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Article: Go Ahead, Make Her Day; More than 30 years after 'Taxi Driver,' Jodie Foster grabs a gun and gets her revenge in 'The Brave One.'.(Interview)
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- September 10, 2007
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Byline: Devin Gordon
Over the course of her new film, "The Brave One," Jodie Foster kills eight people. She plays a public-radio host named Erica Bain who survives a brutal attack in New York's Central Park during which her fiance is killed. After she heals, she slowly transforms into a vigilante--a blond, 5-foot-3 vigilante--and puts herself on a collision course with the thugs who attacked her. If this all sounds like a gender-bent "Death Wish," that's part of the point. "Women don't kill people," Foster told NEWSWEEK during an interview last summer on the film's set in Brooklyn, N.Y. "They kill themselves. They kill their children. They drink themselves to ...
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