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   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 12:16:10 PM UTC-10, good grief wrote:   
   > On Jan 10, 3:29 pm, "\"jordy\""  wrote:   
   > >   I saw "taxi driver" again recently, and it is an excellent movie,   
   > > but I wonder about the Cybil Sheppard character "betsy"... what is her   
   > > motivation? How does she really feel about Travis? It's unclear from   
   > > the movie whether she likes him or whether she is just playing games   
   > > with him... maybe a little of both?   
   > 1. first, it's SURPRISE when he walks into the campaign office of   
   > Palantine   
   > 2. second, it's a slight TURN ON when he seems like an out-going guy   
   > with balls. how many guys have the guts   
   > to approach a girl and say all that romantic stuff and ask a girl out   
   > on a date? she feels flattered. Also, she's tired of being   
   > around geeks like Albert Brooks.   
   > 3. third, it's CURIOSITY as he says some eccentric and weirdass   
   > things, at least to someone like her who prolly grew in safe white   
   > suburb or gentrified parts of city.   
   > 4. fourth, it's a bit of SYMPATHY as he seems to be so devoted to her--   
   > as a goddess unappreciated by the cold decaying city.   
   > 5. fifth, it's SHOCK when he takes her to a porno and reveals himself   
   > to be a socially inept moron and weirdo.   
   > 6. sixth, it's DISGUST at him and even herself that she was foolish to   
   > go out with a loser creep like him.   
   > 7. seventh, it's FEAR when he keeps calling and stalking her like an   
   > obsessive psycho.   
   > That's just about the gist of it if we go by schrader's screenplay,   
   > but scorsese tagged an ending where they meet again at the end. I   
   > found this scene unconvincing, but the implication is that she   
   > reassessed him after his notoriety as vigilante hero. It could mean   
   > she's just turned on by famous men--palantine or bickle. Or, it could   
   > mean she finally understood why he asked her out and showed so much   
   > concernr: on some level, he was trying to save her too.   
      
   (Youtube upload):   
      
   "Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver) | Mental Health & Personality"   
      
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