There was plenty of problems regarding "Taxi Driver." Thing is, they were more concerned with young Jodie Foster witnessing the violence, than her being a child prostitute. Fable is right, this is a thing that pops up every decade or so. I remember all the hoopla (in the US) over the movie "Léon" where Natalie Portman plays an underage sex pot who becomes the apprentice of the titular hitman.
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Regardless though, it's curious why Ted Baehr and his cronies would single out this particular film.
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I think the problem here is Dakota Fanning herself. America has always had a possessive relationship with child stars, and has never been able to deal with the fact that the little darlings eventually grow up. It's the Shirley Temple Syndrome. Fanning has been "America's Sweetheart" for so long, they can't deal with the fact that her image is getting tarnished. What it will do for her career is another matter.
On a lighter note I always found Fanning quite creepy. I remember an interview with her when she was about 9 years old and I was thinking "OhMyGawd, SHE'S POD PEOPLE!"
Honestly, I was expecting her eyes to start to glow and her speaking in this really ancient voice, going "Weeeeee're Heeeeeere!"
It was like some mad scientist had put the brain of a 50 year old into the body of a 9 year old.
