Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Reaction [ First Time Watching ] 

He simply wanted to kill Palentine to give his life meaning (as misguided as it sounds). Sadly, there are still many examples of these people in the news today. Also, Jodie Foster had a standard American accent in this film. In Silence of the Lambs, she was putting on a West Virginian accent.

Matthew "Sport" was played by Harvey Keitel (from Pulp Fiction, among others) The balding cab driver who Travis talked to was played by Peter Boyle (who played the creature in Young Frankenstein and Ray's father on Everybody Loves Raymond), Betsy was played by actress/model Cybil Shepard (star of The Last Picture Show and the 80s TV series Moonlighting with Bruce Willis), Betsy's coworker with the glasses was played by actor/writer/director/comedian Albert Brooks (who has made and starred in some hilarious comedies including Lost In America and Defending Your Life). LOT of talent in this movie.

When this movie came out, we were absolutely stunned. Nothing like it was every done before, and it is an utter masterpiece. I cannot tell you how many of us would mess with your buddies with the whole "You lookin at me? You looking at me?". And don't forget the music....that sax just jazzes through the movie. So glad to see you guys react to it! Now you need to do another Scorsese/De Niro film...."The King of Comedy". Another De Niro classic character....Rupert Pupkin!

Great reaction gang! Love from Seattle. You are terrific to watch and so respectful of the art. Thanks!

When Travis text on the criminals it's " Game over right? ".😊

The personnel officer who interviews Travis is played by Joe Spinell. He did a lot of movies with Sylvester Stallone. Two of my favorite movies with him is Nighthawks (1981) and Vigilante (1983). Also the crazy guy in the cab with Travis was the director Martin Scorsese. The picture of Iris' parents were of Martin Scorsese's parents Charles Scorsese and Catherine Scorsese.

To some ,that of a Taxi Driver;s Vission of NYC was Brillant! judge for yourself Bernard Herrmann;s Flim Score a flim stand out!

Keitel was great

I DONT KNOW NOBODY NAMED IRIS

Can u react.. KING OF COMEDY...starring robert de niro, another movie by martin Scorsese

When Travis takes Betsy to a porn movie, people in the 70’s ACTUALLY thought that was sophisticated….for a while. The Supreme Court case over “Deep Throat” had blown up into an argument over the social sexual revolution, and upscale swingers used to brag “We’re going to an adult movie!” By 1976, though, most weren’t saying that. 😅 As usual Travis is a little out of the loop on the outside world’s trends.

Great acting by DeNiro!! The "You talking to me?" scene was all improvisation. The direction was "Travis looks in the mirror". Brilliant.

My friend Dorothy's father composed the music for this film and was nominated for an Oscar for it.

Jodie foster was 12 years old when they made the movie and was 13 when nominated for an Oscar award in the film

The Joker movie took a lot of inspiration from this film. You also have to take into account he is a Vietnam veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

As for the end, Travis looks in the rearview mirror and sees his own wild eyes staring back. He panics and adjusts it away, afraid of what he saw in himself. "But what does Martin Scorsese have to say about the ending? Well, according to the director, Travis survived the shoot-out…and chances are good he’s going to erupt again. In the last seconds of the film, Travis looks into his rearview mirror and sees his own wild eyes looking back. We get one last glimpse of his insanity, churning under the surface, and there’s suddenly a harsh, strange note on the soundtrack as Travis adjusts his mirror and looks away from his reflection. According to Scorsese, “I decided I’d put something on that shows that the timer in Travis starts to tick again, the bomb that’s about to explode again.” "

Fun Fact..at the movie theater ticket booth the black woman that sold the tickets was in real life Robert De Niro's first wife at the time

The Guy in Travis's Cab that wanted to kill his Wife was the Director of the Film! The soundtrack was done by the Composer who did "Citizen Kane". The tall, bald taxi driver was the "Monster" in "Young Frankenstein"!

Try watching Deer Hunter with Deniro its amazing movie.

