Disclaimer: This is an unauthorized fan-made video. The words are Quentin Tarantino's, but the voice is AI-generated. The script is from Tarantino's chapter on "Taxi Driver" from his book Cinema Specualtion. Some pages were cut to encourage people to buy his book. Although the voice is AI-generated, apart from three images, everything else was created with sweat and passion (this video took about 200 hours to create). If you like the video, please subscribe and hit the like button. Reaching 100k subs could help me get sponsorships to do this full-time and make more videos (not just Tarantino ones). If you feel you still think I'm a hack for using an AI voice please comment so I can understand better. I think of it as another tool in the toolbox. (But maybe I have it wrong.) Thanks! -Alan 00:00 - Travis Bickle 01:21 - Joe (1972) 02:35 - Is Taxi Driver a racist movie? 03:47 - The Warriors (1979) analogy 05:43 - Harvey Keitel as a 08:02 - The Mack (1979) 10:27 - Revengeamatics 13:57 - Columbia Pictures plans for Taxi Driver 14:46 - Tarantino first sees Taxi Driver 16:08 - Death Wish rip-off 17:31 - Travis Bickle was a nutter 20:25 - The moment Taxi Driver got serious 22:07 - Bickle meets the white 22:55 - Jodi Foster’s Iris 24:24 - Let the blood flow 25:04 - Scorsese is shocked 29:35 - Tarantino poses a question to Martin Scorsese 30:10 - Taxi Driver ending compared to Joe ending 31:01 - Was Bickle a vetern? 32:26 - Bickle is not happy with what Tarantino is saying
Joe Queenan - never previously, so far as I know, compared to Quentin Tarantino - made some of these exact same points in "The Lonely Raging Bull"', his essay on Scorsese's movies, which I believe Queenan first published in _Movieline._ (This was back when _Movieline_ was the best cinema journal in America, and one of my favorite reads every month. I wish someone would put together a _Movieline_ retrospective, as has been done for _National Lampoon,_ several times, and even _Spy._ I really miss _Movieline._ It seems to have been completely forgotten.) The Scorsese essay (and others) are available in Queenan's vicious yet informed 1994 collection _If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be In Trouble,_ a book I suspect Quentin may have on his shelf, and which I highly recommend. (Queenan later released a sort of Volume II of his Nineties film writings, _Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler,_ which is also pretty funny, but Volume I was better.) Really appreciate the effort on these videos. Seriously, thanks.
Taxi Driver is a movie you have to watch for the first time by yourself. You can't have someone next to you complaining that it's too slow, or that it's offensive, or even hooping and hollering at how great the violent scenes are. It's a very introspective experience, not interactive.
I was 19 and knew of the movie's relevance and impact on popular culture before watching it by myself. Your statement is absolutely correct. Hearing Tarantino's account of his first time seeing it is fascinating. Despite his experience he got it. All of it. As did I and the movie shook me to my core. I still consider it a weirdly pivotal part of my cinephile adolescence.
I think if you have a person who says certain movies are slow or offensive you shouldn’t watch anything with them lol. But taxi driver especially, you have to be in that state of mind to connect with it
@@rohangondor6250 I happened to watch Taxi Driver alone but learned my lesson with other "quiet" films. Like Ghost World. I seriously lost respect for a friend who kept saying how hateful Enid is. Face palm extra
I saw taxi driver on tv on a Friday night 1 week before Hinkley shot Reagan Went to school on Monday raving about this violent masterpiece. Ppl thought I was nuts. And maybe I am. lol
I saw Taxi Driver on the lower half of a double bill with The Killer Elite. I was mesmerized. Taxi Driver made me want to become a filmmaker. That movie gave me a career!
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I saw this at a drive in. My buddy took a date and seen it and said "dude, you gotta see this movie!" we had a gallon of wine and an ounce of pot, and I think I drove, but we both lived close to each other and the drive-in, we coulda walked home in ten minutes, but dang, what a good movie.
people always refer to Sport as white. I guess that's the case but I always thought he came across as kind of puerto rican or mixed race. Maybe it was just the way Keitell played him but that was my impression. Great flick.
Doesn't he imply he's native American in the movie? I seem to remember a brief line of him mentioning it but definitely could be wrong. What a movie! 👍🤝🎖️
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This time, Tarantino's analysis is way off. The central theme in Taxi Driver isn't Travis's racism. That is complete bullshit. This sounds like Tarantino giving a half-assed apology for admiring a film in which the lead character may incidentally be a racist.
Good point, since the politician was Travis's original target, and the girl was a staffer for his campaign. If iris is betsy, then sport is palantine, so the theme is marginalized incel?
I don’t think that’s what Tarantino was saying - that the central theme was Travis’ racism. That was incidental. I believe Tarantino was saying that this was really just another 70’s revenge flick, but done so masterfully and with so much tension and buildup that it was a masterpiece.
@@mojomessiah See 2:40. Tarantino clearly asserts that the viewer is forced to ask "is this a movie about a racist or a racist movie?" I never felt compelled to ask that about Taxi Driver any more than I did for Pulp Fiction (for which racial stereotyping and racial epithets abound). The most charitable interpretation I have of Tarantino here is that he's elevating 1970's NYC reality into an issue that does not merit the emphasis. It's not even a particularly interesting matter for this film. Travis gives the same look of suspicion to practically everyone he encounters, black or white. No doubt he considered black people more of a threat while he was driving, but did he really display more animosity toward the diner pimps than Keitel's "sport" or Albert Brooks? I don't think so. While Tarantino always gives something to think about, I think he's way off target here, possibly motivated primarily by the criticisms he's received for his own films.
I first watched TAXI DRIVER by my self, late at night on HBO in the late 70s. It was terrifying and brutally graphic both in it's depiction of Travis Bickle slowly descending into a nightmarish psychosis and in it's sunny day/wet rainy night NYC everyday sense of urban decay. It remains a visceral and disturbing portrayal of one individual's reaction to a world spinning into controlled chaos. It will always mean different things to different people. It is a textbook example of the power of film and it's effect on the viewer. Scorsese is a genius!
Press X to doubt that people laughed at Travis Bickle. This seems like cope from someone who has long been trying to escape the (false) racism allegations for saying the n-word when acting as a character in his films.
It's incredible that Tarantino felt it was necessary to focus so much on the aspect of race in the movie when that probably takes up about 30 seconds of screen time (if that) and doesn't even warrant being considered a subtext to the plot.
