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  • First time watching and reacting to Taxi Driver
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  • @JohnTWilliams78
    @JohnTWilliams78 9 месяцев назад +50

    Dasha's best reaction moment is, "If she manages to survive, she's going to lose her job." I can just see the employment agency saying, "Iris, your boss is dead, and all the people in the hotel are dead. We're going to have to let you go."

    • @EchelonDnB
      @EchelonDnB 9 месяцев назад +11

      I had a little giggle when I heard "It's such a lovely movie but the atmosphere is quite dark..." - when they're eating pie and drinking coffee....😂😂😂

    • @lucassmith1886
      @lucassmith1886 9 месяцев назад

      Lol 😅

    • @malloid
      @malloid 7 месяцев назад

      @@EchelonDnB Knowing that it's all going to go to s**t when he takes her to the movies. LOL.

    • @EchelonDnB
      @EchelonDnB 7 месяцев назад

      @@malloid Hahaha i know right 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @GetMeThere1
    @GetMeThere1 9 месяцев назад +57

    Just to give you something to think about. The screenplay was written by the great Paul Schrader. His idea was to show that men who are lonely, or at the edges of society, can lose themselves, and can potentially lose their minds. He has remarked that after this movie came out he had several men come visit him (and rather angry) to ask "How did you know about me? How did you know my story." LOL.

    • @heterophony2
      @heterophony2 9 месяцев назад +3

      @GetMeThere1 I just read “Transcendental Style in Film” by Schrader. He is certainly among the most important screenwriters of his generation. As amazing as Taxi Driver is, Schrader’s 2017 film First Reformed is an even more perfect exploration of the isolated young man, from that uniquely moralizing, Protestant perspective that few other screenwriters have. Thanks for giving him a mention!

    • @lucassmith1886
      @lucassmith1886 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@heterophony2 thanks for the unintentional suggestion I will have to check that film out! And although it has always been an issue to some extent, the lonely and outcast man, especially younger, is a huge problem nowadays. We have seen sympathetic views pushed for pretty much every category of human except for white, straight males, and if they are Christian that is a bonus. Sure men can handle criticism to an extent and can laugh at themselves, but these people have been not only blamed for basically every conceivable problem in today's world, but their actual issues are flat out ignored.
      With the response to any grievances they have almost always is something like, "quit whining, your type rules the world. " or even, "you have no right to complain, what about (insert any group other than them)? Huge problems, and we are seeing more of this around the world as well. That isn't to say that other groups don't have problems that are valid, because everyone has a problem to some degree. But it is to say that the abovementioned people are the collective punching bag who even other white men like to gang up on to exhibit how virtuous and morally superior they are to your "average straight white male." And unfortunately this is radicalizing many of them, and doesn't do anything but divide people, and create resentment and distrust from BOTH sides.
      I genuinely hope with all of my being that this very odd literal obsession with one's race in particular but also every other category, will fade out and people will start to level back out and simply love one another equally. Sorry for the Ted talk, but this subject is so relevant I felt I had to mention it. ✌️

  • @meheuck
    @meheuck 9 месяцев назад +15

    This was the last film score by the great composer Bernard Herrman, who had previously worked with Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock among others. The lore is that he died the night after completing all the music.

    • @InlandDiscoEmpire
      @InlandDiscoEmpire 9 месяцев назад

      Sure, but you can see the scar on his next when he turns.

    • @porflepopnecker4376
      @porflepopnecker4376 9 месяцев назад

      The day after I saw this at the theater, I went out and bought the soundtrack album!

  • @progunliberal
    @progunliberal 9 месяцев назад +16

    You are incredibly insightful Dasha. You understood this film far better than any other reactor I've seen watch it.

  • @miker252
    @miker252 9 месяцев назад +6

    The ending reminded me of, when I was a sophomore high school, and a senior jumped me in the hallway. I was holding my own, when a teacher broke i up, telling him to stop if he wanted to graduate with the rest of his class, sending us both to our classrooms. When I got to my class, I was sitting behind this girl that I'd had a crush on for awhile,. She, turning obviously impressed and interested in me now, asked if that was my blood in the hallway. "Some of it," I said but, seeing her excited by the violence, I no longer cared what she taught of me.

  • @GetMeThere1
    @GetMeThere1 9 месяцев назад +69

    The woman behind the counter in the X-rated movie house, who didn't want to be bothered by him, was actually Robert De Niro's wife. And, you likely know, the man in the cab who wanted to shoot his wife in the window in the apartment was Martin Scorsese himself.

