I love the juxtaposition of the kids laughing and playing right outside the window.

@joseph291

7 ай бұрын

I love scrolling the comments for insights like this.

@babyvanderwoodsen

6 ай бұрын

this comment gave me a flashback, to something not so nice in my childhood 🥲 the way you described this scene is spot on!!

@danngenesispilapil1384

6 ай бұрын

That's definitely deliberately added by Scorsese and co.

@mei6044

5 ай бұрын

​@@danngenesispilapil1384Well, it makes sense.

@DikkusBiggus

3 ай бұрын

And she's eating a sandwich with a lot of sugar in it signifying she is still a kid.

I appreciate that despite the fact Travis is not mentally stable he still had standards and tries to help Iris in her situation.

@nope89532

7 ай бұрын

he is a good person

@kevinsager5054

7 ай бұрын

Textbook definition of "anti-hero".

@Account.for.Comment

7 ай бұрын

He just needs to feel something. In this time, he wants to feel like a hero. In other times, he wants to be a villain. His standards are not fixed, it is up to his moods at the moment.

@JohnDoe-gi1vr

7 ай бұрын

He's grooming her like a typical democrat

@dannyhernandez265

7 ай бұрын

@@kevinsager5054least Travis ain’t a p * * o.

Being 14 years old and keeping up with Robert De Niro in a scene - that is some serious talent.

@jessethepersiankitty2377

6 ай бұрын

He was only starting out I think back then. It was 1977

@jesustovar2549

6 ай бұрын

@@jessethepersiankitty2377 1976

@leahdorothy

6 ай бұрын

@@jessethepersiankitty2377he already had an oscar at this point for godfather ii

@mikeytrahant943

6 ай бұрын

She's a pro.

@Chuked

5 ай бұрын

It's Jodi Foster

This is the first time I noticed the background sound effects in this scene. It is the sound of a children's playground outside her window. The window itself doesn't have bars, but chicken wire. Chicken is a slang term, which among other meanings also means underaged female sex workers. Thus, imo, the scene subliminally implies she is a chicken in a coop (chicken prison).

@Laura-op6ix

7 ай бұрын

Also, the kids playing sound about 10 - 13 years old - Iris's age. It represents the world she *should* be in.

@fidelity7068

7 ай бұрын

@@Laura-op6ix YES!

@mirandarocho

7 ай бұрын

I never knew that. I love this film. thank you so much for sharing this.

@meghansullivan6812

7 ай бұрын

OOOOOOHHH so good

@koolaidman6251

7 ай бұрын

Also Sport calls her his "little chicken" -- and Travis doesn't like it. When he has breakfast with Iris he says that Sport doesn't respect her because he calls her a little chicken.

I can't believe robert dinero was ever young

@Discordia5

7 ай бұрын

He was extremely attractive in this movie.

@pulledtrigger

7 ай бұрын

@@Discordia5 ikr taking your date to a porn theater melts them away

@jessethepersiankitty2377

6 ай бұрын

He was quite cute back then

@CTladiesman

5 ай бұрын

@@Discordia5I don’t mean to sound gay but I agree.

@rosalesluisfer

5 ай бұрын

Roberto Dinero es guapísimo 💰💵

Seeing 14 year old Jodie Foster trying to blow Robert De Niro is pretty uncomfortable even if they are just acting.

@d.pedroii2940

7 ай бұрын

and how uncomfortable it is to know that's what happens in real life as well

@brianrisso346

7 ай бұрын

@@d.pedroii2940 ok, bud

@Waitwhosethatwhatt

7 ай бұрын

@@brianrisso346”ok bud” it does happen. Everyday.

@Frogman1212

7 ай бұрын

Deal with it Brian.

@brianrisso346

7 ай бұрын

@@Waitwhosethatwhatt LMAO whats your deal. I literally just agreed with you. Chill out.

The violent scene at the end is so dark, when you think about the extra trauma added onto Jodies character. He’s a man broken by a meaningless war and living with the trauma from it. He is trying to find peace outwith himself by attempting to solve societal problems in a search for some kind of meaning or freedom. He doesn’t recognise that he himself is afflicted with the same suffering and hurt that he is trying to save others from.

@phoenixzappa7366

7 ай бұрын

Listen you screwhead, He was a man who stood up.

@mathinho1237

7 ай бұрын

He is just a broken man turned into a psycho by a country who needs to sacrifice it own people to make money

@ellisbell614

5 ай бұрын

I love you for this comment. You have a beautiful brain! ❤️

@NanoINW

4 ай бұрын

He isn't actually a Vietnam vet, you clearly didn't pay much attention to the film

@ellisbell614

4 ай бұрын

@@NanoINW You're wrong, and 1.1K know you are wrong. You know there is something called Google right? I have Travis Bickle tattooed on my right forearm. It definitely has something to do with Vietnam or it wouldn't be on me. That's why all throughout the film his mental health is deteriorating and he could care less about anything except for saving Iris.

The raw talent of a 12yr old Jodie Foster is extraordinary

@Spliffy8

3 ай бұрын

14* but agreed

@daydreamer7618

3 ай бұрын

​@@Spliffy8Taxi Driver was filmed in the summer of 1975. Jodie Foster was born in November of 1962. Basic math tells us Foster was 12 years old when she filmed her part as Iris.

