"Are you really 12 ?" | Taxi Driver | CLIP

[@ScarletteLove]

I love the juxtaposition of the kids laughing and playing right outside the window.

[@joseph291]

I love scrolling the comments for insights like this.

[@twinkincarnate]

this comment gave me a flashback, to something not so nice in my childhood 🥲 the way you described this scene is spot on!!

[@danngenesispilapil1384]

That's definitely deliberately added by Scorsese and co.

[@mei6044]

​@@danngenesispilapil1384Well, it makes sense.

[@DikkusBiggus]

And she's eating a sandwich with a lot of sugar in it signifying she is still a kid.

[@123mbo]

Being 14 years old and keeping up with Robert De Niro in a scene - that is some serious talent.

[@jessethepersiankitty2377]

He was only starting out I think back then. It was 1977

[@jesustovar2549]

@@jessethepersiankitty2377 1976

[@leahdorothy]

@@jessethepersiankitty2377he already had an oscar at this point for godfather ii

[@Chuked]

It's Jodi Foster

[@babbisp1]

12 years old

[@Krankhafter]

I always loved the toast detail. Its so easy to miss but gives the audience huge insight into her character. She tries to be an adult and put on a mature front all while heaping huge spoonfuls of jam topped with sugar onto her toast like the child she really is.

[@slydoll7877]

I thought that was an indication she was a junkie. They love sugar.

[@milascave2]

With a side of OJ in case her blood sugar wasn't high enough.

[@shit_wizard]

you're saying im childish for having toast with jam and sugar???

[@TheWinstonDouble]

I do that and I'm in my 20s. Except I eat it on untoasted bread because I don't like the crunchies in my jam.

[@Frogdpg1]

@@TheWinstonDouble a man of class

[@aurora8749]

I lived in a very bad neighborhood and I was propositioned to do prostitution several times between the ages of 12-16. I knew other girls who did it. Luckily even though my home was broken I knew better. It was always women in their 20 and 30s who would approach me about it. Disgusting. I hope any little girl who feels unloved and who doesn't get fed every day and thinks selling your body sounds like a good solution knows that it isn't. It's extremely dangerous and I'm sure your self image will be tarnished forever. Hang in there. Focus on school. You've only got a few more years and you can work and get your own place. Go to college. Sign up for grants. You're life will turn out much better and you'll be much happier. I love you!

[@yiddena]

Beautiful encouragement ❤️

[@iamreborn3463]

That is absolutely crazy

[@francescafrancesca3554]

I'm so glad that you're okay 🫂 those people were at fault, prying on young girls like that. Thank you for sharing ☀️

[@lunix3259]

W ❤

[@nesrinoz3926]

Get your own place? Go to college? Not everywhere is like USA. In some cultures families sell their daughters to a man as if she's an animal just to get some money and they call it a marriage unashamedly. And she's not allowed to leave the family home until she's married. So they do it before she hits 18. College? Don't get me started. Open your eyes. Or a book. God damn.

[@SlurpyPie]

I appreciate that despite the fact Travis is not mentally stable he still had standards and tries to help Iris in her situation. Edit: When I watched this movie originally, I never really looked it beyond the surface so when I saw this scene I always assumed that Travis had the best intentions in mind when it came to Iris and genuinely wanted to help her but as I got more people replying mentioning how he didn't care about her or that he instead used her situation to justify his actions later in the movie and whatnot I decided to do more research on the film and when looking back at scenes like this and I noticed stuff I didn't before like the juxtaposition of the kids laughing and playing in the background outside, the fact that Iris tries to act like an adult (or act more mature than she actually is) yet you still see her plopping spoonful of jam onto toast like a kid would or the fact that Travis clams up when Iris calls him out when he's throwing shade at Sport saying "What makes you so high and mighty." as if even he knows he's no better than him but loathes the mere thought of it. It's especially interesting when considering the scene before where Sport makes a comment about Travis being a cop and Travis tries to drive home the point that he isn't one showing that even lowlifes like Sport can't even associate with him showing just how lonely Travis is. @Maceman486 also mentioned that the fact the ending is a delusion by Travis where he wants to be the hero, to have a beloved identity that he perceives he can achieve through righteous violence, and instead of actually doing anything good he completely gives himself over to a fantasy and is completely divorced from reality which could correlate to the letter at the end being a part of his fantasy. I might be reaching a bit here with some of this, but regardless I honestly think it's really interesting just how much you can miss on your first watch of a film. Definitely has made me appreciate the work that Scorsese put into this film alot more tbh.

[@nope89532]

he is a good person

[@kevinsager5054]

Textbook definition of "anti-hero".

[@Account.for.Comment]

He just needs to feel something. In this time, he wants to feel like a hero. In other times, he wants to be a villain. His standards are not fixed, it is up to his moods at the moment.

[@dannyhernandez265]

@@kevinsager5054least Travis ain’t a p * * o.

[@pardalita]

Bare minimum, not letting a prepubescent child touch you sexually

[@fidelity7068]

This is the first time I noticed the background sound effects in this scene. It is the sound of a children's playground outside her window. The window itself doesn't have bars, but chicken wire. Chicken is a slang term, which among other meanings also means underaged female sex workers. Thus, imo, the scene subliminally implies she is a chicken in a coop (chicken prison).

[@Laura-op6ix]

Also, the kids playing sound about 10 - 13 years old - Iris's age. It represents the world she *should* be in.

[@fidelity7068]

@@Laura-op6ix YES!

[@mirandalaswell]

I never knew that. I love this film. thank you so much for sharing this.

[@meghansullivan6812]

OOOOOOHHH so good

[@koolaidman6251]

Also Sport calls her his "little chicken" -- and Travis doesn't like it. When he has breakfast with Iris he says that Sport doesn't respect her because he calls her a little chicken.

[@dianam9028]

Fun fact 7:47 Jodie Foster in an interview had said the little piece of chicken line was an ad-lib from Robert DeNiro. That is her natural reaction to it.

