Even though the movie was great - When I try to watch this video all I can picture when Polanski talks is him anally raping that 13 year old girl. Kinda wrecks it for me.
Rosemary's Baby is based on truth- Hollywood was then and is now filled with child-abusing, Satan-worshipers. Sharon Tate wanted out of the Satanic Cult and she was chosen as the next sacrifice--look into it.
At one point, I related very heavily to rosemary's baby. I was born with dark hair over the hands, back, etc., clubbed fingers and have lived a very strange life. I'm 21 now and am working on a short story entitled child of rosemary.
LOVE this film. I cannot see it enough times!!! :) I have seen it about ... oh, 50 times already and each time I see it, something else reveals itself about the film, the background, the script, the gaffes (lol), etc.
I don't know why, but I've always imagined the Rosemary character as played by Mary Tyler Moore (don't laugh please). Even today, when I re-read the novel, that's who I see, even after having seen the movie countless times and loving it with Mia Farrow. I don't know (we'll never know) what Moore could've done with that part, but I would've like to have seen her interpretation. No one in 1967-68 probably would even have considered her for it, but I think it would have been fascinating.
@onlythreelittlepigs Well according to the psychiatric evaluation while he was doing his time, it states crystal clearly that he is medically certified to be completely normal. Polanski plead guilty to Unlawful Intercourse, there's a big difference. Also on the medical examination of the girl, it showed no trace of penetration let alone forceful penetration. I've seen the reports the whole case against him was a clusterfuck from day one.
Repulsion & Rosemary's Baby were remarkable psychological horror films. Polanski started off wonderfully in his career! It's interesting how you can connect both Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby by the theme of isolation, apartment living & fragile women in trouble. The Vampire Killers was a piece of garbage though. Anyways, I'm glad they had Polanski directing, not William Castle who would have made it cheap & campy, not darkly disturbing & psychological as with Polanski's signature theme.
Definitely one of the best movies ever. I hate when people say "it wasn't scary, blahblah, why didn't they show the baby?" It's not a friggin' slasher movie; it's a suspense film. And it's the kind of movie that gets better w/ repeated views. So interesting to go back and see how all the manipulation on Roman and Minnie's part began, and then to see Guy start conning her. Also, one of the best closing scenes to a movie, ever. "What have you done to it, you MANIACS??!!!"
@Salvac88 It also make me nostalgic for New York City the way it used to be. Great great movie I had an aunt just like Minnie, excellent movie, always will be.
Talk about perfect casting,excellent novel to begin with and imaginative producers(that's a feat in itself!) then add a superb Director and you get a brilliant piece of theatre. It was like...magic?
Ah, when movies were actually good! I highly doubt that we'll have retrospective interviews in the next 30 years about the trash the studios put out today. 70's horror films are the best!
It's funny how Cassavette is supposed to be known for his cinema verite stuff yet he was so great at playing movie villains. He was good in Fury too. He just have those eyes that grab your soul by the throat. He comes off as this attactive man, pillar of society who can make a left turn and screw you. Sort of like the anti-Michael Douglas.
I have always feared the movie since first watching it as a child. After watching it years later as an adult, it's just gets me that people who you think are your loved as the husband would sale you to witches then your neighbors who you take to your be concerned for our unborn child are the witches who want you only to bring to term the son of the devil. Ugh!!! disgusting. If I was a woman this would keep me up for hours after watching it.
@chotzrary yeah and worst part is that they try to maker her think she is paranoid...i think that when you watch certain movies again as adult it can be more disturbing than when you were a child since you can really understand things
1, Looks, Looks Looks , casts are chosen based on looks rather on anything else , awards, career , institute, teachers, talent or anything else is secondary
i was just about to say the same thing i absolutely agree .iv ben siting here thinking to myself . am i the only person that finds this strange that about this movie being about some satanic-like ritual his wife had his baby riped out of her that is creepy i dont think it was a conicidence
does anyone find it a conicidence that after Polanski made Rosemary's Baby, a somwhat satanic film, his wife was butchered in what could be deemed a satanic-like ritual? the parallels are creepy.
I agree with the coincidences in the movie and in life. It is creepy that Polanski's first child was killed by demon-type people and Rosemary's first child was taken away by witches. As well, when the young girl Theresa commits suicide and jumps out a window in the movie, and there is a pool of blood on the sidewalk, John Lennon was killed right there in 1980. And Rosemary and Guy lived on the 7th floor in the movie - didn't Lennon as well? (If I am not mistaken) too many weird parallels.
Mia Farrow is just perfect for this character, so frail, delicate and insecure. One of the actresses considered for this part was Jane Fonda but she would've been miscast. Jane looks so strong-willed and brave that she would just kick John Cassavetes, the annoying neighbours, and the devil itself right in the ass!
Robert Redford would have been a much better husband for Rosemary. The one who was cast is so hideous and repulsive, he's repellent from the beginning. Redford would have been more interesting in his transformation from nice boy to evil conspirator.
Well thats the whole point, at the suggestion that his hot young wife be raped by Lucifer,bear his spawn,and have another actor BLINDED so he could get his job, Redford would have beat the living shit out of Marcato and his wife for good measure. The Satanist saw what a piece of shit Guy was from birth and knew he 'd do anything they suggested. Cass was perfect for the part, people r who they are, 'transformations' are VERY rare,especially from good to bad, and they dont happen at a 2hr dinner.
Oh, I see EXACTLY. Evil seeping in where the vulnerabilities are...
