Rosemary's Baby Character Analysis

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The main characters that are in Rosemary’s Baby are Mr. and Mrs. Castevet, Mr. and Mrs. Woodhouse, Hutch and Dr. Sapirstein. The people that are playing these characters are Sidney Blackmer, Ruth Gordan, John Cassavetes, Mia Farrow, Maurice Evans, and Ralph Bellamy. Each one of these characters they play brings something to the movie that makes it mysterious and questionable to watch. For example, Ruth Gordan, she is acting as the character Minnie Castevet. Her character is noisy, sneaky, she talks like she is from New Jersey, and she wears way too much makeup. When Guy Woodhouse told her and her husband that his wife is having a baby, she came over and told Rosemary about a doctor that was best in town, which was Dr. Sapirstein. She called him up on their phone and sat up an appointment …show more content…
The architecture of this building resembles the dark and ghoulish Gothic style buildings that are in the earlier horror films, such as, The Bride of Frankenstein. This movie is in color, but the colors of this movie are not so bright, they are more on the dull side of the color scheme. However, before the movie even began to start, a woman’s voice appeared as the background music that intends to draw the viewers into this movie. That woman constantly hums the melody, la... La... La, as if she was cradling a baby trying to calm it down, or even put it to sleep. However, this melody by Christopher Komeda, did not sound like a typical baby sound, it was further on the creepy side. This melody sets the tone that something strange will occur in this movie, except the viewers would not know when, until it happens. Therefore, during the beginning of the movie, when the audience finally meet the young couple, Rosemary Woodhouse and Guy Woodhouse, portrayed by Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, the viewer’s brace them self’s, for that moment when something appears out of nowhere and scares them since this movie is a horror