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[rivka]

I've never seen a Roman Polanski movie.

And, you know, I'm glad. Because if there's some sort of magic crack in his films that strips people of any vestige of common decency, then I'm happy to have done without.

Kate Harding sums it up perfectly, as usual.

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[almeda.livejournal.com]

The only Polanski I've seen was his Romeo & Juliet, watched in high school (in the early 90s). The prof was trying to give us an 'exciting,' 'scandalous,' 'modern' production of the play, but all it did for me was confuse me, bercause (a) 60% of the cast were nigh-identical petite cute round-faced brunettes, and (b) the first scene is a masked ball.

I couldn't tell Romeo, Juliette, five of thier buddies, and TYBALT apart till 2/3 of the way through, and I'd READ the play at that point! There was a lot of sex, though, which mollified much of the class (without teaching them any Shakespeare).