What a HELL of a salesman. Knows how to qualify his customer. Builds trust by suggesting something less than the customer first asked for. Total knowledge of product. No rushing, lets customer try at leisure. Subtlety makes an add-on accessory sale. Closes out with offers for additional future business. Just a wonderful sales performance.
@@peternagy-im4beA salesman never misses the opportunity to upsale. Yeah, he already sold him some stuff, but anything else he might agree to meant even more business so he was throwing whatever he could out there.
Would you look at dat!? Would you look at dat..just look at it!" Lol can't remember who the guys name that makes the youtube videos, but it's hilarious
Some of these scenes are like toys... that scene, you go out and hammer nails with her all day, come back and it'll cut dead center on target every time...it's got a really nice action to it and a heck of a wallop
Travis wound up using all those guns in a span of 5 minutes. Like a true soldier he prepared for the unexpected. Somehow he knew he might not have time to reload.
I'd be more comfortable having two pistols (in case of some catastrophic failure) of same caliber and just loads of mags in 1 location. 4 pistols is too much multitasking for my brain, i'd likely end up pulling out the 1st empty one after the 2nd goes click.
@@myway7367true- But in a Fire fight you’re NOT gonna Shoot then Put the gun back in your pocket/holster THEN reach for another weapon on you. It would be easier just to drop whatever weapon you’re holding at the moment once you hear 👂 *Click* so you have no chance of reaching for a Dead Weapon. And ONLY have Ready to loaded ready to fire- No Single action’s Whatso ever so you don’t have to worry about adding another action To the mix- Just only have to worry about trigger pull. Two’s plenty YES- But Two Different type’s of weapons for different situations- Perhaps one on the hip and one on under the shoulder- Say if you can’t reach for one- You can reach for the other. 😅 🤷 just my two cent-
I'm noticing that Andy's sales pitch is done extremely well here. Travis comes in and asks for an expensive gun that is extreme overkill for his needs. Andy just shows him the gun before subtly saying that it's extremely impractical, at which point he nudges Travis towards the .38, acknowledging that it's a way more practical gun. At this point, he suggests two automatics that Travis doesn't really need but buys anyway (gun collecting is like that), and then tacks on a required accessory in the shoulder holster. He turned a one-gun sale into a four-gun sale with an accessory. Used car salesmen have nothing on Andy.
I mean hes def not wrong about the 44. For personal defense for a cab driver its WAY too big. I think I saw a browning hi power. That wouldve been my top choice with the walther right behind it.
@@Solid_Snake99 good gun but no part of the selection offered in the film that we can see. Besides as mentioned baretta 92 only began production in the same year this film was released so it may not have technically existed yet when they were filming the movie originally
@@vksasdgaming9472 Also, I'm sure Travis inquired about a 44 Magnum in the first place only because of the first two ''Dirty Harry'' films, which were already out a few years even before Taxi Driver was filmed.
I somewhat admire Andy’s sales tactics. Like someone here said, not only did he turn a one gun sale into a four gun sale plus an accessory thrown in, but he tells Travis the reasons why he shouldn’t get the .44, thus sealing the deal that he gets it. He lists the impractical reasons for getting it and that just makes Travis want it more. Damn, if I could sell something like that, I’d never go poor...
The deep web isn't much of a deep web, either. I saw it. Crawling with cops and FBI, no doubt. Great way to get yourself set up by a criminal or cop if you buy anything.
I always found it interesting how Easy Andy sounds really professional when he is selling Travis guns then as soon as he starts to tell him about other stuff he can sell him he comes across as sleazy. It’s almost like Travis is so enamoured by the guns that anything Andy says sounds good then as soon as he’s finished talking about guns we see the real Andy.
Awesome analysis, i hadn't considered that at all. Perhaps Easy Andy is an amazing salesman but after the sale he lets loose because he's already made the sale.
@@EGarrett01 travis is actually not a psychopath and that is the real problem. if he where he would not be affected as much as he is by his life situation and would not spiral into the abyss. a psychopath would kill anyone yes, if it woudl serve him for apurpose of some sort. but they dont drift into this mental gruesome state of depression and recentment of the world
Just to recap... .44 Magnum = A beauty .38 snub-nose = Beautiful little gun, a fine gun Colt .25 automatic = Nice little gun, beautiful little gun 380 Walther = Nice gun, beautiful little gun, a little honey
I like how children's noises are audible, coming from the other apartments, while these two are doing a transaction on guns. Really adds the unsettling effect.
@@cafenightster4548 I bought a Walther PPK in the early seventies, mil-surp. $60.00. The .44 took me a couple of years to get, because nobody could keep them in stock due to the Dirty Harry movie, but I paid about $200 for the 8 & 3/4" Model 10, brand new, in 1975.
Robot Lover I can relate to that. I like this same scene in God Bless America. It's pretty heavily based on this scene, including trying to sell drugs at the end.
@@alonenjersey he calls the pistol magazines clips, it can be easily overlooked but a real clip is for example a 5 round stripper you insert into a bolt action rifle. A 44 magnum, although a powerful round, can't go through an engine block in most cases, because of the density and the complex nature. Maybe it can go through the thin parts, but not the centre. A 38 revolver was standard issue for US police up to the 1990s, but it wasn't known for being a powerful round. Kevlar armour, which was being developed around the 1970s, could stop these rounds, and these vests protected officers from handgun threats like the snub nose or 9mm. It would have made sense if Easy Andy referenced the magnum by quoting it would stop anything that moves, but he was talking about the 38 instead. As with the Walther PP, it actually came before the P38 in the 1920s, while the latter emerged in 1938. It was issued to officers and the Luftwaffe, but it was also a popular choice among German police at the time. Edit: The Walther PP is not an authentic model but an Astra (Spanish) pistol, and the .25 colt is actually a .22 S&W. I stole that from some other comment I know i sound really nerdy, but i thought it was cool to share
Jose Salazar Can only speak for people I've actually known, but they tended to be fair-weather friends. Oh, they were REALLY good at getting THEMSELVES out of trouble, but everyone else was up shit creek
+Jose Salazar I've known guy like that since High School (i live in Serbia), though we kinda lost contact but i still hear of him from time to time. When he was 15, he could get you some fake doctors papers if needed to evade school for a day, or fake prescriptions for medications... soon he could get you weed or mdma, for prom he offered us cocaine and when i was 20, last time i personally saw him, he blatantly and out of blue offered me a TT-30 gun for 100 euros ''just in case if i need it'' (i had absolutely zero need for it)...Now 2 years later i bet he could get you practically anything you want, but where or how he gets all that i have no idea.
"How about this? Check this out (points outside and down to the street). That's a Soviet SS-20 intercontinental ballistic missile. 3-stage, 5 warheads, otherwise it's the same as an American Pershing-2. Yeah that's a great missile look at that. Over in Europe this missile is the backbone of the Warsaw Pact's nuclear strike capacities. It can be launched from a ground base or mobile silo, and pack a heck of a wallop."
+ Geoffrey Zoref Absolutely! It's like his manager calls him and goes "Bob, we have a real shitty script here, but it pays some millions" and Robert just goes "Yeah, whatever. It's not much, but it's honest work".
I like how Easy Andy is not trying to sell his most expensive gun. He is doing what all good sales men should do. Sell the customer what he needs, not what he wants. At least in two instances does he tell Travis how impractical the 44. is. Makes me want to buy it even more.
Funny how as soon as the gun transaction is over, Andy stops coming across as a smooth salesman. He starts to seem sleazy and a little like a junky as he tries to sell Travis cars and drugs. I think this is because, from Travis' perspective, the guns have a wonderful mystique and thus Andy has a bigger sway over him.