@Spliffy8

3 ай бұрын

@@daydreamer7618 my apologies. i read somewhere that she was 14. my mistake

@daydreamer7618

3 ай бұрын

​@@Spliffy8She was 14 when she got the Oscar nomination for Taxi Driver so I'm guessing that's what you remember reading. But yeah, she was 12 when it was filmed, 13 when it was released and 14 when the Oscar nomination came.

@beginner8497

Ай бұрын

​@@daydreamer7618they gave that part of scene to her sister, elder sister. That wasn't jodie foster, it was her sister and if I'm not wrong she was 16 years old.

Anyone else distracted by the 14 trillion candles in the background creating a ridiculous fire hazard? 😂

@Laura-op6ix

7 ай бұрын

Seems a bit unnecessary when it's broad daylight out, for sure. Fire hazard? NY is pretty humid. But OTOH she must have been damn careful with the hair spray. 😳

@sherrihimes7357

7 ай бұрын

Yeah lol

@suzannechampion6330

7 ай бұрын

Yes

@jackkruese4258

6 ай бұрын

Sport trying to create a romantic air about the place bring a touch of class.

@thatdude3977

4 ай бұрын

​@@Laura-op6ixsmells like the bodega in there 😂

Fun fact 7:47 Jodie Foster in an interview had said the little piece of chicken line was an ad-lib from Robert DeNiro. That is her natural reaction to it.

@SY-ok2dq

7 ай бұрын

It adds a very natural, unscripted, unrehearsed and real touch to this scene. Foster is so very natural and her lines are delivered with a freshness and ease, like we are watching a real person just talking, and not an actor who has practiced these lines and done take after take. When you compare Foster at this age to thr acting of so many child actors that you see on TV and film.... Foster had true acting talent.

@cassiesayshi8174

7 ай бұрын

What does that line mean?

@SY-ok2dq

7 ай бұрын

@@cassiesayshi8174 Piece of chicken? "Chicken" was apparently a slang word back in the 70s ( don't know about now) for an underage teen, a minor (as a sexual object, that is). As you can see, this subtly referred to in the hotel room that Iris brings her clients to: a piece of chicken wire fencing has been attached to the window, making Iris' room a kind of chicken pen.

@ChrisJones-ij3xp

5 ай бұрын

It's been too many years: does Sport actually call Iris a piece of chicken to Travis' face, in the earlier scene, the one where the tryst is arranged?

@liquiddomino511

5 ай бұрын

@@ChrisJones-ij3xpi believe so

“The cops don’t do nothin’ You know that” Ain’t that the truth.

@carpballet

7 ай бұрын

@na6733 Meh. I’m wealthy. But even us rich people can see cops ignoring crime. Every time we are chauffeured thru a bad part of the city, prowling for hookers and blow.

@tharunsankar4926

7 ай бұрын

@na6733 yeah they protect the Nobelites and the bankers these days, not people like you and me.

@jenniferparker8676

7 ай бұрын

Because they are not allowed to these days

@koolaidman6251

7 ай бұрын

Back then the cops would just do the little 12yo and say it doesn't matter because she's not a virgin. That's what happened back then -- if a woman was assaulted or graped, the police didn't do anything unless she was some churchgoing angel who was dragged off the street. If she was a "bad" girl they say she deserved it and probably grape her in the back room because no one would believe her anyway. Plenty of cops have always been evil.

@Vikingr91

6 ай бұрын

Police is only an enforcement arm of the goverment so that they can insure that you pay your taxes.

Nobody will ever say this is a pleasant film, but it’s simply brilliant. And seeing De Niro here, three years after he made a pretty big splash with Mean Streets and Bang the Drum Slowly, and two years after he won his first Oscar for the Godfather II, about to give a performance that would cement his spot as one of the best actors in the world, and pave the way for so many brilliant performances, takes me back down memory lane.

@cagneybillingsley2165

8 ай бұрын

he did manage to save an otherwise unsaveable character. girls like that usually don't make it. only someone as crazy as travis would even dare attempt to try

@dzanier

8 ай бұрын

@@cagneybillingsley2165 true.

@RaptorFromWeegee

8 ай бұрын

Well, I would say is was a pleasant film! Does that make me weird? After repeated viewings i began to love the movie more and more. Its that good. Great noir-inspired snapshot of New York, during the "Bronx is burning" era. Very realistic, I know. I lived here at the time. I was 11 but quite aware of what was going on around me. Child prostitution was rampant and like Travis, quite correctly pointed out, "the cops don't do nothing". Pimps would literally hang out at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, JUST so they could recruit runaway teenage girls. Fat middle aged businessmen would pick up 14 year old hookers right in plain view of the cops and they'd do nothing. Kids were totally on their own in those days. They had to take care of themselves. You couldn't say, "Hey! I'm a kid, you can't touch me!" Nobody'd lift a finger to help you.

@HaroldThrone

8 ай бұрын

what’s the movie called?

@RaptorFromWeegee

8 ай бұрын

@@HaroldThrone the movies called, 'Taxi Driver' by Martin Scorsesse

She’s such a good actress. Flawless.

