He managed to have a decent career
Dude, he won an Oscar in 2003. Best Director. Calling this “decent” career is extremely disingenuous. He worked with Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Ewan McGregor and Johnny Depp. All at the top of their careers and very much able to decide who they want to work with and they worked with him. He still well respected in Poland and France and many different governments protected him from prosecution. When US tried to detain him Polish government ignored the laws to shield him.
With Woody Allen I’m taking about him marrying his step daughter, not the unconfirmed allegations.
Yeah, he won an Oscar, and it was incredibly controversial, and it was one of the things that started the conversation that eventually led to the Me Too movement. For the first time, Hollywood women let their outrage be seen and heard, and that kind of mysogyny in Hollywood began to meet resistance.
Again, I would not say that Polanski has had “no issues” in his career. I don’t see Speilberg or Scorcese having to defend 50+ year old scandals literally every time their names are mentioned.
Me Too movement started after Harvey Weinstein scandal, over a decade after Polanski got his Oscar. I don’t remember any controversies around The Pianist. The wiki doesn’t mention anything. It got great reviews and got a lot of awards: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_accolades_received_by_…
You’re either making stuff up now or just misremembering it. Polanski is an admitted rapist. Of course he didn’t have same career as Spielberg or Scorsese but he wasn’t a pariah either. He worked all his life and was well respected in the industry. I don’t know, maybe you just want to believe that Polanski faced some consequences. He didn’t. He wasn’t punished. There was no justice there. He raped a child and lived a happy life after that.
An Oscar Out Of Reach For Polanski
Polanski’s nomination had triggered a spirited debate over whether it was appropriate to separate a person’s misdeeds from his art and award Hollywood’s highest filmmaking honor to someone facing a still-unresolved criminal case.
In 2017, he was forced to quit the jury for the French equivalent of the Oscars, and in 2018 he was expelled from the American Academy as well.
So there WAS much controversy about his Oscar, it did put Hollywood under a microscope leading to MeToo, and eventually led to expulsions, so he certainly did see major repercussions from his unresolved criminal behavior.
And it simply cannot be argued that it has indelibly stained his legacy.
I’m not making stuff up, or misremembering it, you are. And let this be a lesson in why your teachers don’t like to accept Wikipedia as a solid source.
This article only quotes District Attorney spokeswoman saying that he still fugitive. It doesn’t mention anyone actually opposing the award. According to the article even the victim didn’t oppose it. Saying that this placed Hollywood under microscope and lead to MeToo a decade later is pure fabrication on your part.
There’s really nothing to discuss here further. You’re convinced that Polanski could have been one of the greatest directors in Hollywood but because of the rape he’s only a great director. In you’re opinion that means he was punished.
I believe that the fact that he had a very successful career at all shows that he was mostly forgiven by the industry and the public.
It’s a matter of perspective, we’re not going to agree here.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
She wasn’t his step-daughter. He wasn’t married to Mia Farrow, and she wasn’t a biological daughter to Mia, either. Still gross, but technically, y’know?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
I’m just saying that many directors would kill to have a career like him and he admitted to rape. Could he achieve more if he didn’t rape a child and was allowed entry into US? Maybe but it’s really hard to argue he was punished by the industry.
Both him and Woddy simply show that some people can get away with things others can’t. Depends on the factors I mentioned.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
There is no doubt that his fame and talent bought him a LOT of sanctuary, but it definitely indelibly stained his legacy. We’ll never know how much more he could have achieved, but looking back, he would have been better off serving the couple of years in jail, and moved on with his life. He’d still have that old stain, but it would be mostly forgiven as a youthful slip, blame it on drugs, and the times, and it would be overlooked for the most part. But he would have been welcomed back to Hollywood, and would have have had full access to the Hollywood system.