Taxi Driver (1976) MOVIE REACTION!!! First Time Watching

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YOU TALKING TO ME? Join me and My girlfriend as we watch Taxi Driver for the First Time!! Hope you enjoy this REACTION!!
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Directed by : Martin Scorsese
Stars : Robert De Niro , Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd
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@powerofberzerker9487 Год назад

The movie's ending is what makes this film. Absolutely brilliant way to show how it's so easy to become either a hero or a criminal.

@dajmasta94 Год назад

I think it’s trying to say that in a society like ours the “heroes” aren’t as far removed from the villains as they might look on the surface. The clue to that is the walking contradiction line.

@powerofberzerker9487 Год назад

@@dajmasta94 You said what I meant. Nicely phrased.

@sonnyhenriksen284 Год назад

Hannah, you talk about "the reason he was let out of the marines." The war was over. Most soldiers were discharged.An honourable discharge, is leaving with a recommendation.

@lukefury8162 Год назад

I also think the ending might of just been in his head especially the scene when that woman he liked appears in his taxi

@powerofberzerker9487 Год назад

@@lukefury8162 Agreed.

@Cadinho93 Год назад

"You talkin' to me?" Fun Fact: The scene with the Passenger in the back of the taxi telling Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) how he's going to kill his cheating wife with a .44 Magnum revolver is actually the director himself Martin Scorsese. Also, Robert De Niro worked fifteen hour days for a month driving cabs as preparation for this role. He also studied mental illness and during his off-time when filming "1900" (1976), visited a US Army base in Northern Italy and tape-recorded conversations with Midwestern soldiers so that he could pick up their accent.

@24sowl11 Год назад

@tjp817 lmfaoa aahahahaah which make sit more funny

@ryanjacobson2508 Год назад

There's at least three versions of a Midwestern accent. There's the "Great Lakes" accents of the Upper Midwest, the Midlands accent of much of Ohio, Indiana, Southern Illinois, and Missouri. Then there's the "general American" accent you hear in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

@lethaldose2000 Год назад

Hey Hannah and Ash, Not long after the film's release, the screenwriter Paul Schrader, had an encounter with a deluded armed young man who snuck into his office, convinced Taxi Driver was about him. ----- He was asking Schrader questions like: "How did you know this about me? How did you find me?" ------ Schrader calmed him down by explaining that lots of young guys feel the way Travis Bickle does; alone, disconnected and confused. Pretty intense for sure.

@_YZY_583 Год назад

That guys wrong it’s bout me

@damien5760 Год назад

travis was the og ryan gosling

@f1ah 9 месяцев назад

literally me

@papichulo8749 17 дней назад

He's like me frfr

@Dudeness95 Год назад

Glad that you guys watched this before Joker. Now you'll see how much Joker was influenced by this movie. Also, I agree the ending is weirdly too idealistic that's why there's people who theorize the happy ending was all in his head.

@the_33rd Год назад

The king of comedy was also equally a massive influence too in regards to The Joker.

@FuckFascistYouTube Год назад

Joker is so much better

@CAPTEINRIGGS Год назад

@@romainlettuce118 Lmao

@Vince-lq3ve Год назад

@@FuckFascistRU-vid You might want to discern between a movie that is created from nothing and a movie that borrows so much from the original movie and then just makes it a bit better. I write an original story and then you take that story and tweek it here and there. Maybe your story is better but who deserves the most credit? Yes Joker is quite the movie, but to dismiss the original creation...

@FuckFascistYouTube Год назад

@@Vince-lq3ve I'm not dismissing it, just saying Joker is better

@smichelle65 Год назад

Epic reaction -- this is my favorite movie of all time, and it's the reason Martin Scorsese is my favorite director to this day. As to the too-good-to-be-true ending, there's an interesting theory that's been floating around for a while: the theory is Travis did indeed die. That camera floating over the crime scene represents an out-of-body experience, and the letter from Iris's parents, Travis returning to his job as if nothing happened, and Betsy seeing him as a hero are all Travis's final images before his death. I agree with Hannah -- Iris immediately going back to school is just too perfect; she would need LOTS of therapy first, lol. But it is just a fan theory -- Scorsese himself says that the ending is what happened, but Travis is absolutely NOT well -- he's still a ticking time-bomb and it's only a matter of time before he explodes again.