You're right. This guy helps make the whole thing so repellent. And Redford would have been too big for the role...throwing everything out of balance.
One of the greatest movies ever. No matter what Roman Polanski has done wrong in life....it can not be denied that he is a visual genius and one of the greatest directors ever;
Yeah but all the genius in the world doesnt save you from being a moral dwarf, or excuse you from wrongdoing, if anything it takes away from your gifts.
Interestingly enough there is a book out there with the theme that John Lennon sold his soul to the devil for worldly glory and that he got twenty years of success(1960-1980). I dont believe it but it does tie in nicely with the Dakota/Bramford. Lennon himself probably started the soul/devil rumor to add to his mystique and he certainly had otherworldly,mysterious talent.
Nope , Icke´s research is not basically lifted from Jordan Maxwell´s work , he derives his conclusion from a wide variety of sources and not just one man.
Great film, I love how Polanski didnt show the audience the baby's face. We catch a mental glimpse from Rosemary's sight of him, but an unseen psychological scene like that is a great mechanism. William Fraker's cinematography gives the "secret" hallway a nice "gateway to Hell" tone. The paintings in that hallway were weird and eerie.
I wasnt referring to Rosemary's Baby, i was actually referring to the murderers of Polanski's wife Sharon Tate, the manson children. There were 3 of them. Two girls and one guy. I said their crazy mentality and horrendous acts they committed together were probably the inspiration to the film The Strangers. Read the comments :)
I think all the people collaborating together against the wife in this movie are shapeshifters. The Perfect example was the scene where the group gathers around her on the bed, the husband shapeshifts and inpregnates her creating a half breed. This movie portrays exactly what DAVID ICKE is talking about.
maybe you should read the book... no shapeshifters, just satan. and no offense, honestly, but david icke is freakin' insane. i'm open to alot of ideas, but he is just so far gone it's pathetic... yes, i've done my homework.
I've seen icke at brixton and his research is basically lifted from Jordan Maxwell's work... which has strong connotations... but the lizard stuff was a joke... i'll believe it when I see it ...
Yes, however when they mentioned Robert Redford I was picturing him in that roll and thinking how perfect it would be because of his image as the handsome hero. It would have added an extra seeming contradiction; paradox to the whole scheme of the film. But Cassavetes was awesome in this film, no doubt.
Hi, no, what I mean is to have an actor who usually plays the hero all of a sudden play an evil character that would have added to the part... but now that I'm thinking about it again maybe that would be too much. Polanski used the old folks well in this film to set up the feeling of evil hidden under a veil of "good".
(Part 1 of 2) Very entertaining and interesting documentary about a truly frightful horror film that still stands as fresh/innovative/scary as it did in 1968. Sylbert and Evans provide excellent detailed and intellectual thought regarding the beginnings of this classic. Polanski is a very talented and gifted director, capable of evoking a real 'claustrophic' mood and tone with his settings, plot and characters (which made this movie the hit it was). The whole cast involved was incredible.
Good way to put it, tummielvr, thx. "Rosemary's Baby" is part of what many refer to as 'The Apartment Triology' which includes "Repulsion" & "The Tenant". All these titles, directed masterfully at a haunting vivid pace, represent the director's trademark style of slow tension building amongst characters feeling trapped/isolated in an apartment setting with unseen evils threatening them that may or may not be real. Once the scares unfold, you never forget them. He definitely uses the camera well.
I absolutely love the idea that Polanski used the exteriors of The Dakota Apartments for this film classic. Interior filming is not permitted within The Dakota Apartments...but who cares,because it is the exterior that is well-known as a national landmark treaure,and I must concur,an essential character in the film,to boot.
Thanks for your comment. I agree with you that using the Dakota was a clever and effective strategy to enhance the eerieness and horror of the story itself.
Makes sense (because of history as well as protecting residents' privacies) that filming inside the Dakota would be restricted.
Yes, as many have suggested & noticed, the Dakota (like the Overlook Hotel in 'The Shining') is a character of crucial value. Makes it all the more real.
BAD RONALD!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH....I'VE BEEN THINKING OF THE NAME OF THE MOVIE I USED TO SEE ON TV YEARS AGO...(the kid lived under the basement or something right)? OMG.....THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH!!!!!!
yeah it's pretty hard to find... i found a copy online and paid 10 dollars for it i think. it was a dvd rip off of an old vhs copy. pretty good made for tv movie... but not as dramatic as we all remember it. he lived in a secret room. the book is much much better and equally hard to find.
close encounters of the third grade; polanksi, the convicted child molester,has no shame. figures he'd later make a movie involving incest (chinatown).
Actually Chinatown cane out before he molested that girl. He molested the girl in 1877 and Chinatown came out in 1974. However your point about Polanski having no shame is very good point. He's a very immoral man. When he was married to Sharon Tate he was about as blatantly unfaithful as a man can be. You should here him explain his logic. You'd have a hard time believing that someone can actually reason the way he does. And let's not forget that the French are very immoral.
polanski was in court a couple years ago to sue vanity fair magazine for slander; the magazine wrote that polanksi cheated on sharon tate; polanksi went to court, and won---though he had to give his testamony on tv from france, cause the court case for slander took place in england, where he could have been sent back to usa for child molestation case. (and his underage love natasha kinski regrets all her underage sex with adults like polanksi, who wrote about their affair in his autobiography)
dzanier, he was born in France. That doesn't make him French. He is Polish. Whatever your misgivings of the French may be, don't flame with clumsy inaccuracy. Do your homework.
