Taxi Driver is an unsettling study in aliennation and disaffected individuality. It's a film that ultimately pulls no punches as Bergman no doubt understood.
Bergman recognizes his own. All of his movies, regardless if someone is physically killed or not are some of the most emotionally violent ever created. Which makes you wince more? Die Hard or Scenes from a Marriage. With the former I'm like, Yay! Gettem! The latter I'm making faces of total horror and whispering, Jeeezus.
I absolutely agree with you on Bergman. But I think Die Hard is a bad comparison, because the violence in it is nowhere near of being inhumane enough to make someone wince, and I'm sure it also clearly wasn't the intention of it's makers for it to be that way. It's supposed to be light entertainment
Well, Bergman always had a fascination with Hollywood auteur movies, no secret there. And I love the end quote about (non) responsibility of an artist in that "there will be always people who use it in a wrong way." Couldn't have said better myself.
He's tapping into Joyce's distinction between Art and Pornography. to lift from elsewhere: "The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts"
Individuals are responsible for their behavior. "A painting made me do it", "A movie made me do it" so the artist is responsible is ridiculous and unacceptable..
Paul Shrader is a much better scriptwriter than director and I think "The Yakuza" would have been an awesome action movie if they had stayed with the OG Director or maybe someone like Don Siegal instead of Sydney Pollack, the wrong choice for that content.
Even better, would like to know his opinion of the change in language and communication from knowledge of, for example, English, to the use of child-like pictures, called emojis, and the abbreviations and acronyms of nothing.
I genuinely wonder what Ingmar Bergman would have thought of Tarantino? Tarantino’s violence is very pornographic, but is also extremely artistic as well.
Bergman was a soulful, contemplative filmmaker, looking into Swedish memory and relationships. He probably really stretched to say something positive about Scorsese's bloodbath approach to character and film.
I guess you've never seen The Virgin Spring, or Hour Of The Wolf. The first hilariously pathetic thing about your dopey drivel is that you equate an artist's style with their personal taste which usually encompasses much more than their own style. Secondly, anyone with an eye, in 1976, could have seen what was great cinematically about "Taxi Driver" (not to mention it having Bergman influence!). It was an international sensation, it was more loved and understood in Europe than it was in dopey America, Stevie Weevie, why would you be surprised Bergman would have something positive to say. I love know-nothing dilettantes like you speculating on what Bergman "stretched" to say "Bergman was a soulful, contemplative....." What a doofus. I don't even love Taxi Driver that much! Nowhere near my fave of the 70s, or of Scorsese's, etc etc...... PS: Half wit: Paul Schrader wrote the script, Scorsese filmed it. The "approach to character" is Schrader's. As far as "bloodbath approach" to character, I have no idea what you're babbling about.
That's incorrect. Bergman didn't stretch at all to call the film, "A film about violence on the highest artistical level". That is NOT struggling to find something nice to say, LOL. And Bergman's films could be very disturbing, as well. He greatly admired Scorsese and the film. And, of course, Scorsese worshipped him.
His words in this clip are pretty unequivocal about his respect and admiration for Taxi Driver. Sounds like you're kinda projecting your own feelings about Scorsese onto Bergman. Do you really think an artist like Bergman only admired artists whose work was similar to his own?
@@tuanjim799 well Ingmar definitely saw Tarkovsky as the greatest filmmaker, but for strange reason disliked Welles, Goddard and Antonioni. And artist typically favors movies that are like his own. Sorry to say, but artistic sensibilities are pretty stubborn.
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Bobbie Wygant interviewing. Unmistakeable voice.
She passed away three days ago at 97.
She what? Dead? 97 years old? OMG!!!!!😢
Real recognizes real
Just finished watching Taxi Driver again, the street shots of night time New York in the 1970s was very nostalgic for me, a beautifully shot film.
I love him even more now. Like hearing about how much Tarkovsky loved The Terminator
You liken Taxi Driver to Terminator?
@@BruceWayne-zj1kw Terminator is a great movie.
@@filmbuff2777 It sure is.
Terminator sticks as flies on elephant's ass compared to half of movies on Tarkovsky's cinematography.
@@m1lst3r89 Jesus dude, relax, always gotta be some dork in here angrily dunking on shit for no reason
Taxi Driver is an unsettling study in aliennation and disaffected individuality.
It's a film that ultimately pulls no punches as Bergman no doubt understood.
It is also a film about male loneliness which is why Bergman found it so relatable.
Disaffected individuality? Say that 10 times really fast.
@@m1lst3r89That's just what I was going to say. It is a film about human loneliness.
This movie has followed me my whole life.
Same here. In bars, in cars...
You might wanna get help
Helped me get organizized.
I am God's lonely cinephile
lol
Isn't this the great Heisenberg
The first 5 seconds of his answer were exactly how I thought they would be.