@dannyhernandez265

7 ай бұрын

Both of them are.

@DevsBiscuit

7 ай бұрын

​@@dannyhernandez265jodie foster

'He is the worst sucking scum I have ever, ever seen.' I love that line, it's hilarious but also delivered with such conviction and it really makes me respect Travis for saying that.

@purerage7963

7 ай бұрын

I got the impression that he stuttered because he realized he didn't want to cuss in front of her. It's kinda wholesome.

@teofrgueiro9211

6 ай бұрын

@@purerage7963same

@zebatov

3 ай бұрын

But he had no problem talking about her pussy. Very wholesome.

"Sweet Iris" The way Robert said it feels like an older brother trying to protect his younger sister.

She's a child being manipulated, threatened, and abused by grown men. She's not the one that needs to be talked to.

@zanttheusurperking

3 ай бұрын

Like it, or not, men like that exist in the world. Always have, always will. Better to teach girls how to detect these men and how to avoid them/deal with them.

@THEFOOL1212

Ай бұрын

Ah yes so don't talk to her at all then and teach her a valuable lesson got it. Good one Sherlock

@gurrenmed5319

Ай бұрын

Yeah keep her there so she can get abused more is that what you claim ? Travis saved her

@elisiasettles5021

Ай бұрын

Take ot from someone who was in similar shoes as her. She needed to hear someone say it to her.

@hiinsanity

Ай бұрын

well yes but she won’t know it’s wrong until someone talks to her, a lot of kids that experience this think it’s normal for a long time, they think it’s a dirty secret that they did something to deserve.

4:42 I just realized that $20 bill was the bill from the scene when the pimp dropped it in Travis's cab after dragging Iris out.

@cautionTosser

8 ай бұрын

there are no accidents in a Scorsese movie. ;)

@aWomanFreed

8 ай бұрын

It was a ten

@baxpiz1289

3 ай бұрын

it says twenty & that's jackson@@aWomanFreed

Foster shlapping on 4 table spoons of grape jelly on her toast and topping it off with sugar gets me every time

@mortygoldmacher

6 ай бұрын

Junkies live on simple carbs and sugar. Narcotics cause serious constipation.

@My_Youtube_Channel777

4 ай бұрын

​@@TheStrongmansteveor maybe something a coke addict would do.

@danbam3411

4 ай бұрын

According to Jody Foster, the girl that was walking beside her earlier in the scene was an actual child prostitute and would shadow from her little things such as the overly consumption of sugar to quell out the addiction for heroin.

@baxpiz1289

3 ай бұрын

or a junkie@@TheStrongmansteve

@-awm-4655

3 ай бұрын

I guess it had two meanings 1st to emphasize that she's still basically a kid who likes sugary stuff and sweets 2nd to show her actual reality of being an addict in withdrawal (opiod withdrawal makes you crave sugar/sweets)

gives new meaning to "what are you, 12?"

@hobowithawaterpistol9070

8 ай бұрын

How so?

@karleyj9706

7 ай бұрын

​@@hobowithawaterpistol9070"what are you, 12? 😏"

@Soul_Alpha

29 күн бұрын

​@@karleyj9706oh naw that smirk is foul asking that question 😭

Flawless acting by Jodie Foster. Always superb in her simplicity.

She really pulled out star signs on him.😂😂😂

@forrestgumball

7 ай бұрын

"Yeah im an asparagus too"

@seliel.

7 ай бұрын

"scorpion"

@kaitlynbvlogs

7 ай бұрын

i think it jst showed how young she was

@lemurianchick

7 ай бұрын

@@forrestgumballYou're a vegetable, eh? 🤡🤦‍♀️

@lemurianchick

7 ай бұрын

@@kaitlynbvlogsWhat does that even mean? Astrology is childish? 🙄

De Niro acting here is great. He portrays the emotions so well. Travis bickle being the mentally unstable guy he is , is still repulsed seeing a minor girl being like that and he is disgusted at the fact that she is so nonchalant about it.

@shanekc3502

3 ай бұрын

He’s still somewhat hesitant when she comes onto him at the start it’s extremely subtle but nothing de Niro does is by accident it’s probably due to his absolute lack of sex that he almost has to catch himself when she is trying to make with him and remember why he came there in the first place. I only caught it this watch but it’s a pretty cool kinda creepy detail that still keeps travis as someone who’s fundamentally a least a little fucked in every scene he’s in in some sense

@sjla2009

Ай бұрын

Not repulsed or disgusted. I'd say more..disturbed and concerned... Just imo

@skiruskronos2732

Ай бұрын

@@shanekc3502 you defo read this scene better than almost 300 other people

@shanekc3502

Ай бұрын

@@skiruskronos2732 it’s must what makes it the best performance of all time

@madamevipere

18 күн бұрын

@@shanekc3502 I recognize his hesitance by being simply unbelief of her advances

her interest in zodiac signs is really interesting like the girl half of her is still alive

@malory1444

3 ай бұрын

The girl half of her? What does this mean? She’s literally a girl

@xkxshx

3 ай бұрын

Of course it is, she’s abused

@sjla2009

Ай бұрын

Awwww girl half of her is still alive. That's adorable. But so sad too 😢

@Joshy.Want.Wingyy

Ай бұрын

​@cursed770why are you replying to every comment regarding her zodiac sign? 😂 do you even know how to talk to women?