@smichelle65 Год назад

@TJP 81 Thief is great! James Caan - GOAT

@victorsixtythree Год назад

That theory is certainly interesting. But I think it would actually be too "easy" of an explanation. I feel like if you take the ending at face value - that Travis became a hero - it's more unsettling and thought provoking. There's more to think about and the ending doesn't present a nicely tied up and fully resolved conclusion. Just my thoughts. Also, right at the very end right before the final credits, isn't there a weird shot of Travis catching a glimpse of something in his rear view mirror and reacting oddly to it? I always thought that was a signal that, even though Travis appeared to be well adjusted at the end, there are still some deeper issues still unresolved.

@markhamstra1083 Год назад

@@victorsixtythreePaul Schrader, the screenwriter: “The epilogue is not a dream sequence, it’s just the restarting of the movie. I’ve always felt that the last frame could be spliced to the first frame and the movie started all over again.”

@ben159xbox Год назад

😊

@batape1965 9 дней назад

The brief final shot of Travis darting his eyes about in his cab after he has dropped off Betsy, tells us that he is not "all better now". His inner time-bomb has just been re-set.

@dansiegel333 Год назад

One interpretation of the ending is that it’s his fantasy as he’s dying. It’s just too perfect. And it’s filmed in a much cleaner style and environment. Also, the overhead sequence preceding this unrealistically perfect ending- complete with Iris’ total rehabilitation- visually represents his soul leaving the body (figuratively if not literally.)

@lethaldose2000 Год назад

Hey Hannah and Ash, This movie not only inspired "The Joker", but on the bad side of things, it also inspired John Hinkley Jr., the man that shot President Reagan to do his evil deed as an homage to Jodie Foster. ----- Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie Foster. He sent her numerous letters, cards, phone calls. I think he even showed up at her house at least once. Foster was naturally freaked out by Hinkley and ignored him. ------ He didn't like being ignored, so in a last ditch effort to impress Jodie Foster, he decided to shoot and attempt to kill President Reagan.

@24sowl11 Год назад

wow

@MrRhunter64 Год назад

If only he were around today.......

@cheebees Год назад

she didn't only ignore him she would answer his calls and listen in with her friends and make fun of him and taunting him. Gotta be careful who you make fun of, there are crazies out there.

@themessenger2948 Год назад

Makes total sense.

@mmcreads Год назад

@@cheebees um what? That didn’t happen- you can see transcripts and hear the tapes. She was a college freshman who was being stalked and phoned in the middle of the night- in her dorm room where other freshman girls lived. She was clearly irritated and even still managed to be polite yet firm in her insistence he leave her alone and making her feel unsafe. He was mentally ill & stalked a teenager after becoming obsessed with her as a 14year old, playing a role of a TWELVE YEAR OLD PROSTITUTE. 🤢

@andrewstellner7827 Год назад

The depth that comes with the seemingly happy ending is that we as an audience see that Travis is rewarded and praised for what is seen as a noble act when we know it's just his violent lashing out. The implication is that he will repeat these violent acts again somewhere down the line, and maybe this time he won't be stopped.

@bronzewand Год назад

Exactly

@hypostatics9475 Год назад

very eloquently expressed! spot-on!

@markhamstra1083 Год назад

What I also find very interesting is that the ending of the movie was inspired in large part by all the media attention that was given to Arthur Bremer, who attempted to assassinate George Wallace when Wallace was a presidential candidate in 1972. Then the film itself motivated John Hinkley’s assassination attempt on President Reagan. Hinkley was seeking and expecting positive attention from his act. A few years after that in 1984, Bernie Goetz became the Subway Vigilante after shooting four people on a NYC subway. He was turned into the kind of media hero that Travis Bickle is made out to be at the end of the film. And yet those who say that the end of the movie is just Travis’ fantasy dream sequence as he dies offer the excuse for their misinterpretation that the ending being what really happened is too good to be true and unrealistic. In fact, the ending is firmly grounded in the reality of the attention the American media often give violent men like Travis Bickle, even turning them into folk heroes like Bernie Goetz. In fact, it is those who insist that Travis died because otherwise the ending is unrealistic who are actually out of touch with reality and are instead substituting their own fantasy ending that they imagine Travis deserves.