[@SY-ok2dq]

It adds a very natural, unscripted, unrehearsed and real touch to this scene. Foster is so very natural and her lines are delivered with a freshness and ease, like we are watching a real person just talking, and not an actor who has practiced these lines and done take after take. When you compare Foster at this age to thr acting of so many child actors that you see on TV and film.... Foster had true acting talent.

[@cassiesayshi8174]

What does that line mean?

[@SY-ok2dq]

@@cassiesayshi8174 Piece of chicken? "Chicken" was apparently a slang word back in the 70s ( don't know about now) for an underage teen, a minor (as a sexual object, that is). As you can see, this subtly referred to in the hotel room that Iris brings her clients to: a piece of chicken wire fencing has been attached to the window, making Iris' room a kind of chicken pen.

[@ChrisJones-ij3xp]

It's been too many years: does Sport actually call Iris a piece of chicken to Travis' face, in the earlier scene, the one where the tryst is arranged?

[@liquiddomino511]

@@ChrisJones-ij3xpi believe so

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Jeez, the raw talent of a 12-year-old Jodie Foster is just extraordinary. Her going head to head with a 32 yr old trained actor, Robert De Niro, is insane

[@Spliffy8]

14* but agreed

[@daydreamer7618]

​@@Spliffy8Taxi Driver was filmed in the summer of 1975. Jodie Foster was born in November of 1962. Basic math tells us Foster was 12 years old when she filmed her part as Iris.

[@Spliffy8]

@@daydreamer7618 my apologies. i read somewhere that she was 14. my mistake

[@daydreamer7618]

​@@Spliffy8She was 14 when she got the Oscar nomination for Taxi Driver so I'm guessing that's what you remember reading. But yeah, she was 12 when it was filmed, 13 when it was released and 14 when the Oscar nomination came.

[@beginner8497]

​@@daydreamer7618they gave that part of scene to her sister, elder sister. That wasn't jodie foster, it was her sister and if I'm not wrong she was 16 years old.

[@riffraffrichard]

The violent scene at the end is so dark, when you think about the extra trauma added onto Jodies character. He’s a man broken by a meaningless war and living with the trauma from it. He is trying to find peace outwith himself by attempting to solve societal problems in a search for some kind of meaning or freedom. He doesn’t recognise that he himself is afflicted with the same suffering and hurt that he is trying to save others from.

[@phoenixzappa7366]

Listen you screwhead, He was a man who stood up.

[@mathinho1237]

He is just a broken man turned into a psycho by a country who needs to sacrifice it own people to make money

[@DoppoIMW]

He isn't actually a Vietnam vet, you clearly didn't pay much attention to the film

[@fightcinema3917]

yes he was, he literally discharged from an injury sustained in vietnam, he literally sends a letter and receives near the start of the film @@DoppoIMW

[@leeham6230]

​@ellisbell614OR! ...or he was just a crazy guy. Where is the proof is was in Vietnam?

[@jenniferparker8676]

I can't believe robert dinero was ever young

[@Discordia5]

He was extremely attractive in this movie.

[@Citykid1982]

@@Discordia5 ikr taking your date to a porn theater melts them away

[@jessethepersiankitty2377]

He was quite cute back then

[@CTladiesman]

@@Discordia5I don’t mean to sound gay but I agree.

[@rosalesluisfer]

Roberto Dinero es guapísimo 💰💵

[@dzanier]

Nobody will ever say this is a pleasant film, but it’s simply brilliant. And seeing De Niro here, three years after he made a pretty big splash with Mean Streets and Bang the Drum Slowly, and two years after he won his first Oscar for the Godfather II, about to give a performance that would cement his spot as one of the best actors in the world, and pave the way for so many brilliant performances, takes me back down memory lane.

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

he did manage to save an otherwise unsaveable character. girls like that usually don't make it. only someone as crazy as travis would even dare attempt to try

[@dzanier]

@@cagneybillingsley2165 true.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Well, I would say is was a pleasant film! Does that make me weird? After repeated viewings i began to love the movie more and more. Its that good. Great noir-inspired snapshot of New York, during the "Bronx is burning" era. Very realistic, I know. I lived here at the time. I was 11 but quite aware of what was going on around me. Child prostitution was rampant and like Travis, quite correctly pointed out, "the cops don't do nothing". Pimps would literally hang out at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, JUST so they could recruit runaway teenage girls. Fat middle aged businessmen would pick up 14 year old hookers right in plain view of the cops and they'd do nothing. Kids were totally on their own in those days. They had to take care of themselves. You couldn't say, "Hey! I'm a kid, you can't touch me!" Nobody'd lift a finger to help you.

[@HaroldThrone]

what’s the movie called?

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

@@HaroldThrone the movies called, 'Taxi Driver' by Martin Scorsesse

[@stephaniemorrissey123]

Anyone else distracted by the 14 trillion candles in the background creating a ridiculous fire hazard? 😂

[@Laura-op6ix]

Seems a bit unnecessary when it's broad daylight out, for sure. Fire hazard? NY is pretty humid. But OTOH she must have been damn careful with the hair spray. 😳

[@sherrihimes7357]

Yeah lol

[@suzannechampion6330]

Yes

[@jackkruese4258]

Sport trying to create a romantic air about the place bring a touch of class.

[@thatdude3977]

​@@Laura-op6ixsmells like the bodega in there 😂

[@sroth2021]

'He is the worst sucking scum I have ever, ever seen.' I love that line, it's hilarious but also delivered with such conviction and it really makes me respect Travis for saying that.

[@purerage7963]

I got the impression that he stuttered because he realized he didn't want to cuss in front of her. It's kinda wholesome.

[@teofrgueiro9211]

@@purerage7963same

[@zebatov]

But he had no problem talking about her pussy. Very wholesome.

[@kainlives7958]

@@purerage7963he says “pussy” to her. I doubt he gives a damn if he swears or curses or not

[@ПЫМПЫШОКТВ]

She’s such a good actress. Flawless.

[@dannyhernandez265]

Both of them are.

[@DevsBiscuit]

​@@dannyhernandez265jodie foster

[@happilyevernever4289]

No children should play such roles. Hollyweird at it again.

