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| | name = Travis Bickle | |||
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| | gender = Male | |||
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| | age = 26 | |||
| | born = 1950 | |||
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| | nickname = Cowboy, Killer | |||
| | alias = Henry Krinkle | |||
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| '''Travis Bickle''' is a fictional character from the 1976 film '']'', played by ]. De Niro earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal.<ref>], BBC Radio 4's Film Programme, 10 August 2007]</ref> | |||
| In the ]'s ], Bickle was named the 30th greatest film ]. '']'' magazine also ranked him 18th in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.<ref>{{cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = The 100 Greatest Movie Characters | work = ] | pages = | language = | publisher = | date = | url = http://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/default.asp?c=18 | accessdate = 2008-12-02 }}</ref> | |||
| ==Biography== | |||
| Not a lot is known about Bickle's past other than that he is a former ] who served in ], and has "not much" education. He was ] from the military in May 1973 and is 26-years-old. He is socially inept, has no apparent friends, and is suffering from ]. He takes a job as a graveyard shift ] driver to occupy his time. As he works late at night in dangerous neighborhoods, his customers tend to include ]s, ], and ]. He is visibly disgusted by them, and begins ] about "cleansing" such "filth" from the streets. | |||
| Bickle becomes smitten with a woman, Betsy (]), who works in the local ] of a ], a ] Palantine. He often watches Betsy from his cab, and finally enters the office with the pretense of wanting to support the would-be candidate, and asks her out. They meet for coffee, and Betsy finds him odd but intriguing, and agrees to see him again. This time, he takes her to the porno movie theater he frequents, apparently seeing nothing unusual in his choice of date venue. She is appalled and refuses to see him again. | |||
| After Betsy rejects him, Bickle becomes increasingly ] and starts acting out his ] fantasies. He buys several guns and takes to carrying them, and knives secreted about his person — taped to his limbs, for example, or in hidden spring-loaded holsters. He famously practices a menacing, tough guy swagger in the mirror — '']'' — to use on whomever angers him. Eventually, he shaves his head into a ]. He attends one of Palantine's speeches, apparently intent on shooting him. He draws the attention of ] agents and flees, so it is never clear whether he would have carried out the ]. | |||
| He also becomes obsessed with "saving" Iris (]), a 12-year-old ] he has seen on his route. He pays her pimp, Sport (]), for her time, but refuses to have sex with her, trying instead to persuade her to leave prostitution and return home to her parents. Iris rebuffs him, only increasing his anger and resolve to take her away from a dangerous life. He shoots and kills Sport, but is wounded in the process. He goes on a rampage through a ] in which Iris is servicing a client, killing the client and a bouncer with a wounded arm. | |||
| The newspapers hail Bickle as a hero for rescuing Iris. While in the hospital, he receives a letter from her parents, thanking him profusely for returning their daughter to them (she had been sent home after the police arrived and found out she was a ]). After recovering, he sees Betsy, who grants him an admiring, seductive smile.<ref></ref> | |||
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