2:03 I don't know if you guys notice the detail in Iris room, in the window, in the outside there's the sound of kids being kids and playing in the park, whereas inside in the building, there's a kid NOT being a kid and being victim of human trafficking and sex offenders. Portrays the staggering differences between worlds and how life can take two very different turns for different people.

I don't care what people say about de Niro s shyness in public but you gotta admit he mastered his craft from the start. Every role he played especially the earlier ones is a gem. Centa anne Don Roberto Deniro

@matthewlimbery1470

7 ай бұрын

I just literally gasped when you pointed out that's Robert De Niro. He was so fucking hot? What the fuck

@prebenjaeger

7 ай бұрын

​@@matthewlimbery1470the fuck are you saying, that the 80-something is surprising less attractive than when he was 30?

@matthewlimbery1470

7 ай бұрын

@@prebenjaegerit just never crossed my mind that he looked anything different than the way he's looked for the last 20 something odd years yet here he is, i wouldnt have known it was him without that comment

@prebenjaeger

6 ай бұрын

@@matthewlimbery1470 brrrr derrrrrr

@Mmmmkaaay

5 ай бұрын

Just wait until you see Al Pacino in the Godfather.​😍@@matthewlimbery1470

There was good in travis. I dont know whats wrong with him,but he definetly had a soft and kind soul. Even tho he went on a killing spree. I get that he wanted to kill all the junkies and pimps but wanting to kill the senator seemed different. Maeby it was just the loneliness that made him flip and seeing all the scum in the streets of 70s new york. I love to analyze this movie.

@stancooper5436

8 ай бұрын

I know what you mean. He felt decent and relatable trying to help this kid.

@dubsteptourist1395

8 ай бұрын

He's empty - that's what wrong with him. Lonely pointless man in big dirty world desperately wanting any meaning or purpose, and by any I mean really any. From killing a senator to help little girl. Anything that can make him feel needed or meaningful.

@jonathanbirch2022

8 ай бұрын

Like John Hinkley Jr, Travis would probably be deemed not guilty by reason of insanity. Travis was suffering from paranoid/schizophrenic delusions and fantasies. He is a tragic figure.

@nocturnalrecluse1216

8 ай бұрын

I think feminists call it toxic masculinity.

@mattu21

8 ай бұрын

it's always the sensitive guys who go off the rails.

Just remember if Chris Hansen walked in he would say, "Oh sure you were just trying to help"

@AdnanKhan-ty2sl

2 ай бұрын

Hansen walks in saying "How we doing tonight?"

@Asianbrat

Ай бұрын

“Why don’t you have a seat?”

@TheHeraldofWoe

29 күн бұрын

Whata ya doin here?😂

@eggyx2734

6 күн бұрын

and then sure... travis will reply: you talking to me?

She was/is a helluva actor. When she is in the scene I can't take my eyes off of her

@sjla2009

Ай бұрын

Yeah she's just so cute I feel for her 😢

@bugzpudding

Ай бұрын

sad she was exploited like this

@VsAngeel

Ай бұрын

She was 12

This movie is such a classic.

@HaroldThrone

8 ай бұрын

What’s the movie called?

@kacperwasowicz5642

7 ай бұрын

​@@HaroldThrone Taxi Driver (1976)

@dannyhernandez265

7 ай бұрын

@@HaroldThronebro it’s in the title….

@lemurianchick

7 ай бұрын

@@HaroldThrone🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@Vikingr91

6 ай бұрын

I'm gonna watch it again, soon.

Sorry but I died laughing at her saying "he's a libra he wouldn't kill anyone" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Young4eva121

27 күн бұрын

Definitely relevant today! 😂

Heart breaking scene in the cafe, Travis is already broken and wants to save her. She can sense some of it I think but I need to watch it again with fresh eyes. A tough film to watch as an adult, as a father. Brutal but brilliant.

When you realize this is the professional but told different

@mastermill79

7 ай бұрын

Leon indeed.

@jeanivanjohnson

7 ай бұрын

​@@mastermill79 except leon is a pro-pedophilia movie

@YokaiX

7 ай бұрын

​@@jeanivanjohnsonthe movie itself never promoted that and character never did anything. The creator of the movie and story is one tho.

@emmaphilo4049

5 ай бұрын

It's so different from Leon....

@malory1444

3 ай бұрын

@@YokaiX the creator of the movie intended for it to romanticize a inappropriate relationship between a child and an adult. In the non American version of the film there is way worse.

The detail of her categorizing everyone with Astrological signs is a great way to show her frustrating young naivete.

@Jackissimus

22 күн бұрын

I know old women who do that.

“You call that being hip!!!” Brilliant

Jodi/Iris had bright green glasses, but at the end the lens were blue. I just felt compelled to say that. I didn't;t notice the other times I watched it. They are both so good I didn't notice details the first few times.

@RaptorFromWeegee

8 ай бұрын

they were "mood sunglasses"

@AnasCorner

8 ай бұрын

NO. Completely different glasses. Green ones were plastic rim, Blue ones were metal.

