So the message of the movie is:
>vigilantism pays off
>women are untrustworthy
>black people are a nuisance to America
>democracy is fake
>politicians and police can't be relied on
>cities are full of criminal scum that need to be violently removed
>mentally ill schizoid young men are in the right; the rest of society is wrong
How the frick did they get away with making this movie?
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Right on all counts. I've watched this movie 245 times. I can't get enough. I put it on when I want to sleep.
have a nice day you evil israelite
have a nice day evil scum
Scorsese has stated that the film was supposed to be "feminist" but that always sounded to me like a post facto cope to avoid being cancelled after he accidentally made the most right-wing Hollywood movie ever
It's definitely nonsense to save face.
Movies can occasionally get away with portraying basic reality if they pretend like the main character is a bad chud and the message is actually the opposite (even if it's not, soi types will then think they have 'media literacy' for imagining the movie is anti chud)
The sharpening filter on that phone did the picture dirty, it looks like it's from a video game.
>Movies can occasionally get away with portraying basic reality if they pretend like the main character is a bad chud and the message is actually the opposite
This is what the director of Dirty Harry did. You hear the guy talk and he says how Harry is as bad as Scorpio because he is le fascist and violated the serial killer's 4th amendment rights when he forced him to reveal where the girl was.
BTW, that hot piece of bush you see when they drag her body out of the sewer is none other than 17 year old Debralee Scott in her first film role!
You sick frick
What is right wing about Taxi Driver other than the main character being an incel?
He's volcel because he ignores Betsy in the end
Schrader wrote the script and that guy is not a feminist, he's a proto-incel with a lot woman issues
You could have just said /ourguy/
yes. all scorsese films are based and blackpilled. live for christ, not this superficial earthly bullshit
they made the incel MC unlikeable to the point that the girl rejected him
I'd say it's a mockery of the incel MC
also
>sexually harassed the girl
>died without ever accomplishing his goal
the MC is a laughingstock
Here's your (You), waste of space and breath.
>/pol/cel has no argument
the MC is incel, moron
the movie is mocking all you /misc/cels
Stop using the internet and go outside. I'm fricking begging you, for your own sanity. Think of your parents.
tell that to the friendless, sexless MC from this movie
>died without ever accomplishing his goal
Next time, try watching the movie not TikTok
>wants to cleanse the street
>only kills a bunch of people which is like 0.00001% of the entire degenerates on the street
he accomplished nothing, unlike Kira from Death Note
now cope all you want
He didn't die you fricking idiot. Clearly you did not watch the entire movie before sperging about it
>movie is open to interpretation
>b-bbut my interpretation is the one that is right
if you want to force your /misc/tard believe at least pick a non-ambiguous movie
otherwise your interpretation is just a wishful thinking
So you are claiming Travis died in Taxi Driver? No one thinks this. What a homosexual way to try to win an argument.
It's not open to interpretation, Travis didn't die in the movie. May as well say he was a space alien because it is' open to interpretation' lmao.
"open to interpretation" is the biggest marketing scheme and it was only applied after the 90s because it vould be applied then. The music industry is especially guilty of this. Unless it plays a specific role in the art medium itself, it is a copout that underestimates the intelligence of the viewer. Essentially saying "uhh, yeah dude, whatever you want it to mean".
Both the writer and director of the movie debunked this moronic theory, and it completely undermines the point of the ending, where context and the press can make a hero out of anyone, even a psycho loner
He killed pedo Tommy Wiseau who's the most evil character in the movie
Scorsese cucked out. Sport was black in the script.
In my headcanon he's a israelite because of Harvey Keitel
Despite the glorification in black culture, pimping has been a pretty israeli game traditionally. Blacks are overrepresented in criminality, but the "most" black crime game is basically robbery and shooting each other over drugs
Where's he gonna find anyone as kino as Keitel?
>one out of thousands of pedophiles in the street
that's cool I guess
Which is one more than the police did
>Characters you're slowly turning into
Always thought he looked like young Bono
I love Death Note but I can't help but think that you're a false Flag to give us weebs a bad name.
harassed the girl
He creepily stared at her from his cab for days, then used a creepy pick-up line on her and she liked it.
What she didn't like was his autism in choosing the porno flick to watch with her
>>died without ever accomplishing his goal
He didn't die and he did accomplish the goal. Even the girl returned to him in the end but he ignored her like a stone cold volcel
>What she didn't like was his autism in choosing the porno flick to watch with her
yes, that's the sexual harassment
>He didn't die and he did accomplish the goal.
it was all his imaginations
>Even the girl returned to him in the end
also one of his imaginations
and a girl saying hello to you does not mean she wants to frick you
frick off
>yes, that's the sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is when you take a girl out to a porno? He didn't mean to do harm, he was just socially moronic
>it was all his imaginations
>also one of his imaginations
Dumb cope
>and a girl saying hello to you does not mean she wants to frick you
She went on several dates with him so she obviously wanted to frick him at first
Didn't Scorsese say it wasn't his imagination?
>shown to be alive
>'uh actually he wasn't alive ok?'
