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Roman Polanski, who 33 years ago drugged and sodomized a 13-year-old girl (not necessarily in that order), has FINALLY broken his legendary silence regarding the recent renewed interest in his case. You can read the full statement he released to the press here, but I have taken the liberty (a liberty I maintain by not drugging or raping children) of selecting a few key phrases:
I have had my share of dramas and joys, as we all have, and I am not going to try to ask you to pity my lot in life. I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else.
Sure, whatever that means. If you ask me, Mr. Polanski has been treated about as fairly as anyone else who has also been accused of and admitted to drugging and sodomizing a 13-year-old girl in Jack Nicholson’s hot tub and then spent more than 30 years living in exile from the United States of America while simultaneously flaunting his special status by continuing to make films, living a life of luxury, traveling freely and unjailed, and beginning a family free from the psychic trauma of having been raped as a child. If anything, up until this point, he has been treated TOO fairly.
Also:
I can remain silent no longer because for over 30 years my lawyers have never ceased to insist that I was betrayed by the judge, that the judge perjured himself, and that I served my sentence. Today it is the deputy district attorney who handled the case in the 1970s, a man of irreproachable reputation, who has confirmed all my statements under oath, and this has shed a whole new light on the matter.
What?
I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago.
Oh boy. I mean, I can definitely understand how this might be frustrating, especially to someone who’s self-confidence and worldview allows for the drugging and sodomization of 13-year-old girls, but when it comes to the legal ramifications and punitive obligations, arguing “we had a deal” doesn’t seem like that strong of a defense? But I’m not a lawyer. Or a child rapist. So what do I know?
I can remain silent no longer because I have been placed under house arrest in Gstaad and bailed in very large sum of money which I have managed to raise only by mortgaging the apartment that has been my home for over 30 years, and because I am far from my family and unable to work.
Right. OK, just to clarify, so that we are all on the same page, child rapists and non-child rapists alike: you are under house arrest in a fucking GORGEOUS CHALET in the SWISS MOUNTAINS and you were able to pay your bail by mortgaging an apartment that you OWN that must clearly be worth MILLIONS, and when you refer to being unable to work you are talking, of course, about the work of MAKING MOVIES WITH MOVIE STARS IN THEM AND THEN GOING TO AWARDS SHOWS, right? I just want to make sure that when Mr. Polanski demands to be treated fairly like everyone else, that we all recognize he has a point, because of how this is definitely just regular everyday life as we all know it.
Even with the child rape aside, what an asshole! And then you throw in the child rape and it’s just like, SHEESH.
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Manuel, keep pedalling!
I would make a joke connecting Polanski to Leno, but I don’t think even Jay Leno deserves to be compared to a child rapist. (Leno is still horrible, though)
I believe according to hulu tags, he’s just tagged as a rapist.
But the guy directed Chinatown!!!
…huh I guess thats what being a Michael Jackson fan must be like.
MIA Needs another video with pederasts and a mine filled border, I’ll tell you that much.
He was born free.
To be fair, what he did was rape-rape, but it wasn’t rape-rape-rape.
From Roman’s asshole perspective, he’s innocent. So of course he would have other asshole priorities like, “Look, I don’t wan to deal with your shit, America, because it’s going to cost me everything and humiliate me for absolutely no reason, and I don’t want to pay that shit because this is a waste of time. We had a deal!”
Now, asshole aside (and this particular crime aside as well, because whoo boy), if we were innocent of something and knew it even though everyone said otherwise we and wanted to preserve our way of life that was trying to be taken from us, knowing that we were going to lose it all over a misunderstanding, we’d be trying our damn-dest to not get pulled into the machine either.
So I understand his asshole motivations for wanting to keep his stuff, but he’s so fucking guilty it’s ridiculous. It’s like Steve Martin in the Jerk after he’s lost all his millions, “All I need is this chair.” Not where you’re going! Just forget about it. You’re poor now. Trade it for a thermos.