Travis is a lost soul looking for meaning. He can't change himself so thinks the only answer is dealing with all the evil around him. When he tries to take action in his own life he comes up with failure and disappointment. He sees this failure as the fault of the fakery and phoniness of others. Betsy is a phony and disappoints him. Palatine is the societal image of all this phoniness and Travis wants to lash out at it all by assassinating him. He fails so goes to the next thing, the innocence he sees in Iris. If he can save her and destroy the evil around her he will have done something. This leads to psychosis and his death spree. Great movie.

This movie as well inspired Joker 2019. Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but lost 3 to ROCKY.

Cape Fear (1991) is worth watching [Scorsese / De Niro remake] ( slightly biased since they filmed a few scenes @ where I was living as a teenager in FL ).

Once again you guys did a great job. Your reactions are very natural and honest, and you're always so engaged in the movies you're watching. This isn't a very easy movie to watch but you were with it the whole way. You guys are great.

Sometimes movies are too serious or sad for me to watch, even if I know it’s an important, heralded, well-acted, etc. Taxi Driver is that for me. So, watching this abridged version, with your reactions, was just the right amount of exposure to the movie for me. This is a descent into mental illness, I think, and is a serious movie to think about. And it’s easy to see a comparison to Todd Phillips’ Joker.

FINALLY something I want to watch on YT today.

The Raging Bull is regarded as De Niro's best performance, it's also directed by Scorsese.

Thumb 4 In real life a guy shot President Reagan to impress................Jodie Foster.

De Niro did a great job on "Raging Bull" too. Watch it, when you get a chance. It was also directed by Martin Scorsese.

MEAN STREETS was actually Scorsese's 1st collab w/DeNiro (and their 1st big hit w/the critics at least) but this is their 1st true masterpiece. De Niro's iconic Travis Bickle ("I'm God's lonely man") is one of cinema's greatest anti-heroes. While many depict him as sociopathic it's misinterpreted in many ways of who he is (or represents) - Bickle was a Vietnam vet (obviously having PTSD and not able to re-adjust to civilian life - hence his headaches and insomnia) who was an outsider desperately wanting to connect (the 1st scene w/Betsy it's pretty much him talking about himself and not how she perceives to him even). Isolated in a huge city is truly a metaphor for Life itself (the screenwriter Paul Schrader wrote this while hacking cabs in NYC and was going thru a deep depression after a breakup and was channeling all his angst/rage into this - nice job by the way in saying it's alike a novel - it is very much like that). Fun facts: Scorsese has 2 onscreen cameos - when Travis 1st sees Betsy in slo-mo outside the campaign headquarters he's wearing an inside out COLUMBIA STUDIOS t-shirt and he's the psychotic passenger telling Travis he's going to kill his philladandering wife). The legendary Bernard Herrmann (who is best known for PSYCHO & VERTIGO among dozens of films & TV) literally passed away the night he finished writing the score (this was his finale). And I'm sure it's been mentioned sadly the film 'inspired' the Reagan asaassination attempt by John Hinckley who was obsessed with the film and namely Jodie Foster (who is truly amazing in this, her breakthrough performance). Great job guys!

The guy in the cab spying in his wife having the affair who wants to pay the meter is the director Martin Scorsese acting in his own movie

I thought the movie did a good job establishing early on that this guy has problems. He mentions insomnia, he says 'clean like my conscience'. There are all these little things that are a little off about him. It makes sense to me that later on things get worse and worse for him. He gets delusional and his pent up rage turns to violent thoughts. I believe he went after Palantine as a way of lashing out at Betsy. He expected to be killed by the Secret Service, so then everyone would know who he is. Betsy would realize it's the guy she dumped, and she'd feel guilty that Palantine was dead because of it. When that didn't work out, he went to get Iris. Back in the early '70s in the US it was trendy for couples to go see a porn movie together. Travis was not wrong about that. His problem is he's so alienated from other people that he can only observe how they act. He can't understand the more subtle aspects of people's behavior. That's why he made the mistake of taking Betsy there.

You do realize that De Niro was going crazy throughout the movie right. He wasn't a hero or a bad man he was a troubled guy who went crazy.

