the polanski petition: what is it, who signed it, and why? 

Chinatown is a masterpiece. ∆

A lot of people just felt sorry for him losing his wife and unborn baby so horrifically and gave him a pass. Your past pain doesn’t serve as an excuse to hurt others, thiught

That clip of QT on Stern defending Polanski is a damning piece of audio. His dismissal of the victim as a "13 year old party girl" had extremely disturbing implications.

"Consensual" "Champagne and quallude."

He admitted to one and there are plenty of others who came out with similar stories. It is just gross that people act like he was the victim.

I shudder to think how many children have been abused in this industry - and how many women have been violated, too. The fact this thing still has respect sickens me!

Emma Thompson originally signed the petition but later asked for her name to be removed after a conversation with 19-year-old college student and activist Caitlin Hayward-Tapp.

What horrifies me the most about Polanski is that Samantha Galley wasn't the first underage girl he assaulted, and she wasn't the last. Too many people excuse him because they think it was an isolated incident. As if assaulting one child wasn't horrible enough this creep has left a trail of victims behind him.

I don't understand why we just accept celebrities like Tarantino who straight up said that having sex with a minor isn't wrong, it's just illegal. I'm sorry but just saying "yeah I just wasn't educated back when I said that" after already making it in Hollywood is disingenuous at the very best. No, Quinton. That's not good enough. I need to see you write a 500-word essay on exactly why you think it's now wrong to fuck kids when you didn't think that before. Anyone who says that, I immediately think they probably have an underage 'body count" themselves that they don't ever talk about.

Amber heard is not a predator. Bet Johnny would be mad if they hit him with that

“We won because Roman won” if that doesn’t sound like a cult to u then idk what to tell u

The part with Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann hurt me the most since those were two of my favorite directors. I'm also having second thoughts about supporting Johnny Depp while Amber Heard was ruining his life.

I lived in Paris in 2009 when the Polanski brouhaha was happening, having been sent to work in the French office of my company. A lot of people who were defending Polanski simply had the facts wrong. They would say the girl was 16 or 17 and that Polanski fled the US to avoid an unfair trial. They were surprised when i told them that the girl was 13 and that Polanski had pled guilty.

That Johnny Depp defense was pretty dumb.

Would Johnny Depp leave Polanski alone with his 13 year old daughter and be ok with him taking pictures of her topless?

And this point, your kid would be safer with the mafia than Hollywood

The way this is set up for the ending is most OUTSTANDING!! it really put chills down my spine.

The ending to this essay was truly chilling. The piano playing in the background for Polanski winning the Academy Award for The Pianist, sounding ominous and horrifying. Amazing video brother. I am dumbstruck at the number of artists that supported him. Johnny Depp?! And considering the case that just ended where he was a victim of abuse. Quentin Tarantino?! It's just too sickening what this kind of treatment makes someone infallible, no way that's right and the people who've supported him are being ignorant.

It’s not ambitious, he admits everything, he needs to be in jail.

A 13-year old minor child doesn't have the legal right to agree to have sex with anyone especially an older adult...Polanski's attempt to justify the act was specious hence his legal troubles.....

The idea that Roman Polanski was going to have a photo session with a teenager is a ruse. It was Polanski simply creating an opportunity to have an extended time alone with this teenager. And I am having a very hard time believing that the mother was this naive and gullible. The mother should have been investigated. When Polanski ran to Europe the first thing he did was have a new fifteen-year-old girlfriend Natasha Kinski. He made her very successful as an actress.

This should have more views!! Thank you for this, keep making stuff!

In interview Polanski didn't seem to believe that he had done anything wrong. I wonder what his morals are regarding the age of consent. Quentin Tarantino did try to defend Polanski on the Howard Stern show - Stern pointed out that he has two daughters around that age and that they are not mentally capable of consenting to sex. He further said to Tarantino 'what if it was your daughter - you would want to beat the shit out of him.' Polanski himself had a daughter - if he had discovered that at age 13 she had had sex with a 45 year old, would he have been ok with that? Somehow I doubt it. I believe that he has to live with the shadow of what he did hanging over him. Polanski said that all men want to f**k young girls - that is girls who have not fully developed into adults. For anyone to wish to do this I believe have something amiss in their minds. I did enjoy Tess Of The D'Urbervilles but I generally don't like his movies. They tend to be dark and involve abuse of women. There is a book about Sharon Tate in which it is claimed he was abusive towards her. Everything about him seems to indicate that he doesn't see women as equals and he believes that because he is an acclaimed director that different rules apply to him. I have just been watching an interview with Polanski in which he describes his formative years and he said that he was 'just 12' when he was told that his mother had died in the concentration camp and was not coming back. Clearly he regards 'just 12' as being a child. The girl he drugged and raped was just 13 - almost 14 when he did so. Not much older than 'just 12'. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xaF7WxdUdns.html

Them names on that list are most likely on the Epstein list also.

You did a great job doing this video! Hope more people see it.

This was a fantastic, informative video. Perfectly answered my questions about it. I hope you make more videos in the future

Well done video and message. This needs more views.

Man you deserve much more viewes Great and informational video!

new subscriber but I admired the way you explained it, I hope you take this channel to the next level

This is a very well made video. This deserves more views.

This list is painful.

Bret rattner shouldnt be surprising either

Hey. Thanks for making this video. It was interesting to watch. Such a shame the line between right and wrong is often unstable and gets manipulated. One day things will change I hope!

