Because of this film by Martin Scorsese, the US president has almost lost his life!

Six shots were heard on March 30, 1981, Hilton Hotel in Washington. The shooting author is John Warnock Hinckley, the younger and the target is no one, if not Ronald Reagan, a former Hollywood actor who became the forty presidents of the United States. In the lungs and on the left side, the latter only sentenced to death.

In the following survey, US police discovered the shooter’s fascinating shooter for Martin Scorsese movie taxi driver. And even more especially for Iris character, a teenage prostitute Jodi Foster (only thirteen years old).

Palme d’Or in 1976, taxi driver Robert de Niro depicts Vietnam War Veteran of Travis Bikli’s skin. Insomnia is subject to psychological trauma, which is the subject, the latter decides to become a taxi driver at night. A little bit, it sinks into the form of ultra -violent radicalism.

The Oscar had to be held on the same day as an attack!

Then the investigation made it possible to compile a psychological portrait of the shooter. Completely unbalanced (he thought he was a taxi driver Travis), he finally explained his gesture as a desperate attempt to pay attention to Jodi Foster. Dozens of letters that sent a young actor before the attack was found by police.

Reagan’s attack has not had a negative impact on the film, and over the years has strengthened the cult of cult work. At the same time, he pushes Robert de Niro’s coronation to the Oscars of 1981. The American actress awarded the best actress that year with a prize for her role in Raging Bull, which is also led by Martin Scorsese.

Originally planned on March 30, 1981, the ceremony was finally held the next day. Ronald Reagan’s message (recorded a few days before the attack) at the beginning of his departure, and the covenant was sent by the host Johnny Carson. However, Niro thanked President Reagan.

Because of this case, Jodi Foster has completed a career in the theater

In 2024, in an interview in the magazine, Jodi Foster talked about the influence of the case in the theater about his career. Soon after the attack on Reagan, the American actress noticed every evening in the theater where she performed the same man in the front. The investigation made it possible to figure out that it had attended a pistol -armed room.

“I loved the theater, but I felt that I couldn’t get this obligation to start playing again.” Details of Jody Foster in this sad interview. “It was a traumatic moment, and I never admitted that he had any connection with the fact that I no longer wanted to play a play.”

Since June 2022, John Hinkley has been a younger free man. In an interview with CBS, he apologized to the victims and Jodi Peter, though he was completely forbidden to interact with the American actor.

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