Not to mention the bold and sneaky 40 dollar upsell on the holster...and if ya upsell, it's gotta make sense, and it made sense here, with no hesitation from the buyer whatsoever.
i love how he didn't even flinch though - showing the slightest sign of surprise like "oh, really?" would be quite a slip-up : ) he doesn't skip a beat, immediately offers *more* purchase on the top of it. that's a pro if i've ever seen one
I love how all the mystique and finesse Easy Andy had throughout the whole gun selling process is completely lost the second he starts offering drugs for sale, in Travis' eyes he was the holy iron monger providing him with the weapons he needed to embark in his crusade, but after getting the guns from him he transforms into just another scumbag dealing poison.
But when he shaves his head and is at the plaza during Palentine's rally, he takes some pills. So as stated by Betsy, he's a walking contradiction of his own view of the world.
Nice observation. When he was talking guns he had finesse, just slowly and calmly taking Travis through his wares. Soon as he starts talking drugs he became pushy and irritating, even directly ignoring Travis saying he wasn't interested.
@@anthonypiccirilli1385 Exactly. He literally returns to his apartment to down more drugs in between his failed assassination attempt on Palantine and the final shootout-it reinforces that on some level he knows what he is doing is sick, but he doesn’t care beyond his knowing that he just wasn’t drugged up enough at the rally to divorce himself from his morality.
When you work nights and have literally nothing to do in the day, your wages build up pretty quick. I used to work night shifts while having no friends for years and I always had thousands left over every year which I sent back home. I'm alright now though.
@@zedsdeadbabyWhy didn't you just hangout with your friends in the day? Or does the night shift literally mean the whole fucking night? I don't know about this so I'm curious
I always wondered if Easy Andy was the real thing and I just found out that the actor was Scorsese bodyguard, driver, and cocaine connection during the 70's. So I think it's fair to say that Easy Andy was the real thing.
After all these years, I still find watching this scene extremely relaxing to watch. The sounds of the guns clicking mixed with the outside sounds if the city and easy Andy's description of each firearm is oddly very soothing.
Relaxing. YES!!! Thats EXACTLY HOW I FELT TOOO,, , ! The children noises especially!! And. He says : "isn't that a honey" . ...¿? So funny,!,,,,!,!,!!! Haha!
THEIR lives. Do you hear me all the way over THERE?.....It'S "THEIR" lives. You know the "grammar nazis"? THEY'RE going to appreciate you writing in proper English, THEY'RE going to walk all over you if you don't.
I used to deal sometimes with a guy similar to Easy Andy down in Sacramento years ago. He could get anything you wanted , the stuff just somehow fell off a truck somewhere. I told him I wanted some 4x8 sheets of aluminum diamond plate , he said give me a week , I'll call you. Sure enough, a week later he had it , the stuff was still banded to a pallet that said U.S. ARMY on it . Just fell off a truck somewhere ............
Wtf? That is the most random criminal request I've ever heard off. "Hey bro, You got some 4x8 sheets of Aluminum diamond plate... Well when you gonna have the shit?! I NEED IT!!!!!"
@@joearnold5836 Well i also used to know gypsy guy that could get his hands on anything. I never made deals with him, but some people i knew did. The guys i knew never asked anything illegal from him kinda like construction supplies, and that kinda stuff. He then took little time shoved up to the guys the stuff in his van with cheap prize. I can only imagine how he always got what someone needed, and what kinda deals he also might do that were bit more criminal, but in such i think both the customers, and him were very quiet. I heard only rumors he at least dealt drugs at least i know his nephews for certain do. Honestly though lot of the black market stuff i imagine is just random normal items people get more cheaply if they just know some guy
Easy Andy is an awesome salesman. Makes the customer feel important and at ease "I just deal high quality goods to the right people".enthusiastic but not pushy, calm but knowledgeable, shifty but still seems trustworthy, totally in control but the customer still makes the final decisions.
I enjoyed Rocky & got the great soundtrack album for my 15th birthday. Found Network very unsettling but consider it superior. Didn't see the other two in theatres but later on TV; incredible year for film!
@Kevin Malone best picture often takes popularity and cultural significance into account. Taxi driver is amazing but rocky was a way more popular and culturally significant movie.
The gun dealer in this scene was a real life drug dealer. An incident from his life was covered in a short documentary made by Scorsese when he was a student. Tarantino then adapted that incident into the scene in Pulp Fiction where they have to stab Uma Thurman with adrenaline because of a heroin overdose.
Is eric stoltz easy andy? I can see the connection straight away when Vincent is buying the heroin also Tarantino cited taxi driver as one of his favourite movies
Look at this, that's the M41A pulse rifle. It's a 10mm caseless, holds 99 rounds in a clip with an underslung grenade launcher and shotgun, a real beauty. Look at this, rests right in your shoulder, ain't that a honey? This is a great gun. This is what they give the colonial marines to blast the colonists bunnies who get too rowdy. You could take out a tank with this thing. I could sell it to some scavenger scum for about $800, but I like to make sure it gets to someone respectable.
I'm much more impressed by fully semi automatic ghost guns with 30 heat seeking exploding bullet rounds a second high availability extended clip magazine with the shoulder thing that goes up and a barrel shroud that im not really sure what it does but its what most crimes are committed with, aka.. kevin de leon mccarthy "these guns belong on the battlefield not our streets" special, now that, would be bad ass
How about this, Cobra Assault Cannon. State of the art bang bang. You can go out and hammer railway spikes with it all day, come back and it will blow up shop fronts every time. Got a nice action and a heck of a wallop. They use it in Detroit for hunting cyborgs.
Such a great scene on so many levels. Scorsese at his very finest. The movie, and Travis, are escalating here and the viewer really sits up and takes notice. A few things: 1) The workaday way that Andy handles the gun sale is super fascinating to watch. Even though he is selling firearms he treats it like any widget. He knows his products and is detail oriented. 2) His youthful appearance and haircut belie the criminal nature and severity of what he is doing 3) The banal sounds coming trough the window serve as a counterpoint of the seriousness of the gun transaction. The shot of the gun pointing at the two women under the umbrellas is really chilling and amplifies this effect. 4) The way he has the holster ready (to sell, not to give, to Travis) shows how much he orchestrated everything on his end 5) When he has the gun sale closed, the effortless manner in which he switches to drug dealer gives the scene an entirely deeper sense of menace. Andy will sell anything to anyone, no matter how dangerous or harmful.
