This week, we’re rewatching Elsie’s favourite Halloween film, Rosemary’s Child, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Mia Farrow.
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Present Notes:
Decor inspiration
New York condominium constructing
Fire was Elsie’s inspiration for her hearth
Very darkish carved wooden in every single place!
Shag carpet in bed room
Different cozy inspiration (style, meals, drink or something?)
Scrabble board
Rosemary’s attire and outfits typically
Minnie’s colourful and wild patterns in her outfits
Witch ebook and bookstore
Price 0-5 demon infants
Elsie – 5
Emma – 5
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Episode 206 Transcript:
Elsie: Right here listening to the A Stunning Mess podcast, your cozy consolation pay attention. This week, we’re re-watching my favourite Halloween film, Rosemary’s Child, which was directed by Roman Polanski and stars Mia Farrow, my queen. Okay. So my thrilling replace for the week is right this moment my ceilings are being painted in my lounge. My lounge is lastly going to be adorned usually. We’ve lived in our house since June, and we’ve got been engaged on it since February. And we’re lastly going to be achieved with this part. It was presupposed to be like such a miniature, small part one, and it actually escalated. So yeah, I’m very excited. As quickly because the paint dries, I’m going to place up the paper bats. And simply form of begin, like, cozying in for the vacations. Like, a cheerful factor that occurred is yesterday my husband got here in and mentioned that the colour in the lounge is my most interesting second. I used to be so comfortable.
Emma: That’s a great praise. You recognize, I by no means considered this, to not make this about me, however final 12 months presently I used to be ending my home and simply shifting in, and I form of missed, we had been doing just like the day earlier than Halloween, so I form of missed adorning for Halloween final 12 months. So I like that you simply’re like, as quickly because the paints dry, I’m placing up the bats. Such as you’re not giving up on it. You’re like, it’s effective. It may be later than I wished, I don’t care, I’m nonetheless doing it. And also you’ve gotten like, your pumpkins out in your fence and various things too, however yeah, I get it. It’s kinda like, when you could have plenty of portray or plenty of wallpapering, you’re like, nicely I can’t put something up on the partitions, you realize, for the season as a result of it’s gonna be in the best way.
Elsie: It’s truthfully very straightforward to be like, I’ll do it subsequent 12 months, I don’t care, I surrender. It’s. It’s so tempting to simply be like, you realize what, fuck this, it’s not price it. However I do suppose there’s one thing to it, to identical to doing, even when it’s on the final minute, identical to nonetheless having a bit of social gathering and nonetheless, you realize, having friends over and doing all of the issues that you’d usually do, even when you’re renovating. Like you’ll be able to’t let renovating rule your life or else it should simply steal so many comfortable recollections.
Emma: I imply, it’ll try to you’ve received to maintain preventing again, proper?
Elsie: Sure. Okay, so I’m so excited. This week we’re speaking about Rosemary’s Child, which is one among my favourite films of all time. And I had this, like, hilarious DM change final week the place I used to be speaking about my Rosemary’s Child hearth. We’ll speak about this extra later, however I made a duplicate hearth in my bed room. I’m, like, an enormous nerd for this. I like it. It’s a ardour for me, and it’s, it’s an enormous decor film for me. Anyway, the DM was like, Rosemary’s Child is your favourite film? And I used to be like, sure. And so they had been like, why? Like, it simply mentioned, why? And I used to be like, nicely, I actually just like the decor and the vibes, and it’s simply one thing I get pleasure from watching each Halloween. And so they simply wrote again, that’s a bizarre favourite film to have. And I used to be like, okay.
Emma: So that is somebody you realize?
Elsie: No, it was only a DM from a random stranger.
Emma: It’s wild to me you even answered this. Trigger I’m such a jerk, I’d by no means, I’d be like, oh, they simply wrote why, I don’t know this individual. I’m not writing again to this.
Elsie: I don’t know why, generally I simply really feel like participating, and generally I don’t. Loads of instances I’d ignore it, however this time I used to be like, I’m gonna clarify to this silly a why I like this film that’s my favourite film.
