Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver) | Mental Health & Personality 

The secondhand embarrassment was so bad, The camera had to look away.

I feel it.

Yes absolutely, I like this movie more than grande

That was similar to when the camera outside Norman Bates' mother's room creeps up to the ceiling as if it can't stand to hear the conversation. Also making the way for Norman to exit holding Mother without us seeing that it's a corpse!

​@@MrLuigiVampa It was a personal moment. It is sad, more than embarrassing.

Well he can tell the difference between a stick and a shotgun that's for damn sure 🤣

Lol Dr Todd is a gunnut confirmed

A true Renaissance Man when it comes to many things, particularly his impressive attention to detail on firearms.

I already noticed that in some other videos, but now it's official: Dr. Grande is a gunnut. I'm wondering what's on the wall of his living room :-D.

@@alexanderfo3886 the heads of his enemies

imagine, in Therapy.... 'are you talking to ME?"

@@HumanimalChannel That gave me a giggle.

😂

"I don't see anyone else here.."

@@tinafoster8665 :)

IKR!!!!!

I wasn’t sure if he was making a joke or not lmaoo

He was assertive trying to get Betsy too.

He's a paid fraud who doesn't believe the mafia existed.

@@TheKitchenerLeslie - That's a bit off the wall?

With Buckle seeing similarities in Vietnam and NY in the 1970s? Like "I left one hell hole and came back to another". And the taxis are his tanks.

I always assumed he lied about being in the Marines, it was just a way for him to get attention. Or in this case, a job. But Idk

@@hankheavy I don't think he lied about being a Marine. It played a major part of him being desensitized to the world around him. He has a huge scar on his back in the scene when he is doing push-ups which indicates he was also wounded in Vietnam. His preparation for the shootout was very methodical and he got shot several times without going down which could be because he was a marine. He also wears a M-65 field jacket, for what that's worth. Just my thoughts.

BoJack would know, too

IKR lol!

Maybe he was trying to see if she a hooker or a respectable woman

@@tcheema8617 that makes sense at first but I don't think so. If that really was his plan, he didn't think it out well enough and definitely panicked after messing it up.

Lmao😅😅😅

Oh, definitely. Dr. G has a great voice for audio book narration!

So agree!

this is already the side hustle 😂

I would too

No doubt!! I'm in.

Absolutely, and as an introverted autistic, I feel you. It's very important in a movie that your protagonists has at least some aspect of relatability, and Travis checks multiple boxes for me, but without the derangement and hatred for my environment. The relatability makes him likable and the derangement makes him interesting. Great character dynamic if done right, which I think Travis is.

Well put

I find it hard to maintain friendships.. I’ve only recently started a friendship with a girl, which I always struggled with,

I was just thinking the same thing! Since it probably isn't a great depiction of dissociative identity, I wonder if Dr. Grande could do a breakdown of Tyler and "Jack."

First Rule is...

Yes, yes!!!! Analyze Tyler Durdan!

Oooooooh!!!! Now THAT would be a good one!

There's a lot of psychobabble in that film and it isn't particularly accurate about anything really. Therefore I can see him disliking it even more than Taxi Driver. Having said that, I pesronally like both films for their cinematography and characterisation.

it's apparent in some videos

Hard to tell, but he could be just be very good at researching minute details. However his knowledge on certain guns are fairly extensive even compared to many "experts". But IMFDB can answer most questions, and all the details he mentioned are on there. Nothing wrong with being a gun nerd, I do enjoy his constant attenion to details with all his videos.

Dr. Grande, NRA member. Geeze. He doesn't seem conservative per se, but he doesn't seem liberal either. I'd place him center to center left because he's humanistic and a psychologist, which are things I wouldn't easily associate with being conservative or a republican.

@@20thcenturyfoxyoutube Conversation?

The word is "aficionado.'

Yes, great idea!

I agree, that would be great.

Yeah that would be pretty cool.

"Falling Down" has for a long time seemed to me to be related, at least indirectly, to a 1968 American movie called "The Swimmer," starring Burt Lancaster. "The Swimmer" is based on a short-story of the same name by John Cheever. The movie is well worth watching, the story well worth reading.

oh man! Dr. Grande is gonna have a field day with the bag that has "all the guns in the fucking world"

Ryan, that would be humorous. Great suggestion

I so relate to him , want him diagnosed.😀

Jerry Seinfeld mother, is crying now..

Yea i would like to see his diagnosis especially with his father

Free Kyle Rittenhouse! 🐊

"Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow."

@Paul Tenenbaum Robert Frost

@Paul Tenenbaum Many critics say Frost is contemplating suicide in that poem, but I've never accepted that interpretation as the one and only true meaning of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Frost enjoyed hiking in the woods at night, and I think the darkness might have switched on his imagination and creativity.

The essential American soul is conformity, complacency.

I sense a bromance emerging :)

it is dude it's easily my favorite movie, and mf DOOM is also my favorite rapper of all time sick profile pic man, I got a DOOM tat the same week he passed away.

“All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go”

Totally agree!

I don't think the title reflects Patrick Bateman's _actual_ diagnosis.