“Asshole? I wish! If I were an asshole they’d be no problem! No, what I have is a romantic abnormality, one so unbelievable that it must be hidden from the public at all cost. You see…”
-Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski’s What? He seems to be living his own Roman Polanski’s Tragedy of MacBeth. No word other than Roman Polanski’s Repulsion could describe my feelings right now.
No witches or fates or even manipulative wives egging him on in this one, though. This is all Polanski.
The DA in the case was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped. Uh-oh, Roman, watch out! (PS: Don’t watch out.)
“Whatever. It’s not like the forest of Dunsinane can get to me. I’m under house arrest in my Swiss mansion!”
-Roman Polanski, 1933-2012
Can I just – just – THANK YOU. I am so tired of reading so many defense pieces of this child rapist, it is such a relief to find someone just writing about him truthfully. So thanks. Most other things I’ve read over the weekend about his statement are all, “he’s old, it was a long time ago, the victim doesn’t want to talk about it anymore, so just leave him alone!” This is exactly what I needed to hear right now.
You sound just like Polanski whenever he’s defending a former Nazi officer on trial for war crimes.
You need to be reading better blogs, my friend.
Dakota Fanning IS Roman Polanski!
#worstbiopics
Or conversely
Roman Polanski IS Dakota Fanning
Roman Polanski IN Dakota’s Fanny
HEYOOOOOO!!!
The fact that Dakota Fanning’s awful trailers for her awful movies have ruined my movie-going experiences lately aside, please keep her as far away from Roman Polanski as possible.
This guy could travel back in time and kill Hitler and I still wouldn’t give him the time of day.
This is a made up quote, and I am totally guessing here…. but, “There, but for the grace of god, go I.” -Hollywood on HW’s support for the man
Or…. “He’s brilliant.” — Hollywood on HW’s support for the man
Thanks, Roman Polanski, for reminding us that as garbage people go, you are the worst! You appear to be composed entirely of detritus. Please go bury yourself in a landfill.
A landfill inside of a prison, preferably.
Gabe just proved child-rape CAN be funny! George Carlin would be proud.
Child-rape isn’t funny, by the way.
Roman Polanski is acting like such a baby that i want to drug and rape him
#childrapecanbefunny
That just made me startle-laugh.
“BAP!” – Napoleon Complex
Aww… looks like someone’s upset that The Ghost Writer received such divided critical reviews.
Thanks for not making this a “we should all be so lucky…” column, Gabe. My Monday could not have dealt with that.
Does he understand that people have spent years on death row in this country only to be exonerated by DNA evidence? Does he realize that innocent people were jailed under a law actually called the “Patriot Act”? OBVIOUSLY NOT. Whatever Roman Polanski…
thank you, gabe. thank you for saying this.
I think of all Polanski’s movies should have asterisks on the poster/dvd cover that say,
*Directed by notable child rapist Roman Polanski*
That way, no matter how good his movie might be, everyone knows exactly what they are watching–a movie directed by a man who should have been in jail 30 years ago but ran away to Europe and got a free pass in life because Hollywood really liked Rosemary’s Baby. It really is sickening.
i didn’t even really like rosemary’s baby. it was crazy misogynistic and bad.
I’m not sure it was misogynistic. The horror was based on a woman losing control of her body, unsure of her own body and feelings, treated like a child by her friends and doctors, drugged by a neighbor, raped by her own husband. It’s not like she was 13! And it’s not like Roman Polanski is the literal Devil!
Rosemary’s Baby is, no joke, literally one of my top 10 favorite movies. It’s an incisive social satire and also a chilling horror movie and also has some genuine laughs, and Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon especially are fantastic in it.
Knife in the Water is also completely brilliant. If you like movies, you owe it to yourself to check it out. And his Macbeth might be Great; I felt haunted by it for days. It’s grim. Repulsion’s pretty good.
The Tenant I did not get at all really. Boo The Tenant.
There.
In Polanski’s “Chinatown” Jake Gittes says he did as little as possible as a cop so he wouldn’t be harassed by his superiors.
In Polanski’s Switzerland, he’s doing as much as possible to make sure history remembers him as a child-rapist and asshole.
When is Polanski ever going to catch a break? He has the WORST luck, eh?
