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Roman Polanski Scares Up Cage, Swinton and Brosnan for THE GHOST!
Beaks is breathin' down your neck, sucka!
We've known for a while now that Roman Polanski's next film would be an adaptation of Robert Harris's sinister Prime Minister thriller, THE GHOST. Now, thanks to MTV Movies' Shawn Adler (and a minor assist from Variety), we know who's a-gonna star in it: Pierce Brosnan, Nicolas Cage and Tilda Swinton. These are very good actors.
Cage will star as a ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a British ex-prime minister (Brosnan) when the first author unexpectedly dies. As Cage's character sifts through the politician's history, he begins to suspect that the last writer might've been murdered after turning up too much scandal, which raises the question: "Why does the prime minister insist on hiring such thorough writers when he could simply farm out his memoirs to a partisan hack?" Therein lies what I believe they call "the mystery".
Swinton will co-star as the ready-to-bolt wife of Brosnan who presumably wants it from Cage.
According to Adler, "Most of the story takes place in an oceanfront house in the middle of winter." Sounds like a quick shoot in the DEATH AND THE MAIDEN tradition. That's cool, I guess. I just hope Polanski gets a chance to return to POMPEII one of these days.
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It's been over a minute -- is everybody asleep?
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... a giant qualude. I have this awesome scene where a do a little dance number in the belly of a 13 year old girl.
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. . . for Polanski to get Tilda on board. Dedicated dude, this Polanski.
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...and used my charms to seduce the child. I'm just sayin is all.
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Try a tag.
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Not really, but I like the concept.
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That never gets old (and neither do his girlfriends ;)
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I mean if Manson and his bunch of psychos murdered my beautiful and pregnant wife, I'd be fucked up for life too.
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That never gets old (and neither do his girlfriends ;)
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California is still waiting for him to return and stand trial.
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and the silly atomic-refrigerator meme, no one ever talks about the movies. Granted, Polanski lost it since Death and the maiden (15 years already, and not a single good film since)
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ANAL RAPE.
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Then run off to Europe to be lauded as a true artist by the psedu- intellectual socialist philosopher art community??? May he be chain raped by guys named Jamal and may he not enjoy it!!
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God what an awful movie. SO So bad. Man go figure though with a director like Joel who is so hot and cold and an actor like Cage who is the same, that this movie turned out to be bad.
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Not really a thriller or a mystery. More of a drama.
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me of that Johnny Depp snoozefest The Ninth Gate. I had such high expectations for that, and boy was I wrong.And, of course mention Polanski, and the pedophile jokes fly. Has anyone seen the recent documentary on Polanski that shows what a legal fuckfest that was from top to bottom?
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Go here for a picture of his "girlfriend", http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m2/jul2005/0/7/000F1158-BDB0-12E4-A7580C01AC1BF814.jpg
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for the fact that he only wrecked her can and left her virginity intact? I mean, he could have ruined her on sex for the rest of her life, instead he just soured her on anal. Nah, I'm just kidding, I'm going to hell.
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[excerpt from mirror.co, "Samantha was thirsty so Polanski found a bottle of champagne and opened it by the pool.
She remembers: "He took shots of me everywhere. He was taking pictures and topping up my glass constantly." After four or five glasses Samantha was tipsy. Soon he was photo-graphing her nude in a whirlpool bath. Then Polanski stripped off and joined her.
"That was when it turned," says Samantha. "He said 'come here', put his arm around me and touched me on the shoulders.
"I realised I had put myself in a bad situation. I got scared and said I had asthma and couldn't breathe. I said I had to get out of the tub.
"As quick as I could get out of that Jacuzzi I got out. He was older and I didn't think it right we should be hanging out in the tub."
Polanski tried to comfort her. He told her to take half a tablet of the drug Quaalude - a powerful sedative - claiming it would help her asthma, before suggesting she move into the bedroom to sit down.
"We sat on the sofa and that's when it happened," says Samantha. "He started kissing me, I protested but then just submitted. I'd been drinking and was too frightened to push him off - he was a famous guy, he was intimidating. We were alone and it was pitch-black. I was scared. I knew what he was gonna do - and I didn't want him to do it.
"All I could think was let's get through this and I can get home. I just froze up." Polanski had intercourse with Samantha, performed oral sex and sodomised her. He then drove her home saying: "Don't tell your mum or your boyfriend, this is our little secret."
