# Polanski...seriously **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-seriously/208615 "2003-10-21T00:55:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-seriously/208615/81 "2003-10-22T10:33:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*IIRC, (hey, it could happen), that wouldn’t be statutory rape. I seem to remember a standard of the alleged victim being under 18 and the alleged rapist more than 3 years her senior. Any ‘closeness in age’ clause is strickly state dependent. You remember correctly for most, but not all, states. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-seriously/208615/82 "2003-10-22T17:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > \*\* > _The Pianist_ soars! No only is it about survival; it is about the survival of talent itself. I can’t imagine a director choosing such a huge project unless it has enormous personal meaning for him. I just cannot look at that film and see a hardened person behind it. > \*\* So what you’re saying is the Pianist is an alegory for all child molestors to hide from the evil Nazis (decent people) who want to put them in camps (jail), because they can make play piano(make movies) really well. Nice to know after i rape you, i can just make a movie and you will forgive me. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-seriously/208615/83 "2003-10-22T19:18:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*Somebody help me out here. When we say ‘drugged’, do we mean he slipped her something or he ‘turned her on’ to some drugs? Because if it’s the former, than I’m ready to get on the bandwagon with y’all. If it’s the latter, I’ll still need a little convincing. \*\* Well, and again I’m going off of a six month old reading of the transcript on the smoking gun, but here’s the timeline as far as drugs are concerned. First off, let’s remember that this isn’t his girlfriend, this isn’t somebody who’s always had a crush on him, this is the daughter of an aquintance, and this is his first time he managed to be alone with her. He keeps her champaign glass full all day, which is a standard predatory trick used to keep a girl from remembering how much she’s been drinking. As the day turns into night, and she’s well and drunk he hands her a pill and tells her to try it. Speed, I think. Meanwhile, he was sober enough to ask, while in the act, if she was on birth control, and when she said she wasn’t he asked her when her last period was, and when she couldn’t remember he said not to worry, he’d just finish in the back. And he did. So the only thing he seemed to care about, as far as her feelings and things went, was to make sure she didn’t get pregnant. It’s clear to me that he was nothing more than a predator. -lv ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-seriously/208615/84 "2003-10-23T01:59:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ilsa\_Lund \* > \*\*There is no hell, only France? \*\* Well, Sartre did say that hell was other Frenchmen. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-seriously/208615/85 "2003-10-23T02:03:25Z")
It was a Quaalude, not speed. The rest is basically accurate. If you read the girl’s testimony it’ll creep you right out of your skin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polanski-seriously/208615.md?page=4)