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** ''[[Casino]]'' is also [[The Movie of the Book|The Movie]] of another nonfiction book by the same author, Nicholas Pileggi. Ace Rothstein was based on an actual guy, though the name was changed and Ace is comparatively less of a thuggish bastard, if only by virtue of certain incidents not making it into the film.
* ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' has Robert DeNiro trying to kill a politician. [[wikipedia:John Hinckley Jr|Some guy]] watched the movie many times, got obsessed with [[Jodie Foster]] and, after many attempts to contact her, decided to impress her by shooting [[Ronald Reagan]]...
** ''Taxi Driver'' scriptwriter [[Paul Schrader]] blames [[Executive Meddling]] for the intentional toning down of Travis Bickle's racism (he was much more susceptible to muttering about the N-words and W-words, in addition to inciting hate crimes), thus making DeNiro's character a complex counterculture icon rather than the paranoid, simpleminded racist the character was intended to be.
* As [[Clive Barker]], creator of the ''[[Hellraiser]]'' series, put it, "You've got Pinhead, who hasn't done a single decent thing in eight movies, and still gets mail from women who want to have his children."
** Given the sadomasochistic themes of the ''Hellraiser'' films, its debatable how much of this is really misaimed.
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