He held a press conference on June 15 and made an apology to the Turkish people. What is punishment? It seems to vary from time to time and place to place. What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow because society says it's so, and what's illegal yesterday is suddenly legal because everybody's doin' it, and you can't put everybody in jail. I'm not saying this is right or wrong. I'm just saying that's the way it is. That's me. Are you serious?
And I know who you are. I know that you are a bad machine. And do you know how I know that? I MAKE the machines! Midnight Express Wiki Explore.
Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Billy Hayes. Before his fourth flight home, Hayes watched passengers go through customs, as he always did.
Among the liberties Stone took with the script, Hayes never killed a guard. His actual escape — involving a stolen boat, miles of rowing, evading landmines and swimming across the Maritsa River into Greece — was far more adventurous. It also would have been far more expensive and time-consuming to film. He was weeks away from completing his month stint for possession when he was sentenced to life — later lowered to 30 years — for smuggling.
In the film, Hayes explodes, screaming at the judge that Turkey is a nation of pigs. Hayes and his story were among the toasts of the Cannes Film Festival, where he met Wendy West, his wife of 39 years. When the Academy Awards rolled around, the movie garnered six nominations, including best picture. Smith , was portrayed as a sadist. For his own legal protection, though, he was unable to speak about his other visits to Turkey for years.
Once the film entered the public conscience, the idea of landing in a Turkish prison became so frightening, many travelers assumed the best way to stay out of one was to stay out of Turkey altogether. In , Hayes began trying to revisit Turkey to make amends for the unintentional damage he inflicted. His visa was repeatedly rejected until, in , the Turkish National Police invited him to speak at a conference in Istanbul. I quickly realized, no one knows who the expletive William Hayes is.
Billy Hayes? Hayes has been involved in a couple of dozen theater projects, as an actor and director. Hayes and West relocated to Las Vegas in , right in the heart of touring the world with his show.
Some friends had moved here and liked it. After several decades, Hayes needed to get away from the stress of Los Angeles and its traffic. Undeterred by his arrest, Hayes remains a cannabis advocate. Still, he has high hopes for the CBD line. That nobody gives a expletive , that nobody remembers, nobody cares. In fact, they love this story. Hayes told reporters in Istanbul that he has been trying for years to correct these misperceptions in the media, but that his voice was drowned by the powerful images created by the film and its makers.
During his visit to Istanbul, Hayes also gave an interview to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, where he issued apologies to Turks for all the problems the film created and reiterated that many brutal scenes of mistreatment depicted in the movie did in fact not happen.
His remarks last week in Istanbul are not the first time that Hayes publicly regretted Midnight Express. It's 'Don't be an idiot like I was, and try to smuggle drugs.
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