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(To the original poster)
You have to know something about Taxi Driver before you watch it. As good as a movie as it is, there are some ethical problems with the production. During the run-up to production, to get into character, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel kidnapped and kept Cybil Shepard in their basement for a month, taunting her routinely (when they were even down there to keep her company), and forcing her to read her lines over and over again, only leaving her rat feces for food. (Source: The New York Times article "How Do They Do It?: (Subtitle) Acting In Hollywood Today" January 2nd, 1976)
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