>they made the incel MC unlikeable to the point that the girl rejected him
That's what made him likeable
the problem with the movie is that young De Niro is so handsome and cool looking that you end up identifying with Travis. although that explains Betsy agreeing to go on a date with him.
>sexually harassed
Longhoused language
Travis says he makes around 350$ a week driving the cab. He also manages to charm Betsy while being a complete autist. Boomers had it so good it's unbelievable
but he worked day and night shits to get that much
This. It's not that much considering he worked all fricking day for that money. I guess it was due to his insomnia but still. I knew a guy who once worked as a cab driver. Miserable job.
not defending boomers but he tells that italian guy from rocky that he was willing to work anytime and anywhere in response to dangerous areas and times. guy probably worked 18 hours a day driving scum around that nobody else even at the cab place would touch
He drove a cab for like 14 hours a day. You can make that much too if you wanna do that
>almost 2k a week
>driving an Uber
Is this possible today, bros?
maybe if you're putting in 80 hours or so and then you're still paying for the car. don't think that was the case for yellow cab drivers who were far more regulated and unionised.
If you want to work 15 hour days like Travis, yes, it's definitely possible
Probably but you’d do too much damage to your car to make it not worth it
Uber convincing its employees into driving and paying for their own cars is the greatest corporate maneuver of the century
I agree it was brilliant, but the Medallion system was pure monopolistic nonsense. Portable GPS changed the game. I always figured Uber was trying to get in early, and switch to self driving cars as soon as possible. It turns out self-driving and electric is taking longer than expected.
>women are untrustworthy
Tbh I don't think Betsy was in the wrong.
And Iris was obviously groomed into Stockholm syndrome
She was in the wrong as anyone with a brain could tell Travis was genuine in saying he thought that's where couples go but wrong in that he wasn't with some girl he was married to and going there to relight the spark but a first date. She could've heared him out as he apologized immediately.
Travis should've taken the Leon route and go with Iris to the commune.
Do you also think that the message of the movie "American History X" is that we need to kill more black people?
Haven't seen that one
Idk about that film but all black characters in Taxi Driver are the villains except Travis' colleague. The pimp is also black in Schrader's script but Scorsese chickened out
Do you think that Serge from Beveely Hills Cop, becoming a weapons salesman, was a ln easter egg alluding to this film?
>guy is a shut in
>takes girl to a porn theatre
even someone who was a shut in for like 10 years would still know that's pretty weird
Porno theaters were all over the place in the 70s
true but i don't think people were taking girls on first dates there, then again new york in the 70s is supposed to be even more scummier than the film portrays
true. honestly the main thing with travis is that he's basically socially moronic. i have a hard time thinking that even a socially moronic guy would take a girl there in the 70s. it's the only part of the film i found out of place, i mean travis is supposed to be introverted not an idiot.
New York was scummy and in fact the “porno chic” movement mad pornography kind of normal date fair for 42nd st in the 70s. Pornos (behind the green door, Deepthroat, Debbie does Dallas, Caligula) were playing at the same theaters as Clint Eastwood movies according to “42nd st Pete”
So it’s stupid but by NYC 70s standards, I mean it’s not this giant unhinged centerpiece of the film it is today. Maybe to Scorsese it was edgy because he’s religious. But normals would not have cared
Hi Travis
That's the only thing the movie criticizes him for though
Holy moron
No argument detected
The entire movie is critical of Travis. He's an unhinged psycho, not a lovable loner. Of course the moronic artists on this website won't realize the difference
homosexual
No argument detected
He's literally depicted as a hero and his enemies are scum of the earth pedophiles and human traffickers. Even the girl comes back to him in the end
>He's literally depicted as a hero and his enemies are scum of the earth pedophiles and human traffickers
Way to miss the point moron. His enemies are scum because that's just who he happened to take his urges out on. He didn't want to kill them for altruistic purposes, he just wanted to kill someone. Remember, his first target was the candidate. He only ran off to the pedos once that plot failed. He basically lucked into heroism, and the ending implies that he'll likely kill again
>He didn't want to kill them for altruistic purposes, he just wanted to kill someone.
Remember, his first target was the candidate.
At first he wanted to kill randomly cause he's insane, later he settles on concrete villains, but he did have a moral compass which is obvious from the start
He doesn't though. He tries to kill a politician because he's stealing the attention of Betty. He's fricking insane
Yes he's psychotic, no one's denying that
>He didn't want to kill them for altruistic purposes, he just wanted to kill someone.
So you're going to ignore his whole relation with Iris and his grudge against criminals which is apparent from the start of the film?
>his grudge against criminals which is apparent from the start of the film
This was always an excuse. Also, note the irony that he himself is one of those criminals, and associates with criminals like the gun salesman. But of course he doesn't have a problem with them, because they suit him and his violent desires
>This was always an excuse
Source?
Media literacy, which you clearly don't have
How is it an excuse when he clearly hates the NYC scum?