@cooperryan6382 Год назад

@@markhamstra1083 could another more recent example be Kai the hitchhiker?

@JC2023HD 10 месяцев назад

You can have bad motives for doing good things and good motives for doing bad things.

@daydreamer7618 Год назад

That's Jodie Foster actually age twelve years. She started acting in commercials age three and in TV shows/movies age five. She earned her first Oscar nomination for Taxi Driver.

@marcharley6465 Год назад

Such a great film and interesting discussion of it by Ash and Hannah. If DeNiro's character had died , we wouldn't have seen how such a disturbed and violent man can become a "hero".

@madonnasfangirl9631 8 месяцев назад

He did die. The ending is his fantasy

@gggallin8279 8 месяцев назад

@@madonnasfangirl9631 no, Paul Schrader (the guy who wrote the story) confirmed that Travis is alive

@westboundno8 6 месяцев назад

Shrader does say that, but the intention may have changed in the film making

@bronzewand Год назад

Lots of people have a "madela effect" and remember the film ending with him dying. The actual ending is what makes this movie so much deeper.. it ends where it began, he's still a psychopath, not understanding the consequences of his actions, driving his cab and waiting for the next time to snap

@peterf08 Год назад

Mandela effect*

@aliciasavage6801 Год назад

I am one of them. Watching this ending just confused the hell out of me, like "what?" totally throwing my mind off now.

@TonyDracon Год назад

@@peterf08 Mandalorian effect*

@peterf08 Год назад

@@TonyDracon no its definitely the mandela effect You're talking about a disney plus show 😂

@travismorris9303 Год назад

I had the same, I remembered him dying in the end until I recently watched it again.

@joshuacampbell7493 Год назад

Guys, watch Robert De Niro again in Goodfellas. It's Incredible True Story 👍. Besides Martin Scorsese directed that movie too 👌.

@Sleptking994 Год назад

I agree.

@chefskiss6179 Год назад

It IS a true story... De Niro IS in Goodfellas 😂😂😂

@JCastle12495 Год назад

Probably my second favorite movie

@morleymobproductionz Год назад

Cape Fear is awesome too..!

@ragnarok283 Год назад

Raging Bull as well

@lethaldose2000 Год назад

Hey Hannah and Ash, It's fascinating in that some people interpret the Film's ending as Travis' dying thoughts. ---------- While the film crew claim it's real and that it represents a loop that Travis isn't cured of his madness and will eventually slip again into ultra violence. ---------- I myself think that Travis found an outlet for his frustration and was able to go from just a madman to bring a hero in the pubic's perception.

@winstonmarlowe5254 Год назад

"will eventually slip again into ultra violence" Yes, my brother. The red, red krovvy will flow again.

@beastchurger Год назад

@@winstonmarlowe5254 welly welly welly well

@StrongStyleFiction Год назад

So the guy with Cybill Shepherd at the campaign office is played by Albert Brooks, one of the great comedy filmmakers in American film. His movie Defending Your Life is one of the most original, brilliant and hilarious movies you will ever see.

@vincentvancraig Год назад

I didnt see this movie until the year 2000 at age 23, almost 24...but i always thought Brooks’ performance in this was, like, seinfeld-esque, or, proto-Seinfeld....Seinfeld-esque a full 15 years before seinfeld even existed

@shainewhite2781 Год назад

Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but lost to Rocky. It drew some controversy upon release. This movie is what inspired obsessed fan, John Hinckley Jr, to try to shoot and kill President Ronald Reagan in 1981. After he was arrested they asked me why he did. He said that it was to impress Jodie Foster, and claimed that he was in love with her. Reagan survived his gunshots and remained Commander In Chief until 1989. Hinckley spent the last 40 years of his life in a mental institution for the criminally insane. He was released a week after the 40th anniversary of Reagan's assassination attempt.

@theorjan1 Год назад

Unlucky to be released at the same time as Rocky

@ajax3748 Год назад

@@theorjan1 as much as I love rocky I definitely think taxi driver should've won

@theorjan1 Год назад

@@ajax3748 I disagree, but totally valid opinion, it’s close

@chrissibersky4617 Год назад

He's a war veteran. Some kind of special forces. That mohawk haircut is something American soldiers did when they were going on a suicide mission.