Roman should take a cue from the Dogme 95 ethos. DON’T PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR NEXT FILM!
Why can’t we just let Roman Polanski be RAPE
It’s finals week and it’s hot as all fucking get out right now and I don’t want to be angry right now but this man ugh. So many ‘ughs’ to throw on the ground.
Give the man a break. All he wants is to be able to escape to the moon and declare himself President of Rape, JUST LIKE ANY OF YOU.
can we tack on some jail time for casting kim catrall in the ghostwriter? he’s an accessory to an AWFUL british accent.
I appreciate your commentary, Gabe. Indeed, that child-rapist is a fucking asshole, and has been treated MORE than fairly in all of the years that he has lived lavishly in Europe escaping justice. Being a famous movie director does NOT excuse the fact that he drugged and raped a 13-year old girl. What a sick monster he is.
Guys, I’m an old-timey sick monster, I just haven’t been around for a while!
I think Chris Rock had the best comment on people, Hollywood especially, defending Polanski based on his artistic output:
“Not even JOHNNIE COCHRAN tried to say, ‘Yeah, but did you see him play against the Vikings?’ “
fuck this fool so hard.
One of my biggest issues is that Polanski is so blatantly unrepentant. If he was really sorry, wouldn’t he except his jail time instead of whining about the money and Oscar-filled life that he’s been forced to lead in some of the most beautiful places in Europe? Ugh, I hate-hate his guts.
Its exceptions like this that make presumption of innocence seem like total bullshit. This, and O.J.
Also, I’ve never seen one of his movies?
Also, also, C’mon guys! Dudes wife died, cut him some slack.
Fortunately, since he ALREADY pleaded guilty before fleeing the country, presumption of innocence isn’t really an issue here.
But it comes into play again because of issues with the judge and evidence tampering and all that junk. Right?
As in, the law is on the side of the defendant and all that.
I have to say that I’m highly surprised that there is no significant backlash against the actors that continue to work with him
i really wish people would watch the documentary “wanted and desired” before commenting on this case. YES, he committed a horrible crime and YES he was the victim of a fucked up justice system and judge which is why he left.
i understand that without actually knowing the facts in the case and trial, it seems like this guy is a total douchebag. i don’t give a fuck what he does for a living, he was railroaded and served his sentence already. don’t believe me? just ask the victim: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/13/roman-polanski-victim-urg_n_157391.html
Thank you!
It pisses me off that no one wants to mention her in this.
She wants to leave this in the past, and I think we need to respect her wishes.
I’ve known a number of people who’ve had awful experiences like this, and the last thing they want is people talking non stop about it.
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… Seriously, though? She WAS underage. She was THIRTEEN. Like, a CHILD. The power dynamic there of child + “famous celebrity” … is pretty uneven. He gave a child drugs and alcohol. So your “no physical coercion” argument is invalidated by what you said a sentence ago, you know, about the drugs and the champagne? Chances are she did not provide those herself, since she was, like, a kid.
Ew, rape apologists. Although maybe this is a subtle joke and I’m missing the point. If so, you made your point very cleverly, i.e., you made my hands shake from anger. But if you really are like “THE 13-YEAR-OLD ASKED FOR IT! SHE TEMPTED HIM! AND THEN SHE DIDN’T LIKE IT SO SHE WENT ALL CRYBABY! HOW ANNOYING IS THAT!” … that is just … no.
She did say “No” and then try to push him off of her, but he physically overpowered her and she decided to stop struggling because she didn’t believe she was physically able to stop him, which she’s said in court. Why bring up the statutory part? Also he put FUCKING QUALLUDES IN THE DRINK. I mean wow drugged sex: illegal, wrong. Violently forced sex: illegal, wrong. Sex with 13 year old: illegal, wrong. What’s difficult to get here? And what do you mean by american laws? She was 13! He was like 30! This is never going to be okay! Anywhere!