Emma: You recognize what, I really like this film and I gotta evangelize about it. Now that I’ve seen it, I have to say, that is price watching. It’s nice, particularly for the decor and style. However additionally it is a bizarre story, which I didn’t even notice till we had been on the finish of the credit, that it was an IRA 11. It was an IRA 11 ebook, which I really like Stepford Wives. I’m an enormous fan. I’m low-key engaged on a fan fiction sequel to it, which you’ll by no means learn as a result of once more, it’s fan fiction. It’s in all probability unlawful for me to put in writing that, however I’m identical to such a fan. I like it a lot. It’s identical to, so anyway, and I felt like there have been plenty of issues on this film, the story that I used to be like, yeah, I might see how he wrote Stepford Wives later. I see plenty of the themes that he appreciated to put in writing about, you realize, loads about feminism, and you realize, how girls are handled and plenty of totally different related themes. So anyway, this film could be very a lot price watching. It’s not my favourite film, but when somebody was like, that is my favourite film, I don’t really feel a why, I’m like, I don’t know when you’ve seen it, when you really feel like, why, as a result of it’s like, it’s lovely, the set design’s unbelievable, the style’s unbelievable, the story is bizarre as fuck and it’s fairly the journey. Very fascinating, very unusual, it form of jumps the shark for me on the finish, but in addition it was made in like, the late ’60s, so it’s important to maintain that in thoughts. It’s glorious, like, very price a watch. And I’m not a horror film individual.
Elsie: I’m glad you appreciated it. Final night time it was form of late after we completed watching it, and we had been actually drained. Yeah, we had soup, and we had a pal over, and Emma’s husband simply utterly ghosted. I used to be very curious when you appreciated it, or when you had been gonna, I can inform whenever you’re mendacity, so it sounds prefer it.
Emma: Yeah, I believe you’ll be able to inform, I lie on right here generally, however Elsie at all times is aware of.
Elsie: She lies about liking issues as a result of she doesn’t need to be imply.
Emma: You recognize, like individuals strive actually exhausting at one thing, you don’t need to, you realize, however no, I actually like this film. It’s actually good. I’d positively re-watch it. It’s a wierd, bizarre film, and it’s positively outdated. However I really feel like plenty of the issues with it form of work with the story although, and what they’re making an attempt to get at with it. So it kind of in a bizarre method nonetheless works.
Elsie: Sure. So it’s from 1968. It’s like a wonderful, attractive New York condominium constructing, and so they take like a historic constructing. The condominium was very darkish, very like wooden in every single place. That is one among my favorites and so they identical to to color each inch of it white. And it’s at all times actually happy me to see that as a result of I actually do see each side. Like I really like wooden. And you realize, now I’ve like my unpainted wooden in my home. So I do defend, however I believe that like so many individuals are so imply about portray wooden, even wooden that’s not lovely and never particular that whenever you see these like attractive New York flats which can be all like white ornate moldings and stuff like it’s important to notice that at one level these had been darkish wooden and like anyone painted it and now it’s like glamorous and we like to see it. I don’t know. I believe there’s positively a protection for each and a time and a spot for each, however this film, it’s very satisfying. She identical to straight up goes into view. An condominium is like, I believe I’m going to color all the pieces white after which she does it and magic.
Emma: Nicely, I additionally suppose, and this possibly speaks to the time, however I additionally suppose speaks to the story of what this film is about. It’s a second the place Rosemary’s character is actually doing one thing that she needs to do and has some energy. As a result of plenty of the film, issues are taking place to her, and persons are doing issues to her. And she or he has no energy over what’s taking place to her, even the very ending I believe could be very a lot about that, which is fascinating. However seeing her have a look at them, they present us the New York condominium earlier than they transfer in, they’re viewing it with the proprietor of the constructing or the man who’s the supervisor of the constructing, you realize, this outdated man displaying them the buildings like an outdated woman lived right here and so they’re trying on the closets and all of it. And she or he’s form of speaking about some issues she would do. And you then see as they’ve moved in, not proper after they transfer in as a result of they’ve this cute scene the place they’re like eat on the ground such as you do whenever you first purchase a home or an condominium. It’s actually cute. However you then see all the pieces that she does. She paints all the pieces. She places up wallpaper. You recognize, and it simply appears utterly totally different in plenty of methods. And it appears lovely. And to me, it’s this second of like Rosemary’s character having decisions and energy about her environment, which some individuals would possibly trivialize, however I believe that’s a mistake as a result of I really suppose that’s an space that ladies all through historical past did have some decisions in energy at instances that possibly we didn’t have others like even after we weren’t allowed to vote. Loads of instances we had been allowed to embellish our homes, you realize, and so I believe it’s a extremely cool factor, and when you don’t like portray wooden, that’s effective, no matter you’ll be able to have your opinions on that. However For the story of this film, I really actually love seeing what she does together with her condominium as a result of I believe it’s like a second of seeing Rosemary have decisions.