    • @user-qf1br9dq8m
      @user-qf1br9dq8m 4 месяца назад +1

      And at 3:13 the guy sitting to the right of the door is Martin Scorsese....gotta look quick.

    • @kalzonibalboa8355
      @kalzonibalboa8355 4 месяца назад +1

      Didn’t know that was Roberts wife, seen this countless times

    • @GetMeThere1
      @GetMeThere1 4 месяца назад +2

      @@kalzonibalboa8355 They were married from 1976 to 1988. In The King of Comedy (1982) she played the girl De Niro was stalking.

  • @anunnacy
    @anunnacy 9 месяцев назад +28

    Great movie and nice reaction Dasha. 😉
    I am one of those, who interpret the ending in a way that he died in the building and the scenes afterwards are just a representation of what goes on in his mind, what his brain imagines during his last few seconds before death. If you see it that way, then the last few scenes are pretty twilight'y and haunting (which I find super interesting)... things that support this theory are: Why would you see him just like before standing there with his taxi friends after these horrific things and his mental state like it was nothing (hair grown back, all good)? Why would his dreamgirl suddenly be in his taxi and why does the camera show her so long and in such a dream-like way (too good to be true/real)? Also his sudden view in the mirror right before credits roll - like he's realizing what happens? And after that just street signs at night passing by, the things his eyes saw most of the time in his daily routine.
    Him dying in the building would also give the "balance" of good and evil.. it was a crime, but he didn't get away with what he did either.. instead he gave his life in exchange for giving Iris a better life and future.

    • @trotter73ca
      @trotter73ca 9 месяцев назад +4

      I always thought he was fantasizing about how he pictured things were supposed to go as he bled out on the couch. There's no way he could go in there with guns blazing and not get charged. Plus, I think Palantine's secret service probably reported him after having 2 encounters with him. Anyways, I think it's the most logical ending even though Martin Scorsese claims Travis lived and that's the real ending.

    • @trotter73ca
      @trotter73ca 9 месяцев назад +5

      I forgot to add, Iris' father's letter seemed like something Travis would write and Travis was writing all the time in his journal.

    • @4Kandlez
      @4Kandlez 9 месяцев назад +4

      I disagree, the ending is reality and not some dream state, Schrader, De Niro, and Scorsese have all said this and I'm inclined to believe them, LOL

    • @dogawful
      @dogawful 9 месяцев назад

      That's an interesting thought. I've only seen it once before and then this edited reaction. It does seem far-fetched to me that Betsy would be willing to ride in his cab or speak to him. Either way, it's open to interpretation.

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@4Kandlez A movie can be interpreted in a different way than the director and writer intended, especially when it has such an ambiguous and contradictory ending.

  • @hilarymiseroy
    @hilarymiseroy 9 месяцев назад +26

    This movie is about obsession and isolation. It is showing how fine the line is between heroic vigilante and psycopathic killer. The final frames show the madness is still there and will come to the surface again.

  • @davidgagnon7806
    @davidgagnon7806 9 месяцев назад +3

    Travis was in the Marines during the Vietnam War, so the robber in the store was probably not the first person Travis ever killed.

  • @renzero9206
    @renzero9206 9 месяцев назад +9

    Iconic film and a fantastic performance by De Niro. Contains one of the most iconic lines in cinema history. And, as others have mentioned I am sure, Jodie Foster gave a great performance showing what a fantastic actress she would become (going on to be a 2-time Oscar winner, multiple BAFTA and multiple Golden Globe winner as well). Yes, she was only 12 years old when she made this.

    • @docbearmb
      @docbearmb 9 месяцев назад

      Probably someone can come up with a stinker but when doesn’t this woman give a great performance. In my book, she’s the best of her generation.

  • @gazoontight
    @gazoontight 9 месяцев назад +3

    That haircut Travis has at the end used to be used in the military by men who are going on a suicide mission.

  • @brianmiller4207
    @brianmiller4207 9 месяцев назад +5

    The last shot of Travis, is of him looking into the mirror and the sound of broken glass played backwards indicates that Travis will explode again, but when?

  • @HalkerVeil
    @HalkerVeil 9 месяцев назад +2

    Her instinct on these types of movies seem to be spot on. She even picked up on the mechanical arm before it was made clear.
    I've seen others from her generation react to this movie and think he was making a robotic suit like some ridiculous Anime.

