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> 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.
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> (Youtube upload):
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> "Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver) | Mental Health & Personality"
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