@LaineyBug2020

8 ай бұрын

To me, it represented all of her facades that she had to wear. She had a different one ready to pull out at the drop of a hat.

@heathernks8

3 ай бұрын

I've never seen the film so I noticed it right away. Even though I'm evidently an idiot for believing in astrology, just like men have since the beginning of time.

@mymai5859

29 күн бұрын

Apparently there's a line in the script where Jodie Foster fishes around in her bag & says, "I got so many sunglasses. I couldn't live without my shades, man. I must have twelve pairs of shades." So during the scene she went through 4 different coloured pairs. Due to editing - that line was cut out & the scene shortened- so it looks odd Jodie switching out glasses. I like to think of it as Jodie not 'seeing' where Travis is coming from... but by the end she starts to 'see' his point so needs different lenses.

It took him disturbingly long to reject her advances.

@electricfishfan7159

7 ай бұрын

Well, he’s not that smart, and he’s a pretty passive guy acclimated to what people do around him since he’s endured city life as just how the world works up until the movie takes place. He seems more nonplussed or dissociated than conflicted over her.

@jessethepersiankitty2377

6 ай бұрын

I thought that too

@remigal899

6 ай бұрын

Word

@babbisp1

6 ай бұрын

​​​​​​@@electricfishfan7159 1:28+2:07 Dude how passive do you have to be to not be able to to push away a tiny teenage girl? It's really not that hard. I'm a passive guy and if some teenager started unbuckling my belt I'd push them away and teleport outta there. Not to hold it against you but if anyone used that excuse today it wouldn't fly at all. It's as if people didn't really start caring about children until recently.

@localshithead7430

6 ай бұрын

I think it was intentional that Iris essentially looks like a mini Betsy. And this sequence of events takes place after Travis dealt with being rejected by Betsy. Maybe his hesitation was purposeful.

4:33 Notice when Travis gives the old man pimp with the toothpick in the hallway payment how the money was crumbled? Travis could have flattened it out before handing it to him but he wanted to hand it to him like that to make the old pimp understand that's a representation of himself. It was also a reflection of the man being old, crumbled and cheap! The crumbled currency was drawn on the wall as well.

Amazing acting of a very brilliant 14 years old Jodie Foster and a young Robert the Niro. She was very wild for making that scene and that role.

Jolie Foster was actually 12 was she shot Taxie Driver. Pretty crazy if you think about it.

Saw this movie for the first time a year ago and I gotta say that this is the moment in the movie where I found it hard to put a label on Travis as I couldn’t directly call him a true Villain. In Joker, it was easier to refer to Arthur Fleck as a textbook villain by the end of the movie. Albeit, a Sympathetic Villain given his gradual development throughout the movie but Taxi Driver took things differently. There isn’t really a linear origin story for Travis in his movie. He seemed to be walking a fine line between evil and good throughout the story given his actions during the beginning and the ending of the story. So he’s either Anti-Hero or more likely an Anti-Villain.

@AbhishekTiwari-we4vh

7 ай бұрын

Neither hero nor villain just a random lonely guy tries to make a difference in society by initiating unstability in society.

@Account.for.Comment

7 ай бұрын

His actions are not about good and evil, he is a lonely man without a purpose in life, wanting to have an action for others to notice his existence. This is his description from Page 1 of the screenplay: "Travis is now drifting in and out of the New York City nightlife, a dark shadow among darker shadows. Not noticed, no reason to be noticed, Travis is one with his surroundings......He has the smell of sex about him: Sick sex, repressed sex, lonely sex, but sex nonetheless. He is a raw male force, driving forward; toward what,one cannot tell. Then one looks closer and sees the evitable. The clock sprig cannot be wound continually tighter. As the earth moves toward the sun, Travis Bickle moves toward violence" In the first scene of the movie, the Personnel Officer barely looks at him, so that a lady in theatre in another scene. The politician, the pimp, Wizard the taxi driver have something he lacked which are someone who cared for them. Depression is anger turned inward, and Travis is depressed. And to cope with that depression, he lashed out violently toward the scums in society after a fail assassination of a public figure. The ending scene can be interpreted as a dream that he finally able to receive the looks of admiration for his action. So just think of this as a character study. Not every character fit the archtypes, tropes, and roles that internet critics commonly attributed. This is a character study of a depressed 26 year old lonely man with nothing to live for.

@dannyhernandez265

7 ай бұрын

@@Account.for.Commentvery insightful analysis, that’s the beauty of Taxi Driver… many of us can relate to Travis. Personally, I’ve always found myself alone, I feel lost without a purpose too. You see people on the streets, friends, couples, and it makes you sink back into that pit of isolation even further. But no matter how hard I seem to try, I just can’t… integrate myself with anyone. It’s always been that way, since highschool, college, in the real world. I’m 23 now, and still feel lost and aimless.

@potatoman7594

7 ай бұрын

why does he have to be labeled? can't he just be a person?

@AbhishekTiwari-we4vh

7 ай бұрын

@@potatoman7594 you don't understand that's the beuty of Martin, you can give infinite meaning to his characters according to you. And I don't think it's wrong to discuss each other's perspective

DeNiro acting is so delectably dangerous, it's realer than real life - guys the GOAT

@DSN262

7 ай бұрын

Plays the same role in every movie

@themessenger2948

6 ай бұрын

@@DSN262 Which role is that?