The line between hero & maniac can be razor thin. Sometimes there is no line. Travis got lucky & fate chose for him. But by doing the heroic thing, even accidentally, it elevated his self-esteem & at the end he's more well-adjusted. ( Although that little moment of paranoia in his taxi shows that he'll never be completely free of his dark side. )

Anyone else see the bag of Doritos on his table? Totally awesome. It's so vintage! That's what they looked like back then. So cool. 😀👍 Great reaction. You two handled it well. ❤️👏

You guys are awesome! 👍

This is back when Robert De Niro was making films with significant artistic content. There are two other great movies with him as a "crazy" which are well worth a viewing from you: Cape Fear (1991) and Raging Bull (1980). Each is quite amazing in its own right. Oh, and...they're BOTH directed by Martin Scorsese. Many people consider Raging Bull to be the best movie made by Scorsese (and De Niro). It's especially interesting because it's based on a real person: the champion boxer Jake LaMotta. These films are VERY moving and intense.

It wasn't the first movie where Martin Scorsese worked with Robert DeNiro. I believe that would be "Mean Streets" which was 1973.

the joker movie was based on this movie and the king of comedy both starring Robert Dinero and that is why Dinero is in the joker and the movie takes place in 1981 the king of comedy came out in 1983 they are both Martin Scorsese movies and Todd Phillips is a Scorsese fan boy so he made this movie in honor to Scorsese

much of this movie is loosely based on the life of Arthur Bremer, a ne'er-do-well that decided to kill a politician.he first thought of killing Richard Nixon,but decided that would be too difficult.he did attempt to kill George Wallace, a presidential candidate in 1972.Wallace survived,but was wheelchair bound for the rest of his life.

That is Martin Scorsese as the Taxi passenger. The guy who wants to kill his wife for cheating on him.

If you liked this one, check out Falling Down with Michael Douglas.

Great movie and never gets old , thanks again!

Great reaction guys!! Check out "Mad Dog and Glory" (1993) somewhat younger De Niro playing against his usual type. With Uma Thurman and Bill Murray, it's a comedy with some serious moments.

Finally back to good movies! 🤣🤣🤣

Y'all gotta watch Martin Scorsese's ''Mean Streets'' (1973) the first movie (his actual breakthrough role) he did with Robert De Niro and with Harvey Keitel (''Sport'') as the lead character, and Martin Scorsese's ''The King of Comedy'' with Robert De Niro (then watch the 2019 DC movie ''Joker''). Other legendary 1970s performances by Robert De Niro is ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978) and also ''Novecento'' (1977). Btw, this was the greatest and funniest reaction on the very iconic ''Are you talkin' to me?'' sequence

NOT Scorcese's first movie with DeNiro and Keitel. The three first worked together in MEAN STREETS, another fine film... very real.

I don't always comment...but i love your videos

You guys should check out Awakenings, amazing performances by Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.

BTW, he wanted to assassinate Pallentine as a jealous veangance against Betsy rejecting him. Travis is not a hero, but a sociopath and it is society that determines whether he's a valuable sociopath or not.

Marian and Joy, here's some other greatest 70s movies you should definitely check out: Spielberg's 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' (1977) Francis Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now' (1979) & 'The Conversation' (1974)

The reason he wants to kill the politician is to give his life meaning. He tries to date Betsy but because he is so lonely and socially awkward he is rejected. The guy in the cab who wants to shoot his cheating wife, gives Travis the idea that getting a gun is best way to gain power to do something. The next step is deciding on who to shoot which would get people to notice him. The first target is the robber holding up the store, the next is the politician. When that fails he then decides to free Iris. Ironically by chance he becomes a hero instead of villain by killing the pimps. In the end do to his fame the roles reverse and its he who rejects Betsy.

I agree that it's possible to see Travis' actions at the end as heroic -- the media and the girl's parents certainly did. But that's from an outsider's perspective. Within Travis' mind, the motivations were all wrong, and the next time he kills someone (which clearly he will), it probably won't be as possible to justify. You were right in calling him "lost," even if he did stumble into being a hero.

Another good Scorcese Film is Shutter island, I can't remember if you guys reacted to that.

Mean Streets was DeNiro and Scorsese's first film together. Another one for the list.👍

@9:46 I legit spat coke over myself laughing at this comment XD

This movie catapulted Robert Dinero to stardom,...

Lol. I call him Palpatine too!