[@Bdkdklllvv]

@@happilyevernever4289that is true. I was thinking about how her parents had to be cool with her unbuckling a grown man’s pants, even if it’s just an acting role. Idk that’s pretty intense..

[@carpballet]

“The cops don’t do nothin’ You know that” Ain’t that the truth.

[@carpballet]

@na6733 Meh. I’m wealthy. But even us rich people can see cops ignoring crime. Every time we are chauffeured thru a bad part of the city, prowling for hookers and blow.

[@tharunsankar4926]

@na6733 yeah they protect the Nobelites and the bankers these days, not people like you and me.

[@jenniferparker8676]

Because they are not allowed to these days

[@koolaidman6251]

Back then the cops would just do the little 12yo and say it doesn't matter because she's not a virgin. That's what happened back then -- if a woman was assaulted or graped, the police didn't do anything unless she was some churchgoing angel who was dragged off the street. If she was a "bad" girl they say she deserved it and probably grape her in the back room because no one would believe her anyway. Plenty of cops have always been evil.

[@Vikingr91]

Police is only an enforcement arm of the goverment so that they can insure that you pay your taxes.

[@Ariana-wv4pf]

She really acts like someone who's been through hell and has a lot of sexual experience. Jodie Foster is an amazing actor, I love her so much. But her mother is creepy, she sexualised her and even arranged a nude photoshoot after this movie when Jodie was just 13 or 14. You can find the pictures online, her mother thought that teen Jodie would get more roles in adult movies if the public saw her as attractive and sensual. I just find it ironic that this movie is about pimping a child (among other things) and in reality her mother kinda did smth similar to Jodie. The 70s were pretty infamous for that, lots of child actresses being sexualised (like Brooke Shields). Society needs to do better, these are our kids and we don't want grown men to feel they are fair game.

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Brooke Shields? You mentioned her but I'm pretty sure it was her mother who famously got a nude photoshoot of her into PlayBoy of all magazines.

[@lunix3259]

She acts like it but irl girls that age won't say this. I have friends who's main job is to work with victims. It's heartbreaking that they just can't comprehend what happened.

[@tadmira127dreamuvtadmir2]

Eipteins and etc They have been doing these things for years, not only with young celebrities like Justin Bieber, that's why these things exist.

[@happilyevernever4289]

Yes, no child should play such roles. We're seeing actual child exploitation here of a young actress. These movies should be reported and makers of the movie as well as the actress's parents investigated and charged. It's creepy how people are praising this child for playing sexual roles. 😑😑

[@Mr.Sr.Jr.]

​@@happilyevernever4289 Chill karen. You're probably the one that enjoyed it the most and you're just going on this rant to try to throw everyone off your Trail

[@kyleandremercado3326]

"Sweet Iris" The way Robert said it feels like an older brother trying to protect his younger sister.

[@tprime2702]

Yeah, that's how I perceived it, too. Even their "breakfast date" (as pedo as that sounds) came across as an older brother going to breakfast with his younger sister, and he is upset and angry about her situation. People reference the parts with hesitation when Iris is unbuckling his pants, even the act of going to see a 12 year old prostitute regardless of his motives, as morally deranged and pedophilic. It's clear that he is attracted to her physically, despite her age, and that is what gives him pause. But, I've never met another human being who wouldn't give pause when someone they are attracted to is making sexual advances towards them, even if it's criminal and absolutely disgusting degenerate behavior. We all look at cleavage and bulge, regardless of whether it's age appropriate or not.

[@tonyespinoza3891]

@@tprime2702oh my gosh

[@empanda.123o]

​@@tprime2702 what are you saying? Speak clearly.

[@PixelSushi3]

@@tprime2702 Or maybe it’s just you

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

More likely a father protecting his daughter more

[@AA-qb7ni]

Sorry but I died laughing at her saying "he's a libra he wouldn't kill anyone" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Young4eva121]

Definitely relevant today! 😂

[@RaffertyMBTI]

very childlike and girly

[@JiggleBiggle-g6n]

She's 12 what did you expect​@@RaffertyMBTI

[@RaffertyMBTI]

@@JiggleBiggle-g6n no i was commending the writers

[@disguy145]

4:42 I just realized that $20 bill was the bill from the scene when the pimp dropped it in Travis's cab after dragging Iris out.

[@cautionTosser]

there are no accidents in a Scorsese movie. ;)

[@aWomanFreed]

It was a ten

[@baxpiz1289]

it says twenty & that's jackson@@aWomanFreed

[@Thejoshrandall]

​@@aWomanFreed🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

[@relivec]

Foster shlapping on 4 table spoons of grape jelly on her toast and topping it off with sugar gets me every time

[@mortygoldmacher]

Junkies live on simple carbs and sugar. Narcotics cause serious constipation.

[@My_Youtube_Channel777]

​@@Stevehug83or maybe something a coke addict would do.

[@danbam3411]

According to Jody Foster, the girl that was walking beside her earlier in the scene was an actual child prostitute and would shadow from her little things such as the overly consumption of sugar to quell out the addiction for heroin.

[@baxpiz1289]

or a junkie@@Stevehug83

[@-awm-4655]

I guess it had two meanings 1st to emphasize that she's still basically a kid who likes sugary stuff and sweets 2nd to show her actual reality of being an addict in withdrawal (opiod withdrawal makes you crave sugar/sweets)

[@T1Oracle]

She's a child being manipulated, threatened, and abused by grown men. She's not the one that needs to be talked to.

[@zanttheusurperking]

Like it, or not, men like that exist in the world. Always have, always will. Better to teach girls how to detect these men and how to avoid them/deal with them.

[@Tyr438]

Ah yes so don't talk to her at all then and teach her a valuable lesson got it. Good one Sherlock

[@gurrenmed5319]

Yeah keep her there so she can get abused more is that what you claim ? Travis saved her

[@elisiasettles5021]

Take ot from someone who was in similar shoes as her. She needed to hear someone say it to her.

[@hiinsanity]

well yes but she won’t know it’s wrong until someone talks to her, a lot of kids that experience this think it’s normal for a long time, they think it’s a dirty secret that they did something to deserve.