Beautifully stated. It also must be noted how Travis’ approach to the transaction turns truly transactional as soon as Andy begins offering other illicit goods. A common degree of indecency led them to that room, but their psyches diverged when he brought up drugs and illegal cars. Travis maintains some sort of sick code in the face of luxury commodities.
Andy is a good man. He simply recognizes valuable commodities and respects people's rights to freedom. It's not the sellers problem what you use the shit for, that's all on the customer. Andy is simply a businessman who treats this stuff like any other product. He is a smart businessman that values personal freedoms.
Travis doesn't look particularly smart or confident, and just blew nearly a thousand bucks on guns without question or haggling, Andy got greedy just thinking what else he could sell him.
We had 1 shooting two decades ago, banned guns and guess what? Not a single shooting ever since. The USA is so mentally fucked and brainwashed, it's like stockholm syndrome and mass hysteria rolled up into a neat little taco.
@@charlesvan13 oh really? Nitrous oxide is legal? You mean the stuff they give you at the dentist and that you can buy at headshops is legal? Like not illegal? I had no fucking idea, thank you so much for clarifying that for me sherlock. Because it's not like he's referring to medical grade 20 pound tanks which are incredibly hard to come by without a connect. No you're right, Easy Andy is probably just offering Travis a pack of whip its he bought at the head shop up the street.
Brilliant line indeed. Yeah, the PPK is a "little hunny" alright, except for its insanely heavy trigger pull! 😆 And that's actually not a PPK, but infact a Spanish clone, the Astra Constable.
Damn you got everything. You want a dog I got a border collie for 125 need fish I got koi,goldfish,tuna,snapper and talapia anything you need let me know
48 years later...and that salesman is STILL telling DeNiro what he is capable of getting him. "You want Klondikes? Got a truck full of Klondikes, all flavors, unmelted, it's beautiful!"
Yeah old Andy was showing his racism there. Back then, a lot of black people (hence his racist remark) didn't know a whole hell of a lot about guns or their worth. So he could get away with selling a .44 Magnum to them for $500.00 instead of a reasonable price like he did for Travis. And being that this movie was released in 1976, racist remarks like "Jungle Bunny" were casually thrown in just about every movie you saw. Good thing times have changed huh 😉
I watched Breaking Bad before I watched Taxi Driver, and the character that Walt ends up buying a piece from, the whole setting, tone and depiction of the scene, a very neat and sincere homage to this moment in the film.
Every gun buying scene in every movie since has been an homage to this scene. Every "spy regains consciousness, goes on revenge spree against those who done him dirty" movie has the obligatory "gotta buy me some guns" scene and, no matter where in the world he is, he's always able to find THIS GUY!
I think people misunderstand Eddys quick offering of additional items. Hes not desperate to sell more in the moment, hes just planting it in Travis' mind that he can get him ANYTHING he may want so if Travis ever was interested hed think of eddy first
@Valami Izé Unless the client is also buying ammunition. But I agree, the 1st and most important rule of gun-running is, Never Get Shot With Your Own Merchandise.
We'll always have people like this-whether selling firearms or drugs it doesn't matter how many laws and restrictions are made but it inhibits people that believe in law and order from being able to defend themselves. I agree with Ice-T stating that the Second Amendment is a last line of defense against tyranny. I can go to jail for just wanting to buy an automatic without a special license yet cartels are armed with military issue weapons. I wish people would quit falling for the government's endless 'we need to make it safe for our children' pleas while chipping away at our freedoms and still failing miserably at 'protecting' us. Their solution is always more laws and restrictions as an answer to their own failures. It isn't about safety it's about using it as a smokescreen to establish tyranny. I like the analogy of a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water-but put one in cold water and slowly dial up the heat and the frog doesn't realize what's happened until it's too late.
This is my favorite scene in Taxi Driver, because of the pacing, and the intonation of the dealer's whiny but soothing voice. It's both sleazy and soothing at the same time. I feel both a desire to get out of this hotel room, and perfectly at ease listening to the patter. He's charismatic and repulsive at all at once.
One of the things that always got me about his movies, is the direction towards the little things. Right around 0:59 easy Andy had already made sure the weapons were clear, and no ammunition was ever seen. But when Travis handled the weapons Andy treated them as loaded, even moved his body. Good stuff.
Michael Olin, that because of Travis Bickle character is an ex-marine Vietnam war vet, you trained to treat unload weapons has loaded, clean and maintain properly, Easy Andy maybe a vet too, besides firearms safety dictate treat all firearms if there load weapons and who knows if Travis Bickle, may have put a rounded in the chamber explaining Easy Andy movements.
@@billybrand9976 Vast majority of vets I ve known from that era call them clips, its what they were taught. Honestly I call them that frequently too because its a lot easier to say. Not sure why so many gun tubers care about a technicality like that
I like how they handle guns like gun owners do. Always checking to see if it is loaded even after seeing someone check if it is loaded just before handing it to them. Is Alec Baldwin taking notes here?
When I was a district sales manager I could have used 3 salesmen like Easy Andy. Smooth delivery, no rush. Knows his merchandise, sells to the need and desire of the buying customer. Doesn't give up the sale ... ever. Offers other expensive wares, Keeps selling all the way out the door. It's nice to see and hear a good salesman's smooth pitch. Sales people are the highest earners in America. 🤑 Fact.
Revolvers are just too beautiful to go out of fashion. There is something about them. A beautiful man-made tool that happens to be a piece of art also. I love theam ❤
I always loved this scene, and was glad to find a documentary made by Martin Scorsese about Easy Andy, called American Boy. Steven Prince is just as interesting as his character in Taxi Driver. Fame, violence, justifiable homicide, drug use, Neil Diamond, it has it all.
In his book "Cinema Speculation", Quentin Tarantino posits the theory that Bickle never served in the military. He doesn't mention the blinking and flinching, but that would definitely fit in with that theory.
