Showing posts with label Taxi Driver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxi Driver. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2014

LAMBcast #226: Taxi Driver

Jess, JD and Movie of the Month champion Will joined Jay and me for a discussion about Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese's classic film about a mentally unstable taxi driver named Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) who sets out to clean up the streets of New York. He's just gotta eat some apple pie with cheese first.



Some notes/highlights!

  • Do you think the ending (post shootout) was real or some sort of death/dream? 
  • We talked quite a bit about Travis' diet. Apple pie with cheese and liquor poured over bread (was he trying to make bread pudding or something?) are just a few of Travis' favorite snacks.
  • Here's that "Rorschach Meets Travis Bickle" thing Will talks about. It's from "Before Watchmen", a series of prequel comics that came out a few years back. As far as I know, "Watchmen" writer Alan Moore wasn't involved with those comics at all. 
Bleeding Cool

  • My Travis Bickle impression does kind of suck. But did Jess do one? No!!! Someday she will. Oh yes, someday.