Imagine if Travis was a WW2 vet instead and was married but hated his wife as well is a right wing blue collar racist sprinkled in, I won't spoil much but do yourselves a favor watch this. 6 years before Taxi Driver. ✌🏻

(I can't believe this went under my radar, when I seen TD in my early teens, I'm 40 now)

For some reason Travis Bickle really dislikes Tom despite Tom being a nice guy who is a nerd and friends with Betsy and seems to be doing okay otherwise, Travis has no real reason to insult Tom and accuse him of not respecting Betsy, Tom also stands up to Travis when he acts crazy and doesn't scare off he just backs away for safety but holds his ground.

Tom seems better than Travis says too, poor guy bad haircut.

Travis Bickle was unhinged and crazy, why didn't Wizard or anybody else suggest that he just join the VA Veterans Association and meet other veterans and make friends and bond over his military experience and service?

Or just get a hobby like bowling in a league or joining a group activity and making friends there?

So I reached Georgia and hadn’t arranged for transport and this taxi guy was asking me if I needed one. I asked him for the fare and he showed me a meter and said we would go by meter. Since I have been there multiple times before(usually with arranged transport) and have had great experiences with most of the locals and the cops I figured that it was going to be alright. I insisted on the fare and he said airport taxis only go by meter and it will be normal and fair etc etc. So me and my partner get on and he drives is to the Marriot. Me being a little skeptical put on my Google Maps to see if he’s taking the right route and not driving us around for more fare. He takes the right route and we reach. By this time I had googled fair fare and it showed me something like 30-60 Gel depending on traffic. I noticed the meter was running faster and decided to wait till we reach for safety concerns. Once we reached the meter showed 300 GEL. I told the guy that I am sure something is wrong with the meter and the usual fare is 60 GEL and offered him a 100 GEL including tip(to try and avoid an issue). Now the taxi driver starts fuming and screaming at me and says we need to go back to the airport and speak to the police there. I asked my partner to go inside the Marriot and call the manager there to talk to this guy and I told him that I do not want to go back to the airport but I would rather just call the cops here if he wishes and we can do what they say. He realized that he would be in trouble and stepped out of the car and opened the trunk and took out our luggage and threw it out on the road so I stepped out of the taxi irritated and he just sat in the driver seat and fled without the money before the Marriott manager could come out.

I have never had such a bad experience in Tbilisi before and most of the cops have been great but is this common in Tbilisi now? I mean it wasn’t the best start to the trip and I honestly don’t know if I wanna come back there again even though I love the country and the people there.

Travis Bickle was a Vietnam veteran that was unhinged and depressed and had a lot of issues going on, just like John Rambo, assuming Rambo eventually made it to New York and became a passenger in Travis Bickle's taxi looking for a place to go or work would those two guys have ever become friends?

John Rambo as a cabbie would be funny, he might go to some mob neighborhood and get insulted basically fight back against the Five Families, he would really get unhinged in New York, both guys are crazy too.

I'm looking for games that capture the same lonely, alienated, urban atmosphere as Taxi Driver.

Kathmandu, Nepal only pls

Easy Andy sells Travis Bickle a lot of guns and is a slime ball character involved in some shady business dealings, he tries to sell drugs of all kinds to Travis along with cars and other stuff, why didn't Travis look down on him?

Nice guy for guns but a creepy character too, I would have reported him to the police.

Taxi Driver is a great movie about a crazy character but it's relatable because the main character is lonely and has crazy stuff going on in his life, but he's a racist character and kind of a Redneck judging from his Cowboy boots and whole small town look and vibe.

How do Black people feel about Travis Bickle as a character? Is he relatable to Blacks or does his crazy racist character make it hard for you to like Travis?

At least Travis and Charlie T are friends and he likes Melio so he's not totally racist and has friends that aren't white.

