It would be interesting to observe the reaction of modern day people if it would be possible to transport them to 1970s New York City.

adults don't need things censored. indeed. this.

Check out "Good Time" from 2017 if you like Taxi Driver and appreciate a gritty story.

Couldn't agree more. It's sickening how much modern films and television feel the need to censor every little thing that's offensive. The world is an offensive place, full of evil and torment, if you fail to include that in stories then the audience has nothing to relate the story to. It is no longer grounded in any reality. This is why I think a lot of people collect and re-watch these great films, because they are from an era when film creators could put anything on screen and more often then not, they desired to portray realistic, immersive stories that the audience could learn something from or be impacted by. You remove the harshness of life from a story and you don't have a story anymore. I for one believe if this censorship continues we won't even be able to stream movies like this anymore, it's getting that bad. That's why I still buy DVD's because I'll be damned if I am going to let the government tell me what is safe or unsafe for me and my family to watch. Especially seeing most of the crap they are spewing out these days is far more political and damaging then any of this old stuff.

not just that era ANY ERA. ALL civilizations and times have people , most people, certainly street hardened people and certainly men, who use curse words, profanity, insults, breaking balls etc... its the attitude of hollywood the media and univeristies and people these days that is wrong , infantile, stupid and ultimately moe akin to censorship than anything wrong with these films. The sopranos is filled with cursing and insults and colourfull language and thats why its so realistic and fun and hilarious and truthfull! real people dont have a focus group to tell them whihc words can or cant be used ....

If by “iconic” you mean “problematic sexist pile of shit” then you’ve nailed it.

@@jordantaylor260 whaaa??😂

@@irvinnovik6643 You, my tiny minded friend, are my absolute favourite. It's not enough for you to be a f****wit. You're trying to take it to a different level: that of the indifferent troll. Supposedly someone who knows something we don't. Well, let's see what you know, with your one word, one emoji answers that are supposed to provide all the valid arguments. I can see your name is Eastern European in origin, so (yawn) that's where you're from or it's you're background. What an absolute hive of misogyny, homophobia, superstition and outright backwards thinking, lead by conditioning from a young age into a mindset that suits the status quo. That's the birth place of your non-dimensional idiocy. But do tell me, what do you mean by "whaaaa" (not a full word) or a laughing emoji? I suppose that's supposed to show some level of intellectual superiority, like that Taliban bloke who started laughing a few weeks ago when he was asked if women would be allowed into positions of government in Afghanistan? Is that what you think? I bet it is, Irvin the Moron. Just show misplaced smugness in place of actual intelligence backed by reasoned arguments. That'll work. It's also a sign of somebody with nothing to say. You don't have an opinion or an argument. You simply believe a thing and that's it, because that's what you were told. The worst kind of sheep. Mindless. You're the detritus of humanity. A worthless, thoughtless phantom who flits from one situation to the next, merely existing, never forging anything for yourself. When we rid ourselves of dregs like you it will be a happy day. You will die decrepit and alone, without understanding. Have a nice day.

YES! the score doesn't recieve enough credit. herrmann scored many iconic films including hitchcock's "psycho!" this movie demonstrates the thin line between heroism and psychosis. travis was NO HERO! he was a maniac on the verge of a complete breakdown. he failed to murder his primary target, a politician, and then proceeded to his secondary target, a pimp. he wasn't seeking justice or the common good. he was looking for someone to kill. and because of whom he ultimately murdered he was wrongly declared by society a hero instead of the psychotic villain that he actually was.

@@jordantaylor260 don't be an idiot

He's also sitting on the wall in the black T-shirt at 4:48

@@betsyduane3461 Saw that in my first viewing. Some Hitchcock-like cameo he made there. He also did one on Raging Bull, right before the end.

scorcese can also be seen as cybill shepherd makes her entrance to the film walking in slow motion across the screen. you can see him sitting in the background watching her pass by. the real monster in this film IS PSYCHOSIS and DELUSION! notice we, the audience, don't really know if what travis sees is real or a paranoid delusion. this movie demonstrates the thin line between heroism and psychosis. travis was NO HERO! he was a maniac on the verge of a complete breakdown. he failed to murder his primary target, a politician, and then proceeded to his secondary target, a pimp. he wasn't seeking justice or the common good. he was looking for someone to kill. and because of whom he ultimately murdered he was wrongly declared by society a hero instead of the psychotic villain that he actually was.

interesting indeed. I've seen this film more than once, long ago and longer still ago. Sometimes I fancy myself as lonely, but then I hear that this film is about isolation, alienation, then I remember that I in fact have MANY friends, and then I realize that whatever I am, lonely is not it. :)

Another fact about the scene is the person who was actually supposed to play this character did not follow through so Martin Scorsese played the scene himself.