@@ExiledFrmContentment thanks 4 the comment but I was referring to the actor's reaction, if your playing a marine act like one who isn't bothered by gunfire
Dude was otherworldly with his sales pitch until the last 15 seconds. Like for real, his confidence and sliver tongue are mesmerizing until the sale happens. Then he’s all crazy farmer carnival barker, “SPEED? GRASS? HYUCK HYUCK SPIDOOONS!”
Well they are doing shady business, and Travis is a Taxi driver, If I was Andy, I would definitely let Travis know that I could get many things, maybe he doesn't want it, but maybe Travis could forward someone else who may be interested.
Andy: " look at that .44, isn't she a beauty?" Travis (loads a round in the .44) Andy: "hey, you can't do that in here" Travis: "wrong" (shoots Andy) Andy: (dying) " So I guess you saw the Terminator too huh?"
You might like Andy/ Steven Prince tell stories from around them in Scorsese’s documentary about him: American Boy. Some stories he’s loud but some he’s slow and relaxed, with an even more throaty voice. Calm about childhood before the storm of him killing a guy defending himself, but even in that story it’s told in an eerily calm and soothing way. Great story teller
Believe it or not my favorite scene in the movie , loved this actor Steven Prince who did a masterpiece of selling here. Lots of psychology in his selling. Great tough descriptive language while you salivate over those classic guns. I saw Mr Prince on a 2009 video story telling, I could listen to him all day. Glad to know he's still here 👍
@@guidadiehl9176 "Wuss" Really? I bet dollars to donuts that every fake tough guy in this thread wouldn't dare use this kind of language in public much less in the presence of black men. Imagine calling someone a wuss on the internet. Shut up, stupid.
@@chrisjimenez603 As far as American made 9mm pistols, they weren't as common then as they are today. S&W had their model 39 and 59 pistols, and Colt had their 1911 patterned Commander. Much of the 9mms were either Browning/FN Hi-Powers, Lugers and P38s that were G.I. bring backs, Beretta M1951s, and maybe a smidgeon of French MAC Mle 1950 pistols. Revolvers had their preeminence right until the mid to late 1980s, which by then, more American companies were putting out newer 9mm designs, more foreign made designs were being imported and their manufacturers began setting up production in the US, and 9mm ammunition was improving in quality.
The true Apex of the movie, and my personal favorite scene. I get ASMR every time I watch it. Easy Andy is the consummate salesman. He manages to sell 4 guns to Bickle, a guy who has no need for one gun let alone four, and absolutely no idea what to do with them. Andy is like Mephistopheles to Bickle's Faust. He offers Travis the key to the door through which he can escape the soul-crushing loneliness and monotony of his day-to-day existence, but at the cost of what remains of Bickle's sanity and stability. Bickles access to the guns becomes his sole focus, as he has absolutely nothing else to focus on. His isolation and the bitterness caused by his rejection by society as a whole and women in particular warps his sense of purpose, causing him to want to lash out. This angst is tempered by his ingrained sense of moral obligation and duty, and his hypocritical passing of judgement on the vice he sees around him (he frequents porn theaters daily and pops pills constantly), the rest is history.
Movie making, much like music, has become a lost art. All the real good stuff, the defining moments stuff, the world changing stuff, has already been done. You could never get a scene like this today.
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Love the end of the scene. The truth of Andy comes spilling out and it's that he's just another source of the troubles and degradation that Travis is repulsed by in the streets. Travis is taken aback and quickly slips past the ugly truth that he himself is partaking in furthering those societal degradations by buying illegal arms from Andy.
"How much for everything?"
Music to a salesman's ears...
You hear this when you meet the right the customer.
I'll close out early...wait you can't do that...
Wrong!
How bout a Cadillac il get you a brand new Cadillac 2grand with the pink slip
Not to mention the bold and sneaky 40 dollar upsell on the holster...and if ya upsell, it's gotta make sense, and it made sense here, with no hesitation from the buyer whatsoever.
i love how he didn't even flinch though - showing the slightest sign of surprise like "oh, really?" would be quite a slip-up : )
he doesn't skip a beat, immediately offers *more* purchase on the top of it. that's a pro if i've ever seen one
Young De Niro buys the Cadillac.
Next scene: Future De Niro walks in...
“What did I tell you?! Don’t buy anything!”
It’s in my mother in law’s name
@@mick2spic its a wedding gift
lol ....just lol.........your a funny guy.
@@mrphatmunkeyspew6969 ...what, you mean the way he talks?
@@chrishargreaves8016 no sir as in good fellas
"How bout toys for your kids? Rubik's cube? Boggle? Micro machines? Chewbacca mask? I can get you a Chewbacca mask for 15 no questions asked."
Imagining this in a new yorkers accent lol
"Kinder Eggs?"
“Look at that, that’s a fine Chewie mask.”
How about Chewie's medal? Never awarded, mint condition.
I'll get ya a lightsabre, fully functional, slips right next to the belt, ain't that a little honey?
I love how all the mystique and finesse Easy Andy had throughout the whole gun selling process is completely lost the second he starts offering drugs for sale, in Travis' eyes he was the holy iron monger providing him with the weapons he needed to embark in his crusade, but after getting the guns from him he transforms into just another scumbag dealing poison.
@@SirManfly it's been around since 40's
But when he shaves his head and is at the plaza during Palentine's rally, he takes some pills. So as stated by Betsy, he's a walking contradiction of his own view of the world.
Andy realized he had cash so he was just trying to upsell him on more stuff.
Nailed it 🔨
Nice observation. When he was talking guns he had finesse, just slowly and calmly taking Travis through his wares. Soon as he starts talking drugs he became pushy and irritating, even directly ignoring Travis saying he wasn't interested.
How about a Gatling gun?
How about a WW2 Tank with pink slip?
How about a submarine armed with nuclear weapons?
🤣🤣
That Submarine comes with a pink slip too for 2 grand.
If he threw in an actual nuclear silo that would have been gold.
You have to watch Operation Odessa on Netflix.Bceause that really happened.
"here, look at this, now that's a beautiful little tank right there"
I love how at the end Travis has a burning resentment towards him for asking about drugs.
Also like Travis realizes he himself is participating in the “filth” he thinks he is justly fighting against
Travis thinks he is doing this for good but he it's just buying illegal guns like any other criminal
@@Literallyryangosling777 loosen up you square ⬛⬜
Yet Travis seemed to be tweaked out on speed for half the movie!