  • @hotflesh66
    @hotflesh66 9 месяцев назад +2

    Jodie Foster as the pre-teen prostitute also did other work in horror in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and the teen film FOXES. The Pimp Harvey Keitel was in films like Mean Streets, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Sister Act, and Copland to name a few. The bald headed Taxi Driver Peter Boyle was most famous for roles in the film Young Frankenstein(comedy) and as the dad in Everybody Loves Raymond. He turned down an Oscar winning role in The French Connection which went to Gene Hackman and it was one of his big regrets. That film was directed by the late William Friedkin who also did The Exorcist. Cybill Sheppard was famous as a model, tv, and for doing film including The Last Picture Show. Tom the campaign worker played by Albert Brooks voiced characters in The Simpsons and Finding Dory animation, was nominated for an Oscar for Broadcast News, and won awards for writing the film Mother. In the 1970s, films like I Am Curious Yellow, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, and Behind the Green Door actually got couples and singles to the theaters since it was a sexual revolution in the 1970s and the attitudes about sex were changing.

  • @matthewfike4491
    @matthewfike4491 9 месяцев назад +10

    After Hours is another great Martin Scorcese film, dark, artistic comedy rather than noir.
    Thanks for reacting to this, Dasha.

  • @dan_hitchman007
    @dan_hitchman007 9 месяцев назад +23

    Robert De Niro is playing an anti-hero. Travis is just as messed up, if not more so, than anyone else he complains about. He's psychotic and is not exactly a character to look up to. It's kind of like watching "The Sopranos" or "Breaking Bad," where the audience is forced to confront that they are rooting for the bad guy.

    • @Hexon66
      @Hexon66 9 месяцев назад +2

      That's not what anti-hero means.

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable 9 месяцев назад +2

      A lot of movies and video games are built around rooting for the bad guy.
      It's weird so many people defend these characters while still recognising they aren't great people.

  • @idbrady9759
    @idbrady9759 9 месяцев назад +5

    This is one of the films that inspired me to start writing. All the best from Scotland guys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @sithlordkaeyl21
    @sithlordkaeyl21 9 месяцев назад +3

    After this movie came out, a man named, John Hinckley, Jr. would watch it in theaters over a dozen times, and would become OBSESSED with a young Jodie Foster. He would write her many, many letters. Would call her constantly at Yale, where she was attending, and then in 1981, to prove how much he loved her, John Hinckley, Jr. would go to Washington, DC, and try to assassinate President Reagan. The President, and several others would be seriously injured, but luckily, no one died. After all of this, he would spend decades in a mental institution, until he was finally released in 2016.

  • @JamesMBC
    @JamesMBC 9 месяцев назад +10

    That archetype of character is called an "antihero".
    He is a good guy with a lot of darkness inside, that is willing to use violent methods to achieve a good goal.
    There are many movies with that type of character, but this one is one of the classics.

  • @porflepopnecker4376
    @porflepopnecker4376 9 месяцев назад +2

    I saw this at the theater back when it came out and it scared the heck out of me. I went out the next day and bought the soundtrack album containing the great Bernard Herrmann's final film score. When I got my first VCR in 1981, this was one of the very first movies I bought on VHS tape back when they were super-expensive ($70-90 apiece).

  • @JamesDavis-sh9gh
    @JamesDavis-sh9gh 9 месяцев назад +87

    The crazy guy in the cab who wants to kill his wife is played by Martin Scorsese himself.

    • @spiderxparker_
      @spiderxparker_ 9 месяцев назад

      @@hastingscutoff1304he directed this movie as well

    • @helvete_ingres4717
      @helvete_ingres4717 9 месяцев назад

      scorseses, tarantino - what is it with great directors doing cameos in their own movies just to drop copious n-bombs, is this why people get into film-making

    • @bernardsalvatore1929
      @bernardsalvatore1929 9 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@helvete_ingres4717 it all started with Alfred Hitchcock he was the first one to put himself in his own films!

    • @Retrostar619
      @Retrostar619 9 месяцев назад

      @@bernardsalvatore1929 Did Hitch drop an N-bomb too?

    • @bernardsalvatore1929
      @bernardsalvatore1929 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@Retrostar619 NEGATIVE

  • @santiagorodriguez9849
    @santiagorodriguez9849 9 месяцев назад +8

    Great reaction Dahsa. I was wondering if you would be able to see the similarity between this movie and Joker. This was the blueprint they used for Joker and they even wanted Martin Scorsese to direct it.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 9 месяцев назад +2

    I believe it is never mentioned, but De Niro's character has all the signs of being a combat veteran.

  • @michaellippard6107
    @michaellippard6107 8 месяцев назад

    You're correct in determining the movie to be a character study: There is a plot-line, yes, but its purpose is to reveal the character of Travis. There's much to say about this movie, and I can't say it all here, but one thing should interest you: The reason Travis wears the Army jacket is because he is a veteran of The United States Marine Corps; moreover, if you pause the film and look very, very carefully at the news story that shows Travis as a hero, you'll see in the newsprint that Travis isn't just any Marine...he was a member of The Special Forces, and this explains why he's such a badass.