Good analysis. I was thinking that Travis NEEDED him, to get the guns. So, his mind temporarily elevates the sleazy dealer, in order to justify Travis doing business with him. Once his needs are met he starts to see him for what he actually is.
that's the whole point of the film every character is the same seems genuine but then when you delve a little deeper there not that's the whole point of iris in that movie she breaks the mould even though shes involved in that world if you look at the looking at me scene and travis is preparing for war you can hear a school playground sound in the distance of school children playing the whole film is represented by monster moments of perversion but subtle hints of normality going through travises mind that's what makes this film genius and makes travis go to war
I never claimed to be, it's just my name. You don't see me going around saying you aren't a Stephen do I? You should have gone with Douchey McBlueface.
Notice how smooth this guy is at selling things. He's not trying to NOT sell the 44.Magnum buy telling Travis not to buy it. He's telling him just how impractical it is and that its better off to get a smaller gun too. Hence, selling more guns. Plus, he is being honest in what he does. "The magnum, they use that in Africa for killing elephants." In a way, he's making you want the gun more buy selling its positives like a negative. Example "The Ferrari, they use that for racing, it can do 240 miles in the street for god's sake. What you need is a Mustang." BOOM, he sells two cars.
"You interested in a non-ballistic weapon? Here, check this out (buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Sith light-saber, this was from a galaxy far far away from a long time ago. Red blade, otherwise it's the same as a Jedi saber. That's a nice weapon, that's a beautiful weapon look at that. During the Clone Wars, a Sith lord named Sidious used this saber to take out 3 Jedi masters in like 7 seconds when they tried to apprehend him. Yeah that was a bad day for those 3. I could sell this to some sand-dude on Tattoine for 500 empire credits."
Trivia: the actor playing Easy Andy, Steven Prince, is a former heroin addict. In a documentary Scorsese made about Prince's life, Prince tells a story about reviving a woman having an overdose with an adrenaline injection into her heart with the help of a long needle and a black magic marker. This story was later adapted and incorporated in Pulp Fiction by Tarantino.
@Jim Taylor Tarantino is a stylistic thief, but his dialog is his one trademark. You can tell because no matter what character it is that goes on a rant, it always sounds like Tarantino: partly true insight and mostly full of shit. The guy does know movies, and he does have a knack for cool sounding monologs (Jules in Pulp Fiction is full of them), but his dialog between men and women is notoriously fake sounding.
@Eamonn Wright I disagree. The symbolism of the heart is too deep. Also the humor of stabbing her three times bit was needed to break the tension slightly. Really that was an incredible scene in every way. It also outlined that Vega was ultimately more worried about himself than about Mia and he met with cosmic justice in the end.
@Eamonn Wright There is another famous scene in Die Hard 2 when McClane spouts off some bullshit about a 'Glock 7' that is made of porcelain and can't be picked up by xrays. All of it is utter nonsense, from the xrays to the fictional gun details. It's an example of horrible writing and why Die Hard 2 isn't the classic that the first one was. Ironically the film contributed to the myths around the Glock brand and helped it become dominant.
Probably a lot now. This room is a hotel room in Brooklyn. As for Travis's appartment it was a craphole studio in 1970s Manhattan. The rent was probably 'reasonable' and affordable for someone like him. Especially if it was in East Village. Granted you always had the risk of getting mugged or murdered when you stepped outside.
There aren't many small, seemingly incidental scenes that make big impressions but this is definitely one of them. A couple off the top of my head is the scene in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly where Tuco meets his brother and the scene in True Grit(2010) where Maddie deals with the pony salesman. Great, very memorable scenes.
I love how Easy Andy is tryin to sound like an absolute *expert* with firearms, but because it’s NY, and living in the city makes it super hard to own a gun legally, he doesn’t really know what hell he’s talkin’ about. Like all the info he has came from reading an operator’s manual for the weapons right before he met Travis lol
Here, here's a 40 kilowatt plasma rifle (40 watts irl isn't dangerous). It's a nice little rifle. This thing will cut through a T-800 cyborg. The human resistance trusts their lives on this one.
lmaoooo :)))) Andy can sell anything he is like the ultimate seller he can even match Bacons mad selling skills from Lock Stock and 2 smoking barrels :))))
"Okay so it's 350 for the Magnam, 250 for the 38, one and a quarter for the 25, and 150 for the walther" *loads the .44 Magnam* "Hey you can't do that?" "Wrong!" *Fires*
>The 12-gauge auto-loader. That's Italian. You can go pump or auto. >The .45 long slide, with laser sighting. These are brand new; we just got them in. That's a good gun. Just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss. Anything else? >Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. Hey, just what you see, pal! >The Uzi nine millimeter. You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. So uh, which will it be? >All. I may close early today. There's a 15-day wait on the hand guns but the rifles you can take right now. You can't do that. >Wrong!
It's funny to see how seemingly comfortable Travis is with the Salesman while they're discussing guns, but as soon as he mentions drugs at 4:02 Travis wants to distance himself. It's a lot like that through the entire movie, Travis doesn't really fit in with the average person, but he there's elements of the criminal world he's disgusted with too. Even though he has no problem buying illegal guns, he seems to scoff at the idea of drugs, almost like he's above that. Just me blabbering a bit, but I find this aspect of the movie really interesting.
even though he was popping pills the whole film after he gets the job. He denied that part of himself already existed especially once he really got on his crusade
@@peterp2153 pretty sure that falls under "self medicating" they didnt have anti depressants with the same ubiquity they do now people just did drugs and if you had money you got a valium script
Travis is taking uppers during the early part of the movie -- that's why he can't sleep. But by the time this scene comes along, he's announced that he's quit all drugs and bad food. Remember? "From now on, it'll be a hundred push-ups every morning ..."
Another fun fact about the guy in this scene, Steven Prince: He inspired the "shot of adrenaline" scene in Pulp Fiction , which was based on something that actually happened in his life.
@@scottcharney1091 I’ve just watched the interview with Steven Prince and it was fascinating: the way he told it was he felt between the 2nd3rd ribs and went for it (it’s on TH-cam called ‘American Boy-Steven Prince’- it’s from around time of shooting Taxi Driver)
The actor who played Andy is Steven Prince. His life story was interesting enough that Scorcese made a documentary about him called "American Boy". In it he tells the story about injecting adrenaline into the chest of a woman complete with magic marker and medical dictionary. Tarantino used it in Pulp Fiction.
Look at all these creeps, who are they foolin'? You need ya a _nice_ profile pic like mine, my friend. It's fantastic. Look at it, it's hilarious! Everybody'll think it's hysterical, you'll be the life of the party. I'll give it to ya for two fifty.
This is the way guns should be sold. A nice man comes to your house with a couple of cases like the Avon lady and let's you pick out what you like and then pay cash and "have a nice day".
1:13 I love this long, purposeful shot along the revolver. They suspend the realism for this shot. Do you really think Travis and Lookadatt guy would have stood there for 10 solid seconds, saying and doing nothing? When the shot ends its like its like the scene comes back to normal. I think Scorsese wanted you to take in the implied violence that this thing represents.
Scorsese did that thing where the movie would shift from a mood of sleeping and being awake. This is that moment between the two. Another example of it is the scene in the beginning when Travis looks at his glass of water for solid 10-20 seconds
" Do you really think Travis and Lookadatt guy would have stood there for 10 solid seconds, saying and doing nothing?" Actually, yeah. Never felt weird to me. He's a gun salesman and he's letting his customer admire the gun for a few seconds.
@@tomaspabon2484 Probably for the same reason that people today happily (and rightfully) purchase a Smith & Wesson J-frame or Ruger LCR. I'm sure that the Escort was not the best in the S&W product line, but it certainly was no Raven Arms!