Ok, now let's see Paul Allen's diagnosis

@@f-man3274 impressive very nice

Patrick Bateman is not a psychopath.

Thanks.

I've always seen "Travis" as a Vietnam vet, an unwitting victim of that criminal war.

The VA has taken great care of me, after my deployments.

@@randee4550 I am glad for you. It wasn't the VA who betrayed the Vietnam vets. It was the country and the leaders of the country who sent them to Vietnam.

a lot of people are travis bickle, just depending on what causes their maneurisms/beliefs, it's down to their mental state and inability to find the source, in travis's case it's likely insomnia and thus loneliness caused by ptsd

@@hirohito40k14 PTSD, and combat stress "may be" the issue here. But that's open to interpretation. He could've lied, the whole time. We know NOTHING of his military background. He doesn't present with any real military skills, that can be recognized, through the unravelling of his persona. He might be a fake, as far as we know. What we call "stolen valor" today. He could just be a sociopath, all along. Who knows. I say this, because he makes no specific mention, of the war itself. No mention of the VA. Makes no connection, with other veterans (and there were plenty around, during this specific period). As a combat veteran myself, he seems way too detached, from his military experience. But then again, I'm speculating.

@@tinafoster8665 I thought that Travis Bickle was defending a little girl and that he saw it through to the end and got the girl all that stuff but I am not very intelligent so I probably missed a lot of the clever stuff

I’ve already asked dr g to do that, I’m just about to start the box set for the third time. Favourite character...Christopher Multisanti

this

Hilarious movie, grim and gruesome book. But its author, Bret Easton Ellis, said he intended the book as a black comedy.

Madmen characters analisys would be great too.

Mr. Robot's main character, dr.grande if you ever come across this comment take note please.

Psychosis, for one thing.

Agreed!

I 2nd this! Holden was an interesting character with more depth than just depression. A lot of allegories regarding life, different types of individuals in the world and innocence (at the end when he watches his sister).... I'm also curious why, except for the prostitutes and occasional profanity in the book, it's banned from schools. We did read it in high school BUT still it's not like adolescents in school would be "suddenly corrupted and lose their innocence" from this book. If anything, it made me feel like I'm not the only one who thinks deeper than the depth of a puddle of water. Ya know what I mean?

It's on very small and personal scale, it's not "War and Peace," but I've always thought that "The Catcher in the Rye" is perfectly written. Page after page, scene after scene, it's difficult, or impossible, to find anything wrong with it, to find a single line or word out of place. Like the "voice" of "Huckleberry Finn," the voice of "Holden Caulfield" is uniquely and resoundingly American. Especially along the east coast, and in New York City, it's everywhere.

Maybe he should change his name to Dr. Garande.

@@pxxxbxxx1981 A Dr. with a knowledge of firearms?

Gun fetish-he needs therapy.

Might own them he's savvy about guns IMO

@@aalexjohna knowledge isn't fetish

YES

"The Age of Innocence."

Goodfellas, casino and the Irishman

Silence, Raging Bull

My 2nd favorite after Taxi Driver

Idk, personally I think the characters from both Taxi Driver and Joker are pretty realistic. Not common, by any means, but there are lot of interesting people in this world, so I could see them existing.

user89076 I feel that Travis is more realistic than most of these types of characters. I feel he aligns with the whole construct of vigilantism really well.

Taxi Driver is about Travis Bickle in the setting of modern society The Joker is about modern society in the setting of Arthur Fleck

There a lot more psychopaths than you think. It's sad, our state of mental health. A friend and mine visited San Francisco and there was a shirtless man just rolling on the street. So dangerous, and everyone just walks by.

You alright brother?

Jesus will help you call upon Him God Bless you 🙏

Hi ,if you are here then reply me. I can do something.

I'm pretty sure I'm schizoid. I avoid social interactions and prefer being alone and can't connect with people at the emotional level. I don't enjoy socializing almost ever. I can be alone for months without any problems. I go shopping and stuff of course but not hangout with people. I try to avoid running into my roommates as much as possible.

Don't eat yellow snow

Have you seen "Citizen X," the movie about Chikatilo? It's pretty good.

It is one of the great American movies, but I can understand why someone wouldn't like it. Almost too real, and violent at the finale. You're close to the mayhem, and DeNiro is amazing. He does a difficult thing, because he makes you care about Travis by the end. Thrilling, but depressing. The loneliness of living in the midst of all these people. That's the real theme. Don't forget King of Comedy, which DeNiro and Scorsese did a couple of years later. Touches on some of the same issues, but not as tragic. Joker steals from both of those films. Jodie Foster also gives an amazing performance, given that she was 13 years old. Dont know if a major film could include that these days, but you can't imagine the film without her!!

He is.

​@@JC2023HDHe still is, but he has to make a lot of crap movies to keep up the lavish lifestyle of his ex-wife Grace Hightower.

Also Raging Bull.

Another of my favorite movies.

LOL Rupert Pupkin!

@@DougMacary "That's where I am! On the bottom." "That's a perfect place to start."

