So brutal that he tries to kill himself at the end as well but has run out of bullets. Really exemplifies the mental state he’s in by the end of the movie.
This shows you what is going on inside the mind of someone that is a mass shooter too. This isn't about gun laws so much as about the mental health state people like this get into that causes them to not only want to kill many others, but themselves. They are suicidal. History is going to look back at our time now as psychologically barbaric as we look back at leeches in the middle ages.
Like you're sympathizing with the guy all the way up until he decides this is where he wants to die but then you're immediately like "yeah that would happen to me to"
@@cyn7696 yeah i was confused when watching it, he tried to kill a senator or congressman . i was like wait why do i feel srry for him ? he failed at that so he switched to the brothel.
What disturbs me most about this scene isnt the shootings but the way Deniro moves. Reminds me of half robot and frankenstein. Its really creepy the stiff way he moves around.
That's what made the Terminator scary back in the day. The lack of emotions combined with his lack of reaction to pain or the actions he committed, and solely focusing on completing his mission no matter how damaged he was, was simply terrifying and is also what makes this scene pretty disturbing
This scene is also, I believe, the last piece of cinematic scoring done by Bernard Hermann, Hollywood’s “Beethoven of existential dread” before he died in 1974. Hitchcock’s go-to composer for decades. Greatly contributed to “nailing” the overall dark mood of this film. Excellent choice by Scorsese and the film’s producers.
My dad is a film music teacher and has told me a lot about Herman, he also composed the music for citizen cane which is crazy to think about, two completely different movie sounds
I like Paul Schrader's perspective on this scene (and the entire ending). He said in a DVD commentary that Travis "is not cured" when the movie has ended and "next time, he's not going to be a hero."
Well to justify his grandiose self image, hero archetype, and his persona as a government agent, It would probably be someone equally as bad, or mostly as bad. But there is also some notion that if this kept happening and going on, the killings would get far more indiscriminate.
@@JesusFollower500 Travis's first attempt at this was on the presidential nominee, he just got lucky that one fell through and he did the brothel instead.
Watching this movie for the first time back in March of this yr, this was a shocking and very disturbing moment. The violence feels so real despite it being fake, and the lack of music makes this eerie and hard to watch, as you're watching Travis brutally kill 3 men, saving Iris from child exploitation but he no doubt traumatized her for life. This scene is a perfect mix of realistic acting, excellent filmmaking and directing and best of all: excelling at capturing how a haunting and violent this scene got.
Poetic and haunting and surreal all wrapped into one violent kaleidoscope of urban paranoia and a brutal existence in a dark metropolis of fear.Scorsese's -masterpiece.👍👍🔚🔚
Don’t worry about Iris. She was safely returned home to her parents. Then, after several years of therapy, she overcame most of her trauma, changed her name and became an FBI agent that hunted down serial killers.
He saved that girl from a life of human trafficking, but unfortunately also caused additional trauma by shooting and killing so many people in front of her
How can I say such a graphically violent scene is also beautiful? But it is. The brilliant acting by De Nero and Keitel, the cinematography, the music, the dreamy portrayal of the aftermath of the carnage. Ebert was right that this was the best film of the '70s.
@@darkhighwayman1757 A local theater brought it in a couple months ago. It was the first time I've seen it on a big screen. The shots of New York's streets were absolutely fantastic!
That would have been an epic failure. DeNiro is much better at psychotic roles. Pacino is just that same old 'NooYowak' mope in every movie. He does a good job, but his range is pretty narrow.
@@paveantelic7876 You know something. It's most likely Travis died at the end from the gunshot wound in his neck and everything that happened after (Travis being praised as hero. Iris reuniting with her parents etc.) all happened in his mind. If so, in reality, Travis wasn't called a ''hero'', but a cold-blooded killer who unjustly gunned down Iris's pimps and Iris wouldn't reunite with her parents and got arrested and found guilty on prostitution charges and got sent to a juvenile facility and is suffering from PTSD. Tom. Wizard and Betsy are all interviewed by the police about Travis.
The movie was largely forgotten in the 80's and 90's. My brother was a teen in the 80's and rented Taxi Driver from this independent video store. I remember him describing the ending to me. He told me I had to watch the movie. I remember watching it in the early 90's and telling my friends about it and they totally didn't want to watch it.
@@Sebastian04223 are we just talking about quality here? Crimes of the Future came out this year and I'd say that's in the same caliber as other great thriller films
Dont fall for fascism, man. I was lonely too, heck still i am most of the time, and i was atracted by this far right bullshit too. The world is not so ugly, and life is too precious to waste it on hate
@@ramz1455 Usually the symbol of the eye has an esetoric connotation and is associated with pychadelics and eastern mysticism. It could also be the All Seeing Eye from freemasonry, but I don't take Sport for a mason.
