Taxi Driver is one of the greatest movies ever made, but Travis' motivation for attempting to assassinate Charles Palantine isn't entirely clear.
Travis Bickle’s attempt to assassinate Senator Charles Palantine is an integral part of his downfall in Taxi Driver, but his motivation for the plan isn’t entirely clear. Palantine’s presidential campaign is a running thread throughout Taxi Driver. Travis’s love interest, Betsy, is a volunteer working on the campaign, and he first asks her out — and later furiously confronts her — at the campaign office.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Martin Scorsese's neo-noir thriller has been praised as one of the greatest movies ever made. It received four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. In the wake of the success of the vigilante thriller Death Wish, there were a bunch of similar movies in the '70s. But Taxi Driver set itself apart by not endorsing vigilantism, instead presenting the dark reality of Travis’s attempts to take the law into his own hands.
Travis believes Palantine symbolizes the corrupt system he wants to bring down. As far as Travis is concerned, politicians like Palantine are no better than pimps like Sport. They’re only interested in serving themselves and fail to keep their campaign promises once they’re voted into office. Eliminating a presidential candidate full of false hope and empty promises is a major step in Travis’s plan to wash the scum off the streets.
Travis' Vendetta Against Palantine Was Tied To Betsy Travis’s desire to kill Palantine, and his attempted assassination in one of Taxi Driver’s most iconic moments, weren’t entirely motivated by his ideologies; he had a twisted personal reason for wanting Palantine dead. Travis still resented Betsy for rejecting him, so he was desperate to get back at her. Attempting to assassinate the politician she supported was an extension of his resentment toward her.
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