But what is the correlation? Like you reject me because i took you at a porn theater so now i gonna risk killing myself to shoot your candidate? And what the posters of the senator in his apartament?
Him being rejected honestly is society's fault. What kind of society creates a man who thinks porn theatres are good date locations? He was so isolated because the society is isolating.
Considering Paul Schrader based Travis on himself, I really doubt that was the intention. >"At the time I wrote it [Taxi Driver], I was in a rather low and bad place," Schrader says. "I had broken with Pauline [Kael], I had broken with my wife, I had broken with the woman I left my wife for, I had broken with the American Film Institute and I was in debt." For several weeks, he drifted around LA, living and sleeping in his car, eating junk food, watching porn. Eventually, when his stomach began to hurt badly, he went to the hospital and discovered he had an ulcer. >"When I was talking to the nurse, I realised I hadn't spoken to anyone in weeks ... that was when the metaphor of the taxi cab occurred to me. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone." He claims he wrote the script, which he dashed off in under a fortnight, as self-therapy, to "exorcise the evil I felt within me".
>I had broken with the American Film Institute and I was in debt
How the frick was he in debt? He and his brother sold the Yakuza script for $325k about a year earlier. With inflation that's the equivalent of $1.7 million.
You really don't think the movie is at all sympathetic to Travis? You entire "point" was to reduce this masterful depiction of loneliness and the human condition into some woke morality play, when the entire modus operandi of both Scorsese and Schrader is pretty much the opposite.
It can be both a good movie and propaganda. Especially back then. These "woke" movies (as you put it) where they are all message and no quality, is a very new thing.
He felt marginalised and unnoticed and wanted to do something that would get him attention as well as be an outlet for his building rage and frustration.
Yes. He was okay with Palantine when he thought their slogan was "WE are the people," but once he found out it was really "we ARE the people" he was thrown into a murderous rage.
It actually is odd - remember that Palantine met Bickle during a fare, and was one of the handful of vignette characters that 100% got along with him.
Him gunning down Jodie Foster's pimps made perfect sense, in-universe. Him assassinating a guy he actually sorta liked and respected seems off in comparison. It'd be like him shooting Peter Boyle. He wouldn't do that, he was cool.
As homages/ripoffs go, even Joker seemed to understand this concept viscerally, because while Murray might not have deserved to die from a real world morality standard, by Hollywood logic he was a massive c**t and had it coming as much as any butthole teen that gets gutted by Jason Voorhees.
senate
Good post dude HH
Because he was a sith
funny
But what is the correlation? Like you reject me because i took you at a porn theater so now i gonna risk killing myself to shoot your candidate? And what the posters of the senator in his apartament?
It’s incel logic. They get rejected and so they feel it’s society’s fault so they try to get revenge by shooting up some people.
Him being rejected honestly is society's fault. What kind of society creates a man who thinks porn theatres are good date locations? He was so isolated because the society is isolating.
Because he was nuts and the point of the movie was to paint people who are fed up with society and want change as nutcases.
Considering Paul Schrader based Travis on himself, I really doubt that was the intention.
>"At the time I wrote it [Taxi Driver], I was in a rather low and bad place," Schrader says. "I had broken with Pauline [Kael], I had broken with my wife, I had broken with the woman I left my wife for, I had broken with the American Film Institute and I was in debt." For several weeks, he drifted around LA, living and sleeping in his car, eating junk food, watching porn. Eventually, when his stomach began to hurt badly, he went to the hospital and discovered he had an ulcer.
>"When I was talking to the nurse, I realised I hadn't spoken to anyone in weeks ... that was when the metaphor of the taxi cab occurred to me. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone." He claims he wrote the script, which he dashed off in under a fortnight, as self-therapy, to "exorcise the evil I felt within me".
>I had broken with the American Film Institute and I was in debt
How the frick was he in debt? He and his brother sold the Yakuza script for $325k about a year earlier. With inflation that's the equivalent of $1.7 million.
He wrote Taxi Driver before The Yakuza.
Divorce raped?
>to "exorcise the evil I felt within me".
That might vindicate my point.
You really don't think the movie is at all sympathetic to Travis? You entire "point" was to reduce this masterful depiction of loneliness and the human condition into some woke morality play, when the entire modus operandi of both Scorsese and Schrader is pretty much the opposite.
It can be both a good movie and propaganda. Especially back then. These "woke" movies (as you put it) where they are all message and no quality, is a very new thing.
Incel
cause he knew he would one day become the emperor
sleeping agent
he couldn't find palpatine
Because Betsy rejected him
You wouldn’t get it
It was a false flag so jar jar would grant him emergency powers
He felt marginalised and unnoticed and wanted to do something that would get him attention as well as be an outlet for his building rage and frustration.
it was supposed to be a "frick you" to Betsy
Dumb ESL.
He was a paranoid schizophrenic.
he's a misanthrope, and palentine "IS the people"
Yes. He was okay with Palantine when he thought their slogan was "WE are the people," but once he found out it was really "we ARE the people" he was thrown into a murderous rage.
Black person shoulda got organizized
It actually is odd - remember that Palantine met Bickle during a fare, and was one of the handful of vignette characters that 100% got along with him.
Him gunning down Jodie Foster's pimps made perfect sense, in-universe. Him assassinating a guy he actually sorta liked and respected seems off in comparison. It'd be like him shooting Peter Boyle. He wouldn't do that, he was cool.
As homages/ripoffs go, even Joker seemed to understand this concept viscerally, because while Murray might not have deserved to die from a real world morality standard, by Hollywood logic he was a massive c**t and had it coming as much as any butthole teen that gets gutted by Jason Voorhees.
Good thread
Travis Bickel did nothing wrong.
He was the hero New York didn't deserve, but so desperately needed.
esl thread