surely they can't mean "we, who make movies and should therefore be treated differently"?
^i believe that this is what they mean.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I think they're just acknowledging that being able to make movies is a privelege (as opposed to, say, a god-given right, or something that everybody does)― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:55 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:55 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
how is that relevant to their point though?
― caek, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm starting to think they're just idiots.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not relevant, they're just self-absorbed and feel compelled to mention how special (and of course, how GRATEFUL) they are
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
when one person who makes movies is imprisoned, ALL people who make movies are imprisoned DO YOU SEE
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
So many gays I'm banning.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Why are you banning people, Eric?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Where's the thread where I request to see how many people I've suggest banned?
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:51 PM
If you can't even keep up with the number, wouldn't taking a break from the board be better?
xpost, good question
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Banning gays, at that.
― Oppositional Soup (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"an anathema"
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
see upthread request to use a different thread to gangpile with moral indignation on his crime when the thread was created to celebrate his movies
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
That said, suggest bans suddenly got fun. They're like a bowl of candy in the next cubicle over.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
dude you lost that one, let it go
― goole, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Have I really not suggest banned you until now?
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Do moderators/administrators here have the ability to split threads like they do on other forums?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:20 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink you're a moron.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure he suggest banned you for that.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
can't we all just agree to suggest ban polanski and make peace with one another
― ian, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
No no this thread is ONLY for celebrating his movies. Any other purpose is verboten!
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure Eric didn't suggest ban-suggest ban anybody
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
not even "gays"?
― ian, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
So is Pirates! any good? I've been afraid to check that one out.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Check with Dan.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I find this whole scandal great if it gets everyone to watch The Tenant.
You mean the Polanski-rape scandal or the Eric H.-Suggest Ban scandal?
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
agreed, or if it just gets his lawyers to declare him the King of Pop.
xp
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
My question about Pirates! was serious btw.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
my your prickly
thread title is not "Roman Polanski - Share Your Feelings of Adoration and Awe"
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, I can dish it out. To show I can take it, I SB-ed myself.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost I've seen Pirates, but it was a long time ago and I don't really remember it but I'm pretty sure it was crap. There seems to be a curse on Polanski's post-rape moviemaking, has he really made a good one since then? I haven't seen Tess. I have seen The Pianist, but I didn't find it as good as everyone said it was.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Anne Applebaum doubles down
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
more like anne rapelebum
― velko, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
anne applemoron
― steamed hams (harbl), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really kinda flabbergasted at the people saying he should be let go. really does not compute.
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100011795/roman-polanski-everyone-else-fancies-little-girls-too/
“If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… f—ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”
― Did Atkins Die Yet (onimo), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Oof. I'm a bit of a hardass about the "law is the law" in this case, but I did feel bad for him in a lot of respects--that comment is a bit hard to stomach though.
― ryan, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
when he gave that interview i'd guess he was blapping the 15-year-old natassja kinski. it was consensual and all above board and who could possbily object, etc., but you know, "you certaily have a type, romes."
― history mayne, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Jerry Lee Lewis and Errol Flynn fans to thread
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Some good lolz:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/09/polanski.php
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Dr Morbius to thread
― ( ´_ゝ˙) (Dr. Phil), Thursday, 1 October 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Jerry Lee's creepy cousin marriage isn't even in the same league as Polanski.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Thursday, 1 October 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Yesterday evening I had a very heated debate about this case with my best friend. In all honesty I nearly stood up and walked away. Instead I was practically shouting. She kept giving alternatives: "she probably looked 25, why did her mom let her to the house with adults, it's Hollywood!" I kept repeating that he DRUGGED and RAPED teh girl. I asked her if she ever needed Qualudes to be fucked with her permission (does that make sense in English?) She kept saying where did I read this. I asked her where she got her information and I found out she knew NOTHING about this except "that his wife was brutally murdered." Like what? But ath end of the arguement I actually excused myself for being so verbally aggressive. It's not really worth it. In this case my friend's the idiot but who am I? In other cases I'm probably an idiot.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 1 October 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I think a lot of people (read: me three days ago) have no idea about the details of the case and assume it was sex with an underage girl who had given consent. this doesn't excuse woody and whoopi and anne rapelbaum et al, but it does excuse civilains saying dumb stuff. My gf didn't realize how bad what polanski did was until actually reading the grand jury transcript.
― suggest friend (hmmmm), Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I couldn't get my head around why there's even been an argument over all this, but that makes a lot of sense, 'hmmmm'. It's like, having got the word 'rape' out of the plea, the focus should now be on justifying every word of that - so 'unlawful sex with a thirteen-year-old girl' gets answered by 'wouldn't be unlawful in europe', 'she looked older' and 'she was promiscuous therefore a woman'. Whereas if you approach from first principles such as, I don't know, by looking at the facts, it doesn't look like that at all.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I just assumed - considering how rape laws in the '70s were all 'she asked for it' and that the Hollywood hills are alive with career sex often egged on by a certain type of parent and tacitly accepted by anyone who relies on the industry - that for the incident to come to light at all, much less go to trial, spoke volumes about what Polanski did to the girl.
― pow! right in the kisser (suzy), Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It's more the catch-all term "statutory rape" means you can't tell the 'drugged-up' from the 'young/curious'
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
You can make a few strong hypotheses if the older perp is in his 40s and the younger victim is 13.
― pow! right in the kisser (suzy), Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Can you?
I'm not saying either is 'right', it's just that (I'm presuming) the majority of cases are "She wanted to" rather than "she got fed drugs".
So, that ends up being the default hypothesis.
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
There are no default hypotheses in rape cases. Since my uncle was a vice detective in the '70s and '80s I'm pretty au fait with what passed muster as a winnable case in the eyes of law enforcement, what's consensual or obscene, and what gets swept under the rug, often from sneaking looks at his case files when I was the same age as the girl - stuff like that made me a feminist in the first place.
― pow! right in the kisser (suzy), Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
No, but I'm not meaning in 'rape cases'
I mean where people can line up and go "Stop chasing this man, this was all a long time ago" where people will give their opinion on the innocence/guilt of the perpetrator (on a sliding scale) without knowing the details.
Naturally, in the 'rape case' the detail is all.
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link