What could've helped Travis?

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If Yas Forums existed he would have a place to shitpost and it would have saved him

they have porno theaters for that

Not getting friendzoned

>Implying Yas Forums saves anyone and not destroys his life more.

>someday a real janny will come and wash this board clean

Ive been here for 13 years. I think its the only thing that keeps me going anymore.

>implying he didn't die

Keeps you going to where? You are going nowhere.

Not getting friendzoned by that blonde bitch.

And how do you know that?

Change of location.

theres nothing that could have happened that would have helped Travis, the only possible ending is him going on a killing spree, even if Betsy didnt reject him

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>I'm gonna go kill that nigger and shoot my wife in the pussy
What the actual fuck did Scorsese mean by this?

getting (you)s for schizo posting on an online cambodian comic strip forum

Because the idea that he survives at the end completely destroys the movie so I pretend that it was all just his imagination as he was dying as a cope for how terrible the ending actually is.

>Robert De Niro asked her out during the filming of Taxi Driver (1976). She turned him down, and he did not speak to her, except in character, for the rest of the filming. She later said that she regretted turning him down.

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did she mention why she regretted it?

She was just method acting to keep him ragey. She didn't realize how seriously he took the shit test

Well he's pretty well off now innit

Has Scorcesse or something say that could be the real ending?

Literally sex

Everybody has said the opposite iirc

And what is Scorcese explanation for Travis not going to jail for all the people he killed? I think he killed 3 guys.

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I have no idea, I just know he doesn't subscribe to the idea of him dying.

yeah but it was kinda like frontier justice since even Scorsese says it was inspired by westerns like the searchers. So the violence against those 'bad' guys was justified.

>While it's totally cool to think that Travis Bickle dies at the end of Taxi Driver, there are three people who strongly disagree with that interpretation: director Martin Scorsese, actor Robert De Niro, and screenwriter Paul Schrader. In fact, De Niro has spent the last couple of decades pushing for a Taxi Driver sequel, saying, "I'd like to see where Travis is today. There was something about the guy — all that rage and alienation, that's what the city can do to you."

>Schrader, for his part, has expressed no interest in revisiting the grimy world of Travis Bickle. When De Niro pitched his idea for a part two, Schrader said it was "the dumbest idea" that he'd ever heard. Why? Well, as he explained to De Niro, "that character had died not more than six months after that movie was over. He was on a death trip and was gonna succeed the next time."

>Later on, in an interview with Sofia Coppola, Schrader reasserted his belief that Travis survived the shootout, saying, "A number of people have attributed the ending of Taxi Driver as a fantasy. I don't have a problem with that ending, but it's not what I intended." And in a commentary track for the film, Scorsese himself said that Travis made it out of the gunfight alive and was doing just fine... well, as fine as a lunatic gunman who's on the verge of another murderous breakdown can be.

I don't get it. So Scorcese thinks that just because you kill gangsters and pimps that the police is not going to put you in jail?

the deconstruction of industrial society

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you joking? I would have done something very very terrible by now if I didn't have this place to vent. Yas Forums has been the only thing that can stabilize me mentally

is that fucking Dugan? I thought he was disintegrating from Parkinsons.

Are you telling me the ending wasn't him on a comatose dream and he actually got away with everything?

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>So if Travis survives the end of Taxi Driver and really does become a hero, then what's the movie all about? Well, in a commentary track, screenwriter Paul Schrader talked about how he was inspired by real-life would-be assassin Sara Jane Moore, a woman who took a shot at Gerald Ford. After her failed murder attempt, Moore's face wound up on the cover of Newsweek, and that baffled Schrader. Why was the magazine treating her like a movie star? Confused and frustrated, Schrader decided to work that into the script and have the media turn Travis Bickle into a hero.

>In short, the ending of Taxi Driver is wagging its finger at an American culture that idolizes bad guys. Seriously, Americans have been doing that since the days of Jesse James. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wound up on the cover of Rolling Stone, movies have portrayed criminals like Aileen Wuornous and Charles Starkweather as sympathetic figures, and recently, Ted Bundy was in the headlines because so many women were calling him "hot." Schrader has a point, and Taxi Driver is a pretty big indictment of American pop culture. And sure, if Travis had killed Palantine, people would be treating him very differently, but since he slaughtered some bad guys, that means he must be good, right?

I see.. so is some type of commentary about American culture idolizing people that kill the bad guys.

He was fucked up with injuries. Girl will testify he previously tried to get her to leave. Enough circumstantial evidence to push for self defence. No one wants to push too hard on the side of scum that pimp out children.

this, she's fucking gorgeous and he blew it

Because a pimp and brothel bouncer aren't valued members of society. But I don't see how he got off killing the (dirty) cop

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>dirty cop
He was a capo.

Was Taxi Driver a gamer?

that's the point; he should be in prison. He's a ticking time bomb. But by sheer luck, he blew up and killed one of the most disgusting types of slime you can find -- a child pimp -- and was rewarded for it. In reality he was just a moment away from shooting a politician. At the end of the movie when he's back on the street, the music literally is reversed for a moment as his timer starts to count down again. He's going to do it again and next time it's going to be someone who doesn't deserve it.

What dirty cop are you talking about?

Anyone who watched Taxi Driver has thought more about it than Scorcese did. These guys weren't deep thinking artists they were rich kids making cool shit

Cognitive behavioral therapy.

Scorsese wasn’t a rich kid.

My theory is that he goes for that ending to show the irony if Travis successfully killed the senator during that attempt

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Not living in New York. The movie never says, but I always pictured Travis as from a small maybe Midwestern town (he wrote his parents from afar). He plunged himself into seedy modern society & went nuts.

Personally I can relate. I'm already married w kids & a happy life, but I find myself being disgusted more & more by it, and try to stay away from normie gathering places. Every time I try, I just get angry at what its become & picture a simpler life in a small town full of valued members of the community. Everyone now its just broken (broken homes, on meds, into unproductive faggy shit, media is jewing people left & right, a mystery meat of DNA goblins walking around, etc). Its gross.

That's exactly what I'm telling you, even though I hate the idea of it

The ability to levitate or control a major element

oh. I don't know why I thought iris's client was a cop

Do you forgot the detail that he went to Vietnam? That maybe was a great factor that fucked his head. Coming back to his country and seeing what happened in society and how a big loser he was after serving his country for nothing. A little like Rambo's story.

Because when he gets the cash from Sport there’s a fleeting glance of metal on his pants when he parts his jacket. It’s a gun, I’m guessing you thought it was a badge.

Moving out of new york. He should have moved to Texas or Florida, somewhere bright with dumb women

there's still no known cure for being a mentalcel

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No, I knew about that too. And I think you're right. Although I think if he had stayed away from the epicenter of degeneracy, found a nice girl to settle down with somewhere quiet, he would've been OK.

He's kinda like Michael Douglas's character in Falling Down. Looks like he was plucked from the 50s/early 60s into the modern world & went nuts. The contrast is pretty unreal. It was peak of the nuclear family & white culture, then feminism, desegregation, etc tore it all apart. Travis witnessed it all.

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Bernhard Goetz shot 4 black teenagers on the subway and got away with it. Granted nobody died, but I imagine at that time in NY people would be sympathetic to someone who shot a pimp while “rescuing” a 13 year old girl.

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