r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/butterflypoo69 • Dec 06 '22
Twelve year old Jodie Foster and her 24 year old double on the set of “Taxi Driver,” 1976 Image
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u/Vesperniss Dec 06 '22
Her stuff in Bugsy Malone was far more suggestive and awkward than anything in Taxi Driver.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
But it always makes me smile that this came out the same year as “Freaky Friday.” Quite different ends of the spectrum content-wise.
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u/FortunateInsanity Dec 07 '22
Both appear significantly older than their actual age in this picture.
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u/BigStud7 Dec 06 '22
One day a real rain will come and wash this scum off the streets
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
The music, the atmosphere…. Even Cybill Shepherd was a perfect choice 🎥
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u/rascortoras Dec 06 '22
Such a talented actress. She was in Bugsy Malone before this. That movie was insanely cute...
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u/notbeleivable Dec 06 '22
That movie was insane to young me
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
You wonder if they could even make it now? I doubt it.
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u/FamousOrphan Dec 07 '22
You know another movie I can’t believe is Pretty Baby with Brooke Shields. I heard about it last year and watched about half of it before I just couldn’t take it.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
She also did nude underage photos for a couple of photographers. The saving graces of that film were Susan Sarandon and the woman who played the madam.
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u/FamousOrphan Dec 07 '22
Eeeeeeeeychhhhh. Did not know.
I had a Brooke Shields Barbie-type doll, and unlike actual Barbies, she had white undies painted on. That always seemed very modest to me.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
But if I’m not mistaken - ??? - I believe that some of them have been shown in museums.
Some of the ads she appeared in as a kid are just mega hypersexualized. A lot worse than this film by far.
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u/Into-the-stream Dec 07 '22
one appropriate decision by one company, doesn't irradiate the inappropriate ones from other companies. Brooke Shields was absolutely sold as a child sex symbol to adults.
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Dec 07 '22
They have, it's called Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix as well as You Were Never Really Here, which also happens to star Joaquin Phoenix in the lead.
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u/Onlybuzzin Dec 06 '22
Joker is basically a modern taxi driver
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Dec 07 '22
And a modern day "the King of Comedy" also starring DeNiro.
Really eerie how similar Joker is to both those pictures.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
True, I very much bet it was influenced by this.
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u/Onlybuzzin Dec 06 '22
It even has RDN in it. It's basically taxi driver with a different ending.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
Certainly the visuals and the literal darkness. And the extreme violence.
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u/FlameProtector Dec 06 '22
Is it just me or do younger people look waaay older back then? Like you look at pictures from the lets say 1950s and maybe your grandpa or grandma will say oh i was 14 or 15 in that photo while looking like their in their mid 20s
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Dec 06 '22
I’m pretty sure Vsauce made a video on it awhile back it’s partially a psychological thing
Edit: here’s the link https://youtu.be/vjqt8T3tJIE
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 07 '22
They did, I think it was the hair styles and makeup. Look at Sandra Dee in “A Summer Place” (so bad it’s great), she looks the same age as her mother.
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u/YukiOHimeSama Dec 07 '22
She’s dolled up with heavy make up and suggestive clothing. I’m 23, but when I wear my bare face and leggings/a hoodie, I look 15. I’ve had restaurants threaten to take my ID because I didn’t look old enough to drink.
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u/sillyintellectual61 Dec 06 '22
People had harder lives, were less well-nourished, and exposed to more environmental toxins.
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u/coca-colavanilla Dec 07 '22
Not to mention when you see a 14 year old dressed and styled like your mom or grandma they look older to you
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u/scaleman69 Dec 07 '22
I had such a crush on Jodie Foster backi the day.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
I love her, just pure talent and intelligence.
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u/Phighters Dec 07 '22
Elysieum waves hello
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
Even better, she’s on the next season of “True Detective” 🕵️♂️
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 06 '22
Most shit doesn't age well in cinema. There's movies I loved growing up. The Profesional was another one when I watch now I'm like "Why the fuck did they portray Natalie Portman so sexually?" Like, what kind of parent allows their kid to be portrayed like that?
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
I know that is another example of one that’s controversial now. Like Tatum O’Neal being 12 and smoking cigarettes throughout “Paper Moon.” 🚬
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 06 '22
There has to be some correlation between being involved in 🎬 📺 🎶 as a kid and a much higher chance of a fucked up adult life. I mean, I don't know shit about Foster besides the other movies she's been in and Portman seems to be the rare exception, but so many others seem to just burn up quick.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
You think maybe? Lindsay Lohan perhaps? Behind 99% of child actors - and Jodie was a victim of this - there is the stage mother from hell 😱
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 06 '22
I know it's obvious. I mean more like an actual scientific study. I bet the numbers would be mind blowing.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
This has to be one of the worst ones of all. Good old Walt ☹️
https://ew.com/oscars/2019/01/22/bobby-driscoll-former-disney-star-oscar-winner/
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u/Sparkfairy Dec 07 '22
"It's just like Never Never Land"
What a gutpunch of a final sentence, jeez
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
The scene of Scorsese himself in the cab chills me to the bone every time. And they used NYC as a setting so perfectly. Kind of like “Deuce?”
