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1st October, 2009

CAMERAS – ACTION – STOP!

The Times says that completion of the film ‘The Ghost’ is in jeopardy after Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland.

I have to admit to being surprised that none of Polanski’s supporters has so far raised this as a possible outcome, since many of them must be thinking it, as well as ruminating on the possibility of some kind of conspiracy to put a STOP to the film.

Robert Harris, "The Ghost" writer. His thinly disguised portrait of former PM Tony Blair raised eyebrows and questions of disloyalty. Now he supports Polanski, the arrested director who is filming "The Ghost".

Earlier tonight I added my thoughts on this at the Huffington Post in an Andy Ostroy article referring critically to Robert Harris’s New York Times article.

BlairSupporter:

Harris’s “Why now” question typifies his thinking. He is a conspirator of the first order, exemplified by his book and Polanski’s present film “The Ghost”. This, for those who do not yet know, is about a former British prime minister who loses his popularity following an “illegal war”, in the end losing his life at the hands of the irate father of a dead soldier. The PM bears a striking resemblance to a certain Tony Blair. In fact, it IS meant to be all about said former PM.

So, if I were a conspiracy theorist, which I am decidedly NOT, and I were asking “cui bono” in Harris’s voice, I might be wondering if anyone had any interest in stopping the production and distribution of this film.

NOT because many of the maladjusted in this world might see this film as a green flag to encourage them to administer their own form of “justice” as a result of believing its nonsense, although that is important. NOR because the Iraq war Inquiry has just started in Britain, although that may be significant too. NOR because of any secrets (and lies) that may be spread and believed, such as that the wife of the former PM is outed as an American spy. (This fantastical “disclosure” is not known by the main character until moments before he is blown to smithereens.) NOR even because of the book’s/film’s criticisms of the US/British relationship and their secret services, or of any real or imagined disclosures.

But if I had a conspiratorial mindset, I might be asking this:

Disregarding for a moment the pursuit of a convicted fugitive, who or what benefits by the discontinuation of the production of this film? And the answer is NOT an American judge, or the victim (who has already sued Polanski), or Tony Blair (who may soon be the president of the EU), or freedom of poetic licence.

Who or what benefits by putting a stop to this film is clear to me – free, but responsible expression.

The enemies of free expression often find it hard to separate fact from fiction, and sadly they run amongst us even here in the “informed” west.

Until we all learn responsibility in tandem with populist, money-making rights in our free expression society, make sure your sins, movie-makers, are little ones.

Just as well I am not a conspiracy theorist.

Apart from all that meandering, Polanski is a convicted paedophile.

You’d think even Harris would “get” this.

Pics: 1976 – Roman Polanski aged 43, Samantha Geimer aged 13.

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Tags: Andy Ostroy, BlairSupporter, huffington post, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski arrest, The Ghost, Tony Blair