@@billyarsenault1970 It's remarkable how wrong you are. And even if Schrader originally intended racism to be a more central theme, it wasn't in the final product.
All Pimps Are Bad. Race shouldn't be the issue. The issue should be liberation from exploitation. 12:50 Was he fash, though? His ideals weren't much different from Teddy Roosevelt's and no one thinks of Teddy as anything resembling a fash. Edit/note: Even the "anarchist" who shot him didn't think of him that way. Teddy was pro-worker, so that "anarchist" shouldn't have made that particular "statement" in that particular way. 13:15 Right-shoulder flag patch is facing the wrong way. Should be union-forward. 19:37 An homage to The Filthy Thirteen (who were the inspiration for 'The Dirty Dozen'). Fun fact: That was actually a bald cap because DeNiro was working on another film at the same time. 22:29 / 23:20 If he's left-eye dominant, he should shoot left-handed. 22:32 .44 Magnum is definitely not adequate for stopping elephants. .45-70 might be the bare minimum for that task. 26:56 Bad technique. Notice the position of her right thumb. That sawed-off gonna jump right out of her hands! 28:23 How did Travis start it? He's not the one guilty of predatory parasitism. If anything, he's a super-predator who hunts predatory parasites. Pimps are a representation of the greater parasite class that oppresses us all. The People's enemies have already "started it." We have the right and the duty to respond however we choose. The Constitution even sanctifies that concept (call it "Natural Law," the most Revolutionary ideal) in the Second Amendment. 29:02 That's not how you hold a Sterling. Why do movie people always hold them like that?! 29:10 Fun fact: When he was getting shape to play Kyle Reese in 'The Terminator', Michael Biehn used Robert DeNiro's "lean and mean" Travis Bickle body type as a template. Never mind that Mike's about half a foot taller than Rob. 29:37 It's impressive that A.I. knows how to make a right-shoulder US flag patch face union-forward like it's 'sposed ta! Most humans get that detail wrong! All it takes is five seconds of research.
Yeah, “being around blacks” is sure to make someone not racist . Shit. Also: Travis shaves his head into a Mohawk well after he meets Iris. So the whole “we stopped laughing” comment is idiotic.
This essay is too fixated on race. Taxi Driver is Metropolis, a relentless city crushing the individual, until there's nothing left except the will to destroy something.
Yeah, well that essay has already been written ad nauseam. I appreciate someone discussing the movie through the lens of race. And I honestly didn’t know that the racial component of the original screenplay had been watered down at the insistence of the studio.
I'm assuming you're American....you guys will ask why things need to be about race like it has no value or power, but then clutch your pearls if it's even mentioned. If you want someone to just rehash an opinion you already agree with then avoid any and all commentary. Race was literally integral to the casting of a major character in the film.
@whahappend8222 The film’s set in America, Scorsese and Tarantino are both American-a non-American is gonna have a tougher time parsing the complex sociopolitical contexts of films based in America. And btw it’s usually a good idea to avoid applying insulting blanket statements to groups of people, like calling Americans hypocrites. To avoid being more of a hypocrite yourself, take your own advice and avoid comments that might challenge your views if they’re gonna send u into a weird hissy fit
I Love Tarantino, but he seemed bothered that Harvey Keitel's character was portrayed by a white guy. I suppose Tarantino can think of it as a revisionist history, you know, like Inglorious Basterds, where he rewrites History
Interesting observations… but, to me, it sounds like “Taxi Driver” would’ve been a far less interesting collection of cultural clichés with all of QT’s suggestions. I like the film just the way it is.
Of course not, he tricked everyone here by not making any indication of it in the title or the thumbnail. But he got his clicks and ad revenue. Shameful.
I don’t completely disagree with QT, though I do have some brief thoughts. Taxi Driver is about a man slaying a dragon, and that dragon was living inside of him. In order to kill it, he had to unleash it. What made Travis a hero is that he chose the best place to let it loose, somewhere it may end up helping someone. Yes, the sex traffickers were villains, but they weren’t THE villain. The dragon inside Travis was, they were just the bait.
Great video Tarantino!! You're a master of movie making and I hope, someday, that YOU can find the time to make a violent movie also! It's 2024 and we're all waiting for that day!
I love Tarantino’s films and they have long been in my top 20 but damn, my guy stinks with his performative “it’s ok blacks, I’m one of the good and cool whites. Us! US!” stories. Like cmon man, nobody believes this stuff anymore. You don’t have to justify your work.
I suspected it was AI before looking at the comments Mainly because I thought it was strange I had not heard of Tarantino doing such things like making a video on Taxi Driver and also because I’m always fairly weary of watching Ai videos on TH-cam. This piece you made though is excellent and would like to to Tarantino would to an extent appreciate it for what it is and the fact it is his word sits well with me. It’s almost convincing but I really like the fact I know and that I think is what makes it tolerable Well done mate on this , the visual story you made was excellent keep at it 👊🏼
Scorsese's Taxi Driver has influenced over other filmmakers like Todd Phillips, "the guy who made the movie Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine told me that found it an absurd film, meanwhile I found it a masterpiece where Joaquin Phoenix's performance really blew my mind.
Tarantino is dead wrong about Bickle pretending to be a vet. The gear he's wearing is USMC-issue gear with his name stenciled on the back, and there's no way someone like Bickle would go to those lengths to festoon himself in perfect recreations of garb he had never used in the service. Now that we have the Internet, fakers are always using eBay to acquire the props they need for their stolen valor, but in the 70's he would have had no way of knowing that they stenciled their names (last name, first initial) on their jackets at boot camp. And the patch he's wearing on the sleeve was a in-country-made insignia for a particular battalion's Force Recon Marines, which jibes with the Naval parachutist wings he's got sewn to his jacket. That's representing a genuine personal artifact. And it is part of why Bickle is so lost. He also has a Viet Cong flag in his apartment, which would have been very hard to come by in the summer of 1976 when this story is taking place. There was no eBay, no internet back then. The only place to get a Viet Cong flag would have been Vietnam, and he was no tourist. Travis is not only a genuine vet but a special operations vet, and he is an archetype for a lot of the generation of men who went to Vietnam and came home broken, disillusioned, and lost. Tarantino has a proven track record for misunderstanding the soldier. All you have to do is watch Inglourious Basterds to see that. No American General gives a notoriously vicious Nazi the Medal of Honor and a free ride to American citizenship. Tarantino's a filthy fantasist.
