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Wannabe Outlaw
2026-03-16 09:55:37 UTC “Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood.
Twelve hours of work and I still can’t sleep. Damn. Days go on and on. They don’t end.”
(Putting this on loop before going to sleep to Travis Bicklemaxx)
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Also, sad fact: This was the last theme composed by Bernard Herrmann, who Immediately after finishing the recording of the Taxi Driver score on December 23, 1975, viewed the rough cut of what was to be his next film assignment (Larry Cohen’s God Told Me To) and dined with Cohen before returning to his hotel, and dying from an apparent heart attack in his sleep the next day.
There’s something quite bittersweet about what Taxi Driver is all about and the way all the elements of it are put together. Personally, I felt like I could empathise with what Travis was saying and the way he lived his life. Travis is not a hero, nor is Taxi Driver even really constructed to tell you what is definitively so wrong or right. It’s moreso just putting the viewer in a world where there is so much corruption and chaos, that when Travis comes along and does what he does, he could be seen as either the Villain or Hero depending on the way the viewer interprets it.
All in all, a great film and I always love revisiting it.
Fine, ill play your game.
Travis to me is not just a villain or a freak, though his actions are something evil or malicious, overall his heart is always in the right place.
The entire film he struggles to find a meaning or purpose to his life, and when he “finds” it by fighting crime, the first thing he does is try and take out a political candidate out of sheer childish and petty rage in hopes of being killed simply for being rejected by Betsy, the only reasons he chickens out is because he knows the secret service is onto him already.
Travis wanted to leave a legacy behind, ever since the start of the film he talks about becoming a fighter against scum and a legend amongst the streets, and i believe that’s why he’s not a purely evil character.
If he just wanted to kill somebody before going out, he could’ve easily shot some random bystanders before turning the gun on himself, but since he truly wished to do something good on the world, he goes against Iris’ captors.
There’s something quite bittersweet about what Taxi Driver is all about and the way all the elements of it are put together.
That alone makes it masterclass.Putting each part of it together had to have been a fulfilling experience for everyone involved.