Guns, Wiping the Scum of the streets. Working Out, Porn, Getting "Organizized" and My "Angels":
Betsy. I first saw her at Palantine Campaign headquarters at 63rd and Broadway. She was wearing a white dress. She appeared like an angel. Out of this filthy mess, she is alone.
They...cannot...touch...her.
And Iris, the 12½ year-old prostitute that i helped escape from a world of hookers and pimps, she was a young girl, she should be at home. she should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school, you know, that kind of stuff.
Music
I dont follow music as much as id like to, my record player is broken.....betsy told me one time i reminded her of some guy, i bought his lp and gave it to her as a gift,
i believe it was a Kris Kristofferson LP- 'He's a prophet...he's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walking contradiction.'
Songs inspired by Travis Bikle:
The Clash - 'Red Angel Dragnet'
Rancid - 'Travis Bickle'
Poison Idea - The Badge
The Swarm - xOn Your Kneesx
Movies
I dont know much about movies.
Television
whatever is on.
Books
Heroes
the men and women who help me rid the streets of common scum.
"Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up."
Bickle is a former Marine who served in Vietnam. He is socially inept, has no apparent friends, and is suffering from insomnia, so he takes a job as a graveyard shift taxi driver to occupy his time. As he works late at night in dangerous neighborhoods, his customers tend to include pimps, drug addicts, and thieves. He is visibly disgusted by them, and begins fantasizing about "cleansing" such "filth" from the streets.
Bickle becomes smitten with a woman, Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), who works in the local campaign office of a presidential candidate, a Senator Palantine. He often watches Betsy from his cab, and finally enters the office with the pretense of wanting to support the would-be candidate, and asks her out. They meet for coffee, and Betsy finds him odd but intriguing, and agrees to see him again. This time he takes her to the porno movie theater he frequents, apparently seeing nothing unusual in the choice. She is appalled and refuses to see him again.
After this, Bickle becomes increasingly paranoid and starts acting out his vigilante fantasies. He buys several guns and takes to carrying them, and knives secreted about his person — taped to his limbs, for example or in hidden spring-loaded holsters. He famously practices a menacing, tough guy swagger in the mirror — You talkin' to me? — to use on whoever angers him. Eventually he shaves his head into a mohawk, and in dark glasses and a baggy military coat, attends one of Palantine's speeches, apparently intent on shooting him. He draws the attention of Secret Service agents and flees, so it is never clear whether he would have done so.
He also becomes obsessed with "saving" Iris (Jodie Foster), a 12-year-old prostitute he has seen on his route. He pays her pimp, Sport (Harvey Keitel), for her time, but refuses to have sex with her, trying instead to persuade her to leave prostitution and return home to her parents. Iris rebuffs him, only increasing his anger and resolve to take her away from a dangerous life. Although he is wounded, he shoots and kills Sport, and continues through a hotel in which Iris is servicing a client, killing the client and a bouncer with a wounded arm.
The newspapers hail Bickle as a hero for rescuing Iris. While in the hospital, he receives a letter from her parents, thanking him profusely for returning their daughter to them (she had been sent home after the police arrived and found out she was a runaway.) After recovering, he sees Betsy, who grants him an admiring, seductive smile. This final scene has been interpreted by many as Bickle's fantasy as he lays dying of his wounds, but the viewer is ultimately left to decide, in a similar question about Citizen Kane. Is this really his dying dream? Does he really become famous and get his life back on track? It should be noted that the murders he committed were all premeditated murder, and despite the fact he was saving a little girl and whether or not those men 'deserved' it, he could still be liable for prosecution charges.
"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who do the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh, yeah? Ok."
Who I'd like to meet:
Sen. Charles Palantine
" The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again."
"I don't believe that someone should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe someone should become a person like other people."
Travis Bickle - Rancid - Taxi Driver
Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.
All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
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Bickle is a former Marine who served in Vietnam. He is socially inept, has no apparent friends, and is suffering from insomnia, so he takes a job as a graveyard shift taxi driver to occupy his time. As he works late at night in dangerous neighborhoods, his customers tend to include pimps, drug addicts, and thieves. He is visibly disgusted by them, and begins fantasizing about "cleansing" such "filth" from the streets.
Bickle becomes smitten with a woman, Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), who works in the local campaign office of a presidential candidate, a Senator Palantine. He often watches Betsy from his cab, and finally enters the office with the pretense of wanting to support the would-be candidate, and asks her out. They meet for coffee, and Betsy finds him odd but intriguing, and agrees to see him again. This time he takes her to the porno movie theater he frequents, apparently seeing nothing unusual in the choice. She is appalled and refuses to see him again. 
The newspapers hail Bickle as a hero for rescuing Iris. While in the hospital, he receives a letter from her parents, thanking him profusely for returning their daughter to them (she had been sent home after the police arrived and found out she was a runaway.) After recovering, he sees Betsy, who grants him an admiring, seductive smile. This final scene has been interpreted by many as Bickle's fantasy as he lays dying of his wounds, but the viewer is ultimately left to decide, in a similar question about Citizen Kane. Is this really his dying dream? Does he really become famous and get his life back on track? It should be noted that the murders he committed were all premeditated murder, and despite the fact he was saving a little girl and whether or not those men 'deserved' it, he could still be liable for prosecution charges.
