This Is Dark... TAXI DRIVER (1976) Movie Reaction
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Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Reaction | First Time Watching Movie Reaction | Screenwriter Reacts | Learning From Martin Scorsese So I Can Win An Oscar One day
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On Jake Loves Stories, I watch movies for the first time at viewer requests and I give my breakdown during the movie reaction using my screenwriting knowledge that I gained from 8 years of studying screenwriting and earning a Bachelors degree in Film, while also trying to just enjoy the film.
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"You're only as healthy as you feel."
He's a "literally me" character because of how lonely he is, the going through life without meaning, etc.
Two Harvey Keitel movies in a row - why not follow it up with Bad Lieutenant?
I love the framing device of the letters he writes to his family. It begin to add a level of ambiguity to the film. Like how much of this is real and how much is some fantasy representation of a story he's telling his parents.
Great reaction. Wanted to drop some love for late great character actor Joe Spinnel, here among several others like Peter Boyle, playing the cabstand boss who hires Travis after a testy Noo Yawk introduction. The first character to show him a shred of respect for their shared marine corp bond. Even in such a small role Joe always had an eye catching, flint-eyed, granite faced presence. His career was like a roadmap to touchstone American cinema of the 70s-80s: The Godfather one and two, Rocky one and two, Brubaker, The Monsignor, many more.
It's a somewhat open ended movie but Scorsese has talked about it a few times and how he wanted the movie to be more a critique of a society celebrating violence. The end scene mirroring the beginning with him looking at his reflection is a hint that even though he accidentally became a hero this time, he will start the loop over, he will return to a low state of paranoia. He will kill again.
You can't put this film into your template. Many 70s films broke the usual act structure.
I'm finding out right now this is my 3rd Scorsese film on the channel, I've seen Shutter Island & The Departed. Didn't realize those were all him. Knowing that going in, I would of known this was gonna get dark lol
You never heard of Bernard Goetz, "the subway vigilante?" Look it up.
I have so much I want to comment about, but I’m only going to say that you actually missed so much about this movie. One small instance. His mohawk … it was not perfect because he did it himself. It was very realistic that it would be not be done well and it gave him a more menacing and f’d up look. Maybe you were joking that it was such a hack job.
I've watched a lot of reactions and what I like about yours is that you're pausing the movie when you make a point, so you don't miss anything. Hope you react to more classic movies and keep up the great work.
Travis suffers ptsd and somania from Vietnam war
I slowed it down on VHS and I think he gets a glimpse of the Scorsese character in the back seat. The first guy that describes murdering someone with a gun to Travis. Even if Thomas below is right that it's an image of his eyes, it leaves it open ended. Clearly he planned and failed to kill Palentine which means he is a psycho, but by killing the other people we get to accept him as a hero. But that little twist at the end means hold on.
travis is socially awkward and really looks at dirty movies as regular movies. it’s what’s available in his proximity when he leaves his apartment, so he watches when he wants to watch. to him, u eat chuckles and raisinets and popcorn whenever u watch a “movie”.
Scorcese and Schrader have both commented on the racial undertones of the movie and that Travis is indeed racist. Can you imagine if he had killed three black people in the end and then become a public hero? That would have been a different movie, even more dark, and still just as true to our society.
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Paul Schrader - the screenwriter - works at a very high level here; his movies are worth watching.
I thought was gonna be a movie about a guy who hears stories in his taxi or something like the people who sat by Forest Gump, boy was I wrong
I used to think the ending was unrealistic but then a couple of years after this movie Bernard Goetz shot up a subway and killed people and WAS considered a hero.
This is how great this movie is . Got you Homie!