Rosemary's Baby Movie

Sections/Characters minimized in the film
One of the characters minimized in the film was the doctor. In this book he seemed to be on every chapter and Rosemary would go to him every week, but in the film he didn't seem to appear much, and when his scenes did come, some were cut short.

Sections/Characters emphasized in the film
There was actually no characters that were minimized in the book that were emphasized in the film. The characters with the big part were Guy, Rosemary, Roman, and Minnie. The film was all about Guy and Rosemary, as in the book.

Narration
There was no narration, or a voice from "above". The character's did all the explaining to us as part of their scripts. In the book there was a narrator who told us the story when it wasn't Rosemary telling us, but in the film it's mostly the actors.

Recurring images(motifs)
A recurring image is when Rosemary keeps thinking back on the "dream" she had, which was reality. Another is when the film kept showing her in pain and the necklace that Minnie and Roman gave her.

Use of music/ sound effects
There's a use of music in the beginning of the film. There's a lullaby, it's not your regular one though, it sounds mysterious, almost as if your going to see something horrible and scary in the first scene. It gets your heart pumping expecting something to pop out. This lullaby is almost like the soundtrack of the film. It begins it and ends it. But through out the film there are some sound effects. For example, when Rosemary is running, or when she's scared and just found out something. Like in the scene when she was in the telephone booth, and when she turned to get out she saw a man that looked like the doctor. She was scared, the they used sound effects to show the man turning around.

Film Terms
In the movies there were a lot of medium shot, and long shots. But most of all there were close-up shots to show emotions and most of them were Rosemary's. There was a lot of POV (Point Of View) shots as well. One of them was when Rosemary was brought through the closet and her eyes were opened, we saw the bottom of the cabinets, we saw the people standing around her, and we saw Satan all through her eyes. Another example was when she went to open the door for Minnie and she looked through the peep hole.

Rosmary's Baby p.219-245

Summary

Part 3. The last part of the book. Rosemary wakes up to find Guy sitting by her side. They smiled. She asked him what the baby was, he said a boy. She asked him if he was alright and he said, with a long pause, "yes". And with that, she drifted back to sleep. Later, she woke up, and remembered more. Laura-Louise was by her side and Rosemary asked her where the baby was. Laura-Louise, unsure of what to say, called Guy and Dr. Sapirstein. She asked them where the baby was and thet gave her the answer, the baby's dead. When she asked why they told her it was because it was in the wrong position, but Rosemary knew better and told them that they were lying and that they took it. She started going crazy and yelling, with that Dr. Sapirstein gave her an injection. After they gave her her soup, she confronted Guy about Dominick and the tickets that he supposebly gave them. She asked him if he was a witch and he said that she was worrying too much and that there's no such thing as a witch. Then she remembered what she read about witches. The book said that before you become a member they out a mark on your shoulder. Then she remembered again how Guy didn't take off his shirt for a look time infront of her. So, just as Guy was about to leave she asked him to take off his shirt. So he did, and there was nothing there so she let the subject go. Because her breast were filled with milk, she had to get rid of it, Dr. Sapirstein showed her how to use the pump. After a few days she started recieving gifts. The next few weeks were normal, she ate, she drank, and took the pills that were given to her. One morning, after 2-3 weeks had passes by, she thought she heard a baby crying and confronted Florence about it, the person who came to get the milk, but she couldn't hear anything. Guy came up with a story that some new people moved in and it was thier baby. From then on she kept hearing it over and over, and she realized that it was right next door. Rosemary began to notice a pattern. The crying started, they came for more milk, after they left the crying stopped. She decided to ask what they did with the milk and Laura-Louise said that they threw it away. Rosemary didn't believe her, so she decided to put a dirty spoon into the milk, Laura-Louise stopped her and when Rosemary asked why she couldn't put the spoon in the cup Laura-Louise said that it was too messy. Rosemary has figured it out! The baby is still alive and it was in Minnie and Romans apartment. She was determined to get it, no matter what. She started thinking about everything and she knew that their had too be another way to get to Minnie and Romans apartment. It was the closet, the one she had seen in her dream; only it wasn't a dream, they had really took her through there. She also found out that the pills were the ones that were making her feel weak. She started planning, planning a plan to get Andy back, even if it meant killing them all. Part of her plan was to put 8 of those pills into Laura-Louise or Helen Wees' cup, that would send them off to sleep. She kept pretending that she was still weak, and when the apartment was clear she started her plan. Sure enough the pills made Leah, another one of the people who were taking care of her, fall asleep. Rosemary took the sharpest knife they had and made her way to the closet. It was the closet after all! She opened the door, and went into Minnie and Roman's. As she was walking down their hallway she saw all the paintings she had seen in her dream, including the burning church. She made her way to the living room and peaked in. There was everyone, including Minnie and Roman, she couldn't believe that they were back already; she began to doubt that they were ever away. Looking ahead she saw a black bassinet, her baby was in there. She walked into the living room, but they didn't notice her. A little while they noticed her. She walked to the bassinet, Roman tried to get her attention but she didn't pay him any mind. As she walked closer, she gribbed her knife tighter and looking at the other people in the room. Rosemary looked at her sweet baby, but something was wrong. It was his eyes, he had golden-yellow eyes, scary eyes. They said that he had his father's eyes, but Guy's eyes were brown. Roman told her that Satan was his father. Then they started saying "Hail Adrian, Hail Satan", and Adrian was to be his name. Rosemary couldn't believe it, she couldn't take it anymore, so she sat down and the men went to check for Leah. Rosemary knew that her baby was ganna grow up to be bad. She knew that the only answer was to kill the baby, she just couldn't let him grow up to be bad. But as she was rocking the craddle, she came with another solution. She doubted that he was all bad, she thought that maybe she could teach him to be good. She looked at little Andy, and begged for a smile.

