Roman Polanski

[PearlySweetcake]

Feb 19, 2017 8:14:47 GMT -4 deux said:

“I pleaded guilty. I went to prison. I have done my penalty. The case is closed,” Polanski told the Associated Press in 2015. LAist

"He wants to freely travel in Europe and visit Tate's gravesite at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. He has not been able to visit his daughter in London, either." TMZ

Love these quotes. He is so full of shit. You did not serve your time, asshole! You fled the country before sentencing. And the poor guy cannot freely travel in Europe or visit his daughter. The mean judge should just drop all charges immediately. I wish we could get that mf off our continent too.

Speaking of Tate, a bio-pic of her life is in the works. It's based on the book by Greg King (known more for his royalty biographies), and starring Kate Bosworth.

[Auroranorth]

Gee, I'm so sorry he can't go visit his daughter because England would kick him out for being a child rapist. And obviously she can't afford the fare home. Poor petals. /eyeroll

[Carolina]

Feb 19, 2017 21:43:22 GMT -4 Auroranorth said:

Gee, I'm so sorry he can't go visit his daughter because England would kick him out for being a child rapist. And obviously she can't afford the fare home. Poor petals. /eyeroll

Sounds like his daughter found an excellent way to keep her rapey dad away her. Smart girl.

[Auroranorth]

I wonder what his daughter thinks of him? I'd be really creeped out, and also by my mother, who thought marrying him was a good idea.

[Ginger]

Feb 20, 2017 16:21:36 GMT -4 Auroranorth said:

I wonder what his daughter thinks of him? I'd be really creeped out, and also by my mother, who thought marrying him was a good idea.

Emmanuelle Seigner, from an interview with French Elle from 2010:

"I am not a super-liberal person who thinks that nothing is that serious. I also think that at the time people didn't live and react in the same way." She added, "It was a crazy time. The attitude to drugs was not the same, nor was the attitude to sexual liberty and permissiveness." Of her relationship with Polanski, who may now be sentenced in absentia to time served, she said, "My personal truth is that Roman is a marvelous husband and man. He is an impeccable man and I have nothing to reproach him for."

Polanski is great at making himself sympathetic, if not a victim. I think people who know him one-on-one believe that he's a good guy and buy into his excuses. He did an interview several years ago (I believe in Esquire) and spent much of it being remorseful for what he did, but also always going back to the great grief of losing his wife and losing his family to the Holocaust.

What Seignier said above about it being a different time is pretty much the accepted view in Hollywood for many years - particularly as most people didn't know the real story and thought it was a case of an aspiring model who pretended to be older and was not only willing, but threw herself at him.

[fabrichnova]

My first exposure to the case was as a child sneak-watching an adult Samantha Geimer interviewed about the rape on Inside Edition.

I'll never forget how clear she was that this was not a consensual encounter (not that any 13-year-old is capable of understanding or giving consent), and the substances she was plied with made it even harder for her to resist something that she didn't want to happen in the first place. It was weird years later hearing about the case again as an adult and trying to make sense of how anyone could rationalize this as anything other than a clear case of child rape.

There was never a gray area.

[Nysha]

I'm a year older than Samantha Geimer. My grandma lived with us at that time & got all the gossip rags, which I read avidly. Both my mom & my grandma thought it was consensual because why else would she be at his house at that time of night. That I couldn't conceive of any way a 13-year-old would realize that she would be expected/required to have sex with a creepy old guy was proof of my naivete and wholesome upbringing.

[kateln]

I remember hearing/reading about it when I was a kid (12 or 13) and thinking it was gross, but I don't know--that times were different in the 70's, that it must've been consensual in some sense? I don't think I completely understood the case, and I knew some of the kids I was in school with (13/14/15 year olds in 7th-8th grade) were having sex or at least said they were.

Now? 1. She was a 13 year old girl. There was no way she could consent. I remember myself at 13, I see my niece at 13, they are kids who can't fully grasp their actions. 2. No matter what? She said no, and was drugged. I don't care if she was 13 or 33, it was rape. "Rape-rape" Whoopi.

Roman Polanski had a hard tough life. I feel sorry for him for that. But that doesn't justify or excuse his raping of a young girl. We are all complicated/tough/weird creatures--and I can sympathize for him, or understand that he is a great filmmaker, but I also think he should be punished, and that if he won't serve the time then he should be a legal pariah.

[luminosa]

Feb 25, 2017 7:41:43 GMT -4 kateln said:

I remember hearing/reading about it when I was a kid (12 or 13) and thinking it was gross, but I don't know--that times were different in the 70's, that it must've been consensual in some sense? I don't think I completely understood the case, and I knew some of the kids I was in school with (13/14/15 year olds in 7th-8th grade) were having sex or at least said they were.

Now? 1. She was a 13 year old girl. There was no way she could consent. I remember myself at 13, I see my niece at 13, they are kids who can't fully grasp their actions. 2. No matter what? She said no, and was drugged. I don't care if she was 13 or 33, it was rape. "Rape-rape" Whoopi.

Roman Polanski had a hard tough life. I feel sorry for him for that. But that doesn't justify or excuse his raping of a young girl. We are all complicated/tough/weird creatures--and I can sympathize for him, or understand that he is a great filmmaker, but I also think he should be punished, and that if he won't serve the time then he should be a legal pariah.

Im not snarking or being facetious, genuinely asking- what was so hard about his life? I guess I can go google, but to me, being able to live out his life in a beautiful country, while still making his "art" free from being blacklisted by the Hollywood elite, doesn't seem that hard to me. He got away with a disgusting, unforgivable act and is still lauded. I was not around in the 70s and I'm sure the "times" were different, but that can be said about any decade. Rape is rape no matter what year it is. (Kateln, this wasn't directed at you. I just went off on a rant).

[Millis]

Well, both his parents died in concentration camps, he was sent into hiding and escaped from a ghetto in Poland when he was 10 or so and then roamed the countryside trying to survive. He was born in 1933, so this all took place at a very young age. I believe he even saw his father being taken away by the Nazis. Then as an adult his wife and unborn child were brutally murdered. So, in general I would say his life was HORRIBLE, but doesn't excuse him raping a child.