Roman Polanski

[nottocreative]

Feb 11, 2009 19:03:52 GMT -4 @ennui said:

Feb 11, 2009 15:47:56 GMT -4 nottocreative said:

He may be a brilliant director, but I just can't watch any of his movies. I think he's such a scumbag.

Not even Rosemary's Baby? I thought everyone had seen that.

Nope, never seen it. Sometimes I can seperate the art from the artist, but I can't do it when it involves such a serious crime.

Feb 12, 2009 22:37:12 GMT -4 roseland said:

Besides the raping of a drugged, drunk 13-year old girl, didn't he flee America to escape it's horrible judicial persecution only to start an affair with 15-year old Natassia Kinski? It shows a disturbing pattern, in my opinion.

Yep. If I recall correctly, I think he also married his current wife when she was 22 (he was 56).

[nottocreative]

Sorry DP.

[discoprincess]

Feb 13, 2009 8:54:54 GMT -4 nottocreative said:

Feb 11, 2009 19:03:52 GMT -4 @ennui said:

Not even Rosemary's Baby? I thought everyone had seen that.

Nope, never seen it. Sometimes I can seperate the art from the artist, but I can't do it when it involves such a serious crime.

Feb 12, 2009 22:37:12 GMT -4 roseland said:

Besides the raping of a drugged, drunk 13-year old girl, didn't he flee America to escape it's horrible judicial persecution only to start an affair with 15-year old Natassia Kinski? It shows a disturbing pattern, in my opinion.

Yep. If I recall correctly, I think he also married his current wife when she was 22 (he was 56).

Hmmm...reminds me of what Wooderson said in Dazed and Confused, about him getting older and [high school girls] remaining the same age.

In keeping with that theme, maybe Roman Polanski should make a version of Lolita.

I'll show myself out now.

Edited for clarity! @ K. Barrett

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Feb 13, 2009 13:17:35 GMT -4 discoprincess said:

Feb 13, 2009 8:54:54 GMT -4 nottocreative said:

Nope, never seen it. Sometimes I can seperate the art from the artist, but I can't do it when it involves such a serious crime.


Yep. If I recall correctly, I think he also married his current wife when she was 22 (he was 56).

Hmmm...reminds me of what Wooderson said in Dazed and Confused, about him getting older and [high school girls] remaining the same age.

In keeping with that theme, maybe he should make a version of Lolita.

I'll show myself out now.

Who should remake Lolita? Polanski or Wooderson because if McConahey redid Lolita it would be hysterical. All right All right All right. It kills me when I watch that movie because my ex fiance looked, acted and sounded like Wooderson.

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Feb 13, 2009 8:31:04 GMT -4 Dr. Freude said:

It makes my skin crawl whenever I read an interview in which an actor talks about how much he'd/she'd love to work with Roman Polanski. He is a child rapist. And while he did have a horrific childhood, many other people in Nazi-occupied Europe did as well, and they didn't go on to sexually violate a 13-year-old. He really repulses me.

Thank you. My thoughts exactly.

[Wol]

Feb 13, 2009 8:31:04 GMT -4 Dr. Freude said:

And while he did have a horrific childhood, many other people in Nazi-occupied Europe did as well, and they didn't go on to sexually violate a 13-year-old. He really repulses me.

He also had recently lost his wife and unborn child under horrific circumstances. Just his WWII experiences alone did not shape his psyche.

Imo, we view Polanksi's crime thru the prism of current standards of behavior, but the 70s in Hollywood were quite different. Polanski was accused of rape in 1978; just 3 years earlier, in 1975, in the film Shampoo, Warren Beatty's character hooks up with Carrie Fisher, who was 17 at the time but looked a lot younger, and this was a popular film reflecting the sexual mores of the time, and no one batted an eyelash. In 1971 Don Johnson starting f**ing Melanie Griffith when she was 14. I'm not saying Polanski's crime is excusable, but I think he got caught when other people did not, for whatever reasons.

And as for his marriage to Emmanuelle Seigner when she was only 22, they have been married for almost 20 years.

[Neurochick]

Feb 13, 2009 15:02:36 GMT -4 Wol said:

Feb 13, 2009 8:31:04 GMT -4 Dr. Freude said:

And while he did have a horrific childhood, many other people in Nazi-occupied Europe did as well, and they didn't go on to sexually violate a 13-year-old. He really repulses me.

He also had recently lost his wife and unborn child under horrific circumstances. Just his WWII experiences alone did not shape his psyche.

Imo, we view Polanksi's crime thru the prism of current standards of behavior, but the 70s in Hollywood were quite different. Polanski was accused of rape in 1978; just 3 years earlier, in 1975, in the film Shampoo, Warren Beatty's character hooks up with Carrie Fisher, who was 17 at the time but looked a lot younger, and this was a popular film reflecting the sexual mores of the time, and no one batted an eyelash. In 1971 Don Johnson starting f**ing Melanie Griffith when she was 14. I'm not saying Polanski's crime is excusable, but I think he got caught when other people did not, for whatever reasons.

And as for his marriage to Emmanuelle Seigner when she was only 22, they have been married for almost 20 years.

Wol, you are right on the money with that. Not just Hollywood in the 70's but the world in general. In the 70's my boyfriend was 20 and I was 16 and thought I was the cat's meow. No one even batted an eye at that time even though what was going on was against the law.

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Imo, we view Polanksi's crime thru the prism of current standards of behavior, but the 70s in Hollywood were quite different. Polanski was accused of rape in 1978; just 3 years earlier, in 1975, in the film Shampoo, Warren Beatty's character hooks up with Carrie Fisher, who was 17 at the time but looked a lot younger, and this was a popular film reflecting the sexual mores of the time, and no one batted an eyelash. In 1971 Don Johnson starting f**ing Melanie Griffith when she was 14. I'm not saying Polanski's crime is excusable, but I think he got caught when other people did not, for whatever reasons.

In those cases, the attraction was mutual. In Polanski's case, the attraction was predatory. The girl's testimony seems to very much indicate that.

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...if McConahey redid Lolita it would be hysterical. All right All right All right.

So inappropriately hysterical.

Topic? I can't watch Polanski's films without thinking about what a sick fuck he is. While I agree that he's a talented filmmaker, I'd rather spend my time watching films by people who didn't anally rape young girls.

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Feb 13, 2009 13:26:55 GMT -4 @barrett said:

Feb 13, 2009 13:17:35 GMT -4 discoprincess said:

Hmmm...reminds me of what Wooderson said in Dazed and Confused, about him getting older and [high school girls] remaining the same age.

In keeping with that theme, maybe he should make a version of Lolita.

I'll show myself out now.

Who should remake Lolita? Polanski or Wooderson because if McConahey redid Lolita it would be hysterical. All right All right All right. It kills me when I watch that movie because my ex fiance looked, acted and sounded like Wooderson.

Alright, alright, alright. Love those redheads!