@@IndyShade Good choice. It's a bunch of masturbatory nonsense. He used to be a geat filmmaker, but he's lost his grip, and you shouldn't waste your time worshiping the shadow of the artist he used to be.
Yer definitely right, I like Tarantino, but he showed his ass a few times in these excerpts with adamant baby opinions. Also silly was his idea that serving in nam would have crushed any racial preconceptions in a vet, claiming that Travis could’nt have served since he killed child-pimping black guys in the original script.
Question for Quentin.. you reference seeing "No Way Out" at the Old Town Mall with your Mom. Do you mean the OTM in Torrance? "South Bay" a couple of miles from Del Amo Mall?
@@karlwebster5438 Great Thank you .. That was my area growing up Del Amo Mall and Old Town Torrance... circa 87 to 93 It was a Great Time and Great Area to Grow up at the Time. Please tell Quentin thak you for the Response.. and "Pulp Fiction" made me join the Army as a Camera Man for 6 years.. while I didnt make it to the Film Sector which was the ultimate Goal, I did work in the TV/Radio biz for 25 years... His Films gave me that inspiration and Drive.. Anxiously awaiting his 10th and Final Film.... always wanted him to do a "Vega Bros" movie or even his interpretation of "Natural Born Killers" Thank you again
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I always speculated Travis Bickle was a veteran, but he had some kind of clerk or office job and never left the U.S. Some part of him, maybe hearing about other soldiers, wanted to do violence, but his enlistment never offered him that opportunity.
Tarantino's final film the Critic - it wasn't him writing and directing it, he's living it in real life, it's the 3rd act, he's a great film critic and love it!!
In a way this little rant by Quentin Tarrantino sort of puts on display why he's not quite the director Scorcese is. He calls out Scorcese for a "BS" answer on the violent ending to Taxi Driver, but I think the answer Scorcese gives at the end is quite real. Taxi driver is meant to suggest catharsis through violence, but then make us disturbed by it and reflect on why we wanted it in the first place. It's a critique of the human ability to rationalize violence against people we don't like, it's suggests that our callousness is in a round-about way one of the causes of the violence we see in our own lives. Tarrantino can't even begin to accept that, for him it's a movie-technical thing about eliciting emotions from the audience, whereas for Scorcese it was about making the audience think.
Tarantino here sounds like the Oliver Stone who did a number on QT's "Natural Born Killers" script, saying that movie violence is "fun" while also insisting that the killers have some kind of higher moral motivation for the bloodshed. Total bull.
99% of moviegoers don't want to be given the tools to or be made to think. We want to be entertained and we want the director to tell us a story, we don't want to have to come up with our own ideas on what something means. Film school grads like Scorsese tend to be very pretentious and disguise faults and ambiguity as lessons and deepness.
@@MadroxKnoxif you were a bookworm and not a idiot, you would know that this is from QT’s book “Cinema Speculation” and that the voice is just AI, this is clearly what QT thinks because he wrote it down
If you are correct, then I have either severely overvalued Taxi Driver or undervalued Falling Down. However, the way Tarantino talks about the former is scarily similar to my lasting impression of the latter. I never saw TD in a theater, but no one ever laughed at the movie when I watched it. However, FD clearly had many scenes that were played as comical and I remember everyone feeling encouraged to laugh. But, you might be right. They do share similarities, not the least of which is the comical absurdism about the dangers of white outcasts who just cant take it anymore. Interesting comment. I don’t think I will have a higher opinion of FD but I may have to reassess TD.
Travis Bickle: 70s era incel. Without the internet to rant on and become indoctrinated into extremist thought, he rages in his diary and radicalizes himself through his own solo echo chamber. Great movie. Even though I've been around since the early days of Blockbuster, I only just watched this movie a few months ago. It's a classic for good reason.
As someone who writes a Substack about movies and features a film review section about little known or forgotten movies, I appreciate Tarantino constantly referencing barely known and unknown films. At least someone else out there is also promoting such films. Good to know.
@@writeralbertlanier3434 Thank you! a lot of time goes into just finding the best sources of images and videos, so thank you for noticing. May I get a link to your substack?
got similar theater experience for the movie “falling down”, audience felt it as a slapstick comic until the real motives become clear and the dramatic end.
I Love Tarantino, but he seemed bothered that Harvey Keitel's character was portrayed by a white guy. I suppose Tarantino can think of it as a revisionist history, you know, like Inglorious Basterds
Simply brilliant! And so perfectly put together with such incredibly deep intelligence, knowledge, and understanding to support Tarantino’s thoughts on “Taxi Driver.”
I don't understand what they're talking about?? I didn't see any racism of any kind in that movie. It accurately depicted America' at the time and that's all.
30:11 And yet, Peter Boyle mentioned in an interview that people would cry out to him approvingly on the street, after that movie came out, saying things like, "Way to go Joe!" Boyle found it pretty unnerving.
Well, getting the audio from the audiobook that would likely cost $$$. Instead of manufacturing someone's likeness and intellectual property for their own gains. Do be sure and smash that like button, though.
He's reaching big time with the idea that Bickle never went to Vietnam. What, cause he acts a bit nerdy and needy? That's where he belongs. He's a violent sociopath. If he wasn't in the war, what exactly was he doing all these years? Good stuff otherwise
He said the movie got serious when Iris is introduced but said it was still a joke by the time he tried to assassinate Palantine..which was right at the end of the movie
@@lptomtom I agree they are doomed. I get it. The first 20 years of my life was owning record stores. But by 2011 it was over and I had to close them down. Recently I gave up doing VOs too.
Apart from the significance of Harvey Kietel in the movie, which was in many ways pivotal, I am still left wondering what would have happened if Jack Nicholson held a role?
"Taxi Driver" had a certain malevolent hold over me as I watched. Each ambiguity arose with gun violence, which was simple in its horror. It gave terror a bad name. In particular, when the ageing pimp is shot repeatedly, as casually as a street punch up. There were no heroes or even obvious villains, and stands times test as a whole, expressing a profound despondency which leads the best intentions to commit acts of evil.
Does Quentin have to make a liberal comment about racism for every time he used the N-word in one of his films? Is this his community service for accumulating too many parking tickets? If he's this sensitive when he writes his next movie, I may not see it. If he wants a spot in the Cotton Candyass Hall of Fame, someone needs to tell him it's way, way too late.
