Outraged Movie Characters Rush To Roman Polanski's Defense

Humbert Humbert, Lolita

"I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape. To put it another way: There's 'rape' and then there's 'rape.' It was a consensual matter. And I know from consensual sex with a minor, a nymphet. What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet, of every nymphet perhaps, this mixture of tender, dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity. I know it is madness to put this on this livejournal, but it gives me a strange thrill to do so. Roman understands this. His beautiful movies are his livejournal. Free Polanski. Free him now."

David Wooderson, Dazed and Confused

"Roman, man. That's what we love about them high school girls. We get older, they stay the same age. Huh? Thirteen? Thir-teen? Whoa whoa whoa. That might be a little young for this here fella, but to each his own. The older you get, the more rules they are going to try and get you to follow. Roman knows. You just got keep on fleein', man. F-L-E-E-I-N. Oh, they caught him? Not cool. Let 'em go. But thir-teen. Damn. I dunno, man. I dunno. Middle school, I might not be into that."

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