Rosemary's Baby Analysis

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  • Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
  • An analysis of Roman Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby'.
    By Jessica Reid - A Level Media Student.

Комментарии • 119

  • @coralarch
    @coralarch 7 лет назад +71

    Everyone in this film is perfect in their roles, but for me, it's Ruth Gordon who delivers the real knockout performance. She's totally believable, an exasperating, snooping, but basically kind-hearted old biddy who wouldn't hurt a fly....I never get tired of watching her.

    • @wisdomist2144
      @wisdomist2144 5 лет назад +8

      But, Minnie was evil - diabolical.

    • @morrigansartwork4253
      @morrigansartwork4253 4 года назад

      totally agree

    • @haintedhouse3052
      @haintedhouse3052 4 года назад +3

      I love when she bitches at her husband for dripping the drinks on the "caar-pet!"

    • @ldhproductions112
      @ldhproductions112 4 года назад +4

      coralarch she rightfully won the Oscar for best supporting actress

    • @NATIVESUNSETS65
      @NATIVESUNSETS65 3 года назад +2

      @@haintedhouse3052 Ha Ha Minnie was a Satanist but that still didn't stop her OCD from kicking in not only the carpet but when Rosemary drops the knife and it sticks in the floor when she finds out about the baby's real father and Minnie goes over and pulls the knife out and rubs the spot with her finger makes me laugh everytime .

  • @waynewisecarver
    @waynewisecarver 8 лет назад +67

    it wasn't Castevett she thought was outside the phone booth, she thought it was Dr. Saperstine.

    • @jessicareid3924
      @jessicareid3924  8 лет назад +16

      You're absolutely right, my mistake :)

    • @johnnyzeee5215
      @johnnyzeee5215 4 года назад +2

      Yes she says to Dr. Hill on the phone, ".....they're watching me."

    • @buvabu
      @buvabu 3 года назад +2

      @Tom Jones Castle, Castevet, Cassavetes... all of them fucking connected and witches!

  • @gaycatlover3030
    @gaycatlover3030 7 лет назад +51

    I watched this movie 4 years ago when I was 13 and it's been one of my favorite movies of all time ever since, the fact the movie didn't even need blood to create tension makes it even more brilliant. I wish more people of my age appreciated movies like this.

    • @asbisi
      @asbisi 6 лет назад +5

      I agree and well said. There is one semi-new (oh well, almost 20 years old now) movie called, The Others with Nicole Kidman. If you haven´t seen it, watch it, i think you will like it. Those kind of movies are so rare.

    • @dawnfinch8873
      @dawnfinch8873 6 лет назад +2

      good on you the classics of horror unlike some of the rubbish nowadays

    • @stephaniestanley8041
      @stephaniestanley8041 4 года назад +4

      It is a masterpiece. With credit to Roman, Mia and Ruth who brought all they had to this project.

    • @niahoad
      @niahoad 4 года назад +2

      The one and only movie who litteraly terrified me was the original exorcist. I was 12 years old

    • @jimmyfudgenugget6643
      @jimmyfudgenugget6643 3 года назад +1

      if it makes you happy.. I'm 14 and have an extreme love for movies. This i the best movie ever made.

  • @jeantetreault132
    @jeantetreault132 5 лет назад +20

    I was born in 1968. Each time, i see this movie, or any other films from that particular era of the 1960's, i get so nostalgic. I get so dreamy and mesmerized by it's colors; especially by the expressions on the people's faces. Everything was at such a slower pace back then, compared to nowadays, and how the way things used to be. So fascinating! The cars, the music and the fashion clothing trends were so hip! classy! and yet very psychedelic as well too! I think Rosemary's Baby was like the result of a delusional minded psychedelic experience and yet it was combined with a true cinematic melodrama essence! Despite his controvertial reputation, over the years, Polanski, was a real genius at heart and he sure had an eye for cinema too!! Johnny from Montreal, Canada.

    • @Benjorunner
      @Benjorunner 4 года назад

      Hi Adrian

    • @eirarodriguez6035
      @eirarodriguez6035 Год назад

      I rally agree. I was living in Denmark in zone where der was somekind of kriminality, I had my first baby, and I I was warrieng, what shouldt happend With baby in that area, but we had a good life there. But, when my son was a little baby, I sang that melody for him, because, I thought it was beautifull, and tranquiliser, I stil like that melody

  • @jondstewart
    @jondstewart 4 года назад +9

    The ticking alarm clock was a nice addition. Hearing such a thing was normal until the 1980’s, but since then it has not been on the average nightstand.