This is actually amazing what a brilliant job you’ve done!! Thank you so much!! I think the editing you’ve done has really thought the narration alive, brilliant work 👏🎬
It's also interesting hearing this much about the Farmer, a mostly forgotten movie that was loat for years had apparent rights issues holding it back till magically a vhs copy made ita way from ebay to youtube promting them to sort out said issues in a matter of months and releasing it finally on blu ray.
WTF is up with the closed captions?!?! Audio: "Then finally a sociopathic time bomb" CC: "Then finally, someone you can take home to meet mom and dad" 😳
As kids we watched this on tv and even heavily edited we knew from the opening scenes that Travis was another psycho. We'd been spoon fed the Nam-vet with PTSD trope. The doped up veteran with a grudge was everywhere. And if Travis hadn't served in the army, so what? He was wearing the clothing, he had the edge, and the hardware. He was the embodiment of social unrest, of bitterness, of seething anger.
Leave it to Tarantino to see everything in terms of a simpleminded revenge picture. There is one climactic bloodbath in "Taxi Driver" (and he's obviously right that the whole film builds to it), which means it's nothing like the systematic retaliatory execution-style serial murders of "Death Wish," but Tarantino can't see it any other way. He has the moral and aesthetic sensibility of that little kid he was in the '70s. He says: "Like Peckinpah before him, Scorsese had to bend over backwards to disingenuously describe those magnificent, exhilarating violent scenes he crafted as 'horrifying.'" But they're magnificent and exhilarating BECAUSE they're horrifying. The poetry and the craft is in service of the horror. It's not a slapstick comedy. I saw "Taxi Driver" first-run in 1976 (I was 18) and it's the closest I ever came to vomiting in a movie theater, like I'd been punched in the gut. It wasn't "fun." (Violent imagery, though not as "realistic" as it can be now, was much more potent then because we hadn't become inured to it yet.) It took me years to figure out why that massacre haunted and disturbed me so much. Before home video made it easy to control and replay parts of a film, I had to go back and walk in on "Taxi Driver" disconnected from the disquieting build-up to that bloodbath, and see how Scorsese played with film speed and herky-jerky shock-movements that made the bodies spasm like marionettes before I really understood what the movie was doing. Tarantino will never understand it.
Sport pulls Iris out of Travis's taxi long before the mohawk scene, which causes a major narration continuity error when explaining the timeline of when audience put away it's laughter and become more serious.
I remember watching Mr. Quentin Tarantino's films as a child, right next to Mel Brooks. I even laugh when my family drinks warm beer while fishing at last lake next to Table Mountain and Mono Winds in California ! tmi!? 🌮😹🍻 #desperado #mariachi #powwow #brewing #cerveza #chango
Disclaimer: This is an unauthorized fan-made video. The words are Quentin Tarantino's, but the voice is AI-generated. The script is from Tarantino's chapter on "Taxi Driver" from his book Cinema Specualtion. Some pages were cut to encourage people to buy his book. Although the voice is AI-generated, apart from three images, everything else was created with sweat and passion (this video took about 200 hours to create). If you like the video, please subscribe and hit the like button. Reaching 100k subs could help me get sponsorships to do this full-time and make more videos (not just Tarantino ones).
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00:00 - Travis Bickle
01:21 - Joe (1972)
02:35 - Is Taxi Driver a racist movie?
03:47 - The Warriors (1979) analogy
05:43 - Harvey Keitel as a
08:02 - The Mack (1979)
10:27 - Revengeamatics
13:57 - Columbia Pictures plans for Taxi Driver
14:46 - Tarantino first sees Taxi Driver
16:08 - Death Wish rip-off
17:31 - Travis Bickle was a nutter
20:25 - The moment Taxi Driver got serious
22:07 - Bickle meets the white
22:55 - Jodi Foster’s Iris
24:24 - Let the blood flow
25:04 - Scorsese is shocked
29:35 - Tarantino poses a question to Martin Scorsese
30:10 - Taxi Driver ending compared to Joe ending
31:01 - Was Bickle a vetern?
32:26 - Bickle is not happy with what Tarantino is saying
keep using the AI voice 🙏 it works, and your other videos actually made me go get a copy of his book.
Joe Queenan - never previously, so far as I know, compared to Quentin Tarantino - made some of these exact same points in "The Lonely Raging Bull"', his essay on Scorsese's movies, which I believe Queenan first published in _Movieline._
(This was back when _Movieline_ was the best cinema journal in America, and one of my favorite reads every month. I wish someone would put together a _Movieline_ retrospective, as has been done for _National Lampoon,_ several times, and even _Spy._ I really miss _Movieline._ It seems to have been completely forgotten.)
The Scorsese essay (and others) are available in Queenan's vicious yet informed 1994 collection _If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be In Trouble,_ a book I suspect Quentin may have on his shelf, and which I highly recommend.
(Queenan later released a sort of Volume II of his Nineties film writings, _Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler,_ which is also pretty funny, but Volume I was better.)
Really appreciate the effort on these videos. Seriously, thanks.
I wonder how shocked will Tarantino be when he eventually accidentally push play on one of these videos.
@@WadeStrine1 Love hearing this. Thank you!
@@parapoliticos52why are you typing like that are you ok?
Taxi Driver is a movie you have to watch for the first time by yourself. You can't have someone next to you complaining that it's too slow, or that it's offensive, or even hooping and hollering at how great the violent scenes are. It's a very introspective experience, not interactive.
I was 19 and knew of the movie's relevance and impact on popular culture before watching it by myself. Your statement is absolutely correct. Hearing Tarantino's account of his first time seeing it is fascinating. Despite his experience he got it. All of it. As did I and the movie shook me to my core. I still consider it a weirdly pivotal part of my cinephile adolescence.
I think if you have a person who says certain movies are slow or offensive you shouldn’t watch anything with them lol. But taxi driver especially, you have to be in that state of mind to connect with it
@@rohangondor6250 I happened to watch Taxi Driver alone but learned my lesson with other "quiet" films. Like Ghost World. I seriously lost respect for a friend who kept saying how hateful Enid is. Face palm extra
@@rohangondor6250 Sounds like my ex-wife.
I saw taxi driver on tv on a Friday night 1 week before Hinkley shot Reagan Went to school on Monday raving about this violent masterpiece. Ppl thought I was nuts. And maybe I am. lol
I saw Taxi Driver on the lower half of a double bill with The Killer Elite. I was mesmerized. Taxi Driver made me want to become a filmmaker. That movie gave me a career!
