(Scorsese calls this the “priest’s eye view” because it’s similar to how a priest looks down at an altar.) As the camera slowly pans down the hallway and into the street, we see the blood-stained walls, the bodies slumped on the floor, and the curious spectators gathered outside. And that’s when things get a little ambiguous.Īfter the shoot-out, Martin Scorsese gives us an overhead shot of the brothel. When he can’t shoot his ex-girlfriend’s boss, he goes after Iris’s pimp, killing three people in the process. Travis is a crazy person who wants revenge against everyone and everything. Up until this point in the film, everything has been pretty straight forward.
When armed police officers storm the room, they find Travis covered in blood, miming a pistol with his hand and committing mock suicide. In the film’s bloody climax, Bickle attacks a brothel, killing Sport (Harvey Keitel), a bouncer, and an angry gangster, thus “rescuing” Iris (Jodie Foster) from a life of prostitution. And that’s when “Operation: Kill Palantine” becomes “Operation: Save Iris.”
#Crusader no remorse vs reddit driver
“There has never been a choice for me.” However when the mohawked murderer shows up at Palantine’s campaign rally, he’s spotted by Secret Service agents and loses his nerve.īickle escapes into the crowd, but while he’s failed his mission, the taxi driver is still boiling with rage-against the Senator, against his ex-girlfriend Betsy (Cybil Shepherd), against New York and the “scum” of the world.
“My whole life is pointed in one direction,” Travis writes in his diary. He’s going to kill Senator Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris). Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a man with a plan.
0 kommentar(er)
