Broken In Brief: Polanski shocked Los Angeles DA doesn’t remember how good Chinatown was

ZURICH—Today lawyers for Roman Polanski, the embattled Oscar winning auteur who fled the United States 31 years ago after raping a 13 year-old girl, took to the media to express the director’s confusion over his recent arrest and planned extradition back to America. According to his legal team Polanski seemed most confused over the fact that the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, which filed the detainment request with Swiss authorities, could be so unfamiliar with just how good the director’s 1974 masterpiece Chinatown was.

“Mr. Polanski is finding it a little hard to believe that Los Angeles law enforcement could be so unfamiliar with a heralded film about crime and intrigue in Los Angeles,” said Robert Mikkleson, head lawyer for Polanski. “In fact he’s beginning to suspect that they have heard of it, know how good it is, and still have chosen to drag up this little matter of my client being on the run from justice for three decades. May I also remind them that he directed Rosemary’s Baby as well as Knife in the Water, both of which were extraordinary films.”

Polanski’s lawyers were quick to point out that their client had already suffered enough, having been forced to live on his many estates in Europe while living the life of a multi-millionaire director, and being shamefully forced to have his Academy Awards shipped to his French villa because he was unable to show up to accept them.

Furthermore they feel that Polanski can’t be expected to go back and face a cruel and capricious California justice system that, while good enough to investigate, capture, prosecute, and imprison the Manson Family that murdered his wife, was not fit to judge him for the rape of a 13 year old that he had admitted to.

“All we’re saying is that he got a best director Oscar in 2002 for the Pianist,” said Mikkleson. “He still might have another one of those left in him. Do we really want to risk that with prison time?”