@@anthonypiccirilli1385 Exactly. He literally returns to his apartment to down more drugs in between his failed assassination attempt on Palantine and the final shootout-it reinforces that on some level he knows what he is doing is sick, but he doesn’t care beyond his knowing that he just wasn’t drugged up enough at the rally to divorce himself from his morality.
Travis spent $915 in 1976. In case anyone's wondering, that's just shy of 5 grand today.
When you work nights and have literally nothing to do in the day, your wages build up pretty quick. I used to work night shifts while having no friends for years and I always had thousands left over every year which I sent back home. I'm alright now though.
Sounds about right for the number of firearms he purchased. Actually, a G and a bit over; but you pay for what you get on the black market.
@@zedsdeadbabyWhy didn't you just hangout with your friends in the day? Or does the night shift literally mean the whole fucking night? I don't know about this so I'm curious
when r u sleeping if ur awake night n day lmao@@riverman6462
@@riverman6462 Working a night shift means you're going to sleep when everyone else is waking up.
Ain't that a little honey :)
That’s a funny little gun
That’s the line!
It's nickel plated 👋🔫 snub nose
That’s what she said
Love that line LOL
I love how Andy suddenly turns into a desperate salesman and completely abandons his charm once he realizes Travis has cash he wants to spend
Well put their 👍💯
I'd have taken that Cadillac with the pink slip ...
and after he got Trevor's cash.
Yeah deal had already been done. Nothing to lose by trying
P Bear!
Blast from the past.
He's like a Bob Ross with weapons. "That's a nice little gun"
There's no murders, only happy little accidents
Lets put in some pretty trees....
“Heres a happy little magnum right there”
@@stan6284 haha
You can get the gun in titanium white.
He forgot to mention a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
Hey. Just what you see, pal.
@@adrianlemus8014 Uzi Nien Mila Meeta
@@ghouliath8565
😂😭😂
@@ghouliath8565
You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense.
WRONG.
I always wondered if Easy Andy was the real thing and I just found out that the actor was Scorsese bodyguard, driver, and cocaine connection during the 70's. So I think it's fair to say that Easy Andy was the real thing.
He looks Israeli
“Na I’m not interested in that stuff” then proceeds to swallow a fistful of pills
:J
Its from the “Dr” aka drug dealer.
Walking contradiction
The duality of Travis man
I think he was doing cakes and syrup.
After all these years, I still find watching this scene extremely relaxing to watch. The sounds of the guns clicking mixed with the outside sounds if the city and easy Andy's description of each firearm is oddly very soothing.
It's very ASMR, like the wand shop scene in Harry Potter
a god polite & gentle salesman endeed,many psicology ...
I find it quite calming too. It's strange, it's a scene about buying guns to kill people....but it's oddly relaxing.
Relaxing. YES!!! Thats EXACTLY HOW I FELT TOOO,, , ! The children noises especially!! And. He says : "isn't that a honey" . ...¿? So funny,!,,,,!,!,!!! Haha!
Now that’s a fine comment...nice little comment there lol
"Isn't that a lil honey?"
Gets me every time! 😂😄😘
Great scene indeed. Easy Andy is basically a sleaze bucket. Aggressive salesman too
It’s the high pitched way he says it. Like the gun is a woman. Absolute gold 🇬🇧
The trans Atlantic accent never fails to to entertain me
@@skxlter5747 It's a New York accent
The essence of every sick gun-loving American.
Everyone needs an easy andy in there lives
THEIR lives. Do you hear me all the way over THERE?.....It'S "THEIR" lives. You know the "grammar nazis"? THEY'RE going to appreciate you writing in proper English, THEY'RE going to walk all over you if you don't.
@@imgonnagogetthepapersgetth8347 im welsh
@@champchamp2841 just trolling for fun, no offense.
Yes, they do.
@@champchamp2841 then speak Welsh.
Easy Andy is a precursor to Amazon. He seems to have everything.
He was the schematics for Silk Road and the Darkweb
also to lawson from breaking bad
no he aint. fuck bezoss
He reminds me of the pipe cleaner from Criminal Minds
@Eddie J. if only to return policy was easier
I used to deal sometimes with a guy similar to Easy Andy down in Sacramento years ago. He could get anything you wanted , the stuff just somehow fell off a truck somewhere. I told him I wanted some 4x8 sheets of aluminum diamond plate , he said give me a week , I'll call you. Sure enough, a week later he had it , the stuff was still banded to a pallet that said U.S. ARMY on it . Just fell off a truck somewhere ............
The black market, you can get all kinds of stuff.
Wtf? That is the most random criminal request I've ever heard off. "Hey bro, You got some 4x8 sheets of Aluminum diamond plate... Well when you gonna have the shit?! I NEED IT!!!!!"
@@joearnold5836 Well i also used to know gypsy guy that could get his hands on anything. I never made deals with him, but some people i knew did. The guys i knew never asked anything illegal from him kinda like construction supplies, and that kinda stuff. He then took little time shoved up to the guys the stuff in his van with cheap prize. I can only imagine how he always got what someone needed, and what kinda deals he also might do that were bit more criminal, but in such i think both the customers, and him were very quiet. I heard only rumors he at least dealt drugs at least i know his nephews for certain do. Honestly though lot of the black market stuff i imagine is just random normal items people get more cheaply if they just know some guy
😂😂😂
Awesome! EVERYbody, at some point, knew an Easy Andy. They even sold you shit you didn't even know you needed til later! 😏😅🖤
Easy Andy is an awesome salesman. Makes the customer feel important and at ease "I just deal high quality goods to the right people".enthusiastic but not pushy, calm but knowledgeable, shifty but still seems trustworthy, totally in control but the customer still makes the final decisions.
That's why I need to see someone like him. I need a bag of shrooms.
"I can get ya a '65 Vette original motor. We cool?"
Seems like you are interested in some of his services)
@@alexandersupertramp1095 move to Oregon my man. shrooms and pot are about as common as a cup of coffee in the morning.
@@mongogojjo5944 They're everywhere here in Florida, at least in my area. But if you get caught with them here you'll get fucked unlike Oregon lol 😆
This movie competed against Network, Rocky AND All The President's Men that year at the Oscars. It was truly an insane year for the movies.