Fun fact: the “Walther PPK” is actually a Astra Constable II. It’s a Spainish PPK clone that’s actually better/equal quality of a PPK at half the price.
@@niklashenritzi2084 so you have any actual linkable proof? Or are you just regurgitating something that you think to be true. Cause as far as I’m concerned I’ve been handling this thing as a CCW for a couple months now and am very happy with it
@@_Dogberry_ i know some engineers from walther and sig and we spoke about machining, alloys, tolerances etc . not saying yours isnt a good gun just saying that pre ww2 gun production was through the roof, almost too good. have a good one
@@niklashenritzi2084 oh yeah dude I get ya. My grandmas mother’s friends dog nephews cousins 3rd roommate worked at ASTRA and I know the dude personally after all this time and he said “ Yeah sure”
@@_Dogberry_ i have a degree in weapons engineering and i was talking about alloys and tolerances while you are talking about your grandmas friends dog cousin. you clearly convinced me with your superior reasoning
+Peter Loew I read a comment that was really genius some time ago, and it pointed out how the salesman was all charm and cool when he was selling guns, and then when the sale was done he becomes this maniac trying to place stuff, basically drugs, which are the easiest to put out in the market, just to finish with a car. This scene is just crazy. Look at his eyes in the end, lol... I don't think we meet any characters in this movie that aren't any sort of maniacs, except for Jodie Foster's character.
panetero more than anything, it's a reflection of Travis's perception. He fetishizes the power and ability of the weapons, so naturally the presentation of the salesman would be immensely positive, almost didactic. The moment he tries selling drugs, Travis sees him as just another member of the filth he sees.
panetero: Actually, the actor, Stephen Prince, was really like that in real life. You should get a look at the amazing documentary scorsese has made on him: "an american boy"
Easy Andy wasn’t kidding when he said those guns were expensive. Adjusted for inflation Travis spent over 4,000 dollars on guns and he didn’t even get any ammunition
Bickle: "You got a .44 magnum?" Sheeran: "You don't want the noise a .45 makes. It makes too much noise and a patrol car can hear it a few blocks away, at least." Andy: "This may be a little too big for practical purposes, so for you, I recommend, a .38 snubnose." Sheeran: "Cops call .32 a woman's gun -- it's easier to handle, it don't do the damage a .38 does -- but, you know, it does enough." Andy: "You interested in an, uh, automatic? It's a Colt .25 automatic." Sheeran: "You want something with more stopping power than a .22."
This is a bad comparison. (not your fault, great lil mashup) By automatic, they just mean a handgun with a magazine and chamber and extractor, like, a modern pistol over a revolver. That's an automatic handgun, so .25 ACP, automatic, .45 ACP, automatic. You can't get less stopping power than .22lr, it's the smallest cartridge in practical existence.
@@SortenRavn The new Scorsese film with De Niro, called "The Irishman". It's a comparison of dialogue from this early De Niro movie, and his latest, all these years later. It's a very cool flick, on Netflix.
Funny how at 2:13 Andy says "it can stop anything that moves". Nevertheless, when Travis tries to save Iris, Sport gets shot by Travis with that gun. A few minutes later, he manages to stand up and shoot Travis inside the building...
One’s definitely a P-38, the other looks like Star 9mm, a couple of .38 S&W Model 10s, and a 9mm S&W Model 39......Easy Andy only sells quality items .
I agree that one is a government model. Blurry clip but I would say a CZ over astrar, but astra makes more sense for the time line of production. The one under the 44 top right is definitely not a p38, looks almost home made to me, probably something eastern European. Some one who is an expert on swiss or hungairian service pistols should chime in.
Easy Andy is Travis's Mephistopheles. This is primo ASMR material. I used to watch this scene over and over on my family's VHS when I was a kid and go into a deep, fuzzy Trance.
BuddyGroove heck no he gives him a free holster then when the cops bust him the guy he loses a product but if he sells it to him he still comes out on top
I didn't realize this before but him tracking that gun out the window and pointing it at a random couple says everything you need to know about Travis.
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“How about dinner? I can get you a reservation at Dorsia?”
Nobody goes there anymore
@@hailanluu2169 how about arcadia
Lol
Travis and Bateman just want to fit in society smh
You wanna see my new business card the colour bone
"How about a nuclear bomb? 5 megatons, can incinerate millions of people in an instant, beautiful little bomb"
"If you're looking to start WWIII, this is a little honey right here"
How much for ahh... uhmm.. one of them Tzar Bomba?
lol. not practical to stop an elephant.
Only a jackass would carry it around in the streets, though. Have a nice handcrafted holster for it.
But is it nickle plated?
I like how he sneakily throws in the holster for a $40 upsale without even asking. Quality businessman.
I noticed that. It looked shit, though.
Only a jackass would carry that cannon in the street like that
@@jonathangonzales4115 they use that to kill elephants in africa
That holster was hand made in Mexico
Slick.
What a HELL of a salesman. Knows how to qualify his customer. Builds trust by suggesting something less than the customer first asked for. Total knowledge of product. No rushing, lets customer try at leisure. Subtlety makes an add-on accessory sale. Closes out with offers for additional future business. Just a wonderful sales performance.
Unnecessary pitch at the end though? He already had a great sale. Travis brought the lot.
Always go for the upsell. You already have the no.
Yes perfect!
@@peternagy-im4beA salesman never misses the opportunity to upsale. Yeah, he already sold him some stuff, but anything else he might agree to meant even more business so he was throwing whatever he could out there.
if he was knowledgeable about the product, he would have called them magazines, not clips, they're not the same thing.
way to be a role model Travis. say no to drugs
Easy Andy was a weirdo just sell guns fuck drugs!
Great film deniro the hero!
and cadilacs
Yea, but he went through his booze and pep pills phase.
@@marioiacolucci Drugs hell yeah. Fuck guns!
1:32 "Lookadatt." 1:35 "Lookadatt." 2:02 "Lookadiss." 2:06 "Lookadat." 2:59 "Lookadiss." 3:09 "Lookadatt."
If he would have just looked at it.
@@peterpiper47 underrated comment - Somebody tag Edbassmaster please : p
LMAO. "AINT THAT A LITTLE HONEY"
@@peterpiper47 look at this. look at that. look at this. look at that.
Would you look at dat!? Would you look at dat..just look at it!" Lol can't remember who the guys name that makes the youtube videos, but it's hilarious
"Look at that. That's a beautiful little gun." Sounds like Bob Ross.
aint that a little honey?
you nailed it!...I was wondering where I heard that tone of voice before.
@ hahahahhaha thank you sir
@@glennelson8017 😂😂😂
With this baby, you can beat the devil yourself.
“How about a phased-plasma rifle? I can get you a phased-plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.”
It's not just what you see pal!
@@Camcolito The uzi 9 mili meddah
@@berserker2.0 You know your weapons buddy, perfect for home defense.
@@Camcolito So which shall it be?
I read that shit in an austrian accent 😂😂😂
“Nah I’m not interested in that stuff”
“CRYSTAL METH? WANT SOME CRYSTAL METH?”
))))
He should have offered the Cadillac right off the bat
Mr.white lets cook
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey with the pink slip for 2 grand??? Hard to pass 😕
Yeah, he really upped his sales aggression after the big score. Good instincts. That guy probably works for some bank now.
It's a nice little scene. It's a beautiful little scene.
Yea
This scene, they use that in Africa to kill elephants
Only a jackass would carry a scene like this in the streets
Ain't this scene a little honey?
Some of these scenes are like toys... that scene, you go out and hammer nails with her all day, come back and it'll cut dead center on target every time...it's got a really nice action to it and a heck of a wallop
This dude could sell me the national debt.
Look at that debt. Beautiful little debt.
🥳🇺🇸
@@miaouew ain't that a honey
Weak lol
@@miaouew
Fucking dead.