Thankful for this upload
Bergman recognizes his own. All of his movies, regardless if someone is physically killed or not are some of the most emotionally violent ever created. Which makes you wince more? Die Hard or Scenes from a Marriage. With the former I'm like, Yay! Gettem! The latter I'm making faces of total horror and whispering, Jeeezus.
I absolutely agree with you on Bergman. But I think Die Hard is a bad comparison, because the violence in it is nowhere near of being inhumane enough to make someone wince, and I'm sure it also clearly wasn't the intention of it's makers for it to be that way. It's supposed to be light entertainment
Based Bergman.
Well, Bergman always had a fascination with Hollywood auteur movies, no secret there.
And I love the end quote about (non) responsibility of an artist in that "there will be always people who use it in a wrong way." Couldn't have said better myself.
And that's Bergman for the Win.
If only the person wanting an easy soundbite had seen The Hour of the Wolf.
@bluemooninthedaylight8073 yeah, I love that one. th-cam.com/video/GMVrMHQk95s/w-d-xo.html
or The Virgin Spring
Next do Nick Mullin talks about Sesame Street
That is Great ❤
Tarantino gonna love this clip.
A+
real recognize real
Wow
Bergman W
He's tapping into Joyce's distinction between Art and Pornography. to lift from elsewhere: "The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts"
By didactic, do you mean fact-based?
Never mind, i take your meaning.
in that case, Joker is pretty violently pornographic film.
Would love to know what he thinks of Barbie
😅
He is dead, so we will never know.
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What is your definition of dead?
@@jorgefiguerola1239 cool but doesn't matter as we can never know his answer
It s too bad he died in 71, but I'm curious what Jim Morrison would have thought about this movie.
Tyler Durden reminded me of Jim Morrison...
He was drunk
Individuals are responsible for their behavior. "A painting made me do it", "A movie made me do it" so the artist is responsible is ridiculous and unacceptable..
H/T Bobbie Wygant.
So strange how she passed away almost concurrently with this video being uploaded.
Paul Shrader is a much better scriptwriter than director and I think "The Yakuza" would have been an awesome action movie if they had stayed with the OG Director or maybe someone like Don Siegal instead of Sydney Pollack, the wrong choice for that content.
why? what was wrong with it? why was pollack not the right choice?
I agree. I imagine it would have been infinitely better if Robert Aldrich did the film. The movie is just wasn't about the love story.
I was so worried he would be condescending, and then relieved. lol
Even better, would like to know his opinion of the change in language and communication from knowledge of, for example, English, to the use of child-like pictures, called emojis, and the abbreviations and acronyms of nothing.
@@jorgefiguerola1239 LMAO
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I genuinely wonder what Ingmar Bergman would have thought of Tarantino?
Tarantino’s violence is very pornographic, but is also extremely artistic as well.
No
Bergman was a soulful, contemplative filmmaker, looking into Swedish memory and relationships. He probably really stretched to say something positive about Scorsese's bloodbath approach to character and film.
I guess you've never seen The Virgin Spring, or Hour Of The Wolf. The first hilariously pathetic thing about your dopey drivel is that you equate an artist's style with their personal taste which usually encompasses much more than their own style. Secondly, anyone with an eye, in 1976, could have seen what was great cinematically about "Taxi Driver" (not to mention it having Bergman influence!). It was an international sensation, it was more loved and understood in Europe than it was in dopey America, Stevie Weevie, why would you be surprised Bergman would have something positive to say. I love know-nothing dilettantes like you speculating on what Bergman "stretched" to say "Bergman was a soulful, contemplative....." What a doofus. I don't even love Taxi Driver that much! Nowhere near my fave of the 70s, or of Scorsese's, etc etc...... PS: Half wit: Paul Schrader wrote the script, Scorsese filmed it. The "approach to character" is Schrader's. As far as "bloodbath approach" to character, I have no idea what you're babbling about.
That's incorrect. Bergman didn't stretch at all to call the film, "A film about violence on the highest artistical level". That is NOT struggling to find something nice to say, LOL. And Bergman's films could be very disturbing, as well. He greatly admired Scorsese and the film. And, of course, Scorsese worshipped him.
His words in this clip are pretty unequivocal about his respect and admiration for Taxi Driver. Sounds like you're kinda projecting your own feelings about Scorsese onto Bergman. Do you really think an artist like Bergman only admired artists whose work was similar to his own?
Maybe watch the video first.
@@tuanjim799 well Ingmar definitely saw Tarkovsky as the greatest filmmaker, but for strange reason disliked Welles, Goddard and Antonioni. And artist typically favors movies that are like his own. Sorry to say, but artistic sensibilities are pretty stubborn.
The journalist's question is preposterously stupid.
it's a question anyone would ask an artist, especially of a level like Ingmar Bergman.
It was a means of getting Bergman to speak on it. I didn't find that she offered an opinion. It was a fine question