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Woody Allen Defends Polanski At Cannes: "He Has Paid His Dues"
By Lindsay CutlerMay 17th, 2010, 4:15 pmComments (9)
It's nice when friends come to each others' defense. Especially when they're rich director friends and what they're defending is the right to sexually abuse little girls. Ok, that's not exactly what was said, but Woody did speak out against Polanski's totally opulent and not-actually-internment internment at Cannes Film Festival last week:
He's an artist, he's a nice person, he did something wrong and he paid for it. [The critics] are not happy unless he pays the rest of his life. They would be happy if they could execute him in a firing squad.
I'd like to know what was said in place of [the critics]. Who exactly wants a firing squad to kill Roman Polanski? I think Woody Allen would like to think everyone would like to kill everyone with a firing squad.
There are a million people out there in the United States, robbing banks ... shooting people and selling narcotics. And they're going after a 75-, 77-year-old man who has for years has caused no trouble who's lived a good life.
Nope! He did not live a good life. He made a bunch of really great films but he was also capable of making something like this. But you can't punish someone for having a sick mind. However, you can punish someone for molesting a 13-year-old girl and more recently, a 16-year old girl.
I feel they are wasting a lot of money to do this and it is not necessary ... it is self-aggrandizing and it's money foolishly spent.
It is money foolishly spent, setting up an escaped convict in a Swiss chalet for years when the bottom line is that he sexually abused a minor, as white-collared and brilliant and aw-but-he-escaped-WWII as he is.
Commentarium (9 Comments)
Well, this is pretty transparent isn't it. Woody married his adopted daughter, so he'll tolerant anything as long as it's done by an artistic director. I bet Morgan Freeman forgives Polanski as well.
What did Morgan Freeman do?
Paid dues, eh? Well what about all those old Nazis who've been hunted down? They've had to live in hiding for 50 years, surely they've paid their dues, right?
I could have sworn from watching his movies that Woody Allen had a clear understanding of irony.
@rascal: Did you just compare a jewish Holocaust survivor to an aging Nazi war criminal?
Morgan Freeman had an affair with his step-grand daughter.
Forget the whole Soon-Yi thing, anyone who's watched a woody allan movie in the last ten years knows how much he's lost touch with reality.
Morgan will bang anything.
"@rascal: Did you just compare a jewish Holocaust survivor to an aging Nazi war criminal?" you bet. Some of these war criminals were just guards and soldiers. Yes, they should be brought to justice. And so should pedophile rapists.