Would the character Sport in taxi driver have been more realistic as a black flamboyant pimp
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Would the character Sport in taxi driver have been more realistic as a black flamboyant pimp
What a fricking moronic thing to say.
No. The ‘flamboyant black pimp’ is largely a product of 70’s blaxploitation.
Pimps that marked themselves too obviously put a target on their back, especially if their stable has underage girls in it. Moron.
Frank lucas didn’t know that
He was a heroin importer not a street pimp you dumbass
Same principle, dumbass. He was investigated because he wore such a flamboyant coat
Wow really disproving my point that being flamboyant puts a target on your back, genius.
Apparently it was more about where he was seated at the fight than what he was wearing.
Had he been in the silly pimp costume near the back he probably wouldn't have become a person of interest. But because he was a complete unknown to the feds at the time it immediately raised alarms because he had some of the best most expensive seats in the house and no one had a fricking clue who he was.
Man, you ain't from the streets.
me on the right
He was originally written as black and so was Dough Boy. They changed it because it was perceived that they might be interpreted as racist.
That’s wild because travis bickle shot a black man in the face and the passenger was going to kill his wife because she cucked him with bbc
The robber was Korean in the original script
No he wasn't.
>Spanish rhythm and blues from a cheap radio
lol Hollywood.
hence the fear of overdoing it
have a nice day
in the fugitive tommy lee jones refused to shoot the scene where he shot at harrison ford because he thought it wasn't realistic for his character. the producer pointed out they just filmed him shooting a random black guy for no reason like 10 mins earlier in the films run time
I think on commentary track Paul says that they tried to find a white pimp in NY to see how they dress and couldn't actually find one and completely winged his clothes.
Doesn't surprise me at all.
Blacks doing the jobs the other races won't do.
>all the pimps in Tokoyo were Nigerian
I find that very hard to believe.
I don't think it's true. The Nigerians harass you on the street trying to get you to go to the prostitutes but I'm confident the girls would be owned by Yakuza. I'm not even sure why they allow Nigerians to do that but I guess everyone associates the Black folk with the irritation and unpleasantness rather than the Yakuza.
Yeah I’m pretty sure the Nigerians are just spruikers and convenientl fall guys if someone needs to go to prison. Plus if they end up mysteriously falling into a river and drowning while chained to a cinderblock nobody would give a shit.
I wonder how many people fall for it? I wouldn't trust a black guy anywhere let alone one coming up to me on the street promising a good time. Even if I wasn't already aware of them before I went to Japan I still wouldn't have been receptive.
Yeah I find it hard to believe that the Yakuza don't have the prostitution sewn up.
Black folk go to jail. Yakuza don't.
A Black person lives there
No because Flamboyant black pimps didn't have underaged white runaways working for them they had older women from their communities, black women.
Tarantino has a whole chapter about this in his book. The script was written with blacks in mind as the villain characters, but they changed it for production knowing it would start riots to have the movie be their white "hero" blowing away a ton of Black folk to rescue a white girl
>Tarantino has a whole chapter about this in his book.
what a weirdo
Well, it IS a book about 70s movies ffs
The chapter's premise is What if De Palma Directed Taxi Driver, since he was attached before Scorsese was
Was the white pimp from True Romance Tarantino's idea or Scott's choice?
Tarantion wrote the part for himself and Oldman based it off the white actor with the dreads he played alongside in Leon.
Lol
That guy's an actual reggae musician, he had a song on the Dumb & Dumber soundtrack
holy shit kek! thanks for the trivia
He was supposed to be black. I read that Schrader and Scorsese made him white at the behest of the studio because the film was controversial enough.
If the movie was more realistic he would just be fricking jodie foster every other day.
Who, Sport? I think they make it pretty fricking clear that he's fricking her, dude
No the uber driver.
have a nice day evil scum
Meds.
>waaaah hating evil is INSANE
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Meds.
Yes, anon, take your fricking meds already and quit spewing stupid shit on the internet.
have a nice day
>no
He was supposed to be a Black person, but Scorcese got scared by the "muh racism" allegations and made him white instead. Fricking dago coward piece of shit.
>got scared by the "muh racism" allegations and made him white instead.
was that before or after his cameo was filmed
He wasn't even going to do that cameo, the actor who was cast got a head injury in another movie and couldn't do it. It was going to be the fat guy from the "mooks" scene in Mean Streets.
>be Scorcese
>make a career out of portraying certain minorities as irredeemably criminal
>get script with one black pimp
>WHOA WHOA WHOA HEY HEY DAT’S GOIN’ WAY TOO FAHHH
Are there any auteur directors from the 70’s and 80’s still working that aren’t massive cowards?
I mean if Scorcese got cancelled it’s not like he’s going to struggle to put groceries on the table.
He was 34 years old, it was his fourth movie and he'd only made one crime movie at that point.
>I did naht pimp her, I did nahhht
Yes, 100%. One of the only non-moronic theories QT has about that movie. If he had been a black pimp it would have made the movie twice as good, and it's already close to perfect.
I have a short torso and if I tuck my t-shirt/shirt into my pants I look like that but a skinny version. I always thought pulling your pants up like that looked ridiculous but that is my only option if I want that style. Question: does it look ridiculous to others or is it just me? Keep in mind the skinny part...
Was Sport israeli?
how do you even become a pimp bros. I've never understood it. apparently they manipulate women into prostituting themselves but like how do they even go about that in the first place. are they really that slick?
and every portrayal of a pimp is this skinny, weirdly effeminate guy with a soft voice. is that really what they're like in real life?
You get the girl addicted to drugs you're also selling. Or you find prostitutes working without pimps and just take their money. Because what are they gonna do?
When I sold weed I used to hook friends up with a prostitute I knew. I had a loose insecure gf who would have banged dudes for money if I had told her to.
>be black
>sell drugs
>trick girls into sucking dick for said drugs
I would rather have Harvey Keitel than some no name black actor.
I recently watched The Gambler (1974) and thought it was pretty Kino. Would recommend checking it out.
>utterly mogs Zolo
Who did Travis think about killing that wasn't black? From the original script?
Palantine.
>mfw Black folk took flamboyant culture from bong poors
kek