myguy/