Anyone with half a brain would have ended the movie with Travis dead on the couch with his head cocked to the side, Scorcese doesn’t know how to end a movie to save his life.
shareThere is the theory that the final scene is all in Bickle's head as he's dying. If that theory isn't true, the ending still works.
shareDisagree.
shareHuh?
shareWhat? ;-)
No, I think that Travis' vigilantism is rewarded like it was in the movie. And, Betsy becomes turned on to his going psychotic. Because, lots of women get off on that, or at least they get off on controlling or domineering men.
I agree. Stupid post.
Why would you have travis die as if he's some sort of bad guy.
He was saving Jodie.
I think betsy liked him before that but didnt know how to express it and in her inner insecurity she looked for a reason not to like him which he erroneously gave.
I think you have to accept the fact that a mentally ill person could save a Betsy-type and it be somewhat of anomaly. Travis isn't a "bad" guy, he is a sick guy. Who knows how sick? My guess is he's at best a neurotic and at worst a paranoid schizophrenic.
He canno't just decide to go from wanting to kill Palentine to wanting to do good and save Iris even though that was the result here.
The point is he isn't in control... he was driven to both. The joke on the public, is they see him as a hero and have no way of knowing what's really going on in the mind of T. Bickle.
There are a lot of interpretations of the ending of this film. Some say Travis is dead, others say he is alive. The director was thinking of making a sequel, which makes me think Travis is alive and the last scene is a dream sequence.
shareYours would have been the cliché ending.
Scorsese, being the maestro that he is, chose something more unexpected and interesting.
So the ending of The Departed wasn't crazy enough for you?
shareI've always seen it as an ironic ending
He's this close to becoming known as a psychopath who assassinated a politician, but by a twist of fate he ends up becoming known as a hero who saved a child prostitute. You are certain the movie is going in one direction and then the ending takes a sharp turn to the left
If he had just died there it would have been a generic ending (crazy, violent guy causes his own self-destruction) that a simple mind like yours may have thought was sufficient, but not to a great writer like Paul Schrader
He's this close to becoming known as a psychopath who assassinated a politician, but by a twist of fate he ends up becoming known as a hero who saved a child prostitute. You are certain the movie is going in one direction and then the ending takes a sharp turn to the left.
"He's this close to becoming known as a psychopath who assassinated a politician, but by a twist of fate he ends up becoming known as a hero who saved a child prostitute."
Twist of fate? More like he chickened out of taking on stronger, better trained secret service men and went with the easier option of sucker punching the pimp...