At the very beginning of the movie, we see Travis Bickle's taxi emerging ominously from a cloud of steam. It has a really eerie vibe—we get the sense that we're not in a good place. After all, wh...

When Travis is still obsessed with winning Betsy over—after disturbing her by taking her to a porn flick on their first date, that is—he tries to make it up to her by buying her flowers. He doe...

Travis likes to wear his Marine jacket everywhere—to the personnel office where he gets hired as a taxi driver at the beginning of the movie, to the Charles Palantine rallies where he fantasizes...

As he drives around the city, we hear Travis' musing in his diary: "Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God...

When Travis is sitting in the diner with the other drivers, they're telling him he should get a gun for his own protection. As we know, he definitely takes this advice… although he has more than...

According to Martin Scorsese, the most crucial scene in the whole movie—the point it hinges on—is when Betsy rejects Travis over the phone. As he tries to convince her to go out with him again,...

When Iris tries to get in Travis' cab, Sport drags her out and throws a crinkled twenty-dollar bill to Travis. Apparently, this is meant to make sure Travis doesn't report the fact that Sport is fo...

Travis' apartment is uber-depressing for all sorts of reasons, but we have to say his artwork choice is one of the bleakest aspects of his whole décor scheme. He has a poster in his room saying, "...

As Travis goes crazier and crazier (and crazier), he starts watching TV while holding his gun. At one point, he's watching the show American Bandstand, which used to play pop hits while people danc...

Travis sends an anniversary card to his parents. Aww! Hmm. Maybe we should rephrase that. Travis sends an anniversary card full of lies to his parents. Aww… eewgh. That went from cute to depressi...

Nowadays, it's pretty standard for a desperate guy in a movie to shave his head or give himself a hairstyle that involves shaving at least part of his head—think Richie Tenenbaum in The Royal Ten...

After Travis has killed three people, leaving Iris free to abandon her life as a twelve-year-old prostitute, he tries to kill himself, but—whoops—he's out of ammo. Wounded, he sits down on the...

At the very end of the movie, after Travis gives Betsy a free ride in his cab, his eyes flash in the rearview mirror as an ominous noise sounds. That's it—that's the last we see of Travis. Accord...