Back at her house, Samantha ran to her room while Polanski charmed her mum. It was not until much later she found out what really happened. Samantha's mother overheard a telephone conversation in which her daughter told her boyfriend about the rape.
Polanski, who won an Oscar for The Pianist in 2003, was arrested and spent 45 days behind bars.
His six charges including unlawful sex with a minor and forcible rape and in a bizarre twist the trial was set for August 9, the eighth anniversary of Sharon Tate's death. In fact, it was never held."
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Jun 26, 2008 2:08:40 PM CDT
Polanksi plead guilty and the girl AND her family has forgiven h
by unit1421
All of you should watch the HBO documentary currently running about all this.
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liked the book, love the author. Admire Polanski, but Cage...?
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butcher your whole family, your dog, your mailman, your weed connection, the dude who gives you Grand Theft Auto cheat codes, Amanda Plummer and Samual L. Jackon, AND cut off your dicks with a weedwhacker dipped in acid and AIDS before you asswipes cut him any slack?
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Why, what are you, gay?
Sorry, couldn't resist, old Fred Stoller joke. Seriously though Danny, your personal embargo on Polanski films is hypocrisy unless you also refuse to watch any movie made by Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Adrian Brody and Ben Kingsley. That's a lot of movies. -
He also hasn't been able to visit his wife's grave in 30 years while Charles Manson gets to sit in a comfy prison sell and jack-off in his own feces. No one's saying what Roman did wasn't wrong, but if I was being treated worse than Manson has ever been just for the sake of publicity even AFTER pleading guilty, I leave, too.
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It sickened me when he won an Oscar for the Pianist and everyone gave the guy a standing ovations. That was the last Oscar telecast I have ever watch.
If Polanski was an investment banker who had the multiple cases of sleeping with children like Polanski has and decided to move into Malibu, the Hollywood Hills, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, etc.; I bet these same people who stood up and cheered Polanski would be the first to lead efforts to have the pediphile ousted from the community.
I'm sorry there is no grey area in this. Polanski at best consentually slept with a 13 year old (his claim) and a 15 year old (we know he slept with Natassia Kinski at that age). At worst, he raped a 13 year old (the victim's claim) and who knows how many other children. The man should be locked up forever, not directing A List celebrities. -
Served his time.
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Also, what has visiting his wife's grave got to do with his assaulting a 13 year old? Great way to keep her memory alive by raping a minor. How is that for a wonderful legacy. Hell, this wouldn't have been even an issue if he would have stepped forward and accept responsibility for his crime. Do his time and move on. He thought he was being railroaded? Give me a break. He just didn't think he was going to get caught or persecuted for his actions.
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have turned into Lowest Common Denominator central lately. Put up something about Spike Lee you get a bunch of racist bullshit about what a racist he is. Put up something about Werner Herzog or Quentin Tarantino and you get a bunch of mystifying garbage about how much they suck. And now post something about Roman Polanski and you get a lot of shit about his decades-old court case. From the description posted above it sounds like it was a horrible experience for the girl it happened to, but try this on for size before you crucify Polanski:His family was killed by Nazis when he was a kid, during WW2 he roamed the countryside of Poland taking shelter with families who took him in, then emigrated to the US, in time became a famous film director, and then his wife got murdered by Charles Manson, a guy who became even more famous than Polanski was-- BECAUSE he murdered Polanski's wife! You think this isn't gonna make a dude have some major issues, well you're wrong. And throw a dude with some major issues into the already very sketchy atmosphere of sexual/chemical permissiveness that was Hollywood in the late 60s and you are gonna have some fucked up shit happen.But jesus christ people, you act like he has been some sort of serial child rapist ever since. you think 40 years can't change a man? The woman who was 13 at the time has gone on record saying the shit is behind her and she has no ill will towards Polanski, you'd think if she can do that you all could find a way to live with the fact that the guy is allowed to keep living his life.which happens to include making fucking amazing movies.
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I agree that living in a mansion in France with his hot wife and 2 children while directing A List celebrities over the years like Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, and Nicholas Cage is far worse than spending the rest of his life in a maximum security prison. I can't think of a worse hell than what Polanski is suffering. Imagine having to live what most people's idea of a perfect life is day after day after day.
