response 131 of 144:

Jul 8 07:07 UTC 2004

   #re 129
   Iris? What it means? Insult or praise?
   And how I'll call you from now on? I'll think it soon.
   Say or think or do whatever you want but that won't change 
   the fact that John Truck Farmer Carpenter is a terrible director
   and his films was made for people that don't think.

   p.s. Look, how much did your defense cost to remmers?

response 133 of 144:

Jul 8 14:10 UTC 2004

Re #130:  I rest my case.  :)

response 135 of 144:

Jul 8 19:05 UTC 2004

I do try to iron all my comments before posting...

response 137 of 144:

Jul 9 06:30 UTC 2004

   
     re# 132
     Thank you Mary.

     re# 133
     Although you haven't won the cause, don't forget 
     to send the charging of the defense to tod. 
    
 

response 139 of 144:

Jul 11 08:35 UTC 2004

     I'll see you in court. LOL


     

response 141 of 144:

Jul 19 01:38 UTC 2004

     I notice that you're obtaining positive results 
     in studying movies. Dont stop doing it.

     Let's clear this up. I suppose that there's nothing 
     much one can do about the debate here except to accept 
     it philosophically.  

     Well, I thought that we were speaking about messages 
     in Taxi Driver & now you mention an underlying message.
     Wish it were that simple. Listen, I haven't counted the 
     exact number of messages, but I would say that at least "many". 

     I don't get someone to agree with me but it's no wonder 
     that you will have it that you is right. Okay, I'm prepared 
     to improvise if necessary. 
  
     You know Scorsese films has psychotic characters living 
     in closed worlds where their lunatic behavior seems 
     the norm then Taxi Driver underscores Travis' outsider status 
     by giving us a realistic world that he is isolated from,
     is the story of a man living the proverbial life of 
     quite desperation. Travis, like Norman Bates hides his 
     insanity behind a facade of banality & nurses it with 
     his loneliness.

     Jodie Foster, playing the child prostitute to whom 
     Travis hopes to play savior, still has the youthful 
     freshness and wise innocence that made her a shape of 
     hope in the world. Travis wants to save her & Iris is 
     saved from the clutches of evil & Travis has become a hero.
     Well, Scorsese at least suggests anyway that in the 
     end Travis Bickle is still insane, & armed & dangerous.

     But Scorsese provides us with at least two great 
     scenes. It was when as a passenger graphically 
     boasting of his plans to murder his wife seems to 
     be Scorsese's way of showing that there are people 
     who are even crazier than Travis. Why? To suggest that 
     Travis is justified in his paranoia?
 
     Also the final climatic bloodbath provided only a 
     cheap shock at the time. Such over the top mayhem 
     doesn't underscore the brutality of the violence, it 
     trivializes the rest of the fim.

     ...
    

response 143 of 144:

Jul 22 08:35 UTC 2004

  
     Way Out -- playtime