Travis Bickle has a kill count of 4 in this film, 1. Using the Astra Constable, 2. Using the .38 Snub Nose, 3. Using the Smith and Wesson model Escort, 4. Using someone else’s Snub nose.
I'd argue that shot to the chest with the S&W model 29 8&3/8" barrel .44 Magnum (the one that knocked him back into the doors) was the death of "Sport". Those additional shots were just an expression of Travis's anger at being shot in the neck from behind. Rather unsportsmanlike actions given the man's moniker!
@@zombiesquirel To be honest, the whole scene is kind of sloppy and unrealistic. But it was in the early days of "graphic" violence and directors were more or less playing with those limitations.
The guy was a mafia gangster who thought Travis was a hitman sent to kill him. Half the time whenever a mafia gangster manages to disarm a hitman they would question the hitman to find out who made the hit.
@@Medina5Arts also he probably thought that was the only gun he had so he shot him in the arm to disarm him, who would expect him to have another in his sleeve lol
This scene is actually a mix between colour and black and white supposedly to give off a similar colour to old news tabloids of that time and it was originally in Scorsese’s interest to shoot the whole film in this style but he ultimately decided against it as it would’ve been too expensive
There is one story that says this film was nearly given an x-rating. In an effort to bring it back down to R, he changed the color in this scene to make the blood a different color. Apparently it worked. Similar story for the weird bright blood in The Wild Bunch
@@smileydog5941 Yeah, he mentioned that he had to lower it by three tones in an interview. Apparently Scorsese was up all night ready to kill the producer that asked him to cut the scene out of the film
Depends on where you worked. There were some precincts that had about 3 or 4 a day at minimum in those days. One precinct in Brooklyn had the 1010 WINS slogan on their t-shirts that said "Give us 48 minutes, we'll give you a homicide"(I believe it was the 7-5 in Bushwick). My dad lived in Middle Village, Queens a guy was found murdered in the park and it was a front page story for the local newspapers there.
Blood always looked fake in movies. They finally came up with the formula of karo syrup with Red food dye. It might’ve been Tom Savini who came up with it.
They purposefully made the blood look fake here because a lot of people complained about the gore in the film and it nearly got a x rating so they toned down the realism of the blood to keep the R rating
@@mistermustacheguy2763 That’s a bit of trivia I didn’t know. I’ve seen some more recent horror movies where they went with more of a black color, which I think works great! I think it gives the movie more of a sinister look, especially in horror.
Yes it was Dick Smith's formula of Karo Syrup, red food coloring, and PhotoFlo fluid that became the standard movie blood. Color in this scene just had to be desaturated so it would get an R rating.
I like that the day/night dreaming protag got seriously injured. Most people in these situations think mapping it out brings it all together but hitches come-along.
The version I saw in 1978 was not as washed out with the golden glow effect. The blood red was more defined and not watery-translucent like @ 3:00 and @6:00. I remember the night air as I left the theater, "Mohawk is the next big thing'.
At some point we all have our own fantasy shootout and after a few minutes we face reality and face the fact that we're just another schmuck in a world getting uglier everyday.
What a scene. Still disturbing 45 years + later. I was only 11 when the movie came out so I wasn't allowed to go see it at the time. But I remember the controversy well.
@@zapify6999I would fully expect anyone with "bro" in their vocab to not fully appreciate all the many facets that make this scene mind-blowing. Go back to playing X-box.
3:45.... he saved/rescued her from the fucked up world that she was in, And he knew the situation he was in and it was all over. He finished what he came there to do. And now its time to rest from those thoughts. Thats god not letting him kill himself so he can enter heaven or whatever, for doing right even tho he committed the sin murder. thats just how I view it from my point and the feeling it get.
If you count the shots during the shootout, you'll notice that the gangster fired 5 shots out of his revolver (meaning it had 1 bullet left) and Travis fired 7 shots out of his pistol (meaning he emptied the entire clip). Then he picked up the revolver and fired the last bullet at the old man's head. That's why both guns were empty when he tried to commit suicide.
Travis is his name. And yeah if you can't relate to him like a lot of people can of course you aren't gonna be able to "fully figure him out" and what's there to figure out. There's so many men like Travis, "doomers" is what they are called these days. What he did was 100% justified in my opinion, except for palantine.
It sucks that taxi driver video game ended up getting canceled, it looked like it had so much potential and they were gonna have deniro voice act on it I believe. In terms of films though, nothing will ever top this classic and nothing will ever top fight club they are my favorite 2 movies easily
as interesting as the game might have been, i have a feeling they would have boiled it down to a generic shooter. there's a awful fight club game that after spending the money on licensing they ran out of budget to animate the cutscenes in the game, so its a literal story slide show. though suppose on the upside you can beat up fred durst with bob (meat loaf) in it, so that's got to be worth at least one percentage point
Bro I remember that too. There was a lot of hype about that and the HEAT video game that was cancelled as well around the same time. They both seemed really cool as a concept and would’ve been awesome games
1:53 Just disturbing. Iris on her knees while the John is standing in a room full of candles. Was the other guy another John who just left? More disturbing than what Travis did to free her.