9:37 That's Martin Scorsese (on coke), guys. 😃

In case you didn't know already Mean Streets was the first deniro/Scorsese movie together

Factoids: The Black woman at the concession stand at the beginning of the film was Robert DeNiro's first wife Diahnne Abbott. The man in the back of the taxi who was watching his wife in a window was the filmmaker himself (Martin Scorsese).

To see a young Robert DeNiro in action, check out Martin Scorsese's 1973 film, Mean Streets, starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro as two wayward young men from Lower Manhattan who make a stand confronting their fates. Also check out The Deer Hunter (1978) and Raging Bull (1980). Cybill Shepherd made her cinematic debut in the Peter Bogdanovich film The Last Picture Show (1971), where she makes good with Jeff Bridges. She also starred opposite Bruce Willis in the detective comedy-drama television show Moonlighting (1985-1989).

De Niro is awesome in taxi driver. Another movie with Scorcese directing and De Niro and Joe Pesci in is, Raging bull. True story about boxer, Jake La Motta. It's arguably De Niro's greatest performance. He won an Oscar for it.👍

Analyze This. DeNiro at his funniest

Yes! Finally!😁

The curly hair guy working with Betsy is the great Albert Brooks, very creative funny guy with several classic comedy movies, thanks

Joker was 100% inspired by this

Now you need to see "8mm" with Nicolas Cage and "you were never really here" with Joaquin Phoenix. Great reaction. Thanks.

Amazing portayal of a mans mind unwinding as he searches for meaning and connection in his life.

That hairstyle Travis has is used in military by men going on a suicide mission. Like he wrote in his note to Iris, he intended to die.

I know you guys saw ‘Joker’. Don’t you recognize the similarities? Look at Travis’s red suit, for example. There was a reason Deniro was cast as Murray Franklin.😎

"Taxi Driver" was the second DeNiro/Scorsese pairing; the first was "Mean Streets" in 1973. It's the movie that put them both on the map, and DeNiro's character is wild! "Mean Streets" is Scorsese's first "gangster" film.

Marian, the way you described the feeling of watching the movie at 33:45 mark makes me think all the more you would appreciate the film THE DUELLISTS (1977). Glad to see some one who can watch a slower paced movie and enjoy the story.

After watching this again, you can really see how this (and King of Comedy) was hugely influential on the movie Joker.

First, that is actually Marty Scorsese in the back of Taxi watching his wife in another man's apartment. Second, the "you talking to me" scene is one of the most copied and famous lines in a movie, ever. Finally, I remember Mrs. saying that the shooting at convenience store was first time that Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro character, shot somebody. He was a marine and in the Vietnam war. I would assume he has handled many types of guns and shot and killed plenty of soldiers. This is arguably my favorite movie reaction channel. Keep up the good work and great content! P.S. Try and get Breaking Bad episodes out quicker😉

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check out 'Raging Bull' and 'Mean Streets' for more GREAT Scorsese films with Robert De Niro

I knew this was not going to be a movie you guys were going to take to: it's a perfect example of people just suggesting movies without taking into consideration the reactors. The two Deniro/Scorsese movies I think you will like most are "The King Of Comedy" and "Cape Fear". "Raging Bull" is amazing and worth seeing, but "King Of Comedy" and "Cape Fear" are the ones that will make great reaction videos from you. "Taxi Driver" has too much American history underlying it, stuff you wouldn't pick up on: the fact that he's a Vietnam vet, the economy (and the NYC) (and the social mores) of the 70s, Watergate, etc...... What happens is people just throw out titles of movies that they like, they don't think about the reactors. Some reactors "Taxi Driver" would be one of the first I'd recommend to; with you guys, it would be one of the last. Still....great performance from De Niro, right? :)

This movie is SPECTACULAR. This character goes thru it and that shootout, MY GOD.

