LOS ANGELES — In a move widely praised by the entertainment industry for its remarkable bravery, the producers of the upcoming film “The Girl” announced this week that, for the very first time, they will depict the Roman Polanski rape scandal from the perspective of the actual 13-year-old victim, Samantha Geimer.

“We figured, after 47 years of exploring this story mainly through the lens of artistic genius, legal intrigue, and wistful nostalgia for 1970s France, maybe it was time to give the victim a line or two,” said executive producer Trent Foley, polishing his Lifetime Achievement Award for Artistic Reflection on Artistic Reflection. “We’re calling it ‘radical empathy,’ or as Harvey Weinstein used to say, ‘the girlfriend experience.’”

The choice to allow Geimer’s actual feelings to intrude upon an otherwise nostalgic narrative has sent shockwaves through Hollywood, with some insiders worried about the precedent it might set. “If we let victims tell their own stories, all sorts of unmarketable realities might leak onto the screen,” said film historian Elsa Draycott. “Studios could be forced to re-edit nearly every biopic. Where does it end?”

Lead screenwriter Baz Newport assured press that “The Girl” would maintain the time-honored balance of tasteful ambiguity and poignant soft focus. “We want to make Samantha’s inner world as palatable as possible for our core audience: people who collect Criterion DVDs but have never read a memoir by a woman.”

Sources say the film is already being hailed as “incredibly moving” by critics who haven’t seen it but assume it will “definitely be Oscar-bait.”