@visaman Год назад

Imagine them being so young that they didn't know what a Mohawk was!

@SergioArellano-yd7ik 4 месяца назад

In England during the Punk Rock days it was called a Mohican

@chrissibersky4617 4 месяца назад

@@SergioArellano-yd7ik Imagine being so young that you don't know that.

@chrissibersky4617 4 месяца назад

@@visaman I don't know if they called it a mohawk haircut back then. That's what it's called today. It's a haircut known in different cultures from different ages all around the world. Hairstyles come and go. For an American it's probably surprising to learn that some European tribes had dreadlocks a thousand years ago. And mohican style too.

@SergioArellano-yd7ik 4 месяца назад

@@chrissibersky4617 at least they didn't scream cultural appropriation like so many people do today

@mrkelso Год назад

"Joker" is actually more a blending of two Scorsese movies, you should check out the other half: "The King of Comedy". That's where you'll see even more direct plot lifts.

@puerrodios8013 Месяц назад

holy sh1t, you are right

@kyleshockley1573 Год назад

Travis driving away at the end is pretty true to life. Probably one of the most realistic endings to a film I've seen.

@borisnegrarosa9113 7 месяцев назад

He had proven he was no creep. He drives away. Brilliant ending indeed.

@mrkrinkle72 Год назад

Travis didn't die. The fantasy was Betsy getting into the cab. When he looks in the rearview mirror, there's nothing there. Then he moves it towards the credits.

@puerrodios8013 Месяц назад

that's open to interpretation; Travis took his sweet ahh time to look behind, during which time Betsy got inside her apartment

@clintcearley9487 Год назад

At the very end of the movie after he drives away from Miss Sepheard, even though he seems normal, the quick flashes of his eyes shows that it could all happen again Great movie. Great actors and writing and great reaction. Hannah, you are so smart. And Ash, you crack me up all of the time.

@vincecommando7575 Год назад

Fun facts: the personnel officer who hires Travis was in the first two Rocky and The Godfather movies. Joe Spinnell was good friends with Sylvester Stallone and was a great actor in his own right. The newspaper picture of Iris' parents were Martin Scorsese's parents.

@smadaf 5 месяцев назад

"I think he's just uneducated. He's not like a socially aware person that much." Very self-reflective.

@suddenlyfrogs1906 Год назад

An absolute classic. Another film of this type is Harry Brown, Michael Caine as a vigilante pensioner. There's about 3 or 4 actors from game of thrones.

@daniilashurov135 Год назад

For someone, who was blessed by Symbolism Gods, Ash surely didnt catch the ambiguity of ending😃 Too bad his attempt of assassinating Palantine didnt make it to the reaction. Also that brief moment when he checks his rearview window in the end should make you question things. But overall great reaction.

@MrMoleHole Год назад

You guys should definitely react to the film nightcrawler, it's a great film and as shocking as Taxi Driver!

@DeathBeforeComicSans Год назад

Love that film. Creepy AF.

@leniobarcelos1770 Год назад

Yeah, I remember really liking that one.

@stefanconradsson Год назад

Girlfriend .. you were totally spot on in your analysis from the start to the ending. Very perceptive commentary. Cheers 🍺

@Bucky123100 Год назад

I think a big thing to remember about this character is that he was in Vietnam, and throughout the duration of that entire war, the soldiers survived off of fear alone. This guy was sent to kill as a kid and it probably affected a lot of mental health drastically

@SergioArellano-yd7ik 4 месяца назад

Kid? They were at least 18, that's an adult even if they don't act like one

@pleaseshush9800 Год назад

a suggestion for a movie which is both entertaining but for a technical standpoint stunning is whiplash. Another Scorcese and De Niro movie you could check out is Raging Bull, by far De Niro’s best performance for me aswell as one of the best acting performances i’ve seen.

@tomantush4867 Год назад

That's the most intelligent and intuitive reaction to this film that I've seen. You have entered a rabbit hole of interpretation, and I welcome you to this deep pool.