Same with me! It was the first time I saw a movie and wanted to make one myself!
That voice is AI Tarantino? Now i’m terrified.
That’s why it has no expression or humanity or any of his personality 💩
I wonder if that's even legal ? A.I. QT could say things that the real Quentin might disagree with and lead down a Joe Rogan rabbit hole.
It dosent sound like I'm really
Tarantino will live forever now.
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I saw this at a drive in. My buddy took a date and seen it and said "dude, you gotta see this movie!" we had a gallon of wine and an ounce of pot, and I think I drove, but we both lived close to each other and the drive-in, we coulda walked home in ten minutes, but dang, what a good movie.
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Fantastic work. These videos are great!
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people always refer to Sport as white. I guess that's the case but I always thought he came across as kind of puerto rican or mixed race. Maybe it was just the way Keitell played him but that was my impression. Great flick.
Doesn't he imply he's native American in the movie? I seem to remember a brief line of him mentioning it but definitely could be wrong. What a movie! 👍🤝🎖️
I laughed when Tarantino mentioned that the casting change was because of the “wyte folks” producing the movie 😂… he has to know they’re not right? ✡️
White is a skin color and Puerto Rican is a nationality...
@@tareklegrand7747 yes but in that era NY puertio rican was practically a race
Therapist: Travintin Tarantickle isn't real, he can't hurt you.
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This is an exceptionally well done video.
I am sure Quentin Tarantino would agree.
As always, fantastic work. The editing job you do on these videos is always on point.
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Just watched Taxi Driver for the first time last night, what a film.
This time, Tarantino's analysis is way off. The central theme in Taxi Driver isn't Travis's racism. That is complete bullshit. This sounds like Tarantino giving a half-assed apology for admiring a film in which the lead character may incidentally be a racist.
Good point, since the politician was Travis's original target, and the girl was a staffer for his campaign. If iris is betsy, then sport is palantine, so the theme is marginalized incel?
Agreed. It's ludicrous. If you were to make a list of 50 things Taxi Driver is "about," race wouldn't even be on there.
I don’t think that’s what Tarantino was saying - that the central theme was Travis’ racism. That was incidental. I believe Tarantino was saying that this was really just another 70’s revenge flick, but done so masterfully and with so much tension and buildup that it was a masterpiece.
@@mojomessiah See 2:40. Tarantino clearly asserts that the viewer is forced to ask "is this a movie about a racist or a racist movie?" I never felt compelled to ask that about Taxi Driver any more than I did for Pulp Fiction (for which racial stereotyping and racial epithets abound). The most charitable interpretation I have of Tarantino here is that he's elevating 1970's NYC reality into an issue that does not merit the emphasis. It's not even a particularly interesting matter for this film. Travis gives the same look of suspicion to practically everyone he encounters, black or white. No doubt he considered black people more of a threat while he was driving, but did he really display more animosity toward the diner pimps than Keitel's "sport" or Albert Brooks? I don't think so. While Tarantino always gives something to think about, I think he's way off target here, possibly motivated primarily by the criticisms he's received for his own films.
Tarantino isn’t analyzing anything. OP is using an AI version of Tarantino’s voice for his own script. Tarantino has nothing to do with this video
I first watched TAXI DRIVER by my self, late at night on HBO in the late 70s. It was terrifying and brutally graphic both in it's depiction of Travis Bickle slowly descending into a nightmarish psychosis and in it's sunny day/wet rainy night NYC everyday sense of urban decay. It remains a visceral and disturbing portrayal of one individual's reaction to a world spinning into controlled chaos. It will always mean different things to different people. It is a textbook example of the power of film and it's effect on the viewer. Scorsese is a genius!
5:12 whats the movie with eddie murphy?
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Amazing channel
Will be binging all weekend
You sir a legend
I always find Quentin Tarantino's perspective on film informative and interesting. Great analysis.
I love these! Excellent !
This is extraordinarily well done, AI or not. Thank you!
An American classic noir, perhaps the best in the genre.
That's one well made video. Outstanding
A well-made and well-appreciated vid. Thank you!
Top notch content, great work my man👏
Press X to doubt that people laughed at Travis Bickle. This seems like cope from someone who has long been trying to escape the (false) racism allegations for saying the n-word when acting as a character in his films.
It's incredible that Tarantino felt it was necessary to focus so much on the aspect of race in the movie when that probably takes up about 30 seconds of screen time (if that) and doesn't even warrant being considered a subtext to the plot.
Your joking right.
The Racism had to be toned way down because it was almost all about overt racism just like so many other 70’s movies
@@billyarsenault1970 It's remarkable how wrong you are. And even if Schrader originally intended racism to be a more central theme, it wasn't in the final product.
The black pimps abusing underage white runaway girls were far more racist than innocent little Travis.
He makes some good points but I think he has a strange fixation on race himself so he may be looking too deep into things
The way you say "fuck hotel" sounds so good I think it replaces "cellar door" as the most elegant English words together.
Why don't you suck a fuck? (jk just goin off the donnie darko reference 🐰)
The subtitles are hilarious 😅
Came here for this. Totally had me rolling.
Nice catch. The second viewing was better than the first, thanks!
Just noticed this. I'm guessing the creator adds the subs? Not auto-generated?
Joe: "42% of all liberals like to decorate."
This is amazing. Thank you!
All Pimps Are Bad. Race shouldn't be the issue. The issue should be liberation from exploitation.
12:50 Was he fash, though? His ideals weren't much different from Teddy Roosevelt's and no one thinks of Teddy as anything resembling a fash.
Edit/note: Even the "anarchist" who shot him didn't think of him that way. Teddy was pro-worker, so that "anarchist" shouldn't have made that particular "statement" in that particular way.
13:15 Right-shoulder flag patch is facing the wrong way. Should be union-forward.
19:37 An homage to The Filthy Thirteen (who were the inspiration for 'The Dirty Dozen'). Fun fact: That was actually a bald cap because DeNiro was working on another film at the same time.
22:29 / 23:20 If he's left-eye dominant, he should shoot left-handed.
22:32 .44 Magnum is definitely not adequate for stopping elephants. .45-70 might be the bare minimum for that task.
26:56 Bad technique. Notice the position of her right thumb. That sawed-off gonna jump right out of her hands!