Rocky won best picture for that year. Taxi Driver should've won instead.
@@kevinmalone3210 the movie was too real i guess
@@kevinmalone3210 no, rocky is way better
I enjoyed Rocky & got the great soundtrack album for my 15th birthday. Found Network very unsettling but consider it superior.
Didn't see the other two in theatres but later on TV; incredible year for film!
@Kevin Malone best picture often takes popularity and cultural significance into account. Taxi driver is amazing but rocky was a way more popular and culturally significant movie.
We all need a friend like Andy.
When you're in a jam - theres nothing like having your friends show up with a lot of guns.
The gun dealer in this scene was a real life drug dealer. An incident from his life was covered in a short documentary made by Scorsese when he was a student. Tarantino then adapted that incident into the scene in Pulp Fiction where they have to stab Uma Thurman with adrenaline because of a heroin overdose.
Are you serious no wonder he has this down perfectly
@@jonathanfraser5032 thanks
The whole thing is here on TH-cam. It's really interesting and he's just as charismatic IRL as he is here.
Is eric stoltz easy andy? I can see the connection straight away when Vincent is buying the heroin also Tarantino cited taxi driver as one of his favourite movies
You do know that using adrenaline on a person who's overdosing is bullshit, right? So, this story sounds like bullshit as well.
Look at this, that's the M41A pulse rifle. It's a 10mm caseless, holds 99 rounds in a clip with an underslung grenade launcher and shotgun, a real beauty. Look at this, rests right in your shoulder, ain't that a honey? This is a great gun. This is what they give the colonial marines to blast the colonists bunnies who get too rowdy. You could take out a tank with this thing. I could sell it to some scavenger scum for about $800, but I like to make sure it gets to someone respectable.
Nice
I'm much more impressed by fully semi automatic ghost guns with 30 heat seeking exploding bullet rounds a second high availability extended clip magazine with the shoulder thing that goes up and a barrel shroud that im not really sure what it does but its what most crimes are committed with, aka.. kevin de leon mccarthy "these guns belong on the battlefield not our streets" special, now that, would be bad ass
I like to keep this handy.... For easy Andy...
Lol
How about this, Cobra Assault Cannon. State of the art bang bang. You can go out and hammer railway spikes with it all day, come back and it will blow up shop fronts every time. Got a nice action and a heck of a wallop. They use it in Detroit for hunting cyborgs.
Such a great scene on so many levels. Scorsese at his very finest. The movie, and Travis, are escalating here and the viewer really sits up and takes notice. A few things:
1) The workaday way that Andy handles the gun sale is super fascinating to watch. Even though he is selling firearms he treats it like any widget. He knows his products and is detail oriented.
2) His youthful appearance and haircut belie the criminal nature and severity of what he is doing
3) The banal sounds coming trough the window serve as a counterpoint of the seriousness of the gun transaction. The shot of the gun pointing at the two women under the umbrellas is really chilling and amplifies this effect.
4) The way he has the holster ready (to sell, not to give, to Travis) shows how much he orchestrated everything on his end
5) When he has the gun sale closed, the effortless manner in which he switches to drug dealer gives the scene an entirely deeper sense of menace. Andy will sell anything to anyone, no matter how dangerous or harmful.
Beautifully stated. It also must be noted how Travis’ approach to the transaction turns truly transactional as soon as Andy begins offering other illicit goods. A common degree of indecency led them to that room, but their psyches diverged when he brought up drugs and illegal cars. Travis maintains some sort of sick code in the face of luxury commodities.
Sick code? He was a man of honour and integrity.
I’m Andy
Indeed. "Here's a .44 Magnum. They use that in Africa for hunting elephants. Also, want some amphetamines?"
Andy is a good man. He simply recognizes valuable commodities and respects people's rights to freedom. It's not the sellers problem what you use the shit for, that's all on the customer. Andy is simply a businessman who treats this stuff like any other product. He is a smart businessman that values personal freedoms.
Easy Andy is a smooth salesman who knows his customer, until he fell apart at the end
Travis doesn't look particularly smart or confident, and just blew nearly a thousand bucks on guns without question or haggling, Andy got greedy just thinking what else he could sell him.
When a sale of that scope comes that easy, we all loose professionalism, pink ticket Cadillac come on travis all day long
John's Cribb
Yes, Easy Andy was super laid back and then became maniacal at the end. That's why we all love him.
Because he already sold the guns and had the money in his pocket. At that point he had nothing to lose by going hard.
@@Damar158 Consider inflation, also!
I would love to see a movie about Easy Andy
There is one, guy was off the chain...
Try "American Boy." Trust me, the real Steven Prince is weirder than Easy Andy.
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Lord of War with Nic Cage or War Dogs with Jonah Hill are both good gun selling films!
@@JonSmith-cx7gr Not that good.. :-/
There are huge amounts of people who think more restrictions/gun laws will stop these deals. All they really do is restrict good law-abiding citizens.
We had 1 shooting two decades ago, banned guns and guess what? Not a single shooting ever since. The USA is so mentally fucked and brainwashed, it's like stockholm syndrome and mass hysteria rolled up into a neat little taco.
Easy Andy, you had me at hash, mescaline, amphetamines, and nitrous oxide.
Nitrous oxide isn't even illegal.
@@charlesvan13 oh really? Nitrous oxide is legal? You mean the stuff they give you at the dentist and that you can buy at headshops is legal? Like not illegal? I had no fucking idea, thank you so much for clarifying that for me sherlock. Because it's not like he's referring to medical grade 20 pound tanks which are incredibly hard to come by without a connect. No you're right, Easy Andy is probably just offering Travis a pack of whip its he bought at the head shop up the street.
@@RICKJAMESB4LL3R
There's no reason to be a bitch.
@@RICKJAMESB4LL3R had me dying bruh! Lol good stuff.
Del Preston should of threw in Viagra too
So what it'll it be buddy?
- All.
You let me close early today.
*loads one shell
You can't do that!
Wrong.
*blam*
Hey man, you got a serious attitude problem.
I saw another terminator reference on another upload of this scene lol
Uzi nine millimeeda
@@OscarMaris Phased plasma rifle in 40 watt range
"Whatta you got there, a Wop 9? Fuckin' Fiat of guns, always jammin' on you at the wrong time. "
"Isn't that a little honey?" Always cracks me up. Like he's admiring a coat that De Niro is buying.