  • @westboundno8
    @westboundno8 9 месяцев назад +1

    That period in the early to mid seventies, New York was a really dangerous city

  • @positivelynegative9149
    @positivelynegative9149 9 месяцев назад +2

    After the opening credit, Dasha never thought about Jodie Foster again. 🤣

  • @michaelbuhl4250
    @michaelbuhl4250 9 месяцев назад +33

    I love the contradictions and ambiguity in this movie. It's one of my favorites. Hopefully without giving too much away, I feel like the Scorsese movie *The King of Comedy* is the flip side of this movie in a way.

    • @TheNeonRabbit
      @TheNeonRabbit 9 месяцев назад +3

      Put King of Comedy and this movie together and you have "Joker"

    • @porflepopnecker4376
      @porflepopnecker4376 9 месяцев назад

      I always thought it was like a comedy version of "Taxi Driver" as well.

    • @wet-read
      @wet-read 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@TheNeonRabbit
      A weird, poorly done mishmash of those two films, yes.

  • @pheerstringer
    @pheerstringer 9 месяцев назад +1

    Some say that at the end… that is him dying… it’s his final fantasy.

  • @kennethjoseph6362
    @kennethjoseph6362 9 месяцев назад +2

    10:09 the passenger in the cab here is Martin Scorsese, the director of the film. Deniro spent a month actually driving a cab around New York to get into character for this film, and studied metal illness for preparation. another great reaction to a classic!

    • @stereo999
      @stereo999 9 месяцев назад +2

      Metal Illness🤘🎸

    • @porflepopnecker4376
      @porflepopnecker4376 9 месяцев назад

      Scorcese can also be seen sitting in front of the building when Travis sees Betsy for the first time.

  • @turtleturds
    @turtleturds 9 месяцев назад +2

    It's a lonely guy who'se environment is driving him crazy. He wants to make a change but he's also socially awkward. He almost makes the wrong choice to assassinate a politician, but at the last minute decides to kill a nest of child predators. Very complex movie.

  • @JohnnyXoz
    @JohnnyXoz 10 месяцев назад +25

    You're right Dasha the movie 'The Joker' took a lot of inspiration from this movie

    • @cineparaamigos6213
      @cineparaamigos6213 10 месяцев назад +8

      Also the king of comedy with robert de niro also

    • @styot
      @styot 10 месяцев назад +8

      Even more from 'King of Comedy' another film from Scorsese and DeNiro

    • @ted__ryan
      @ted__ryan 9 месяцев назад +1

      Duh

    • @ted__ryan
      @ted__ryan 9 месяцев назад

      ​@FaceAway-xb9hd more like emulate. Tarantino emulate other films😢

    • @tonysoto8949
      @tonysoto8949 9 месяцев назад

      So by this logic all movies “steal” from other movies. Joker paid homage to King of Comedy and very little from Taxi driver. The only party Joker used from this movie was the finger trigger to the head and the time period in which the movie is taking place. Other than that taxi driver and Joker couldn’t be more different. Travis Bickel is a Alpha male type and can hold his own against most. Arthur Fleck was the total opposite. Quinten Tarantino had made a living copying other films and nobody says anything other than he’s a genius. Only an idiot who is pissed off because the Joker was a huge hit would accuse the movie creator of stealing from other movies

  • @o.b.7217
    @o.b.7217 9 месяцев назад +6

    Cybill Sheperd was so hot...
    I loved her in "Taxi Driver", "Moonlighting" and "Cybill".

  • @calm713
    @calm713 9 месяцев назад +2

    In the movie, made in 1976, he says he's making about $350 per week, which is about $1900+ dollars today.

  • @malloid
    @malloid 7 месяцев назад

    Great reaction, Dasha. Taxi Driver definitely makes you think a lot about certain aspects of life, like "good" and "evil" not always being quite so black and white, and your analysis at the end was very good. The film has outstanding performances throughout, but Jodie Foster and Cybill Shepherd stand out for me. As well as De Niro, of course. One other thing: Taxi Driver was the last score of legendary composer Bernard Herrmann, before he died. While very much different to his usual style, it's a perfect score that suits the film well. Hermann scored Psycho, Citizen Kane, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Cape Fear, Jason and the Argonauts, and many other films.

  • @andrewq159
    @andrewq159 9 месяцев назад +27

    Some people claim that the ending is in Travis Bickle's imagination, but there's no evidence of that being the case.

