Who Won the Movie?
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- Usually inclined to pick the director, this participant picks De Niro because 'Are you talking to me' is the film's most remembered moment, citing De Niro telling a 40th-anniversary audience he was sick of hearing it; Scorsese wins almost every other movie he makes. — Sean Fennessey
- Jodie Foster is picked because the Hinkley affair should have killed the movie and could have haunted her, yet her performance at 12 is unreal and layered, not merely a victim, and after an amazing career she remains a hero.
- Scorsese is picked so each person is represented: after this movie anything seemed possible for him, and it became a go-to film for influential filmmakers.
- Ending in three different places is called fitting for a perfectly directed, subjective movie.
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