Elsie: Yeah, it’s utterly magical. And from identical to a strict design standpoint, it’s one among my favourite combos ’trigger it’s like a historic constructing, identical to very ornate, like carved wooden in every single place with all, you realize, because it was in 1968. All mid-century, all the pieces for like, the furnishings, the document participant, the desk, the lighting. And it simply seems so cute. It’s iconic. And I’m glad you appreciated it, trigger it’s one of many the explanation why I wish to rewatch it a lot is that I discover the inside, it’s like a kind of areas the place you discover one thing totally different each single time.
Emma: Yeah, completely. And I form of liked all of her decisions, though I wouldn’t essentially adorn my area like that. Not even simply the, you realize, I don’t stay in a New York condominium and it’s not 1968, however simply, they simply aren’t essentially like the colours I’d choose or this or that, however I just about love all the pieces apart from the headboard, which I’m positive we’ll speak about. And so they even have this type of shag carpet of their bed room that appears cozy, but it surely additionally appears like it could get worn in a method that I’d not need that carpet, however that’s extra of a time factor the headboard although is unforgivable. However that’s the one factor in the entire condominium that’s unforgivable.
Elsie: Yeah It’s a actual New York Metropolis condominium I can’t bear in mind what the title of the true one is you’ll be able to google it very simply. So if you wish to identical to take an image in entrance of it whenever you’re in New York 100% you are able to do that. I’ve by no means achieved it, however sometime I’ll it’s very cool. Additionally, there may be an older couple, there are the opposite essential characters within the film who’re like the subsequent door throughout the corridor neighbors. And so they have additionally an equally huge, superb condominium, but it surely’s adorned, you realize, just like the outdated individuals’s method. And it’s superb as nicely. It’s a deal with for the eyes. After which it was instantly like, it is best to make the vodka blush cocktail for the weblog.
Emma: Now will probably be our ceremonial dinner that we talked about within the final episode.
Elsie: That’s a great one. Yeah. There’s plenty of identical to, I don’t know. I suppose I watched it so many instances. There’s at all times like one or two new issues to note each time you watch it. A lot of cozy inspiration. And I’ve a factor I used to be simply speaking to our pal Donnie Rogers Jr. about this. I’ve a factor for ’70s and ’60s films set in New York Metropolis. Like if I had a time machine, I’d go to 60s, 70s New York Metropolis. That’s one among my first stops. I identical to like it. It’s the place. And there’s, I imply, there’s so many various variations of New York all through the years that might be enjoyable to go to.
Emma: They’ve plenty of scenes on this film too, the place totally different characters are out on the road, both, like, utilizing a payphone or getting right into a taxi or, like, ready for a pal outdoors of a constructing, you realize, issues like that, and it’s lovely. New York’s lovely. It goes by a number of seasons as a result of we undergo a whole being pregnant on this film. However like we see it at Christmas time, we see form of like a spring look after which like summer time after they’re like, it’s so scorching and she or he’s about to have the child then. And yeah, it makes New York very, you form of get to see New York in all of the seasons of 1968. I suppose it could have been 1967 after they had been filming. I don’t know.
Elsie: It’s fantastic. Okay. So what had been a few of our different cozy inspirations? I believe the Scrabble board. I’ll by no means play Scrabble with out considering of Rosemary’s Child. It’s just a bit bit ingrained. I need to like make the phrases all of them, which is each single time I get out Scrabble tiles, and I identical to can’t assist myself. There’s a lot of meals and drinks, and she or he is at all times utilizing a Chemex to make espresso, I seen within the mornings, after which I’m like, oh my gosh, I have to get again on my Chemex, like, simply form of like all the pieces she does.
Emma: I exploit a Chemex day-after-day, and I felt actually cool after I noticed her doing it. I used to be like, sure, I exploit a Chemex too, I’m superior, like, Rosemary.
Elsie: I’ve a bit of ceremonial dinner.