    • @kinghans6266
      @kinghans6266 9 месяцев назад +3

      Evidence, in a movie.

    • @spurgurius
      @spurgurius 9 месяцев назад +6

      Martin Scorsese has confirmed many times that the ending is real.

    • @andrewq159
      @andrewq159 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@kinghans6266 Indication is probably a better word.

    • @andrewq159
      @andrewq159 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@spurgurius Yet the claim persists!

    • @helvete_ingres4717
      @helvete_ingres4717 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@spurgurius the director can only tell you what they intended, they can't tell you what about the movie is 'real'

  • @blaisebienvenue5117
    @blaisebienvenue5117 9 месяцев назад +2

    One of the great New York movies, in my opinion. Scorsese's earlier Mean Streets, another great one. I first saw Taxi Driver as a teen in the 1980s. At the time, I lived about 80 miles north of NYC, and Taxi Driver influenced my conception of "The City" to a great degree. Your reaction, just being yourself, you clearly understand a lot of things that other people don't on first view of this film. It's downright vindicating to hear some of the things you said! Thanks for the great reaction.

  • @kinokind293
    @kinokind293 9 месяцев назад +3

    Well done, Dasha! I remember seeing the film in the theater when it first came out (New York was really like that then) A friend of mine who was next to me started to laugh humorlessly when Travis starts his shooting spree and then got up and walked out in shock. Everybody will tell you that it was Scorsese who was the bearded guy who wants to kill his wife, but did you recognize the bald cabbie (Peter Boyle) as the monster in Young Frankenstein? Or the curly-haired political office guy (Albert Brooks) as the voice of the father of Dory, the fish, in the animated Finding Nemo (not to mention Lost in America, Defending Your Life, Broadcast News, etc.).

  • @TylerNorCal
    @TylerNorCal 9 месяцев назад +3

    Yesss, one of my favorite films...you're killing it lately with the classics Dasha! Great picks.

  • @jorgezarco9269
    @jorgezarco9269 9 месяцев назад

    The jazzy music score was composed by Bernard Herrmann. He died around Christmas 1975.

  • @jamesjones8482
    @jamesjones8482 9 месяцев назад +2

    Great reaction Dasha! Keep-up the good work. ❤

  • @zerobyte802
    @zerobyte802 7 месяцев назад +1

    My thoughts on Travis's rampage: good riddance to bad rubbish. They were child traffickers. A fellow cinephile friend of mine introduced me to this movie. He loved 70s movies but their typical downer endings always pissed me off. I was glad this one ended well.
    At the time, I was the same age as Travis. I was alone and lonely and terrible with women too. I loved this movie. I understood his feelings, but I wasnt going to go out and become the Punisher though.

  • @cjmacq-vg8um
    @cjmacq-vg8um 9 месяцев назад +1

    your naivete is so refreshing. the girl he almost hit with his cab was an underaged prostitute played by 12 year old jody foster. this film depicts a man's slow dissent into madness while witnessing society crumble. the "moral" of the film is that there's a thin line between what society deems a hero and a madman.
    i drove a cab for a while in Kansas City years ago. you pay a basic rent for the cab, per day, and get to keep everything you make beyond the rental for the cab. becausae NY is so over crowded and conjested you make a good living driving in cab because many people don't drive in NY. in kansas city not so much.

  • @daron85
    @daron85 9 месяцев назад

    Your struggle at the end on how to percieve Travis is just you understanding that he is an anti-hero.

  • @MrDMF567
    @MrDMF567 9 месяцев назад

    The reveal of his mohawk is such a great shot.

  • @alonzocoyethea6148
    @alonzocoyethea6148 9 месяцев назад

    2:12 In most cab companies, you pay a lease and insurance fee for any accidents you may have..ran about 90.00 back in the 80's when I drove for Yellow in L.A.. U had to buy your own gas, but we got it 35% off ..on a bad night, I'd clear around 70.00..on good, around 120.00. Only drove 3 nights a week, Like Travis, I didn't like the night creatures either! Great reaction and still one the best Scorcese/DeNiro films!! (Crazy how mature Foster's acting was even as a 12-year old, wasn't it?)

  • @robinhooduk8255
    @robinhooduk8255 9 месяцев назад

    fun fact! 2:43 that black girl is robert denero's first wife.

  • @JW666
    @JW666 9 месяцев назад +1

    Speaking of The Joker, this is the movie that was the inspiration & influence when they made it, another one that was also an inspiration & an influence in making The Joker was another Scorsese/DeNiro movie called King of Comedy (which you should also see & react to).
    Travis wasn't a villain, he's an antihero. A villain would have killed innocent people too, an antihero only kills criminals & other villains.
    But in reality, Travis is a mentally unstable guy with insomnia & like many other Vietnam vets he also suffers from PTSD. He has good intentions, but because of his condition it becomes more darker & more violent.

