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i think i read that the original script had russian roulette as a central plot device, but was set in the US. eventually that script ended up being translated into the context of the vietnam war. i don't think it's important whether there's evidence for russian roulette actually occurring during the war because it's effective as a quick metaphor for the trauma that vietnam vets faced; it's only chance that determines if a bullet has your name on it or not. you're right that the film doesn't humanise the NVA, but i don't think it needs to. cheers

I think it may be the greatest movie I have ever seen. I am 71 now and I vividly remember watching the movie in theaters and playing music from the soundtrack in the high school band. Peter O'Toole was unbelievable. You mention the casting. Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn were questionable, but for the time, casting Omar Sharif in a very prominent co-starring role must have been very progressive for the time.

Karl Mal'din? Rod Steeger? Are you guys serious? Two giants in film cinema and you can't get their names right? First it's Malden as in "Mall-din". And Steiger... not Steeger. To analyze and critique such a masterpiece as this and butcher two of the most famous character actors of the times is inexcusable... and ignorant.

Of course I could be completely wrong. Since Mia Farrow is wisely in every scene we have no idea about Guy. Another testimony to Roman Polanski is his direction of Farrow. Was she ever this good for even Woody? And in interviews she gives all credit to Polanski. I know the book describes Rosemary as this Anna Nicole Smith type of big strapping voluptuous farm girl blonde who ends up looking like a survivor of Ravensbruck but I think that was beyond mortal ability. The only other times I really laughed like a hyena was in the 90s, when she started going on David Letterman and appearing in his sketches after Teri Garr got sick. Letterman was always doing these fake interviews and documentaries about his own life and would introduce Farrow as his wife of 25 years, which she would quietly but very firmly deny, with great comic timing. She was very good in some of Woody's films but she was GREAT as Rosemary and the woman David Letterman wanted to be married to. In one sketch, Letterman egged her into the shower while he pretended to film it, and she kept screaming I Hate You! I Hate You! as she did it, and it reminded me of Polanski egging her out into the Manhattan traffic while he filmed it, saying Don't worry! Don't worry! I do know that Redford and Beatty turned down the role of Guy because they knew AMERICA would hate them.

Sorry. Commenting as you speak. 1968 was the grind house classic Night...Living Dead, which was as gory as you wanted. And up to 1968, there was The Wizard of GORE and all the Bert I. Gordon movies with tons of unbelievabe and ultimately laughable gory shenaniga. So Polanski could have gone as gory as he wanted. Terri on the pavement is proof of that. But the way the picture looks is pure romantic Neil simon Gore would cheaps .

And by the way, going strictly by the film, isn't Guy Woodhouse EXACTLY the kind of smart-ass who would pretend to go along with Roman's plans just for a joke. Really, who would believe that Roman and Minnie were evil in the flesh. Yet Roman is the most henpecked Satanist ever. "Honestly, sometimes I wonder how you got to be the leader of anything!" we hear her breathe her husband through the wall. And Guy freaks when the other actor goes blind suddenly and dramatically. He doesn't get sick or get involved I a car wreck or beaten by muggers. He just wakes up blind. I doubt it even Pope Francis sees that kind of turn-around time in his prayers. When Guy tries to back out, Roman reminds him that what happened to Terri could happen to both Rosemary and Guy. And he also tells Guy not to tell Rosemary or she would get rid of the kid before she saw it and her maternal instincts.kick.in. And Guy does love Rosemary. He puts up with her constant lists of his theater experience, almost like she's ashamed he isn't well known. On the worst day of his Broadway career, getting rejected, is he angry? No. Does he yell? No. Does he take it out on Rosemary?. No. He is just sad. He even goes to dinner with the Castavets as his good deed. Going.just by the movie he really loves her. And that is all I am doing. We never.get.ti hear what is said when Rosemary is not around. We only know what is coming .

In Europe, this is a Social Comedy. Like Get Out,.Funny Games, and Holiday (1938). It isn't exactly satire or parody or black humor but more like a very subversive critique of society. The Social Comedy is hard to pin down but it is a real genre. And the opening is pure "Barefoot In The Park" Neil Simon. And Laura-Lojise is played by Patsy Kelly, who was once a comic character actress more talented than Fanny Brice. Then she committed career-icide by outing herself as gay in 1945. And if a guy says this isn't the the most terrifying movie ever made, kick him in the teeth and ask a woman.

And Polanski did this with not one supernatural act and only a quick glimpse of blood. And this movie punches women in the face and calls it a kiss and you're crazy if you think it is not a kiss. That is why women find this the most horrifying thing they have ever seen.

Until Donald Trump's Supreme Court, THIS was THE horror movie for women. Hands down, no doubt, absolutely soul-shattering worst nightmare for All women. Men do not get to even judge.

Great opening Andrew!

I'm here for the deniro impersonations

Ben Stiller shot an episode of Severance in Keels, NL. He walked in to Holloway's grocery store in Musgravetown and gave the cashier the thrill of her life.

This movie gets better upon each rewatch! There are so many genres and QT created an immersive recreation of 1960s LA. It could be viewed as a modern western…it’s 50 years since 1969. That is the same amount of time between the original western movies and the Old West.

Another “Hell of a Picture” features Guy Pierce: The Count of Monte Cristo. That movie features Jim Caviezel who is also in another “Hell of a Picture”: Frequency!

Glad I found you guys. You definitely add to the film discussion. Subbed.

Vladimir Guerrero? He's nice.

The thing some people don't realize about films like 2001, Terminator, and The Matrix is that the dangers of AI don't have to play out that literally for it to be a problem. Case in point, many people are already slaves to technology well enough to destroy their ability to develop meaningful social connections in real life...as well as the fact that increasing advances in AI does have the potential to significantly wreck the employability of certain industries. These films are meaningful metaphors, even if only symbolic of people falling in lockstep with "the system" over individual freedom.

The Wachowskis took the blue pill

Fixing the Deja-Vu thing would be trivial. Instead of having Neo see the cat walk and shake, twice, while they're all on their way to the exit... you have Neo see the cat walk and shake once... and then Neo goes "Hmm?" BEFORE the crew leaves that spawnpoint building on the way to visit The Oracle. Then when they make it back to the spawn-point building, after having visited The Oracle.... Neo sees the same cat walk and shake exactly as it did when they first spawned-in. Neo goes "Hmm, Deja-Vu", and then everything else plays out exactly as it did in the movie (with the crew telling him Deja-Vu occurs when The Agents have changed something in the Matrix, then the exit gets blocked off, and everyone scrambles to escape).

One of my favorite movies. It’s so good.

You made me want to see the film. You could tighten up the presentation a bit.

Great prologue

How about a podcast about "Rochelle Rochelle" now. I understand that it was one hell of a picture too.

I’m grateful for the title reference