Emma: Yeah, together with her younger associates, as she says, as a result of their neighbors are like older. And everybody’s dressed actually cool. One character has these actually disco ball-looking earrings and so they’re actually fairly, which is a glittery, enjoyable social gathering. However that might be one other factor if the style on this film was so enjoyable. All of Rosemary’s outfits are lovable and she or he could be very pregnant all through among the films, but it surely’s plenty of, it’s not a shift costume, however what would you name it? It’s like you can put on it not pregnant. It’s like form of brief and your stomach might simply get huge or small and you can put on it. I don’t know what to name it.
Elsie: A loose-fitting 60s costume. I don’t know what you name it, like an apron costume possibly?
Emma: Yeah, one thing like that. It’s like form of like matches your shoulders and your arms, however then it’s form of unfastened. So you actually might put on it like all through a being pregnant or it’s form of only a type. At any fee, simply Google it. She has actually cute, cute, cute outfits.
Elsie: I at all times purchase a costume with sleeves and like collars, like a white Peter Pan collar, is Rosemary’s child costume to me. And I’ll at all times purchase it each time I see one, in all probability ceaselessly. It’s like form of the factor in my closet and I believe that’s a part of the place it comes from. It’s identical to such an iconic. It’s like earlier than the Adams household, you realize, it’s like that, it’s like a Wednesday Adams costume earlier than there was Wednesday Adams.
Emma: Sure. I additionally actually just like the older couple, the neighbors, I can’t bear in mind the character’s title.
Elsie: Minnie.
Emma: Sure. Minnie’s, outfits are actually enjoyable too, as a result of they’re very colourful and have wild patterns. And I simply suppose they’re actually enjoyable.
Elsie: She’s bringing the pure pleasure together with her outfits. Like, she’s received, like, eye shadow like my daughter wears.
Emma: Sure, a lot blue eye shadow. Yeah, I don’t know who gained finest supporting actress this 12 months, however I hope this lady was up for it at the least if she didn’t win as a result of I believed she was so good on this film, form of like hilarious, like actually very humorous efficiency. Nevertheless it’s additionally it’s a horror film. It’s Rosemary’s child. And I additionally was like, oh, I do know individuals like this. Oh, I do know some outdated girls who say these sorts of issues it simply felt like so relatable and actual, but in addition like a hilarious comedic efficiency. Like I simply liked it. I believed she was so glorious.
Elsie: It was unbelievable. Yeah. I really like her type, her voice, form of all the pieces about her. She’s such an icon. She’s a nude scene. She does probably the most for this film.
Emma: Everybody form of has a nude scene. It’s a wild film.
Elsie: Yeah, and so far as, like, how satanic is Rosemary’s Child, it’s fairly satanic, okay? Like, it has a satan, like, having a intercourse scene with a lady.
Emma: It’s a rape scene.
Elsie: It’s dangerous, it’s dangerous, yeah. But in addition, it’s fake. And so, like, I don’t know, it simply doesn’t have, to me, like, a scary feeling. Like, I’ve gotten plenty of messages that folks don’t like that I say Rosemary’s Child isn’t scary. However I simply imply it’s not scary in a standard horror film method. It’s disturbing, possibly, is how I’d put it.
Emma: Yeah, I’d say it’s very disturbing.
Elsie: It’s in your head, it’s creepy. I wouldn’t say it’s scary. There’s like no half within the film the place you soar, proper? So it’s simply several types of emotions, like, I do know there have been elements the place you and Trey, who had been watching it for the primary time, had been form of like, eh, like that form of feeling.
Emma: There are elements the place they actually present, like, a physician placing a needle into her arm, which, once more, not essentially a scary factor, like, I’ve had medical doctors put needles in my arm many instances. Particularly after I was pregnant, however it’s creepy on this film due to the story. And likewise I believe the filmmakers try to make it a bit of disturbing. They know what style they’re making. So, you realize, there’s plenty of issues like that. There’s a rape scene the place the lady is drugged, Rosemary’s drugged. That’s clearly very disturbing, however I additionally suppose the best way they present it is extremely arty and it’s meant to be like, you realize, what’s taking place, but it surely’s, it’s not graphic.
Elsie: It doesn’t really feel actual, in any respect.
Emma: Yeah, and it’s not presupposed to since you’re form of like, Rosemary’s like, did that occur? You recognize, she’s been drugged. So I believe they’re form of enjoying with that. So it’s very very like a psychological horror thriller. So it’s positively scary however not like a Noticed film not like a film the place, like, issues soar out at you on a regular basis.