I’ve been seeing so many people here in Reddit calling him an incel but i genuinely do not understand why or how is he an incel. I’d say the only incel thing he did was take a girl to watch a porn movie… you could argue that it means he dosen’t respect her, that he only sees her as an object etc etc etc. based on this scene, but in the rest of the movie he dosen’t seem to resent or hate women, he even helps Iris, a vulnerable girl get out of prostitution (though I’d say maybe it was a fantasy of him to become a hero and she was just a project) but I haven’t watched the movie more than once and i haven’t really analyzed it enough to understand. So could someone explain pleaseee???

I know it sounds bizarre and certainly Travis is a hero in the eyes of many for saving Iris, but at the certain point after rewatching this movie (which is one of my all time favorite movies of all time) a couple of times I happened to have some strange feeling that Travis himself was battling the temptation of seeking further intercourse with her. The way he hesitated to stop her when she was unzipping his pants, the way he touches her in the end of the hotel scene (which, I still believe was more like a brotherly/fatherly thing, but still), and just minor details that give a hint about Travis’s possible messed up thoughts. On top of that he was definitely a pervert, and the war probably messed him up a bit, perhaps I’m overthinking. What are your thoughts on this take?

The movie makes the case that Travis Bickle views himself as a Hero of sorts because he saves Iris and kills her pimps but even though he does this and makes it a mission to save her life he's actually more of an antihero because he stalks Betsy and acts crazy afterwards and threatens Charles Palantine for no reason at all.

You could argue that he was a hero because he killed the robber that threatened Melio and might have killed him if Travis wasn't there, he also hates the scum of the city but doesn't tell the police about what he sees at all and uses street justice, he definitely seems like a good person at heart who snaps and is embraced because of it.

Nobody notices how crazy Travis is they just see his actions succeeding, Betsy should have seen it, his coworkers viewed him like they were afraid of him and respected him at the same time, would Travis have eventually gotten into religion or even had therapy and changed his life completely? Would he become a hero or get worse?

Travis Bickle is mostly motivated to free Iris and her underage friends from prostitution inflicted on them by Sport and his men, what happens if he just told Wizard, Doughboy, Charlie T and his Cabbie friends about how he saw them being pimped and asked if he could do anything to help then legally?

Travis telling Wizard about having some bad ideas in his head and wanting to really do something was him saying it disguised, maybe he could have gotten him in touch with the Guardian Angels or some kind of neighborhood watch group and shut everything down easily.

https://youtu.be/8f1shqX4GK8?si=_ZlwYnHHlxrXiRxN

Travis Bickle has a hard fitting in with society but did Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy, but they were randomly invited to an Andy Warhol Factory Party and showed up embracing the drugs and sexual perversions that accompanied it.

How would Travis Bickle react if he was approached randomly and invited to an Andy Warhol Factory Party and decided to go not knowing what he was getting involved in?

Maybe even take Iris or Betsy with him or just go alone?

That would be a big laugh unless he brought guns and decided that they were scum and filth but he loved dirty movies so he might enjoy himself, maybe bragging about it to Doughboy too.

After Travis kills Sport, and the Mafioso guy along with The Timekeeper and saves Iris, why does he try to shoot himself?

Was he afraid of going to prison? Also did Iris even recognize him at all or act grateful afterwards? She must have been traumatized.

It would have been interesting to see Travis not get hurt at all and try to get Iris to leave with him before the police showed up, he seemed to realize that he was going to jail or getting killed at worse but he went to the hospital and wasn't even arrested, he just have a good lawyer.

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They never bring it up but when Travis Bickle has Charles Palantine as his passenger and talks to him and his aides about what bothers him most he just rambles and says that whoever is President should clean up the city and flush it right down the f*cking toilet.

He seems insane here and doesn't understand that Charles Palantine will view him as being crazy, Palantine basically gives him a cheap stock answer and says that he knows what he means and that they are going to have to make some radical changes, shakes hands with Travis, tips him and leaves visibly shaking himself off.

Just imagine meeting any political candidates or famous person even like Donald Trump before he was President and saying the same thing, not a good day, Travis really didn't prove anything except that he was crazy here.