Why is Taxi Driver still such a relatable and relevant film 40+ years after release?

Because it is a universal story about how loneliness and isolation can drive a man insane. We are social animals after all. When you add in the abhorrent and unnatural conditions of 1970s New York - you get prime conditions to create psychopaths

How is he so relateable?

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Lots of movies from that era are.
All we have now is garbage

This is so idiotic in itself. Yes Travis isn't meant to be a hero or the good guy. He isn't even bad. He is just very neutral after being lonely for so long. But even if you consider him as a true antagonist... why can't antagonists be the leads? Why does it have to be the good guys always?

He thinks he has it all figured out in his internal monologues but he always acts like an autist.

>Lots of movies from that era are.
You have George Lucas to thank for Taxi Driver, Apolcaypse Now existing. Lucas was meant to direct Apocalypse Now (It was his idea) but the war had just ended and was too soon. He was the entire reason the new wave of film realism began existing thanks to his THX short film that was later turned into a feature film and his teenage flick: American Graffiti. Lucas would have done more serious dramas if he never made Star Wars but who doesn't love the OT? And the PG 13 rating was again all due to him writing Temple of Doom during a dark time in his life which is why it is so horrific. True genius.

>Source: The Secret History of Star Wars
>tfw that book has bad reviews online
Who could be behind this?

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Antagonist is someone who prevents the protagonist from achieving his goals. Even when the lead is a bad guy, he is never the antagonist, always protagonist.

Pretty much predicted the incel epidemic. also a reminder that in the original script, the pimp and all the gangsters and johns in the end who get killed were all originally supposed to be black. it's literally a movie about an incel white dude who gets sick of nigger shit until he explodes into a violent frenzy. quite literally "Yea Forums the movie"

So the main lead in film Rampage is the protagonist despite massacring his entire town?

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There was still racism in the movie though?
>"Do you know who lives there"
>Travis eyeing the black guy who was part of his Taxi friends in a very angry manner during climax of 2nd act

If he's the main lead then yes, he's the protagonist. Villain protagonists are a thing.

>incel
He literally walks into the office of a 10/10 and scores a date with her, completely cucking her horny co-worker.
A 12 year old loli throws herself at him and he's sickened and only want's to set her straight.
This is not an "incel"
fuck off back to redit

>"Sweet Iris"
What did he mean by this?

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Like all true incels he fucks it up every time he has an opportunity to get laid

incel stands for "involuntary celibate" not "I can't get a date" you fucking retard

>Every incel is the same
No they are not

>tfw literally me
youtube.com/watch?v=kvApmCuZads

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Travis my be an autist an insane but he's still pretty tough. I wouldn't imagine it'd be hard for him to get pussy or go through with hiring a prostitute.
This is not a "incel"

>Travis is a walking contradiction. He hates the scuminess of New York but frequents porno theaters and drives around prostitutes. He talks about maintaining a good diet but pours liquor on his breakfast and pops pills constantly. The truth is, Travis is lonely, and as a result he's a mishmash of various ideologies.

>He's incapable of seeing Betsy's dismissiveness as anything but a superficial perception of his persona. And this is key to his character. Travis develops hatred for the lifestyles that reject him, and as a result, his repressed egotism grows.

H-haha, wow. Can you i-imagine being this troubled.

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You're stupid for needing to ask this. Go back to grade school.

why does he take his date to a porn theater?

what is incel, do you have to be genuinely mentally ill like supreme gentleman?

Because he's autistic and warped and thinks it's normal?

in that case it's just a dumb buzzword for "single"

involuntary celibate. Unwanted by the opposite sex

well what about ugly rich guys? Theyre not really 'wanted' but they have sex

Because he’s an incel virgin FREAK!

then they aren't celibate are they

>This is not a "incel"

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Man, I miss when movie posters looked iconic.

>He made a negative observation about women
Oh yeah he's an incel alright, no sex for him

It's not about sex. It's about the way he views woman i.e. incel

>score Tinder date
>show her your hentai collection
FUCK ROASTIES

incel is about sex though. You can have those views and not be incel

>muh reddit buzzwords
fuck off

>You can have those views and not be incel

lmao and yet somehow you're still a virgin

its a movie loved by basedbois that realized live wasnt what their boomer father told them

as long as there is sheltered bois it will be remembered

Im not and youre missing the point. Why do you think being sexist has anything to do with being attractive?

You can tell this was written by a woman, or at least somebody who knows how to exaggerate like one.

Protagonist is the main character. Protagonist does not mean "good guy".

yeah man, you have to be nice to girls to get pussy, they never open their legs for anyone who expresses contempt for them and treats them like garbage

overrated as fuck

this cut deep

go back

cringe and reddit

If Travis had a computer with internet then he would have been fine.

but he's absolutely right

Based and irony-pilled

I-im not fat.

>even more Travis Bickles
Travis was a Vietnam veteran who was fucked up by his war experiences and lived in 70s NYC surrounded by the scum of humanity.

They only added the Vietnam aspect to his character since it was relevant at the time. The writer Paul Schrader who based Travis on himself and his feelings of loneliness and isolation wasn't a war veteran or anything. The world around is different but the essence of Travis is still the same.

>High-risk, high-reward strategy

Based and redpilled

Scorsese makes asshole fantasies for people that wish they could be the asshole but know they never will. And I love em

Because guns and growing list of active shooter events

>relatable and relevant
Kek. Hell no retard.

Cuz it is the story of misfit. It’s the classic Y’know ???

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I hate his movies, he's partly responsible for soicety going into cynical downard spiral