28:23 How did Travis start it? He's not the one guilty of predatory parasitism. If anything, he's a super-predator who hunts predatory parasites. Pimps are a representation of the greater parasite class that oppresses us all. The People's enemies have already "started it." We have the right and the duty to respond however we choose. The Constitution even sanctifies that concept (call it "Natural Law," the most Revolutionary ideal) in the Second Amendment.
29:02 That's not how you hold a Sterling. Why do movie people always hold them like that?!
29:10 Fun fact: When he was getting shape to play Kyle Reese in 'The Terminator', Michael Biehn used Robert DeNiro's "lean and mean" Travis Bickle body type as a template. Never mind that Mike's about half a foot taller than Rob.
29:37 It's impressive that A.I. knows how to make a right-shoulder US flag patch face union-forward like it's 'sposed ta! Most humans get that detail wrong! All it takes is five seconds of research.
Larry Kelly of MagNaPort fame killed elephants with a .44 mag.
This was actually really interesting thanks
Yeah, “being around blacks” is sure to make someone not racist . Shit. Also: Travis shaves his head into a Mohawk well after he meets Iris. So the whole “we stopped laughing” comment is idiotic.
This essay is too fixated on race. Taxi Driver is Metropolis, a relentless city crushing the individual, until there's nothing left except the will to destroy something.
Yeah, well that essay has already been written ad nauseam. I appreciate someone discussing the movie through the lens of race. And I honestly didn’t know that the racial component of the original screenplay had been watered down at the insistence of the studio.
Think Tarantino often times can’t avoid applying extra (erroneous) racial context to films
I'm assuming you're American....you guys will ask why things need to be about race like it has no value or power, but then clutch your pearls if it's even mentioned. If you want someone to just rehash an opinion you already agree with then avoid any and all commentary.
Race was literally integral to the casting of a major character in the film.
@whahappend8222 The film’s set in America, Scorsese and Tarantino are both American-a non-American is gonna have a tougher time parsing the complex sociopolitical contexts of films based in America.
And btw it’s usually a good idea to avoid applying insulting blanket statements to groups of people, like calling Americans hypocrites. To avoid being more of a hypocrite yourself, take your own advice and avoid comments that might challenge your views if they’re gonna send u into a weird hissy fit
I Love Tarantino, but he seemed bothered that Harvey Keitel's character was portrayed by a white guy. I suppose Tarantino can think of it as a revisionist history, you know, like Inglorious Basterds, where he rewrites History
Interesting observations… but, to me, it sounds like “Taxi Driver” would’ve been a far less interesting collection of cultural clichés with all of QT’s suggestions. I like the film just the way it is.
very well done! In the first half I did not realise it was AI
Of course not, he tricked everyone here by not making any indication of it in the title or the thumbnail. But he got his clicks and ad revenue. Shameful.
was about to roast you for the AI voice but it's cool cuz its from his book, with clips from the movie and topic timestamps. Good job I liked it.
I don’t completely disagree with QT, though I do have some brief thoughts.
Taxi Driver is about a man slaying a dragon, and that dragon was living inside of him. In order to kill it, he had to unleash it. What made Travis a hero is that he chose the best place to let it loose, somewhere it may end up helping someone.
Yes, the sex traffickers were villains, but they weren’t THE villain. The dragon inside Travis was, they were just the bait.
This isn't actually QT, it's AI.
Great video Tarantino!! You're a master of movie making and I hope, someday, that YOU can find the time to make a violent movie also! It's 2024 and we're all waiting for that day!
“They never say movie violence is fun”
Tarantino responding to a critic of his violence film: “[i show it] because it’s so damn FUN, Janet!”
Thought of that after that line too!
Tarantino loves to rationalize his fetishes.
I love Tarantino’s films and they have long been in my top 20 but damn, my guy stinks with his performative “it’s ok blacks, I’m one of the good and cool whites. Us! US!” stories.
Like cmon man, nobody believes this stuff anymore. You don’t have to justify your work.
I suspected it was AI before looking at the comments
Mainly because I thought it was strange I had not heard of Tarantino doing such things like making a video on Taxi Driver and also because I’m always fairly weary of watching Ai videos on TH-cam.
This piece you made though is excellent and would like to to Tarantino would to an extent appreciate it for what it is and the fact it is his word sits well with me. It’s almost convincing but I really like the fact I know and that I think is what makes it tolerable
Well done mate on this , the visual story you made was excellent keep at it 👊🏼
How do you know its Tarantino's words? Have you read the book?
Some of the best of youtube. This is a great companion to the book. Been loving these. Keep it up.
Well done. I really enjoyed it.🎼🤘🏻
Scorsese's Taxi Driver has influenced over other filmmakers like Todd Phillips, "the guy who made the movie Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine told me that found it an absurd film, meanwhile I found it a masterpiece where Joaquin Phoenix's performance really blew my mind.
We know. And it's the main reason I think Joker sucks. It's a pale imitation of Taxi Driver and King of Comedy.
@@randomcharacter6501 What are your expectations for Joker part 2?
Joker was so good. i'm afraid to watch it again
Well done. This is a good use of AI!
Racist, racism?? Born in 1975, raised with one black kid in high school only, that shit NEVER occurred to me, in any way.
Tarantino is dead wrong about Bickle pretending to be a vet. The gear he's wearing is USMC-issue gear with his name stenciled on the back, and there's no way someone like Bickle would go to those lengths to festoon himself in perfect recreations of garb he had never used in the service.
Now that we have the Internet, fakers are always using eBay to acquire the props they need for their stolen valor, but in the 70's he would have had no way of knowing that they stenciled their names (last name, first initial) on their jackets at boot camp. And the patch he's wearing on the sleeve was a in-country-made insignia for a particular battalion's Force Recon Marines, which jibes with the Naval parachutist wings he's got sewn to his jacket.
That's representing a genuine personal artifact. And it is part of why Bickle is so lost. He also has a Viet Cong flag in his apartment, which would have been very hard to come by in the summer of 1976 when this story is taking place. There was no eBay, no internet back then. The only place to get a Viet Cong flag would have been Vietnam, and he was no tourist.
Travis is not only a genuine vet but a special operations vet, and he is an archetype for a lot of the generation of men who went to Vietnam and came home broken, disillusioned, and lost.
Tarantino has a proven track record for misunderstanding the soldier. All you have to do is watch Inglourious Basterds to see that. No American General gives a notoriously vicious Nazi the Medal of Honor and a free ride to American citizenship. Tarantino's a filthy fantasist.