@ummmdudewtf Год назад

Speaking about not fully believing Iris would go back to her parents in my opinion she has been through a lot but she literally just witnessed all of the people who are keeping her in that position be murdered in front of her. That's such a shocking a gruesome thing to witness plus it could have easily been the point of realisation that these people were putting her on a path I don't actually want to be on, she was young and her opinions/thoughts could change on a dime so i wouldn't be surprised if the shootout was the breaking point for her.

@b0de Год назад

If you rewatch the ending you can see the glitch in the mirror when you see travis' face looking back at her. There is a debate among film fans what this ending means. I personally think its possible that Travis did die at the end (shot in the neck, god damn) and what did happen was his fantasy of what he wished would happen in a perfect world.

@markhamstra1083 Год назад

These two were so busy arguing about what would be the best ending to the movie that they completely missed how the movie actually ends.

@alyberop1 Год назад

Regards the ending: Due to the positive spin on the news story(and the fact he killed criminals and helped a girl return to her family) he was seen as a hero. When we see him interact with Betsy the audience knows that he is psychotic and all that is still bubbling under the surface. She and others in his life don't.

@Curraghmore Год назад

Well spotted on Scorsese sitting outside the campaign office the first time we see Cybill Shepherd walking in. Some reactors recognize him later in the back of the cab, but you're the first I have seen that noticed his first appearance earlier on. But then you didn't recognize Jodie Foster!

@gridplan 8 месяцев назад

18:12 -- I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but the guy who played Easy Andy, the gun dealer, was pretty heavily into drugs around then; Scorsese made a documentary about him in 1978 called American Boy: A Profile of Stephen Prince. One of the stories Stephen told in that documentary became, almost word for word, the drug overdose scene Tarantino depicted in Pulp Fiction.

@ibrash100 Год назад

I love how she answered the cab driver's question as though he was asking her what she wanted to do in the moments before she dies

@louismarzullo1190 Год назад

Another smash from my favorite RU-vid comple! You guys have magical chemistry & just get better & better. Hannah, do you work for MI6?? I guess you'd have to kill me if you told me. Whatever you do for a living I hope your amazing clairvoyant gift is being put to good use! Cheers from New York!

@louismarzullo1190 Год назад

* Lol, couple

@baconfacejugs4017 Год назад

You are right about her being super young. Jodie foster was 14 in real life during filming if I’m not mistaken

@salislazy Год назад

"Reasonable Dismissal" is the funniest thing I've ever heard and idk why 😂😂

@Spideymania Год назад

The actor's name you couldn't remember is Harvey Keitel!

@williamj6974 Год назад

Dude is second guessing Martin Scorsese 😳 🤔 😂

@myfriendisaac Год назад

8:42 “Reasonable dismissal…” 😂🤣 The ending is SUPERB. He dismissed Betsy & only became a “hero” due to circumstance.

@ronbock8291 Год назад

My interpretation of the ending is, he dies, and all of the implausible stuff at the end is his fantasy as he dies. The floating away of the camera from above is his spirit leaving his body.

@TheDaringPastry1313 Год назад

What's crazy is that Jodie Foster killed her role in this movie and she was actually 12.

@tomraffell1923 Год назад

Brilliant early performance by Jodie Foster (Clarice from Silence of the lambs)

@TheCangrejo12 Год назад

You two are incredibly watchable when reacting to the movie! you were the entertainment! Thanks for the reaction.

@richcarrCCC Год назад

07:22 and 30:22 these two moments made my day! LOL! Ash recognizing Martin Scorsese sitting in the background ogling Cybill Shepherd then Hannah's reaction of unexpected VINDICATION when seeing the newspaper clipping on the wall... such excellent entertainment. Okay, gotta give Ash props for recognizing Harvey Keitel even though he called him "...the cleaner... from Pulp Fiction... "Fox" or something... " (Mr. Wolf actually). Thanks for sharing yet another entertaining reaction video. Wishing the two of you and all of your families the very best for a Happy Holiday Season. God bless

@ljstar6528 Год назад

The ending is open ended and there are multiple theories. The one theory that Ash would probably like more is that Travis actually dies after the shoot out. The happy, almost too good to be true ending, is Travis imagining himself as a hero. In other words, what he wished would have resulted from his actions.