I actually like The King Of Comedy more than Taxi Driver ( I still love Taxi Driver a lot). I think Taxi Driver has a better soundtrack though.

So is Sidney Lumet’s DOG DAY AFTERNOON and NETWORK.

Yep. Phoenix even wears the same red jacket as DeNiro.

Yup your right, Scorsese was asked the direct The Joker that’s where the influence came from, he declined because of other projects

Paul Schroeder was a brilliant screen writer, he also directed a hidden Jem called Blue Collar

I believe that Paul Schrader said that when he wrote this, his intent was more or less word for word your take on the ending.

I’ve always assumed that the ending was Travis’s hallucination while he died.

@@ronbock8291 You're exactly correct. He died on the couch, the rest was hallucinated while he was dying.

@@ronbock8291 Also how its filmed from above , suggest Travis is watching his dead body on the sofa .

@@pete_lind That may be right, I don't mind sitting on the fence on that one. But regardless, it's entirely likely that Travis would have been seen as a vigilante/anti hero type by at least the public even if he did die and almost a given that Iris' family would have praised him in death in the same way as was portrayed in whatever you perceive the ending to be.

I am 46, I am not a right winger, and I don't understand why people would be offended by such language in 'movies,' in stories, particularly stories about the relevant time period, today included, for it's not like there aren't crazy racist people, some of them politicians, actually SAYING racist things today. Yes, it's offensive. Yes it's wrong and yes people shouldn't do it, but being offended that it is even 'depicted,' particularly in a story not only set but MADE 50 years ago is just foolish. Come on, people, life isn't a fairy-tale, and movies and any other stories about culture/the world/existence need to be truthful, they can't pretend people never used racist language, that's in a way almost as bad as the right wingers white-washing real-life slavery itself in actual textbooks in actual schools. Racism and racist language are wrong, but be offended by the right things, by people actually being racist and actually using racist language, not by depictions of them in films for accuracy's sake.

Yep. And not just cabbies. Nearly everybody. And if you need movie verification of that, try Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, Serpico, etc etc etc

I wonder how people nowadays would get along if they woke up in 1970s New York City.

De Niro would actually drive taxi passengers in between takes so he could get more in the role and he has a taxi driver’s license and there was one passenger who recognized him

@@gazoontight terrible time to woke up

@@gazoontight They'd be in perpetual shock.

I wouldn't sweat it too much. Trends in fashionable speech come and go. Most people shrug a lot of it off learn from other parts of it (like, the N-word really, really is offensive), and end up with a somewhat modified form of the kind of speech that seems natural to them. The more unnatural aspects of newfangled speech (some of the pronoun stuff) will prove to be a passing fad.

The pandemic actually has kinda brought the drive-in BACK! lol

Drive-ins never went away. Back east where I am from there are two drive-ins that have been THRIVING - one shows new movies and all (Becky's) and the other (Mahoning) is kind of the art-house horror house drive-in, Joe Bob Briggs had an event there last month and all. Drive-Ins still rule.

@@StevenRice The majority are gone and it's too bad. Glad there are some still around, there used to be multiplex drive-ins like there are multi-plex walk-in theaters.

@@DylansPen beckys has two separate screens which is fun, usually a family friendly screen and a mature screen. It’s awesome, I miss it now that I’m out west

I agree.

I’m walking here 🚶‍♂️ I’m walking here !

As a young man I had no ideas about movies in general and had never heard of Midnight Cowboy. I saw it on TV one evening, pre-cable, pre-internet, and at the end of it I thought to myself this should've won a best picture award. Little did I know.

"midnight cowboy" was the ONLY x-rated movie to win an oscar. now, you can watch the film almost unedited, in its entirity right on broadcast tv. that's where i first saw it and fell in love with it.