Yeah, the power dynamic is “i’m flattered by the attention of this powerful celebrity that’s making me feel like an attractive mature woman which is the only thing i strive to feel being a sexually budding teenager and i wonder what it would be like to sleep with him, oops it wasn’t so nice i guess i wasn’t emotionally ready yet and now i’m confused”. And what is it with the power dynamic argument, there’s always a power dynamic; when a grown woman wants to sleep with a man there’s a power dynamic.
She did not provide the drugs and the champaign, but she willingly took them.
Ew, angry mob mentality.
It’s spelled champagne. I know that’s the least of your worries now, but, still.
I think there’s a power dynamic inherent in every sexual experience, but when it’s SO SO unequal and uneven, i.e., the man is much older, the girl is literally a child, and then he heightens that power imbalance dramatically by drugging her, then it’s a far different case. It just upsets me when people use these arguments that women “wanted it” because it’s exactly this logic that means that HUNDREDS of women never, ever come forward about rape because some self-satisfied creepo is going to be all, “HEY BABYCAKES IF YOU DIDN’T WANT IT YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE ASKED FOR IT.”
I know there can be a gray area in some cases, but, uh, not in this one. I’ll happily join an angry mob if it’s made up of people who aren’t trying to excuse pedophiles and rapists. Wow. Honestly? Wow.
Except the girl is not literary a child, she had sex before more than once, and she also took drugs, read up yo. She wasn’t tricked into nasty old man sex by saying it’s how grownups play with each other for super fun fun happy time. Having been sexually active, and having taken drugs before, she agreed to get naked and get drunk with a man who wasn’t coercing her into anything. If that’s not a gray area, i don’t know what would ever be. And since when is an unequal power balance a crime? Women, especially if they’re pretty, like men proportionally to how much above them they are on the social sucess scale. Also, trying to paint me as some asshole who thinks “all women want it” while clearly i’m focused on this specific case shows how much you care for genuine and honest discourse, and how much you care about actual justice, and how much you’re a dick who enjoys witch hunting people.
Regardless of the complete illegitimacy of your other arguements, what he did was still illegal. I don’t think it should be illegal to smoke pot, but I’m still aware that it’s illegal. If he thought he should be legally allowed to drug and fuck 13 year olds after they say “no” then he should have campaigned for it politically, not just done it and then said “BUT BUT BUT BUT I’M SAD” afterwards. He did a crime. He doesn’t get to not go to jail just because he is rich.
Nice argumentation! Let me try that. Regardless of being wrong in everything you ever said in your whole life, and your parents being wrong before that and not understanding anything at all, floating through life like a dingy being run by a baby; there was no physical coercion. He took the same amount of drugs and was still able to have sex with her, she should have been able to physically fight back. Are we truly to believe she was so intimidated by him that nowhere in the course of being initially nude photographed, then nude photographed again, then getting drunk and naked she couldn’t have just excused herself and left? Especially considering she wasn’t an innocent, inexperienced child having her first experience with the scary big world, which if she was she probably wouldn’t have found herself being nude photographed multiple times by a stranger without the presence of a parent in Jack Nicholson’s house.
If Polanski is guilty of anything it’s statutory rape, and that’s only by puritanical U.S. moral standards.
Great – the “She had sex before — she can’t be raped!” defense. Because the only people who can be raped are virgins. No one else feels pain, amirite?
You are a sad, broken human being if you buy that shit.
Except that wasn’t my argument. I pointed to that to show that she wasn’t an innocent child that didn’t know into what kind of situation she was getting into, and what taking drugs and getting naked with a man meant. She wasn’t tricked into it. Now can someone who does nude photos, takes drugs and gets naked with a man willingly still get raped? Sure, but it’s no longer clear cut as if it would be if he forcibly drugged her on the street and dragged her somewhere to rape her.
I’m not witch-hunting you. This is the internet, you’re not gonna suffer for anything.
I apologize for trying to extend your argument to larger cases. I should have focused on this exact case. I still do think that what happened was predatory, but I’m not going to assume to know what you believe about other rape cases.
I do happen to disagree, a lot, with your comment about how women only like men if they’re better than them socially. But that’s a whole other issue, and probably doesn’t belong in a conversation about rape, since it’s a much milder and more ambiguous issue, when/if it occurs.