  • @philmakris8507
    @philmakris8507 9 месяцев назад +1

    The pimp was Winston Wolf in Pulp Fiction

  • @normlee6566
    @normlee6566 9 месяцев назад +14

    It's a little bit different from Joker. Travis Bickle was a Vietnam War veteran who suffered from combat PTSD coupled with induced insomnia, which made him mentally imbalanced. Arthur Fleck, in the Joker, suffered from a form of PTSD due to abuse by his foster mother (who apparently, also suffered from mental illness) and her boyfriend, schizophrenia, and personality disorders. I believe he really went over the edge when he stopped taking his medication and his therapy sessions were terminated. But you are correct in that both films highlight mental illness.

    • @monkeyballs512
      @monkeyballs512 9 месяцев назад +8

      It’s a lot different from Joker. It’s actually a great film

    • @mr.e1149
      @mr.e1149 9 месяцев назад

      Joker is different from this film, this was first.
      Duh

    • @normlee6566
      @normlee6566 9 месяцев назад

      Do you even know how to read english? And what does being " first" have to do with the underlying subject matter? Duh, indeed.@@mr.e1149

  • @harryrabbit2870
    @harryrabbit2870 9 месяцев назад +2

    When film makers started slipping away from the corporate structure in the 1960', 70's and 80's you started seeing this kind of movie. I compare "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Cool Hand Luke" and "Serpico" and " The French Connection" to movies from the last 10 years and new movies always come up short. We can do so much more now but storytelling isn't something the New Corporate Structure is interested in. As consumers, we have been shown a Chateaubriand but are then served a day-old hamburger. I feel cheated.

  • @dan_hitchman007
    @dan_hitchman007 9 месяцев назад +7

    Watch the ending again. I think you will find Scorsese is trying to show that Travis is still a bomb ready to go off with the cinematic flourishes of slashes of colors, the random frantic edits, and his expressions. His eyes look predatory.

    • @richardzinns5676
      @richardzinns5676 9 месяцев назад +5

      Strongly agree. And that is what everybody I talked to about the movie thought when it came out.

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable 9 месяцев назад

      He fell off the fence on the "hero" side this time.

    • @dan_hitchman007
      @dan_hitchman007 9 месяцев назад

      @@Cheepchipsable Well, people were calling him a hero anyway, but he was still deranged.

    • @fjsioewiox
      @fjsioewiox 4 месяца назад

      lmao stop reaching

  • @johnsisk2858
    @johnsisk2858 9 месяцев назад

    I saw this back in the 70's and I never forgotten a lot of the dialog.

  • @martinishot
    @martinishot 9 месяцев назад

    When you hear the pimp in this film just imagine him saying I'm Winston wolf, I solve problems.

  • @olivegreenpants7153
    @olivegreenpants7153 9 месяцев назад

    The guy with the glasses in the office is Albert Brooks who went on to do the voice of Marlin in Finding Nemo

  • @lanolinlight
    @lanolinlight 9 месяцев назад +8

    The post-20th century, non-NYC innocence of this reaction is as mesmerizing as the movie itself. ✨

  • @franklubbock8400
    @franklubbock8400 9 месяцев назад +1

    Astrology was huge back in the 1970s!

  • @ernestitoe
    @ernestitoe 8 месяцев назад

    The sign on the office wall says, "Get organizized" because anyone who spells it that way is not organized. The office workers are making fun of themselves, because offices where a lot of people work are seldom organized. Similarly with the sign that says "thimk," because anyone who spells "think" that way is not thinking, which will cause an office to become disorganizized.

  • @roddmatsui3554
    @roddmatsui3554 9 месяцев назад

    It’s a really cozy movie to watch. Have a snack pastry and a coffee with this one.

  • @tomfrankiewicz4030
    @tomfrankiewicz4030 9 месяцев назад +2

    One Of My All Time Favorite Movies.

  • @philmakris8507
    @philmakris8507 9 месяцев назад

    In those days in NYC the taxi driver would pay a fee to rent the cab for a daily fee. Also the city would get a cut of the revenue as well as the cab company would get a smaller percentage of the fare. The customer would pay by the mile all tracked on the mechanical meter.
    The city and the state regulate the number if cabs.

  • @norwegianblue2017
    @norwegianblue2017 9 месяцев назад

    There is a picture of my mom in the 1960s and she looked EXACTLY like Cybill Shepherd back then. So weird.

