>Quote from Schrader: When I set out to write the script I thought it was about loneliness. As I wrote it I realized it was about something a little different and more interesting: self-imposed loneliness, a syndrome of behavior that reinforces itself. And the touchstones of that kind of behavior are all kinds of contradictory impulses. Puristanism and pornography at the same time... "I've got to get healthy" while popping pills at the same time... That dreadful diet... It's full of these things that he does to make sure he'll never get to where he's going... so he can reinforce his own doomed condition.
this sure hit home isn't it
crazy to think that a character study movie from 50 years ago is still one of the most relatable movie there is and I feel like something like this is RARE
old movies tend to have old values and you can always say "oh it's a product of its time"
Paul Schrader is probably one of America's best writers in general, not just for movies.
Travis is still just as relatable in 2024 for many men as he was in 1976.
That's the mark of a good character
was the bonus situation discussed?
Big theme of the movie is about management and the union both screwing over the hard working protagonists, so pretty much
%3D%3D
Is this good? Aside from Raging Bull or Taxi Driver, I never see any of his other stuff.
Yeah, it's on par with all of his other work
Watch Affliction. It's his best movie
What a shitty poster.
It's really good.
Looks like some gay hippy shit.
He was just born too early to be a Cinemaphile shitposter
Can we trade places? I'd love to be a 70's auter screenwriter who wrote movies with Jodie Foster in them?
I watched Hardcore last night and it was good stuff. First Reformed is also one of my favorite films in recent years.
Wait till you discover literature. Bible is a few thousands years old and is as relevant as ever.
excuse me? it told me not to lie down with men.... it's shit
It's a ripoff of Gilgamesh and Hammurabi
This "movie" is nothing but an advertisement for smoking. There is nothing else to it, there's no deep anything, it is just an ad. The same as any other ad
have a nice day you evil scum
Kil yourself
If he "wrote" this evil trash "movie" then he is evil and should've been killed long ago
What's up buddy, haven't seen you post in a while. We were all getting a little worried.
have a nice day evil scum
have a nice day
This is not a movie. It is an advertisement. It isn't about anything, there aren't any characters. It is just an advertisement. It is the same as any other advertisement. There is nothing artsy about making an advertisement
have a nice day
no
There he is
Schrader is the definition of a "Based Boomer"
Academy Awards are a joke now anyway, the panel that votes for each category doesn't even see every movie eligible
Black Panther was nominated for best picture ffs
I haven’t hung out with my friends in 5 months. I could easily go the whole year. It sneaks up on you
male loneliness is not something society needs to put its attention towards. there are more important issues that need to be deal with right now. lonely men are not a threat. you can leave them alone.
true, we need to focus on accommodating your people (homosexual morons)
Just get more male friends
>lonely men are not a threat. you can leave them alone.
Didn't the media or the people try to pain incel as the most evil thing ever?
anti social depressed man with a gun is definitely a threat to western world
>male loneliness is not something society needs to put its attention towards. there are more important issues that need to be deal with right now. lonely men are not a threat. you can leave them alone.
Until they shoot up the place. Or they don't get married and have children. Or they don't work. Or they become a drain on the healthcare services. Or they commit other crimes.
Males have test, a drive, a need to do something.
the length of his legs in that poster has always bothered me
>Before I sat down to write Taxi Driver, I reread Sartre’s Nausea, because I saw the script as an attempt to take the European existential hero, that is, the man from The Stranger, Notes from the Underground, Nausea, Pickpocket, Le Feu Follet, and A Man Escaped, and put him in an American context. In so doing, you find that he becomes more ignorant, ignorant of the nature of his problem. Travis’s problem is the same as the existential hero’s, that is, should I exist? But Travis doesn’t understand that this is his problem, so he focuses it elsewhere: and I think that is a mark of the immaturity and the youngness of our country.
>We don’t properly understand the nature of the problem, so the self-destructive impulse, instead of being inner-directed, as it is in Japan, Europe, any of the older cultures, becomes outer-directed. The man who feels the time has come to die will go out and kill other people rather than kill himself. There’s a line in Yakuza which says, “When a Japanese cracks up, he’ll close the window and kill himself; when an American cracks up, he’ll open the window and kill somebody else.” That’s essentially how the existential hero changes when he becomes American.
>There is not enough intellectual tradition in this country, and not enough history; and Travis is just not smart enough to understand his problem. He should be killing himself instead of these other people. At the end, when he shoots himself in a playful way, that’s what he’s been trying to do all along.
This dude explained America’s mass shooting problem years before anyone else understood it
I like Schrader and find him to be a great intellectual and artist but I can't take him seriously anymore after the Nastassjia Kinski debacle. Not out of some cucked Reddit morality but because it was pretty debasing.
Apparently he got pretty weird sometime in the 80s. Some anon posted an excerpt from Raging Bulls, Easy Riders where I think Schrader admitted to being bisexual
He was having a life crisis and just latched on to this nonsense for whatever reason that made sense to him at the time. He was raised in a Calvinist community for up to his 20's. That probably fricked him up.
It's called cocaine and the 80s. Yes, he fricked up but even the recent film The Card Counter was fricking kino.