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"..Will you please stop looking so worried?' She poked the tip of his nose. 'Do you know how to smile yet, Andy? Do you? Come on, little funny-eyes Andy, can you smile? Can you smile for Mommy?' She tapped the silver ornament and set it swinging. 'Come on Andy,' she said. 'One little smile. Come on, Andy-candy" (Levin 245).

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WOAH! That's all I can say. The end of the story was so crazy. I mean I expecting some of it, but everything that she out together made the story fall into place. I wouldn't of guessed that Andy was Satan's son. But I guess that the quote is above is what the book is all about. The quote shows how much Rosemary really loves Andy, even though he's not "normal" and he was born to do bad things. She's determined to find the good in him and make him do good. That moment that she had with him is so precious, it made up for the 3 weeks that she didn't see him. A mother's love for her child to so big that it can do and conquer anything, and at the end Rosemary was thinking about killing him, but she knew that the love she had from him wouldn't let him be bad. It also paints a brighter picture, we should always look for the best in people. This book was so amazing. Can't wait to see the movie!

Rosemary's Baby (p. 126-216)

Summary

As Hutch was leaving the apartment he was looking for the gloves that he couldn't find. Hutch asked Rosemary, and rosemary asked Guy, but noone saw it. Hutch left, and Rosemary stayed with Guy. Soon after Hutch called back for Rosemaryand Guy tried making excuses saying that she couldn't talk because she was too much in pain, but Hutch insisted anyway. Before Hutch left the house he told Rosemary that the Tannis root inside her charm sounded and looked wierd and that he would do some research on it. Now, he has some news and that's why he called. Hutch told Rosemary to meet him infront of his building at 1:00 because he had to tell her something. Guy took the phone, brought it to the room, and went out to satisfy his ice cream craving. Right after guy left the apartment Rosemary heard the Vastevets door bell ring and thought that Guy went over to ask them if they wanted anything. And with that Rosemary felt that sharp pain that she has been feeling for weeks now. That next morning Rosemary called Minnie and told her not to bring her drink because she was going out to meet a friend, Hutch. Because she got to the building early, Rosemary decided to wait, and she waited and waited, and hutch was nowhere to be seen. Worried, Rosemary entered the building and rang Hutch's apartment. Grace, Hutch's friend, picked up the phone and told Rosemary that he was taken to the hospital in a deep coma. Caught off guard, Rosemary started walking and soon came across Minnie. She took her home and gave her the drink. The sour drink only made the pain even worse. Rosemary had started some wierd habits and food preference. She was eating raw fish. The pain was getting so intense that the pain became her whole world and she learned to live with it. Rosemary became suspicious of the daily drinks she was getting and no longer kept drinking it. Rosemary had found herself so out of the loop, so she decided to throw a part for her friends that she hadn't seen in awhile. At the party she was telling her friends all about the pain and they told her that her pregnancy was un-normal and that she had to see another doctor. This got Guy all worked and told her that she had no right to question Sapirstein intentions. Then just like magic the pain was all gone and the baby started moving. The miracle of life turns into a mystery. After that everything was going smoothly. Rosemary started drinking the drink again, but this time the drink came with a piece of cake. Guy was getting his big break. Then Rosemary was brought brought back to reality when she learned that Hutch had died on his hospital bed. When she told Guy, he went blank, almost as if life was stucked out of him. Rosemary was surprised by the way Guy reacted, it was un-expected. When Rosemary went to the memorial service, Grace, Hutch's friend, gave Rosemary a book the he had left for her. The book was about witchcraft, the one he was reading the night he got into the coma. When she got home she opened the package, and the title of the book was All Of Them Witches by J.R Hanslet. She could tell by the markings in the book that Hutch had already began studying it. Hutch had left a message for Rosemary saying that the name was a anagram, but he didn't say which name so Rosemary started playing with the scrabble set and began looking at names. She kept redoing every