OH MY GOD, THE POLANSKI THING. SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP. YOU PLED GUILTY.
And what the fuck? "He's suffered so much for the past thirty years, having to live in the south of France! He couldn't even come back and get his Oscar!" To quote Jon Stewart, "No. Shut up. No." He committed a crime, to which he pled guilty, the judge rejected the sentencing suggestion -- as was within his right, I believe! -- and he couldn't take it so he fled the country.
I know people are all, "Oh, but he's an artist, he's made brilliant films." You know what? I don't fucking care if he made films so brilliant all the celluloid on the planet spontaneously combusted and another film was never made because his were simply les ne plus ultras. HE'S A RAPIST. A RAPIST WHO PLED GUILTY AND THEN FLED THE JURISDICTION BECAUSE HE COULDN'T FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. And I like Chinatown.*
And now I must go buy a copy of Dogma because Kevin Smith gets it.
*Although knowing about Polanski's predilection for teenage girls makes the scene where Gittes asks Mrs. Mulwray if she was raped by her dad and she shakes her head "no" that much freakier.
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Date: 2009-10-01 01:37 am (UTC)OH MY GOD, THE POLANSKI THING. SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP. YOU PLED GUILTY.
And what the fuck? "He's suffered so much for the past thirty years, having to live in the south of France! He couldn't even come back and get his Oscar!" To quote Jon Stewart, "No. Shut up. No." He committed a crime, to which he pled guilty, the judge rejected the sentencing suggestion -- as was within his right, I believe! -- and he couldn't take it so he fled the country.
I know people are all, "Oh, but he's an artist, he's made brilliant films." You know what? I don't fucking care if he made films so brilliant all the celluloid on the planet spontaneously combusted and another film was never made because his were simply les ne plus ultras. HE'S A RAPIST. A RAPIST WHO PLED GUILTY AND THEN FLED THE JURISDICTION BECAUSE HE COULDN'T FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. And I like Chinatown.*
And now I must go buy a copy of Dogma because Kevin Smith gets it.
*Although knowing about Polanski's predilection for teenage girls makes the scene where Gittes asks Mrs. Mulwray if she was raped by her dad and she shakes her head "no" that much freakier.