[@Channel-ew9dr]

Flawless acting by Jodie Foster. Always superb in her simplicity.

[@freebee8221]

There was good in travis. I dont know whats wrong with him,but he definetly had a soft and kind soul. Even tho he went on a killing spree. I get that he wanted to kill all the junkies and pimps but wanting to kill the senator seemed different. Maeby it was just the loneliness that made him flip and seeing all the scum in the streets of 70s new york. I love to analyze this movie.

[@stancooper5436]

I know what you mean. He felt decent and relatable trying to help this kid.

[@dubsteptourist1395]

He's empty - that's what wrong with him. Lonely pointless man in big dirty world desperately wanting any meaning or purpose, and by any I mean really any. From killing a senator to help little girl. Anything that can make him feel needed or meaningful.

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

I think feminists call it toxic masculinity.

[@mattu21]

it's always the sensitive guys who go off the rails.

[@KRUZradio]

Travis has a set of morals that get trampled on every time he goes out into the city. He actually despises what he sees happening and the people doing it so much that he finally snaps. He is actually a good hearted yet nieve, socially awkward person who keeps trying to do good and do right but the world he sees won't let him because he is so effected by it emotionally. Very interesting character here. Maybe one of the best ever.

[@prathapcharan]

De Niro acting here is great. He portrays the emotions so well. Travis bickle being the mentally unstable guy he is , is still repulsed seeing a minor girl being like that and he is disgusted at the fact that she is so nonchalant about it.

[@sjla2009]

Not repulsed or disgusted. I'd say more..disturbed and concerned... Just imo

[@skiruskronos2732]

@@shanekc3502 you defo read this scene better than almost 300 other people

[@madamevipere]

@@shanekc3502 I recognize his hesitance by being simply unbelief of her advances

[@lightup6751]

It’s funny. The younger people are, the older the movie gets, the more people blame Travis for hesitating when he was mentally ill and just in disbelief. It’s cancel culture and guilty until proven innocent now coming at older movies

[@skiruskronos2732]

@@lightup6751 LuL wut? who is blaming anyone? Talk about finding problems where there are none. You sound just like the very culture you're against.

[@ZeuzBluez]

I don't care what people say about de Niro s shyness in public but you gotta admit he mastered his craft from the start. Every role he played especially the earlier ones is a gem. Centa anne Don Roberto Deniro

[@matthewlimbery1470]

I just literally gasped when you pointed out that's Robert De Niro. He was so fucking hot? What the fuck

[@prebenjaeger]

​@@matthewlimbery1470the fuck are you saying, that the 80-something is surprising less attractive than when he was 30?

[@matthewlimbery1470]

@@prebenjaegerit just never crossed my mind that he looked anything different than the way he's looked for the last 20 something odd years yet here he is, i wouldnt have known it was him without that comment

[@prebenjaeger]

@@matthewlimbery1470 brrrr derrrrrr

[@Mmmmkaaay]

Just wait until you see Al Pacino in the Godfather.​😍@@matthewlimbery1470

[@vipulk4571]

She really pulled out star signs on him.😂😂😂

[@forrestgumball]

"Yeah im an asparagus too"

[@seliel.]

"scorpion"

[@kaitlynbvlogs]

i think it jst showed how young she was

[@lemurianchick]

@@forrestgumballYou're a vegetable, eh? 🤡🤦‍♀️

[@lemurianchick]

@@kaitlynbvlogsWhat does that even mean? Astrology is childish? 🙄

[@sheepmasterrace]

her interest in zodiac signs is really interesting like the girl half of her is still alive

[@malory1444]

The girl half of her? What does this mean? She’s literally a girl

[@xkxshx]

Of course it is, she’s abused

[@Joshy.Want.Wingyy]

​@cursed770why are you replying to every comment regarding her zodiac sign? 😂 do you even know how to talk to women?

[@ironhell813]

It was the thing at the time regardless your age… You people are obsessed with innocence and that’s sicker then the stuff on this video…

[@LockerHider]

​@@ironhell813Yea people who are obsessed with kids and preserving them and stuff are usually creeps themselves imo

[@neolitobject]

2:03 I don't know if you guys notice the detail in Iris room, in the window, in the outside there's the sound of kids being kids and playing in the park, whereas inside in the building, there's a kid NOT being a kid and being victim of human trafficking and sex offenders. Portrays the staggering differences between worlds and how life can take two very different turns for different people.

[@Literallyryangosling777]

And there are chicken cage wire, even travis tell her that sports calls her "his chicken wing"

[@behelit1997]

​@@Literallyryangosling777the chicken probably foreshadows Iris stuck in this pimp business

[@antonialeigh]

Yes, multiple people here are saying that, getting thousands of likes, going back several years in this comment thread.

[@pinball1970]

Heart breaking scene in the cafe, Travis is already broken and wants to save her. She can sense some of it I think but I need to watch it again with fresh eyes. A tough film to watch as an adult, as a father. Brutal but brilliant.

[@plasticweapon]

gives new meaning to "what are you, 12?"

[@hobowithawaterpistol9070]

How so?

[@karleyj9706]

​@@hobowithawaterpistol9070"what are you, 12? 😏"

[@Soul_Alpha]

​@@karleyj9706oh naw that smirk is foul asking that question 😭

[@GottagitchaGROOOVEon]

I'm 12 . 🧸

[@TetrahedronIX]

Just remember if Chris Hansen walked in he would say, "Oh sure you were just trying to help"

[@AdnanKhan-ty2sl]

Hansen walks in saying "How we doing tonight?"

[@ILookLikeDrakeSoYeah]

“Why don’t you have a seat?”

[@UnsungHero_85]

Whata ya doin here?😂

[@eggyx2734]

and then sure... travis will reply: you talking to me?

[@kainlives7958]

Travis wouldn’t be arrested

[@RichardCano]

The detail of her categorizing everyone with Astrological signs is a great way to show her frustrating young naivete.

[@Jackissimus]

I know old women who do that.

