I can usually set aside a Hollywood personality's off-screen behavior when watching a movie. I don't give a rat's ass about my handyman's politics, marital infidelities, et cetera, so why should I care about some actor's or director's? I don't. I'm just hiring them, albeit indirectly, to provide me with a service, entertainment. But raping a 13 year old girl is over the line for me. Way over the line. You won't see me buying a ticket for any of his movies.
Another one I won't patronize is John Landis. On the Twilight Zone set, he was warned by experts that he was violating safety standards and that what he wanted was very dangerous. But he ignored those warnings. Oh, he just had to have that wonderful shot, and if it put people's lives at risk, so what? Vic Morrow died, and two children along with him. I hope that when Landis's time comes he goes straight to Hell, and spends eternity getting fucked up the ass with a rusty straight razor.
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spacecomedy (2062)
4 years ago
Sad that Hollywood has always been so quick to make excuses for the criminal behavior of "artists." If Polanski or Landis had been plumbers, they would've lost all their friends and gone to jail for a long time.
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BullSchmidt (3189)
4 years ago
I'm actually a pretty forgiving guy. People make mistakes, sometimes big ones. I've done a few whoppers in my life. If Landis had simply been ignorant of the danger that would be a different matter. But he knew it was dangerous. He was warned, repeatedly, and he did it anyway, and two children never got to their eighth birthdays. Let him be damned.
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