Because he just wants to kill someone and saw the scum as a viable target. Again, he wasn't targeting them out of some vigilante justice. They were just a convenient outlet for his psychotic urges. It's like how serial killers used to target prostitutes and poor people. Doesn't make them heroes
The film sides with Travis because the filmmakers set out to give viewers dopamine whenever he achieves something and a negative stimulus whenever he fails at something
Yeah but that's the thought process of a genuine autist with no socialization.
>I want sex. We are on a date. So we go to a sex movie.
It kind of conflicts with how charming he was rizzing her up in the first place
>how charming he was rizzing her up in the first place
He ogled her from his cab for days and then autistically asked her out on the spot in front of her coworkers. Taking her out to a porno was only marginally weirder than that
>genuine autist
that's pretty much the only way i could make sense of it. travis is actually some sort of autist that thinks this way
He wasn't charming at all. He was weird and awkward from the beginning. The only reason she gave him a chance is because he was attractive.
I wouldn't say he was charming, but there was an air of authority behind his "Let me take you away from all this" act that intrigued Betsy, as though he really was some kind of hidden gallant knight who held some kind of secret about the world, and the fact that he was handsome and direct when probably helped grab her attention. He was weird enough to be interesting at first, it's only when he exposes enough of his own damaged mental state to her that she realizes what she was getting into and broke off contact, the whole first meeting was basically a fluke
Even their first date in the coffee shop was full of awkward weirdness. Like Travis autistically going off on Tom and getting pissed when Betsy didn't get his organizized joke
>going off on Tom
Travis just had advanced israelitedar and didn't like Tom's sniveling.
>Betsy didn't get his organizized joke
I didn't get that joke either
>t. not organizized
It's just a stupid ironic joke about not being organized. The spelling "organizized" is obviously wrong and implies that you're not actually organized. God explaining jokes to people is cringe af
Thank you for your organizization.
He mentions later that he had to call her multiple times to get her to go on the theater date. She clearly realized her mistake after the first date but felt pressured to go again. Also, in the script, Schrader calls her a “starfricker”. Take that however you will.
Even if they regularly went and saw couples there?
>mentally ill schizoid young men are in the right;
but that has been the case since time immemorial
heard some chuds say the movie is bad because of pacing and Travis' motivation isn't clear... literal fricking morons
so what it was that startled him when he looked in the rearview mirror at the end?
It's because Paul Schrader is a HECKIN CHUD
He was wrong because he was a decadent fop that worships luxury like having a bed and taking women on dates
Film do not have a "message".
The point was people like you are moronic and will take it at face value but you shouldn't. Scorsese is the blandest lib out there, he is just amazing at portraying complex male characters
>but you shouldn't
Why?
is fake
I never got anything out of the scenes with Palentine.
He was just a normal politician with a normal political platform. When Travis shows up to a rally looking very sketchy, that doesn't really give me a reason to dislike Palentine.
I've tried seeing if any way of associating him with Palestine makes sense from a pro or anti Zionist perspective, but we simply don't know enough about this Palentine guy to do anything with it.
>mentally ill schizoid young men are in the right; the rest of society is wrong
Might be why those men are labled as "metally ill" Congratulations on finally learning about gaslighting.
Most movies are right wing
They just put bull shit “liberal” messages on top to make themselves feel better about themselves
>inb4 blacks and gays
Name a Hollywood movie where guns weren’t portrayed as being totally cool
This post is what happens when you have zero media literacy.
Cope, pedos are bad
Exactly. Travis was right in exactly everything and is a hero figure.
Travis' only heroic act is saving Jodie Foster's character from being pimped out. The rest of the movie does not frame him in such a manner.
That's more than you ever did in your life
>save a young woman from exploitation in a society that has given up on her
why is that bad?
He should have pumped her ass and pussy full of cum, to be perfectly frank.
This. I got the sense that Iris developed a pretty quick crush on Travis for caring about her life so much, hence her asking him to go to a commune despite her saying she doesn't want to leave.
Even then it's not really heroic. He shoots a bunch of people in front of her, blows a guy's brains all over the wall AFTER she tells him not to, then tries to kill himself right in front of her. Plus she never even asked him to save her. She's gonna be traumatized af
>She's gonna be traumatized af
Yeah, living as a human trafficking victim and child prostitute is so much better!
Why do conservatives have such poor media literacy
The point is he isn’t a hero, he literally tried to commit domestic terrorism and clearly has mental issues. He did “the right thing” entirely by accident and because society is judging him entirely by his outcomes, not his intentions or who he is as a person and he is likely to do something terrible in the future. What separates him from a delusional schizo is literal just luck
>media literacy
stab yourself to death
>conservatives
You have bad politics literacy
>The point is he isn’t a hero,
Says who? Iris' father disagrees, the media disagrees, even Betsy gives him another chance in the end
>he literally tried to commit domestic terrorism and clearly has mental issues.
And this makes you not a hero how exactly? Politics and law enforcements are clearly incapable of stopping crime in the film
> He did “the right thing” entirely by accident and because society is judging him entirely by his outcomes, not his intentions or who he is as a person
Because all that is subjective and irrelevant
>and he is likely to do something terrible in the future.
Source?
>What separates him from a delusional schizo is literal just luck
He's a heroic delusional schizo with luck
Lol don't care he's literally me
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