Thursday, October 1, 2009

Polanski Towne!

Hi everybody!
Roman Polanski is the antithesis of the message we are trying to send with The Wonder Woman Project.
While people accused director Alfred Hitchcock of cinematic sadism, it is Roman Polanski who mastered that art.
REPULSION is an elegant but unrelenting study of a woman's descent into isolating madness.
ROSEMARY'S BABY is about a woman who is forced to give birth to the spawn of Satan.
CHINATOWN concerns an incest survivor who gave birth to her father's child and is killed by her father, who then raises her surviving sister/daughter. "My sister, my daughter, my sister and my daughter!"
There is a relentless pattern of illegal/immoral behavior serving as the foundation of his studio movies.
Further, under Polanski, horrific crimes routinely go unpunished. Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne famously argued over the ending of CHINATOWN, with Polanski prevailing that the offending father get away with pedophilia. Coincidence? "It's Chinatown, Jake."
Polanski; had he stayed with studio movies; would have lost his "snap" as the measured perversion that he favored fully gave way to "blockbuster" fare like JAWS, STAR WARS and ROCKY in the 1970s.
Our popular culture did not suffer much in Polanski's absence, yet he is still lionized in the creative community. This is a false regret, because Robert Evans and the rest of the crew from CHINATOWN culminated in the "COTTON CLUB" murders several years later in Hollywood. Jack Nicholson had already won an Oscar before CHINATOWN, and his star has continued relatively undimmed, but the last gasp of studio "creative edginess" heralded by BONNIE AND CLYDE effectively ended with the release of CHINATOWN.
As to Polanski having violated a 13 year old girl while staying at Jack Nicholson's house following CHINATOWN, let us recognize that on the personal level Polanski proved to be far more perverse than his movies.
We see with the publicity surrounding MacKenzie Phillips' memoir how devastating such events can be. MacKenzie's father John introduced her to heroin (old news), had a "consensual" sexual relationship with him and after he impregnated her paid for the abortion of their child (which is recent news).
Incest never goes away. Child rape never goes away.
Society failed Polanski's victim: her mother drove her to that photoshoot then did not stay with her to supervise. The "responsible" adult figure; Polanski; drugged, disrobed and debauched her. The legal system had plead Polanski's jail sentence down to time served and still he fled sentencing when released on his own recognicence.
Polanski's fugitive status is now seen as a badge of honor in Hollywood, but Polanski is a slayer of childhood and a coward of epic proportion. Polanski by taking a 13 year old girl and molding her to his extreme sexual desires like so much clay proved himself to be a completely remorseless skidmark of a man. Polanski's running away from any responsibility was contemptible: to call any of this a miscarriage of justice against himself remains ludicrous.
I used to be 44 years old, myself; as Polanski was when this crime against nature was committed; so if he had not yet learned how to control his base impulses by then, he never had any discernable self-discipline to begin with.
It is unseemly for Polanski to keep invoking his Holocaust survivor card, his Helter Skelter survivor card, his hounded by the blue noses card. Polanski is a practicing pedophile and should go to jail for the full nickel! Period. Case closed.
Security begins within the civilized heart. When we carelessly throw our precious children to the ravenous wolves like Polanski, then we reap the whirlwind. It does not matter who stops the cycle of madness against children and women as long as the cycle is stopped.
Wonder Woman is here to represent the necessary intervention to improve the general welfare of women and children!
Little girls are severely mutilated in nations like Africa, are married off to brutal strangers before they lose their baby teeth, and die of malnutrition long before they see any of their own children reach puberty.
The Wonder Woman Project will prove a tonic to such toxic fare as Polanski has left us, to such toxic behavior as Polanski has modeled for us.
Wonder Woman shows us the wonderfulness inside all of us!
It's a wonderful world and Wonder Woman is here to keep it that way!
Down with Polanski! Up with WONDER WOMAN!
Talk to you all, soon! Be good!
Brad

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