[@ironhell813]

It’s also a great way to show that she’s a hippy in a time of hippies. It’s no indicator of innocence at all.

[@RichardCano]

@@ironhell813 I didn’t say innocence. I said naivete. It means lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.

[@ironhell813]

It implies it, besides, you’re one of many here towing the same narrative, and many of them were more honest about assuming this woman’s innocence.

[@RichardCano]

@@ironhell813 I implied nothing about innocence. I’m implying overconfidence. The guy is imploring her to listen to him and get out of that life, but she’s so sure that she’s got everything figured out, like a typical teenager. It’s in her ignorance that she’s naive. Not any kind of “innocence.” She’s done plenty of messed up shit already for her age.

[@grumpyoldlady_rants]

Jodie Foster is, and always has been, a tremendous actor. It’s disturbing to watch this clip knowing how old she was. I can’t imagine the industry being able to make a film like this today with a child actor.

[@stepcollazo8134]

Well Brooke shields did a movie like that..and she did another movie accused..that was disturbing

[@djcal623]

She was/is a helluva actor. When she is in the scene I can't take my eyes off of her

[@sjla2009]

Yeah she's just so cute I feel for her 😢

[@bugzpudding]

sad she was exploited like this

[@blondeepartygirl]

She was 12

[@gonasf]

@@blondeepartygirl felt like a creepy sentence, right?

[@blondeepartygirl]

@@gonasf yes haha I hope they worded it wrong

[@commercialzone4141]

“You call that being hip!!!” Brilliant

[@TheHirohikoAraki]

This is like The Punisher trying his best to talk to a traumatized sex worker to follow a good path in her life.

[@Lamtitude]

Hollywood wanted to remake this movie with Leonardo DiCaprio as Travis Bickle, but he turned it down. When asked why he said, “I don’t find it very appealing. 12 is just too old.”

[@popdogfool]

Ya had me in the first half.

[@MichaelChaiRajmuhaimin]

😂😂😂😂

[@lunix3259]

Bro 😂

[@IslanderloverBKK]

Oh damnnn u didn't just go there.😂

[@RedMi-vs9zt]

🤣

[@AaronGranda-g5r]

He treats her like a human being.

[@jackpayne6490]

This movie is such a classic.

[@HaroldThrone]

What’s the movie called?

[@kacperwasowicz5642]

​@@HaroldThrone Taxi Driver (1976)

[@dannyhernandez265]

@@HaroldThronebro it’s in the title….

[@lemurianchick]

@@HaroldThrone🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@Vikingr91]

I'm gonna watch it again, soon.

[@slurmsmckenzie.]

When you realize this is the professional but told different

[@mastermill79]

Leon indeed.

[@jeanivanjohnson]

​@@mastermill79 except leon is a pro-pedophilia movie

[@YokaiX]

​@@jeanivanjohnsonthe movie itself never promoted that and character never did anything. The creator of the movie and story is one tho.

[@emmaphilo4049]

It's so different from Leon....

[@malory1444]

@@YokaiX the creator of the movie intended for it to romanticize a inappropriate relationship between a child and an adult. In the non American version of the film there is way worse.

[@eveofadam9921]

Jodi/Iris had bright green glasses, but at the end the lens were blue. I just felt compelled to say that. I didn't;t notice the other times I watched it. They are both so good I didn't notice details the first few times.

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

they were "mood sunglasses"

[@AnasCreativeCorner]

NO. Completely different glasses. Green ones were plastic rim, Blue ones were metal.

[@LaineyBug2020]

To me, it represented all of her facades that she had to wear. She had a different one ready to pull out at the drop of a hat.

[@heathernks8]

I've never seen the film so I noticed it right away. Even though I'm evidently an idiot for believing in astrology, just like men have since the beginning of time.

[@mymai5859]

Apparently there's a line in the script where Jodie Foster fishes around in her bag & says, "I got so many sunglasses. I couldn't live without my shades, man. I must have twelve pairs of shades." So during the scene she went through 4 different coloured pairs. Due to editing - that line was cut out & the scene shortened- so it looks odd Jodie switching out glasses. I like to think of it as Jodie not 'seeing' where Travis is coming from... but by the end she starts to 'see' his point so needs different lenses.

[@theseattlegreen1871]

4:33 Notice when Travis gives the old man pimp with the toothpick in the hallway payment how the money was crumbled? Travis could have flattened it out before handing it to him but he wanted to hand it to him like that to make the old pimp understand that's a representation of himself. It was also a reflection of the man being old, crumbled and cheap! The crumbled currency was drawn on the wall as well.

[@Literallyryangosling777]

That money is actually the money sport gave to travis, he keep it as "dirty money"

[@AWormsPurpose]

I watched this when I was 13, so it never really dawned on me how crazy 12 is

[@cnj67]

It's not a film meant for 13-year-olds to see 🫣😢

[@OmmerSyssel]

​@cnj67sure about that?

[@AWormsPurpose]

@cnj67 Nowadays most kids see their first snuff film by age 13, so sadly this movie’s kind of tame in comparison.

[@VinegarTom68]

@@AWormsPurpose You watched many snuff films then have you buddy? They're like so tame......😅😅

[@cnj67]

@@OmmerSyssel Yes. I am not saying no 13-year-olds have seen it. But they shouldn't.

[@babbisp1]

It took him disturbingly long to reject her advances.

[@electricfishfan]

Well, he’s not that smart, and he’s a pretty passive guy acclimated to what people do around him since he’s endured city life as just how the world works up until the movie takes place. He seems more nonplussed or dissociated than conflicted over her.

[@jessethepersiankitty2377]

I thought that too

[@remigal899]

Word

[@babbisp1]

​​​​​​@@electricfishfan 1:28+2:07 Dude how passive do you have to be to not be able to to push away a tiny teenage girl? It's really not that hard. I'm a passive guy and if some teenager started unbuckling my belt I'd push them away and teleport outta there. Not to hold it against you but if anyone used that excuse today it wouldn't fly at all. It's as if people didn't really start caring about children until recently.