Elsie: Yeah. 70s horror films are my favourite. They’ve their very own, like, method of being. They’re often very quiet. They’re often very sluggish. After which one thing about them is a lot worse than something you’d see in a film now. And that’s how I’d describe plenty of them, and I believe this type of matches. That is really form of on the comfortable aspect, although, of all of the 70s horror films I’ve seen. It’s just a bit bit, like, not so horrible. Nevertheless it’s not acceptable for youngsters. It has stuff in it that when you’re very delicate in the direction of, like, Devil or one thing, you then in all probability wouldn’t need to watch it.
Emma: Yeah, I imply, it additionally has a rape scene the place a lady’s drugged, so that might positively be one thing lots of people wouldn’t need to watch. Completely comprehensible. However I do suppose for the story, it’s actually fascinating.
Elsie: I believe they make it very campy. Like, they make the Devil rituals form of lovable, in an old-timey method.
Emma: It feels very Satanic Panic from the 90s, like the best way we considered witches and Wicca then, you realize? Like, very foolish. Sure. Okay. Somebody’s enjoying the flute, like, identical to an accountant-looking man, stuff like that. The place you’re like, okay, Devil’s child, Rosemary Devil’s child on the finish is on this little crib that’s like received all this black tulle. And the little cellular that’s hanging above him is like an upside-down cross. So it’s like, ooh, it’s like they purchased it from Scorching Matter. You recognize what I imply? So there’s plenty of issues like that in it too.
Elsie: That’s the good description. You simply nailed it. You simply, you simply nailed it.
Emma: So I’ll say my favourite a part of the film, my very favourite factor is the very finish. I simply suppose there’s such good storytelling the place Rosemary has had the child. It’s Devil’s child. She’s found, that they instructed her at first that the infants died, however she doesn’t actually imagine them as a result of she is aware of they’ve been messing together with her this complete time. And she or he’s proper, the child just isn’t lifeless. And so they appeared more likely to simply steal the child. Yeah, she form of thought they had been going to steal the child, after which they did. She didn’t know that it was Devil’s child although, so then she figures out that the child’s nonetheless alive, she finds the child, she sees the child, and so they don’t present it to us within the film as an viewers member, however from her response, you realize that the child appears half like Devil. So no matter that’s, like she’s like, it’s eyes, you realize, so one thing’s happening with the child’s eyes. We don’t know.
Elsie: Then she says, it is best to see his toes.
Emma: Oh, yeah, it’s a hilarious film. However my favourite factor is, that she’s at first form of repulsed. She didn’t notice it was Devil’s child. And now she is aware of this, she has this data. And the principle dangerous man, the outdated man who’s the neighbor, he’s like, possibly it is best to increase the child, Rosemary. It’s your baby. And she or he didn’t need this child like she wished a child, however she’s been raped. She was drugged and raped.
Elsie: She’s simply discovering that out too, for the primary time.
Emma: So she’s a sufferer in so some ways on this film. However now she sees the child that she’s had together with her rapist, the satan. And so they’re like, why don’t you increase the child, simply give it some thought. After which somebody’s like rocking the child’s cradle too exhausting, and she or he’s like, Hey, you’re rocking the child’s cradle too exhausting. And she or he goes over and begins rocking the cradle. And that’s form of the place the film is ending. It does suggest that she’s gonna increase the child. And it’s this second the place, I really like her efficiency, since you form of see it on her face, the place she’s like, form of realizing I do love this child, and I do need to be its mom. I really feel the pull, but in addition it’s the satan’s baby, and she or he’s raised Catholic, and she or he’s clearly actually torn about all of these issues, too. I really feel prefer it’s this factor within the story the place there’s this stress of like, she’s virtually like trapped by love. And it’s simply actually sophisticated, and I believe actually lovely, and I believe her efficiency in that scene is so good, and I simply suppose that complete thought could be very fascinating and very tragic, and there’s only a lot there. You recognize, additionally, like, as a mother, and I believe even when you’re not a mother, you can perceive this, like, I form of get it, the place you’re like, oh like, I don’t, I believe I’d do it too, I suppose. However it could utterly change the course of your life as a result of now, you realize? Anyway, I simply suppose it’s fascinating and clearly it’s fantastical. There isn’t any satan. It is a ridiculous film but it surely’s additionally form of lovely and fascinating and I simply love that half. I really like that it ends that method I believe it speaks to such sturdy storytelling and fascinating issues to me. I hardly ever come away from a horror film not that I watch that many the place I’m like actually occupied with it. You recognize what I imply? Like plenty of instances, I really feel like they’re meant to form of simply scare you and that’s the enjoyable half. It’s thrilling. It’s like a rollercoaster journey after which it’s over and that’s it. However this one I’m like, oh, this one take into consideration like, what does it imply to be a guardian? What does it imply to be a sufferer? This type of like function of affection in our life and the way it might develop in ways in which possibly it’s going to hurt us, however we, we simply need it anyway. And I don’t know, there’s simply form of loads there. And I’m like, that’s. Fascinating. I used to be not anticipating to suppose that a lot from this film, but it surely’s actually good.