  • @stevelindstedt8858
    @stevelindstedt8858 5 лет назад +13

    The man outside the phone booth is William Castle, the film's producer.

    • @jessicareid7376
      @jessicareid7376 4 года назад +4

      Didn't know this! Thank you for sharing :)

  • @nicholasjanke3476
    @nicholasjanke3476 6 лет назад +10

    In the book there's an interesting scene where Hutch tells Rosemary and Guy a whole list of horrible things that have happened in the Bram apartment block, and why they should stay away, unfortunately in the film that sequence was cut down to just a brief scene. Also in the book Hutch warns Rosemary and Guy in a resturant, in the film he tells them in his house. Actually there's some truth in Hutch's theory about 'bad houses', where one bad thing after another takes place. In fact there's this one building down the street from my home: years ago the building was used as a front to sell drugs, by this one weirdo woman, who actually stalked me for a time (the "front' gave the appearance of being a glassware store, but it was really some kind of pickup point for amphetemines. Hardly anybody ever went in there.). Now that same building is being used as a women's fashion store, but the woman who currently runs that store is just as weird and creepy as the other tenant! ( I avoid her). The current buisness and woman are totally unrelated to the first woman and buisness. So yes I do believe in such a thing as the 'bad building' theory.

    • @nicholasjanke3476
      @nicholasjanke3476 3 года назад +1

      @Hyperskreem 82 wow! What kind of murder happened there? What became of the neighbour?

  • @romanclay1913
    @romanclay1913 4 года назад +4

    Watch how Rosemary gets slowly surrounded by circles and spheres. Furniture, lamps, earrings, pans, clothes. When she meets her predecessor, Terry Gionoffrio, who is covered in circles and wears the silver sphere.

  • @castilllione
    @castilllione 7 лет назад +10

    When I look back at this film I can't help thinking of all those Hollywood Child Stars and their parents...

    • @stuartlee6622
      @stuartlee6622 5 лет назад +2

      And I keep thinking of the Clintons

  • @mxylpx
    @mxylpx 5 лет назад +13

    It's more subtle than "The Exorcist" and has it's more diabolic intent of its own!

    • @CaughtInTheLoop
      @CaughtInTheLoop 4 года назад +2

      Absolutely. I love Rosemary's Baby, but dislike The Exorcist. I think it's completely over the top and shows way too much instead of hinting at it and making you think like Rosemary's Baby does

    • @akajkyt
      @akajkyt 4 года назад

      Jonas Music the exorcist is much more subtle, I don’t know which one I prefer, probably The Exorcist, but just take a look at the opening segment.

    • @CaughtInTheLoop
      @CaughtInTheLoop 4 года назад

      @@akajkyt Interesting opinion. I personally think The Exorcist is one of the most over the top movies. It has some great scenes and aspects, but I dislike almost all of the scenes with the girl.
      Why do you think it's subtle? I want to like the movie, but I just have way too many issues with it.

    • @akajkyt
      @akajkyt 4 года назад

      Jonas Music well I’d recommend you check out Rob Ager’s videos on the exorcist to give you an idea. They’re great videos.

    • @brucelee9528
      @brucelee9528 3 года назад +1

      Nothing can touch the Exorcist

  • @Alvaro-fh5dd
    @Alvaro-fh5dd 7 лет назад +15

    This was one of the best movies i have ever seen.
    But for me it wasnt scary, some scenes were uncomfortable but thats it. This is not a ¨bad¨ thing for me, but its a warning to anyone that expects to watch giant monster and the devil itself. Psychological thriller at its best

  • @romanclay1913
    @romanclay1913 4 года назад +10

    Mia Farrow deserved an Oscar.

  • @Baffled-f9d
    @Baffled-f9d 6 лет назад +7

    I finally saw the whole movie on HBO in the 80s. I was born the year this movie was made. I was disappointed at first. No spinning heads and no seeing the devil baby. I love this movie now seeing the deeper meanings and the 60s.

  • @jeronimobalcarcel4613
    @jeronimobalcarcel4613 5 лет назад +5

    @Jessica Reid I specially liked how Polanski used costume and lighting to indicate the start of a new scene.