P.S. If I'm not mistaken, Mean Streets was the first film Marty and Robert did together. ...and remember, this type of movie was the 1st of its kind and has been copied over, and over, and over again. Not the script or premise, but the shock factor, reality, and very dark and ugly theme. I just asked my mother (she was born in 1952 and I was born in 1972) if she went to see at theaters. She said yes, and your father really loved it. IMHO, this is more of a movie for guys. Might be to hard to watch for some females.

ese hombre que sale en el minuto 09:34 no es nada mas ni nada menos que MARTIN SCORCESSE por cierto si os queréis divertir un poco mirando una película... del señor MARTIN SCORCESSE tenéis que mirar la película llamada THE WOLF OF WALL STREET perdonad por no poder escribir en ingles pero lamentablemente no se hablar ese idioma... en fin me gustan mucho vuestras reacciones un saludo de un seguidor que reside en ESPAÑA

I think Palantine represented the Normieworld / professional class that Betsy was all caught up and enamored with, but without any passion on her part. Strictly status. A world he was never a part of and in his mind could never be with his one suit and blue collar job. Albert Brooks' character reinforced that with his "We're gonna call the cops on you" and constantly trying to block Travis' every step to entry before that. Sport, the brothel, represented the degenerate and transactional side, the same world that alienated him when he tried to move past the "business" part with the girl working the snack bar, when she gave him the cold shoulder then hostility. This also ruined his chances with Betsy when he took her to the adult theater. It also revealed its true self when it wasn't just on film, but was Sport manhandling Iris out of the cab and calling her a b*tch. Basically NYC was the unspoken character or monster through all of this. It was alienating, superficial, degenerate, and unforgiving. It's like a drug. Travis partook of it, and then resented it when it ruined his chances to have what he thought was something better. But even the better turned out to be superficial and reject him as well. (And being superficial, it also accepted him again, when Betsy became interested only after Travis won some notoriety in the respectable press for being a vigilante.) In his own confused and f*cked up way he tried to regain some humanity out of it by getting his revenge on both ends of "the creature" of NYC, the high and low parts, for being the abuser he felt he could never escape. Which I think is why he tried to get Iris out of it, the one bit of good he felt he could do for someone else, but not himself.

The passenger who started talking about wanting to go kill his cheating wife & to leave the meter running was Martin Scorsese Himself. Why not put yourself in your own movie... Also, since he was looking for purpose, he might've decided to kill Palantine...but, since Betsy scorned him, he might've just chose him to get back at her & get the attemtion he wanted too? IDK... Great Reactions as Always tho.

I love the guy that gets in Travis’s cab following his wife…… yep, that be Martin Scorsese

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A little trivia for you. The guy who played easy Andy (Gun Dealer). He used to live in a house in Wonderland drive in California. The same house that had 4 murders that were linked to porn actor John Holmes. You can see the horrific crime scene video that the police recorded and is on RU-vid.

Your reactions very much describes ppl mostly been fed with today's simple movies that are mostly black and white in who is who. No disrespect meant.

When she said "hala" (might have spelled it wrong) I knew right away she's from The Philipines cause my mom has also said that word & she's from Philipines too.

They guy in the back seat who was following his wife and was planning on killing her? That was Martin Scorsese, the film's director.

This is how DeNiro should have looked in the early scenes of The Irishman instead of pushing 80 year old DeNiro with smooth skin. Did anyone really believe when he was on the battlefield?

Jodie was only 12 yrs old in this movie. You're welcome. And she's lesbian IRL.

the rod wave one I did was also amazing. help me grow

It was all a dream. He was so alone and isolated from life itself, that he dreamed of being important when he knew deep inside, that he was a nobody. Unimportant and alone. That is the profile of the asassin. And the deeply disturbed people that have a "hero-complex". One can take it literrally or as a dream, I believe the latter.

I think Travis dies after being shot. His spirit floats out of his body & over the bloody scene and down the stairs. Everything that happens afterwards is Travis' idea of heaven.

The young lady working the concession stand at the porno theater, that Travis hits on until she gets annoyed, is played by Robert De Niro's first wife.

He's a psychopath. He will break again.

Im looking at your faces, Your seeing that pain,because they got this movie right,There are people like this!

9:37, the director, Martin Scorsese himself who directed this masterpiece, just in case you didn't know.

The angry guy in the cab looking at his wife in the window was the director Martin Scorsese

Haha, he's taking her to a dirty movie from my country, Sweden ;-)

That's director Martin Scorsese telling him to kill his wife.. Fun fact!