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So if you have a rough life, you have the right to rape children. I do agree posts like these do bring out the lowest common denominator. You gotta have a pretty shallow soul to excuse what Polanski done. But ofcourse he is a brilliant fucking director and what better defense is that? If OJ was a good actor, he would be the toast of Hollywood right now.
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All one has to do is look at your name to understand how you are able to minimize one of the worst crimes imaginable. You can't justify his behavior by stating that bad things happened to him as a kid. Lots of people experience horrible things, most don't fuck children because of it.
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You're an idiot as well. What possible motivation would a 13-year old have to make these claims?
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I see someone else out there is familiar with making babies the Clive Barker way...and if anyone could talk a bunch of bugs into running around on his dick until it yacked, Manson could.
Generally speaking, I think pedos deserve the death penalty. Obviously they're bad people, and even if they aren't bad people, the deed itself is enough to warrant the harshest punishement even if the fucker honestly repents. But sadly, I can't join the bandwagon. I think I'm missing the part of one's brain that makes one advertise in a chat forum their unwillingness to observe an artist's work as though it's some kind of self-elevating revelation. Even though you *think* what you're doing here is making a moral stand, what you're actually doing is 100% identical to saying you're never going to watch Wall-E because it's a rip-off of Short Circuit, or you won't buy Paul Newman's corn because he hires illegal immigrants. The reason you *feel* that way may be genuinely moral, but the reason you posted it here is not. It's just another shade of douchebag. -
Samatha Geimer and Natassia Kinski. How many other children did he sleep with that we don't know about? You gotta think with two children 15 years old or under, there has to be other who never came forward. There was the long standing rumor that Justine Bateman slept with Polanski as a child. It is logical to assume he has slept with other children.
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love almost all of his movies. This really sounds like perfect material for Polanski.
On a side note, the AICN talkbacks are like a fucking loophole of stupidity. News with Polanski in them get talkbacks full of child molester bullshit, same goes for other people or movies. Spielberg gets nuke the fridge crap, Batman/Nolan gets "B'89 vs. BB", transformers gets TINO talkbacks and etc. Shit people, if you'd focus all that energy you spend on hating, on something more constructive, I bet we could solve some serious problems in our society. Or maybe not. -
Even if you don't believe the victim, Polanski himself has admitted to having sex with the victim and knowing she was 13 years old. Those facts aren't disputed. Since a 13 year old cannot give consent to an adult for sex (he was 44 at the time), Polanski admitted to raping the girl. He also knew the age of Kinski when he was sleeping with her too.
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Sorry for calling a child molester a child molester. I forgot a pediphile isn't a pediphile if he is a brilliant director. Then he is just flawed person with long in the past disgressions.
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Go look it up yourself. It won't take you look to find hundred of articles showing that. Go check out HBO's current documentary on his trial (which even though it is definitely pro-Polanski has him admitting to having sex with the victim and him knowing her age). Besides, he pleaded guilty to "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor" before fleeing the country. Everything I have said is well documented.
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At least he paid for his crime. Polanski spent 42 days in jail for evaluation.
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All of you who are basing you facts on that crappy documentary maybe need to do a little more research. The chick who made it has already had to make 2 edits to it following it's initial airing to correct unsubstantiated accusations made in the film. Was the trial mishandled? Yes. Does that have anything to do with whether or not Polanski has actually paid for his crime? No. Has she forgiven him? I've read that she has but it sounds more like she wants to move on with her life than actually forgive him. Either way, it doesn't matter what she thinks. He committed a crime and just because she's moved on doesn't mean he should get away with it. I can't wait for this site to grow a pair and actually take a stand AGAINST someone in Hollywood who's done something as awful as Polanski did. It's funny how upset Harry and Mori get over stupid crap like who's playing who in what movie or that Ratner/Paul Anderson get to direct some crappy sci-fi movies but when someone talented who's work they like does something morally and legally wrong, they shut the hell up and look the other way. Try using some of your so called power in Hollywood to make sure this guy doesn't get financing for any more of his work until he faces the penalty for his crimes.
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If he lives in France, why can't they extradite him? It is a capitol crime.
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France doesn't have an extradition treat for these types of sexual related offenses. There is a reason he chose France to make his home.