@insanitypepper1740 Год назад

There is a theory that the ending was a fantasy Travis had while dying. Just like in Joker there is the theory that Arthur never got out of the fridge and everything at the end was his dying fantasy.

@jefferoni1984 Год назад

Hannah! The fringe is giving me 70’s vibes in the best way. Tres chic. It really suits you. 😍

@JamesDavis-sh9gh Год назад

Harvey Keitel who plays Matthew has been a frequent collaborator with Scorcese. He was in Mean Streets with DeNiro as well as a previous film in the late 60's.

@marlonthemarvellous Год назад

Reasonable dismissal LoL. My last job I got reasonably dismissed. Hannah you crack me up. Ash put a ring on it pls

@michealmicheal8258 Год назад

I always thought this was a tragic ending , the last scene to me sort of indicates maybe some of this is in his head, basically from when the police show up at the crime scene everything is subjective. The letter from iris' parents reads in the same childlike way Travis writes in his journal, him be called a hero for what he did its like the perfect ending for Travis to justify his actions right until the moment Betsy just magically appears in his taxi its almost like her forgiveness or kindness to him contradicts his judgement of her i think when he double takes in the rearview mirror its him beginning the crack again like a restarting

@JC2023HD 10 месяцев назад

The scriptwriter settled it. It was all meant to be interpreted as reality and not his fantasy.

@michealmicheal8258 10 месяцев назад

@@JC2023HD Paul Shrader is the screenwriter he wrote it but he didnt direct it haha they are two separate things , the reason its interesting to me is because its subjective anyway. Would be interesting to know what the directors take is

@jacksonlee1268 Год назад

These two arguing never fails to crack me up.

@tjchesney4997 Год назад

Paul Schrader, who wrote it, said that the ending he had was downplayed in the final product. Travis is lauded as a hero...but that final glance in the mirror tells you he's a ticking time bomb.

@EbefrenRevo Год назад

She is the great actress Ms.Jodie Foster (Silent of the Lambs, Contact) and she is 14 in this movie.

@rebeccahopkins9522 Год назад

One of the greatest films ever made. Truly a verified classic. It’s my top five all time. Brilliant performances, brilliant writing, incredibly brilliant directing. Plus, a real slice of a bygone era in NYC that no longer exists. This is filmmaking at its’ finest. Edit: I had to add my top 5 fav. films all time 😂 how many have you seen? 5) Scarface 4) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 3) Taxi Driver 2) The World According To Garp 1) Braveheart My Top 10 includes This Is Spinal Tap, Dogma, Princess Bride, Evil Dead 2, and Scent Of A Woman or Mulholland Drive and anything David Lynch; Tarantino too though. 👍🏼I have wierd, eclectic taste, I know 🤣

@XSpiegel Год назад

About the ending: I have always believed it is just his imagination, what he is fantasising will happen as he is slowly dying. Thats why the ending is so "clean" and "perfect". He would have gone to jail, and not been out working as a taxi driver again. It is just how simple his thinking is that he cant come up with anything ells. He saved the girl, and went back to his life.

@visaman Год назад

Not so clean, I think at least a year or two passed between the shootout and the final scene.

@MercuryCircuit 4 месяца назад

I love the way you two talk about what you are seeing on screen. That is the ultimate truth about a great movie. It gets us talking about it. Happy days :)

@actnreact1321 Год назад

You know I've been binging a lot of your reactions and I'm realizing more more something I've never seen before in these movies. Symbolisms are everywhere in these films more then I thought I appreciate your reaction and some new found knowledge you mentioned

@peterbowles3472 Год назад

He was in Vietnam, and was suffering from PTSD.

@schtoobs Год назад

The argument at the beginning of your videos is always my favourite part 🤣

@smadaf 5 месяцев назад

The reason why he's not in prison for these killings is that there's a reasonable doubt about whether it was self defense-and deadly self defense is not illegal when your life is immediately threatened. When he killed the robber in the bodega, it was only after the robber pointed a gun at him. At the brothel, all the people he shot and stabbed were people who pointed guns at him. His first shot into Harvey Keitel's character (the pimp) was not in self defense; but there were no witnesses who could rebut a claim by Travis that he shot only after being threatened. His later shots at Keitel's character were in self defense, because Keitel was pointing a gun at him.