[@localshithead7430]

I think it was intentional that Iris essentially looks like a mini Betsy. And this sequence of events takes place after Travis dealt with being rejected by Betsy. Maybe his hesitation was purposeful.

[@staycee639]

Jolie Foster was actually 12 was she shot Taxie Driver. Pretty crazy if you think about it.

[@edenakasha7574]

The talent of these 2... just beyond.

[@elcordobes-i1h]

DeNiro acting is so delectably dangerous, it's realer than real life - guys the GOAT

[@DSN262]

Plays the same role in every movie

[@themessenger2948]

@@DSN262 Which role is that?

[@dyyuri]

​@@DSN262Which role is that?

[@DSN262]

@@dyyuri mobster

[@patriciacrowley1103]

Amazing acting of a very brilliant 14 years old Jodie Foster and a young Robert the Niro. She was very wild for making that scene and that role.

[@happilyevernever4289]

No child actor should be subjected to such sexually charged scenes with adults.

[@MarielleMorris]

her saying “he’s a libra” after finding out she could be around a murderer just shows you how immature and taken advantage of she is lol

[@Xandalorian]

So every single girl in 2024 is immature and taken advantage of? 😂😂

[@MarielleMorris]

@ exactly 💀

[@Jackal_El_Lobo34]

Saw this movie for the first time a year ago and I gotta say that this is the moment in the movie where I found it hard to put a label on Travis as I couldn’t directly call him a true Villain. In Joker, it was easier to refer to Arthur Fleck as a textbook villain by the end of the movie. Albeit, a Sympathetic Villain given his gradual development throughout the movie but Taxi Driver took things differently. There isn’t really a linear origin story for Travis in his movie. He seemed to be walking a fine line between evil and good throughout the story given his actions during the beginning and the ending of the story. So he’s either Anti-Hero or more likely an Anti-Villain.

[@AbhishekTiwari-we4vh]

Neither hero nor villain just a random lonely guy tries to make a difference in society by initiating unstability in society.

[@Account.for.Comment]

His actions are not about good and evil, he is a lonely man without a purpose in life, wanting to have an action for others to notice his existence. This is his description from Page 1 of the screenplay: "Travis is now drifting in and out of the New York City nightlife, a dark shadow among darker shadows. Not noticed, no reason to be noticed, Travis is one with his surroundings......He has the smell of sex about him: Sick sex, repressed sex, lonely sex, but sex nonetheless. He is a raw male force, driving forward; toward what,one cannot tell. Then one looks closer and sees the evitable. The clock sprig cannot be wound continually tighter. As the earth moves toward the sun, Travis Bickle moves toward violence" In the first scene of the movie, the Personnel Officer barely looks at him, so that a lady in theatre in another scene. The politician, the pimp, Wizard the taxi driver have something he lacked which are someone who cared for them. Depression is anger turned inward, and Travis is depressed. And to cope with that depression, he lashed out violently toward the scums in society after a fail assassination of a public figure. The ending scene can be interpreted as a dream that he finally able to receive the looks of admiration for his action. So just think of this as a character study. Not every character fit the archtypes, tropes, and roles that internet critics commonly attributed. This is a character study of a depressed 26 year old lonely man with nothing to live for.

[@dannyhernandez265]

@@Account.for.Commentvery insightful analysis, that’s the beauty of Taxi Driver… many of us can relate to Travis. Personally, I’ve always found myself alone, I feel lost without a purpose too. You see people on the streets, friends, couples, and it makes you sink back into that pit of isolation even further. But no matter how hard I seem to try, I just can’t… integrate myself with anyone. It’s always been that way, since highschool, college, in the real world. I’m 23 now, and still feel lost and aimless.

[@potatoman7594]

why does he have to be labeled? can't he just be a person?

[@AbhishekTiwari-we4vh]

@@potatoman7594 you don't understand that's the beuty of Martin, you can give infinite meaning to his characters according to you. And I don't think it's wrong to discuss each other's perspective

[@ricardoh87]

She really said he's a libra lmfaooo

[@the-anti-theist]

Its funny how every one Travis talks to refers to him and shooter or killer or cowboy. He can't seem to decide which one he is. I guess in the end we find out hes all three!

[@cnj67]

projecting.

[@FBIagent22-q1d]

Very uncomfortable scene. I can't believe a child's mother would allow her to play this role. Just as bad as Natalie Portman in The professional when she told the clerk the man wasn't her father but her lover and she was 11 years old. No wonder these companies have issues with SA claims.

[@loatist]

"He's not a killer. He's a Libra." "Hes a *what?"*

[@metishan-9ol656]

this film stays high on the rank bcs of how well it attempts to portray Travis as both the protagonist and the antagonist. Leaving it out for the viewer's subjective way of thinking on how to perceive his character's morals and values. If u break the scenes 0:57 u can see him initially attempting to make her conscious of the way she's behaving off of her age 1:42 he realizes this might be tougher than it seems and decides to persuade her completely off the track of "making it". The body language consists of prolonged eye contact from his side which eventually makes him uncomfortable. 1:54 he seems to be embarrassed and trapped making Travis subsequently question her. The tone inclines more towards making her realize her actions rather than genuine questioning. 2:11 This scene directs us towards perceiving him completely as a good man, a man who cares abt society. He seems sick of the wrong reality that has always pertained around him but this time the shield breaks and we eventually see him frustrated, knowing there might be no way to make her understand. 3:15 the sudden shift in expressions denotes to the viewers that he's really attempting to make some sense out of the whole situation. A sort of "why am I even trying to help her?" 4:14 opens up a completely new bond. The viewer starts taking him as an absolutely amazing main character, and the viewers start empathizing with him, for him. The jazz music kicks in, indicating a whole ambiance that his attempt isn't in vain, this might be a start to a new friendship. Travis is not lonely anymore. 4:33 the smooth change in the music. As the negatively enthralling music kicks in amidst the chill jazz. The ambiance goes from calm to an onset of smth violent or gory. The man in the coat walks insultingly nonchalantly into the limelight from the dark. Travis hands him the crumbled note. 7:33 Showcases Travis telling Iris outright what he thinks of the people around her. He seems provoked and unusually aggressive. 8:46 Finally gets the viewers confused on how to perceive Travis now. The vision becomes blurry. His telling he's working for the government indirectly tells us he's trying his best to make sense out of the world around him. He's trying to give meaning to Iris's life but he's the one who's lost. The scene tells us his excruciating attempt to find his purpose in the world. Hence, it becomes clear he's not doing all this for Iris but for himself. Kind of diverting the viewers to believe from here on that he actually might just be a narc after all.