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Man stop proving everyone how retarded you are by directly attacking and offending everyone that is not as narrow minded as you. I never said you shouldn't hate, the fuck do I care, flame on motherfucker. I said that these talkbacks are getting out of hand with all the damn hate, and everyone is repeating himself in every new talkback about Polanski or Lee, Spielberg, Nolan etc. And yes, it is fucking pointless, you think Polanski, or any other child rapist, will get on the AICN boards, read your witty hate speech, and decide not to fuck little girls and boys anymore? Get the fuck out of here.
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Victor Salva is a perv and I won't watch his movies either but he was convicted of a crime and served his sentence so I don't begrudge him the freedom to work. Polanski abused his French citizenship to flee the country to AVOID serving his sentence.
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Rape is not a capital crime. A capital crime is one where the penalty can be death. France also doesn't have an extradition treaty with the U.S. and very rarely, if ever, cooperate in matters like this. There was a little hubbub a few years ago because he was suing Vanity Fair for an article they had written about in in British courts. He was worried that he would have to appear in England to testify which would have put him at risk for extradition. Unfortunately, I believe they let him testify by video feed.
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Actually, they couldn't extradite Polanski because he had French citizenship. France does not allow extradition of their citizens. They do have an extradition treaty for non-French citizens. I was wrong myself.
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Hmmm. That's amazing. I thought since France is one of our allies that they would work with the U.S. over something like this. It's funny that you always hear about criminals wanting to go to a non-extradition country. You never heard of anyone saying "I'm on the run, better get my ass to France"
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I'm not really worried that they get this response. It pissed me off that guys like Harry and Mori can look the other way on this while expressing moral outrage at some pretty damn insignificant things. Mori's got two kids. Harry's got a little nephew. How anyone who cares for a child can look the other way on Polanski as a human being is beyond me. That whole judge the art not the artist line is crap and just an excuse for weak people to not have to make a "sacrifice" for the betterment of society.
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That's what I meant but you're right. Polanski has French citizenship which is why he chose to flee to France. And yes France is our ally and they could choose to extradite a criminal if they wanted to. If the crime were more severe it's possible they could be persuaded but but given the nature of the whole case and Polanski's celebrity, we never had a chance of getting him back.
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and illegal, it was the judge who mangled the case so that justice could not be served properly.
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Again, my apologies.
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Yes, the judge in this case did engage in some severe judgicial misconducts. That still doesn't change what Polanski did one iota. In this case, two wrongs definitely do not make a right. It is two wrongs definitely makes a wrong.
Besides, there are plenty of cases of average people being victims of judicial misconducts as bad or worse who end up forever being pariah in society. How many inocent people go to jail over the years and never get to reclaim their lives because a judge makes gross error because of his prejudgices (not just racism) or politics. At least Polanski was guilt of what he was charged with. -
Jun 26, 2008 3:46:31 PM CDT
Mysterious Yobo, I think I've got you beat when it comes to psyc
by trazadone
Unless you're in the field as well. I think it's funny that you keep questioning everyone else's intelligence when you're the one coming across like a fucking idiot.
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I think if it happened today, the US would have made more of an effort to extradite Polanski. I think the ideas of rape in the 70s was still archiac with rapists going free because the woman dress provocatively or didn't say no forceful enough. Date rape was almost never tried or convicted.
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Is that he was making great fucking movies BEFORE the girl raping thing. To me, at least, is very easy to go and "separate art from the artist". It's not like a serial rapist ran out of jail and started making movies... I'd understand the hate in these talkbacks if that were the case, but somehow I just don't care, and put the great movies the guy has done before his crime.
And please, don't give me that "if you were a parent" crap, or argue that I'm an animal for not calling the guy a "child fucker" or suggesting him to be anally raped. All I'm saying it would be nice to talk movies and drop name calling FOR ONCE.
He's in France, hiding, because he had sex with a 13 year old. And I for one love REPULSION, ROSEMARY'S BABY, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, THE PIANIST and many more to a lesser degree... Can't both these things coexist in the same universe? -
Actually, the judge was supposably about to give Polanski the maximum sentence which would have given up to 50 years in jail. He did in fact act improperly by staging argumments in the courtroom for motions he already decided to with both councils in chambers, disregarding psycholical evaluations, etc.
I felt that Polanski would have gotten far too light of sentence if the judge acted properly (42 days in jail), but the judge was out of control even if he would have given Polanski a more proper sentence to his actual crime if he was able to follow through with sentencing. -
I am with TVguy1566 and DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD in this one.
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My bad.