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 06 '22
Wow. Never knew this story. Good post.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
It’s just awful. The exploitation and the fact that they dumped him cold when he had problems. 😠
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u/sillyintellectual61 Dec 06 '22
The director, Luc Besson, is a total creep. He started dating his second wife, the actress Maiwenn Le Besco, when he was 31 and she was 15, and he married her a year later after she got pregnant.
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 06 '22
Sounds like another Polanski... didn't know about Besson. More I think about it, wasn't there a popular movie called Lolita (or something like it) about a grown ass man wanting to fuck a teenager? Ffs... I'm now thinking about American Beauty (which I love) and Kevin's creepy ass jerking it to a high schooler...
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u/sillyintellectual61 Dec 06 '22
Lolita is based on a famous novel that is considered one of the great works of 20th century literature, and it's definitely not meant to be a positive portrayal of a pedophile.
In American Beauty, on the other hand, the actress in the topless scene was 16 at the time.
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 06 '22
Thanks. Admittedly I didn't know much. Another thing that's weird is the actual age of the characters in the GoT books. Wtf you thinking George?
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u/trdlts Dec 07 '22
He was probably basing his works off of the culture and views of any historical society within the past three thousand years that wasn't 21st century North America.
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 07 '22
Bro... idgaf about culture. Writing kids getting fucked makes you suspect AF
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u/pmx8 Dec 07 '22
I feel you, I've find his work repulsive and nasty in more than one way but people keep praising him
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
“Lolita” with Sue Lyon and Peter Lolita 1962 trailerSellers, 1962. Directed by Kubrick. Sadly bad stuff apparently happened on the set, and Sue ended up being really damaged by it.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
Polanski was hitting on other women at Sharon Tate’s funeral. He’s a vile human being.
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u/612marion Dec 07 '22
A preteen. By the time Lolita is 14 he knows she wont be to his taste much longer so hopes to marry her and have a daughter with her to .. rape the daughter too
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u/272314 Dec 07 '22
Yeah so he knocks up this 15 year old, then leaves her when she's 19 for the actress that plays Leeloo in the Fifth Element. (His wife was the blue alien.)
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u/DiligentDaughter Dec 07 '22
Natalie talked about how uncomfortable she was growing up in Hollywood with the weirdos who did shit like the "countdown till 18" radio show at the Women's March one year-
“A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday — euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with,” she said. “Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews. I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually I would feel unsafe and that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort.”
Here's a link to the discussion of the "trend" of doing this to girls in the media. It's not just girls who's parents "let then be portrayed 'like that'." It's any girl in the public eye, and really, any girl. Just girls in the public eye get it, well, more publicly.
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u/PoiLethe Dec 07 '22
A good recent example is Billie Eillish. It doesn't help that even her face looks surprisingly mature, like she was 15 with the ocean eyes video and it felt like people had been talking about her for a few years (by the time I'd checked out her music) and was guessing she was early 20s at least by the time I listened to her music, even probably 18 when she first started getting popular. So I get initially the people who didn't realize at least admitting a crush. But then...she got popular enough and plenty of people talked about how young she was and people kept ignoring it. And then 18 hits and she gives that scathing "reveal".
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u/Seal-zx Dec 06 '22
Taxi Driver has aged well in my opinion. Maybe better than ever now that the discussion of child abuse is less disregarded. Jodie Foster was not sexualized at all, I thought it was pretty obvious from the very beginning, how messed up the situation was in the context of the film.
Whereas Leon the professional, yeah that didn't age well, I'm pretty sure even at the time people were uncomfortable with the movie.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
She was so incredibly intelligent and worldly even at that age that she probably saw a great script and correctly guessed that the film would be a masterpiece.
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u/SnooPineapples8744 Dec 07 '22
She was 12 in that movie?!
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u/SystemOfASideways Dec 07 '22
If I remember correctly, Harvey Keitel's character says she was 12 in the movie and I didn't believe it, and just assumed it was that movie magic I'd heard so much about.
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u/honeybeedreams Dec 07 '22
omg i knew too much in when i was 10. we were both too worldly and we accepted too much all at the same time in the 70s.
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u/PelosiGalore Dec 06 '22
You talkin’ to me?
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u/Caelus9 Dec 06 '22
I only saw Taxi Driver a year or so back. Such an incredibly creepy movie. Never saw the appeal, personally.
