(FIRST TIME WATCHING) TAXI DRIVER MOVIE REACTION! 

The point of it being disjointed is because we're in Travis's psyche. The cutting of the film is suppose to match Travis's mental state. When you have a film following one character and it's a character study into the psyche, the film is always shot with their perspective being the one we're viewing the film through. We're only seeing what the character sees or ALLOWS us to see as the audience. Character studies are always about perspective, perspective, perspective. No spoilers, but _Fight Club_ is another perfect example of this.

Just proves modern Hollywood can't form an original thought.

A very hard movie for a first time reaction video. Just some context, President Reagan was nearly assassinated by John Hinkley in 1981, who claimed to do it to impress Jody Foster. This lead to years of therapy for Jody. I met her briefly on the set of The Accused. It was her day off, but, she came in anyways to say hi, to us. She was very sincere.

Betsy and iris matter, but the film is about Travis, so that is the context which to judge it in.

Travis is just good people trying to do whats right.

Now everything is very politically correct in the movies, but in the 70s and 80s and even in the 90s in part, and these controversial issues were touched openly, without mincing words, so also the movie Leon The Professional, have some similar taboo moments and caused some controversy in the public.

Well... hmm. This movie is widely considered to be a masterpiece and De Niro's performance scathingly original. A priest friend of Scorsese's saw it when it came out and said to the director, "Well, Marty, it's clearly a piece of serious art, but it's all Good Friday and no Easter Sunday." Meaning, of course, that there's literally no real redemption arc. Even Travis's and Iris's positions at the end are false in a way, since neither really chose them, but were accidentally thrown into them. It's easy to imagine Iris going back to the streets and easy to imagine Travis as the same broken, bitter man he was before, once his tiny moment of celebrity fades.

Fun fact: The guy talking about killing his wife was Martin Scorcese!

Its interesting to watch young people be confused by the 1970s. I remember Detroit and it was so much like it shows the streets.

taxi driver is easily one of the best and most influential movies of the 20th century.

Deck-a-dence not decay-dence. You’re too young to remember the cesspit that NYC was back then.

If the essence of the story was taken from Joker, that of a lonely man descending into madness, it also places the story in that same era, in that decadent New York, full of criminality and full of garbage in the streets, as it was in the 70s. And the other movie that The Joker drinks from is The King of Comedy, also by Scorsese with De Niro.

In a Breaking Bad react you asked us to answer why we watch your reactions. For me it's because I'm interested in seeing how the younger generations deal with culture. BB is much more recent and the world didn't change a lot since then, but Taxi Driver is old even to me, and the world was very diferent at that time, as well as the concepts about filming, how to register life and the passing of time.We live in a faster world now, and the fact that you found the movie slow or scattered shows this. Well, I got what I was looking for, and you, unknowingly, are teaching me what it is to be young today. Thanks.

G’day guys, Scorsese is the guy who wants to kill his wife, and another cameo if you can spot it, this film set new ground and shows what’s really going on, it takes a brave director to take on a movie like this, especially at the time… it’s about loneliness, isolation, alienation and the depravity and violence that Travis is digested with and can’t take it anymore, this is ‘film noir’ and a director’s director film..take care

12:42 Travis is pouring Peach Schnapps into a 'cereal' of white bread and sugar. Incidentally, Bernard Herrmann (in my opinion, the greatest film composer of all time--and "Taxi Driver" was his final movie--the movie is dedicated to him) initially turned down scoring the movie (dismissively saying he didn't do movies about taxi drivers), but he liked the scene with the Peach Schnapps so much he agreed to do it. :)

The pimp was Harvey Keitel..."Pulp Fiction'.."Reservoir Dogs" and tons of other movies.

I think your opinion of the movie would definitely grow upon repeated views. The first time I watched it (over 30 years ago), I didn't even understand it, really...I was confused by what I was watching. But I've seen it countless times since. And almost certainly true there's a primacy effect depending on which film you saw first. I saw "Joker" and wasn't all that impressed with it because I just saw it as a distillation of the themes of "Taxi Driver" and (even moreso) "King of Comedy."

Alex has been nervous for this one to drop😂 don’t give her too much flak for it🤣🤣🤣 Patreon and discord links are in the description of the video!

17:08 Yes that's where it came from, the original line ;)

This movie was deemed rated X and demanded changes. Martin refused. He changed the shooting scene so blood was more maroon. It was enough to bring it down to R.