You are right. He is not French. He was simply born in France. Point taken. I knew that but I was really trying to say that his attitudes and perceptions of right and wrong could have been influenced by his French experience.
Hes not french you fucking twat!- He's a Holocaust survivor from Eastern Europe-Not western Europe. Have you ever read a book? promise theyre just wonderful. Shit. you might even learn something
I know he's not French but he's lived there for over 30 years now and spent lots of time there as a youth. As such it's not a stretch to say he's acquired some of the laisse-fair casual attitudes towards sex and immorality that are typical of the French in my opinion. And yes you fucktard, I know he was a holocaust survivor, and his Mom died in a camp.
We American's have that very laisse-fair attitude toward sex just as much-we don't indulge in anything they don't or amore than the French-and vice versa; we put on fronts and engage in behavior we 'believe' is wrong,then go into therapy and blame in on a rotten childhood or some shit.They don't do anything we don't do,they're probably just upfront about it and act like ADULTS and take responsibility as adults.I respect that more than American hypocrisy we're famous for.
Nothing against Redford, who was a great actor, but Guy Woodhouse was such a scheming sociopathic asshole, and Cassevetes depicted this perfectly. It's hard to imagine Redford...or ANYONE ELSE...capturing this as perfectly as Cassevetes did.
Truth to tell, I didn't like John Cassavetes for the first part of the movie. Is all that chuckling he was doing in the first part of the movie John or just the character?
the scene looking down where the ladie was laying in her blood after her fall is the spot where john lennon was murderd.john and yoko stopped off at the dakota to see the baby before going to a late dinner.yoko mentions herself and john as a wizard and a witch. hmmm nobody told me there would be days like these.
I think he is a pervert. But, damn, I love Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion and The Tenant. While I don't like "supporting" him by watching his movies, I just cannot resist them.
I think Polanski was a brilliant director who crafted one of the most terrifying movies of all time, personal misdeeds aside. Still, what he did freaks me out, because that girl was my age. She could have been one of my friends.
13...big deal...muhammed the 'prophet' of islam married his last wife when she was 6 years old and he was in his 50's...and he deflowered her when she was 9...so polanski and jerry lee practically married old biddy's compared to muhammed...ha ha ha ....
Durcetcurval-U put yourself in that group of people who enable perverts in their perversion with no consequence, they go on to abuse again. Polanski is/was a pervert. Possesing talent for making movies doesn't mean he gets a free pass as a rapist..
Just how old was the girl? If she was post-pubescent, besides America's puritanical streak, what's the crime? In a lot of countries around the world, women marry when they are very young: 12, 13, etc. It is a cultural norm in America that having sex with someone under 18 is illegal. It's just one culture against another, which has no real ultimate right or wrong. Again: Was the woman post-pubescent?
The girl was 13. Roman Polanski is originally from Poland. Nowhere in Europe is it okay to have sex with a 13-year-old. It is NOT a cultural thing. In the countries where women marry that young, they are usually sold off as child brides because their families can't afford to raise them. It is an artist thinking he was above the law and doing something incredibly stupid that ruined his career.
Well shit, mely, what about Jery Lee Lewis marrying a 13-year old? That occurred in America. I wasn't being specific about a given country in my comment. Artists always flout the law or, at least, play around the edges of it. If we all followed every law to the letter, what a boring goddamned world it would be. Even the goddamned people who make the laws flout them. Interesting to contemplate what is behind the reason for such age-limit laws.
varriboy: FYI~ E brought Pris to US with her parents consent. A guardian and Catholic educ. were prov. & he married her. Comparing P's intentions toward his victim, to E is ludicrous. Polanski ran like a coward to avoid punishment for his crime. A safer world ranks higher in my book than a movie....
You know I JUST CANT GET OVER WHAT A PERVERT ROMAN POLANSKI IS AND I AM GLAD THEY LIKE HIM IN EUROPE!! WHAT A PIG! COME TO THINK OF IT SO IS Mia FERROH EX HUSBAND THE ONE THAT MARRIED HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER! HOW GROSS IS THAT? GROSS!
ACTUALLY the STARS ARE PRODUCTS OF EUGENICS and their BIRTH IS ONLY FOR SLAVERY! Now both Mia AND her MOTHER ARE EUGENICS! THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING EGGS IN IRELAND FOR CENTURIES! I PROMISE! Its ALL A BIG LIE! The AMERICAN DREAM I MEAN! Believe me DO SOME DNA TESTS ON THE STARS THEY ALL SHARE THE SAME FATHER!
If it's a secret, how did you hear of it? And who are "they"? BTW- no need to keep your caps on- its the Net equivalent of screaming, and toally unnecessary.
No its NECESSARY! I dont care about SEMANTICS ANYHOW! THEY ARE THE GROUP THAT CONTROL people! THEY CONTROL THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD! THEY CONTROL THE CIA! THEY CONTROL THE FREE PRESS! YOU NAME IT THEY CONTROL IT! THE CHARITIES! ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE KKK TO THE BLACK PANTHERS! EVERYONE ANSWERS TO THE THEY!
I think his direction is ok, but what makes the film is the writing & the performances. Mia Farrrow is just perfect.
JBinOtown 1 month ago
Even though the movie was great - When I try to watch this video all I can picture when Polanski talks is him anally raping that 13 year old girl. Kinda wrecks it for me.
Rosemary's Baby is based on truth- Hollywood was then and is now filled with child-abusing, Satan-worshipers. Sharon Tate wanted out of the Satanic Cult and she was chosen as the next sacrifice--look into it.
Mr23Riddles 1 month ago
At one point, I related very heavily to rosemary's baby. I was born with dark hair over the hands, back, etc., clubbed fingers and have lived a very strange life. I'm 21 now and am working on a short story entitled child of rosemary.
irenecaffeineable 2 months ago
LOVE this film. I cannot see it enough times!!! :) I have seen it about ... oh, 50 times already and each time I see it, something else reveals itself about the film, the background, the script, the gaffes (lol), etc.
GimmeKitty 2 months ago
I don't know why, but I've always imagined the Rosemary character as played by Mary Tyler Moore (don't laugh please). Even today, when I re-read the novel, that's who I see, even after having seen the movie countless times and loving it with Mia Farrow. I don't know (we'll never know) what Moore could've done with that part, but I would've like to have seen her interpretation. No one in 1967-68 probably would even have considered her for it, but I think it would have been fascinating.
jerico641 4 months ago in playlist Rosemary's Baby
ROMAN POLANSKI IS A PEDOPHILE! nO QUESTION ABOUT IT!
onlythreelittlepigs 6 months ago
@onlythreelittlepigs Well according to the psychiatric evaluation while he was doing his time, it states crystal clearly that he is medically certified to be completely normal. Polanski plead guilty to Unlawful Intercourse, there's a big difference. Also on the medical examination of the girl, it showed no trace of penetration let alone forceful penetration. I've seen the reports the whole case against him was a clusterfuck from day one.
sspdirect02 4 months ago
Sandy Dennis could have replaced Mia Farrow.
They both have the save voice.
It's ALL about the voice.
frickadele 8 months ago in playlist Roman Polanski
Who isn't a Satanist in unhollywood?
frickadele 8 months ago in playlist Roman Polanski
Repulsion & Rosemary's Baby were remarkable psychological horror films. Polanski started off wonderfully in his career! It's interesting how you can connect both Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby by the theme of isolation, apartment living & fragile women in trouble. The Vampire Killers was a piece of garbage though. Anyways, I'm glad they had Polanski directing, not William Castle who would have made it cheap & campy, not darkly disturbing & psychological as with Polanski's signature theme.
TheAmericanEvita 11 months ago
Definitely one of the best movies ever. I hate when people say "it wasn't scary, blahblah, why didn't they show the baby?" It's not a friggin' slasher movie; it's a suspense film. And it's the kind of movie that gets better w/ repeated views. So interesting to go back and see how all the manipulation on Roman and Minnie's part began, and then to see Guy start conning her. Also, one of the best closing scenes to a movie, ever. "What have you done to it, you MANIACS??!!!"
MckyMseNTarotCrds 1 year ago
I always wanted to know what the baby looked like.
freefalln329 1 year ago 3
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Salvac88 1 year ago
@Salvac88 It also make me nostalgic for New York City the way it used to be. Great great movie I had an aunt just like Minnie, excellent movie, always will be.
freefalln329 1 year ago
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Well, if you had an Aunt like Minnie, I hope you kept a close eye on her lol!
jerico641 4 months ago in playlist Rosemary's Baby
Talk about perfect casting,excellent novel to begin with and imaginative producers(that's a feat in itself!) then add a superb Director and you get a brilliant piece of theatre. It was like...magic?
mxylpx 1 year ago
Ah, when movies were actually good! I highly doubt that we'll have retrospective interviews in the next 30 years about the trash the studios put out today. 70's horror films are the best!
lynnie1483 1 year ago
@lynnie1483
I assure you that people were saying the same thing thirty years ago.
phlashba 1 year ago
It's funny how Cassavette is supposed to be known for his cinema verite stuff yet he was so great at playing movie villains. He was good in Fury too. He just have those eyes that grab your soul by the throat. He comes off as this attactive man, pillar of society who can make a left turn and screw you. Sort of like the anti-Michael Douglas.
skinwalkerxxx 1 year ago
excellent movie...and excellent retrospective. thanks for one of the most groundbreaking movies ever.
neguys 1 year ago
I LOVE Ruth Gordon. She rocks.
RandiSierra 1 year ago
I have always feared the movie since first watching it as a child. After watching it years later as an adult, it's just gets me that people who you think are your loved as the husband would sale you to witches then your neighbors who you take to your be concerned for our unborn child are the witches who want you only to bring to term the son of the devil. Ugh!!! disgusting. If I was a woman this would keep me up for hours after watching it.
chotzrary 1 year ago
@chotzrary yeah and worst part is that they try to maker her think she is paranoid...i think that when you watch certain movies again as adult it can be more disturbing than when you were a child since you can really understand things
bilfamily 1 year ago
Ruth Gordon was perfect in this. Rosemary's baby could so easily have been a cheap horror film. Ruth Gordon made the movie great.
nvmarcus 1 year ago
This movie sounds like an anime...but I think its just me.
XXshatteredXX1 1 year ago
2 things ,
1, Looks, Looks Looks , casts are chosen based on looks rather on anything else , awards, career , institute, teachers, talent or anything else is secondary
2, 34yo today is young , not like 30 yrs ago
jjbarbados 2 years ago
don't put john lennon in that class,he got what was coming to him.I have no pity for John Lennon.
outlawwolf621 2 years ago
????? what did he do ???
snaed27 2 years ago
@outlawwolf621 tell that to Yoko! lol
tyjeffries 2 years ago
@outlawwolf621 What did he do, I wonder?
marcolopolis55 1 year ago
The similarity between "Castevet" and John Cassavetes' surname always made me a little uneasy.
reversereverie 2 years ago
I have wondered that too.
rhomis 2 years ago
@reversereverie they are in league with Satan obviously! lol
tyjeffries 2 years ago
Incredible casting.
standupstella 2 years ago 2
i was just about to say the same thing i absolutely agree .iv ben siting here thinking to myself . am i the only person that finds this strange that about this movie being about some satanic-like ritual his wife had his baby riped out of her that is creepy i dont think it was a conicidence
demolishionhammer 2 years ago
does anyone find it a conicidence that after Polanski made Rosemary's Baby, a somwhat satanic film, his wife was butchered in what could be deemed a satanic-like ritual? the parallels are creepy.
shomakhang 2 years ago
are there any interviews about those coincidences?
cherrykitten68 2 years ago
I've heard that too many times to count. All of his previous films had very dark themes.
After Rosemary's Baby, he made his own version of MacBeth, which had several bloodbath scenes.
MondoBeno 2 years ago
I agree with the coincidences in the movie and in life. It is creepy that Polanski's first child was killed by demon-type people and Rosemary's first child was taken away by witches. As well, when the young girl Theresa commits suicide and jumps out a window in the movie, and there is a pool of blood on the sidewalk, John Lennon was killed right there in 1980. And Rosemary and Guy lived on the 7th floor in the movie - didn't Lennon as well? (If I am not mistaken) too many weird parallels.
goldengirl67 2 years ago
I am suprised SHARON TATE didn't get the part of MIA.
Valapaca 2 years ago
Mia Farrow is just perfect for this character, so frail, delicate and insecure. One of the actresses considered for this part was Jane Fonda but she would've been miscast. Jane looks so strong-willed and brave that she would just kick John Cassavetes, the annoying neighbours, and the devil itself right in the ass!
cristianasilveira 2 years ago
Robert Redford would have been a much better husband for Rosemary. The one who was cast is so hideous and repulsive, he's repellent from the beginning. Redford would have been more interesting in his transformation from nice boy to evil conspirator.
megaswenson 2 years ago
Well thats the whole point, at the suggestion that his hot young wife be raped by Lucifer,bear his spawn,and have another actor BLINDED so he could get his job, Redford would have beat the living shit out of Marcato and his wife for good measure. The Satanist saw what a piece of shit Guy was from birth and knew he 'd do anything they suggested. Cass was perfect for the part, people r who they are, 'transformations' are VERY rare,especially from good to bad, and they dont happen at a 2hr dinner.
hillbby 2 years ago
Oh, I see EXACTLY. Evil seeping in where the vulnerabilities are...
You're right. This guy helps make the whole thing so repellent. And Redford would have been too big for the role...throwing everything out of balance.
megaswenson 2 years ago
that's John Cassavetes...you think he's hideous and repulsive?
kenrubes 2 years ago
Yes. Total troll. Nasty looking.
megaswenson 2 years ago
yeah and the baby is die with the mom!!
its real not in the movie
scary
masturah3 2 years ago
One of the greatest movies ever. No matter what Roman Polanski has done wrong in life....it can not be denied that he is a visual genius and one of the greatest directors ever;
mysticalwind72 2 years ago 33
Yeah but all the genius in the world doesnt save you from being a moral dwarf, or excuse you from wrongdoing, if anything it takes away from your gifts.
hillbby 2 years ago 2
@mysticalwind72 Yes, he's a great director, and his work speaks for itself.
GimmeKitty 1 year ago
lucky! I remember that and loved it! Someone put it up on the internet and I look forward to watching it! Thanks!
SHRINA17 2 years ago
the apartment they lived in was beautiful
Muffy2314 3 years ago 2
it was in the Dakota,the same apartments that John Lennon lived in(and was murdered in front of the building).
tomloft2000 2 years ago 2
Interestingly enough there is a book out there with the theme that John Lennon sold his soul to the devil for worldly glory and that he got twenty years of success(1960-1980). I dont believe it but it does tie in nicely with the Dakota/Bramford. Lennon himself probably started the soul/devil rumor to add to his mystique and he certainly had otherworldly,mysterious talent.
hillbby 2 years ago
Nope , Icke´s research is not basically lifted from Jordan Maxwell´s work , he derives his conclusion from a wide variety of sources and not just one man.
Thingvellir,
Yatukih001 3 years ago
Great film, I love how Polanski didnt show the audience the baby's face. We catch a mental glimpse from Rosemary's sight of him, but an unseen psychological scene like that is a great mechanism. William Fraker's cinematography gives the "secret" hallway a nice "gateway to Hell" tone. The paintings in that hallway were weird and eerie.
TemplarReturns 3 years ago 15
@TemplarReturns yes,i'ts true...and that's the most distubing scene in the film since Mia Farrows face says it all
bilfamily 1 year ago
And then after Polanski made this movie, his wife, Sharon Tate, ended up getting murdered by Charles Mansons' stooges!
Elizabeththegreatest 3 years ago
Crazy fucks they were.
TemplarReturns 3 years ago
Oh yeah, you bet they were crazy fucks!
Elizabeththegreatest 3 years ago
A most likely inspiration for The Strangers film.
TemplarReturns 3 years ago
Why do you think that? If we are thinking of the same movie, The Strangers was nothing like Rosemary's Baby.
maclasch 2 years ago
I wasnt referring to Rosemary's Baby, i was actually referring to the murderers of Polanski's wife Sharon Tate, the manson children. There were 3 of them. Two girls and one guy. I said their crazy mentality and horrendous acts they committed together were probably the inspiration to the film The Strangers. Read the comments :)
TemplarReturns 2 years ago
That's my bad then. :)
maclasch 2 years ago
No worries.
TemplarReturns 2 years ago
did theu make a movie about the Manson murders!!!
bbbm65 2 years ago
Not directly, the movie was inspired by them. The manson children consisted of two girls and one guy, just like the Strangers.
TemplarReturns 2 years ago
oh ok thanks!! Yea Strangers scared the crap out of me!!
bbbm65 2 years ago
Its also ironic that Sharon was pregnant at the time.
911reaper 2 years ago 3
Yes, that's what made her murder so tragic ,because she was about to have a child and both her life and the child's life were ruthlessly shortened!
Elizabeththegreatest 2 years ago
great stuff. thanks.
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22blondy409 3 years ago
I think all the people collaborating together against the wife in this movie are shapeshifters. The Perfect example was the scene where the group gathers around her on the bed, the husband shapeshifts and inpregnates her creating a half breed. This movie portrays exactly what DAVID ICKE is talking about.
slumsattack 3 years ago
maybe you should read the book... no shapeshifters, just satan. and no offense, honestly, but david icke is freakin' insane. i'm open to alot of ideas, but he is just so far gone it's pathetic... yes, i've done my homework.
deadline27 3 years ago
I've seen icke at brixton and his research is basically lifted from Jordan Maxwell's work... which has strong connotations... but the lizard stuff was a joke... i'll believe it when I see it ...
bongolicious 3 years ago
he's polish
bettyee 3 years ago
Polanski wanted Tuesday Weld who refused---STUPID
jackeats7 3 years ago
having someone else play Cassavetes part would be akin to finding another actor to play #11 in The Dirty Dozen.
tomloft2000 3 years ago
Yes, however when they mentioned Robert Redford I was picturing him in that roll and thinking how perfect it would be because of his image as the handsome hero. It would have added an extra seeming contradiction; paradox to the whole scheme of the film. But Cassavetes was awesome in this film, no doubt.
blabadiblabla 3 years ago
But if Robert Redford was seen as a hero, he wouldn't have been good for the role. There was no hero in Rosemary's Baby
tummielvr 3 years ago
Hi, no, what I mean is to have an actor who usually plays the hero all of a sudden play an evil character that would have added to the part... but now that I'm thinking about it again maybe that would be too much. Polanski used the old folks well in this film to set up the feeling of evil hidden under a veil of "good".
blabadiblabla 3 years ago
lovely!
neshamah08 3 years ago
(Part 1 of 2) Very entertaining and interesting documentary about a truly frightful horror film that still stands as fresh/innovative/scary as it did in 1968. Sylbert and Evans provide excellent detailed and intellectual thought regarding the beginnings of this classic. Polanski is a very talented and gifted director, capable of evoking a real 'claustrophic' mood and tone with his settings, plot and characters (which made this movie the hit it was). The whole cast involved was incredible.
MuizeekPhanahtic 3 years ago 2
This move definitely had a very claustrophobic and schizophrenic tone to it, it is brilliant
tummielvr 3 years ago
Good way to put it, tummielvr, thx. "Rosemary's Baby" is part of what many refer to as 'The Apartment Triology' which includes "Repulsion" & "The Tenant". All these titles, directed masterfully at a haunting vivid pace, represent the director's trademark style of slow tension building amongst characters feeling trapped/isolated in an apartment setting with unseen evils threatening them that may or may not be real. Once the scares unfold, you never forget them. He definitely uses the camera well.
MuizeekPhanahtic 3 years ago
Hi
MuizeekPhanahtic...
I absolutely love the idea that Polanski used the exteriors of The Dakota Apartments for this film classic. Interior filming is not permitted within The Dakota Apartments...but who cares,because it is the exterior that is well-known as a national landmark treaure,and I must concur,an essential character in the film,to boot.
~Max
stewballmax2 3 years ago 2
Hey stewballmax2,
Thanks for your comment. I agree with you that using the Dakota was a clever and effective strategy to enhance the eerieness and horror of the story itself.
Makes sense (because of history as well as protecting residents' privacies) that filming inside the Dakota would be restricted.
Yes, as many have suggested & noticed, the Dakota (like the Overlook Hotel in 'The Shining') is a character of crucial value. Makes it all the more real.
Thanks again. Best wishes. -MP
MuizeekPhanahtic 3 years ago
"Susperia" and the made for t.v. movie "Bad Ronald" sort of fit in with this concept as well.
deadline27 3 years ago
Very interesting, deadline27, thanks for sharing that bit of information. I'll have to check those out. Take it easy.
MuizeekPhanahtic 3 years ago
BAD RONALD!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH....I'VE BEEN THINKING OF THE NAME OF THE MOVIE I USED TO SEE ON TV YEARS AGO...(the kid lived under the basement or something right)? OMG.....THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH!!!!!!
SHRINA17 2 years ago
yeah it's pretty hard to find... i found a copy online and paid 10 dollars for it i think. it was a dvd rip off of an old vhs copy. pretty good made for tv movie... but not as dramatic as we all remember it. he lived in a secret room. the book is much much better and equally hard to find.
deadline27 2 years ago
Well I thank you so much for the great memory...I loved that movie.
SHRINA17 2 years ago
Oh my God - William Castle wanted to do Rosemary's Baby? WOW! That would've been awesome!
ClarenceFisher 3 years ago
Gerard Brach did not co-write the script. Evans must be talking about Frantic there.
oilthatgate 3 years ago
close encounters of the third grade; polanksi, the convicted child molester,has no shame. figures he'd later make a movie involving incest (chinatown).
sakara18235 4 years ago
Actually Chinatown cane out before he molested that girl. He molested the girl in 1877 and Chinatown came out in 1974. However your point about Polanski having no shame is very good point. He's a very immoral man. When he was married to Sharon Tate he was about as blatantly unfaithful as a man can be. You should here him explain his logic. You'd have a hard time believing that someone can actually reason the way he does. And let's not forget that the French are very immoral.
dzanier 4 years ago
polanski was in court a couple years ago to sue vanity fair magazine for slander; the magazine wrote that polanksi cheated on sharon tate; polanksi went to court, and won---though he had to give his testamony on tv from france, cause the court case for slander took place in england, where he could have been sent back to usa for child molestation case. (and his underage love natasha kinski regrets all her underage sex with adults like polanksi, who wrote about their affair in his autobiography)
sakara18235 4 years ago
dzanier, he was born in France. That doesn't make him French. He is Polish. Whatever your misgivings of the French may be, don't flame with clumsy inaccuracy. Do your homework.
Roskomaximus 3 years ago
You are right. He is not French. He was simply born in France. Point taken. I knew that but I was really trying to say that his attitudes and perceptions of right and wrong could have been influenced by his French experience.
dzanier 3 years ago
Actually culturally he's partly French, partly Polish and partly Jewish.
laliday 3 years ago
Hes not french you fucking twat!- He's a Holocaust survivor from Eastern Europe-Not western Europe. Have you ever read a book? promise theyre just wonderful. Shit. you might even learn something
filuranuz 3 years ago
I know he's not French but he's lived there for over 30 years now and spent lots of time there as a youth. As such it's not a stretch to say he's acquired some of the laisse-fair casual attitudes towards sex and immorality that are typical of the French in my opinion. And yes you fucktard, I know he was a holocaust survivor, and his Mom died in a camp.
dzanier 3 years ago
We American's have that very laisse-fair attitude toward sex just as much-we don't indulge in anything they don't or amore than the French-and vice versa; we put on fronts and engage in behavior we 'believe' is wrong,then go into therapy and blame in on a rotten childhood or some shit.They don't do anything we don't do,they're probably just upfront about it and act like ADULTS and take responsibility as adults.I respect that more than American hypocrisy we're famous for.
munkymanly 3 years ago 2
he molested a girl in 1877? HE'S AN IMMORTAL!
deadline27 3 years ago
Cassavetes was great.
86pimp3 4 years ago
Yes, but I can't help but think what Robert Redford would have done with the part. Never seen him play someone so dark.
captain07234 4 years ago 3
He was good playing Mr. Death in a Twilight Zone episode.
anhacus 3 years ago
Jack Nicholson would have been interesting!
MrsWLeach 4 years ago 2
They don't mention it here, but I am pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that there was a plan originally for Hitchcock do have done RB.
mthivier 4 years ago
Robert Redford would have been PERFECT for the role of Guy! What a missed opportunity.
33Mark221 4 years ago
John Cassevetes was an actor's actor -- Redford cannot act at all --he is nothing more than a pretty face,,,,,
sinda100 4 years ago
There are bound to be differences in opinion.
33Mark221 4 years ago
Nothing against Redford, who was a great actor, but Guy Woodhouse was such a scheming sociopathic asshole, and Cassevetes depicted this perfectly. It's hard to imagine Redford...or ANYONE ELSE...capturing this as perfectly as Cassevetes did.
mthivier 4 years ago
Truth to tell, I didn't like John Cassavetes for the first part of the movie. Is all that chuckling he was doing in the first part of the movie John or just the character?
MrsWLeach 4 years ago
the scene looking down where the ladie was laying in her blood after her fall is the spot where john lennon was murderd.john and yoko stopped off at the dakota to see the baby before going to a late dinner.yoko mentions herself and john as a wizard and a witch. hmmm nobody told me there would be days like these.
Chaomaster123 4 years ago
roman quite ironic a movie bout a satanic baby, after his own baby was cut out of thw womb alive.
FHPhantom 4 years ago
LOVE this film!
Loooooooove this film! :)
GimmeKitty 4 years ago
long live satanism...i missed u anton lavey :((((
acrossbjk 4 years ago
He was an ignorant animal abusing asshole. You need to find better heroes.
MissLeigh78 4 years ago 2
I think he is a pervert. But, damn, I love Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion and The Tenant. While I don't like "supporting" him by watching his movies, I just cannot resist them.
Sulamith 4 years ago
I think Polanski was a brilliant director who crafted one of the most terrifying movies of all time, personal misdeeds aside. Still, what he did freaks me out, because that girl was my age. She could have been one of my friends.
briansmartini 4 years ago
13...big deal...muhammed the 'prophet' of islam married his last wife when she was 6 years old and he was in his 50's...and he deflowered her when she was 9...so polanski and jerry lee practically married old biddy's compared to muhammed...ha ha ha ....
Albertanator 4 years ago
Part 2 is now up
pdt113 4 years ago
I'm having a little trouble loading it onto my computer but I'll try to get it up
pdt113 4 years ago
Part II?? Pleeeeeaaaase?
drowsychaperone 4 years ago
Durcetcurval-U put yourself in that group of people who enable perverts in their perversion with no consequence, they go on to abuse again. Polanski is/was a pervert. Possesing talent for making movies doesn't mean he gets a free pass as a rapist..
muse7722 4 years ago
Just how old was the girl? If she was post-pubescent, besides America's puritanical streak, what's the crime? In a lot of countries around the world, women marry when they are very young: 12, 13, etc. It is a cultural norm in America that having sex with someone under 18 is illegal. It's just one culture against another, which has no real ultimate right or wrong. Again: Was the woman post-pubescent?
bapyou 4 years ago
The girl was 13. Roman Polanski is originally from Poland. Nowhere in Europe is it okay to have sex with a 13-year-old. It is NOT a cultural thing. In the countries where women marry that young, they are usually sold off as child brides because their families can't afford to raise them. It is an artist thinking he was above the law and doing something incredibly stupid that ruined his career.
melymbrosia 4 years ago 2
Well shit, mely, what about Jery Lee Lewis marrying a 13-year old? That occurred in America. I wasn't being specific about a given country in my comment. Artists always flout the law or, at least, play around the edges of it. If we all followed every law to the letter, what a boring goddamned world it would be. Even the goddamned people who make the laws flout them. Interesting to contemplate what is behind the reason for such age-limit laws.
bapyou 4 years ago 2
He was born in France, actually.
coralarch 4 years ago
"perversion with no consequence, they go on to abuse again"
Well, Polanski hasn't done anything of the sort since this incident, has he? And he certainly suffered some great consequences for it.
livgrnfan 4 years ago
Rosemary's Baby is one of the BEST movies ever made. So what if Roman Polanski likes little girls. But where is part II??
bonaventure418 5 years ago
elvis dated pricila when she was 13...
varrickboy 4 years ago
varriboy: FYI~ E brought Pris to US with her parents consent. A guardian and Catholic educ. were prov. & he married her. Comparing P's intentions toward his victim, to E is ludicrous. Polanski ran like a coward to avoid punishment for his crime. A safer world ranks higher in my book than a movie....
muse7722 4 years ago
part 2 sucked (it was a novel) it all turned out to be a dream... even the events in part 1
deadline27 3 years ago
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You know I JUST CANT GET OVER WHAT A PERVERT ROMAN POLANSKI IS AND I AM GLAD THEY LIKE HIM IN EUROPE!! WHAT A PIG! COME TO THINK OF IT SO IS Mia FERROH EX HUSBAND THE ONE THAT MARRIED HIS ADOPTED DAUGHTER! HOW GROSS IS THAT? GROSS!
JoanneChristie 5 years ago
Grab a banana and breath deeply, you'll get over it sweetie. We do love Polanski... And we leave you Ron Howard... Gladly.
durcetcurval 5 years ago
A BANANA? YOUR A FUCKING APE!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago
"Mia Farrow's ex-husband" is Woody Allen, JoanneChristie, and no matter what your feelings on Woody/Soon-Yi are, it's quite a different situation.
PensieveScholar 4 years ago
Yea I KNOW Mia FARROWS MARRIAGE WAS A TOTAL SHAM!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago
They weren't actually married. You don't seem to know a lot about it, do you?
PensieveScholar 4 years ago
ACTUALLY the STARS ARE PRODUCTS OF EUGENICS and their BIRTH IS ONLY FOR SLAVERY! Now both Mia AND her MOTHER ARE EUGENICS! THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING EGGS IN IRELAND FOR CENTURIES! I PROMISE! Its ALL A BIG LIE! The AMERICAN DREAM I MEAN! Believe me DO SOME DNA TESTS ON THE STARS THEY ALL SHARE THE SAME FATHER!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago
...Uhhhh-huh.
PensieveScholar 4 years ago
I SWEAR TO God I AM TELLING THE TRUTH! WHICH DOESNT HAPPEN ANYMORE!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago
I'm not even sure what it is you're trying to argue here.
PensieveScholar 4 years ago 2
OK, so who is their father?
coralarch 4 years ago
Joanne, Soon Yi wasn't adopted by Woody Allen. And please, tell us more about the eugenics programme. I haven't heard of this before.
coralarch 4 years ago
Well he was her STEP FATHER! Now EUGENICS IS THE PRACTICE OF MIXING DNA AND MAKING LIFE! THEY HAVE BEEN ALTERING DNA FOR CENTURIES! Its a SECRET!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago
If it's a secret, how did you hear of it? And who are "they"? BTW- no need to keep your caps on- its the Net equivalent of screaming, and toally unnecessary.
coralarch 4 years ago
No its NECESSARY! I dont care about SEMANTICS ANYHOW! THEY ARE THE GROUP THAT CONTROL people! THEY CONTROL THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD! THEY CONTROL THE CIA! THEY CONTROL THE FREE PRESS! YOU NAME IT THEY CONTROL IT! THE CHARITIES! ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE KKK TO THE BLACK PANTHERS! EVERYONE ANSWERS TO THE THEY!
JoanneChristie 4 years ago