Travis wound up using all those guns in a span of 5 minutes. Like a true soldier he prepared for the unexpected. Somehow he knew he might not have time to reload.
We call that a "New York Reload".
I'd be more comfortable having two pistols (in case of some catastrophic failure) of same caliber and just loads of mags in 1 location. 4 pistols is too much multitasking for my brain, i'd likely end up pulling out the 1st empty one after the 2nd goes click.
@@myway7367get yourself a glock, tons of ammo.
It's always faster to switch to your quick-draw forearm-mounted sleeve gun than it is to reload.
@@myway7367true- But in a Fire fight you’re NOT gonna Shoot then Put the gun back in your pocket/holster THEN reach for another weapon on you. It would be easier just to drop whatever weapon you’re holding at the moment once you hear 👂 *Click* so you have no chance of reaching for a Dead Weapon. And ONLY have Ready to loaded ready to fire- No Single action’s Whatso ever so you don’t have to worry about adding another action To the mix- Just only have to worry about trigger pull. Two’s plenty YES- But Two Different type’s of weapons for different situations- Perhaps one on the hip and one on under the shoulder- Say if you can’t reach for one- You can reach for the other. 😅 🤷 just my two cent-
"Crystal meth?" "I can get you crystal meth." I got a guy who makes it 99.1% pure. "How about a Cadillac?" I got one with a M60 in the trunk.
Only a science teacher would carry that cannon in the streets like that...
How about the stuff to make a bomb to kill your boss so you can take over 😉 😉
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i get it ;)
Ah people of culture i see
I'm noticing that Andy's sales pitch is done extremely well here. Travis comes in and asks for an expensive gun that is extreme overkill for his needs. Andy just shows him the gun before subtly saying that it's extremely impractical, at which point he nudges Travis towards the .38, acknowledging that it's a way more practical gun. At this point, he suggests two automatics that Travis doesn't really need but buys anyway (gun collecting is like that), and then tacks on a required accessory in the shoulder holster. He turned a one-gun sale into a four-gun sale with an accessory.
Used car salesmen have nothing on Andy.
Get this man a job selling houses and he will be able to sell hovels to billionaires
I mean hes def not wrong about the 44. For personal defense for a cab driver its WAY too big. I think I saw a browning hi power. That wouldve been my top choice with the walther right behind it.
@@jlogan2228 just buy a beretta 92
@@Solid_Snake99 doubt there were too many 92s in the states in 1976. Good choice regardless
@@Solid_Snake99 good gun but no part of the selection offered in the film that we can see. Besides as mentioned baretta 92 only began production in the same year this film was released so it may not have technically existed yet when they were filming the movie originally
"Only a jackass would carry that cannon in the streets like that."
*Harry Calahan has entered the chat.
Harry Callahan is about 20 cm taller and his .44 Magnum has shorter barrel as well.
@@vksasdgaming9472 Depends which magnum you're talking about. Some scenes used an 8" barrel and some used a 6" barrel. Still a beautiful gun.
@@vksasdgaming9472 Also, I'm sure Travis inquired about a 44 Magnum in the first place only because of the first two ''Dirty Harry'' films, which were already out a few years even before Taxi Driver was filmed.
@@runawaytrain9794 And creepy customer (Scorsese in cameo) mentioned it as well.
@MR Esotericana LOL, however The LAST thing Travis wanted to do was to shoot a vagina.
I somewhat admire Andy’s sales tactics. Like someone here said, not only did he turn a one gun sale into a four gun sale plus an accessory thrown in, but he tells Travis the reasons why he shouldn’t get the .44, thus sealing the deal that he gets it. He lists the impractical reasons for getting it and that just makes Travis want it more. Damn, if I could sell something like that, I’d never go poor...
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Yes saying it stops elephants in Africa is a draw
this guy's a walking deep web
At least that guy ain't sellin' "Ceepee" on that portfolio...
The deep web isn't much of a deep web, either. I saw it. Crawling with cops and FBI, no doubt. Great way to get yourself set up by a criminal or cop if you buy anything.
what does that mean
@Jesus Christ I'd say he's The Silk Road on legs. With smooth charm.
Deep Weeb
I always found it interesting how Easy Andy sounds really professional when he is selling Travis guns then as soon as he starts to tell him about other stuff he can sell him he comes across as sleazy. It’s almost like Travis is so enamoured by the guns that anything Andy says sounds good then as soon as he’s finished talking about guns we see the real Andy.
yes it's an important element of the scene
Awesome analysis, i hadn't considered that at all. Perhaps Easy Andy is an amazing salesman but after the sale he lets loose because he's already made the sale.
@@EGarrett01 travis is actually not a psychopath and that is the real problem. if he where he would not be affected as much as he is by his life situation and would not spiral into the abyss. a psychopath would kill anyone yes, if it woudl serve him for apurpose of some sort. but they dont drift into this mental gruesome state of depression and recentment of the world
After Travis buys from him he kinda goes into a selling frenzy.
He doesn't want to leave any money on the table.
Just to recap...
.44 Magnum = A beauty
.38 snub-nose = Beautiful little gun, a fine gun
Colt .25 automatic = Nice little gun, beautiful little gun
380 Walther = Nice gun, beautiful little gun, a little honey
JohnLoCicero i don’t wanna be that guy but that little “colt .25” is actually a smith and Wesson escort .22LR.
@@MiKEY_TARANTiNO u must live here hehe
@@MiKEY_TARANTiNO The Walther isn't a real Walther - It's a knockoff called the "Astra Constable"
ThatGuy67 I didn’t that one interesting 👍
@@ThatGuy-te9wh goes to show what kinda dealer this guy was
When you realize Travis spent $915 dollars here, which roughly equates to almost $5000 in 2021 D:
They're stealing our buying power
to be fare to he was a taxi driver he had money
Whats really crazy is he sold the PPK for $150
@@jeremiahjohnson9908 Around 800$ nowadays
But were those guns really that expensive or was Andy just cheating him?
'I can get you Sherman tank, how about a MG42? or a panzerfaust?" I can get you 600 pounds of weed."
"How much for all this?" lol
"It's a beautiful tank... a funny little tank..."
Lol
Oh yeah, he'd be the kind of gun guy that could get you anything from a piece shooter to a bazooka lol 😂
Fuck I want an MG42
Easy Andy "Anything else?"
Travis "Phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range?"
hey just what you see buddy
Thats terminator tho
Joe Luis you can't do that
THA UZI NINE MILLIMETER!
Uzi 9 meelimeda
I like how children's noises are audible, coming from the other apartments, while these two are doing a transaction on guns.
Really adds the unsettling effect.
I find quite reassuring.
Okay, Helen Lovejoy.
@@Jemalacane0 - Hey, I was just commenting on Scorsese's direction.
@@rogerkincaid931 Also the great touch of Travis sweeping the outside world with the 38 across the window. Everyone a potential target.
Most unsettling thing is that those revolvers and that 22 are all being dry-fired.
“So uh, what’ll it be?”
“All.”
“I may close early today.”
@@misterj9619 WRONG.
Except the Uzi 9mm I guess.
@@spjfrat Duzi NeinMilamità
You can’t do that.
"Ain't that a little honey?" Best line in the entire film
Sure. THAT was the best line in the entire film. Exactly. Okay.
I wonder what other roles that actor picked up 👏
Christpher R Fritz i saw a documentary he killed a Mexican guy who attacked him at a gas station th-cam.com/video/o_M8YaozPDE/w-d-xo.html
@@Talkinknicks WOW! That this exists...
True Force
2 grand for a brand new Cadillac with papers sounds amazing even for mid 70s.
Probably a stolen getaway car and with coke taped on the hubcaps.
