gay frogs is a real thing, it was a scientific study of the effects on rivers and wildlife after the birth control pill was invented and the town's urine is flushed into rivers filling them with high doses of female hormones...these hormones have been found deliberated injected into today's meat supplies and the rise in homosexuality is most likely the result of this deliberate action
Anyone who loves Taxi Driver should also read Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground. Not only is the protagonist scarily relatable (for misanthropes like myself) but also far less homicidal than Travis.
I recently read it! I'm a fan of Dostoevsky, but hadn't gotten a chance to read Notes From Underground. Then I heard that Taxi Driver was based on it, and that made me even more interested.
Travis Bickle is one of the most psychologically rich characters in cinematic history. If you ever want to understand why kids take guns into schools and shoot their classmates, watch this film.
For me it’s more of a how than a why. As much as we can try to pin down a persons reasons to commit random violence, we can never know why because they don’t know either. What we and they do know is that their actions will get them attention, and what else is a lonely and isolated person in need of?
@@joea9152 "random". It's not random. And don't tell they don't know, when it's you who don't know. You are not a psychological virtuoso, fool. Many of those isolated nonconformists know what and why they are doing. Not everyone tho, but you are generalizing and making projections just like another stupid mediocrity and conformisn, which you obviously are.
Absolutely amazing essay! You can really feel how personal it was for Schrader. His ultimate remedy is to write it on ink and paper. Please do a essay on Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters. It's so underrated and I'd love to hear more about it!
Unbeliveable that Schrader started writing a diary about his mental state on his day to day, not knowing that he will be writing one of the best scripts to one of the all time greats. Greats stories usually have some of the unexpected beginnings to it
The group mentioned the possibility doing a sequel in the 2000s. Part of that interests me, what would Travis be like in a post 9/11, social media age world. Would he survive? Is he an outlier of the filthy 70s New York in a cleaned up tourist town? Would more people relate to his isolation and misanthropy & would that make him less isolated by result? It’d ruin the original, considering the endings ambiguity.
I too reacted to that random inclusion. But before we start talking about Shrader the Otaku. It could also just mean that he's come across the term many times from people asking him about how to write films. Maybe even specifically adaptations and influences from japanese comic books. So he included it in this remark to lump it into the point he was making. But. It is curious that he did say Manga and did not use the more international term Graphic Novel. So he knows about it. He has opinions about it. Now I am intrigued to hear what he thinks about it. Is he really a fan? Or is he more a grudging old man like Miyazaki who is disappointed in where the promising industry has gone? Or does he just feel the distinctions of mediums of storytelling is fruitless and we should just concentrate on telling insightful stories about interesting people going through their struggles in fascinating ways? :)
JOKER doesn't measure up because it was designed for a literal-minded generation that greets any metaphor more subtle than, say, the Joker's laugh, with confusion and hostility. They want "darkness" with no shadows. They want all the answers up front--answers to the least important questions. Schrader's work was personal; JOKER was a Hollywood player's shallow, calculated attempt at grafting its psychological intensity to a comic book property.
Theres something very lonely about driving people around. I did lyft for about a year. I hated it but now that I have another job I find myself missing the simplicity of it. Driving around with my mind. I hardly ever talked and no one hardly ever talked to me.
@@lawrence-yx1ew what got to me was how short all my interactions became. Even if we wanted to sit and talk to each other we couldnt because there was this feeling of "having something to do" that would pull us away.. For me my job, them their food..
The Scorsese cut at around 06.18 is hysterical. And when he keeps going on and doing the finger wagging killed me. Perfect. And amazing essay, as always. Have you thought of doing a full-on Kubrick one? (The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut - though I suppose he might not have had the time to do any interviews for that one). Or Blade Runner, In Bruges, Twin Peaks?
Taxi Driver (1976) is my Favorite Film from Martin Scorsese. And the Paul Schrader's process to write the Film is really inspiring. One of the Best Film of All time.
The most jarring and powerful scene was when Travis interrupted a young black guy using a gun to rob a Puerto Rican bodega owner.and while doing so shot the robber to death in self defense. When Travis tells the store owner he doesn’t have a gun license the guy tells him to just take off. Then the bodega owner grabs a metal bar and proceeds to beat the dead guy while cursing him and calling him maricon. He’s also pissed off that he keeps getting robbed. There was no phony baloney artistic irony about it. It had to have been the most realistic scene in the movie.
Who knows whether Henry Hill saw Scorsese's crew shoot the movie without knowing his name was going to be mentioned in the movie Goodfellas directed by Scorsese.
Is there anyway I can get in contact with the Director. I want to ask him what gave him the idea to portray this sort of character in his movie. Has he ever came across a man like William in real life or better you ask him and tell him a big fan is highly interested in watching all his movies after watching the movie card counter
That's ironic and tragicomedic when writer himself don't understand the final product which they created. "He goes to a girl which is better than him..." - what a complete bs. She never was better than him. And it was perfectly implied over the film and dialogues and magnificent final. He rejects her in the end, not vise versa.
Is there anyway I can get in contact with the Director. I want to ask him what gave him the idea to portray this sort of character in his movie. Has he ever came across a man like William in real life or better you ask him and tell him a big fan is highly interested in watching all his movies after watching the movie card counter
The reason I’m asking is because I am that guy. The loner who hides and a few people have found me mysterious. I’m reaching out because I’ve been lost. I have questions