19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: Taking a fatal bullet from Travis, the robber falls back. He is not just breaking the snack display cabinet, but also knocking one of the dirty Spanish magazines off the clothesline. The magazine falls with him and gets all crimpled between his arm and the counter, but vanishes entirely in the rest of the scene. (01:08:50)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: Travis just fed to the security guy a phony name and address. He walks away. Look when the security guy urges the photographer to take a picture; behind the photographer there is a woman in a rather flashy orange dress, with orange headband and round sunglasses worn on top of that. But that same woman is also in front of Travis walking away, and one of the first to greet the senator. Likewise, when he shouts "Damn it!" a photographer with a brown shirt passes behind him, and it's the same one that passed behind Travis in the previous shot. (01:05:30)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: In the arms dealer scene, De Niro puts the last gun down with the others he is purchasing. It's at the exact angle as the others, pointing to the right, but in the close-up of the suitcase with the holster on top of the selection, now that gun (the so called "."380 Walther") is angled left, opposite of the others. (00:57:00)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: Presumably the same day when he passes by Palantine's HQ and does not see Betsy at her desk, Travis nearly bumps his taxi into the same girl (Jodie Foster) he failed to save from her pimp. The sequence does not concern itself with continuity at all; the girls move away from the taxi twice in two different ways (look at how the long haired hooker turns), and De Niro's hands change position on the wheel with no logic. (00:51:40)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: In front of the favourite taxi diner, just after De Niro tells Wizard that he has some "bad ideas" in his head, you can see on his face and the wall behind him the characteristic intermittent pulse of emergency vehicle lights. The shot change, with Wizard talking across the cut implying continuity, and a few seconds later, right in that streeet, a police car with emergency lights on pulls over to apprehend someone. (00:47:25)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: At Belmore's, Travis looks at the crimpled 20 dollars note in his hand; in close-up the top left (relatively speaking) corner of the note is folded perfectly towards him, while in the other shot there was no straight folding line. (00:45:35)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: Travis walks out of Belmore to talk to Wizard. Right at the door he passes by some hoodlums; he is staring down in close-up a black kid with a chain. Another kid with a white T-shirt, carrying nunchakus, is behind him in that close-up, but walked already way ahead of him in the very first shot. (00:46:00)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: Betsy walks away from the porn theater, and Travis follows her. He says, trying to yank her back by her arm "Wait a second, I wanna talk to you." Two prostitutes walk behind them. In the shot that follows, behind De Niro, the same prostitutes pop again in frame walking in the same direction, not having advanced at all and in fact being behind their previous position. (00:36:30)
19th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: Travis is in the Charles Palantine campaign office to talk to Betsy for the first time. When he asks, leaning on the desk "What do you say?", one of the volunteers, a girl wearing jeans and a T-shirt in horizontal stripes, walks behind him. In the next shot, with Cybill Shepherd playing with her pencil as she ponders an answer, the same girl walks again behind Robert De Niro, coming from the same direction as earlier. (00:22:25)
13th Mar 2020
Other mistake: The man (turns out to be a mafia bigshot) who goes to Iris' pimp Sport asks him if she's in the usual building, and walks off, no doubt about his intentions. It's broad daylight, and it's summer. Yet Travis, who is also on booze and pills after failing to kill the senator and surely did not bid his time, arrives in East 13th Street only when it's already pitch black outside, and the john is still with Iris in the 'work' room, with them being fully clothed and with the bed made (but she's on her knees so they are 'just about to do it'). (01:37:30 - 01:39:45)
13th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: When Travis gets hit point-blank in the arm, there's a close-up of the gun falling down the stairs, which is re-established at the end when the camera pans back through the corridor showing the mayhem. But if you look at the shot that immediately follows that close-up, you can see Robert De Niro dropping the gun, that just bounces next to him, by the wall. (01:40:40)
13th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: The John stumbles inside the room in his dying moments and falls back with his arms spread out. In the shot from an elevated angle, with Iris screaming, you can see he is a certain distance from the radiator (and Iris' feet). In the POV shot from the door he is much closer, and when Travis is tackled by the mutilated timekeeper the dead man, Peter Savage has both arms up. (01:40:50)
13th Mar 2020
Continuity mistake: When Iris sobbing says that Sport never killed anyone, her carb-bomb made of bread, jam and pure sugar is looking quite messy, with the slices of toast not quite matching in rotation and raised. When she picks them back up from the plate though, they are all perfectly matching and pressed tightly together. (01:26:00)
13th Mar 2020
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)
13th Mar 2020
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)
13th Mar 2020
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)
13th Mar 2020
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)
13th Mar 2020
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)
13th Mar 2020
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)
13th Mar 2020
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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