Shoot everything was cheap, that .44 magnum is worth $1,500 at retail price now. That Walther .380 used is around $450 to $550 today.
What did Jimmy Conway say, don't buy anything that could attract attention
@@244thMeekrob It's fine, it's in my mother's name
@@cafenightster4548 I bought a Walther PPK in the early seventies, mil-surp. $60.00. The .44 took me a couple of years to get, because nobody could keep them in stock due to the Dirty Harry movie, but I paid about $200 for the 8 & 3/4" Model 10, brand new, in 1975.
It's relaxing to watch Easy Andy, the master salesman, at work.
Robot Lover I can relate to that. I like this same scene in God Bless America. It's pretty heavily based on this scene, including trying to sell drugs at the end.
Robot Lover
it's called ASMR. Autonomous sensory meridian response
Thomas Schmidt That has nothing to do with this.
Oddly it is relaxing
you better get your own army pal!
I love how easy andy gives a history lesson with each gun!
A man who takes pride in his work.
And most of his information is wrong lol. But he still makes it sounds sweet af
^
Really? So where was he wrong?
@@alonenjersey he calls the pistol magazines clips, it can be easily overlooked but a real clip is for example a 5 round stripper you insert into a bolt action rifle.
A 44 magnum, although a powerful round, can't go through an engine block in most cases, because of the density and the complex nature. Maybe it can go through the thin parts, but not the centre.
A 38 revolver was standard issue for US police up to the 1990s, but it wasn't known for being a powerful round. Kevlar armour, which was being developed around the 1970s, could stop these rounds, and these vests protected officers from handgun threats like the snub nose or 9mm. It would have made sense if Easy Andy referenced the magnum by quoting it would stop anything that moves, but he was talking about the 38 instead.
As with the Walther PP, it actually came before the P38 in the 1920s, while the latter emerged in 1938. It was issued to officers and the Luftwaffe, but it was also a popular choice among German police at the time.
Edit: The Walther PP is not an authentic model but an Astra (Spanish) pistol, and the .25 colt is actually a .22 S&W. I stole that from some other comment
I know i sound really nerdy, but i thought it was cool to share
Who offers grass, weed, coke, extacy.. Then hears I'm kot interested in any of that stuff, then offers crystal meth 😂😂
A damn good salesman
Homer Simpons voice "Ooooh OK"
Check his eyes...he's tweaking
Haha you never know bro. Some people have preferences. Maybe he's a meth head, but doesn't want the coke.
I would've instantaneously bought the Nembutal and chloral hydrate he was selling.
that brooklyn apartment must be in the millions now...
Interesting observation.
Jesse Llerna or it’s run down and crap
yep
Was St. George’s Hotel on Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights (overlooks the BQE). Now a pricey NYU & Pratt Dorm
Looks like a nice view.
travis is a real role model, saying no to drugs like that
He is a superb role model for the children.
Stolen comment
@@JamesClarke.yt. where was it stolen from?
@@jacobmaldonado6406 someone else on this comment section wrote it before him
@@JamesClarke.yt. oh ok
Honestly, the whole gun scene is one of the best unintentional ASMR's in film history.
"What about some food? You want some food? I can get you a choice Beef n' Cheddar with a beautiful side of curly fries for $5. What ya say?"
What about a foot rub? Look at dese hands, aint they a little honey?
fucking underrated comment
I love me some arbys you win best sales man on the comments.
Dont i get a drink wit that too?
"I got some Mr. Pibb, man! Hah? Beautiful stuff, man! I also got a case of Tab!"
Makes me want a GTA game set in 1970's New York, or 'Liberty City'
Driver Parallel Lines may be the closest choice.
@Blood Beryl no u
Mafia II is a bit earlier, 1940s and 50s, but it's the same idea. A GTA-style game set in a more classic era. One of my favorite games of all time.
Gta iv is a good close impression of 70s new york.
First one was a two-disc. One of the discs was London '69
I want to know a guy like this, a guy who can get you anything
+Jose Salazar I've known guys like this. They'll try to take you for everything you have.
Simon Carlile you make a good point, still a guy like that would come in handy in a tight spot, right?
Jose Salazar
Can only speak for people I've actually known, but they tended to be fair-weather friends. Oh, they were REALLY good at getting THEMSELVES out of trouble, but everyone else was up shit creek
Simon Carlile I see your point.
+Jose Salazar I've known guy like that since High School (i live in Serbia), though we kinda lost contact but i still hear of him from time to time. When he was 15, he could get you some fake doctors papers if needed to evade school for a day, or fake prescriptions for medications... soon he could get you weed or mdma, for prom he offered us cocaine and when i was 20, last time i personally saw him, he blatantly and out of blue offered me a TT-30 gun for 100 euros ''just in case if i need it'' (i had absolutely zero need for it)...Now 2 years later i bet he could get you practically anything you want, but where or how he gets all that i have no idea.
"How about a GPU? I can get you an RTX 3080 at MSRP. Beautiful GPU that can hit over 240 fps on any game at 1080p."
Talk about a huge upsell lol.
Ugh… the fact that this comment in jest is actually accurate in that the supply of those is so limited…
@@sonicmastersword8080 lol the supply of that card mirrors the supply of the 44 mag at the time.
"How about this? Check this out (points outside and down to the street). That's a Soviet SS-20 intercontinental ballistic missile. 3-stage, 5 warheads, otherwise it's the same as an American Pershing-2. Yeah that's a great missile look at that. Over in Europe this missile is the backbone of the Warsaw Pact's nuclear strike capacities. It can be launched from a ground base or mobile silo, and pack a heck of a wallop."
If the salesman had a Russian accent it would be believable
How bout a rock hammer and a picture of Rita Hayworth?
Cant say I approve of that but i guess exceptions can be made
@TheGreaterGood80 what's johnny doin on a Tuesday night. Johnny can't read johnny can't write..
How about a motel? You like motels?
lololol
Love that movie..
One decade he's doing Taxi Driver, Deer Hunter, Godfather II, etc, now we get DeNiro in Dirty Grandpa.
Be grateful for what you got mr selfish
+ Geoffrey Zoref Absolutely! It's like his manager calls him and goes "Bob, we have a real shitty script here, but it pays some millions" and Robert just goes "Yeah, whatever. It's not much, but it's honest work".
Not too many roles for old guys. He likes working so he takes what he can get.
A good fella with bad taste
that's coz he's a crybaby mope now who's brain has gone soft
“Ain’t that a little honey?” Master class salesman right there!
I love how the dealer enjoys his work and stands behind his product. "Look at dat"
@Rusty Shackleford Yeah but he's got drugs
A hell of a model american
@Rusty Shackleford Who gives a fuck
This guy stole the movie in my opinion!
He just loves selling guns, old people, animals, kids, doesn't matter he just loves sellin'
I like how Easy Andy is not trying to sell his most expensive gun. He is doing what all good sales men should do. Sell the customer what he needs, not what he wants. At least in two instances does he tell Travis how impractical the 44. is. Makes me want to buy it even more.
gutz1981 or maybe he's trying to make him buy the magunum and others.
No he does that on purpose for that exact effect.
That was the first gun Travis asked about.
Easy Andy's kinda cute tbh.....
That's an expensive gun. . . that's a little big for you. . . they use those in Africa to hunt elephants. . .