  • @proudmary2487
    @proudmary2487 4 года назад +6

    Background music is so spooky

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 8 лет назад +17

    From when I first saw this film - when it was new - I've thought that the Scrabble scene was masterful. First, we've already seen Rosemary and Guy playing Scrabble, on the first night they moved into the apartment, sitting on the floor. Thus we know that they have this game, although when it's first shown there appears to be no significance to it. Second, Scrabble is innocuous and fun, with no malevolent associations, so it's very powerful that it's the method through which Rosemary finally begins to understand what evil things are going on. Finally, it's completely reasonable that she'd think to do this with the Scrabble tiles, after being told Hutch's mysterious last words: "The name is an anagram." You see her attempt to figure this out just using her brain first, and then thinking of a better way to do it.
    And then, the moment where she realizes WHICH name is the anagram, and looks at the book again, and in a very tight close-up you see the underlining that marks the correct name, and the creepy music starts and continues to build...it still makes me shiver.

    • @jessicareid3924
      @jessicareid3924  8 лет назад +4

      I agree, in conjunction with Polanski's style, it is very cleverly done and really is a pivotal point in the film:)

  • @dawnfinch9935
    @dawnfinch9935 7 лет назад +13

    We must've forget ira liven I read the book before I saw the movie brilliantly written I still have a copy and polanski did it to the letter

    • @asbisi
      @asbisi 6 лет назад +3

      I read the book after I saw the movie. RP is very true to the book, but adds that special atmosphere he masters.

  • @jessieessex
    @jessieessex 7 лет назад +7

    A clear recipe laid out for all to see how total manipulation is achieved and how it is used on multiple levels to control and dominate.

    • @cstrosetta
      @cstrosetta 4 года назад

      Ha that's the one thing that had me SO angry 😠, reading the book and watching the movie.

  • @thesummerland6165
    @thesummerland6165 3 года назад +2

    brilliant classic film

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 8 лет назад +14

    I always wondered how Rosemary could take the necklace with the metal charm containing tannis root, after knowing that Terri had previously owned it and had been wearing it when she jumped to her death. In the laundry room scene, the charm was pointedly shown off to the audience, so we know it too. I guess because, as Terri had said, the Castevets were treating her like the daughter they'd never had.

    • @jessicareid3924
      @jessicareid3924  8 лет назад +2

      Yes, perhaps, although it is an interesting question:)

    • @marybowling27126
      @marybowling27126 6 лет назад +5

      Tannis anyone?

    • @timebandito4278
      @timebandito4278 4 года назад

      Was it actually Terri's? It is never mentioned that it was hers. I just thought it was another necklace of the same style

  • @johnnyzeee5215
    @johnnyzeee5215 4 года назад +3

    " All of them witches ! "

  • @neworleansguy10
    @neworleansguy10 4 года назад +4

    Evil Tanas Root would be a great band name.

    • @judistench2167
      @judistench2167 3 года назад

      ‘Tanis’ is actually a popular nane for girls lol

  • @lucyfisher8347
    @lucyfisher8347 7 лет назад +5

    Close ups - we feel we're really in among these people, and the apartments seem so real.

    • @timebandito4278
      @timebandito4278 4 года назад +2

      The apartment had a real claustrophobic feel about it, which added to Rosemary's feeling trapped

  • @niahoad
    @niahoad 4 года назад +4

    My mother was terrified when she watched that movie. Her sister's name is rosmarie and she was pregnant when this movie came out 😨

  • @Aydin370
    @Aydin370 8 лет назад +3

    Many thanks, Jessica. I have just watched the movie itself, and watched your video right after it.I am stunned by movie`s perfectness.Your explanation was very useful as well.

  • @charlesrobinson1637
    @charlesrobinson1637 Год назад

    Mia Farrow gives such a great performance and she was only 21

  • @carloyelmar5973
    @carloyelmar5973 4 года назад +1

    In the film, those facts are truly "not a dream"; they're really happening, really, you can tell that because during the "chocolate mouse" "dream" sequence we can see dr. Saperstin -and at that point in time, in the film, Ro hasn't met him yet; so, how could she "imagine" him?
    That's the only one detail Polanski slightly "hides" inside the whole film, to suggest that all of them are in fact really witches, really.
    What do you think?
    What a great movie anyway!
    Ciao, ev'rybo'! 👋

  • @sakblabbath3715
    @sakblabbath3715 4 года назад

    Today I got into different RUclips videos about Rosemary's baby. I enjoyed your video as a former film student.