Very strange muting the movie. I wasn't sure if it was my tv, or a hearing problem.😂🤣

I personally love this movie, it is one of my favorites of all time but it didn't bother me if your friend/girlfriend (I don't know which is which and I don't know her name😁) cuz her explanations of why she didn't like it were fairly reasonable and understandable🙂 And I can totally see how her watching "The Joker " first might have ruined a little bit her enjoyment of "Taxi Driver". But to tell you the truth, I wouldn't be able to be angry at her no matter how hard she tries because I find her to be really adorable🤭🤗😁 Saying all this, in my humble opinion the movie's fractured structure and it's jumping around between various scenes that doesn't seem to have that much connection with each others was done on purpose in order to reflect the confusion and madness of Travis which is caused by his deep state of alienation from his environment. As you could see in the beginning of the movie he was a veteran of the Vietnam war and you could say that he came back to society with little prospects for his future and it should not be surprising to deduce that his experience with war has fucked up his mental state. Also, in case you didn't notice, he suffered from a high level of insomnia which could also have a negative effect on his psyche. Overall, one of the main themes of the movie could be the fact that it is partly a critique and condemnation of the negative effect that the Vietnam war had on the American people who fought it, who came back from it to society with very little prospects for their future and of how they were poorly treated by the U.S. government. It is also worth mentioning in order to better understand Travis's actions that his character was partly based on a true story that is of a member of the Manson's family cult who has attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford back in 1975. Putting aside everything that I said up to this point, some of the reasons of why I like this movie so much is for it's high level or realism, the fact that the characters of the movie are so believable, they feel so real and also for Robert De Niro's great acting. His role of Travis is one of the most iconic of his career, especially his line "Are you talking to me?!..." which is heavily referenced in media overall but also by people in real life😀

It's ok if you don't like it.. I appreciate the genuine reaction! Please don't change that ✌😎

The King of Comedy is a great film, Taxi Driver is more of that time but highly influencial. There were a lot of crazy assassinations during the 60's and 70's and in fact this film inspired the attempt to kill Reagan by John Hinckley in 1981, he was obsessed with Jodi Foster. Both this and King of Comedy are highly influencial on the Joker film. I think 'You Were Never Really Here' is a better show from Joaquin Phoenix.

Nice movie pick! I think Joker was inspired by this film and The King of Comedy, another Scorcese film starring DeNiro.

Gotta mention King of Comedy cause of the discussion about similarities to The Joker. Joker takes from that movies as much if not more than Taxi Driver, pretty blantantly with both. King of Comedy is one of the many interesting movies made by Scorcese and De Niro, including all time greats like Goodfellas and Raging Bull

Taxi Drive + The King of Comedy = Joker

Such a classic

I liked the Joker and didn’t mind its similarities to Taxi Driver - a favourite of mine - in fact I think The Joker is even more similar to Scorsese’s 1982 film ‘The King Of Comedy’ than it is to Taxi Driver. Some people seem bothered by all those similarities but clearly it’s done out of love and if you pay attention it isn’t very difficult to see that this homage is done all the time in cinema. An early Scorsese movie to catch at some point in your lives is Mean Streets. Jodi Foster wasn’t introduced into the cinema world so much as she just exploded onto the scene in 1976 with 5 films: Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, The Bad News Bears, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, and, Freaky Friday. Thanks for making videos eh.

This video got silenced parts right?

React to Falling down (1993) movie

You guys should do a comedy sometime. 😂😂

One great thing about this movie is definitely the whole mood and cinematography. So people who are into that should love it. Another interesting aspect is the ending that can have more than one interpretation. For example there's a theory that Travis actually died in that building during or right after his rampage. And the scenes afterwards are just in his mind while dying - which to me is fasinating. Basically what he's imagining in his last seconds.. which makes sense when you think about everything going back to normal like nothing ever happened.. also the shot of her sitting in the back of his taxi, it feels like a dream.. But then again of course you can also take the ending literal like it is. He received the letter, finally got back to his normal life and continues on.

You also need to watch "The King of Comedy." "Joker" also borrows heavily from that movie.

Awesome choice! If you're going down this road with BB and amazing classics like this, I'm signing up for your Patreon. I hope you don't start with Marvel/DC movies because they've been done to death. (Nobody come at me, that's just my personal preference). The Boys is a good choice though, as it's making fun of the superhero genre. A bit of advice from someone who watches a lot of reactions, if I may: You mention that your Patreon link is on your profile, but I'd suggest you put the link (and all social media links) on EVERY video and make them clickable. Because people (including me) are JUST that lazy :) Also, Scorsese's "King of Comedy" (also with DeNiro) is lesser-known, but much closer to "Joker" than this movie. "Taxi Driver" and "King of Comedy" are kind of companion pieces. Okay kids you've got my 3 bucks on Patreon. Looking forward to seeing you grow the channel!