In the end Iris saves Travis too. If it wasn't for her he would've killed Palantine, but he changed his mind at the last second because she was still out there
The headshot at 2:47 is annoying because the guy just stands there at first with 0 reaction, the impact of the bullet alone would make him move. Back in the day they made the actors stand still for practical effects like that I guess because it happens in other older movies too lol
I never realized when I saw this in the theatre in 1976 that the final scene is a death dream and not real at all. Travis is dying of blood loss and never makes it off the sofa. Watch him stare into the rear-view mirror in the last scene. Scorsese uses this technique again in 'Shutter Island."
according to scorcese himself, travis survives this, and the end of the film and the beginning can be spliced together because they are the same, meaning travis will continue the same cycle over and over. but your take isnt bad at all either
@@bulletz4life Fascinating. It must be an urban myth. I only remember Scorsese describing how he has used the classic Hitchcock technique of obscure vision ('Rear Window') more than once.
@@bulletz4life That's why it's so strange. Even Scorcese can't argue with my logic there is no way this lunatic is ever seeing the light of day after this incident!
What's going on behind that window 1:29. Is it the silhouette of someone peeking out, moving their head to see what's going on? The way the shot is framed, it seems significant.
When I first watched this in 1976, the Mohawk haircut that Bickel had was beyond bizarre. (The idea of bizarre hair at its most extreme at that time was Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten.) When I next saw the movie 20 years later, the Mohawk looked pretty ordinary, and the strangest thing was Keitel's platform shoes. So it's a little hard to convey the effect the Mohawk had at the time the movie was first released. It was clear that Bickel was completely round the bend.
@@jeremiahsmith4235 I think the Joker is about as close as it will come thankfully, hollywood has no stomach such grittiness and controversial themes these days.
Incredible movie. To think that now De Niro is a bitter old "Get off of my lawn" man walking around on 3" soles and frothing at the mouth about the Orange Man Bad... 😂
What is a sports brothel... Lived and worked in NYC my entire life and have never heard that before... Great movie, I remember watching it at the theatre Brothel...
1:36 This part to me represents the fact that he doesn't really know what he's about to do. Came up with it on the spot. Just like trying to gun down that senator and failing.
“How’s everything in the Pimp business?” LMAO
The business is on its back
Cmon get outta here man
are those wiseguys?
Sounds like something I'd say
@@alicaljungberg3742nah i dont think so
that guy was a trooper, if someone shot all my fingers off, I would consider them the winner of the altercation. what a dedicated henchman
He was a ranking member in Henchmen Union 875
Didn't work in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, either: "When they built this feller, they forgot to put in the 'quit'."
"bring out the sweetcorn"
The most dedicated henchmen, still fought without any fingers and a huge amount of blood loss
Henchmen 😂
So brutal that he tries to kill himself at the end as well but has run out of bullets. Really exemplifies the mental state he’s in by the end of the movie.
This shows you what is going on inside the mind of someone that is a mass shooter too. This isn't about gun laws so much as about the mental health state people like this get into that causes them to not only want to kill many others, but themselves. They are suicidal.
History is going to look back at our time now as psychologically barbaric as we look back at leeches in the middle ages.
Like you're sympathizing with the guy all the way up until he decides this is where he wants to die but then you're immediately like "yeah that would happen to me to"
Famous scene
2:32 I kill You! I kill You! I Kill You
@@cyn7696 yeah i was confused when watching it, he tried to kill a senator or congressman . i was like wait why do i feel srry for him ? he failed at that so he switched to the brothel.
The entire film was about the instability of this lost and alone young man.
What disturbs me most about this scene isnt the shootings but the way Deniro moves. Reminds me of half robot and frankenstein. Its really creepy the stiff way he moves around.
Just like robocop
That's what made the Terminator scary back in the day. The lack of emotions combined with his lack of reaction to pain or the actions he committed, and solely focusing on completing his mission no matter how damaged he was, was simply terrifying and is also what makes this scene pretty disturbing
He's on auto pilot
The film was originally titled Robobickle
@@commanderkeen3787 🤣
This scene is also, I believe, the last piece of cinematic scoring done by Bernard Hermann, Hollywood’s “Beethoven of existential dread” before he died in 1974. Hitchcock’s go-to composer for decades.
Greatly contributed to “nailing” the overall dark mood of this film. Excellent choice by Scorsese and the film’s producers.
Yes and this movie popularized the saxophone as the soundtrack of the grimy city
This film is from 1976.