  • @andrewbrendan1579
    @andrewbrendan1579 8 лет назад +9

    Very interesting! I really enjoyed this informative video. Here's a question for you: do you think there's any particular reason for Rosemary getting her hair cut so short and keeping it that way?---A detail that I like is, with the Scrabble game letters on the floor, the way the floor is realistically scratched and scuffed, what you would expect in an old building such as the Bramford.---To show that "Rosemary's Baby" "works", I've become intrigued by hallways that don't really end in a closet but that really lead into another apartment or. I'm fascinated by the way Rosemary and Guy's apartment is really part of Roman and Minnie's apartment. In real-life I think it would have been servants' quarters, pantries, the original kitchen. I've also become very interested in the real-life Dakota apartment building. I'm also interested in old houses that have been made into apartments and with locked doors between rooms that are now locked doors between apartments and also in my imagination make up short stories about such houses. In the movie the building and apartments are like characters and what a contrast between the Woodhouse's apartment and the Castevets' apartment.

    • @jessicareid3924
      @jessicareid3924  8 лет назад +1

      Thank you so much:) you mention some great aspects and analysis of the film - very interesting:)

    • @andrewbrendan1579
      @andrewbrendan1579 8 лет назад +1

      I read somewhere that when a woman has a big change in her life it's not unusual for her to change her hairstyle. Maybe Rosemary did so because of the change in her living arrangement. I also wanted to mention that I think the name Woodhouse has significance: some people who practice witchcraft build houses of straw out in the woods. Also I think how in "Hansel and Gretel" that wicked witch had a house in the woods or forest. Since Rosemary and Teri first met in the laundry room I often think of them when I'm doing the laundry in the apartment complex where I live!

    • @jessicareid3924
      @jessicareid3924  8 лет назад

      Really interesting points:)

    • @coralarch
      @coralarch 7 лет назад +5

      That's true about major changes and hairstyles, but I'm more pragmatic. It's summer time, it's hot in NY, and she's going to be a mother. She doesn't need to be fussing over her hair when she has her hands full with a new arrival.

    • @supergenkilife
      @supergenkilife 7 лет назад +5

      Actually, the drastic hairstyle change was made for another role that Mia Farrow was doing; I heard the director was livid over it, but they had to write it in. I think the story is kicking around online someplace.

  • @dawnfinch8232
    @dawnfinch8232 2 года назад

    I couldn't imagine any other actress playing Rosemary Mia Farrow gave it her every thing going from happy young wife making a beautiful home for herself her husband and future children becoming thin and Ill and then frightened mother to be thinking a coven of witches want her baby and then of course the rest is history

    • @wbl5649
      @wbl5649 Год назад

      and she had to have been under strain during the film because during the filming Frank Sinatra served her with divorce papers..

  • @greaterJAY
    @greaterJAY 8 лет назад +2

    Nice job Jessica. Excellent observations on a masterpiece.

    • @jessicareid3924
      @jessicareid3924  8 лет назад

      Thank you very much:)

    • @dawnfinch9935
      @dawnfinch9935 7 лет назад +1

      Jessica Reid I've seen this movie many times but this picked up on things I'd not noticed before

  • @rhymeandreasoning
    @rhymeandreasoning 4 года назад +2

    She looks like Lady Penelope from THUNDERBIRDS at the 1:37 mark

  • @eirarodriguez6035
    @eirarodriguez6035 Год назад

    Do You remembet that, I still like this song?

  • @megaswenson
    @megaswenson 6 лет назад +2

    Well.... Having the devil's child may be "unthinkable, unethical, and psychologically challenging" FOR CATHOLICS. But for the rest of us, that situation belongs over in CRYPTID territory, with the Minotaurs, Centaurs, Sasquatches, and Unicorns. Even as a kid, I didn't find THAT part of Rosemary's baby to be frightening at all. We might have wondered how the plumbing would have fit, and how the genes would have combined. But really, it was a matter curiosity, rather than horror.
    The conspiracy: being tricked, drugged, and overpowered - and not being believed - were what I found scary back then (and still find frightening). The idea of that crude, low-bred, swarthy, ugly, cigarette-smoking greaseball 'Guy' banging Rosemary, was every bit as disgusting as the 'devil' doing it.
    For us, the only moments of "horror" in that beautiful movie, were scenes showing Guy (and his cigs), and that moment when Minnie is displaying her horrendous table manners. OK, and the idea of Rosemary's painting the woodwork in The Dakota, is truly horrifying to us. Those painted shutters, by the way, are still there - marring the view of the building's exterior.

    • @timebandito4278
      @timebandito4278 4 года назад +1

      You're no fun!

    • @jessicareid7376
      @jessicareid7376 4 года назад +1

      Interesting point, thank you! I hadn't considered this :)

    • @wbl5649
      @wbl5649 Год назад

      oh please, not just Catholics but any Christian. and for that matter any Jew or Muslim...all believe in a diabolical Devil

  • @lucyfisher8347
    @lucyfisher8347 7 лет назад +1

    Well done, Jessica!