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He is a serial pedophile. He has slept with two children that we know of.
I'm sorry, but I put the crime ahead of the artist in this case. There are few crimes worse in this world than an adult raping a child in my book. It is impossible for me to separate the two.
In my youth, I have seen many of his movies and enjoyed them. There is no doubt he is a talent director.
But now that I am older and understand the seriousness of his crimes, there is absolutely no way I would support him and will call him out any chance I can.
BTW, people talk about him being in France as if he is hiding in some basement somewhere or on the lamb like the Fugitive. It ain't the case. He is living a very comfortable lifestyle in France. He has a wife (at least she was 18 when he started dating her) and kids. He still gets to direct too. -
And LE LOCATAIRE is amazing. Okay I apologize for the half-assed recollection of awesome films by Polanski. Carry on.
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Polanski pleaded guilty to "unlawful sexual relations with a minor". He pleaded guilty to avoid a trial. He was convicted of a crime, but fled the country before SENTENCING of that crime. So it is you who doesn't know fuck.
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until several years ago. After Polanski settled a lawsuit with her. Her grand jury testimony was made public and her name was published by the foreign press. But it was her lawyer who pushed for a plea agreement because in her lawyer's words he didn't want to get a pound of flesh by sacrificing his clients pound of flesh to get it. The victim very much wanted to stay out of the public eye. That is why the rumor that Justine Bateman was the victim when around for years.
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I don't know of enough cases to call Polanski a serial pedophile. I understand what you're saying though. If there was a petition to acquit him from the charges I probably wouldn't sign it, so I'm not sure if I support the guy.
I do like good movies though, that's why is easier for me to keep the focus on movies, when talking Polanski.
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As I feared, you missed my point. It's not the boycott I'm criticizing, it's people's need to advertise their boycotts in forums. I could probably count out about a thousand things I'm *against* if I really tried. And even a few I boycott. But see the thing is, I don't come to forums and advertise them. The think I want you to think about, and really really think about (which I know you won't because you didn't even really read my first post) is to look inside yourself and examine why exactly you decided to speak out today on the subject of Roman Polanski. What were your goals? Did you think we didn't realize he's a pedophile fugitive? Were you trying to inform us of information you thought we didn't know? Because...pretty much everyone who knows his name knows what he did. So that's unlikely. I think if you really, really examine it for a while, you'll come to the inevitable conclusion that the only purpose your broadcasting your boycott on this forum, was to say "I'm better than you." Which is ultimately what 99% of all these posts are ultimately saying to each other, including this one. But at least I realize that. You see, the ultimate point of my previous post was to try to help you peel off those layers of bullshit, and realize that your decision to POST about your boycott, not the boycott itself, is simply douchebaggery. Hopefully you would have a moment of clarity and humility to brighten up your day for a few seconds, but no, you squandered it. While we're on the subject of what you're boycotting, why don't you tell us what else you boycott, so we can all revel in just what an advanced person you are for saying something the rest of us think because you are self-centered enough to actually believe it's an original thought unique to your superior perspective.
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Jun 26, 2008 4:15:09 PM CDT
Let me say here and now, I don't care what the rest of you think
by smackfu
...but I am completely against the Holocaust. Don't even try to argue with me on this, I've really thought about it and mulled it over with my moral center, and I'm here to say I'm against Nazis and the Holocaust. (this is a not-so-subtle example of someone voicing their stand against something so obviously stand-against-able that the reason none of us mention our 'stand' against it is because it's so obviously fucking wrong you'd have to be autistic or in a coma to not be against it. Yet here I am, voicing my opinion against it with pride, as though I somehow managed to convince myself that it is a unique point of view worth mentioning)
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should no long be in movies... he is such a horrid actor.. Raising Arizona was the only movie he was in.. that's worth a shit.
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may he and woody allen both burn in hell
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Because you know...as much as I despise Nazis and the holocaust...truth me told, I actually despise people who say 'nuked the fridge' way more. You people, and the Variety writers who say 'skein' are the ones that should have been in those stoves. Not fair.
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BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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and Pierce Brosnan and to anyone who has worked with Roman Polanski since he fled the country.
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Here...have some pills...that's right, that's right...sleep.
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Yes, these posts are variations of "I'm better than you". DGDB's post was to impolitely inform dogs like yourself that he is better than you. He is, and so is everyone else here railing against Polanski.If a Transformers thread is appropriate cause for the TBs to swim with curses on Michael Bay's name (and it is), then any Polanski TB should consist entirely of people ripping him. Calling anyone out for doing so or questioning their motivations proves you to a subliterate cunt. Fuck off.
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...what a great movie. The Ninth gate is a pretty great film too, Iswear that guy whose pointing his finger at Depp in the elevator yelling "Unscrupulous" is a dead ringer for Beinstock
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...funny 'ol world....
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The worst talkback I have ever seen. How can you justify anal rape on a 13 year old by any means? Awful.
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I won't say diddly about the rape stuff, that's inexcusable, but I will put it this way to anyone on a big ol rant about how he fled from our good justice. Put yourself in Poland - or any other foreign country for that matter but we'll say Poland because that's where Polanski's from - and you've committed a crime, have an opportunistic judge looking to throw the book at you despite you alreday fulfilling the terms already previously agreed to, you're facing jail time in a foreign country and you have the opportunity to just go home. You stay and take your medicine? Maybe in the longrun things would have been better for him had he served his time, but in that day's time when he decided to bail I put no blame on him for that shit. That's a logical moment of self preservation and people who say they would absolutely stay and see justice served are mostly kidding themselves. First class to Paris!
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He didn't have sex with a 13 year old girl, he drugged and raped a 13 year old girl. She said no. This has never been a case of consensual sex or statutory rape even though that's what it was plead down to. He took advantage of and forced his will on another human being. If you don't like the "if you were a parent" question, tough shit. Being a parent changes the way you look at things and reinforces the idea that you aren't the most important person in the world. Supporting the work of an admitted criminal is mildly sociopathic. By financially support Polanski, you are in effect, hurting society for your own personal gain. You have put the needs of the people below your own pleasure.
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dead horse and say I will not support the work of pedophile rapists.
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As an insult, that's a complete non-sequitor. How exactly does me thinking people who advertise their artistic boycotts in a chat forum are douchebags give any indication of my literacy level? Christ, if only I'd finished reading Little Women, I might not have made these posts...I can assure you I'm quite literate. If your insults had actually stayed aimed towards characteristics I've actually *displayed*...having a sick sense of humor, questionable morals and the empathy level of a functioning sociopath...they might have worked. But what you did is the equivilant of belowing out 'you're fat!' to someone you've never seen. It gives away your hand, which is utterly empty. All you've proven here is that 'subliterate cunt' is something you seem to think is a clever insult, whether it applies to the situation or not.
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I have to agree with you there. Anyone who *doesn't* flee from foreign prosecution is a fool. Just go flag down any of the Americans who have been incarcerated getting caught with drugs in a foreign country (and also consider that anytime you have ever seen a news report about one of these cases the thought of one of YOUR people in a foreign prison system has incensed you) and ask them if in retrospect, they would have done anything different...they'll unequivocally tell you that trusting a foreign justice system was the worst mistake of their lives. As an American arrested in France, a country that hates us as much as we hate them, would you have confidence in being at the mercy of their system? Would you trust that they wouldn't make an example out of you for political reasons? You would be out of that country faster than Roman Polanski could stick an index finger up a 13 year old girls asshole.
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Jun 26, 2008 10:08:22 PM CDT
Grammaton, I propose that some kind of pin or armband be made
by smackfu
for those of us willing to take this stand and say that pedophilia is wrong. It's about time someone did...
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For anyone who agrees with this statement, feel free to turn in your copies of the Torah and Old Testament at the front desk. As both books feature contributions by, and supporting, pedophile rapists. And before any asshole says 'what?!' 'prove it' or 'what passage?' I will not provide one. In fact I insist you go read your Torah, or Old Testament, depending on your headgear and idols, from start to finish, and revel in it's sublime promotion of the most immoral acts currently known to man.
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are still getting royalties.
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Weak argument! What do we know is true and what is rewriten over the years anyway. According to the Bible, Abraham lived until he was 175 years old. Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden. Adam lived until he was 930 years old (yes, I said 930). Moses talked to a burning bush and through God rained down 7 plagues on the Egyptians. The Bible has been rewritten so many times over the years, who knows what details are true.
