December 27, 2023

"Gérard Depardieu is probably the greatest of all actors.... When people attack Gérard Depardieu in this way, they are attacking art... France owes him so much."

A quote from the letter described in "Gérard Depardieu: dozens of celebrities denounce ‘lynching’ of French actor/Signatories of open letter include Charlotte Rampling, Carole Bouquet, and former French first lady and singer Carla Bruni" (The Guardian)("Depardieu, who has made more than 200 films and television series, was charged with rape in 2020 and has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by more than a dozen women").

41 comments:

Temujin said...

If he was a great accountant, I doubt we'd see people standing in line to verbally come to his defense. Certainly the same actors praising Depardieu as one of their best would, if they even noticed it, ask for his head on a platter. As would other members of the accounting profession.

Only actors, athletes, and politicians seem to have variable standards. Depending, of course, on what their political stances are.

rhhardin said...

Things would be clearer between the sexes if rape were eliminated and changed to assault and battery. Just to eliminate mind-changing and its sisters, and also to suggest the need for an immediate police report.

Would improve women's credibility too.

rehajm said...

How French…

…I suspect Depardieu will always be targeted for choosing to very legally change his domicile from France to Belgium to avoid France’s immense failure of a wealth tax. People respond to incentives…

…in other news, brilliant communists running blue US cities and states invent new miracle wealth taxes to solve all of their problems. Half the nation rejoices…

Oso Negro said...

Un célèbre acteur français tente de séduire les femmes. Choquant.

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

That's similar to what COVID-creator and liar Anthony Fauci said: "When you attack me, you're attacking Science."

Dave Begley said...

It's French movies, Jake.

Gusty Winds said...

Bérénice Hamidi, a professor at the Lumière Lyon University

He is a great actor. I don't know what happened, but these attacks are so common now against anyone that opposes left wing globalism they are watered down. And having a man hating feminist university professor as an accusation advocate no longer offers credibility. It detracts from any credibility. Professorial pathos is now gone, and they killed it themselves.

(see Harvard, Penn, and MIT presidents - Elizabeth Warren too).

And the saddest irony here is how the left protects all the powerful Epstein clients. Senator Dick Durbin blocked Senator Marsha Blackburn efforts to subpoena and release the list. The FBI has it.

You'd figure these #metoo feminists would be screaming to see it. Expose those that abused and used young women. But...no interest...silence...and complete hypocrisy. Just like Clinton/Lewinsky.

rhhardin said...

A priori: Famous hot actor goes to bed with woman. He does not call back. Woman decides it was rape.

Roger Sweeny said...

There have been many times and places where certain people had special rights, e.g., a noble could rape his servants. Artists are today's nobles.

iowan2 said...

Thoughts of a wandering mind
Who cares
Roman Polanski has been deified by the entertainment sector. Ditto Woody Allen.
We just got through with Kevin Spacey. Cleared of all charges.
Trump found civilly liable when the accuser could never nail down the Year, not even trying to testify to specific date and time.
Rape is a capital crime. Start executing people.
False claims MUST be prosecuted and the accusers facing the sentences they sought for the accused.

In the time of traveling minstrels, Actors, entertainers etc., were almost exclusively prostitutes and homosexuals.

MadTownGuy said...

"J'accuse" lives.

Todd said...

Temujin said...

If he was a great accountant, I doubt we'd see people standing in line to verbally come to his defense. Certainly the same actors praising Depardieu as one of their best would, if they even noticed it, ask for his head on a platter.


As with most things today, it "depends". If he fights against the cultural forces of "all that is right and holy (but not religious holy - they don't believe in that)" then he (or she) is a pariah and dead to them. Those that support and cheer the left's catechisms will be protected. You can murder, rape, steal, be a pedeo, rape children and all is good. The left's "blue wall" is even harder to penetrate than that of the police.

cf said...

Depardieu fills his roles fully, magnificently, and he is a gorgeous man, very fuckable. No doubt he has a long line of ladies thrilled for his interest, and is even used to a bit of rebuff, flirt and kink.

So, comeon, innocent pure ladies, don't get upstairs alone with him. duh.

The Vault Dweller said...

Maybe we need to bring back chaperone culture to protect both women and men.

n.n said...

suggest the need for an immediate police report.

Would improve women's credibility too.


Rape is a criminal action, a violation of the individual and society. Women should report rape, to preserve their standing, for the safety of other women, and to improve the general welfare of society.

n.n said...

50 shades of Polanski and a common celebrity?, leftist?, liberal?, Uranus? culture. Take a knee, feminine gender. Just do it for social progress.

Big Mike said...

Depardieu Always struck me as the sort of male who expects every woman to fall all over him,and women being women there are no doubt plenty of young females prepared to respond positively to his attentions, and consequently he would feel empowered to come on strong to every attractive woman he sees. And so charges of sexual harassment will come up.

Charged of rape are less believable. I’m confident that a wealthy, famous actor can find plenty of willing bedpartners without resorting to coercion. The charges of rape are most likely feminist scum engaging in retroactive retraction of consent in order to collect a major scalp,. Something like the little slut who insisted that NFL football player Matt Araiza had participated in a gang rape of her at a party when he was a student at SDSU (he was not at the party at the time she pulled the train).

