Rosemary’s Baby One of the great horror movies of all time is Rosemary’s Baby, it was directed by Roman Polanski. The primary character was Rosemary Woodhouse played by Mia Farrow. John Cassavetes played Guy Woodhouse her husband. Her neighbors that played a vast role in the movie were Minnie Castevet played by Ruth Gordon and Roman Castevet who was portrayed by Sidney Blackmer. This paper will discuss how the character Rosemary was portrayed, how lighting was used and the use of the score. The movie was based in New York City. This was where we see a young couple the Woodhouse’s move into a new apartment of their dreams. Bizarre things start happening right after they move in. The Woodhouse’s meet their neighbors the Cassavetes. Guy …show more content…
connected quickly with the neighbors, but Rosemary was still a little skeptical of them. Rosemary miraculously becomes pregnant some short time after. During her pregnancy, she dealt with peculiar pains and cravings. At the end of the movie, Rosemary finally has her baby. After a couple of days, a sleep she notices her son was not with her. She found her baby next door where she realizes that the neighbors, her husband and several others were involved in some type of cult. When she sees her baby she notices he was not human and he was the son of Satan. In horror movies, there is always a virtuous character and a wicked character.
Rosemary character was very virtuous. Polanski provided different things throughout the movie to show how she was innocent. She was a small and petite white female. Rosemary was a very soft spoken person that was somewhat fragile. She was very nice and kind. Rosemary tried to be very trendy from her decorating the apartment to how she did her hair. She wanted to fit in with others her age. She was truly in love with her husband and cannot wait to start a family with him. When her husband wants her to do something she does it without an argument. When the viewer sees Rosemary, she was usually in a white or some bright colorful outfit. That was different from the clothes the Castevets wore. Their outfits were usually black or a dark red, never an all-white outfit. The apartment that her and her husband live in was all white that she decorated herself. Her apartment was not like her neighbor’s apartment it was congested and …show more content…
gloomy. Rosemary was also a little gullible, she listened to others advice without questioning if they had given her good or bad advice.
An example of how gullible she was, happens when she has a party with some of her friends she has not seen in a while. Rosemary and three of her friends are in the kitchen and she was crying. She was explaining to them the pain that she had been having for months. She never questioned her doctor what he said about the pain at all. Her doctor said everything was all right but, her friends suggest she go see another doctor for a second opinion. Right when she heard her friends say another doctor the first thing Rosemary screams was “I don’t want to have an abortion.” During that time abortion was frowned upon “Rosemary's Baby articulates this charged public debate on abortion with a literary and cinematic tradition of horror.” (Valerius) Despite Rosemary’s terror of the thought, her friends did not suggest she have one. They just wanted her to feel better and have a safe
pregnancy. Another important aspect of the movie it the lighting. The lighting in this movie showed the view who the virtuous characters were, as well who the wicked characters were. When Rosemary was either standing in the frame or she was talking the lights are bright on her. This was another example Polanski was trying to portray Rosemary’s innocence. The lighting was very different for her husband and their neighbors. When we first see her husband, he was fully in the light just like Rosemary. Then further and further into the movie when Guy got closer to the Casavets. The light starts moving away from him. The viewer now sees only half of his face. This also happened when the Castevet’s were in the scene especially Roman. The lighting portrayed him to be something mysterious or wicked was going on with him. In the scene Rosemary and Guy went to dinner at the Castevet’s for the first time the viewer only sees lights on half his face during the whole meal. The low lighting happened with other characters that were connected to the Castevets. Finally, the score definitely plays a role in this movie. The score at the beginning of the movie, let the viewer know something wasn’t right with that apartment building. When the Woodhouses moved into their apartment the viewer heard the same tone. Instead of happier music that might have been played while moving into a new apartment. Next we hear, slow and mellow music when the Woodhouses are eating dinner. The viewer also heard joyful music when she received the news that she was pregnant from her doctor. Later in the movie the score changes to a much creepier tone. The score with a creepy tone always happened when Rosemary was about to encounter danger or something else weird was going to happen to her. Besides getting creepier the music also gets louder when Rosemary was in more danger. An example of this was when Rosemary was walking around doing some window shopping. The score gets real creepy and all of a sudden Minnie Castevet her neighbor shows up behind her and startles her.
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