@@icarustanovic3097
I typo on my part. Hermann died in late 1975 the same year as TD’s production. TD was released in early 1976.
My dad is a film music teacher and has told me a lot about Herman, he also composed the music for citizen cane which is crazy to think about, two completely different movie sounds
Awe, another legend of SoundS. (Bless) ✌️🔥
actually the stomach shot "ow ow ow" was shockingly realistic
you know a good movie when the mind thinks your not watching a movie
This entire scene is extremely graphic for being a movie from the 1970s
@@VirreFriberg that's why the blood looks so off color, so it would not get a heavy rating.
Reminds me of that one grape video with the news reporter who falls off and goes "OOOHHH, OWWOWOWOW"
yeah im sure harvey keitel knows a lot about getting shot in the stomach (insert tarantino reference here)
I like Paul Schrader's perspective on this scene (and the entire ending). He said in a DVD commentary that Travis "is not cured" when the movie has ended and "next time, he's not going to be a hero."
This is america 😢
He fixed Sport, that's for damn sure.
Well to justify his grandiose self image, hero archetype, and his persona as a government agent, It would probably be someone equally as bad, or mostly as bad. But there is also some notion that if this kept happening and going on, the killings would get far more indiscriminate.
@@JesusFollower500 Travis's first attempt at this was on the presidential nominee, he just got lucky that one fell through and he did the brothel instead.
Watching this movie for the first time back in March of this yr, this was a shocking and very disturbing moment. The violence feels so real despite it being fake, and the lack of music makes this eerie and hard to watch, as you're watching Travis brutally kill 3 men, saving Iris from child exploitation but he no doubt traumatized her for life. This scene is a perfect mix of realistic acting, excellent filmmaking and directing and best of all: excelling at capturing how a haunting and violent this scene got.
You put my exact thoughts into words. It feels like you are right there in the building, watching this whole thing go down.
AS REAL as we'd ever wanna get.
Oretachi wa koroshi no tatsujin
Poetic and haunting and surreal all wrapped into one violent kaleidoscope of urban paranoia and a brutal existence
in a dark metropolis of fear.Scorsese's
-masterpiece.👍👍🔚🔚
yeah, nobody’s functioning like that after getting shot in the neck lmfao
I love it when Travis says,"Suck on this".
Roger that !
Poison Idea and Pantera used it on the song The Badge respectively, loved it
Only poison idea..pantera just covered it
@@noeloquero Cool.
Primus
Don’t worry about Iris. She was safely returned home to her parents.
Then, after several years of therapy, she overcame most of her trauma, changed her name and became an FBI agent that hunted down serial killers.
Cringe
@@Niko-td4yx pretty sure its a silence of the lambs reference
where did her accent come from
@@stibz_ She was adopted by Californian parents and spoke with that accent to get away from her past.
A nice fan theory tho
He saved that girl from a life of human trafficking, but unfortunately also caused additional trauma by shooting and killing so many people in front of her
Yeah but now she's gonna be in foster care right? So traumatized and in foster care, not exactly a happy ending
@@zumis1011 I believe she gets home to her parents. They write him a letter at the end thanking him for getting their daughter home.
@@zumis1011 jodie foster care
@@EricToTheScionti Oh God this is so messed up but so funny.
@@johnnobon yeah they said she was back in school now too
One of the absolute greatest pieces of art ever put on film
Nope.
No joke. DeNiro and Scorsese
@@crystald.3758 It’s such a good movie
@@crystald.3758 Excellent argument
Yes.
One of the most powerful endings to a film in history.
Love the overhead dolly shot.
Awesome music score by Bernard Herrmann.
Brilliant.
Siempre creí que era el final pero en verdad hay como 20 minutos más de película
I love how the camera goes back to the scene of the first victim. Brilliant film making.
This is not the final scene.
I had forgotten that overhead shot,genius.
@@sinane.y No it's not probably more the climax but you get what I mean.
How can I say such a graphically violent scene is also beautiful? But it is. The brilliant acting by De Nero and Keitel, the cinematography, the music, the dreamy portrayal of the aftermath of the carnage. Ebert was right that this was the best film of the '70s.
One of the best, realistic gun battles in a movie.
I saw this in a theater in the mid 90s on a rerelease and Jesus...ON the big screen. Intense
@@darkhighwayman1757
A local theater brought it in a couple months ago. It was the first time I've seen it on a big screen. The shots of New York's streets were absolutely fantastic!
I dont know about beautiful but its pretty realistic
As an Uber Driver...I understand where Travis was coming from.
@justinlast2lastharder749
No. You don't.
and where he was going?
@@hyena131Well one thing is for sure, you don’t understand a joke when you see one.
@@DrBIeed
Especially when they're remarkably unfunny...
Do you have a good joke?