Elsie: Oh, good. Yeah, I positively really feel like each time I watch it, there’s some new factor. Okay, so when you didn’t know, Rosemary’s Child can also be a ebook by Ira Levin. It is vitally play-by-play, virtually the identical because the film, which I really feel would by no means occur now. I’ve by no means ever learn a ebook that was that near a film earlier than. Some other time, it’s very related, and I listened to the audiobook, and Mia Farrow additionally learn the audiobook. So, when you get pleasure from audiobooks and also you simply need to learn them for enjoyable, I’d positively suggest it. I believe I bear in mind it was considerably of a brief ebook. However yeah, it was good. It was positively enjoyable. And there’s a sequel known as Son of Rosemary, which I haven’t learn but, however I really feel like form of is on the checklist.
Emma: Yeah, I’m, I’m . I’m like, that’s going to be one hell of a toddler.
Elsie: I’m so glad you appreciated it as a result of I used to be fairly positive you had been going to hate it. Emma and I form of, like, diverge on this topic of our pursuits.
Emma: I’m not likely a horror film individual, yeah, and Elsie’s seen, like, all of them. So, it’s, yeah. However I like motion films, and also you’re like, eh, you’re not likely into them.
Elsie: I believe motion films are my most boring torture. Yeah. Bruce Willis who? I imply, like, I really like Bruce Willis in The Fifth Ingredient solely.
Emma: I imply, yeah, that’s a banger, for positive.
Elsie: In any case, okay, so any extra cozy inspiration, I talked in regards to the audiobook. There’s a lot of meals. It exhibits a bit of little bit of New York Metropolis, not a ton, but it surely exhibits New York Metropolis at Christmas within the sixties, which is all the pieces. Exhibits them adorning an condominium, which is all the pieces. I really like the witch ebook. I really like the bookstore. I really like the suitcase.
Emma: It truly is a wonderful film. I imply, I believe when you wished to chop out the, you realize, getting drugged, and raped scene.
Elsie: You’ll be able to simply quick ahead by that half when you’re like, I don’t need to watch.
Emma: Yeah, I believe when you minimize that half out after which additionally there’s a scene the place, nicely, there’s this character who allegedly jumps from the constructing, though it appears from the film we’re presupposed to be unclear if she jumped or if one thing else occurred. However they form of present her physique on the bottom and it’s very bloody and I’d minimize that too when you’re like, I don’t need to see gory.
Elsie: However I don’t know why we’re making an attempt to show individuals easy methods to make Rosemary’s Child right into a Disney Plus film. It’s okay.
Emma: It’s not a Disney Plus film.
Elsie: It’s what it’s. I defend it as a consolation rewatch. That is my official assertion. I defend it due to the interiors. So assist me God, amen.
Emma: I really feel prefer it’s form of like described when you could have like a hero and also you’re, like an actual individual hero and also you’re like I really like this individual for these causes after which somebody will come at you with, yeah however do you know that additionally they this and it’s like yeah, they’re human, you realize And I’m like, nicely, this film is like actually cool. And likewise it has some issues. Did you hear us point out the director? Like there are some issues proper? Like there are some issues that I’d not defend, however I don’t suppose that essentially means it’s important to throw the entire thing away. I imply, I simply thought it was a really fascinating movie. One of many extra fascinating ones I’ve seen shortly. And I actually loved myself, however I wouldn’t defend all the pieces about it. I imply, my lord, who would try this with any film of all apart from Knives Out?