@johnnyzeee5215 Год назад

Yes. Director Martin Scorsese is the guy in the back seat of the taxi talking about the window.

@arthurgoonie4596 Год назад

The ending is open some people say it's heaven.

@baitman5221 Год назад

There's a theory that the ending with the woman is all in his head. That nothing really changed for him even after everything he did. He still sees the city the same way he did at the start.

@_Some_Guy_ Год назад

Great reaction to this classic movie! Love you guys 💜

@JimCarryz Год назад

The only react channel I never skip the intro banter

@Flip4910 Год назад

Travis didn't survive he did die. WAIT I guess he did live??? I found this online, Both Scorsese and Schrader have confirmed that Travis does indeed survive and what we see is 'real-life'. On a Reddit AMA, Schrader said, “The epilogue is not a dream sequence, it's just the restarting of the movie.

@gwendyp125 Год назад

No, he did die. Directors like to troll to keep the movie levels mysticisms high. He died

@vincentvancraig Год назад

@@gwendyp125 it would be much more mysterious to not do reddit AMAs, wouldnt it? ...idk, thats kind of dick-ish if u ask me, its a 45 year old film, i dont know, seems lame....even song writers tend to come clean on their cryptic lyrics & sh!t 50 years later

@Lovver420 7 месяцев назад

I do believe the ending bits are the dream sequence Travis had before he died on that couch. That was all the good outcome that made him happy, in his head.

@LondonPride25 Год назад

There's massive amounts of Lurgy going around. My daughter has an ear infection, my son has stomach flu, and me and the wife caught it off him. Lockdown has battered everyones immune systems. Glad you guys are back, glad you're better and look forward to your reaction to this classic!

@mynameispaul0530 Год назад

It's so easy to imagine he died - especially from the overhead camera shot after the murders and the rosey ending. I always wondered if this was done on purpose.

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@BradTalksFilm 11 месяцев назад

it makes more sense to see him alive imo, simply because i think the movie is less about the city itself and actual scum, but more about perception of self. Travis sees his life as worthless, he sees himself as scum. the ending is needed with him alive because it shows how the change of perspective he has about himself is what fixes his issues. If he sees himself as a hero, he doesnt need to kill the politician, he doesnt need to fight anymore gangsters, he doesnt need to struggle with his sleep. he doesnt even need to find happiness in others. Because ultimately, he hasnt made a difference. one gangster in a sea of 1000s is barely a blip. but he still stops his rampage because he starts seeing value in himself again. Thats my personal take anyway

@mrtomas0990 6 месяцев назад

Hannah spot on for the ending. Travis is not ill or infatuated, content being a taxi driver giving advice to the youngers

@Funnysterste Год назад

Don't forget about the other movie that "inspired" Joker. It is "King of Comedy" (1982) also directed by Scorsese and starring De Niro.

@Schacal6666 Год назад

That girl is Jodie foster btw. The most beautiful woman ever

@iambecomepaul Год назад

I’m actually interested to see what Hannah thinks of this.

@gravedigger8414 Год назад

You need to remind yourself that this movie is 50 years old. It was a different time. And you watch it with 2022 eyes... it was and still is really outstanding.

@tangokilo9067 Год назад

Missed you guys! Glad you’re feeling better!

@Ulghan Год назад

There are theories that the ending is a fantasy of Travis and everything after shootout didn't actually happen.

@auntvesuvi3872 11 месяцев назад

Thanks, Ashkan! Thanks, Hannah! 🚕 I was fortunate to see this one on the big screen in a 2002-ish revival. #JustTrustAsh #MartinScorsese #TaxiDriver #TaxiDriver1976

@davidede7778 Год назад

I lol'd at "reasonable dismissal," haha. When you leave the military, an honorable discharge is what you want. Not a Vet myself, but I work at the VA.

@lethaldose2000 Год назад

Ash, your ending is the ending that modern American films would have taken. However in 1976 to get "Taxi Driver" to pass the MPAA and the movie studio executives approval for wide spread release. You had to make the movie conclude with a happy ending. ------ Heck until the mid 1960's Hollywood movie were written by movie law guidelines to have a 'happy ending'. Thus the Joker gave the movie a dark ending.