Quaestor said...

”…probably the greatest of all actors…”

Celebrities, they never fail to deliver the shit.

Forget about Gérard Depardieu. Who cares? If we’re going to lynch someone, let it be Charlotte Rampling for her long history of crimes against art, starting with Orca. (To those who have managed to expunge that 1977 assault on sanity from your memories, I tender my regrets for reminding you.)

Quaestor said...

”…probably the greatest of all actors…”

Celebrities, they never fail to deliver the shit.

Forget about Gérard Depardieu. Who cares? If we’re going to lynch someone, let it be Charlotte Rampling for her long history of crimes against art, starting with Orca. (To those who have managed to expunge that 1977 assault on sanity from your memories, I tender my regrets for reminding you.)

Oligonicella said...

If he's guilty, fuck him. Pun intended.

MadisonMan said...

was charged with rape in 2020 and has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by more than a dozen women
To be charged/accused is be found guilty, apparently.

Václav Patrik Šulik said...

It's been this way all my life. JFK could get away with sexual harassment, so could Bill Clinton (Nina Burleigh: “I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.”)

It's only when the elite don't like a guy that they employ this - see Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh.

Another old lawyer said...

The world was a better place when entertainers could only make money by performing live.

narciso said...

Well its roman law

He was pretty good in marseilles where he llayed a corrupt sarkozy type

narciso said...

How about her part in angel heart or the really ridiculous assassins creed (where the spaniards are evil and the arabs are the victims)

ALP said...

The Vault Dweller has a great idea - bring back the chaperone. The chaperone remains present until all sexual negotiations have concluded, and the tryst has been agreed on by both sides. They don't leave until both have signed the papers.

It's what I would do if I were an attractive, wealthy, famous man.

Iman said...

He’s French, what the fuck do they expect!?!?

Joe Smith said...

'If we’re going to lynch someone, let it be Charlotte Rampling for her long history of crimes against art, starting with Orca.'

She gets a pass...in her younger days she was crazy hot...

Joe Smith said...

'Depardieu fills his roles fully, magnificently, and he is a gorgeous man, very fuckable.'

I guess everyone has a type.

Resist doing a Google image search...

JaimeRoberto said...

He's French. Of course he's a sexual harasser.

loudogblog said...

This is a constant debate. Can you separate the art from the artist? I know many people who can't.

I think that in most cases you can.

I still like Woody Allen films, "particularly his earlier, funny ones."

I can still enjoy Jeffrey Jones in The Hunt for Red October.

I think Polanski was a great director.

The only one I have a real problem with is Stephen Collins in Star Trek, the Motion Picture. But I suspect that's because he was such a bad actor that I see Stephen Collins (the guy who had sexual fantasies about little girls) instead of the character that he was supposed to play.

lonejustice said...

I always thought he had a really big nose.

Rusty said...

I don't know why everyone is gettting is upset. We expect this of the French.
Chez ses asangu, oui?

Harun said...

Is he Belgian now? Russian? or UAE citizen?

Citizenship

Depardieu with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, 5 January 2013
Depardieu has been an official resident of Néchin, Belgium, since 7 December 2012.[83] French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault criticised his move.[84] On 15 December 2012, Depardieu publicly stated he was handing back his French passport.[85][86] On 3 January 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu.[87] In his first interview thereafter, Depardieu attacked Putin's critics for "lacking vision".[88] In his autobiography, Depardieu said Putin "immediately liked my hooligan side."[89] In February 2013, he registered as a resident of Saransk. Also in January 2013, he was appointed a cultural ambassador for Montenegro.[90] In the summer of 2015, Depardieu's films were banned from television and cinemas in Ukraine due to his remarks questioning Ukraine's right to exist as an independent state.[91] In February 2022, Depardieu revealed that he had become a citizen of the United Arab Emirates, although he did not specify when this occurred.[92] In March 2022, he condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and accused Russian President Putin of "crazy, unacceptable excesses".[93]

rehajm said...

Forget about Gérard Depardieu. Who cares? If we’re going to lynch someone, let it be Charlotte Rampling for her long history of crimes against art, starting with Orca. (To those who have managed to expunge that 1977 assault on sanity from your memories, I tender my regrets for reminding you.)

Let this stand for posterity as the proper way to gripe...

effinayright said...
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Rusty said...

Merde

rcocean said...

"Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu."

Thanks! I was wondering why the country that welcomed Roman Polanski, and defended Strauss-Kahn, would suddenly be concerned about sexual assault in its film industry.

Now, I have the answer.

Depardieu (or "D-pooh" to his friends) was pretty good in Last Metro, Hamlet, and Cyrano.

narciso said...

Ah carole bouquet thats the only bond tape i owned

effinayright said...

I bet les femmes let him grab them by the chatte.

Howard said...

Charlotte Rampling was out of this world in Zardoz. At least according to my then 14-yo tastes.