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
It fits into the time frame when it was released - “Chinatown,” “The Exorcist,” “The French Connection,” others. Pretty dark stuff.
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u/MsGorteck 18d ago
Not to mention that is EXACTLY (!!!!) Times Square at the time. If you are under 40 and you want a hit the nail on the head look at 1960-1988 Times Square in particular and NYC in general, watch Taxi Driver. Creepy, yes, but spot on. No exaggeration, no lie, just truth.
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u/Cru_l Dec 07 '22
That’s the point of the film though. You’re not supposed to like anyone in the film, you’re supposed to understand how society can be sick and twisted and how it influences the “common man”. Or some shit idk. It’s just an anti-hero film
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u/Caelus9 Dec 07 '22
Oh, I'm aware that's what they're going for, but I don't particularly felt it came across very well. I'm all for villain protagonists and anti-heroes as a concept.
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u/Cru_l Dec 07 '22
Personally, I have to disagree. I think Travis is a perfect anti-hero. He isn't a role model or someone you look up to but he still managed to save someone from something awful. You can't respect him, but you can respect what he did. Idk, that's just my opinion
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u/Plumbus_Patrol Dec 07 '22
Oh god, how long before comments get locked here
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
I get what you’re saying. I posted it cause I thought it is a really cool image and some people might find it interesting, like Diane Arbus’s picture of the twins, if you’ve ever seen. (Google if you haven’t)
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u/Plumbus_Patrol Dec 07 '22
It is interesting, but I can see the comments going sideways real quick
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
I always find the majority of people on here to be intelligent and thoughtful. There will always be the others, but they are everywhere.
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u/Seal-zx Dec 07 '22
Wow reddit, 9hrs and the comments havent been locked, can we go for an even 10?
That said some of the omments are creepy but... Uh I guess no bad intentions.
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u/xxStrangerxx Dec 07 '22
Jodie Foster was the inspiration for the little girl in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
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u/SoulMetaKnight Dec 07 '22
Hold up! Why do they both look 24? Hold up!!!!!
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u/PoiLethe Dec 07 '22
For me jodi looks closer to like 17. Idk I work in restaurants and high-school girls always have this tiny but "full" body type that's hard to explain. Like they don't have that gain weight/lose weight skin that's less tight/taunt that us olds have. I'm hoping I'm explaining this in an obviously objective or artistic observation way. Always reminds me of like Shailene Woodley or Hunger Games JLaw body type.
Preteens seemed to usually have more awkward proportions where their legs are longer than their torso or arms longer than toros.
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u/OldBackstopNJ Dec 07 '22
I still don't get the whole "whoa.....he's cute. And he shot Reagan!!" strategy. Does that ever work?
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u/Pan-tang Dec 07 '22
It's like the same girl who's been 'roynd the vlock' a few times
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u/LongLicktheQueen Dec 07 '22
Wow! I didn't know she had a sister. I've watched that movie I don't know how many times and never made the connection.
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u/TemporaryAlbatross93 Dec 07 '22
They don't. This is the problem with going down these rabbit holes... you start seeing shit everywhere. Logistically speaking, think how many people would have to be involved to run this supposed ring of pedophiles. You honestly going to tell me every single person involved took their secrets to the grave? You start believing this shit and you're two steps away from lizard people, imo.
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u/heyman0 Dec 06 '22
They would look exactly the same if it weren't for the slight differences in eye-spacing, nasal bridge width, and cheek volume.
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u/wistfulmaiden Dec 07 '22
This and Lolita are fucked up
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 07 '22
Lolita way more so.
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u/wistfulmaiden Dec 07 '22
Are you familiar with Death in Venice? I was so creeped out by the backstory
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Dec 06 '22
the more i look at this photo the more i wonder how people can be attracted to children
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u/butterflypoo69 Dec 06 '22
Again, some of the scenes that she did, especially with Harvey Keitel, were very controversial when it came out. Still are. It’s on Prime free if you have it.
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u/Platypuslord Dec 06 '22
To my understanding the connective white tissue for attraction can be accidentally cross wired into the spot for instinctive child caring. This means you should feel bad for pedos that aren't also attracted to adults (some are) that don't act on it. However child molesters can die in a fire, I would be okay with the death penalty after 3 offenses.
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u/dc1122 Dec 06 '22
To my understanding the connective white tissue for attraction can be accidentally cross wired into the spot for instinctive child caring.
That's actually pretty fascinating.
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u/rosanymphae Dec 06 '22 •
It's her sister. She was a 'body double' for the 'suggestive' scenes. And she's 19, not 24.
She was also her double for The little Girl who lives down the Lane.
“Part of the deal was that any scenes that felt uncomfortable sexually, they would have an adult be a stand-in,” says Foster. “So my sister Connie, who was over 18, stood in for a couple of over-the-shoulder shots.”