Movie Thread

[Liar Revealed]

Dat fucking poster. And guess what it? It received six academy award nominations and ended up winning three. Also, Polanski was found guilty of rape in 1977, fled America in 1978, and this film came out in America in 1980. Up until #meagain started, Hollywood very blatantly didn't care that Polanski raped a 13 year old.

Polanski fucked Nastassja Kinski too when she was 15.

[Guest]

I think before MeToo, working with Polanksi was a defiance thing, like they thought they were standing up to conservative puritans who feared sex. I remember those fags on CHUD defending him hard when he got arrested and Natalie Portman and the rest of Hollywood rallied to his defense. It all boiled down to technical shit about the judge who was overseeing the case and how it happened so long ago that it didn't matter anymore, all while neatly ignoring he's a monster rapist who continued banging underage girls.

[Keith Chegwin]

That judge was the only one in Los Angeles with any fucking integrity. Polanski drugs a girl, rapes her, sodomises and the prosecutors actually had the fucking balls to suggest he be sentenced to psychiatric counselling.

[Cuckara]

I think before MeToo, working with Polanksi was a defiance thing, like they thought they were standing up to conservative puritans who feared sex. I remember those fags on CHUD defending him hard when he got arrested and Natalie Portman and the rest of Hollywood rallied to his defense. It all boiled down to technical shit about the judge who was overseeing the case and how it happened so long ago that it didn't matter anymore, all while neatly ignoring he's a monster rapist who continued banging underage girls.

There was definitely an element of that. For the longest time the people who defended Polanski insisted that he dindu nuffin: they carefully skirted around the girl's age and testimony (her story has been consistent over the decades: he gave her quaaludes, forced himself on her and wouldn't stop even though she kept telling him no) and said that she wanted it. They all acted like only stupid American puritans saw anything wrong with what Polanski did.

That judge was the only one in Los Angeles with any fucking integrity. Polanski drugs a girl, rapes her, sodomises and the prosecutors actually had the fucking balls to suggest he be sentenced to psychiatric counselling.

Reminder that Polanski and his defenders made a documentary film that portrays the judge as evil and Polanski as a poor victim. The film is called Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.

[Keith Chegwin]

Thing is, way I heard it, Polanski ran because the judge decided to throw out the plea agreement, which was something like 90 days jail, suspended, and psychiatric counselling, and sentence him to five years, after which he'd be recommended deportation. Looking it up, the judge himself has claimed he only planned to make Polanski serve the 90 days and then recommend him to immigration for deportation (apparently you can't deport a defendant outright as part of a plea deal). Given the way that, ever since Polanski ran, people have enabled him and covered for him, I daresay he would have beaten a deportation hearing and been allowed to stay in the United States even though he drugged and raped a teenage girl.

Instead, not only can't he go back to the United States anyway, he also can't go to any country likely to extradite him to the United States. He lives at the mercy of the French government, who could very well have a change of heart and deport him anyway, if the public demand it enough. If at any point he finds himself back in the United States, he's going to be facing much much harsher punishment for running and making them catch him than he would have if he'd just taken his original punishment like a man

[Cuckara]

I think ego plays a big part in this. Polanski has made it abundantly clear that he doesn't feel any remorse whatsoever, and he always boo hoos about the judge whenever his crime is mentioned. My theory is Polanski is such an egomaniac, he's convinced he didn't commit a crime and thus shouldn't have to face any sort of punishment, and whenever he thinks about the fact he's barred from the USA he curses the judge for causing him this inconvenience and considers this inconvenience to be an exceedingly cruel punishment.

[Kugelfisch]

Say what you will about the kikes, the Mossad would've likely just offed him in some hotel a long time ago.

[Keith Chegwin]

Only if the girl he raped was Jewish

[Guest]

Only good things he directed were Sharon Tate's homemade interracial gangbangs. Too bad the LAPD stole em all.

[Rushy]

Apparently it was Frank Henenlotter's birthday yesterday. Another reminder that Basket Case IV still hasn't happened