I love that line too, the intonation is classic.
I heard "you got a little honey?"
Ain't that a little honey?
"How about Covid vaccine?"
"How about this beautiful face mask I got handmade in Mexico?"
LoL, very appropriate for today
LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@Newsbender 3.3 billion vaccinated people would disagree.
Wack
“Isn’t that a little honey?”
Such a great line in this scene
Brilliant line indeed. Yeah, the PPK is a "little hunny" alright, except for its insanely heavy trigger pull! 😆
And that's actually not a PPK, but infact a Spanish clone, the Astra Constable.
That holster looks like it was made this morning on the way to meet Travis.
Handmade in Mexico! Hahaha!
@@tedbunny1487 yeah, and it's $40 bucks! Kiss my arse 🤣🤣🤣
Well it wouldn’t have even made it to the room if made in China lol.
Damn you got everything. You want a dog I got a border collie for 125 need fish I got koi,goldfish,tuna,snapper and talapia anything you need let me know
Cereal? Corn flakes, Cheerios, Special K... two dollars a box, unopened with the special treat.
Lmaoooooo
Lol
A true salesman can sell everything
My father he is
48 years later...and that salesman is STILL telling DeNiro what he is capable of getting him. "You want Klondikes? Got a truck full of Klondikes, all flavors, unmelted, it's beautiful!"
Seedy looking apartment with a fantastic view.
i would love to live there, not gonna lie.
+Bruno Santana I bet that apartment would cost a fortune.
today, yeah. no doubt.
To the left you can see the Brooklyn Bridge. I meant to the right, not the left you can see the bridge. Either way great view
vic vega ha ha yeah...not a bad view to have!
"Isn't that a little honey?" ABC - always be closing.
A man don't walk on the lot lest he wants to buy.
@@approxonestockpot8773 Just a matter of which and how much. Travis didn't go for drugs or the Cadillac.
The algorithm brought you here from Glengarry Glenross as well then?
@@stu2611 Not really. Just too many call center jobs where the supervisors spew out the saying all the time. Involuntary I guess.
Put that coffee DOWN
"I could sell this gun to some jungle bunny in Harlem for $500".
Gets me EVERYTIME.
I used to stay in Harlem
Very dangerous place
But I just deal high quality goods to the right people
Your mom loves runnin in the jungle
Ah Harlem, NY. Named after Haarlem Netherlands.
Yeah old Andy was showing his racism there. Back then, a lot of black people (hence his racist remark) didn't know a whole hell of a lot about guns or their worth. So he could get away with selling a .44 Magnum to them for $500.00 instead of a reasonable price like he did for Travis. And being that this movie was released in 1976, racist remarks like "Jungle Bunny" were casually thrown in just about every movie you saw. Good thing times have changed huh 😉
Love those sleazy 70's salesmen 😜👍
Leave your Dad outta this, ahrite.
70s? sleazy never dies. Times change; People not so much.
Say sleazy again you fucking imitative bore.
Captain Sunday Sleazy
@@Frip36 I think sleazy is a great word you fucking banal creep. WOW! CAPTAIN SUNDAY!!!
I watched Breaking Bad before I watched Taxi Driver, and the character that Walt ends up buying a piece from, the whole setting, tone and depiction of the scene, a very neat and sincere homage to this moment in the film.
I thought about that too, but I saw this first. Oh, the gun seller in Breaking Bad is a much more together dude than Easy Andy. lol.
The gun dealer in Breaking Bad is just telling it how it is, no offering more than needed, i love that
Also... the shower head salesman in Seinfeld. The Commando 900 is the .44 Magnum.
Every gun buying scene in every movie since has been an homage to this scene.
Every "spy regains consciousness, goes on revenge spree against those who done him dirty" movie has the obligatory "gotta buy me some guns" scene and, no matter where in the world he is, he's always able to find THIS GUY!
My first thoughts also after watching the breaking bad scene
"How about a toe,I can get you a toe by 3:00..with green nail polish!"
More like “Easy, Andy!”
"Isn't that a lil honey"? My fav line...
I think people misunderstand Eddys quick offering of additional items. Hes not desperate to sell more in the moment, hes just planting it in Travis' mind that he can get him ANYTHING he may want so if Travis ever was interested hed think of eddy first
Yes that's what I was thinking. Such an excellent and smooth salesman.
@jlogan2228
*Easy Andy, not "eddy."
Andy look like Beck
Older beck, but also young Ringo or like a british rocker from the 60s-70s
Kinda looks like Julian Casablancas to me
Easy Andy was probably fortunate Travis didn't blow his brains out when he started mentioning drugs!
Travis took pills so he probably wasn't that upset.
@Valami Izé Unless the client is also buying ammunition. But I agree, the 1st and most important rule of gun-running is, Never Get Shot With Your Own Merchandise.
@@victorrain you get that from Lord of War?
@@dwightschrute4560 Абсолютно, брат по оружию!!!
I doubt this was his first or his last gun sale. He knew his product well; which lets me guess he was carrying the whole time.
We'll always have people like this-whether selling firearms or drugs it doesn't matter how many laws and restrictions are made but it inhibits people that believe in law and order from being able to defend themselves. I agree with Ice-T stating that the Second Amendment is a last line of defense against tyranny. I can go to jail for just wanting to buy an automatic without a special license yet cartels are armed with military issue weapons. I wish people would quit falling for the government's endless 'we need to make it safe for our children' pleas while chipping away at our freedoms and still failing miserably at 'protecting' us. Their solution is always more laws and restrictions as an answer to their own failures. It isn't about safety it's about using it as a smokescreen to establish tyranny. I like the analogy of a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water-but put one in cold water and slowly dial up the heat and the frog doesn't realize what's happened until it's too late.
wish i had those weapons just to look and play with while looking in mirror like Travis.
but no rough stuff.
Great joke
I love how Travis simply announced "I got money". The dealer probably creamed his pants.
Travis stops and turns: "What's that about a Cadillac?"
They had to shoot this scene so many times because every time deniro heard the word Cadillac he got too excited.
