Polanski Snubs Interviewers at Cannes
Posted by Rodneyon 20. 05. 2007in News Chat
Roman Polanski, director of “The Pianist” which won the top prize at Cannes in 2002 was in attendance at a question and answer panel at this years Cannes Film Festival in a virtual swarm of other notable directors and filmmakers. He felt the questions offered were not up to the standard deserving of his attendance and he made a blunt accusatory statement and then left all on his own.
Several questions at the news conference focused on the future of cinema in the digital age. Polanski’s walkout did not seem to be a response to any single question.When the moderator announced that journalists had just two minutes left, Polanski, 73, took the microphone.
“It’s a shame to have such poor questions, such empty questions,” Polanski said. “And I think that it’s really the computer which has brought you down to this level. You’re no longer interested in what’s going on in the cinema.
“Frankly, let’s all go and have lunch,” he suggested, before walking out.
None of the other directors followed.
He seems to think that the computer “bringing them down to this level” is clearly a bad thing, but interestingly enough it is the computer that is generating the free publicity that keeps him and guys like him in business.
So it looks like Polanski hates the Movie Blog and the Internet.
(I came to this conclusion after a number of logic steps not illustrated here and is my derriviative of his statement. Polanski can call me if he has a problem with it.)
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The computer does not magically generate “free publicity”. People do. And neither does free publicity keep Polanski in business. Being a filmmaker does. Films existed a thrived well before the computer. Well before the internet. And well before this site ever existed.
Nice try though.
You aint controlling this industry so why should Roman polanski call you??
And he became a movie director becasue he is talented while people like you just talk about movies and get money from studios to talk good about some movies. I bet you Transformers will be good in your book.
I am simply saying that you aren’t in the same class as Roman polanski so in my opinion he shouldn’t call you.
Awwwwwww….
Did the poor little pedophile rapist not like the questions he was being asked?
Poor baby…
Maybe on the way back to his hotel room he can find himself a nice 13 year old girl and force himself on her… maybe that’ll make him feel better.
If you make movies, then Hollywood forgives the little things like child rape. He won’t see a dime from me.
Seriously though, the level of intellegence in the film-reporting industry is pretty fucking low.
I don’t blame him one bit for acting like that. At 72 yrs old, he’s spent enough of his life asking dumb questions. He has the right to tell us to go fuck ourselves if he so wishes.
Good for him.
Sorry meant to say, answering dumb questions.
What can I say, I’m a moron.
I tend to agree with Tedward on this one. I usually roll my eyes at Film Festival Q&As and/or Junkets and/or Press Conferences. The questions are 95% Dumb and bad.
Polanski probably caught up in his idea that Cannes should be at a higher standard (outside of the Marketplace anyway) and felt it was a waste of time.
I see no problem here with his reaction.
Also the pedophile stuff is irrelevant to this thread unless you are Trolling…It has nothing to do with this.
Roman Polanski ate my baby
The free publicity generated by sites like ours, or just by communicating can make or break a movie in a heartbeat. Before computers offered this rapidfire access to information it could be weeks before word of a movie being bad to affect its boxoffice.
Now movies are praised or slammed in seconds of the first showing, and can destroy or make it a success.
And I never claimed to be in Polanski’s class. I am not a pedophile.
Hey Roman…the internet also has lots of kiddie porn which I’m SURE your familiar with.
The reporter should have gone of on this fucking guy.
Who gives him the right to undress someone like that in-front of an audience. This fucking piece of shit. This piece of shit that should answer to the law for his crimes. God I wish I was in that room.
haha jay that fucking funny
What can I say….
Sometimes I can think up a zinger :D
By the way,
Of course pedophilia has a place in this thread. He’s a pedophile.
That’s like saying we couldnt bring up canabalism is a post about Jeffery Dahmer’s macaroni art.
I bet if it was your underage sister, or daughter, or niece that he raped your tune would be different, but I guess you dont care about the child that he did rape since you didnt know her personally.
So who cares…
He paid for his crimes, right…?
Oh wait… that’s right… he DIDNT pay for his crimes. He fled the country to avoid prosecution.
But I guess since he can make a decent moving picture show we should all just forget about the fact that he’s a rapist. I’ll be sure to remind you of that if/when your pre-teenage daughter is forced into a sexual act by a much older man.
I realize you never said that what he did was Ok, but dont ever tell me I cant bring up pedophilia when the topic of the post is a pedophile.
I’m not a troll, I just have a real strong aversion towards child rapists. Call me crazy, but that’s something that I can never let slide no matter how good an artist the guy happens to be.
That being said,
I can understand that the questions asked at junkets could get a little tiresome but those people are giving this rapist the publicity he needs to sell his movie. He should be down on his kness answering each and every one of them and thanking God that he’s allowed to be free and make movies and not rotting in a jail cell where he belongs.
Sorry for the rant.
Wow. Polanski pedophile jokes. How unpredictable. How long did it take to come up with those ones guys?
Rodney – the box office flops of SNAKES ON A PLANE and GRINDHOUSE clearly show that Internet hype does not affect box office in any big way.
Jay,
I agree.
Actually, I think every single mention of Roman Polanski, whether in print or online, should introduce him parenthetically as “director and noted rapist of 13-year-old girls”. Is it irrelevant to this specific article? Sure, but so is the fact that he directed the Piano.
Don’t get me wrong, Rosemary’s Baby is one of my 50 (or so) favorite movies ever–I have nothing against Polanski personally and actually look forward to his movies–but I think after he got off Scott-fukking-free for pedaphilia and rape, then being called out on his admitted crime for the rest of his life is a good enough trade off, on his side at least.
Let’s not forget his wife & friends were murdered by the Manson family as well.
“The free publicity generated by sites like ours, or just by communicating can make or break a movie in a heartbeat. ”
Ha. Wrong. Maybe it can hurt or help the smaller movies, but the blockbuster behemoths are more or less immune to the internet with big marketing budgets. And word of mouth can only get so far…Look at all the movies that received big internet community raves/hype – Slither, Shaun of the Dead, Snakes on A plane, The Host, etc. None of them cracked more than the catering bills on something like Van Helsing or Ghost Rider which made their bloated cost-overrun budgets back because people are suckers.
Rodney is right. Without this and other sites like it… the total box office from this upcoming summer would be next to nothing. Studio execs shudder. Hollywood trembles. Shrek 3 won’t make a dime… er, ooops.
Oh forget it. Roman was right.