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Robert De Niro Compares Trump to His 'Taxi Driver' Character
NewsBusters ^ | August 13, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/13/2016 12:04:26 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

You talking to me? You talking to me?

Yeah, I'm talking to you. And I'm telling you that actor Robert De Niro has shown us what a liberal loon he is by comparing his Travis Bickle character in the movie Taxi Driver to Donald Trump.  The Associated Press reported on De Niro's latest lunacy while he attended the Sarajevo Film Festival:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; robertdeniro
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You don't have to stretch to point of unreality to see Tracy Flick as Hillary.
1 posted on 08/13/2016 12:04:26 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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De Niro’s brain is about the size of that huge mole on his face that we get to see as they always photograph him from that side. Well . . . maybe his brain isn’t that large.


2 posted on 08/13/2016 12:08:09 PM PDT by laweeks
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Wasn’t the Taxi character a hero?


3 posted on 08/13/2016 12:08:16 PM PDT by dhs12345
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De Niro’s movies have been horrible these past few years. Pfft to you Bob!


4 posted on 08/13/2016 12:13:22 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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Here are some obscure film titles from the last four years:
The Bag Man. Heist. Killing Season. Red Lights. Being Flynn.

Here are some domestic box office numbers:
$56,000; $50,000; $39,000; $52,000; $540,000.

Here are some Rotten Tomatoes scores:
23%; 10%; 11%; 29%; 51%.

And here is the name that united them all:
Robert De Niro.

The Shaming Of Robert De Niro
After a slew of box office bombs and critical flops, Robert De Niro’s been told to retire, that he’s ruining his legacy, that he’s too blinded by his own genius to understand just how limp his films truly have become. But what if there’s a different explanation for why his movies end up so badly?

5 posted on 08/13/2016 12:14:17 PM PDT by IncPen (Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
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“Wasn’t the Taxi character a hero?”

I wouldn’t think so, that John Hinckley fellow was trying to imitate him; however, I don’t know the film well.


6 posted on 08/13/2016 12:14:45 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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I saw “The Intern” and that also stunk.


7 posted on 08/13/2016 12:15:55 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Tell It, Skinner, about your Clinton Cash Payoff Money)
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Funny how De Niro plays murderous psychopaths so convincingly.
8 posted on 08/13/2016 12:16:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rat Party,try as it might,just isn't very good at hiding what it *truly* is.)
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Unless you talk and act like a liberal loon, you just don’t get the good movie parts. Welcome to Hollywood.


9 posted on 08/13/2016 12:16:19 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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Reading a VF article on DeNiro

Dysfunctional all his life. Small wonder he can play dysfunctional roles. It’s in his blood

And for a guy who “Talks about Taxi Driver” there’s this:

federal investigators revealed that he’d been inspired by De Niro’s portrayal in Taxi Driver of the crazed loner Travis Bickle, who stalks a presidential candidate. Eventually the movie was screened as evidence for a jury as it sat in judgment on Hinckley. De Niro was horrified by the controversial worldwide publicity Taxi Driver received in the media (“Can a film drive someone to murder?”). For the first time in his career, De Niro was stopped on the street by fans demanding that he recite Bickle’s infamous line: “Ya talkin’ to me?”

“Don’t they realize I’m not that guy?” De Niro kept asking.

“Do not ever bring up the subject of Taxi Driver with Robert,” director Ulu Grosbard warned me. “He gets extremely upset.”


10 posted on 08/13/2016 12:16:34 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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Every four years he says the same thing. Two words for you Bob.


11 posted on 08/13/2016 12:16:38 PM PDT by magua
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?

I thought it was charming. : )


12 posted on 08/13/2016 12:17:27 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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Thank you for sharing Bobby. Eat your Jello, it’s time for your nap.


13 posted on 08/13/2016 12:18:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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Taxi character a hero?

Accidental hero.

He was a psycho self-styled political assassin who strayed into killing the bad guys.

14 posted on 08/13/2016 12:19:05 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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“You talking to me?” Looks around. “Well, I’m the only one here.”


15 posted on 08/13/2016 12:19:10 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Tagline space for rent . . . cheap.)
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I'm more worried that De Niro would imitate his Taxi-Driver character (or any of his other murderous characters... he has played a lot of them) and try to kill Trump.
16 posted on 08/13/2016 12:19:30 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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De Niro is comparable to a kumquat.


17 posted on 08/13/2016 12:22:40 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Whenever you hear one of these Hollywood airheads criticizing the US or the Reps abroad, always remember that more than half of Hollywood’s film revenue comes from overseas. They are the absolute globalists. They feel no real allegiance to the US.


18 posted on 08/13/2016 12:23:30 PM PDT by kabar
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Well, if Trump can be accused of inciting people to kill a presidential candidate by merely responding to someone in the crowd who said “Second Amendment,” can’t De Niro be accused of the same by bringing up this movie?

I wish he would just shut up and go back to making good movies, because I like him as an actor. Goodfellas, Godfather II, and I also liked the Meet the Parents. And Analyze This. Though Ben Stiller and Billy Crystal were also very funny; they all played against each other very well.


19 posted on 08/13/2016 12:24:51 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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Michael Douglas is nonplussed at the popularity of his Gordon Gekko character, “Greed is good,” in Wall Street, too. Not everyone, it seems, is anti-capitalist.

A similar thing happened with All in the Family. Archie was not supposed to be popular, but a caricature of leftist fantasies about conservatives. Norman Lear was chagrined.


20 posted on 08/13/2016 12:27:29 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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