[@mattstobbsskinn6775]

Mannnnnn seeing travis as mike from the deer hunter adds SO MUCH to his character in this film it’s sooooo cool

[@tonifitz6831]

Testament to Jolie fosters acting skills. She really is a super talent. As is Robert De Niro. I have never seen this film it's entirely. This clip has made me want to watch it.

[@kiwo579]

2 months old but for the score alone its worth a watch

[@dynomyte9357]

Hermann's score, pure ecstasy

[@LuapCR]

Robert’s best acting job because in real life he definitely would have knocked that down no questions asked

[@Snoopy.mp4]

The way she brought up Zodiac signs

[@yes-qw6om]

and then he just ignored it everytime

[@nuggeth7811]

Like all teenage girls do actually

[@heathernks8]

​@@nuggeth7811Like man has for thousands of years, but film buffs are snobs😂

[@Kam-vz4yo]

@@heathernks8Seriously. They're so uncultured. "I don't believe in it so it must not be real."​ 🙄

[@xmcerer]

I mean she’s a little girl, that’s the point. Most people above the age of 20 don’t give a shit about that stuff. It’s to highlight how young and naive she is, how she is still a kid despite the terrible situation she is in.

[@coffeecrimegal5968]

I forgot how friggin great this movie was! The acting is superb even by Jodie who was so young! Legends in the making in this 🎞 ❤ 🎞 🍿

[@nicolegregory6723]

I find dialogue from 70s films so strange. People don’t really speak directly and it’s always round about and circumvents the actually point or question being asked.

[@MrFrankEast]

Most people don't know how to write even slightly realistic dialog. It's why breaking bad is probably one of the best shows.

[@tronam]

@@MrFrankEastMovies aren’t “realistic” at all, so why would I want the dialog to be? Even most documentaries are scripted.

[@Jackissimus]

People don't want realistic. They watch films exactly because reality is boring. But I agree that films have to make it easy to suspend disbelief.

[@Alienaddikt]

​@@tronam not a movie but watch MTV downtown

[@burntbeansoup]

​@@tronamSometimes we like to see reality

[@jhillst]

Iris seems so trusting and appreciative of Travis during the brothel scene...little does she know he's plotting to kill the men she works for.

[@burntbeansoup]

Good?

[@danwatkins3044]

you know she's three times as old as his current girlfriend is now

[@JulianLife81]

Damn! Good one.

[@scottmatheson3346]

every accusation by a conservative is projection. somebody needs a look at dan watkins' hard drive.

[@jtom68]

Who cares

[@JulianLife81]

@@jtom68 Epstein certainly did

[@plasticweapon]

cool.

[@aeroga2383]

Ah so that's why this movie is popular with redditors

[@Tolstoy111]

It’s a masterpiece.

[@Cupcakerehab]

Damn that toast looked sickly 😂. Jam with sugar on top...

[@anonymousstacker2044]

I love that detail. Kids tend to have high appetite for and consumption of sugar.

[@coolgirl1617]

Stress makes you crave sugar as well

[@2012BeyondtheWorld]

Wow I didn't know she started acting so young! First time seeing her this young, dang!

[@mumumumah]

Try looking up jodie foster - partridge family - she was 10.

[@lemurianchick]

@@mumumumahBefore that she was in a great movie called "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" starring Ellyn Burstein. The sitcom "Alice" was based on that movie. Jodie played a wild little girl getting Alice's son drunk on Ripple.

[@jessethepersiankitty2377]

​@@mumumumahshe had bit parts in tv series as well as young as five or six

[@IamNOTthedad]

Wasn’t she in bugsy malone

[@philosopher0076]

She was in the TV series, "The Courtship of Eddie's Father " with Bill Bixby when she was about 7. Probably 1968.

[@behelit1997]

2:11 the way Robert says "damn man, goddamn it" is so funny

[@jamiegroth7651]

How young they both were!

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

Robert de Niro was thirty-three years old

[@Mark72672]

@@RedGarnett-n2p De Niro was 31. She was 12 when they wrapped up filming this in Nov of 1975. Released in Feb 1976

[@RedGarnett-n2p]

@@Mark72672 he was born in 1943

[@Mark72672]

@@RedGarnett-n2p Robert De Niro was 31 when filming the movie and turned 32 on August 17, 1975

[@dannyhernandez265]

@@RedGarnett-n2pstill young at 30s.

[@Jericho396]

"Come back anytime, cowboy." "I will." He did. They wanted a cowboy...they got it.

[@EvanDaniels-i9h]

So that's what Clarice Starling was doing before she bacame an FBI agent

[@bananacake9289]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️❤️🇬🇧 Guess she had to start somewhere??! Lol 😂🙋‍♀️

[@GottagitchaGROOOVEon]

"...While you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the F B I. " 👮

[@briancoughlin6732]

Man Jodie is way above her age very talented

[@radicalcartoons2766]

You need to see her in Bugsy Malone, aged 13!

[@ICONPYTHON]

My grandfather would ask me if I had sex with the girls I brought to his house by asking "did you make it with her" and I thought it was his way of asking but I guess that was the lingo back in the day

[@claucemicro1080]

What a creepy question from a grandparent.

[@Bunnidove]

​@@claucemicro1080yeahhh. Grandparents should keep outta it

[@Antonio18677]

Lol probably just asking

[@shikonaori]

Oh god. I just realized this is probably what "Make It With You" by Bread is about, here I was thinking it was just a wholesome love song. Lmao

[@lensw0rld633]

​@@claucemicro1080😂😂😂

[@lady4191]

I made it to 4:22 but I don't think I want to put where this is going into my head. You know the whole can't unsee it thing is real. Apparently the brain doesn't distinguish things we experienced from things we see. I am no scientific major but that feels about right to me.