  • @makeit7579
    @makeit7579 4 года назад +3

    its people like Rosemary that are truly the monster. They just sit there and let evil run amuck.

  • @dawnfinch8873
    @dawnfinch8873 6 лет назад +13

    rosemarys so nice the devil baby is lucky to have her as. his mother

  • @larrychan622
    @larrychan622 5 лет назад +1

    There are certain inconsistencies IMO regarding the portrayal of Rosemary's personality.
    On one hand she's (seemingly) suspicious of the chocolate mousse and we witness the growing resentment of Minnie and Roman's constant intrusions, and yet she willingly accepts the necklace even though she sees it soaked in Terry's blood. To each their own I suppose but I wouldn't have touched that necklace with a ten foot pole.

    • @edienandy
      @edienandy 5 лет назад

      larry chan She initially didn’t want to wear it, Guy pressured her to. I suppose she probably told herself it couldn’t be the exact same one as the one Terry was wearing, that it was a necklace in the exact same style. Unless of course Minnie actually told her it had belonged to Terry (I can’t remember exactly what Minnie told her when she gave her the necklace) in which case I agree, why the fuck would she wear it?! Lol

    • @timebandito4278
      @timebandito4278 4 года назад +2

      To be honest it never occurred to me that it was Terri's necklace. I just thought it was a different one of the same style that they gave to her

  • @94XBlackXEyedXPeas
    @94XBlackXEyedXPeas 6 лет назад +2

    Can anyone tell me why Fur Elise by Bethoven kept playing throughout the movie like if it had any meaning behind it??

    • @dawnfinch8873
      @dawnfinch8873 6 лет назад

      i believe one of the neighbours played it beautiful classic he or she was probably in the nypo

  • @coralarch
    @coralarch 7 лет назад +1

    Jessica, I can hear this clip but can't see a thing- what's happened? RB is one of my faves- I was so looking forward to seeing your vid.

  • @cstrosetta
    @cstrosetta 4 года назад +1

    The conspiracy is the absolute worst part but well getting done by devil seems scary as well. Even though she enjoyed it at the beginning, the book does a much better description. I can still remember "ready, ready, more than ready" 😂

  • @ThePlataf
    @ThePlataf 4 года назад +1

    As a portrayal of antenatal psychosis, this film is unbeatable.

  • @slhslh3309
    @slhslh3309 4 года назад

    Sorry, I don't mean to be harsh, but most high school students who are seriously interested in film could have made these analyses. Most are obvious. A few are a stretch. I admire that you tried, Jessica, but if I were in your situation, and since you're interested in making a film, I would want honest feedback. If you're not already in film school, get some experience with experts under your belt and then think about making a film.

    • @jessicareid7376
      @jessicareid7376 4 года назад

      Thanks for your feedback. I made this short video after watching Rosemary's Baby once as part of my research and analysis blog to support my A Level coursework. I completed the course with an A grade, and then got a first class degree in Film and Media. I now teach Film and Media to secondary school students. Thank you again for your feedback.

  • @paulcolbourne5555
    @paulcolbourne5555 4 года назад +1

    If you are going to use subtitles, leave on screen enough to read and to observe the shit you are talking about,

    • @paulcolbourne5555
      @paulcolbourne5555 4 года назад

      greyindentations i have to read it to determine the quality of said shit

    • @paulcolbourne5555
      @paulcolbourne5555 4 года назад

      greyindentations grow a set of balls and tuff ends up, you are on the internet now

  • @nicolashrv
    @nicolashrv 7 лет назад +3

    The scene of the phonebooth would have been awesome if when the man turns, she screams in terror "AAAAAAAAAH!!! A JEWWWWWWW!!! HE WANTS MY BABY!!!!!"

  • @robjabbaz
    @robjabbaz 4 года назад +1

    this is a fairly unimpressive analysis. "the use of chanting"? yeesh... gimme a break... apparently Rosemary's Baby is much better than you realise.

    • @jessicareid7376
      @jessicareid7376 4 года назад

      Ah, the naivety of an A Level student who watched a film once haha. Probably not my best work, although I wasn't expecting to have such a large audience when I produced this for my teacher's benefit. It is something I like to reference myself when I teach my Media and Film secondary school students though. Thank you for the feedback.

    • @KarimKarim-yh2xx
      @KarimKarim-yh2xx 4 года назад

      @@jessicareid7376 Hi Jessica. A little question: do you think this Polansky's movie is a total imagination creation or... Has deep roots with some VIP life style/ anti Christian cult?