Kicking the Seat

Ep646: Late Screening: TAXI DRIVER


Listen Later

Yeah, we're talkin' to you! This month's "Late Screening" takes Ian and Cole on a wild ride through the mean streets of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.The iconic, gritty drama turns 45 this year, but its relevance as a film and as a hard-hitting societal critique is as striking as ever. Robert DeNiro stars as Travis Bickle, a disturbed Viet Nam vet whose social alienation, political disillusionment, and disgust at societal decay erupts in one of cinema's most unsettling climaxes. This was a first-time watch for Cole, and the first time Ian had watched Taxi Driver through adult eyes. Watch as the guys lament DeNiro's lack of electricity in future roles; marvel at Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader's ability to elicit complicated sympathies for a monster, and plant the seeds for the Clarice Starling Cinematic Universe (it'll all make sense by the end)! Show Links:Watch the Taxi Driver trailer.Read Cole's SURVIVOR essay (referenced in this episode) at The Quill to Live.Subscribe to, like, and comment on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel!
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Kicking the SeatBy Ian Simmons

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

8 ratings