@dyyuri

5 ай бұрын

​@@DSN262Which role is that?

@DSN262

5 ай бұрын

@@dyyuri mobster

Its funny how every one Travis talks to refers to him and shooter or killer or cowboy. He can't seem to decide which one he is. I guess in the end we find out hes all three!

So that's what Clarice Starling was doing before she bacame an FBI agent

@jonathanbirch2022

8 ай бұрын

She was a rube

@bananacake9289

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️❤️🇬🇧 Guess she had to start somewhere??! Lol 😂🙋‍♀️

I find dialogue from 70s films so strange. People don’t really speak directly and it’s always round about and circumvents the actually point or question being asked.

@MrFrankEast

5 ай бұрын

Most people don't know how to write even slightly realistic dialog. It's why breaking bad is probably one of the best shows.

@tronam

3 ай бұрын

@@MrFrankEastMovies aren’t “realistic” at all, so why would I want the dialog to be? Even most documentaries are scripted.

@Jackissimus

22 күн бұрын

People don't want realistic. They watch films exactly because reality is boring. But I agree that films have to make it easy to suspend disbelief.

@Alienaddikt

17 күн бұрын

​@@tronam not a movie but watch MTV downtown

The talent of these 2... just beyond.

The way she brought up Zodiac signs

@yes-qw6om

5 ай бұрын

and then he just ignored it everytime

@nuggeth7811

4 ай бұрын

Like all teenage girls do actually

@heathernks8

3 ай бұрын

​@@nuggeth7811Like man has for thousands of years, but film buffs are snobs😂

@Kam-vz4yo

2 ай бұрын

@@heathernks8Seriously. They're so uncultured. "I don't believe in it so it must not be real."​ 🙄

@xmcerer

Ай бұрын

I mean she’s a little girl, that’s the point. Most people above the age of 20 don’t give a shit about that stuff. It’s to highlight how young and naive she is, how she is still a kid despite the terrible situation she is in.

Robert’s best acting job because in real life he definitely would have knocked that down no questions asked

I watched this when I was 13, so it never really dawned on me how crazy 12 is

Jodie Foster is, and always has been, a tremendous actor. It’s disturbing to watch this clip knowing how old she was. I can’t imagine the industry being able to make a film like this today with a child actor.

She really said he's a libra lmfaooo

I love the way he kept stopping her he's a real man and he probably misses his kids or wishes he had kids either way I'm glad he did this instead of what she assumed he came to do just like every other guy

Wow I didn't know she started acting so young! First time seeing her this young, dang!

@mumumumah

7 ай бұрын

Try looking up jodie foster - partridge family - she was 10.

@lemurianchick

7 ай бұрын

@@mumumumahBefore that she was in a great movie called "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" starring Ellyn Burstein. The sitcom "Alice" was based on that movie. Jodie played a wild little girl getting Alice's son drunk on Ripple.

@jessethepersiankitty2377

6 ай бұрын

​@@mumumumahshe had bit parts in tv series as well as young as five or six

@IamNOTthedad

5 ай бұрын

Wasn’t she in bugsy malone

@philosopher0076

4 ай бұрын

She was in the TV series, "The Courtship of Eddie's Father " with Bill Bixby when she was about 7. Probably 1968.

this film stays high on the rank bcs of how well it attempts to portray Travis as both the protagonist and the antagonist. Leaving it out for the viewer's subjective way of thinking on how to perceive his character's morals and values. If u break the scenes 0:57 u can see him initially attempting to make her conscious of the way she's behaving off of her age 1:42 he realizes this might be tougher than it seems and decides to persuade her completely off the track of "making it". The body language consists of prolonged eye contact from his side which eventually makes him uncomfortable. 1:54 he seems to be embarrassed and trapped making Travis subsequently question her. The tone inclines more towards making her realize her actions rather than genuine questioning. 2:11 This scene directs us towards perceiving him completely as a good man, a man who cares abt society. He seems sick of the wrong reality that has always pertained around him but this time the shield breaks and we eventually see him frustrated, knowing there might be no way to make her understand. 3:15 the sudden shift in expressions denotes to the viewers that he's really attempting to make some sense out of the whole situation. A sort of "why am I even trying to help her?" 4:14 opens up a completely new bond. The viewer starts taking him as an absolutely amazing main character, and the viewers start empathizing with him, for him. The jazz music kicks in, indicating a whole ambiance that his attempt isn't in vain, this might be a start to a new friendship. Travis is not lonely anymore. 4:33 the smooth change in the music. As the negatively enthralling music kicks in amidst the chill jazz. The ambiance goes from calm to an onset of smth violent or gory. The man in the coat walks insultingly nonchalantly into the limelight from the dark. Travis hands him the crumbled note. 7:33 Showcases Travis telling Iris outright what he thinks of the people around her. He seems provoked and unusually aggressive. 8:46 Finally gets the viewers confused on how to perceive Travis now. The vision becomes blurry. His telling he's working for the government indirectly tells us he's trying his best to make sense out of the world around him. He's trying to give meaning to Iris's life but he's the one who's lost. The scene tells us his excruciating attempt to find his purpose in the world. Hence, it becomes clear he's not doing all this for Iris but for himself. Kind of diverting the viewers to believe from here on that he actually might just be a narc after all.

