Now, he's seemingly found a purpose, and plans to help the girl anyway he can. When a militarized Travis shows up at a Palantine rally, wearing a mohawk and aviator shades, he's left his real identity behind. Earlier, Wizard explains how a man can become his job in this case, a taxi driver , and now Travis has fully transformed into someone else — the archetypal Man with No Name. Previously, he'd been identified as a suspicious individual after lying to a Secret Service agent during a Palantine rally; in this moment, he tries to assassinate the politician but doesn't succeed.
This version of Travis suggests that he's delusional and fully detached from reality. Shortly before the assassination attempt, he writes a letter to his parents and implies that he's doing "sensitive work" for the government, and that he's dating Betsy. Travis also tells Iris that he "has to do something for the government," and that he "might be going a way for a while. Now, he's identified that place as a hell on earth.
Travis becomes a fatalist in Taxi Driver. He believes that he's supposed to kill Palantine — a man who claims to represent the "the people. It's this same frame of mind that unfortunately inspired John Hinckley Jr. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to get the attention of the Taxi Driver actress who portrays Iris, the aforementioned Foster.
In Taxi Driver , Travis kills Matthew and then waits a few moments before ascending into a hell on earth, a New York City building where men pay to have sex with teenage prostitutes. Aesthetically, this entire sequence was inspired by Scorsese's admiration of Caravaggio, an Italian Baroque artist known for blending the sacred with the profane via Rebeller.
First, Travis blasts a pimp's hand and ultimately shoots him in the head. By saving Iris from harm, Travis has eliminated a profane threat and protected a sacred figure. Any one of Scorsese's visuals could be the premise for a Caravaggio painting, as the Italian artist often incorporated extreme violence into his work, even going so far to depict his own severed head in "David with the Head of Goliath.
In a slight twist, however, Travis' plan fails when he runs out of bullets. Travis dies from his wounds in Taxi Driver after the police arrive; a moment that's foreshadowed earlier when he suggests that Betsy will "die in a hell like the rest of 'em. Visually, Scorsese shoots from above to remind the audience that they're looking down on Travis and the other victims who lie in the hell they created. An angelic figure in white, Iris, is the lone survivor, and she's framed next to religious imagery.
The passenger directs Travis's attention to the silhouette of a woman in a window. He says the woman is his wife and that she is sleeping with a black man in the apartment.
He says he will kill her, describing his plans in gruesome and suggestive detail. Read an in-depth analysis of The Unnamed Passenger.
One of Betsy's coworkers on the Palantine campaign. Tom, like Travis, is in love with Betsy, but while Travis is too much of an outsider for Betsy, Tom is too square. His jokes mostly fall flat, and he is cowardly in his attempts to protect Betsy from Travis.
A senator who is campaigning for President, and whom Travis later tries, and fails, to assassinate. Palantine is a liberal trying to capitalize on the anti-Vietnam youth culture to win the Democratic nomination. His politician's nature comes through when he talks to Travis in his cab, making sure to call him by his name and to shake his hand afterward, even though Travis has unsettled him by swearing and talking like a madman. Palantine may or may not also be the man who gets into the cab early on in the movie with a prostitute, telling Travis to hurry up while pretending he isn't there, a marked contrast to his calm, diplomatic attitude later on.
An experienced cabby Travis sometimes hangs out with on his break. Travis reaches out to Wizard before he buys his guns, hoping Wizard will have some words of encouragement that will stop his violent plans.
All Wizard can say is that once a man has a job, like driving a taxi, he becomes that job. Travis doesn't take him seriously. Wizard's words turn out to be prophetic, as Travis fails to kill himself and so remains a taxi driver indefinitely. A black cab driver who is friendly with Wizard and Doughboy. Charlie T's presence makes Travis uncomfortable, but we know that Travis does have some interaction with him because he borrowed five dollars from him at some point.
Did Travis survive the shoot-out? Are we experiencing his dying thoughts? Can the sequence be accepted as literally true? I am not sure there can be an answer to these questions. The end sequence plays like music, not drama: It completes the story on an emotional, not a literal, level. In an interview with The Guardian , De Niro mentioned how he wanted to make a sequel to Taxi Driver, indicating his belief that Travis is very much alive. After all, this woman had tried to kill someone, and now she was on the cover of a magazine, like some sort of celebrity.
Inspired, Schrader wrote an ending where America turns a psychotic gunman into a national hero.
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