Recently it has come out that Coppola has inappropriately touched and kissed extras without their consent on the set of his latest film. This is obviously reason enough not to support the film, but if you know anything about Coppola's history with abusers, this should come as no surprise.
In 1989, Francis Ford Coppola's protégé, Victor Salva, sexually assaulted a child actor, a 12 year-old named Nathan Forrest Winters, on the set of a film that Coppola produced.
Coppola defended and protected Salva, hooked him up with expensive lawyers, resulting in a reduced prison sentence of only 15 months, most of which was spent in a cushy rehabilitation center for sex criminals. Coppola remained friends with Salva and visited him in jail. After his release, Salva returned to Hollywood with the help of Coppola, who would continue to produce several of his films.
After Salva's arrest, Winters was forced to complete ADR on the film he was abused on, in Coppola's own home. Coppola, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in Hollywood, threatened to sue 12 year-old Winters for breach of contract for trying to leave the project. Coppola told Winters he'd never work in Hollywood again, and he didn't.
In 2006, Coppola said,
"You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small — Victor was practically a child himself."
Salva was 29 at the time while Winters was 12. In fact, Salva had been grooming and sexually abusing Winters from the age of 6.
To hear Winters tell his story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M9ATFAYsEk
Once again, forever and always, I say fuck the "separate art from artist" treat defense especially when it comes to child predator shit.
absolutely. supporting their art literally gives these predators the resources with which they abuse people with
I've spoken up about the "separate art from artist" thing before on here before. It's something I studied in critical analysis classes. But that's for analyzing works.
If at any point I misunderstood a conversation, and it was actually about using the idea for treat defense, I just want to be clear that it would have been a mistake. I boycott media left, right, and center and encourage others to do the same.
Sorry, that's kind of tangential - it just didn't occur to me that people use it that way and I wanted to put it out there lol
Yeah even though Godfather is hall of fame I never heard of these allegations. 15 months only wtf
it seems very few people know about this, especially the degree to which Coppola was involved. it's been largely swept under the rug. incredibly jokerfying to learn about
And I thought the clapping for Polanski was crazy. This guy was on this shit the entire time