The year was 1976.
When writer Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese
collaborated to make a film called 'Taxi Driver',
little had they imagined
that it will go on to be considered as
one of the greatest films of all time.
Robert DeNiro delivered an excellent performance as Travis Bickle,
a cab driver driven to insanity by loneliness.
Listen you fuckers, you screwheads.
Here's 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 someone who stood up.
Since then, Travis Bickle has been the subject of numerous character studies
and remains one of the most popular characters in cinematic history.
38 years after the world met Travis Bickle for the first time,
Lou Bloom came by.
The brainchild of Dan Gilroy for his debut film 'Nightcrawler',
Lou also exhibits traits similar to Travis,
most notably loneliness and psychopathic behavior.
What if my problem wasn't that I don't understand people,
but that I don't like them?
What if I was obliged to hurt you for something like this?
In this video,
we will try to draw out the parallels between the two characters as well as the films.
Without even watching the movies,
the first similarity that you can find out between the two are their posters.
Both the posters have a car in the backdrop
and the lead characters standing a few feet away from their cars.
The car is the most valued possession for both the characters
and is essential to their livelihood.
Note how both the posters are shot in the dark
because they work in night jobs.
A few minutes into both the films
and you will come across a scene where the lead character tries to get a job for himself.
I will work anytime, anywhere.
Will you work Jewish holidays?
Anytime, anywhere.
I am looking for a job.
In fact, I have made up my mind to find a career
that I can learn and grow into.
Who am I? I am a hard worker,
I set high goals
and I have been told that I am persistent.
Notice how in both the scenes,
the employer is sitting behind a desk
while our lead characters are standing in front of the desk
and expressing their willingness to work in any given situation.
One of the early scenes in Taxi Driver
involves Travis looking out at the streets of New York while driving.
All the animals come out at night.
Whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies
He is disgusted by the filthy people in the city
And later in the film,
his psychopathic actions are partly instigated
by his desire to get rid of the filth.
Nightcrawler also features a scene
where we see Lou driving while looking out at the streets of Los Angeles.
He sees a red car in a lavish showroom,
but at the moment doesn't have any money to own such a car.
This car represents his lust for money, which is a driving factor of his psychopathic behavior.
Of course once he has enough money,
he waits no longer to buy the car of his dreams.
Now let's move on to one of the major themes of Taxi Driver.
Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere.
In bars, in cars.
Sidewalks, stores everywhere
There's no escape. I am God's lonely man.
Travis is a loner.
He doesn't have any real friends and isn't in touch with his family.
He lives alone in his apartment
and spends most of his time writing in his diary or watching television or adult films.
He has poor social skills
and struggles to fit in with the society.
While loneliness isn't a major theme in Nightcrawler
the character of Lou Bloom enjoys loneliness.
Much like Travis, he lives alone in an apartment
with no friends or family by his side.
His apartment is always dark.
even when you can see daylight outside the windows.
In all the scenes shot during daylight,
you will always see him wearing sunglasses.
It's as if he has an affinity for darkness.
But unlike Travis, he doesn't have poor social skills.
He has an ability to charm people.
I can tell by your tie, it's Friday.
He chooses to be lonely because he likes being lonely.
Now let's have a look at the women in their lives
Travis and Lou express romantic interests in strong, confident and independent women.
Lou is interested in Nina even though she is much older than him.
Travis falls in love with Betsy who works as a campaign volunteer.
Both the women are seemingly good at what they do and carry themselves with panache.
Lou takes Nina on a date to a restaurant
where he exerts leverage over her and blackmails her into sleeping with him.
Travis also takes Betsy on a date to a restaurant
where they seem to establish a connection.
But he ruins it up on their next date when he takes her to a porno theater.
Though he doesn't intend to offend her,
Betsy is disgusted and calls off the relationship.
Needless to say, both the women have an unpleasant dating experience with our lead characters.
It's also interesting to note that both Betsy and Nina are dressed in white
when our characters encounter them for the first time.
While this may have no significance in Nightcrawler,
the white dress serves an important purpose in Taxi Driver.
The white dress is used to give Betsy an angelic appearance in the eyes of Travis.
She appeared like an angel.
Out of this filthy mess.
She is alone.
They..
cannot..
touch..
her...
And of course,
who can forget the iconic
'You talkin to me?' monologue in front of the mirror.
Lou Bloom also took some inspiration here
and decided to vent out his frustration in front of a mirror.
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
You talkin' to me?
Who the fuck do you think you are talking to?
These scenes in front of the mirror offer us a glimpse into their pyschopathy.
Both the characters reveal their full blown psychopathic nature
in a bloody shootout scene in the climax.
Owing to loneliness, rejection and disgust about the filth around him,
Travis slowly descends into insanity.
He sets out on a bloody rampage believing his actions to be heroic
while they are nothing but psychotic.
This psychopathic stint results in a lot of bloodshed.
Lou on the other hand is so hungry about money and fame
that he doesn't display even a slightest hint of conscience.
He stages an encounter between a gang and cops
which results in a few casualties.
He even tricks his partner into death
just because he exerted leverage over him.
If this isn't psychopathy, I don't know what is.
An important point to note here
is that while both Travis and Lou exhibit psychopathic behavior,
Travis does have a conscience.
He is not a wicked man.
He is just a lonely guy and the loneliness takes a toll on him.
He just can't comprehend that his actions are psychotic
rather than altruistic.
On the other hand, Lou is a despicable character
right from the beginning.
In the very first scene of the film,
we see him attacking a guard to steal his watch.
He even rigs his rival's van just to get rid of him.
This clearly shows that the man doesn't possess a conscience.
In addition to being a psychopath, Lou is also a megalomaniac.
He enjoys power and likes to be in control of everything.
When he coaxes Nina into sleeping with him,
it is more about power than sexual desire.
To quote Oscar Wilde,
"Everything in this world is about sex, except sex"
"Sex is about power"
Lou has got the upper hand and he likes to leverage this power
to coax an older woman into sleeping with him.
It is this feeling of power that he enjoys.
When he tricks his partner into death,
we get to see both these sides of Lou.
You took my bargaining power, Rick.
You used it against me.
You would have done it again.
He feels threatened when his power is taken away from him.
This shows his megalomaniac side.
So much so that he gets his partner killed
without a slightest feeling of guilt.
This shows his psychopathic side.
In the ending scene, we see that Lou has expanded his business
and is training a team he has newly hired.
I will never ask you to do anything
that I wouldn't do myself
From whatever we have seen throughout the film,
it's clear that this is just his way of luring in people.
He isn't going to blink an eye
before sacrificing any of them for his own personal gains.
Travis isn't going to come out of his insanity either.
As he drops off Betsy in the ending scene of the film,
we get to see a hint of his maniac side again.
He looks into the rear view mirror and feels a sudden rush of anger.
He is still unstable beneath the surface.
He is a ticking bomb
who might explode anytime again.
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