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Continuity mistake: After walking past the Stage Manager (Jimmy Raitt) who did not take him seriously, Rupert Pupkin bumps into Cathy Long. Notice the man in a dark grey shirt that walks behind the piano, right of the frame. At the cut, the man has another guy in front of him that was not there in the previous shot. (01:24:40)

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Continuity mistake: "The King" is on the phone with Mr. Bert Thomas, the producer. During the conversation, the extras on the street are recycled. Particularly obvious a man in red pants and and a white and red shirt, who passes by at least 3 times, and a woman with a black skirt and a pink top. (01:17:50)

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Other mistake: Rupert almost got to the end of the cue cards when he flips too quickly the one saying "Alive", partially hidden behind another he is holding in his hand, showing the one saying "again" too early. So Jerry asks him to go back. And he does, only to bring then from behind "again." There is a small bit when De Niro is off-camera, but for this sequence to go as shown, he would have slipped to the bottom/the back of the pile the "again" card that was already at the top and then put in its place one of the two he had already in hand, the correct one, "alive." The fact that "again", that was at the top of the pile, is pulled from the bottom instead, makes no sense. (01:08:50)

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Continuity mistake: Rupert seizes Jerry's hard candy tube and asks him; "Do you mind if I have one?" He is holding the packet almost vertically, at the cut he holds it horizontal. (01:04:35)

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Continuity mistake: Jerry Langford removes the goggles his kidnappers used to blindfold him. Masha is holding the gun with a different grip between shots (left hand under the right wrist, one finger under the handle, followed by a more conventional grip, with a different distance of her thumb in the next shots). (01:04:10)

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Continuity mistake: In the kidnapping sequence, Jerry enters the car leg first, and his right hand is the last part to get in. In the view from inside the car, he's in head first, body rotated differently. (01:03:10)

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Continuity mistake: While he waits for the last word on his tape, Rupert has another dream sequence. He greets his old high school principal saying "Well how are ya?"; notice there's Robert De Niro's thumb popping in view in that close-up on George Kapp, but in the following wider shot, De Niro's hand is on the armrest. (00:41:55)

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Continuity mistake: After the encounter with the cancer lady, Jerry is stalked by Sandra Bernhard. In his escape he traverse an intersection; people in the street and on the sidewalk change between shots. (00:39:55)

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Continuity mistake: Rupert is daydreaming about Jerry loving the demo tape and inviting him to his country house. Jerry sits down at the desk and puts the tape back into the envelope in one single shot, resolute. When Rupert asks him if he can bring someone, there's another shot of Jerry Lewis reaching for the envelope and putting the tape in it. (00:38:05)

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Continuity mistake: Putting away the autograph book, Rita says "Rupert, you have not changed." In this second part of the conversation, multiple times Rita's arms go from folded to uncrossed, and the glass like in the first part of the scene appears and disappears suddenly in and from her hand. (00:19:40)

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Continuity mistake: Dining at the Chinese restaurant, Rita asks a fresh refill of her drink. Throughout the scene, the glass appears in her hand seemingly at random between cuts. Not just that; the level of liquid changes as well. It is particularly obvious when she says that the mystery autograph looks like signed by "a retard." (00:17:00)

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Continuity mistake: Rupert reintroduces himself to the old schoolmate Rita. He gifts her with a rose; during this first part of the scene Rita's arm position and whether her palms face up or down changes between shots. (00:15:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the first dream sequence, Jerry is taking one more sip of his drink when Rupert tells him "That's...the worst." His left hand is staying at the same level as before, but at the cut it suddenly dropped low enough to be out of frame. (00:11:35)

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Continuity mistake: In his third interruption to Jerry trying to get back to his apartment, Rupert does not have in either hand the wallet he pulled the Pride and Joy picture out of. When he is shown turning around saying "Okay OK okay", he is holding the wallet. (00:10:35)

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Continuity mistake: In a cringeworthy bit of prop comedy, Rupert hands Jerry the picture of his Pride and Joy; De Niro is holding the picture with the forefinger on top in the wider angle, but with the thumb on top in the close-up. (00:10:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the intro, the protagonist is making his way through the crowd of autograph hunters. One of them asks him "Hey Rupert, who'd you get?" Rupert makes a dismissive gesture with his hand, at the cut he repeats it even when he had lowered his hand already. (00:02:05)

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Continuity mistake: During the final cab ride, Robert De Niro in close-ups has a distinctive curl of hair across the forehead. In the close-ups of his reflection in the mirror it is not so, and same for the dialogue with Betsy. (01:48:10)

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Other mistake: Travis' hair length appears inconsistent throughout the movie; he begins working in early May with his hair of a certain length, his hair appears trimmed differently in certain scenes driving the cab, it is certainly much shorter, sort of a buzz cut, during the scenes when he interacts with the senator's guards, but it is already longer when he is doing the "You talkin' to me scene" and the murder of Stick-Up Man, which is in between the buzzcut scenes. And then of course, there's the ending.

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Factual error: Travis begins the movie at 26 years old, and reports leaving the army with honorable discharge in May 1973. His first diary entry just after being hired is "May 10th." In the newspapers at the end he is still 26, and it says that he has been a taxi driver for 6 months. The movie obviously does not take place in winter, and the only months referenced (plus the timeline of a presidential nomination) are June and July. Besides, 1973 would not be the right year for a story set just before a presidential election, unlike 1976 when the movie came out.

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Other mistake: The continuity of the sequence with Travis killing Iris' Time Keeper is choppy; audio of him screaming is heard even when his mouth is closed, and his eyes are open, then closed. He is also staying completely still for the shots of the final blow after displaying fierce blind suicidal aggression (going after a man with a gun even having no weapon and one hand turned into a pulp), where his head appears pushed against the couch in a different way between angles. (01:41:25)

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