Reply #44: I'll tell you one difference to me [View All]

[julialnyc]

First off the subject matters that both directors go after is quite different. Roman Polanski is outright dark and twisted in many movies and doesn't try to hide it. Anyone see Bitter Moon (and of course Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown,ect..)? I always connect his films with the sot of creepy character he is. Polanski has some female issues and it shows in his films (with adult women).......... but his films don't try to persuade people to think a certain way about a subject matter. And then there's the Pianist. A beautiful film which gave a very specific perspective (and one never shown before) to a piece of history which he lived through.

Then there's Mel. I actually loved Braveheart, but I don't know how accurate it is (I actually loved the love story the most). I don't know how accurate the story of the weak gay prince and his lover is-- but if that's not true it makes me wonder (and here's where I can see his comments left an impression with me).

The Passion of the Christ makes me have issues with Mel and not just for the film itself, but for the phenomenon that followed it. First off, I find it incredibly strange that all the conservative people that were flipping out about Janet Jackson's nipple,now wanted to take children on field trips to see this violent film. I feel that if he wanted the responsibility of bringing the last moments of of Jesus to the theater he could have entered the dialog that this was not an appropriate film for all.

Also, If Polanski started directing movies like Lolita it would make me uncomfortable.