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Originally Posted by latorami
Watched Taxi Driver for the first time today. Really fucking awesome movie, loved the cinematography and all. But the ending kind of annoyed me?? The music just didn't fit that scene after the shoot up when the cops arrive. And it would've been perfect if the movie would have just ended after he did the whole bang finger thinghy. But like I said, really awesome movie.
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Oh man, you need to find some of the essays that have been written about various interpretations of that ending. Not trying to sound condescending, like, "you need to read up on blah blah blah." I'm just saying, there are some interesting schools of thought on Taxi Driver, and you might find an explanation for the very thing you found annoying if you read the right stuff. I think Scorsese was EXTREMELY meticulous about exactly what parts of the film he wanted to linger in people's heads, and I there are some interesting ideas about the ending just on Wikipedia.
But yes, Taxi Driver is a masterclass in, like, three different kinds of filmmaking at least. It's detached from the kind of "GoodFella genre" that he's created — Mean Streets, GoodFellas, Casino, The Departed, Wolf of Wall Street — so it's odd that it feels kind of like the definitive Scorsese film, even after all this time.
Good Fellas is my personal favorite, and that is due in no small part to
THIS FUCKING SCENE.
One of the best uses of a pop song music in the history of American cinema.
Y'all are surely going to know what scene I'm talking about before you even click the link. That's how fucking awesome it is.
"Way dooooowwwwn below the ocean..."