I forgot how friggin great this movie was! The acting is superb even by Jodie who was so young! Legends in the making in this 🎞 ❤ 🎞 🍿

I love her hair-hot rollers!

My grandfather would ask me if I had sex with the girls I brought to his house by asking "did you make it with her" and I thought it was his way of asking but I guess that was the lingo back in the day

@claucemicro1080

7 ай бұрын

What a creepy question from a grandparent.

@Bunnidove

7 ай бұрын

​@@claucemicro1080yeahhh. Grandparents should keep outta it

@marcmona1864

7 ай бұрын

Lol probably just asking

@shikonaori

7 ай бұрын

Oh god. I just realized this is probably what "Make It With You" by Bread is about, here I was thinking it was just a wholesome love song. Lmao

@lensw0rld633

5 ай бұрын

​@@claucemicro1080😂😂😂

This was Jodi Foster's "Pretty Baby" ... which starred Brook Shields and Susan Sarandon

@nmejiag5030

7 ай бұрын

Ironic enough, she was the first one to be considered for Pretty Baby but rejected it because she didn't want to be typecast

@bubulina1948

7 ай бұрын

@@nmejiag5030 wow- didn't know that

Damn that toast looked sickly 😂. Jam with sugar on top...

Her glasses change in the diner, I've never noticed that before

Jodie Foster dresses really nice in movies and in real life as well.

How young they both were!

@user-cs6up8eq7s

8 ай бұрын

Robert de Niro was thirty-three years old

@Mark72672

8 ай бұрын

@@user-cs6up8eq7s De Niro was 31. She was 12 when they wrapped up filming this in Nov of 1975. Released in Feb 1976

@user-cs6up8eq7s

8 ай бұрын

@@Mark72672 he was born in 1943

@Mark72672

8 ай бұрын

@@user-cs6up8eq7s Robert De Niro was 31 when filming the movie and turned 32 on August 17, 1975

@dannyhernandez265

7 ай бұрын

@@user-cs6up8eq7sstill young at 30s.

He is so nice to her😭😭😭😭

Hermann's score, pure ecstasy

Travis is a good example of superation

One could say that Travis is like a Greek god - the best of the best and the worst of the worst.

you know she's three times as old as his current girlfriend is now

@JulianLife81

8 ай бұрын

Damn! Good one.

@scottmatheson3346

8 ай бұрын

every accusation by a conservative is projection. somebody needs a look at dan watkins' hard drive.

@jtom68

8 ай бұрын

Who cares

@JulianLife81

8 ай бұрын

@@jtom68 Epstein certainly did

@plasticweapon

8 ай бұрын

cool.

What I never understood about this movie is why Travis watches pornos alone in the theatre, and most of all, why did he take the girl he likes to that type of place?

@Vivacomunismo

7 ай бұрын

I think it’s the film telling messages about sex work and that includes porn, Travis is lonely and he has a very basic understanding of women, he somehow thinks the girl he’s with on a date will see it the same as him and that it will arouse her, he even thinks that date justified them seeing each other again. Later on as he meets iris he has the same sense of basic thinking, but actually applies his morality and ethics in kind of an astute way which was kind of new compared to how he treated his his crush, although he doesn’t exactly try to charm iris seeing as she’s underage he does want to help her instead of himself again an interesting comparison to last time. Travis being isolated doesn’t understand women fully but it feels like he wants to he’s just a bit too socially inept to most of the time. When confronted by something as egregious as pimping women it seems Travis actually takes the message stores it, and despite the fact he goes crazier as we go along an aspect of him yearns for a sense of justice (or at least that’s what he thinks), in my mind this applies to the ending scene as well as his attempt on the politician.

@mehakverma7043

7 ай бұрын

@@Vivacomunismo Ohh, yeah because I googled that same question, and everyone on quora said that it was because Travis is detached from reality and doesn't see anything wrong with it, which is true, but I like how your answer goes farther and examines why he is more in touch with reality when it comes to Iris. He learned wrong from right with Betsy, and he learned from his mistakes when it came to Iris. I think thats why he failed to kill Palentine and be a hero for Betsy, but he succeeded in saving Iris.

@Account.for.Comment

7 ай бұрын

First why, he was alone. Second why, he did not understand woman, that's why he's alone. He saw couples warching the porno, he thought that's what people do in a date. He is an asperger before most people know what it is. If you read the original screenplay, incel (I hated how the term is used) is a big part of his character. Sex is constantly in his mind. He is jealous of the politician and the pimp, that's how these two became his target. It is not heroism that led to the shootout and the attempt.

@mehakverma7043

7 ай бұрын

@@Account.for.Comment Ohhhh I did not know that! Because when I watch the movie I relate to Travis in every way, especially when he reads what he writes in his diary. But the porno stuff always disgusted me and I never understood. But you really cleared it up!

