Outraged Movie Characters Rush To Roman Polanski's Defense

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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."


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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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Comments

  • HwoodHills says:

    I can't wait for someone to mistakenly use Gitte's "quote" above as an actual quote from Nicholson.

  • HwoodHills says:

    Sorry...Gittes'.

  • Colander says:

    Aha. I think you can actually use Gittes's there. I was told an apostrophe S is always okay in the singular unless you're talking about Jesus, then it's Jesus'.

  • HwoodHills says:

    His name is Jake Gittes not Jake Gitte. It was my bad.

  • Christopher Campbell says:

    I'd love to see SNL steal the idea behind this post and bring Jon Hamm on this week's show to again play James Mason, as Humbert, to comment on the whole Polanski thing.

  • Lowbrow says:

    This wasn't funny. The rape of a 13-year-old, no matter how much satire is drenched over it, isn't funny. It is, however, pretty fucking licentious; congrats.