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Continuity mistake: During breakfast, Iris suggests Travis that he could come to the commune in Vermont with her. De Niro is making a joker-esque big grinning smile in the two following close-ups, but there's another shot in between, with Robert De Niro visible only from the side in foreground, and he is not smiling at all in that. (01:28:10)

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Continuity mistake: During the breakfast scene, Iris has her hair suddenly underneath the shades' arms, just for a single shot. It's the one when he asks her "You call that being hip?" and when asks who's a killer. (01:25:35)

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Continuity mistake: In the hotel room, Iris is taking her shoes off. The heart pillow next to her on the couch changes position depending on the camera angle. (01:20:10)

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Continuity mistake: Travis walks in the building where he is greeted by the 'timekeeper' of the prostitute. He asks for money for the room. Notice he has just a toothpick in hand, but when the shot changes and he checks his watch, he is holding a gun. (01:19:00)

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Continuity mistake: Travis witnesses one guy beating another and dragging him away while he is in his car waiting for the arrival of the young prostitute. The corner is well lit by direct natural sunlight, and you can see the pavement, the working girls and the overweight woman walking along the building, all moving in the sun. Cut to De Niro approaching the girls, same street, roughly same spot including the graffiti landmark, and that sidewalk is in the shadow of the buildings. (01:15:10)

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Continuity mistake: Listening to the music program after the robbery, Travis has the gun pointed up diagonally, leaning against the top of his head. Reverse shot and he has it pointed straight up, and only after a while it leans against his head. (01:10:45)

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Continuity mistake: The robber is holding at gunpoint the store owner, arm outstretched. He turns around when Travis calls him, the arm still outstretched, straight, but when we see Travis blowing a hole in his face, that arm is bent, elbow close to the body. (01:08:50)

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Revealing mistake: When Travis starts spelling his phony name out to the security guy, a ginger kid walks in, stares at the camera, and hides away as quick as he came. In similar fashion, another kid with a red baseball cap looks at the camera behind De Niro once this walks by evading the photographer. (01:04:20)

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Continuity mistake: Mike and Tommy at the beginning of the movie are in the desert and have been staring at nothing for 3 months and 6 days. When Mike says this precise amount of time, and earlier when he asks "What's your point, Tommy?" the lid of his scope flaps in the wind. In the rest of the scene it stays still. (00:02:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the hotel room, Easy Andy puts on the bed the two suitcases and opens them. Look at the very distinctive gun with the mother-of-pearl grip. It points left in opening shot and close-up, but when Andy picks the 44 Magnum up, the Model 36 is now pointed the opposite way. (00:54:45)

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Other mistake: Guido runs over the brigand who just gunned down his woman (and that for some reason is eager to literally jump in front of the car despite being in perfect safety before). The car approaches the lorry driving on sunny asphalt already bearing in front of the car clear marks of the dangerous overtaking. In the next shot the marks are gone and so is the sun. (00:11:00)

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Continuity mistake: During the lengthier part of Wizard's un-Russellian rambling, De Niro is holding the cardboard box upside down compared to the rest of the scene (easy to spot because of the blue label). (00:47:30)

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Continuity mistake: While Wizard is commenting on the bit about 'f**s' in California, Travis who was still getting his order from the Belmore clerk is suddenly already midway towards them across the room. (00:45:10)

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Continuity mistake: Betsy opens the door of the taxi and tells Travis that she's already got the record. Her handbag is held up high enough to be in front of her blouse's buttons in the first shot, but not visible at all in the next close-up. (00:36:30)

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Continuity mistake: Travis and Betsy are having their snack during her break. During the conversation there are several instances when vehicles you can spot through the window behind De Niro do not move to Cybil Shepherd's side, or vice versa suddenly show up behind her appearing out of nothing. For instance when he says he says "quite a few problems" the orange car does not travel in between shots, and then a taxi appears behind her. Then there's a bus behind him which is suddenly gone between shots, etc. (00:25:00)

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Continuity mistake: During the chat the protagonist and Cybil Shepherd have at the diner, the passersby outside often walk back and forth. Easily recognizable for instance a redhead with a white shirt, blue skirt and a red ribbon tie, a woman with a blue tee and grey hair, another one in a pink tailleur and straw hat, and many more. (00:23:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the last part of the 'stool pigeon' bit between Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks, the paper sheet rolled in the typewriter has moved without Tom operating the device at all between shots. His hands also change position between shots (for instance, he points his finger with both hands joined at first, but at the cut just one is raised). (00:19:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Betsy pranks Tom with the paper cup, she 'spills' it with the right hand in the front view, and holds it in her left hand in the reverse shot. She then lifts it well above shoulder level and turns it upside down to show that it is empty, but in the next shot it is at the same height and angle as before. (00:18:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the first scene with the fellow cabbies at the diners, Wizard introduces Doughboy and Charlie T to Travis. Charlie in the very first shot has his toothpick on the right corner of the mouth, but in the close-up it is all the way to the left. (00:16:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Betsy is pointing the taxi driver outside to Albert Brooks, both her hands and his change position in the next shot, when he asks if the cabbie stalker is bothering her. (00:12:55)

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