  • @rickyd-lux9067
    @rickyd-lux9067 Месяц назад

    Taxi Driver is like a realistic Batman

  • @dggydddy59
    @dggydddy59 9 месяцев назад +1

    I love the use of Jackson Browne's lovely classic "Late For The Sky" in this movie. There's some really excellent material on that album.

  • @davidbellamy2612
    @davidbellamy2612 9 месяцев назад +1

    This movie is like a Russian doll; layer upon layer of perspectives with the main character being seedy parts of New York itself and the tiny and final doll is "the hero" yet at another level Travis is a villain and he is a victim. As such it is a study in how there are no absolutes; it all depends on from where you are looking. Very clever film-making indeed.

  • @longfootbuddy
    @longfootbuddy 9 месяцев назад +1

    thats right.. theres no way things would end up like this.. it should be obvious enough for people to suspect that this ending isnt to be taken literally

  • @mattp.3949
    @mattp.3949 9 месяцев назад

    Taxi driver is the seedy version of New York City in 1976. The personal officer at 1:37 who gives Travis (Robert DeNiro) the job as a taxi driver was played by the late great Joe Spinell (1936-1989) a famous New York born character actor. There at 10:10 is the director Martin Scorsese himself in a cameo appearance as the guy in the taxi who inspires Travis to buy a .44 Magnum firearm.

    • @user-qf1br9dq8m
      @user-qf1br9dq8m 4 месяца назад

      Scorsese is at 3:13 also, sitting to the right of the door, gotta look quick.

  •  9 месяцев назад

    28:35 Dasha you are not wrong, in fact _Joker_ (2019) has rehash material from both, Robert De Niro's _The King Of Comedy_ (1982) and Robert De Niro's _Taxi Driver_ (1976), plus Robert De Niro gets to play the talk show host opposing Joaquin Phoenix in the _Joker_ .

  • @DaveW90
    @DaveW90 9 месяцев назад +1

    I dont know if this is true but i heard that some vietman soldiers would shave their heads into mohawks if they knew they were going into a mission they were sure they wouldnt come back alive. So I think thats why Travis did that cause he was on his own mission where we was prepard to die.
    Impressed that you could tell that this inspired the movie Joker.
    A couple other movies that inspired Joker that are worth checking out are
    -The King of Comedy
    -Network

  • @TheStruggleUK.
    @TheStruggleUK. 9 месяцев назад

    Hi from the UK 😊 another wonderful reaction to a classic movie!

  • @reedrothchild7966
    @reedrothchild7966 9 месяцев назад +3

    Joker is HUGELY influenced by Taxi Driver

  • @glenwoodreid5910
    @glenwoodreid5910 8 месяцев назад

    @9:15 scene was filmed in the Ed Sullivan theater.

  • @DaveW90
    @DaveW90 9 месяцев назад

    Also the more ive watched this movie the more ive noticed the saxaphone music that plays continously throught the movie. I believe that music represented the lonliness that surronds Travis.

  • @blunt2416
    @blunt2416 9 месяцев назад

    Great reaction & analysis at the end👍

  • @tec52
    @tec52 9 месяцев назад +2

    Love your reactions. The man in the cab who wanted to shoot his wife in the window in the apartment was Martin Scorsese

  • @MrDMF567
    @MrDMF567 9 месяцев назад

    The scene where he’s buying the guns is so uniquely unnerving. Cool scene.

  • @tomfrankiewicz4030
    @tomfrankiewicz4030 9 месяцев назад

    This movie is a character study of urban alienation.

  • @christinawoolley6206
    @christinawoolley6206 9 месяцев назад

    I truly appreciate your insights and comments! Thank you for sharing! 😽💋🎬🖤

  • @victorzuniga233
    @victorzuniga233 9 месяцев назад

    Your analysis on this movie is spot on. You should be a professional film critic.

    • @HonkHonkler
      @HonkHonkler 9 месяцев назад

      Eeeeeeeeeeeeh, not exactly....

  • @chemdah
    @chemdah 9 месяцев назад

    Great reaction!

  • @BeastrealDT
    @BeastrealDT 9 месяцев назад

    I wear a Mohawk too. When I cut my hair. I hold clippers in one hand and a small mirror in the other hand. While I use the bathroom mirror. The hardest part is keeping the lines straight
    Travis is a vigilante taking the law into his own hands. ✌️❤️🌹

  • @highlander31527
    @highlander31527 9 месяцев назад

    This is a polarizing movie.
    It may be the source behind the antihero trope itself.
    A person willing to do awful things to bad people to try to help others.
    It was a rather novel idea from a time where people viewed things in black and white.
    You were either all good, or all bad.
    To see someone doing bad things to help others was a novel idea.

