tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post3612224312017836372..comments2024-01-09T06:37:41.791-05:00Comments on The Horror Digest: Rosemary the AbusedAndre Dumashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07170879111034420803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-56157428892053022312011-01-02T10:43:13.247-05:002011-01-02T10:43:13.247-05:00That's true true Emily. But it's still a d...That's true true Emily. But it's still a decision that she is originally told she should do.<br /><br />My favorite telling Rosemary to do something moment is when she wants to keep reading the witches book and Guy tells her to put it down. She is strong at first and then he's like...Rosemary... and she just slams the book shut. Ooooh. Roe.Andre Dumashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07170879111034420803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-70043874686771312882011-01-01T23:02:05.477-05:002011-01-01T23:02:05.477-05:00I loooooooove Rosemary's Baby for so many reas...I loooooooove Rosemary's Baby for so many reasons but mainly, for ruth Gordon and Mia Farrow. For me, Farrow gives one of the very best all-time performances in a horror film because like you said, she is SO SO weak and tragic a character. With another actress in the part, you might just roll your eyes and say 'do something!', but for some reason, I just want to throw a coat over her little shoulders and take care of her. Guy is one of the worst husbands in cinema history, and yet Rosie is so very enamored with him from the get-go. <br /><br />One thing I would ponder though, she does make ONE other decision: the choice to be a mother. In that final moment, she has that knife. The Satanists aren't stopping her. She COULD have ended it. But she decides to be a mom. For better or worse, she finally becomes her own woman.deadlydollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061028044836745499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-49751884173293188982011-01-01T22:30:19.503-05:002011-01-01T22:30:19.503-05:00The only other one I remember was the first film o...The only other one I remember was the first film of The Manchurian Candidate, which I saw later and loved. People who only know Angela Lansbury from things like Murder She Wrote and Bedknobs & Broomsticks were probably traumatised by seeing her performance in it.Pearcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04585713305682813718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-55177663776534464592011-01-01T19:24:43.834-05:002011-01-01T19:24:43.834-05:00Thanks to the both of ya.
Pax--Lara Louise's...Thanks to the both of ya. <br /><br />Pax--Lara Louise's face puts me into a tizzy. She is hilarious. You just reminded me that I need to try drinking gin through a straw...<br />I think we've definitely spoken about how Guy Woodhouse is in your words, a Tom Cruise of the 60s. What a piece of utter trash...! He's not even that good looking. <br /><br />Pearce--what an excellent idea for a movie night?! Do you remember what the others were that people had selected? I too was surprised at how "down" I felt after watching this. And I had seen it before mind you--but paying more attention this time allowed for some heavy understandings...poor, poor Rosemary : (Andre Dumashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07170879111034420803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-61024415690096963692011-01-01T14:10:44.412-05:002011-01-01T14:10:44.412-05:00Fabulous post, and a great way to start the year. ...Fabulous post, and a great way to start the year. I think that's what makes this movie work so damned well - that it puts us so squarely in identification with someone so thoroughly abused and controlled.<br /><br />I once took Rosemary's Baby to a movie night where we were supposed to bring "paranoia movies". We watched it first, and afterwards everyone was so upset that the other movies were put aside in favour of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.Pearcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04585713305682813718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706937351903658758.post-14667234029758770012011-01-01T10:35:36.006-05:002011-01-01T10:35:36.006-05:00Thank you for making your first post of the year, ...Thank you for making your first post of the year, a Rosemary-centric one.<br /><br />I've always felt that Rosemary was the ultimate abused woman. Guy needed to be boiled in oil (I'll bet that when the 70's rolled around, and she was secure in her place in the coven as the mother of "Andy" she probably had Guy Hexed).<br /><br />And I don't blame Minnie as much as I do, Lara Louise. She's my favorite of the old witches...I love how she talks about how her late husband gave her gin through a straw to quell her menstrual pains. What a gal!Pax Romanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00951019083510283683noreply@blogger.com