Amazing video. I was thinking about making something similar, given how (in my opinion) people don't talk about this topic NEARLY enough. Hopefully this reaches more people who care about film.

you gained a subscriber for that ending

The woman in white behind rob marshall was disgusted

I'm surprisingly impressed with Howard Stern. He really spoke up powerfully against Polanski's act.

Nicely done

Just found this hidden gem upload again!!

did a great job on this video

I'm commenting because I want this video to be seen by more people and leaving this comment will hopefully further spread this video into RU-vid's algorithms. I did also want to add that actresses Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep both have publicly supported Polanski, and there are photos of Harrison Ford smiling with Polanski when he delivered the Oscar. The whole situation is a very depressing thing but it's important people are aware of it so again, I thank you for making this video.

Funny how your professional success is a valid excuse for horrible crimes. Look at Norman Mailer. He stabbed his wife twice at a party and suffered no legal or social consequences.

AMERICAN CULTURE??? TRY GLOBAL. At least the US tried to do something. European countries like France kept him safe!

great video

unrelated, but i love the background music! michael cera should make more folky instrumental music

He deserves jail.

Johnny you have a young daughter would you let her be alone with hem

There’s alot of themes of sexual assault in Polanskis films. Rosemarys baby there is rape, Repulsion had rape as well, China town alluded to insestuous rape. The man had a sick obsession with it. I used to think China Town was one of the greatest films of all time

Duh. He was the adult in this situation. He made a conscious voluntary decision and choice to abuse a very minor minor. He must face the consequences of that decision. Not her…..double duh 😮

It is shocking to me jowls may people defended him. It wasn't until two years ago that I read the account of what happened and it still makes me mad. I don't support cancel culture in most instances but rape of a 13 tear old even if consensual certainly is a reason to cancel. If the law won't punish then perhaps canceling them as a culture is the only recourse in situations like this.

I first heard of the petition precisely 15 minutes ago. I’m in shock.

The key scenes in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood that film are the Steve McQueen speech when he explains that Sharon specifically got him over to Hollywood without having any romantic involvement with him, and the one where Manson turns up to the house to find Terry has moved. You can try and destroy him all you want, but we all know what Hollywood are.

I have hard time believing that Nicholson knew nothing

Whoever signed the petition was definitely on the Epstein List as well." 🏌🏾‍♂️

I only know that I CAN separate an artwork from the particulars of who creates it. I honestly think that Polanski is one of the finest filmmakers and some of his films are my absolute favorites.

She can not say yes

A thoughtful and necessary video. I used to love Tilda Swinton from her very earliest movies so I was gutted when I first learnt that she had signed this. But I actively started to dislike her when I read that, when approached by a Guardian reporter post-Weinstein, her (well, probably her rep's) response was that she "would like to graciously pass on being interviewed." Who the f*** uses "graciously" to describe their own actions? What a detestable, self-important person she clearly is. I don't particularly care for Natalie Portman but at least she did publicly recant.

Are you on twitter?

Roman Polanski never dated Angelica Hudson. The crime and R happened at Hudsons and Jack Nicholson's home. Jack and Roman were friends.

I think a lot of people think because he could have been killed in the holocaust that he must be good and it all must be lies or explainable. He's not someone like Otto Frank. More people need to see that.

I need a great plumber far more than I will ever need a great artist...there is a lot of blood on these 'artists' who signed this petition...my guess is they know a hundred Polanskis and never had the guts to speak out...their careers mattered more, belonging mattered more, being in the loop mattered more...their souls? Not so much.

Did I miss something regarding John Landis???

Words fail me to describe this blind cruelty of this Polański's lynch mob. But you can see it at work at its finest everywhere on the internet.

Watch the film "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired." Polanski's alleged victim from 1977, years later refuted the whole rape matter saying "it was never a big problem for me."

They are all sell outs !

Peer pressure and shaping of a narrative can come a long way. I remember how journalists used to talk about Polanski around 15 years ago. One report said that he 'seduced' a 13-year old girl. They didn't even mentionthe druging and never called it rape. So based on that, I was inclined to think that his arrest in Switserland was an overreaction to an old lawsuit. So imagine you were a career driven film maker in Hollywood in a pre-metoo era, who got told to sign that Polanksi petition. Would you have been enlightened enough to refuse? I think we all like to believe that we would. But it's important to know that we're all vulnerable to fall into this culture of excusing abusers. I can still see it with Michael Jackson fans. And it's easy to view Donald Trump followers as brain washed cult members for supporting a sexual predator. Just remember, you may have made mistakes in the past. Let's at least use these cases to learn from them.

I'm pretty sure Lynch only signed that shit because Monica Belucci signed it

What is good about fame with no respectability ??? He has none, nor will he ever🐷

I see your point but no one could do what polanski does in films as well as him, new or old. Polanksi is still a hard one to have an opinion on for me but he is still undoubtedly one of the best

It's fuck up and wrong

How can johnny depp defend a child rapist.. so in his opinion that's not out doing bad things. Shame on you johnny depp. I see you a totally different light now.

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Judge not not to be judge

Get on a pole

He paid the price. Enough with this crap. Move on

He made a mistake and paid for it.The girl herself has spoken out about the importance of forgivness and leting go. But you should examine your own anger and how it looks for it´s own paths in the world. I would watch that video. Your own motivation for keeping this wound open.

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