It could've been if the love interest wasn't some fat ugly black woman. Master Gardener was better. First Reformed was very good but the ending let me down a bit. I feel like Master Gardener was a bit more mature and contemplative than his former two.
First Reformed is definitely > than The Card Counter
let's be real here come on
You mean when he proposed to her and she ghosted him?
Well, at he least he got to frick her.
Release the Schrader Cut you HACK
so.... who was in the wrong?
also based Schrader, imagine not wanting to show the world how hot your girlfriend is and making her a hot wife, couldn't be me!
Kinski. This was after he tracked her down and she told him that she fricks all of her directors and that Paul was the hardest because he was so unattractive to her. For that alone, she deserved the humiliation. Also, her marrying a Black person and shitting out a mutt pretty much validates Schrader in fricking her over.
Imagine almost marrying an actress that fricks all her directors. It's ashamed because she denied us Schrader kino when he broke down.
Hit too close to home, chuddiewuddie?
you would not handle a single punch, cut the big boy pose.
>words hurt my feefees, i'll inflict violence on you!!
Ask me how I know you're mentally ill.
>the mutt in question
Somebody's gotta take one for the team and BLEACH her to save the bloodline. I volunteer myself.
Well it won’t be tough, mulatto girls have an insane drive to have whiter kids, I don’t know what it is, maybe on the level of asian and indian girls in how much they love pretty white guys.
I see nothing wrong here.
>The Stranger
>existential
He didn't get it.
What a moron. And even if this were true, the American model is still better.
Yes
it's better to kill other people than you have a nice day
And you wonder why Americans lack such a strong community relationship
>it's better to kill other people than you have a nice day
Yes
>And you wonder why Americans lack such a strong community relationship
Speak for yourself
America has created incredibly weak people.
>have the means to go out, drive a car, afford guns and ammo, live somewhere undisturbed
>that still isn't enough because..... because!!
>now hafta kill other people
Really it's the weak that prey on the strong.
calm down, nietzsche-boy.
How is a person that kills themself going to have any community relationship?
If he love his community so much, He wouldnt want to kill them anons
literally proving his point lmao
Perhaps then you should follow the Sartre model.
>There’s a line in Yakuza which says, “When a Japanese cracks up, he’ll close the window and kill himself; when an American cracks up, he’ll open the window and kill somebody else.” That’s essentially how the existential hero changes when he becomes American.
He predicted mass shooting? what the frick
>He predicted mass shooting?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting
This was a key event for the Boomers
>“When a Japanese cracks up, he’ll close the window and kill himself; when an American cracks up, he’ll open the window and kill somebody else.”
That's why buddhism is better than christianity.
have a nice day evil scum
If you think that evil piece of shit is an "intellectual" you should seriously have a nice day
>He should be killing himself instead of these other people.
This is bullshit. If Schraeder actually thought this he would've written Travis as a psychopathic killer of innocent people, not someone who shoots pimps and gangsters to free a child sex slave.
I can't stand these pretentious filmmakers who make vigilante movies and then claim it's AKSHUALLY anti-vigilante. Bullshit. You wrote a movie about a war vet killing scumbags because that's what you wanted to write. Just admit it.
>You wrote a movie about a war vet killing scumbags
NO, he wrote an advertisement to advertise smoking. Do you watch commercials on TV and think "wow this is really deep"? You talk like you do
Travis was going to kill a politician first. The pimps thing was his cope.
Also let me add that he was going to kill the politician that the girl he was obsessed with worked for. He was literally going to kill someone because a woman spoke highly of him.
I think that had more to do with Travis seeing Palantine as part of the problem, "cold and distant" like everyone else, not caring about cleaning up the city. It's fully in keeping with Travis essentially being a vigilante, not a mindless psycho like Patrick Bateman, though Travis definitely has psychological issues that go back to his Vietnam service.
>mfw I read Palpatine instead of Palantine
We all do, anon.
Paul Kersey is a vigilante. Travis goes after Palantine because of Betsy.
I feel personally attacked
me too buddy... me too
kek lmao, I know what you mean
but if anything that make him more RELATABLE than anything.
that just make him less cool
Yet he comes out of the story a gigachad with a license to kill and is adored by the public
Why didn't Travis go to the commune with Iris? I would've said yes.
>t.34
>childhood: rode bikes, made friends in the neighborhood, played vidya together
>highschool: hung out with metalhead losers, drank in parks and fricked around
>college: partied and got laid, played in bands, went to shows, peak social life
>career: work an office job, partying slowed down, still see friends occasionally
>present: friends all moved to different states, i have awful depression and anxiety, texting friends feels pointless, my social interactions consist of store cashiers and the occasional (you) on Cinemaphile
im so tired bros
At least you lived. You always have your past. I'm 22 years old loser and almost nothing to show off.
Where is my goddamn arc?
homosexual you're still in the first act of the movie, what arc are you talking about
>Where is my goddamn arc?
you are literally at the beginning of it you gay
stop kvetching
This is a thread about the discussion of Paul Schrader's work, not your blogpost. You have incredibly feminine and egotistical thinking.
>me me me
no wonder you're a fricking loser