@Account.for.Comment

7 ай бұрын

@@mehakverma7043 about the porno stuff, remember this is before VHS, home video, and the internet. Shady theatre is the only place for it. Now, with the privacy of their homes, people can watch those "disgusting" videos in the internet. It is not really out of place in that time period, if you want to watch pron, that where you go to. This is a great film, the more you watch- the more details you noticed. Travis had a job, shelter, food and no purpose in life. He's not a bookworm, a cinephile, a vehement racist, a sexist or a principled idealist. I once described his problem is that he is an autist without an obsession. He is very relatable because the film strip out other factors of human experiences and left only the lonely, depressed man with potential for violence and aspiration to be admired. If handled by today Hollywood, Travis would easily be written as a 2D stereotype of a villain to feminism and society, but it was written and directed by people with talent and empathy.

Man Jodie is way above her age very talented

@radicalcartoons2766

14 күн бұрын

You need to see her in Bugsy Malone, aged 13!

He treats her like a human being.

Moral to this entire film was trying to help this girl get out of this horrible situation of prostitution period , he got his revenge at the end...

Why is everyone surprised they look young? It was decades ago

@limalikat4652

7 ай бұрын

Because people are idiots who don’t know how time works, I’m starting to realize that.

Great acting! ...completely enthralled! sad situation

Holy moly... did she just plaster jam all over that toast and THEN pour extra sugar on it? How Jody isn't dead from Diabetes..… 😮

@errolpletcher9186

6 ай бұрын

Actors use spit buckets for a reason. You never know how many takes a director might do per scene so they spit it out when said director calls "cut!"

@emmaphilo4049

5 ай бұрын

It's to show she is a kid

@jesbair-hill

2 ай бұрын

Jam and sugar on toast doesn’t have 1/10 th the sugar that a venti caramel macchiato or some other highly processed crap from Starbucks … and y’all Americans be drinking 2 or 3 of those a day. A little jam on toast with a sprinkle of sugar is nothing compared to 99% of what ppl shove in their mouths these days lol that’s why everybody is fat in 2020’s compared to the 1970’s.

I love her glasses

Such an amazing actress

My godddd, Jodie Foster is Very young.

He left with his fly still down.

Wow…. She looks like a kid version of Kristen Stewart. No wonder why they played mother and daughter.

@catrocastre8215

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, even in personality.

Awesome acting 👏

The moment he decided to become the Punisher

jodie foster did the mirror line to hannibal lector as well

Great Movie! Robert and Jodie are so good together!

4:49 "Come back anytime, cowboy." "I will" yes yes yes he will

Jodie Foster was so cute, lol. Great actress!

@milliea4253

8 ай бұрын

Found one in the wild

@slurmsmckenzie.

8 ай бұрын

FBI open up

@jupiterapollo4985

5 ай бұрын

Ladies and gentleman, we got em!

@PolishGod1234

5 ай бұрын

I don't understand why they called you a groomer. People can call others "cute" not in a sexual way.

@vor4237

5 ай бұрын

@@PolishGod1234just a joke, i think

Omg I barely recognize them. I only knew it was them bc of their voices.

Testament to Jolie fosters acting skills. She really is a super talent. As is Robert De Niro. I have never seen this film it's entirely. This clip has made me want to watch it.

@kiwo579

Ай бұрын

2 months old but for the score alone its worth a watch

Maaaan,Its so cool jodie foster in this movie,Her voice sounds deep for her age, her history its sad by the way

Who puts sugar on her jelly toast?!?

@CobraDove1111

8 ай бұрын

A CHILD, that's the point

@RaptorFromWeegee

8 ай бұрын

junkies do stuff like taht

@Mrhostil95

8 ай бұрын

I think it alludes to the fact she's in fact just a child, and also she might've been drugged while hustling and all that sugar is to help with withdrawal symptoms. Junkies always crave sugary things like Cokes and candy.

@vanessarichardson110

7 ай бұрын

That stuff is good

Good fellas, Casino, mean streets blah blah blah... Best Scorsese scene ever .... fight me

@richierich1166

19 күн бұрын

Heat too.

What a great movie. Bickle is honest in his efforts to get Iris to leave the pimps.

@kiwo579

Ай бұрын

i see it more as him seeing himself in iris and that part being exploited, so he makes up a savior story in his head where he fends off the pimps and is the hero but in the end is left with nothing changing and the feeling of emptiness lingering shit i should rewatch this movie

I need to rewatch this

Both fantastic actors..

@emmaphilo4049

5 ай бұрын

Yes!

Think of the glycemic index of that breakfast

@MyBeautifulHealth

7 ай бұрын

Oh, I did…! 🤢

@jupiterapollo4985

5 ай бұрын

Ah, kids can handel it.

"ARE YOU REALLY GONNA SCRATCH MY BACK"

I had a friend like this, luckily, she’s okey now

Say what you want about Travis, but he tried his best to help others

I Watched Taxi Driver For The First Time Last Week and The Scence When Iris Jumped in The Taxi and Matthew pulled her out . I thought she probably a Stripper or Something like that. And i said to myself She Probably has an Interesting or Tragic Story of her Own. Boy i was happy to be proved Right.

Bruh the pirate footage with vlc subtitles lmao

The same hand that reached out for the cash was removed - ""spend it right!"

John Hinkley be like: