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- First time watching and reacting to Rosemary's Baby (1968)!
Rosemary's Baby turned out to be an enjoyable horror movie. What a pleasant surprise! 😊
On 2nd watch, I found out that Ms. Gardenia was one of them!
It's something you easily miss on the first watch.
Plenty of other subtle details they included in the film which audiences would be unaware during their first watch. Nicely done.
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The opening scene at the front gate of the Dakota, where Rosemary and Guy enter the courtyard with the landlord, is the gate where John Lennon was shot and killed by a deranged fan in 1980, 12 years after this movie was released. Also, the spot where Terry supposedly fell to her death was very close to that gate.
Everyone loves Ruth Gordon in this (and she's great), but Sidney Blackmer is fantastic. Interesting that he didn't like their saying "Hail Satan." Farrow should have gotten an Oscar nomination, though.
There are a lot of theories here about why Rosemary chose to mother her child. Some saying she did it to get power and revenge over Guy. But Rosemary is far from being power hungry. The answer as to why is very simple, the way she looked at the baby in the end clearly shows the love in her eyes. Mothers love their children no matter what!
Yes, that might be the case too. She loves her baby because it IS hers. She doesn't care how he looks like or what he is.
She went through so much pain and all she wanted was to love her baby
I appreciate your thoughtful reaction to this film.
Ira Levin also wrote _The Stepford Wives,_ which would be a good reaction (the Katherine Ross version).
There is a sequel to this movie 1976 film "Look What Happened To Rosemary's Baby" which is about her son all grown up.
Maurice Evans (pronounced Morris, in his case), who plays Hutch, also played Samantha's father, Maurice (pronounced Mor-ees) on _Bewitched,_ so he was on the witches' team there.
In 1976, there was a TV movie sequel, titled LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY, which picks up 8 years after the first film. We learn that Guy took off for a successful career in Hollywood, while Rosemary and Adrian stayed behind with the coven. Rosemary (played by Patty Duke) absconds with the boy prior to his 8th birthday party in an effort to prevent the coven from performing some sort of ritual on him
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It's been year since the viewed the film, so most of the details are fuzzy ... somehow a hooker played by Tina Louise (Ginger from Gilligan's Island) offers them shelter, then somehow convinces Rosemary to hide out in an abandoned bus. Suddenly, the bus powers up and takes off (without a driver) and we never learn of Rosemary's fate.
The film then skips ahead to show a now adult Adrian, going by the name Andrew, being a trouble maker with the local police ... and honestly, the rest of the film was so boring, I can't even recall how it ends.
The film was poorly written but Patty Duke's (brief) screen time and the return of Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet are about the only things making this dud of celluloid worth watching at all.
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Ira Levin, the author of the ROSEMARY'S BABY novel, published a sequel novel in 1997, titled SON OF ROSEMARY, which completely ignores the event of the 1976 TV movie, and serves as a direct sequel to the original film.
It is reveled that the year is now 1999 and Adrian is a world famous new age spiritual guru. The coven had placed a spell over Rosemary in 1973, putting her in a coma to prevent her from running off with Adrian. As the novel beings, she has awakened upon the death of the last member of the coven.
After being reunited with Adrian, she herself becomes a celebrity of sorts, all the while, Adrian attempts to reassure her that he's rejected the coven's evil influence and wants to bring spiritual enlightenment to the world.
There are a few odd interactions between Rosemary and Andy (bordering on incest) and on new year's eve, a deadly virus is unleased upon the planet and Satan emerges to drag Rosemary to Hell. She then wakes up to find herself 33 years in the past (prior to getting pregnant), laying in bed next to Guy at their apartment in the Bramford building. It's left up to the reader to decide if Rosemary simply dreamt the events of the 1967 and 1997 novels or had actually experienced a premonition of future events.
Well well well, that's an interesting ending for the sequel novel. Thanks for sharing a summary of the story 😊
Tony Curtis plays Daniel Baumgart on the phone.
A little (uncredited) cast trivia: when Rosemary calls Dr.Hill pleading for help the vaguely sinister cigar chomping man lurking outside the phone booth is a producer cameo by William Castle, best known as the King of the gimmick B horror films like 13 Ghosts and The Tingler. Rosemary would be the most prestigious film he would ever be associated with by far. In the scene where she calls Donald Baumgard, the blinded actor, the silky smooth voice on the line is provided by the great Tony Curtis.
Thanks for the fun facts 😉
The movie was filmed in a very historical (architecturally-wise) building in Manhattan, New York City, called the Dakota. The city had begun at the lower tip of the island and over the years, slowly spread northward. But at the time the Dakota was built, it wound up much farther north and in an area still undeveloped. The owners had gambled on this area eventually becoming urban (they guessed right), but the name was because people laughed and said it was way out in the Dakotas, frontier land in the West at the time.
For most of the 19th century, the standard urban housing was in single-family owner-occupied rowhouses - what we today often call "brownstones" despite uses of other building materials. Manhattan was basically this style, blocks and blocks and blocks, interrupted with church spires. As was Brooklyn and as was the area I live, Troy, NY, upstate on the Hudson. These few houses that survived have mostly been broken up into several apartments.
There were two technological elements holding back any other urban style. The lack of municipal water supplies and lack of the safety elevator. Downtown was the hub of all activity and street frontage extremely expensive, so the typical lot was 18-25 feet wide (about 7 meters), and 100 (~30 meters) feet deep. Houses still had outhouses which were placed at the far rear of the lot, along with any carriage house (and stable for a horse), for the same reason, the smell. Occupants would have to get downstairs and way far to the back to relieve themselves, or use "chamber pots" emptied by servants (hence the name "potty" for a toilet).
Thus middle and upper class families in post-Civil War America lived in multiple-story housing, limited in height by how many stairs were practical. (Almost universal was three stories above ground, one below.) The top floor was much less desirable and termed "cold water flats" ("flat" being that living on one floor was for the very poor), or there was the notion of an "artist starving in the attic.) Imagine having to tackle many flights of stairs to get down to the outhouse - this effectively limited how many stories there would be.
Lighting technology was just getting around to gas lamps or the early incandescent light bulbs, both dim compared to sunlight, so the standard "rowhouse" was just two rooms (plus a little like a small dressing room wedged between) deep, the front room with windows facing the street, and the rear room lite from the rear backyard.
Indoor plumbing was an obvious solution but key to this is the "water trap," an "S" shaped drain below that remains filled with water to prevent swamp gases from coming up. The water trap requires a steady supply of water - thus awaiting municipal water supplies.
The safety elevator was a milestone in technology. The safety brake, invented by Otis (his name graces the major elevator company), despite all of Hollywood horror movies, does NOT cascade down the shaft except in the rarest of all occasions. The cage might get stuck but doesn't fall. (The one documented case I'm aware of was when a small plane hit the Empire State Building in 1941, and one woman was killed, that's how rare this type of accident is.)
Back to the Dakota. This extremely ornate building was designed as one of the first apartment building for upper class living, all on one floor. The lavishness was to overcome the prejudice of living in a "flat."
For the next century, the standard living arrangement for most Americans became the urban apartment buildings. After WWII, this changed to suburban single-family housing. Now I understand mobile homes and the like have even supplanted that, although to what extent, I don't know.
(Sorry to ramble on so long but I love finding out about this type of stuff.)
That makes me grateful for living in the modern era now. Plumbing, electricity, sewer system, and elevators. These are all common things in most countries now.
Thanks for sharing! 😊
Fascinating background. The only thing I knew about the Dakota was that this is where John Lennon was shot. He and Yoko had an apartment there.
@@pirbird14 I just did a search on TH-cam - lots of videos about the building, including the John Lennon and the Rosemary's Baby angles, but also about the architecture and history.
@@johnnehrich9601 Thanks. I just hadn't known it had such an interesting past . Will look into it.
I think the opening music is like a creepy lullaby.
It definitely turned creepy for me when I heard it at the end.
The woman who played Mrs Cassavet was a fabulous actress named Ruth Gordon. I highly recommend the film she starred in called "Harold and Maude" from 1971. It is a most unusual love story that will touch you, make you laugh and please your ears with a sound track of Cat Stevens songs. It's considered a classic that I think you will love.
I'll add that to my list!
Thanks for your suggestion~ 😊
She was also a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. With her husband, Garson Kanin, she co-wrote the screenplays, _A Double Life,_ Adam's Rib,_ and _Pat and Mike,_ all three of which were nominated for Best Original Screenplay Oscars.
New subscriber! Can’t wait to binge your reactions, I’ve noticed you’ve done a lot of my personal favorites 🎉
Welcome aboard! 😊
Hope you enjoy them, there's more to come 😉
The man who's standing outside the phone booth is actually William Castle (the producer of ''Rosemary's Baby'', but he's also a legendary director. Look up his filmography, originally he himself wanted to direct this story by Ira Levin).
So that was William Castle~
It seems I have not watched any of his movies yet.
@@henryellow Try _The Tingler_ or _The House on Haunted Hill._
Sure, I'll add them to my list 😊
Terrific, thoughtful reaction to this classic film. Another great Polanski film I highly recommend is his 1971 adaptation of Macbeth.
I'll add it to my list. Thanks for suggesting! 😊
He told her that they needed more blood for the blood sugar test or something like that.
A good thoughtful reaction to a famous horror-suspense film. The Polish name you were (understandably) struggling with, "Krzysztof," can be approximated as simply "Kristoff." That's not 100% right, but close enough to be excusable from foreigners like us. 😄
Thanks for the tip! 😂👍🏻
I always look for your reactions. I love you
Thank you so much! 😊
smart reaction
Polanski has is own unique way of story telling. If you liked this movie you should watch Polanskis 'The Tenant' and also his newer, not scary, movie 'Carnage'.
Sure, I'll add those two to my list. Thanks for your suggestion! 😊
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Yeah, this flick has always been pretty popular, even with a lot of people who aren't big horror buffs, including my parents. It's because it's classy and suspenseful. Polanski's other horror flicks Repulsion, The Fearless Vampire Killers, and The Tenant are worth a watch too.
I'll add those to my list. Thanks for your suggestions! 😊
The first home pregnancy test came out in 1976, 8 years after this film.
Oh, I see!
So back then, people could only find out after visiting the doctor.
Thanks for sharing! 😊
Watching your Dr Stranglove reaction now - 26 min mark: yes there are many safeguards with Nucs, You have to arm the bomb before dropping it (thank God) - we had at least 2 B-52 accidents, where the planes had atom bombs on board, and the bombers crashed - and the bombs did not explode (bacause they were not armed).
somewhere in North Carolina (or was it South Carolina?) - around late 1950's - and the other when another B-52 crashed in Spain in the early 1960's.
We still have bombers, but i think the last atomic carrying ones on patrol were in the early 1990's - today we really on Balistic Subs and land based ICBMs in North Dakota.
and leave our current bombers - B-52's /B-2s and B-1s with conventional bombs.
Safeguards are good 👍🏻
I'm sure they've saved lots of lives already.
Thanks for sharing these (fun?) facts! 😊
For a moment, I wondered why there was a Dr Strangelove comment on Rosemary's Baby's reaction 😂
Rosemary is an old-fashioned Catholic girl, of course Guy is her husband.
Great reaction! It does help to read the book “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin. The book came out in 1967 and it’s still in print today, you can buy it easily online, and most libraries have it as well. It’s 256 pages, and obviously it has more details than you can fit bio a 2 hour movie. It gives more information about the main characters, and it explains the dreams and hallucinations that Rosemary had, as well as the religious meanings behind them.
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Yes, I'm sure the book has more details about the characters than the movie.
It will have to queue in line though, after "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "The Metamorphosis" 😂
Fantastic reaction!!! One of my favorites you've yet done! I'm not super into horror movies, but I love this one. I agree: I'll take being haunted and creeped out any day over jump scares and gross outs, which are the easiest things to achieve. PS: Home pregnancy tests did not exist in the 60s (or 70s....I'm not sure if they even existed in the 80s, I seem to remember that being more of a 90s thing). And yes, you had to wait until a baby was born before you knew what sex it was. I believe it was the 80s, perhaps the late 70s, that ultrasounds could tell you what sex the infant was going to be. PS: Crazy that you're reacting to "Chinatown"; it's the same director, Roman Polanski, one of the greats of world cinema (he's actually from Poland). Very different movie!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
So before ultrasounds, the baby's gender would be a complete surprise revealed on the day itself!
Yup, I'll be watching "Chinatown" after "The Conversation".
Her name is pronounced Me-a, not My-a.
Oh, it's "Me-a" 👌🏻
I have a friend with the same name but pronounced "My-a" instead, so I went for that 😂
@@henryellow Generally, if it is spelled Mia, it's pronounced like "me," as they said (of course, always go with how a person pronounces their name--it's "Bett-ee" Davis but "Bet" Midler, even though they are both spelled "Bette"), like "Mamma Mia." Maya is pronounced (generally) like "My-a." (Just adding for context.)
A thoughtful reaction, as usual.
Like you said, it's good storytelling. One thing I like about it is that we don't really know Rosemary's motivation at the end to care for the child. My own thoughts are that wants to get back at Guy. He's the one who had betrayed her the worst, but now he has a position in the group and is probably protected by them to some level.
But if she accepts the role as The Mother she'll outrank him by far. Perhaps her cooperation at the end is just a means to revenge?
(I haven't read the book, so if anyone has other input on this please correct me.)
That's definitely a possibility too.
We already saw how some people treat her with respect (since she is Adrian's mother).
If she truly embraces the role, she would have a huge influence over the coven.
I've read the book a couple of times, but, as far as the movie goes, she just realizes she can't give up or hurt her baby.
In the book, Rosemary is thinking to herself that maybe she can kill the baby and herself. Then, she reasons that if she gets the coven to trust her, they will eventually allow her to go out with the child on her own, and maybe she can take him to a priest or someone who can give him spiritual guidance and alter his destiny. But it seems like wishful thinking, since the coven holds all of the cards.
Most of the coven members seem to respect her as the mother of the child. They want her to care for the child, but whether they will fully trust her is still uncertain.
As you said, the coven holds all the cards and they have many connections. It would be hard for Rosemary to pull it off. The coven definitely wouldn't let the child go outdoors before the child can control his powers.
I think Minnie saying Rosemary was Satan's super-special choice was just her trying to sell it.
Guy Woodhouse, not as hate-able as Stalin...yep, that is the best I can say for him.
The composer's first name would be pronounced Chris-toff.
He didn't deserve Rosemary...
"Chris-toff" is so much easier to pronounce 🤣
the baby probably grows up and becomes President...
As long as he can disguise his eyes 👀, hands 👐🏻, and feet 🦶🏻🦶🏻
If he can shape shift or possess supernatural powers, he doesn't even need to be president.
@@henryellow he can wear contact lens to make his eyes normal
@@TheFifileigh Oh yeah, he could do that~
Did you HEAR her explain to Dr Hill? Anyone sane would have called the authorities to send her to the looney bin. Hill thought he was being civil by calling her husband and Sapirstein. What would YOU think?
He did mention that, to be fair. By the way, Charles Grodin, who played Dr. Hill, said people used to come up to him and tell him off for calling Dr. Saperstein.
There is a reason this movie and The Exorcist got their reps as terrifying, and that reason is the audience that went to see them. Both were based on bestsellers. People flocked to the two movies who wouldn't be caught dead at a showing of Night Of The Living Dead or Texas Chainsaw or Last House on the Left. No way!!! But millions turned out for these extremely well made films.
I give the nod to Rosemary because it can easily be seen as a Social Comedy. Look at Patsy Kelly's filmography. But both are classic films that were NOT made for the audience of Wizard Of Gore or 2000 Maniacs. That is what drove America bonkers. That and the fact that they were made by hippie directors. These were two mainstream films that have no business being compared to The Tingler. Modern reactors DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
FYI - I forgot to mention the 2 best Cold War movies of all time (I see you watched the 3rd - Dr Stranglove - saw the thumbnail, not watched your reaction yet though - I shall however).
Failsafe
7 Days in May
all three made with a year of each other - early 60's
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there is a 4th made in the 80's called "Threads" - a Brit TV movie - now on bluray - its also excellent like the 3 above, but I warn you with each viewing it is so bleak that it will remove 2 weeks from your life IMO - I have the Bluray of and watch it every 5 yrs or so, from the 4 times I've seen it I've lost 2 months of my lifespan.
BUT its worth it, if you are a masochist -which clearly I am - lol.
I've recently watched Fail Safe. You probably saw it on my channel already.
I haven't watched the other two, so I'll make sure they get on my list 😊
A Mother's love is unconditional! as it should be!
Ezekiel (and Old Testament Prophet and author of a book in the Bible - BTW I'm an Atheist, but value philosphy/history/ and some religion - when it offers widsom - some "Books" of the Old Testament and New Testament offer wisdom - other offer rules and hate (IMO) - as a non-religionist, I value some works and not others in "The Bible". Ezekiel IMO was right, in his book he rejected the earlier works of the "Old Testament" - Torah per its particular about inherited sin (so some guy named "Ezekiel" had a problem with his Torah 1500 yrs ago and wrote his own "book" (which is now part of the "old testament" - to reject the prior Torah - I have infinate respect for him to do so as a "believer" in the Torah, but also having the guts/conscience to also disagree with at a fellow Jew and write his own book. Basically the Torah affirms "inherited sin" Ezekiel rejected it and stated in his own book: "The Sins of the Father are not visited upon the Son".
so each person sins in/during their life, but no inherited sin - so "blank slate" upon birth for all - including Satan's son.
So good for mommy not killing her son, maybe Satan's son will grow up to become Ghandi-2, I hope so - if not, well its due to the Child's moral compass/choices, his father being Satan is irrelivent.
BTW - ran across your channel only 3 days ago - 12 angry men - since than time I've watched, Strangers on a Train/Shadow of Doubt/ and Gaselight.
THANK YOU for valuing OLD CLASSIC B/W's.................when stories mattered more than effects - I'm old in my 50's - you are young, thanks for valuing the old movies Sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've loved "classics" since the 80's when TV/AMC used to show them - unlike today sadly:
name drops of movie you may not have seen of prehistoric times:
Marty
The Best Years of Our Lives (I love Terrisa Wright!!!!!!!!!!)
The Third Man (Cotton in it whom i also love!!!!!!!!)
The Little Foxes (Wright is in it - also has top 5 death scene ever - has Betty Davis too who was fab in also in a below recommendation)
The Paths of Glory
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
A Tree Grow In Brooklyn
Babydoll (Eli Wallach was tops)
A face in the Crowd ("Andy Griffith" never looked so bad - lol)
Night and the City (has a top 5 death scene in it - also has Herbert Lom, way WAY under rated actor - check out his TV series of the early 60's "Human Jungle" - a great actor never noted at one of the greats sadly - but in many small roles over the decades - 50's through 80's).
All About Eve - with the great Betty Davis - but also the equally great Anne Baxter (a top 5 movie of all time BTW - the script is perfect, as is the acting).
there are 30 more, those are just the ones off the top of my head.
thanks for valuing "old movies" Sir!!!!!!!!!!! I look forward to more movies you may discover.
2-cents.
Welcome to the channel! 🙌🏻
I'll add those movies to my list 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and movie suggestions! 😊
I believe that whoever wrote that "In the novel, it's spelled out pretty clearly that Terry Kills herself..." was incorrect. In the excerpt from the novel, it states: "If you'd listened to me, we wouldn't have had to do it!" While it's not clear in the novel who is saying this, in the film, we hear Minnie's voice say this line. Minnie also states, "I told you she wouldn't be open minded." I think it's clear that the "it" they are referring to is Terry's murder. It seems clear to me that they pitched the idea to Terry and probably offered a great deal of money. When Terry heard their plan, she obviously freaked out and tried to leave. The last thing this coven, which is filled with rich and influential people, is have Terry reporting to the police that crazy people tried to involve her in a Satanic ritual. If this made to the media, the press would have a field day with such a scandalous story.
In that case, most likely they used their spells to get Terry to jump.
Yes, I believe they don't want any outsiders to know. It must all be kept a secret until they grow in power.
Pregnant women even smoked in the '60s. People could smoke in the hospital.
Yeah...no.
Sorry. Just personally, I just cannot abide watching a Polanski movie. Maybe it is because I am old enough to remember the things that he did. And how he got away with it. Or maybe it is how everyone just hand waves it away like it is no big deal as he continued to do it. I feel the same for the director of the Jeepers Creepers films.
Edit* I still hit the like button, even though I couldn't bring myself to watch the reaction.
I looked up what you were talking about. What he did was terrible. I can't believe someone like that got away with it, and even directed movies.
I'll be watching Chinatown soon, but I'll watch it because of the movie and the other people who have put in the effort to create it. Not because of this director.
If that is your standard for creative people, you'll have to skip a lot of movies and books because Polanski is hardly the only one to have done terrible and/or criminal things. Better to separate the art from the man. By watching this movie or Chinatown or any of his other films, you aren't condoning or approving of his behavior.
@@anrun Better? I disagree. But thank you for your advice.
Definitely a personal choice. If I try to sit down and judge what not to watch based on the transgressions, politics or personalities of the artists involved, my movie collection would be very small... In fact, I might as well give up watching movies altogether.
@@davidfox5383 I agree. But I tend to draw the line at people that repeatedly drug and SA teenagers. For me, most movies are all about the suspension of disbelief. Hard for me to do when it comes to short eyes.
Mia Farrow has truly terrible taste in men.
You should check out _The Omen_ and _Good Omens._