I thought this was a terrible review all around. I'm not gonna buy his book now.
@@IndyShade Good choice. It's a bunch of masturbatory nonsense. He used to be a geat filmmaker, but he's lost his grip, and you shouldn't waste your time worshiping the shadow of the artist he used to be.
I somewhat agree!
@@aaronjohnson7812 I kind of thank you?
Yer definitely right, I like Tarantino, but he showed his ass a few times in these excerpts with adamant baby opinions.
Also silly was his idea that serving in nam would have crushed any racial preconceptions in a vet, claiming that Travis could’nt have served since he killed child-pimping black guys in the original script.
Taxi Driver is a movie QT speculates about. Watch it for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
70's violence was so much more real than today, even with all the great CGI special effects they use today.
Interesting how some in the comments complain about Tarantino's emphasis on race, when in fact he is talking about a compromised artistic vision
Question for Quentin.. you reference seeing "No Way Out" at the Old Town Mall with your Mom. Do you mean the OTM in Torrance? "South Bay" a couple of miles from Del Amo Mall?
Yes. Quentin just told me to tell you: yes. That's exactly what he meant.
@@karlwebster5438 Great Thank you .. That was my area growing up Del Amo Mall and Old Town Torrance... circa 87 to 93 It was a Great Time and Great Area to Grow up at the Time.
Please tell Quentin thak you for the Response.. and "Pulp Fiction" made me join the Army as a Camera Man for 6 years.. while I didnt make it to the Film Sector which was the ultimate Goal, I did work in the TV/Radio biz for 25 years... His Films gave me that inspiration and Drive.. Anxiously awaiting his 10th and Final Film.... always wanted him to do a "Vega Bros" movie or even his interpretation of "Natural Born Killers" Thank you again
that voice is AI Tarantino? i thought maybe he had recorded for the audiobook- maybe you can check if he has
Great job Alan, i found it quite interesting also i wanna go buy his book now, for real!
Love hearing this. Thanks for checking it out and commenting. Please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already. If I get to 100k subs I may be able to make more videos.
I always speculated Travis Bickle was a veteran, but he had some kind of clerk or office job and never left the U.S. Some part of him, maybe hearing about other soldiers, wanted to do violence, but his enlistment never offered him that opportunity.
Tarantino's final film the Critic - it wasn't him writing and directing it, he's living it in real life, it's the 3rd act, he's a great film critic and love it!!
In a way this little rant by Quentin Tarrantino sort of puts on display why he's not quite the director Scorcese is. He calls out Scorcese for a "BS" answer on the violent ending to Taxi Driver, but I think the answer Scorcese gives at the end is quite real. Taxi driver is meant to suggest catharsis through violence, but then make us disturbed by it and reflect on why we wanted it in the first place. It's a critique of the human ability to rationalize violence against people we don't like, it's suggests that our callousness is in a round-about way one of the causes of the violence we see in our own lives. Tarrantino can't even begin to accept that, for him it's a movie-technical thing about eliciting emotions from the audience, whereas for Scorcese it was about making the audience think.
Tarantino here sounds like the Oliver Stone who did a number on QT's "Natural Born Killers" script, saying that movie violence is "fun" while also insisting that the killers have some kind of higher moral motivation for the bloodshed. Total bull.
99% of moviegoers don't want to be given the tools to or be made to think. We want to be entertained and we want the director to tell us a story, we don't want to have to come up with our own ideas on what something means.
Film school grads like Scorsese tend to be very pretentious and disguise faults and ambiguity as lessons and deepness.
It's clearly AI reading someone's garbage take
@@MadroxKnoxif you were a bookworm and not a idiot, you would know that this is from QT’s book “Cinema Speculation” and that the voice is just AI, this is clearly what QT thinks because he wrote it down
I see Falling Down as a modern remake of Taxi Driver. The transformation of the main characters in each film is nearly identical.
I disagree about the transformation. But I love that comparison. I think that would be a fun film study comparison to do.
Falling Down isn't nearly as compelling though, entertaining though it is.
If you are correct, then I have either severely overvalued Taxi Driver or undervalued Falling Down. However, the way Tarantino talks about the former is scarily similar to my lasting impression of the latter. I never saw TD in a theater, but no one ever laughed at the movie when I watched it. However, FD clearly had many scenes that were played as comical and I remember everyone feeling encouraged to laugh. But, you might be right. They do share similarities, not the least of which is the comical absurdism about the dangers of white outcasts who just cant take it anymore. Interesting comment. I don’t think I will have a higher opinion of FD but I may have to reassess TD.
Travis Bickle: 70s era incel. Without the internet to rant on and become indoctrinated into extremist thought, he rages in his diary and radicalizes himself through his own solo echo chamber. Great movie. Even though I've been around since the early days of Blockbuster, I only just watched this movie a few months ago. It's a classic for good reason.
As someone who writes a Substack about movies and features a film review section about little known or forgotten movies, I appreciate Tarantino constantly referencing barely known and unknown films.
At least someone else out there is also promoting such films. Good to know.
I'm just about to watch Joe because of this.
@@SeamusJRM Interesting film of its period. Great Peter Boyle performance
I love it too. Every video I make of his I find a new gem to watch. Link to your substack.
@@TheTapesArchive BTW
Good videos here.
Clips look nice, quality images
@@writeralbertlanier3434 Thank you! a lot of time goes into just finding the best sources of images and videos, so thank you for noticing. May I get a link to your substack?
13:52 Holy shit, that stuntman almost got hit by the exploding car! 😲
He ended up in the fireball though. Hope he was okay.
13:54 that stuntman is an absolute legend Dayum🔥
The AI pick of Q as Travis is pure nightmare fuel
Thank for making these. Absolutely amazing
Wow, it’s AI Quintin? Cool. I love how you got RDJ doing black face.
got similar theater experience for the movie “falling down”, audience felt it as a slapstick comic until the real motives become clear and the dramatic end.
Good take
He can talk! Love this
It's an AI generated voice. Not Tarantino speaking.
I Love Tarantino, but he seemed bothered that Harvey Keitel's character was portrayed by a white guy. I suppose Tarantino can think of it as a revisionist history, you know, like Inglorious Basterds
Simply brilliant! And so perfectly put together with such incredibly deep intelligence, knowledge, and understanding to support Tarantino’s thoughts on “Taxi Driver.”
What a thumbnail 👏
I don't understand what they're talking about??