[@KittSpiken]

The movie does indeed go someplaces, but this clip just goes to breakfast.

[@stevenoliviero3652]

Moral to this entire film was trying to help this girl get out of this horrible situation of prostitution period , he got his revenge at the end...

[@PolishGod1234]

You didnt understoodthe film

[@bubulina1948]

This was Jodi Foster's "Pretty Baby" ... which starred Brook Shields and Susan Sarandon

[@nmejiag5030]

Ironic enough, she was the first one to be considered for Pretty Baby but rejected it because she didn't want to be typecast

[@bubulina1948]

@@nmejiag5030 wow- didn't know that

[@A20-w8l]

Heartbreaking to see the shattering of innocence.

[@MarkGarza94]

Jodie Foster dresses really nice in movies and in real life as well.

[@lihoffman8157]

The fact that she was 14 makes it a lot creepier

[@etasjo]

she was actually 12

[@charlesming7875]

Why is everyone surprised they look young? It was decades ago

[@limalikat4652]

Because people are idiots who don’t know how time works, I’m starting to realize that.

[@desertweasel6965]

This is what those predators always tell Chris Hansen they wee there to do😂 just to help😂

[@DerrickWilliamson-gl9lk]

I love the way he kept stopping her he's a real man and he probably misses his kids or wishes he had kids either way I'm glad he did this instead of what she assumed he came to do just like every other guy

[@kainlives7958]

Or wishes that he was a kid

[@happilyevernever4289]

The bar is so low. He'd not entertain this behaviour in the first place if he was a real man. Why did he have to wait around for her to do something sexual for him to stop her? The way he eyes her is also terrible. The director expects us to see a good man trying to save a child from trafficking, yet presents him with such disgusting male gaze towards said child victim.

[@DerrickWilliamson-gl9lk]

@happilyevernever4289 first of all I'm sure all men at least the desirable ones have had to ask how old the beautiful girl is!!! he had no idea how old she was and he did not touch her he wanted to save her and as it pertains to bar you say is low that bar belongs to you and exactly what look are you referring to? because he only looked at her with genuine sympathy and caring gave his life for her also just so she would not have to suffer anymore. Ps from what world are you referring to?

[@jynx464]

@@happilyevernever4289are you stupid? He never once entertained the behaviour in the movie. The second he saw her situation he tried to help her,just admit you didn’t watch the movie and move on🤡

[@nathanielpc1172]

4:49 "Come back anytime, cowboy." "I will" yes yes yes he will

[@TrueWalker88]

The character aside, it's like Jodie Foster has always been 35, the deep voice, the demeanor. She was only 13 here.

[@AnasCreativeCorner]

Jodie Foster was so cute, lol. Great actress!

[@milliea4253]

Found one in the wild

[@slurmsmckenzie.]

FBI open up

[@jupiterapollo4985]

Ladies and gentleman, we got em!

[@PolishGod1234]

I don't understand why they called you a groomer. People can call others "cute" not in a sexual way.

[@vor4237]

@@PolishGod1234just a joke, i think

[@THEREALMINNEY]

Seeing the grown ups as kids it’s definitely an experience 😂😂😂 these people have been over 40 my entire life

[@elbrown1011]

I love her hair-hot rollers!

[@ianinkster2261]

What's your name? "Easy" What's your second name? "Andy" Now it all makes sense.

[@alexis8500]

So this is why my parents never let me watch this movie

[@robertromero9488]

Quite a few comments say she was 14. She was actually 12 years old in this. Just saying

[@DanielCh9393]

No, look at her birth date.

[@olokinhogameplaysff4058]

The actress was 14

[@hazelmint6671]

That's messed up if she was 12 in that scene.

[@tsntana]

​@@olokinhogameplaysff4058No, the actress was 12.

[@tsntana]

​@@hazelmint6671It's even more messed up in the next couple of scenes.

[@ewokssfan1642]

I Watched Taxi Driver For The First Time Last Week and The Scence When Iris Jumped in The Taxi and Matthew pulled her out . I thought she probably a Stripper or Something like that. And i said to myself She Probably has an Interesting or Tragic Story of her Own. Boy i was happy to be proved Right.

[@wolfshield2499]

My godddd, Jodie Foster is Very young.

[@chloe2516]

Ew

[@seebeez]

Chris Hansen: Why don't you take a seat.

[@alicenestpasmonprenom5784]

I never had to make the connection before but now this scene reminds me of the french movie Léon: The Professional

[@DenizDuzyol]

Her glasses change in the diner, I've never noticed that before

[@jaybee2402]

Holy moly... did she just plaster jam all over that toast and THEN pour extra sugar on it? How Jody isn't dead from Diabetes..… 😮

[@errolpletcher9186]

Actors use spit buckets for a reason. You never know how many takes a director might do per scene so they spit it out when said director calls "cut!"

[@emmaphilo4049]

It's to show she is a kid

[@jesbair-hill]

Jam and sugar on toast doesn’t have 1/10 th the sugar that a venti caramel macchiato or some other highly processed crap from Starbucks … and y’all Americans be drinking 2 or 3 of those a day. A little jam on toast with a sprinkle of sugar is nothing compared to 99% of what ppl shove in their mouths these days lol that’s why everybody is fat in 2020’s compared to the 1970’s.

[@emmaphilo4049]

He is so nice to her😭😭😭😭

[@professorwigginslectures3808]

Have a friend who's a grandmother. As a teenager, she lived in one of those communes back in the 70s. A hundred people or more having random sex. She said her body count was in the hundreds. She turned to God, got married, and changed her life. You'd never know she once lived a life not that far removed from the character played by Jodie Foster.

[@normancook965]

One could say that Travis is like a Greek god - the best of the best and the worst of the worst.

[@johnhein2539]

4:32 epic foreshadowing literally coming from the shadows. His right hand expecting, wanting the money. Soon Travis will give it something else