Ah, you've been in Nam too... 😀
Fun fact Al Pacino was offered to play Travis Bickle he said no he regretted it
I just cant imagine anybody else playing travis
He would’ve done a great job no doubt
Jeff Bridges was also considered when Brian De Palma was going to direct this.
Thank God he didn't. No one, and I mean no one, could play this role like Deniro did. I'm sure he'd be good, but not great
That would have been an epic failure. DeNiro is much better at psychotic roles. Pacino is just that same old 'NooYowak' mope in every movie. He does a good job, but his range is pretty narrow.
Never realized Travis had his "on duty" sign lit as he drove up to Sport's.
Its “Off Duty”
He wanted to be stopped..
@@jaydeem1264explain ?
3:38 Can't blame Iris. Good acting by Jodie Foster. Jodie Foster could had got a Oscar nomination for Taxi Driver.
well, she did receive a nomination lol
She did
yeah cant blame irisss
@@paveantelic7876 You know something. It's most likely Travis died at the end from the gunshot wound in his neck and everything that happened after (Travis being praised as hero. Iris reuniting with her parents etc.) all happened in his mind. If so, in reality, Travis wasn't called a ''hero'', but a cold-blooded killer who unjustly gunned down Iris's pimps and Iris wouldn't reunite with her parents and got arrested and found guilty on prostitution charges and got sent to a juvenile facility and is suffering from PTSD. Tom. Wizard and Betsy are all interviewed by the police about Travis.
One of the best actors of all time. Make or female
DeNiro’s portrayal of Travis Bickel is the single greatest acting performance in cinema history
i've been saying that too ever since i first saw this. greatest actor of all time, even just for this.
I wonder what would be with Pacino as Travis, he was offered the role.
Travis discovered the weakness of the sleeve gun: after you draw, it just stays there and gets in the way.
😂😂
Still has the ability to shock viewers to this day
There's nothing wrong with this scene, that's how pedophiles should be dealt with
The world yearns for Travis.
Except that vigilantism is illegal
@@charlesmeniru5082Who cares if it is
@@charlesmeniru5082those traffickers had it coming.
The way things are going I fear this scene will one day be called a hate crime scene.
The girl saved and all the neighbors get together.
Oh how I love a happy ending.
When he shoots Sport, and Sport says "ooo ooo ooo ooo" , he sounds like Curly.
😂
At first I thought you said iCarly
Oo oo oo oo
@@TheTimbs_ Hi
Ha ha
The movie was largely forgotten in the 80's and 90's. My brother was a teen in the 80's and rented Taxi Driver from this independent video store. I remember him describing the ending to me. He told me I had to watch the movie. I remember watching it in the early 90's and telling my friends about it and they totally didn't want to watch it.
Same, i found out by my dad, who was a big fan of it, and showed to a bunch of friends back in the 90s.
this is one of the only movies i can watch again and again. just pure unadulterated genius from start to finish.
I've never been in a gunfight, but I suspect this is the most realistic one ever committed to film. Lots of chaos and yelling amidst the carnage.
eh, people usually move a lot faster in gunfights.
@@JesusFollower500not when shot
Heat (1995) final heist shootout
@@ArgonNobleplease....it seems a GTA's Quest
@@JesusFollower500It is slowed down a lot obviously
A real classic.. There are no more films like this one... 😢
Lol there absolutely are
No there isn’t..
@@merkcityboy834 Joker is literally a remake of this movie combined with a remake of King of Comedy
@@WarlordM not as good as this
@@Sebastian04223 are we just talking about quality here? Crimes of the Future came out this year and I'd say that's in the same caliber as other great thriller films
Really cool creepy effect how the old guy's face jiggles as it's getting pelted with bullets.
The real creepy was him tho
Fun fact: those weren’t effects. That actor had terminal cancer and wanted to go out while acting. They really shot him in the face.
Similar in godfather 2 when De Niros Vito shoots the Don.... only two times I've seen anything like it.
Thats fine fishing line pulling little squibs off his face for each shot to simulate bullet holes...very interesting special effect !
@@CasperInkyMagoo lol nice joke.
The overhead shot was cinematic genius.
Something about the second dude taking a face full of .22 gets me every time, brutal looking death
.25*
@@claykennedy6790It was a Smith & Wesson Escort chambered in 22 LR.
@@shadowwolf9503 So it was. I stand corrected. Should've known better than to trust Easy Andy.
@@claykennedy6790 Roger that ! Lol. He was a crook ! Ive seen and handled a few of these at local gun shows over the years.
Ain't that gun a hunny? It's a beautiful little gun
Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.
maybe stop with the black sun stuff first
Dont fall for fascism, man. I was lonely too, heck still i am most of the time, and i was atracted by this far right bullshit too.
The world is not so ugly, and life is too precious to waste it on hate
Heavy shit, man.