Elsie: Yeah, Knives Out is our good angel. Okay, so let’s do some trivia. Based on Mia Farrow, the scenes the place Rosemary walks in entrance of visitors had been spontaneous and real. That’s upsetting. Roman Polanski is reported to have instructed her that, quote, no person will hit a pregnant lady. The scene was efficiently shot with Farah strolling into actual visitors and Polanski following working a handheld digital camera since he was the one one keen to do it.
Emma: I don’t know easy methods to really feel about that.
Elsie: That makes him look like an ass.
Emma: That’s the factor. Yeah. Okay. He’s, however this film is gorgeous.
Elsie: We’re renouncing Roman Polanski when you didn’t discover. So he’s renounced.
Emma: Okay, subsequent trivia. Mia Farah really ate uncooked liver for the scene of the film, regardless of being a vegetarian on the time.
Elsie: What?
Emma: Ugh. I really feel like she actually dedicated.
Elsie: I believed it was like actually darkish pink jello or one thing.
Emma: It’s form of black, I believe.
Elsie: It’s a very disgusting scene.
Emma: A really disgusting scene. They present a scene, too, the place she simply, like, in a short time sears a steak and eats it, which, is extra regular. That’s not how I eat my steak, personally. However, you realize, individuals try this. That’s a factor.
Elsie: I really like her a lot. She did probably the most for this film. She’s additionally been to Vidal Sassoon for this film. However that’s, like, probably the most iconic haircut.
Emma: She appears like Twiggy. It’s like a really 60s.
Elsie: She’s so fairly, yeah. Like, I can speak all day about how a lot I believe she’s probably the most lovely lady of all time.
Emma: And clearly a particularly dedicated actress, clearly.
Elsie: Through the phone sales space scene, Mia Farrow could be seen mouthing numbers as she dials Dr. Hill’s workplace on the rotary phone, particularly 477 turned the wrong way up spells H E L L. Hell. Okay, I don’t suppose they wanted that, however that’s a pleasant contact.
Emma: Yeah, I prefer it. It’s form of like whenever you’re in class and also you try this calculator factor and it spells out boob or one thing. Are you able to inform I used to be actually good at math? I used to be actually paying consideration in class. Okay, subsequent one. William Fort, who’s the producer of Rosemary’s Child, later grew to become satisfied the movie was cursed. Shortly after manufacturing, he suffered gallstones to such a extreme extent that he required surgical procedure. As he recovered from that sickness, Rosemary’s Child composer, Krzysztof Komita suffered an unintentional fall that led to a coma, and finally, his dying. Terrible. Then, in the summertime of 1969, actor Sharon Tate, Polanski’s spouse, was famously murdered by the Manson household. Everyone knows about that one. For Fort, all of it added up. The story of Rosemary’s Child was taking place in actual life. Witches, all of them, had been casting their spell, and I used to be changing into one of many principal gamers, he later recalled. I don’t know why he’s lumping in Sharon Tate, as a result of aside from being married to Polanski, wasn’t part of this manufacturing, so far as I do know.
Elsie: I really feel like different individuals died and he simply received gallstones and he was making it a bit of bit about himself.
Emma: I imply, I perceive having a part in life the place you are feeling like plenty of dangerous issues are taking place throughout you. Like, I believe we’ve all gone by seasons like that, however I don’t actually know.
Elsie: I don’t know, but it surely in all probability simply added to the success of the film on the time, or the film’s, like, repute on the time, I’m positive it was very controversial. Like, Emma and I grew up within the Harry Potter being banned period. And my coronary heart couldn’t take the issues individuals in all probability mentioned about Rosemary’s Child in 1968 and 1969 and stuff.
Emma: Nicely, I doubt I’d have watched it as a child. Yeah. Whereas I used to be studying Harry Potter as a child.
Elsie: I wager the church individuals had been actually upset.
Emma: I imply, they nonetheless are, I think about.
Elsie: Okay, ship us an electronic mail and tell us. Rosemary’s Child begins off with a pan shot that ends on the Dakota. A constructing with a reasonably wealthy and ominous historical past in New York Metropolis. So I suppose that’s what the true constructing is named. It was the town’s first true luxurious condominium complicated when it was in-built 1884. That’s actually cool. Based mostly on a design by Henry J. Herdenburg, who created the Plaza Lodge. Whoa! That is cool. Over time, it has attracted a plethora of rich celebrities from Lauren Bacall to Judy Garland. It gained notoriety for the dying of John Lennon, who was murdered proper outdoors the entrance of the constructing. In truth, the dying of the character Terry within the movie takes place eerily near the place Lennon was killed. That’s fascinating and disturbing. I’m glad that they picked a haunted constructing although, as a result of I do suppose it matches.