And it happened only because the actor who had been hired for the role never showed up at the day of filmming.

@@carlossaraiva8213 sorry, My bad

The King of Comedy was a great movie and perhaps even more of an influence.

Excellent movie.

fewer??????????

Yeh it’s an amazing thing that when this film came out and for years after we didn’t even know WHAT he was, he was just so well portrayed he was real. Now we have a name for him; a shooter, incel, autistic, etc etc

Speaking of Easy Andy or the guy portraying him, he told the story of a person who ODed and someone had to use a syringe with a long needle and slam it into their heart and the person came to instantly. Quentin Tarantino borrowed (or stole) the story and used it in his movie, you can probably guess what movie it is.

I also like when he says women are "like a union" 🤣

Now I'm always going to think of Kazzy saying Palpatine when I watch this movie 😆

I'd like to add Dog Day Afternoon starring Al Pacino.

@@benntura - oh, absolutely. Fantastic film.

Yes so true ! I always wondered why films changed so much in the 80's ( also music )

5 easy pieces

That's good!

And in 1976-77, the Son of Sam killer was walking in the streets of the City..

Welcome aboard! Thank you so much! I'm here to be your ASMR Movie Reactor! Ahahaha. I hope you enjoy all of my reactions. 🙏💛

@@KazzyCreates yea, that's one of the things you're style made me think of. Like mr. Roger's or one of those people presenting a show over tv to an audience. Also, I thought of like someone conducting a session of something(anything; yoga, a book club, support group, etc.).

Just admit, you're in love with her.

@@stynershiner1854 haha, I probably am a little in love with her.

I was gonna make espresso!

Speaking of Gene Hackman, _The French Connection_ is a thriller that ought to be on everyone's list. It's got all the things that make for a great reaction: cops, criminals, shootouts, a spectacular car chase, and Hackman's Oscar-winning performance.

I wonder how a film like this could traumatize a person. I mean, could it? my mother thought it would traumatize her, when I finally convinced her to see it, maybe 12 years ago, she found it quaint, like a period piece from the 70s, not NEARLY as visceral as she had always feared.

... you know they killed that bus just make shepherd's dress. it was horrible. there was grease, oil and gasoline everywhere! actually, that's an interesting observation. i never noticed that before.

Sadly its not

So Travs is Han Solo, the guy who shoots first

@@kidgforce1 kaboom tishhhhhhh

Funny how you call him a psychopath while the studies show that most of the times psychopaths are likely to be politicians or ceos of big corps. Travis is mentally ill but i'm sure is not a psychopath.

It’s a bit exaggerated to say that imo but yeah movies do tend to make big deals about more tame words as well.

​@@dibsdibs3495in my experience it is the typical language I hear every day at work

@@kevinfrost7180 yeah I’ve heard groups talk like that but it honestly wasn’t exclusively based on whether they were poor or rich.

Most people don’t even know who Paul Schroeder is lol which is sad

@@kdizzle901 Schrader, not Schroeder, lol. Most people don't take note of the writers, not just Schrader, that's why it was so cool that she did! To be fair, although there are famous screenwriters I know (Robert Towne, Frances Marion, Paddy Chayefsky, Anita Loos, Buck Henry, etc), there are lots of my favorite movies that I can't tell you who wrote the script. (or who is credited with it, since that's a whole other thing)

@@TTM9691 I typed Schrader my phone atucorrects weird shit…..there’s so many great writers from the 70s…Frank Pierson is another one

@@kdizzle901 Ah, sorry, of course. Autocorrect sucks! It's not just your phone. So annoying!

@@TTM9691 it autocorrects the weirdest words

I thought the same thing! I think the most underrated scene in "Taxi Driver" is when De Niro goes to Boyle to ask for advice......and Boyle tries to help, but ultimately has no answers. Also, his (and Susan Sarandon's) first movie, "Joe" is one of the more underrated (or overlooked) movies of the '70s; that was a cultural phenomenon the summer it was released, and unfortunately, still very pertinent to this day.

Not to mention he even required a Taxi license for it as well.

To prepare for this role, DeNiro beat off in several adult movie theaters.

family friendly cinema killed realistic cinema

my favourite movie too, besides Blue Velvet by David Lynch

Same hate that part.