@Segul Rog Spatha i was not talking about the movie quote. he had a nazi symbol as pfp.
@@BombenhagelAntikrist No he doesn't.
6:42 Check out Sport's pinkie - coke fingernail
...With the eyeball ring. Great attention to detail in this entire scene.
@@MorrowSind what does the ring mean?
@@ramz1455 I'm not sure what it means, but I like the mystery it adds to the character.
@@ramz1455 Usually the symbol of the eye has an esetoric connotation and is associated with pychadelics and eastern mysticism. It could also be the All Seeing Eye from freemasonry, but I don't take Sport for a mason.
Travis Bickle has a kill count of 4 in this film, 1. Using the Astra Constable, 2. Using the .38 Snub Nose, 3. Using the Smith and Wesson model Escort, 4. Using someone else’s Snub nose.
He might have more considering he was in Vietnam
@@bt-qr2iv >in this film
Not high enough. Needs sequel! 😜
I'd argue that shot to the chest with the S&W model 29 8&3/8" barrel .44 Magnum (the one that knocked him back into the doors) was the death of "Sport". Those additional shots were just an expression of Travis's anger at being shot in the neck from behind. Rather unsportsmanlike actions given the man's moniker!
3 . One and two are the same guy
I still laugh when the guy walks up to him and shoots him the shoulder. Really? Not too effective if your intent is to kill him.
😅😅😅😅
i gues he just didnt wanted to kill him
@@zombiesquirel To be honest, the whole scene is kind of sloppy and unrealistic. But it was in the early days of "graphic" violence and directors were more or less playing with those limitations.
The guy was a mafia gangster who thought Travis was a hitman sent to kill him. Half the time whenever a mafia gangster manages to disarm a hitman they would question the hitman to find out who made the hit.
@@Medina5Arts also he probably thought that was the only gun he had so he shot him in the arm to disarm him, who would expect him to have another in his sleeve lol
All of that old New York City is long gone now
Good.
This scene is actually a mix between colour and black and white supposedly to give off a similar colour to old news tabloids of that time and it was originally in Scorsese’s interest to shoot the whole film in this style but he ultimately decided against it as it would’ve been too expensive
There is one story that says this film was nearly given an x-rating. In an effort to bring it back down to R, he changed the color in this scene to make the blood a different color. Apparently it worked. Similar story for the weird bright blood in The Wild Bunch
@@smileydog5941 Yeah, he mentioned that he had to lower it by three tones in an interview. Apparently Scorsese was up all night ready to kill the producer that asked him to cut the scene out of the film
This is not the worst scene NYPD witnessed that night, you can bet.
Depends on where you worked. There were some precincts that had about 3 or 4 a day at minimum in those days. One precinct in Brooklyn had the 1010 WINS slogan on their t-shirts that said "Give us 48 minutes, we'll give you a homicide"(I believe it was the 7-5 in Bushwick). My dad lived in Middle Village, Queens
a guy was found murdered in the park and it was a front page story for the local newspapers there.
5:25 When you finish the level on Hotline Miami
The overhead shot at the end is like out of body experience.
I think that may be the point as it comes right after Travis’s death
@@casperkoterasapparently he actually survived. But I like to think he didn't and the end is a delusion before he passes
@@based-ys9um thats what i thought it was supposed to be; i never realized he was truly alive at the end.
@@casperkoteras same . I prefer it that way tbh. Especially when Cybil shepherd gets in his cab. Seems like a delusion.
@@based-ys9um That whole scene with Cybil is very dreamlike, with the NY neon colors reflecting on the car making it very oniric.
the drops of blood from his finger is so perfect
4:51 one of the main scenes that influenced Joker
Finger guns weren't invented in this movie
@@megaultradamn I meant the 2019 movie Joker when he does the same gesture
Joker was influenced by a lot of this film, but im glad it manages to be its own thing as well.
What’s the meaning of this gesture in this scene? Does it mean that he already tried to k*ll himself or that he doesn’t care?
@@Axl-jm4ny “In my mind, you three officers are dead” could be one option.
1:48 my favorite scene of all time
Blood always looked fake in movies. They finally came up with the formula of karo syrup with Red food dye. It might’ve been Tom Savini who came up with it.
Looks fake here
They purposefully made the blood look fake here because a lot of people complained about the gore in the film and it nearly got a x rating so they toned down the realism of the blood to keep the R rating
@@mistermustacheguy2763 That’s a bit of trivia I didn’t know. I’ve seen some more recent horror movies where they went with more of a black color, which I think works great! I think it gives the movie more of a sinister look, especially in horror.
I think Dick Smith came up with the recepie. He also did effects for The Godfather, The Exorcist, and Taxi Driver.