Funny how as soon as the gun transaction is over, Andy stops coming across as a smooth salesman. He starts to seem sleazy and a little like a junky as he tries to sell Travis cars and drugs. I think this is because, from Travis' perspective, the guns have a wonderful mystique and thus Andy has a bigger sway over him.
never thought about it that way,
makes a lot of sense though, good analysis
Good analysis. I was thinking that Travis NEEDED him, to get the guns. So, his mind temporarily elevates the sleazy dealer, in order to justify Travis doing business with him. Once his needs are met he starts to see him for what he actually is.
that's the whole point of the film every character is the same seems genuine but then when you delve a little deeper there not that's the whole point of iris in that movie she breaks the mould even though shes involved in that world if you look at the looking at me scene and travis is preparing for war you can hear a school playground sound in the distance of school children playing the whole film is represented by monster moments of perversion but subtle hints of normality going through travises mind that's what makes this film genius and makes travis go to war
I never claimed to be, it's just my name. You don't see me going around saying you aren't a Stephen do I? You should have gone with Douchey McBlueface.
***** Then you go on rocking the Stephen, I'll go on with SexyMan, and the world can be at peace.
3:00 the way he racks the slide with one hand is kinda satisfying
I think he just hit the slide release
Yea he didn't rack the slide, it was locked back and he just hit the slide release, but for some reason they used the gun cocking sound effect for it.
That was not a walther ppk, it was an astra constable. Pretty scarce nowadays. .380 cal.
One of the best small parts in all of film history was Easy Andy.
You forgot the Elmo Blatch guy in Shawahank Redemption
And he wasn’t even a trained actor, just a friend of Scorsese.
He has an entire documentary done on the actor who played him. Its called something like “An American Boy”, its on TH-cam.
@@mjriemen Yes, I just watched it, it's pretty unbelievable, and Scorcese directs there, too.
I bet he's even got a couple of rare Pokémon cards in that briefcase for cheap 😂
minameise don’t tease us
I got blue verison with all 15(1) pokemon even MEW very good price for u
And also some old expensive Yu-Gi-Oh! cards
@MrNoIdentification1 Ain't that something? What a little honey
minameise 😂😂
Notice how smooth this guy is at selling things. He's not trying to NOT sell the 44.Magnum buy telling Travis not to buy it. He's telling him just how impractical it is and that its better off to get a smaller gun too. Hence, selling more guns. Plus, he is being honest in what he does. "The magnum, they use that in Africa for killing elephants." In a way, he's making you want the gun more buy selling its positives like a negative. Example "The Ferrari, they use that for racing, it can do 240 miles in the street for god's sake. What you need is a Mustang." BOOM, he sells two cars.
very good analysis.
em23 Well thank you.
yep
yea, i notice that tho. the way he speaks during sales service. not too pushy but feels good to buy it from him.
gutz1981 it's called building value.
I have started using the expression "Isn't that a little honey?" in my daily conversation and it has worked out fantastic for me.
"You interested in a non-ballistic weapon? Here, check this out (buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) Sith light-saber, this was from a galaxy far far away from a long time ago. Red blade, otherwise it's the same as a Jedi saber. That's a nice weapon, that's a beautiful weapon look at that. During the Clone Wars, a Sith lord named Sidious used this saber to take out 3 Jedi masters in like 7 seconds when they tried to apprehend him. Yeah that was a bad day for those 3. I could sell this to some sand-dude on Tattoine for 500 empire credits."
amazing comment
@@MarcusxxAurelius Thanks.
But that is a weapon for a more civilized age.
Haha! Well done
U and Jumpy Cat need more likes
Andy knows Travis really wants the .44 *therefore* immediately tries to show him the smaller guns... for "more practical purposes."
Trivia: the actor playing Easy Andy, Steven Prince, is a former heroin addict. In a documentary Scorsese made about Prince's life, Prince tells a story about reviving a woman having an overdose with an adrenaline injection into her heart with the help of a long needle and a black magic marker. This story was later adapted and incorporated in Pulp Fiction by Tarantino.
@Jim Taylor Tarantino is a stylistic thief, but his dialog is his one trademark. You can tell because no matter what character it is that goes on a rant, it always sounds like Tarantino: partly true insight and mostly full of shit. The guy does know movies, and he does have a knack for cool sounding monologs (Jules in Pulp Fiction is full of them), but his dialog between men and women is notoriously fake sounding.
@Eamonn Wright I disagree. The symbolism of the heart is too deep. Also the humor of stabbing her three times bit was needed to break the tension slightly. Really that was an incredible scene in every way. It also outlined that Vega was ultimately more worried about himself than about Mia and he met with cosmic justice in the end.
@Eamonn Wright There is another famous scene in Die Hard 2 when McClane spouts off some bullshit about a 'Glock 7' that is made of porcelain and can't be picked up by xrays. All of it is utter nonsense, from the xrays to the fictional gun details. It's an example of horrible writing and why Die Hard 2 isn't the classic that the first one was. Ironically the film contributed to the myths around the Glock brand and helped it become dominant.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Tarantino has made a couple of good movies, the first 2. But that was it.
@Sven Figueroa Yeah I went to IFADB and saw that. My bad.
For some reason I always end up watching this while I'm on the toilet lmao
I'm sitting on the shitter right now lol
maaaaan! forget the guns, how much for that apartment with a view like that?
That's the most crazy thing about Taxi Driver, is how this bum could afford a Manhattan apartment.
Probably a lot now. This room is a hotel room in Brooklyn.
As for Travis's appartment it was a craphole studio in 1970s Manhattan. The rent was probably 'reasonable' and affordable for someone like him. Especially if it was in East Village. Granted you always had the risk of getting mugged or murdered when you stepped outside.
@@Mirokuofnite crazy how expensive New York has gotten
@@CooManTunes ooooof, so much anger. Calm yourself.
Yet again some TH-camr bitches about "liberals", and a state you've probably never lived in.
Love the way he says "ain't that a little honey?". Guy was perfect for the role.
Easy Andy is awesome! Best traveling salesman in the Northern Hemisphere
@@jeffmendelson8039 LMAO
The man could sell mosquito repellant to an Eskimo.
Never knew Ringo Starr became a gun dealer after the Beatles broke up.
"Ringo Buys a Rifle" was prophetic I guess
Ringo Manilow
Im thinking Beck.
lmao same thought
Lmao he also narrated Thomas and friends
One of the best scenes in movie history.
Andy standing back like he's selling him a pair of trousers.
He'd probably take Bitcoin, today.
Bitcoin is traceable. He'd use Monero.
Thats clever
@Omne Obstat real life interactions are even more traceable. bitcoin can be laundered into less traceable things
@@cvspvr all that lousey bullshit cash is the way to go.
“Isn’t it a little honey”? Weirdest gun sale line ever.
Realistic
I once heard someone describe their gun as "the prettiest dame at the ball"
He probably has a car dealership as his more honest up front job or at the very least once worked at one.
Heard several times calling the Colt python the sexiest gun around.
The best
This is ASMR to me.
Marcus Anark True that. Best ASMR ever. Wish the scene was longer.
*Yes. I knew I wasn't crazy. The first time I saw this I had the same experience. Long before I even knew what ASMR was.*
*Thank you.*
@@bigsexy.6686 omG ItS AsMR gUyZzz....
Twisted fucks.
NE One Here From how so?
There aren't many small, seemingly incidental scenes that make big impressions but this is definitely one of them. A couple off the top of my head is the scene in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly where Tuco meets his brother and the scene in True Grit(2010) where Maddie deals with the pony salesman. Great, very memorable scenes.
I really did love that scene from the (2010) "True Grit."
It demonstrated early on in the story that Maddie was no pushover.
I love how Scorsese uses the city as a character in this
Very true. Joker reminded me of this
Some of the best stories have their setting as its own character; good observation.
@@Liam-sl3ic And of course the main reference - De Niro!
@Omne Obstat surveillance wasn't as ubiquitous then, but yeah thats risky. especially since it seemed to be a hotel
Omne Obstat Well there’s no building, just the river. So, no risky.
"Lookadiss, nuclear bomb, packs a punch, guarantee'd no survivors, lookadiss."