Next thing you know it blows up
*di niro disappears and reappears behind him* "What a matta with you? I told you don't buy anything!"
@@OscarMaris cadillac sounds so out of line with all the illegal stuff he ws selling-great scene.well great movie!!
Suddenly become Deniro in Casino
This is my favorite scene in Taxi Driver, because of the pacing, and the intonation of the dealer's whiny but soothing voice.
It's both sleazy and soothing at the same time. I feel both a desire to get out of this hotel room, and perfectly at ease listening to the patter. He's charismatic and repulsive at all at once.
“Charismatic and repulsive all at once”. So undeniably true!
The Hebrew special
Charismatic & Repulsive = The bad boy all the young ladies like.
@@kingcassius2586 it wasnt intended in the original script. Schrader was encouraged to include much more gun lore as the films production developed
perfect description
The easy way that easy Andy could morph into a car salesman or a local politician is amazing. Terrific scene.
Easy Andy could find a good, affordable, graphics card.
I hate how I read this comment in Hank Hills voice...
I bet he could.
@Charles Hastings Or mining Monero.
U want propane? Propane accessories? I can get you a propane grill pink slip included!
Would have been hilarious if the next scene De Niro was driving down the street in a Cadillac
Easy Andy is a great lesson is sales. Know your products like the back of your hand and be enthusiastic.
One of the things that always got me about his movies, is the direction towards the little things. Right around 0:59 easy Andy had already made sure the weapons were clear, and no ammunition was ever seen. But when Travis handled the weapons Andy treated them as loaded, even moved his body. Good stuff.
Michael Olin, that because of Travis Bickle character is an ex-marine Vietnam war vet, you trained to treat unload weapons has loaded, clean and maintain properly, Easy Andy maybe a vet too, besides firearms safety dictate treat all firearms if there load weapons and who knows if Travis Bickle, may have put a rounded in the chamber explaining Easy Andy movements.
He still calls a magazine a clip though
@@billybrand9976 Nobody cares about that. Clip just rolls off the tongue faster.
@@billybrand9976 Vast majority of vets I ve known from that era call them clips, its what they were taught. Honestly I call them that frequently too because its a lot easier to say. Not sure why so many gun tubers care about a technicality like that
@@billybrand9976Plenty of people know it as a clip moistboy…
There’s something about the way he uses the camera and sound that gives you that feeling you get when you’re reading a good book. You’re deep inside.
following Deniro's hand with the gun in it is magical
What I like about Easy Andy is that he knows his products well.
"Ain't that a little shine box?"
“Now go home and get your fuckin’ shine box.”
Maybe they didn’t go up there and tell yah
@@ArmyJames You mutt! LOL
I just look for shine box comments in these clips nowadays.
I was wondering where these comments migrated to after Sopranos clips moved on to the varsity athlete thing
“The right people”
The irony is strong.
just sweet talking him to buy more
High quality goods
I like how they handle guns like gun owners do. Always checking to see if it is loaded even after seeing someone check if it is loaded just before handing it to them. Is Alec Baldwin taking notes here?
1:19 the way Travis tucks the .44 away to the side of the suitcase, needed that room cuz the deal is far from over.
Good point definitely....he wanted some serious variety
Easy Andy: for 4 grand I can get you a xbox series x or a ps5
When I was a district sales manager I could have used 3 salesmen like Easy Andy.
Smooth delivery, no rush. Knows his merchandise, sells to the need and desire of the buying customer.
Doesn't give up the sale ... ever. Offers other expensive wares, Keeps selling all the way out the door.
It's nice to see and hear a good salesman's smooth pitch. Sales people are the highest earners in America. 🤑 Fact.
You gotta keep them interested and engaged. But...not overwhelmed.
Hence Easy Andy.
Puts one round in the snub nose and yells "MAO!"
DI DI MAO!
2 bullets ....we do 2
LMFAO!
Come on Nicky you can do it you can do it Nicky
one shot
Revolvers are just too beautiful to go out of fashion. There is something about them. A beautiful man-made tool that happens to be a piece of art also. I love theam ❤
I bought a snub nose 38 as my first handgun because of this film. Smith and Wesson model 36 Chief's Special. Then I got a couple .357's and a .44 mag.
They’ll never go out of style and probably won’t for 1000 years.
I know what you mean. I mean look at this.....look at this. Its a beautiful little gun.
well considering how reliable they are, its expected they would have some longevity
They hardly ever jam. Sure they don't hold as many shots but WTF would you need that many shots for anyway? Wheel gun every time.
I always loved this scene, and was glad to find a documentary made by Martin Scorsese about Easy Andy, called American Boy. Steven Prince is just as interesting as his character in Taxi Driver. Fame, violence, justifiable homicide, drug use, Neil Diamond, it has it all.
I like how in this scene you can hear children laughing and playing in the background ,unaware of what has been set in motion in the next room.
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it first understood.” ― Leonardo da Vinci.
Good quote. True.
Very profound. The sacred AND the propane.
Funny how an ex marine blinks and flinchs when firing a weapon
In his book "Cinema Speculation", Quentin Tarantino posits the theory that Bickle never served in the military. He doesn't mention the blinking and flinching, but that would definitely fit in with that theory.
@@ExiledFrmContentment thanks 4 the comment but I was referring to the actor's reaction, if your playing a marine act like one who isn't bothered by gunfire
Dude was otherworldly with his sales pitch until the last 15 seconds. Like for real, his confidence and sliver tongue are mesmerizing until the sale happens. Then he’s all crazy farmer carnival barker, “SPEED? GRASS? HYUCK HYUCK SPIDOOONS!”
I'd buy a bag of grass from him just to see what it was like.
Andy had everything down in his convertible. He probably had a tank parked on his driveway.
Lmfao
Well they are doing shady business, and Travis is a Taxi driver, If I was Andy, I would definitely let Travis know that I could get many things, maybe he doesn't want it, but maybe Travis could forward someone else who may be interested.
Andy: " look at that .44, isn't she a beauty?"
Travis (loads a round in the .44)
Andy: "hey, you can't do that in here"
Travis: "wrong" (shoots Andy)
Andy: (dying) " So I guess you saw the Terminator too huh?"
I get the feeling you have either watched a Conway and Alchemist video or you would appreciate it
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Lmao
"Guess you're not ready for that you're kids are gonna love it."