Yes it was Dick Smith's formula of Karo Syrup, red food coloring, and PhotoFlo fluid that became the standard movie blood. Color in this scene just had to be desaturated so it would get an R rating.
I like that the day/night dreaming protag got seriously injured. Most people in these situations think mapping it out brings it all together but hitches come-along.
I saw this when it came out back in the 70’s; still a masterpiece.
4:50 did the demons tell you to rescue the girl?
Lmao
Cinema perfection. Even filmed downward like old crime scene photos from the 20s!!
The version I saw in 1978 was not as washed out with the golden glow effect. The blood red was more defined and not watery-translucent like @ 3:00 and @6:00. I remember the night air as I left the theater, "Mohawk is the next big thing'.
One Of The Iconic Movies In Hollywood History 1976 Oh My God
46 Years Ago
At some point we all have our own fantasy shootout and after a few minutes we face reality and face the fact that we're just another schmuck in a world getting uglier everyday.
You never know what you can do until you try.
lots of schumcks no-lifes ended up being successful mass shooters, so, you know... never say never
Just waiting for the apocalypse or for STHTF......
Whatever comes first, im ready and been fantasizing for it too.
@@markvonschober6872 lmao you aint ready you dumbass.
I'm 14, and this is deep.
What a scene. Still disturbing 45 years + later. I was only 11 when the movie came out so I wasn't allowed to go see it at the time. But I remember the controversy well.
World master class acting from Robert de niro
The best scene ever directed in movie history. Probably nothing will ever top this.
Are you serious bro it’s terrible
@@zapify6999I would fully expect anyone with "bro" in their vocab to not fully appreciate all the many facets that make this scene mind-blowing. Go back to playing X-box.
@@shannonquinn8687But what if they say "This console sucks!"?
This scene should be titled: "Just another day in 1970's New York".
Even back in '76, a young Jodi F. was a true professional and more than capable to take on a variety of roles.
3:45.... he saved/rescued her from the fucked up world that she was in, And he knew the situation he was in and it was all over. He finished what he came there to do. And now its time to rest from those thoughts. Thats god not letting him kill himself so he can enter heaven or whatever, for doing right even tho he committed the sin murder. thats just how I view it from my point and the feeling it get.
Hi Ricky
Good interpretation. Only God could make a gun in a situation like this be empty twice
If you count the shots during the shootout, you'll notice that the gangster fired 5 shots out of his revolver (meaning it had 1 bullet left) and Travis fired 7 shots out of his pistol (meaning he emptied the entire clip). Then he picked up the revolver and fired the last bullet at the old man's head.
That's why both guns were empty when he tried to commit suicide.
The Taxi Driver character is intriguing to me. I never was able to fully figure him out.
Travis is his name. And yeah if you can't relate to him like a lot of people can of course you aren't gonna be able to "fully figure him out" and what's there to figure out. There's so many men like Travis, "doomers" is what they are called these days. What he did was 100% justified in my opinion, except for palantine.
The blood dripping down the wall along with Herman's score for me. Was both beautiful and tragic. And my favourite part of the movie
The garbage strike is finally over. Someone's come to take out the trash.
It sucks that taxi driver video game ended up getting canceled, it looked like it had so much potential and they were gonna have deniro voice act on it I believe. In terms of films though, nothing will ever top this classic and nothing will ever top fight club they are my favorite 2 movies easily
Same here, would've loved to see a game, maybe if they fixed the story a bit and made it more of a maifa definitive edition game it would done well
Bro
as interesting as the game might have been, i have a feeling they would have boiled it down to a generic shooter. there's a awful fight club game that after spending the money on licensing they ran out of budget to animate the cutscenes in the game, so its a literal story slide show. though suppose on the upside you can beat up fred durst with bob (meat loaf) in it, so that's got to be worth at least one percentage point
@@ste887 WOW, didn't know that
Bro I remember that too. There was a lot of hype about that and the HEAT video game that was cancelled as well around the same time. They both seemed really cool as a concept and would’ve been awesome games
I have every 3 Stooges, and that shootout is more side-splitting than all 190 shorts put together 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
Deniro playing a psycho. Art imitating life.
Whys he a psycho
Hes not a psycho
@@falkreathguard7895 nothing wrong with being a psycho
@@yourknightmanny Psychos should kill themselves
@@falkreathguard7895 he's an autistic incel who becomes radicalized.
What a GREAT movie: acting, directing, and just everything.
One of the best scenes of his entire career.
Harvey Keitel was already 37 when he filmed this movie and Robert Deniro was 33
1:49 HE SHOT HIS HAND OUT!
Brutal Clumsy Chaotic Masterpiece of cinema gunfights
i'm 20 now, but taxi driver is one of the greatest movie i've seen in my life.
I thought the same thing when I was 12, now I am 40 and still think it.
The overhead tracking shot is amazing.
I wish these gritty films were made today.