    • @Hexon66
      @Hexon66 9 месяцев назад

      Travis is not an antihero. He's the embodiment of a white male fragility. Prior to the studio demanding it be sanitized, everyone he kills is Black, including Sport. (Quentin Tarantino pointed out in his book the ludicrousness of the character being white in the first place). Travis could only be considered an antihero from a white supremacist perspective.

  • @jdhdjjdjdjjdjdijdjd1110
    @jdhdjjdjdjjdjdijdjd1110 9 месяцев назад

    Nice that you picked up on the camera moving away from the awkward phone call

  • @user-qf1br9dq8m
    @user-qf1br9dq8m 4 месяца назад

    At 3:13 the guy sitting to the right of the door is Martin Scorsese.

  • @ssombies
    @ssombies 9 месяцев назад

    My favorite film. I enjoyed watching it with you.

  • @tonyrossell832
    @tonyrossell832 9 месяцев назад

    Keep up the great work Dasha!

  • @jishin75
    @jishin75 9 месяцев назад +1

    Goodfellas is definitely one of my favorite movies too. Good taste.
    And great reaction Молодец!

  • @alanh.7668
    @alanh.7668 9 месяцев назад

    If you want another De Niro from this era, "King Of Comedy" with he and Jerry Lewis, you will like it.

  • @sheldondyck8631
    @sheldondyck8631 9 месяцев назад

    I’d like to recommend watching The Last Waltz also directed by Martin Scorsese. It’s The Band’s last live performance and they invited a lot of famous musician friends to play with them. I’m not sure it would be possible to make a reaction video cause you’d probably have to cut out portions of the performances but you should definitely watch it on your own. It’s one of the best live concerts ever recorded.

  • @generativejamessgamess1179
    @generativejamessgamess1179 9 месяцев назад

    One of my favorite movies and one of my favorite reactors. What a treat!

  • @COFF2HIGH
    @COFF2HIGH 9 месяцев назад +1

    They talked Swedish in the adult movie they watched together 😅

  • @TheinterfaceTvSeries
    @TheinterfaceTvSeries 9 месяцев назад +1

    I adore this movie. This is the film that made me want to be a filmmaker.

  • @reservoirdude92
    @reservoirdude92 9 месяцев назад +7

    This is cinematic art. Plain and simple.

  • @mrglass5286
    @mrglass5286 9 месяцев назад

    So glad you're watching this movie. One of the best movies ever. De Niro is the 🐐🐐

  • @bradgibson856
    @bradgibson856 9 месяцев назад

    Joker vibe yes. You just watched Taxi Driver, now watch another Scorsese movie King of Comedy, a dark comedy also staring De Niro. Then re-watch Joker. Juaquin Phoenix when promoting the film said it paid homage to Scorsese. No, it was primarily a combination of Taxi Driver and King of Comedy.

  • @markyncole
    @markyncole 9 месяцев назад

    The guy in the cab watching his wife in another man's apartment is Martin Scorsese.

  • @christopherconard2831
    @christopherconard2831 9 месяцев назад

    The cops can't make a first move....
    This was the 1970's. The Philly PD dropped a bomb on a tenemant building and burnt down an entire block. Policing back then was.... different.
    Check out Serpico or Ft Apache, the Bronx.

  • @73jefft
    @73jefft 9 месяцев назад

    This has been my favorite film since I saw it about 30 years ago.

  • @martensjd
    @martensjd 9 месяцев назад +4

    Dasha said 1976 and I suddenly remembered seeing this movie at a drive in with someone who became important to me.

    • @user-vq1bk5no3j
      @user-vq1bk5no3j 9 месяцев назад +1

      a movie about a psychopathic stalker, were tickets to the porn theater sold out?

    • @winstonmarlowe5254
      @winstonmarlowe5254 9 месяцев назад +1

      >outing yourself as an old guy who watches reaction videos

  • @acheronnchase6220
    @acheronnchase6220 9 месяцев назад +5

    The girl at the concession stand at the x-rated theater was an ex girlfriend of Deniro’s and she was also in ‘the King of Comedy,’ another Scorsese movie that the Joker borrowed heavily from

    • @ShreveportJoe
      @ShreveportJoe 9 месяцев назад +3

      Diahnne Abbott was De Niro’s first wife from ’76 to ‘88.

  • @philmakris8507
    @philmakris8507 9 месяцев назад

    The guy spying on his wife was played by Scorcese himself