Debra Winger go to hell!
Sep. 30th, 2009 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaelliteAnd take Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen, Jonathan Demme and Angelica Huston with you.
I swore I would not post on this but....
Roman Polanski, as most of the world knows, was finally arrested a couple of days ago for a crime he committed 3 decades ago. He raped a 13 year old. He has stated in his self-serving memoir that the girl looked older, the mother was there and they both consented. He went on to say that "everyone wants to have sex with 13 year old girls".
He fled the country claiming, with some evidence, that the judge was corrupt and was going back on a deal that had been brokered in order for publicity etc...
He has not set foot in the US since.
A few years back Hollywood awarded him the Oscar for best director for "The Pianist"
Just a couple of years before then he sued "Vanity Fair" for publishing an article that stated he was out trying to pick up girls in the aftermath of his wife being murdered by the Manson Family. He testified via video link to avoid extradition. The irony obviously escaped him.
Now, he has finally been arrested again and Hollywood is coming to his defense much to my disgust. Yes the woman, then girl, has stated she want's it dropped and certainly her mother was culpable. But a 13 year old is in no positiong (besides possibly physically) to consent to having sex with a 40 something man.
He has had numerous chances in the intervening years to return and appear before a different judge and has not done so.
Now Woody Allen has come to his defense. No surprise there, this is a man who left nude pictures of Mia Farrow's daughter for her to find and then married the girl after having sex with her in Ms. Farrow's apartment. His defense? "The Heart wants what it wants": and because the teen in question was adopted, "she was not Ms Farrow's real daughter". I have not watched a Woody Allen movie since.
Now I will no longer be seeing any movie by Martin Scoreces, or Jonathan Demme or with Debra Winger or Ms. Huston. What saddens me most is that Ms. Winger is a mother. Would she come to the defense of someone who had sex with a minor child if said child was her own?
Art is art, no question. There have been many works of art (Painting, Music, Films) that have been made by people of artistic genius but who were morally corrupt. We can honor the art, but we must hold the person who created the art accountable for any crimes against humanity that he or she committed.
Statutory Rape is a crime. Period. Give Mr. Polanski another Oscar if his work deserves it. But give him the jail time that his crime against society also warrants.
I swore I would not post on this but....
Roman Polanski, as most of the world knows, was finally arrested a couple of days ago for a crime he committed 3 decades ago. He raped a 13 year old. He has stated in his self-serving memoir that the girl looked older, the mother was there and they both consented. He went on to say that "everyone wants to have sex with 13 year old girls".
He fled the country claiming, with some evidence, that the judge was corrupt and was going back on a deal that had been brokered in order for publicity etc...
He has not set foot in the US since.
A few years back Hollywood awarded him the Oscar for best director for "The Pianist"
Just a couple of years before then he sued "Vanity Fair" for publishing an article that stated he was out trying to pick up girls in the aftermath of his wife being murdered by the Manson Family. He testified via video link to avoid extradition. The irony obviously escaped him.
Now, he has finally been arrested again and Hollywood is coming to his defense much to my disgust. Yes the woman, then girl, has stated she want's it dropped and certainly her mother was culpable. But a 13 year old is in no positiong (besides possibly physically) to consent to having sex with a 40 something man.
He has had numerous chances in the intervening years to return and appear before a different judge and has not done so.
Now Woody Allen has come to his defense. No surprise there, this is a man who left nude pictures of Mia Farrow's daughter for her to find and then married the girl after having sex with her in Ms. Farrow's apartment. His defense? "The Heart wants what it wants": and because the teen in question was adopted, "she was not Ms Farrow's real daughter". I have not watched a Woody Allen movie since.
Now I will no longer be seeing any movie by Martin Scoreces, or Jonathan Demme or with Debra Winger or Ms. Huston. What saddens me most is that Ms. Winger is a mother. Would she come to the defense of someone who had sex with a minor child if said child was her own?
Art is art, no question. There have been many works of art (Painting, Music, Films) that have been made by people of artistic genius but who were morally corrupt. We can honor the art, but we must hold the person who created the art accountable for any crimes against humanity that he or she committed.
Statutory Rape is a crime. Period. Give Mr. Polanski another Oscar if his work deserves it. But give him the jail time that his crime against society also warrants.
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Date: 2009-10-01 12:04 am (UTC)