1:53 Just disturbing. Iris on her knees while the John is standing in a room full of candles. Was the other guy another John who just left? More disturbing than what Travis did to free her.
My favorite film/movie of all time, pure classic crime drama and thriller movie
3:29 that scream tho
Robert Deniro has been in two of the most intense scenes in cinematic history this and deer hunter russian roulette
Man that scene of russsian roulette was crazy LOL
This is a very visceral scene. It stayed with me for a long time.
One of my favorite shootout scenes
early "privilege" scenes...cops would have shot any other under same circumstances...
2:47 - damn, he got lit up like an Xmas tree.
In the end Iris saves Travis too. If it wasn't for her he would've killed Palantine, but he changed his mind at the last second because she was still out there
I respectfully disagree. He very clearly didn't change his mind. The secret servicemen chased him away
No …he had no such intentions of saving her…his target was Palantine …he just failed in that attempt and followed up with his other targets
One of the most powerful scenes to ever come out of Hollywood.
Still gritty after all this time.
The headshot at 2:47 is annoying because the guy just stands there at first with 0 reaction, the impact of the bullet alone would make him move. Back in the day they made the actors stand still for practical effects like that I guess because it happens in other older movies too lol
I think it makes more brutal when seeing multiple rounds going into his face. Overall I think this is one of the most realistic shootouts.
I never realized when I saw this in the theatre in 1976 that the final scene is a death dream and not real at all. Travis is dying of blood loss and never makes it off the sofa. Watch him stare into the rear-view mirror in the last scene. Scorsese uses this technique again in 'Shutter Island."
according to scorcese himself, travis survives this, and the end of the film and the beginning can be spliced together because they are the same, meaning travis will continue the same cycle over and over.
but your take isnt bad at all either
@@bulletz4life Fascinating. It must be an urban myth. I only remember Scorsese describing how he has used the classic Hitchcock technique of obscure vision ('Rear Window') more than once.
@@bulletz4life That doesn't really make any sense. He is either going to die or do life in prison after this shootout.
@@timb4248 thats a matter of opinion, im just saying what scorsese himself stated about this
@@bulletz4life That's why it's so strange. Even Scorcese can't argue with my logic there is no way this lunatic is ever seeing the light of day after this incident!
I could see this movie one million times
Best. Movie. Scene. Ever.
Scorsese and DeNiro’s best movie.
A classic.
What's going on behind that window 1:29. Is it the silhouette of someone peeking out, moving their head to see what's going on? The way the shot is framed, it seems significant.
I think it's just the TV
All these new movies should take notes of such a classic, you were no sure til this scene what Deniro will do.
Def work to rewatch
That old guy was pretty tough.
nice name
3:45 “No more bullets. Young and stupid. That was my problem”
Sure it wasn't Irisssss?
I loved this film when it first came out an still do all these years later
One of the greatest pieces of acting I've ever seen. From everyone in that scene.
Awesome scene, but I never understood how Sport could make his way up the stairs with a bullet in his gut.
Harvey Keitel is good at playing complete scumbags. Between this and Bad Lieutenant.
Never gamble
When I first watched this in 1976, the Mohawk haircut that Bickel had was beyond bizarre. (The idea of bizarre hair at its most extreme at that time was Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten.) When I next saw the movie 20 years later, the Mohawk looked pretty ordinary, and the strangest thing was Keitel's platform shoes. So it's a little hard to convey the effect the Mohawk had at the time the movie was first released. It was clear that Bickel was completely round the bend.
the mohawk haircut was a thing among soldiers in Vietnam
@@vibovitoldCopied from the 506 parachute regiment - d day WW2
My favorite thing about all of this is that if you google taxi driver, there is no remake or bs sequel in plans for it.
Bet
I had never considered a woke version of this. It would be worth it for the giggles.
@@aardvarkbiscuit2677 Lol it would revolve around an Uber driver simping for some girl on her Onlyfans
The joker 2019
@@jeremiahsmith4235 I think the Joker is about as close as it will come thankfully, hollywood has no stomach such grittiness and controversial themes these days.
Incredible movie.
To think that now De Niro is a bitter old "Get off of my lawn" man walking around on 3" soles and frothing at the mouth about the Orange Man Bad... 😂
What
@@Bob_99.1 What what?
Yeah, a damn shame but hey i still enjoy his movies but i dont like his takes at all
That sudden musical sting when the cop came around the corner was hilariouspy silly, it took me out of the moment but god damn was it funny.
What is a sports brothel... Lived and worked in NYC my entire life and have never heard that before... Great movie, I remember watching it at the theatre Brothel...
it's the dude's name, the first one shot i think.
the one where you're setting records
1:36 This part to me represents the fact that he doesn't really know what he's about to do. Came up with it on the spot. Just like trying to gun down that senator and failing.