@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735 Год назад

Fairy is a derogatory term for gay men. And yes there used to be adult theaters. Apparently London had them since there is one in American Werewolf in London. The little girls is Jodie Foster AKA Agent Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs. She was 12 when she starred in this movie. She was nominated for an Oscar, BAFTA and Gold Globe for the role.

@smichelle65 Год назад

Have you seen the movie "Drive", with Ryan Gosling? Albert "Tom" Brooks is in it and plays a VERY different character than he plays here!

@LukeyBoy125 Год назад

I drove taxis in a similar area , drove a worker home , she said lifting her skirt " I've got no $ but I've got this ! I said haven't you got something smaller !

@jefmay3053 Год назад

🤣🤣🤣 I have never heard of ANYONE thinking Taxi Driver had a happy ending. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@chaptxr Год назад

i thought it was pretty happy he didnt die and the girl got out that situation

@odinsahn7648 Год назад

Movie Fact: Jodie Foster was only 12 years old when she made this film and it was a defining moment in cinema and her career for someone that young to play that type of role. Her older sister Connie stood in as a body double for the scenes involving more skin.

@thisblackgirlslife 3 месяца назад

The woman at the movie theater was DeNiro’s real life girlfriend. She later had a child who DeNiro adopted and raised.

@Fernando-dt8je Год назад

Hahahaha "he should have died". It sounded like Annie from "Misery" saying "she can't die" HAHAHA. So Funny.

@the.sketch.projekt8851 10 месяцев назад

Fun fact: there was going to be a video game based off the film that would take place a few months after the film. It would follow Betsy being murdered by the Mafia and Travis going on a rampage against the Mob.

@JohnnyZ716 Год назад

I think we can all agree that its nice seeing Hannah back. Ash is a good reactor but Hannah just ups the game on the entertainment value. Also the new hair style is dazzling!

@harveybeck8452 Год назад

The way is started is travis suffered from ptsd and suffered from insomnia and depression at Vietnam war

@johnclaeys9514 9 месяцев назад

Look at the ending again...after he drops Betsy off. There's a weird backwards music sting effect as Travis makes a fast motion glare at himself in the mirror...Scorcese has stated that that indicates that Travis is only temporarily at peace and his underlying demons are still there and he will eventually snap again.

@kevdoe3360 Год назад

If you haven"t done it yet,check out De Niro in the re-make of "Cape Fear",he"s brilliant!!

@thomasgranat8858 Год назад

There are many theories that he dies at the end, and the rest is a dream

@orthochristos Год назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Reasonable dismissal"!!! That killed me!!!!

@jefmay3053 Год назад

16:16 Hanna nails it again!

@Sebastian_Polak_Maly 10 месяцев назад

Good reaction guys. The ending is completely open to interpretation - one of which was that Travis had indeed died, and the rest was just as his mind imagined that it would have happened. Think of it, many of the visuals are strange, everything seems too perfect (he's well rested), the parents of the young girl are thanking him as she has now returned home, etc.

@MaikKellerhals Год назад

... and once again I have to say i'm glad she's there to hold him in check. Love you two together ;)

@pedroV2003 5 месяцев назад

By my calculation Jodie Foster (Iris) was 14 at the time this movie was released. She had been an actress almost her whole life.

@freespeechchampsusanwojcic2528 Год назад

You need to look into the story of Bernie Goetz who was "vigilante" back in this era of NY in the 70's who shot 5 thugs on the subway and didn't go to jail as the jury ruled it as an act of self-defense. This spoke to many fears that the people of the city were haunted by, rampant crime and need to feel safe, that they approved of vigilantism because the police either couldn't or wouldnt do their job. It was cultural issue that spoke to the decay in morals and civility. Also Ash, your idea of an ending is flawed, it was actually quite interesting that Scorcese chose a more uplifting ending, a transformative ending where the protagonist had a cathartic/heroic moment through violence, through changing the world on his own instead of the meaningless performance of democracy which is why they were mocking the election and how ineffectual it is explored through Travis' interest in the campaign volunteer.

@markhamstra1083 Год назад

Bernie Goetz was 1984.