10 Movies With Surprising Real World Consequences

An unhinged cabbie from New York City, Robert De Niro's portrayal of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver is just one of the reasons he is rightly recognised as a legend.

But it's not his role in the film we're talking about today.

At just 12 years old, Jodie Foster was cast in the movie as a child prostitute. We said this film was good, we never said it wasn't without its problems.

Speaking of problematic, John Hinckley Jr. became obsessed with Foster after first seeing her in this film. He moved house to be closer to where she was studying and would bombard her with love letters and poetry.

Again, it's worth remembering that Foster was an actual child when Hinckley first saw her.

In his deteriorating mental state, Hinckley decided that the best thing he could do to win Foster's favour was shoot the President of the United States. And so he did - in 1981, he shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan, all to impress the actress.

It's one of the maddest stories of all time, and one that almost certainly did not come up in the pitch meeting for Taxi Driver.