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Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 movie directed by Martin Scorsese. The movie is about Travis Bickle, a character who has a lot of psychopathic tendencies and is overall a lonley guy. He is attracted to Betsy, a campaign volunteer for presidential candidate Charles Palantine. Travis falls head over heels for her, and so he also volunteers for the campaign in order to be near her. One of the big events featured in the movie is the United States presidential election of 1976. Towards the end of the movie, Travis attempts to kill presidental candidate Palantine. This was inspired by the attempted assassination of presidental candidate George Wallace in 1972. Travis Bickle's attempted assassination of Senator Palantine is almost exactly like Palantine's
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