“Isn’t that a little honey?”
" i'm not interested in any of that " ,,,,,,,, " wait , did you say nitrous oxide "
Definitely ASMR-y. I gotta learn how to do that with my voice, the rest is just the setting anyway.
Elizabeth Olsen does that same thing with her voice sometimes. Check this video:th-cam.com/video/O7cwFYAQvEU/w-d-xo.html
I always got ASMR with this scene before I knew what it was I'd rewind it over and over again
It's called a vocal fry.
You might like Andy/ Steven Prince tell stories from around them in Scorsese’s documentary about him: American Boy. Some stories he’s loud but some he’s slow and relaxed, with an even more throaty voice. Calm about childhood before the storm of him killing a guy defending himself, but even in that story it’s told in an eerily calm and soothing way. Great story teller
Notice he pushes the .38, which for a cab driver is perfect. He genuinely wants to keep his clientele alive.
.38 sends bad guys to the pearly gates.
Believe it or not my favorite scene in the movie , loved this actor Steven Prince who did a masterpiece of selling here. Lots of psychology in his selling. Great tough descriptive language while you salivate over those classic guns.
I saw Mr Prince on a 2009 video story telling, I could listen to him all day. Glad to know he's still here 👍
He didn't really need the sales pitch, Travis was determined to walk out of there with some guns regardless.
Did you see the 1978 Steven Prince story telling ? Tarantino rip off one of his story for Pulp Fiction. it's on youtube
Travis is by far not the only weirdo in Taxi Driver, Easy Andy and Sports are just as sick (albeit "successful").
or the cheated on husband in Travis' cab trying to kill his wife
@@The3rdGunman lol wuss
@@guidadiehl9176 "Wuss" Really? I bet dollars to donuts that every fake tough guy in this thread wouldn't dare use this kind of language in public much less in the presence of black men.
Imagine calling someone a wuss on the internet. Shut up, stupid.
"Sport" not "Sports".
@@Cinemaphile7783 yeah black men just go around beating everybody up don't they?
Cinematic perfection. Easy Andy should've won an award for precision.
Easy Andy: "I can get you a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade 1up, no problem, 500$".
Funny but I actually want the marvel vs capcom cabinet lol
Shutup zoomer
steven prince once injected adrenaline into a womans heart who was oding on smack with the help of a magic marker. sound familiar
A classic scene in a classic movie! You just can’t beat such a high quality movie!
Very beautiful movie for the right people
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Saul Goodman was probably Easy Andy’s attorney at some point.
This guy makes those guns look delicious, the same way a chef does as he explains the cooking process on a show.
masters of their respective arts
Some paprika, onion salt, garlic....
He sounds like Bob Ross
If you can hit an engine block from 100 yards with a .44 then you are a god
The .25 "Colt" was actually a "S&W Escort" and was a .22 LR, and the .380 "Walther" was an "Astra Constable"
You sure?
Notice he didn't even mention a "9 millimeter". I guess they weren't huge back in the 70's.
You know your weapons buddy.
Double checkit , it then turned into a Sterling
@@chrisjimenez603 As far as American made 9mm pistols, they weren't as common then as they are today. S&W had their model 39 and 59 pistols, and Colt had their 1911 patterned Commander. Much of the 9mms were either Browning/FN Hi-Powers, Lugers and P38s that were G.I. bring backs, Beretta M1951s, and maybe a smidgeon of French MAC Mle 1950 pistols. Revolvers had their preeminence right until the mid to late 1980s, which by then, more American companies were putting out newer 9mm designs, more foreign made designs were being imported and their manufacturers began setting up production in the US, and 9mm ammunition was improving in quality.
The true Apex of the movie, and my personal favorite scene. I get ASMR every time I watch it. Easy Andy is the consummate salesman. He manages to sell 4 guns to Bickle, a guy who has no need for one gun let alone four, and absolutely no idea what to do with them. Andy is like Mephistopheles to Bickle's Faust. He offers Travis the key to the door through which he can escape the soul-crushing loneliness and monotony of his day-to-day existence, but at the cost of what remains of Bickle's sanity and stability. Bickles access to the guns becomes his sole focus, as he has absolutely nothing else to focus on. His isolation and the bitterness caused by his rejection by society as a whole and women in particular warps his sense of purpose, causing him to want to lash out. This angst is tempered by his ingrained sense of moral obligation and duty, and his hypocritical passing of judgement on the vice he sees around him (he frequents porn theaters daily and pops pills constantly), the rest is history.
Hypocritical my ass. You sound like a well brainwashed leftie.
Did your parents have any children that lived?
Not sure if that's really true. Bickle was a former marine. He knew how to operate a firearm and knew what he was looking for.
That's a beautiful little gun
We all know why Travis asks for the .44 Magnum first.
He want blowing the competition
The director described it in his cameo scene....
He was such a good salesman I almost bought myself a gun, till I realized I was just watching a TH-cam video.
Movie making, much like music, has become a lost art.
All the real good stuff, the defining moments stuff, the world changing stuff, has already been done. You could never get a scene like this today.
Try indie films, there's still magic there
@@nickpastorino5370 yes some. I have embraced foreign film more now than I may have in earlier times.
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Sadly, no phased plasma rifle with 40 watt range
Its all you see buddy
@Hakaida Wilson we close early today
You can't do that. Wrong!
Love the end of the scene. The truth of Andy comes spilling out and it's that he's just another source of the troubles and degradation that Travis is repulsed by in the streets. Travis is taken aback and quickly slips past the ugly truth that he himself is partaking in furthering those societal degradations by buying illegal arms from Andy.
Steve Jobs sold some questionable gear to get Apple off the ground.
Now where do I get the new Cadillac with pink slip for 2 grand? Go over that part again......
Easy Andy could get you the cure for cancer....if only someone asked him to...
"You want a working Star Trek phaser? Stuns, disintegrates matter, fully loaded with powered dilithium crystals. $400."
"You got a 44 Magnum?" Think Travis may have seen Dirty Harry between the porn viewings.
i love after the gun purchase how he rattles off all those other items for sale... so classic!
91thebossman trying to make REPEAT business, like on breaking bad, the most chemically effective product on the market, YOU'LL WANT MORE lol