Travis Scott’s five favourite movies of all time
Travis Scott has been known to take inspiration from all sorts of different sounds and genres in his music, and, it turns out, his taste in film is just as broad.
Scott is a big cinema fan, and he has become increasingly involved in the industry in recent times. His fourth album, 2023’s Utopia, was accompanied by a film, Circus Maximus, which he wrote, starred in, and co-directed alongside Harmony Korine, Nicolas Winding Refn, Gaspar Noé and several others.
Korine also cast Scott in his experimental film Aggro Dr1ft, which was shot entirely in infrared. Following an assassin tasked with killing a demonic crime lord, it is a strange film in which Scott is one of two main stars, alongside the Spanish actor Jordi Mollà.
Of the rapper’s involvement in the project, Korine said, “He’s very much what you would think. He’s very enigmatic but he’s in the moment. He was always thinking about the character and the visuals. He was just totally in it.”
Scott also has a working relationship with director Christopher Nolan, for whom he made the song ‘The Plan’ for his 2020 film Tenet. Nolan was so impressed with Scott, telling GQ that his musical contribution to Tenet was “the final piece of a yearlong puzzle,” that he has since gone on to cast him in his upcoming Odyssey adaptation.
Given the calibre of filmmaker Scott has worked with through the years, it’s clear he’s a bit of a movie buff. But as for his favourites to watch, his choices, he has admitted, change with his mood.
“I watch movies all the time,” he told L’Officiel USA in 2021, before admitting that “it’s hard to say” what his actual favourite was. He instead opted to list off several.
Scott highlighted No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and, lastly, Flubber, of all films, as his very favourites. Those last couple seemed especially surprising, but it goes to show that his different moods can take him to very different places indeed.
He went on to speak of the crucial role of imagination within real life, which, it seems, is at the heart of what he loves in movies, too. He’s not looking for strict realism when he watches films, but, rather, he’d prefer to see people get creative with the form. That would certainly explain the rationale behind his forays into film thus far.