name untill she came across Steven Mercato, the son of Adrian Mercato, someone who practiced witch craft, and the name quickly turned to Roman Castevet. Rosemary told Guy, and she started to worry. Guy told her that Roman doesn't practice witch craft and that their friendly, nice, people. But Rosemary becomes paranoid and starts questioning the motives of the Castevets. Rosemary told Minnie what she had found and Minnie asked her not to tell Roman about it. Soon after Minnie told Rosemary that she and Roman were taking a trip around the world because it was Romans lasts days. Rosemary found herself feeling sad and asked them to come back soon. Days go by, and the baby the almost here. But before that Rosemary meets a guy named Dominick, the guy who "supposebly" gave Guy a pair of tickets to The Fantasticks the day before Donald Baumgart, the guy that Guy was going up against for a part, became blind. Rosemary said thanks, but Dominick didn't seem to remember giving Guy anything. She came to a conclusion that Guy wanted her out of the apartment for some reason and she was going to find out why. She began looking back one everything that happened and it all became to suspicious. The she came to the conclusion that somebody had put a spell on Donald to make him blind and put Hutch into a coma. It all came down to one thing, that Roman and Minnie were witches, the "tannis root" was Devils Fungus, that guy stole Hutch's gloves and gave it to roman when he "went out for ice cream", thats why she heard the doorbell. Hutch was becoming a little too suspicious so they put him into a coma. Then she thought about the baby, was he/she going to be a pay back to the other's for the favor they did for Guy? Guy never wanted a baby untill now. She knew what they were planning to do with it and she wasn't going to let it happen. But, then, she thought about Donald, what did Guy take of his? It didn't make any sense so she decided to disregard the whole witch idea. That is until she went to see him. He told her that him and Guy exchanged ties because it would be fun, and this all happened the day before he became blind. Rosemary got scared and realized what she thought was all true, so she packed her baby bag and when to see Dr. Sapirstein. When she got there the receptionist told her that he was with a patient and that she'd have to wait. Then the receptionist told her that she liked her perfume, and that it was better than what she usually wore. Rosemary told her that it was a good luck charm that had something in it. Thats when the receptionist told her that Dr. Sapirstein has one just like that, and Rosemary got scared so she went outside. Rosemary knew that he was one of the witches. She ran to the nearest phone booth and called Dr. Hill, he told her that she can come see her. As Rosemary was telling him about the whole thing, Dr. Hill just couldn't bring himself to believe her so he made her lie down and called Guy and Dr. Sapirstein and they came to pick her up. As they got to the apartment Rosemary made it seem that she dropped her purse and she ran to the elevator to get upstairs first. She locked the door but they eventually got in. CRAMPS. The baby was coming, right there, right now, right when she was trying to get away from them. They held her down and she couldn't believe that she was having her baby at home in at hands of witches, of Satans servants. They gave her a shot. She looked at them. Then it was complete DARKNESS.

Qoute

"...pain, even constant pain, was no excuse for staying indoors, as much as she had. She would fight it from now on, fight it with air and sunlight and activity, not succumb to it in Bramford gloom under the well-meant pamperings of Minnie and Guy and Roman. Pain, begone! she thought; I will have no more of thee! The pain stayed, immune to Positive Thinking" (Levin 136).

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When Rosemary said the quote above she was thinking that maybe if she thought positive thoughs that her pain would be gone. She couldn't believe that she left pain stop her from living her life. I think that it's something we can all think about. Can we really afford to waste out time hanging around the house? Sometimes we use the lamest excuses not to go outside. What Rosemary had in mind was that if she kept thinking positive she'll get results, this is something we can all start doing. Thinking positive doesn't cost us nothing, but somehow we keep thinking negative because those negative thoughts seems more realistic than positive ones. Even though if nothing changes we will have a better attitude towards things and we will look at things from a brighter side, like Rosemary was starting to do.