I love how Easy Andy is tryin to sound like an absolute *expert* with firearms, but because it’s NY, and living in the city makes it super hard to own a gun legally, he doesn’t really know what hell he’s talkin’ about. Like all the info he has came from reading an operator’s manual for the weapons right before he met Travis lol
Gotta sell the sizzle
He also misidentifies some of the weapons, but I chalk that up to his saleman schtick. More about the pitch than actual accuracy.
He even calls some of the guns by the wrong name, like calling the s&w escort a colt 25 and the Astra a walther
Back in the day it wasn’t too hard. TODAY on the other hand, damn near impossible.
@@sherlockbatmanholmes892 Probably cause Easy Andy was the 1970s equivalent of Wish
I love that you can see the city in the background through the window. Looks beautiful.
this scene has been giving me ASMR every time I watch it since I first saw Taxi Driver in the 80's.
+Nacht Schreck Weird but true
Taxi Driver came out in 1976.
what is asmr?
+Efe Doğuer It's what Salad Fingers feels when he rubs his finger along rusty spoons.
Jonathan Kramer wat
No plasma rifle in the 40-watt range ? :(
Holly shit pal! I'm laughing like and idiot haha
hahahaha
wrong (reports him for no reason at all)
da Uzi 9 mm ?
Here, here's a 40 kilowatt plasma rifle (40 watts irl isn't dangerous). It's a nice little rifle. This thing will cut through a T-800 cyborg. The human resistance trusts their lives on this one.
lmaoooo :)))) Andy can sell anything he is like the ultimate seller he can even match Bacons mad selling skills from Lock Stock and 2 smoking barrels :))))
"Okay so it's 350 for the Magnam, 250 for the 38, one and a quarter for the 25, and 150 for the walther"
*loads the .44 Magnam*
"Hey you can't do that?"
"Wrong!"
*Fires*
... careful he said $250.00 for 38...boom.
Hey you can't do that!
Are you talking to me?!
Yes I am talking to you! who else will I be talking too?!
>The 12-gauge auto-loader.
That's Italian. You can go pump or auto.
>The .45 long slide, with laser sighting.
These are brand new; we just got them in. That's a good gun. Just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss. Anything else?
>Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
Hey, just what you see, pal!
>The Uzi nine millimeter.
You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. So uh, which will it be?
>All.
I may close early today. There's a 15-day wait on the hand guns but the rifles you can take right now.
You can't do that.
>Wrong!
That's a beautiful little fun...that's a happy little tree...he comes off as like the bob Ross of guns
Suck on this!
Excellent performance from the guy playing Andy, who wasn’t even an actor - he was just someone Scorcese knew with the gift of the gab.
I don't know why but this scene is incredibly soothing to watch.
u are not the only one. This scene is GOLD. the silence in the room. the easy conversation going on. The casual way. Everything is so so relaxing.
Idn't that a little honey?... That's a nice little gun, loogadat. That's a beautiful little gun...
I thought he said 'turn around a little honey' as a jibe-joke to banter with Travis a bit.
Haha. Did you think it was weird that Easy Andy would say such a thing?
Yap that gun is YOU Trav, easy Andy starts calling him Trav n chopping out lines of crystal meth hehe
Loooooga
It's funny to see how seemingly comfortable Travis is with the Salesman while they're discussing guns, but as soon as he mentions drugs at 4:02 Travis wants to distance himself. It's a lot like that through the entire movie, Travis doesn't really fit in with the average person, but he there's elements of the criminal world he's disgusted with too. Even though he has no problem buying illegal guns, he seems to scoff at the idea of drugs, almost like he's above that. Just me blabbering a bit, but I find this aspect of the movie really interesting.
even though he was popping pills the whole film after he gets the job. He denied that part of himself already existed especially once he really got on his crusade
I think the pills he pops are some sort of antidepressant. It’s not stated but pretty heavily implied that Travis is a Vietnam vet w/PTSD type issues.
@@peterp2153 pretty sure that falls under "self medicating" they didnt have anti depressants with the same ubiquity they do now people just did drugs and if you had money you got a valium script
Someday a real rain is going to come and wash all the scum off the street.
Travis is taking uppers during the early part of the movie -- that's why he can't sleep. But by the time this scene comes along, he's announced that he's quit all drugs and bad food. Remember? "From now on, it'll be a hundred push-ups every morning ..."
This scene, in about 100 ways, tells you everything you need to know about the 1970s in the US.
Now sell me this pen!
+Claude “Reviews4U” Rains lol..I once landed a job answering that question...and I hated it...imagine an entire office full of easy Andy's.
+Claude Rains “Reviews4U” Its the one DiCaprio used in Wolf of Wall Street.
Look at this pen. That's a beautiful little pen.
+aidencurl LOL
That's a beautiful little handbag, look at that.
Another fun fact about the guy in this scene, Steven Prince: He inspired the "shot of adrenaline" scene in Pulp Fiction , which was based on something that actually happened in his life.
It has to be exaggerated, at best, because that Pulp Fiction maneuver wouldn't work as depicted.
@@scottcharney1091
I’ve just watched the interview with Steven Prince and it was fascinating: the way he told it was he felt between the 2nd3rd ribs and went for it (it’s on TH-cam called ‘American Boy-Steven Prince’- it’s from around time of shooting Taxi Driver)
Interesting because I was thinking how this definitely influenced QT scene with Vega and and the drug dealer offering him varieties of heroin.
@@scottcharney1091 It wouldn't work in real life, but it made for an entertaining scene.
"So which will it be?" "All" "Hey, I think I'll close early today"
"Hey, just what you see, pal."
@@Ifoughtpiranhas Wrong **BOOM**
Hey you can't do that!
"Hey, looking for something a little more high-tech? I got a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range."
What about a oozie nine millimeter
@@45Gunner556 You mean oozie nein milmida :) ?
@@Endru85x Ja
The actor who played Andy is Steven Prince. His life story was interesting enough that Scorcese made a documentary about him called "American Boy". In it he tells the story about injecting adrenaline into the chest of a woman complete with magic marker and medical dictionary. Tarantino used it in Pulp Fiction.
Wtf! How insightful!
Has Tarantino ever had any original idea of his own??
depp8444 The answer is no.
Tarantino: origin-What? whats that? somekind of fighting style?
damn, what a cool story
Look at this comment, that's a beauty
Look at all these creeps, who are they foolin'? You need ya a _nice_ profile pic like mine, my friend. It's fantastic. Look at it, it's hilarious! Everybody'll think it's hysterical, you'll be the life of the party. I'll give it to ya for two fifty.
This is the way guns should be sold. A nice man comes to your house with a couple of cases like the Avon lady and let's you pick out what you like and then pay cash and "have a nice day".
this is how everything should be sold, we need to close all shops
@@andrewescocia2707
I don't want my perishable food to be sold this way.
So, you think he'll stop by my place, before I go visit Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech ?
The one scene that makes every gun guy both smile and say "Hell yeah" and roll their eyes at how wrong the salesman is at the same time 😂
I'll take the Cadillac with the pink slip for 2,000.
Now 20,000 with inflation ;)
RedheartSorensen
haha, Right.
closer to $10,000
Scott M Im Canadian my bad our dollar sucks hahahaha
good thing the northstar wasn't around back then otherwise he would have to give it away lol
1:13 I love this long, purposeful shot along the revolver. They suspend the realism for this shot. Do you really think Travis and Lookadatt guy would have stood there for 10 solid seconds, saying and doing nothing? When the shot ends its like its like the scene comes back to normal. I think Scorsese wanted you to take in the implied violence that this thing represents.
Scorsese did that thing where the movie would shift from a mood of sleeping and being awake. This is that moment between the two.