The cinema cartography channel did the best analysis of this movie I’ve come across which demonstrates why it’s brilliant you should check it out.

Was all the muting deliberate ?

Great movie! Did NOT expect this reaction today😁 hella hyped🤙🏽 more movie reactions pleaseee! 🙏🏽 have y’all ever seen interstellar? Or the movie tenet? 10/10 recommend

Hoped on for breaking bad, but youse remind me of my homies so im on board for everything

A potential insight into understanding "Taxi Driver" (bear with me. :D). Recently, I read Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," because I was intrigued following reading a book on writing ("The Naive and Sentimental Writer" by Orhan Pamuk). Pamuk brings up "Moby Dick" (quoting the analysis of the book from a legendary author, Jorge Luis Borges) in talking about the importance of the 'center' of a novel: "'At the beginning, the reader might consider the subject to be the arduous life of whale hunters.' Indeed, the opening chapters of Moby-Dick are like a novel of social criticism, or even newspaper reportage, full of details about whaling and about the lives of harpooners. 'But then,' says Borges, we come to think 'the subject is the madness of Captain Ahab bent on pursuing and destroying the white whale.' And in fact the middle chapters of Moby-Dick are like a psychological novel, analyzing the unique character of a powerful man filled with obsessive rage. Finally, Borges reminds us that the real subject and center are something entirely different: 'Page by page, the story grows until it takes on the dimensions of the cosmos.' It is a sign of the brilliance and depth of a novel when there is such a distance between the narrated story and its center. Moby-Dick is one of those masterpieces in which we constantly feel the presence of the center, constantly ask where it might be, constantly change our mind as to the answer." I would say similarly that the true 'center' of Taxi Driver is really Travis Bickle's isolation and his inability to forge a meaningful, sustained relationship with anybody around him. It's a movie that isn't concerned too much with having a linear plot with points to be resolved. The incidental things that happen (e.g., the demented passenger, dating Betsy, saving Iris) are kind of 'signposts' along the way meant to reinforce this theme of isolation and disconnection. I think a lot of old movies, particularly from that time period of the 1970s, were like this. Incidentally, I think Paul Schrader (the writer) once said that the movie was one of those rare ones where the writer (himself), the director (Scorsese), and the main actor (De Niro) all implicitly understood that isolation and related to it at that time in their own lives--which might have contributed to its unexpected success when it was released.

"Deck-a-dence", means way too much, too rich, too wasteful. Great vid!

I reccomend y’all to put your patreon link in the description of each video going forward . That’s where people usually first look

was so funny when she started talk about Murray death in Joker,, did they notice they were actually watching Murray:))

Highly recommend 'There Will Be Blood'

Please watch the king of comedy

You gotta watch The King of Comedy next! It's the other Scorsese movie Joker ripped off.

GREAT reaction! It's not my fave Scorsese, or movie from 1976 ("Network" is), but it was definitely a different kind of thing when it came out and remains iconic. It's a must-see for history of movies, history of De Niro or Scorsese or Jodie Foster, etc. Ha! LOVED that she recognized Peter Boyle from "Young Frankenstein"! :D You guys keep talking about how similar it is to Joker. All the stuff that you DIDN'T see in this movie that's in Joker? That's in "The King Of Comedy"! 🤣 Joker is basically as if De Niro switched characters in "Taxi Driver" and "The King Of Comedy", lol. I mean, to be fair Joker is totally open about it. For one: they cast De Niro in it! That couldn't be an accident! :D You guys are GREAT reactors. And also a great couple! Totally rooting for you! We see what you like about each other! Two cool individuals! Yeah, definitely hit "King Of Comedy", it's shorter, you'll totally like it, it's a dark comedy, and yet another in a string of unbelievable performances from De Niro. Mean Streets, then Godfather Part 2, Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, King Of Comedy. Holy smokes, what a gallery of characters. All major performances, and "Raging Bull" particularly changed the game, as far as gaining weight for a role, and immersing yourself in a role. Everyone points to that performance, like they do Meryl Streep in "Sophie's Choice", or Marlon Brando in "Streetcar Named Desire". Game changers, lines in the sand as far as before and after, in the history of movies and acting. Anyways, congratulations for getting this under your belt! Sorry for the long comments!

Its about alienation

Love your guys reactions!!! Was curious if you guys were in the mood for comedy have you seen Grandma's Boy? It is hilarious...both you guys are awesome...thanks!

Thanks for the movies; I prefer them to television

Glad to see this, it is an older one but a goodie Do I need a copy of Breaking Bad to watch it on Patreon?

Y’all ever see Friday Night Lights? It’s one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen