Color me stunned.
It's official. I am genuinely flabbergasted. Filmmakers demand Polanski's release. If I'm reading this correctly they're crying foul over the fact that he was bagged in Switzerland on his way to a film festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, because he has previously been allowed to travel in and out of the country freely. He even owns a house there.
So, let me see if I've understood the logic being applied here: these same filmmakers are fine with Roman Polanski drugging, raping and sodomizing a 13 year old child, and with his having fled justice for the last thirty years. He's admitted it, and justified his pedophile desires at the time. The problem these signatories seem to have is that he finally got popped by a country willing to extradite him on an occasion to which they knew he'd show up? I call that fair play, kids. If you want to nail someone you time your arrest to get them at a time and place when you're pretty damn sure they'll be.
In the case of the filmmakers, it seems like they think film festivals should be sacred. The night you get an award should be sacrosanct. The law can't touch you on your award night at a film festival?
I call shenanigans.
I'm still very interested in working in the Industry, but I did actually decide years ago that if I had a chance to work with Roman Polanski I would pass out of general principle. What does it say about these folks that they're backing him on a formal petition?
In other news, France passes tough anti-piracy measure. Ah, the French... soft on pedophiles, tough on illegal downloads.
So, let me see if I've understood the logic being applied here: these same filmmakers are fine with Roman Polanski drugging, raping and sodomizing a 13 year old child, and with his having fled justice for the last thirty years. He's admitted it, and justified his pedophile desires at the time. The problem these signatories seem to have is that he finally got popped by a country willing to extradite him on an occasion to which they knew he'd show up? I call that fair play, kids. If you want to nail someone you time your arrest to get them at a time and place when you're pretty damn sure they'll be.
In the case of the filmmakers, it seems like they think film festivals should be sacred. The night you get an award should be sacrosanct. The law can't touch you on your award night at a film festival?
I call shenanigans.
I'm still very interested in working in the Industry, but I did actually decide years ago that if I had a chance to work with Roman Polanski I would pass out of general principle. What does it say about these folks that they're backing him on a formal petition?
In other news, France passes tough anti-piracy measure. Ah, the French... soft on pedophiles, tough on illegal downloads.