Emma: Yeah, it does match, as a result of plenty of haunty issues are taking place on this film.
Elsie: Plus, whenever you deliver that on a filming look, prefer it’ll at all times be the Rosemary’s Child constructing now too. So it’s like they weren’t actually bringing any extra creepy vibes onto one thing that was already like, we’re achieved.
Emma: Yeah. It’s unusual although, like to consider a metropolis like New York and for like one constructing to have a lot of various things, you realize what I imply? Since you’re like, it’s such an enormous metropolis.
Elsie: It’s true. In all probability each constructing has dozens of fascinating, scary, and exquisite in each form of story as a result of it’s such a historic place. We’re simply not used to that.
Emma: Plus, I imply, the Arconians had like three deaths in it already, and so they’re going to have one other season of Solely Murders within the Constructing, so there’ll be one other dying.
Elsie: I severely knew you had been going to deliver up Solely Murders within the Constructing, and I, okay, I’ll say, I fucking love Solely Murders within the Constructing. I don’t suppose we’ll ever speak about it on the podcast, however I like it. And Steve Martin is daddy, and like, we’ll at all times assist him ceaselessly.
Emma: Yeah. And I need each sweater and outfit that Selena Gomez wears, I’m like, signal me up.
Elsie: And Martin Quick is humorous, and anybody else who writes an article about how he’s not can go straight to hell.
Emma: Go to hell. He’s hilarious. Okay. Mia Farrow’s iconic pixie minimize grew to become a preferred coiffure after the film’s launch. Following the discharge of Rosemary’s Child, Mia Farrow’s brief and classy haircut gained widespread recognition and have become often known as the Rosemary’s Child minimize. Which is nice as a result of within the film, everybody’s like, what did you do to your hair?
Elsie: Yeah, however I imply, to be honest to Mia Farrow, it was her most iconic, like haircut period. And that’s like when in her, like, I’m Mary Frank Sinatra period was I believe proper after this film. So, it was attractive, and Emma and I each had pixie cuts in highschool. And it’s not for everybody, okay?
Emma: It didn’t look pretty much as good as hers, yeah.
Elsie: It’s not for everybody. It’s, sadly, Jeremy mentioned he had a dream that I shaved my head and it seemed good, and I used to be like, oh, Jeremy, that’s such a candy, beneficiant dream.
Emma: Yeah, I really feel like I’ve seen your hair brief and don’t do it.
Elsie: That is the correct amount of hair for me, proper? Most.
Emma: I do know. I at all times do need to chop my hair a bit of bit although after I see issues, you realize, like films and stuff. And I’m like, no, don’t do it. Don’t do it. You’ve achieved it.
Elsie: I truthfully simply need to like be Mia Farrow for a day. I really like her. Price this film from zero to 5 Demon Infants. 5 out of 5 demon infants.
Emma: I’m additionally gonna give it 5 Demon Infants as a result of the units are attractive, the costumes are attractive, and I believe the story is a ten, however I really like that creator, so I’m already a fangirl.
Elsie: It’s good, and yeah, if anybody thinks it shouldn’t be a consolation rewatch, simply give it an opportunity one time. Simply do it for us.
Emma: It additionally doesn’t must be for you. I don’t actually give a fuck.
Elsie: Bear in mind us, the creators of the Knives Out fantastical period. We won’t do you unsuitable, okay?
Emma: I imply, I don’t suppose this film’s for everybody. I do suppose Knives Out is for everybody. However I don’t suppose this one is. I believe it’s fairly arty and it has some fairly harsh themes. And a few individuals simply don’t need to cope with that, and I believe that’s effective. Nevertheless it’s a wonderful film. Alright, now it’s time for a joke, or a reality, or possibly a meditation with our expensive pal, Nova.
Elsie: Hey Nova, what do you could have for us this week?
Nova: A joke.
Elsie: A joke? Okay.
Nova: How does a rooster keep match?
Elsie: How?
Nova: Egg-ercise.
Elsie: That’s fantastic. Thanks. Thanks a lot for listening. You’ll be able to submit questions at [email protected] or name our voicemail anytime at 417-893-0011. Subsequent week, we can be again with our annual ghost tales episode.
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