I've studied psychology a little but I'm not an expert. Dr. Grande is a psychologist, so I'm inclined to trust or at least strongly consider what he says regarding the psychological aspects of the character. Given that mental health was a major theme in this film, accuracy in that regard is important. I will say that with a lot of these kinds of analyses, particularly those regarding mental health, there tends to be somewhat of a disconnect between the experts' knowledge of a situation and the reality of it. Sometimes it borders on arrogance, although I did not get that impression in this video. But someone who's only ever viewed mentally ill people in a clinical setting can't possibly hope to give truly accurate assessments. That is, of course, part of the challenge of studying the minds of others, because you can't be there all the time, you can't see everything they do, you can't always know how they interact with others out in the world. Overall I think Dr. Grande did a good job on the psychological bit. Now, his discounting of Taxi Driver on the basis of accuracy/continuity problems with the weapons was disappointing. I actually love the fact that he pointed out those mistakes(something I often do as well), but I don't think the props used in a film should have too much bearing on the overall quality of the film. With some exceptions of course...like if the film was about arms trafficking, it would be important that the gun props be correct. But in this case, it really doesn't matter. His dismissal of the outcome of the events as unrealistic, from a legal standpoint, aren't necessarily correct either...many factors would have come in to play in such a case, and there's no guarantee that Bickle would have been convicted of anything, except maybe weapons violations. And considering he was war veteran, courts probably wouldn't have wanted to prosecute him on weapons charges as it's fairly common for vets, especially those suffering severe PTSD, to want to carry firearms. And considering the setting, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War and all the issues surrounding the treatment of veterans, prosecuting a war veteran for carrying firearms(especially in this vigilante context) would have been a politically sensitive move. Nobody would have wanted to be the one to put a guy like Travis Bickle in prison.

Good to know.

That would be decent. Here's a few points: *------------------------------* - he himself visits a shrink - he has family issues - he is a criminal - he is having a mid life crisis - he is a fictional character so you wouldn't be diagnosing anyone, even if you intended

That's one of my favourite movies of all time. I used to stop and watch it any time it would be on television (which I do for Breakfast at Tiffany's; Charade; Bringing Up Baby; The Breakfast Club; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - I have to stop and watch. Other movies I'll see every year, but with these I'll forget everything and stop and stare). Leon the Professional is so good from beginning to end - the plant...

@@EMunaBee I have to say that I watched The Professional recently and was quite disturbed by Portman's character's attempts to hit on Leon, pass him off as her lover etc. I don't remember feeling that way when I first watched it.

@@jamesw17 She's definitely a bit messed up in the head when it comes to men. Fortunately Léon handles it well.

The Professional saliciously sexualised Natalie Portman in that film, i watched it recently and was shocked. Things seem different when viewed during different eras, through different lenses. It made me really suspicious about the sexuality of the Director.

(I didnt feel uncomfortable in the same way watching Taxi Driver)

Seemed a bit OCD with the guns. Love these videos though.

Yea, for real!

I use an Acronym OCEAN to answer this...

@@SirShoddrick It took me months to realise he was saying neurotic, i thought he was saying erotic.🤪

Sandy No hahahahaha

@Max Turner (717) Hurting others - lol - really? I was serving you and your family - why whould I care about hurting you if I was willing to die for you? does that make sense?

you have more supporters than you may realize. many of us are becoming more willing to protect our family and neighbors instead of only depending on the police. was raised from 7-15 in a 'family' that was like a concentration camp-dragged out of bed and beaten severely because mom's latest drunken boyfriend came home drunk and wanted to beat us all. I have seen murder and suicide at close range. this was in the 70's when things were different and little was done for family situations. have never had therapy as I CANNOT TALK ABOUT THIS WITH ANYONE!!!! I have a great friendship with Jesus and the Holy Virgin. i lean on them pretty heavily but i still have the fight instinct when cornered. had to fight off one drunk when i was 15 who came in to kill my family. he has a 30-06 and i ran at him just in time to hit his arm toward the ceiling where he shot a giant hole. tried to hold my own until my mom and sister could get out. i remember feeling nothing-not fer, not relief, just flat and uncaring. took a good beating, too. i try to avoid people also and retreat into my safe personality to deal with them. i know i am a good person but i also know that i do not fear death-yours or mine. i never want to have to choose again. There is nothing wrong with Travis Bickle. He is a good person in a world of low-lifes. He is a real man who will protect his community. Here is a man who will not take it anymore. I am proud of the traits i share with him.

I’m dying 😵🤣

Oh, yes, please!

How could these characters be analysed? They're not human.

Mark H EXACTLY

@@Mark_H101 It was stupid of Scott to revise his story. When you see the original film, Deckard is very obviously an emotional and fragile human compared to the engineered replicants. They beat the shit out of him, and he's a weepy, morose drunk.

He's American. A lot of us are brought up with them.

Spooked 👻 😂

My mother was a witness in a murder case. The detective advised her to get a gun. From then on, we had at least one pistol in our house. The gun scared off more than one intruder, including a car full of men intent on raping the woman in their carpool. Guns save lives.

@@rickc2102 I wasn’t