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Congratulations! it must be difficult being so principled. Never listening to Michael Jackson (not even Thriller!), avoiding the Naked Gun movies or anything by Herzog, nixing every Lakers game (sorry you missed the NBA finals this year, they were okay) etc. etc. Of course MJ, OJ, Herzog, Kobe and the rest didn't have to endure their parents' or wife's murder, but no excuses, right? Burn Polanski at the stake! I'm totally with you creeps that he should have served time, but playing judge is a pretty slippery slope. Nobody cares if you're really as pious as you think you are, maybe you just want a cookie or a hug or something? Well you don't get one, because your trolling is obnoxious. My suggestion if your really want to watch Polanski suffer? Go rent The Tenant.
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Polanski is a good director, but he (self-admittedly) raped a child. You can argue the merits of the films, but, not the man. He (Polanski) is indefensible by any rational definition... cause no sane person would try to defend a pervert who ass-raped a child.
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and polanski ran like a bitch...a bitch rapist...and the pianist sucked ass...just like he did to that little girl
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Go Celtics. Fuck Kobe and fuck Michael Jackson and fuck this child rapist too.
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We are talking about a man who sleeps with children, one of those children he probably drugged and raped. We aren't talking about an adulteror.
As for Polanski's life prior to him raping the child, who cares? Do you know how many murders and rapists have the similiar tramas in their lives yet never have people making excuses for them. Many child rapists were raped as children.
As for the other people you mentioned, there is doubt whether Michael Jackson (one of his accusers were caught lying) or Kobe are guilty. Even so, I would not support either in any way. I wouldn't give OJ the lint from my pocket to save his life. I have no idea what Herzog did wrong.
I still don't get the defense of a man who is an ADMITTED pedophile. Who raped Samatha Geimer at age 13 and then within months started to date 15 year old Natassia Kinski (possibly before the rape). God forbid you are ever the father of a 13 year old who is raped and people tell you it is no big deal because the rapist's wife was violently murder so you should just get over it because he is a victim too. -
It was the seventies. It was Hollywood. And anyway, what the hell was she doing in Nicholson's house? I bet she wasn't behaving like a 13 year old. She just wanted to get felt up by someone famous. I'd let Polanski touch me if he wanted to. Just chillax, guys.
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So it is the victim's fault now? Really?!? You want to go there? She was at Polanski's house because he was doing a photoshoot of her for French Vogue. Maybe today a parent would never let their 13 year old daughter along with a middle aged man after years of horror stories on the news, but whole pedophile thing was not readily known back then. People still slept with their doors unlucked back then.
Funny, I don't don't think it was ok for a 44 year old man to give quaaluds and then have sex with a 13 year old girl even in the 70s or Hollywood. You don't see Brad Pitt dating Dakota Fanning or Matthew McConaughey dating Abigail Breslin.
Another weak argument from Polanski defenders. There is no excuse for his actions. What next? It was the victim's mother's fault (that is a favorite of Polanski's friends). -
So it is the victim's fault now? Really?!? You want to go there? She was at Polanski's house because he was doing a photoshoot of her for French Vogue. Maybe today a parent would never let their 13 year old daughter along with a middle aged man after years of horror stories on the news, but whole pedophile thing was not readily known back then. People still slept with their doors unlucked back then.
Funny, I don't don't think it was ok for a 44 year old man to give quaaluds and then have sex with a 13 year old girl even in the 70s or Hollywood. You don't see Brad Pitt dating Dakota Fanning or Matthew McConaughey dating Abigail Breslin.
Another weak argument from Polanski defenders. There is no excuse for his actions. What next? It was the victim's mother's fault (that is a favorite of Polanski's friends). -
You're telling me you've never played Hide-the-salami with a 13 year old? What a square.
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Personally, I don't consider pedophilia a joking matter.
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this movie sounds basically like a remake of Welles' 'Mr. Arkadin." Just wanted to get the talkback back on track.
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You are absolutely right about my thinking "subliterate cunt" is just a fun thing to call people, and I didn't mean it literally. You are absolutely wrong about everything else though.)TheFox1588: you have the highest hopes, more than anyone I have ever met.As for my "hand being empty", I think your derision of people for flaming Roman Polanski in the most profane way possible is bullshit.Polanski is a child rapist. That is the only relevant fact about him, as it is for anyone else for whom it is true. Any attempt to defend him in any way whatsoever is deplorable, as are you. You putrescent piece of shit (like that one better?).
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That random shit in the middle of my last post got in there about hopes. It wasn't my doing.
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