I didn't see any racism of any kind in that movie. It accurately depicted America' at the time and that's all.
Fantastic book on film by QT -- up there in the top ten with "I lost it at the movies" and "Who The Devil Made It"--
30:11 And yet, Peter Boyle mentioned in an interview that people would cry out to him approvingly on the street, after that movie came out, saying things like, "Way to go Joe!"
Boyle found it pretty unnerving.
Did you add the fart sound fx at 11:59? Or did Peckinpah 😂
Absolutely awesome work, sir. I hope you get the credit you deserve and produce more of these Tarantino videos. 👏
Thank you kindly!
I didn’t know this was a.i, I thought it was just Quentin doing the audiobook.
Me too. Absolutely gave me the creeps when I read the description afterwards.
Well, getting the audio from the audiobook that would likely cost $$$. Instead of manufacturing someone's likeness and intellectual property for their own gains. Do be sure and smash that like button, though.
@@jonlittle2292 Well said. Sadly, we will see more of videos like these as people try to get ahead.
What? It’s clearly ai you dolt. People like you are the reason skynet is possible
Which AI voice site are you using?
Eleven Labs
Tarantino’s whole “we” bullshit about him as the only white guy in a black audience has all the believability of a Dave Chappelle bit.
He's reaching big time with the idea that Bickle never went to Vietnam. What, cause he acts a bit nerdy and needy? That's where he belongs. He's a violent sociopath. If he wasn't in the war, what exactly was he doing all these years? Good stuff otherwise
I enjoyed this quite a bit.
Very impressive work, the masterful editing combined with the AI Tarantino voice just work so damn well together,
He said the movie got serious when Iris is introduced but said it was still a joke by the time he tried to assassinate Palantine..which was right at the end of the movie
Yeah! That's exactly what I was thinking! Thanks for commenting so I didn't have to.
21:50 that shot of scorcese with the music - fucking awesome
This was awesome. Don't care that the narration is AI, i couldn't tell the difference.
Thank you! I was hoping it was just a small % of the viewers that disliked it.
Fooled me lol.
Sure sounded like QT...
You don't care, but voice actors do... if AI keeps improving at this rate, they'll all be out of a job soon
@@lptomtom I agree they are doomed. I get it. The first 20 years of my life was owning record stores. But by 2011 it was over and I had to close them down. Recently I gave up doing VOs too.
Apart from the significance of Harvey Kietel in the movie, which was in many ways pivotal, I am still left wondering what would have happened if Jack Nicholson held a role?
Travis is also a Veteran….
Shmuck
"Taxi Driver" had a certain malevolent hold over me as I watched. Each ambiguity arose with gun violence, which was simple in its horror. It gave terror a bad name. In particular, when the ageing pimp is shot repeatedly, as casually as a street punch up. There were no heroes or even obvious villains, and stands times test as a whole, expressing a profound despondency which leads the best intentions to commit acts of evil.
Now thats a revuew with balls, loved it.
Does Quentin have to make a liberal comment about racism for every time he used the N-word in one of his films? Is this his community service for accumulating too many parking tickets?
If he's this sensitive when he writes his next movie, I may not see it. If he wants a spot in the Cotton Candyass Hall of Fame, someone needs to tell him it's way, way too late.
This is actually amazing what a brilliant job you’ve done!! Thank you so much!! I think the editing you’ve done has really thought the narration alive, brilliant work 👏🎬
It's also interesting hearing this much about the Farmer, a mostly forgotten movie that was loat for years had apparent rights issues holding it back till magically a vhs copy made ita way from ebay to youtube promting them to sort out said issues in a matter of months and releasing it finally on blu ray.
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An AI aged Iris is the last thing I thought I would see today. But here it is.
That's not AI. That was her stuntwoman.
Thanks!
WTF is up with the closed captions?!?! Audio: "Then finally a sociopathic time bomb" CC: "Then finally, someone you can take home to meet mom and dad" 😳
WHAAAT THE VOICE IS AI? saw all the videos and I just realized lmao, it´s dope anyways
As kids we watched this on tv and even heavily edited we knew from the opening scenes that Travis was another psycho. We'd been spoon fed the Nam-vet with PTSD trope. The doped up veteran with a grudge was everywhere.
And if Travis hadn't served in the army, so what? He was wearing the clothing, he had the edge, and the hardware. He was the embodiment of social unrest, of bitterness, of seething anger.
Should easily have 100k+ views, keep up the great work as always.
Wow, thanks! Starting off slow, but maybe we will get there. 🍻
Leave it to Tarantino to see everything in terms of a simpleminded revenge picture. There is one climactic bloodbath in "Taxi Driver" (and he's obviously right that the whole film builds to it), which means it's nothing like the systematic retaliatory execution-style serial murders of "Death Wish," but Tarantino can't see it any other way. He has the moral and aesthetic sensibility of that little kid he was in the '70s. He says: "Like Peckinpah before him, Scorsese had to bend over backwards to disingenuously describe those magnificent, exhilarating violent scenes he crafted as 'horrifying.'" But they're magnificent and exhilarating BECAUSE they're horrifying. The poetry and the craft is in service of the horror. It's not a slapstick comedy. I saw "Taxi Driver" first-run in 1976 (I was 18) and it's the closest I ever came to vomiting in a movie theater, like I'd been punched in the gut. It wasn't "fun." (Violent imagery, though not as "realistic" as it can be now, was much more potent then because we hadn't become inured to it yet.) It took me years to figure out why that massacre haunted and disturbed me so much. Before home video made it easy to control and replay parts of a film, I had to go back and walk in on "Taxi Driver" disconnected from the disquieting build-up to that bloodbath, and see how Scorsese played with film speed and herky-jerky shock-movements that made the bodies spasm like marionettes before I really understood what the movie was doing. Tarantino will never understand it.
The surreal moment when talking about black soldiers in Vietnam and the use footage of Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder. 😅
Very interesting.
Sport pulls Iris out of Travis's taxi long before the mohawk scene, which causes a major narration continuity error when explaining the timeline of when audience put away it's laughter and become more serious.
Yep, QT gets a few facts wrong. Good shout!
@@TheTapesArchive Great video
I remember watching Mr. Quentin Tarantino's films as a child, right next to Mel Brooks.
I even laugh when my family drinks warm beer while fishing at last lake next to Table Mountain and Mono Winds in California !
tmi!? 🌮😹🍻
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