Morena Beltran (25) sparked controversy on social networks by expressing his opinion on the classic film Taxi driver. On air in the streaming program of which she, the sports journalist, is also a part He assured that the film is “slow” and that it contains scenes in which “absolutely nothing happens”.
During the recent broadcast of Generation FESPN’s streaming sports program, Morena was talking about some of her favorite movies with part of the cycle team, including Coscu, Sofi Martínez and Agustín Belachur.
Among these, he highlighted Butterfly Effect, Se7en: The 7 deadly sins, The Wolf of Wall Street, Zodiac AND Da Vinci’s code. However, the conversation changed when the journalist explained which film she didn’t like.
“I was disappointed by a classic, classic cinema evil. She said ‘because I spent two hours of my life watching Taxi driver?’“, began Morena, judging the film. While those present were surprised, Sofi assured that she had not even seen it.
“Taxi driver Did it seem bad to you?” Coscu said without words. “No no no. I swear I couldn’t believe it“added the sports journalist.
He then asked her if she seemed slow and assured her that “she’s from another time.” “Yes, is slow. But let’s see, there are films from another era that are incredible,” Morena responded.
“Okay, it’s from ’76, it’s quite old… I said ‘Scorsese, De Niro stars, it’s got to be a good movie no matter what.’ There were four-minute scenes where absolutely nothing happened,” he continued explaining.
Furthermore, Beltrán said he did not understand the plot of the film and spoiled end. “You never know if the plot of the movie is really about the girl falling in love or if it’s really about the boy who ends up killing him“, hill.
The clip of the moment quickly went viral and generated a wave of criticism that judged the journalist for her opinion on the cinema classic. One of them was the famous Argentine film critic, Axel Kuschevatzkywho, without naming Morena, expressed himself about it on his social networks.
Along with a gif of Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in the film, the producer and screenwriter also wrote: “I stopped by to tell you that there isn’t a single minute in it Taxi driver where everything doesn’t happen”.
“There’s a reason we still talk about her after four decades, but… we will no longer mention last week’s streams“, he concluded, making direct reference to the sayings and the program in which Beltrán works.
I came by to tell you that there isn’t a single minute in Taxi Driver where everything doesn’t happen. There’s a reason we still talk about it after four decades, but we no longer mention last week’s streams. pic.twitter.com/qRxsUebjhd
— aхel ĸυѕcнevaтzĸy (@AxelKuschevatzk) April 7, 2024
His messages were joined by those of many other internet users who took the opportunity to attack Morena. “How will you say it? Taxi driver Is she bad?”, “She’s a sports journalist, what do you expect?”, “But look at two hours of Boca“, “These are films made for thinking beings”, “What ignorance” and “Remove the media from the millipilis”, were just some of the comments that emerged.
However, other people decided to support her: “It happened to me with pulp Fiction“, “Many didn’t like it and say yes to integrate.”, “It happened to me with other classics I watched for general culture”, “There are many old films that are overrated”.
Source: Clarin