Another example of it is the scene in the beginning when Travis looks at his glass of water for solid 10-20 seconds
Also conveying the phallic appeal of guns
@@CorkyKneivel that was my feeling too, something very pornographic about that shot languidly sliding down the length of that shiny barrel
i like how the shot just straight up never ends. Really nails home how long and monstrous the .44 magnum really is.
" Do you really think Travis and Lookadatt guy would have stood there for 10 solid seconds, saying and doing nothing?"
Actually, yeah. Never felt weird to me. He's a gun salesman and he's letting his customer admire the gun for a few seconds.
Man this movie makes me wanna impress Jodie Foster some how.
Dress yourself as a woman. She'll be surprised and impressed at the same time.
You feeling ok psyc... er I mean... dude.
uh oh
“You fly home now little starrrling .. fly fly fly “ fly fly fly “
Jodie Foster's Army, Jodie Foster's Army!
That awkward moment when you realize you own all the guns shown in this scene without knowing it, until you rewatch it, lol.
Wish I had that awkward moment. Some sweet guns.
Why would you willingly purchase a S&W escort?
@@tomaspabon2484 Probably for the same reason that people today happily (and rightfully) purchase a Smith & Wesson J-frame or Ruger LCR.
I'm sure that the Escort was not the best in the S&W product line, but it certainly was no Raven Arms!
He's paying 915$ for everything. That's 3598.17 in 2020 Dang...
$3,247.10 in 2019
@@pedrojunior83 Yes, that's what I said
Not worth the time & a half
more like a little over 3k.
Taxis paid better than Ueber
Fun fact: the “Walther PPK” is actually a Astra Constable II. It’s a Spainish PPK clone that’s actually better/equal quality of a PPK at half the price.
wrong astra not as good as walther machining
@@niklashenritzi2084 so you have any actual linkable proof? Or are you just regurgitating something that you think to be true. Cause as far as I’m concerned I’ve been handling this thing as a CCW for a couple months now and am very happy with it
@@_Dogberry_ i know some engineers from walther and sig and we spoke about machining, alloys, tolerances etc .
not saying yours isnt a good gun just saying that pre ww2 gun production was through the roof, almost too good.
have a good one
@@niklashenritzi2084 oh yeah dude I get ya. My grandmas mother’s friends dog nephews cousins 3rd roommate worked at ASTRA and I know the dude personally after all this time and he said “ Yeah sure”
@@_Dogberry_ i have a degree in weapons engineering and i was talking about alloys and tolerances while you are talking about your grandmas friends dog cousin.
you clearly convinced me with your superior reasoning
4:04 - A list of all the drugs Scorsese was on around the period he made this movie.
+Peter Loew I read a comment that was really genius some time ago, and it pointed out how the salesman was all charm and cool when he was selling guns, and then when the sale was done he becomes this maniac trying to place stuff, basically drugs, which are the easiest to put out in the market, just to finish with a car. This scene is just crazy. Look at his eyes in the end, lol... I don't think we meet any characters in this movie that aren't any sort of maniacs, except for Jodie Foster's character.
FUCK ILL BUY ALL THAT SHIT... TAKE SOME AND SELL THE REST FOR MUCHO DINERO
panetero more than anything, it's a reflection of Travis's perception. He fetishizes the power and ability of the weapons, so naturally the presentation of the salesman would be immensely positive, almost didactic. The moment he tries selling drugs, Travis sees him as just another member of the filth he sees.
Peter Loew Didn’t realize he was on drugs other than coke at the time.
panetero: Actually, the actor, Stephen Prince, was really like that in real life. You should get a look at the amazing documentary scorsese has made on him: "an american boy"
Easy Andy wasn’t kidding when he said those guns were expensive. Adjusted for inflation Travis spent over 4,000 dollars on guns and he didn’t even get any ammunition
Ammunition in that room might complicate things.
Not only that, he has to buy 4 different calibers and probably an extra magazine or two for the automatics.
Bickle: "You got a .44 magnum?"
Sheeran: "You don't want the noise a .45 makes. It makes too much noise and a patrol car can hear it a few blocks away, at least."
Andy: "This may be a little too big for practical purposes, so for you, I recommend, a .38 snubnose."
Sheeran: "Cops call .32 a woman's gun -- it's easier to handle, it don't do the damage a .38 does -- but, you know, it does enough."
Andy: "You interested in an, uh, automatic? It's a Colt .25 automatic."
Sheeran: "You want something with more stopping power than a .22."
So what were the 2 revolver names that Frank Sheeran chose?
This is a bad comparison. (not your fault, great lil mashup) By automatic, they just mean a handgun with a magazine and chamber and extractor, like, a modern pistol over a revolver. That's an automatic handgun, so .25 ACP, automatic, .45 ACP, automatic. You can't get less stopping power than .22lr, it's the smallest cartridge in practical existence.
Where's that from ?
@@SortenRavn The new Scorsese film with De Niro, called "The Irishman". It's a comparison of dialogue from this early De Niro movie, and his latest, all these years later. It's a very cool flick, on Netflix.
@@movessmitt6427 i have eyed it Yea.. just Got stuck on Vikings and SoA for the time being.. but i have put it on my list now.. thx
He’s got a great connect. This guy has everything.
I love the way he says “beautiful little gun” it just shows how much of a good salesman he is
It is beautiful
Funny how at 2:13 Andy says "it can stop anything that moves". Nevertheless, when Travis tries to save Iris, Sport gets shot by Travis with that gun. A few minutes later, he manages to stand up and shoot Travis inside the building...
Ho about dope? How about a Cadillac? How about graphic cards? Brand new, not charred by miners 1070 ,1080 the good ones.
@Mark Patino Facts ???
3:34 I never noticed before. There's 3 guns he never shows him in the other suitcase. Looks like a Luger? Wonder what the other two are.
One’s definitely a P-38, the other looks like Star 9mm, a couple of .38 S&W Model 10s, and a 9mm S&W Model 39......Easy Andy only sells quality items .
Probably just a phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range. Too bad he didn't see it.
@Big Ben The Terminator
I agree that one is a government model. Blurry clip but I would say a CZ over astrar, but astra makes more sense for the time line of production. The one under the 44 top right is definitely not a p38, looks almost home made to me, probably something eastern European. Some one who is an expert on swiss or hungairian service pistols should chime in.
@Big Ben idiot
Easy Andy is Travis's Mephistopheles.
This is primo ASMR material. I used to watch this scene over and over on my family's VHS when I was a kid and go into a deep, fuzzy Trance.
Bro that's exactly why I always come back to this scene. His voice just does it for me I guess
@@jacobadam6804 same
Liberace as the funeral salesman in The Loved One hits that same spot: th-cam.com/video/uoZ5dTQa_2E/w-d-xo.html
but it all shatters when he says how about dope.
I like how Travis immediately loses interest when the guy tries to push drugs and all other sort of stuff
The clicking of the guns is so soothing.
@ Of course you're subbed to Bill Maher.
@ "Anyone who's interested in firearms is a nut" - Mentally impaired liberal Bill Maher viewer.
He couldn't throw in the holster for free? He's buying all of it! lol
BuddyGroove heck no he gives him a free holster then when the cops bust him the guy he loses a product but if he sells it to him he still comes out on top
Holsters are pretty expensive why would he give it for free it's not like a candie
They must have been filling out fucking federal firearms purchase paperwork for HOURS!
He's a jew!
upsell is a bitch
...and this is a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range
+King Steve "Hey, just watcha see, Pal!"
"You know your weapons, Buddy! Any one of these is ideal for home defense."
so...which shall it be?
All!
+Shane McCoy Wrong.
I didn't realize this before but him tracking that gun out the window and pointing it at a random couple says everything you need to know about Travis.