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NBC releases 'Rosemary's Baby' teaser (http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2014/03/nbc-releases-rosemarys-baby-teaser-alfre-woodard-to-play-president-in-katherine-heigl-pilot.html)
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And they've set it in ... Paris??? It was so much about the New York setting and the ominous world of the Dakota that if Ira Levin were still alive, I wonder if he would sue for false advertising.
As I posted at the time, I attended a repertory screening of Roman Polanski's classic film in Cambridge's Brattle Theatre (originally founded by a group including our own Thayer David!), and I was very tickled to learn that the Witches Coven in the movie acclaimed 1966 as Year One of Satan. Given that that was also the founding of our favorite show, the coincidence amused me very much. (Especially given that a few fundamentalist religious groups targeted DS back in the day as "Satan's favorite TV show." LOL!)
G.
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kind of a brief "teaser". what is anyone supposed to take away from that???
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what's funny is on some of the FB boards a chorus of know-it-alls(who, as usual, know nothing)are insisting that Ira Levin's' original novel was set in Paris, Roman Polanski "moved" it to New York for his filmed version of the story, and now this is "returning" it to it's original location...
whatever. [snow_rolleyes]
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Pretty banal teaser.
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what's funny is on some of the FB boards a chorus of know-it-alls(who, as usual, know nothing)are insisting that Ira Levin's' original novel was set in Paris
All anyone has to do is read the first sentence on the inside flap of the hardcover to know that's not true because it says:
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse were delighted at the chance to move into the Bramford, one of Manhattan's oldest and most celebrated apartment houses.
[snow_wink]
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there's another of this type on one of the DS boards who, no matter how many times he' been corrected, insists that Liz is Victoria's mother because he "read it" in 'shadows on the wall'. [snow_rolleyes]
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'Rosemary's Baby': See the first footage from NBC's remake (http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/rosemarys_baby_see_the_first_footage_from_nbcs_remake-2014-04)
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Well, I don't know. There isn't much in that trailer to go by. That being said, often I disagree in calling an adaptation of an original work into another film a "remake." It's another adaptation of the original work (in this case, Levin's novel), not a remake of the previous classic cinematic version. It's like Spielberg's adaptation of HG Wells The War of the Worlds. It was an adaptation of the novel, not a remake of the classic 1953 film - although it paid homage to it). The same with Carrie. The first film adaptation came in 1976 with the classic DePalma film. Then came the 2002 version, updated but closer to the novel than the first film (but also paying homage to it, since Larry Cohen who was involved in the first was involved in the second), and then the latest with Chloe Moretz brought into the twenty-teens that was the flattest. Maybe there's a reason why the newest Rosemary's Baby had its locale moved from New York (as in the novel) to Paris (and whatever changes also occur). I guess we'll have to wait and see. This could be a better adaptation of the novel and we need to wait. I consider the 2002 version of Carrie superior to the classic 1976 version (and I know that's heresy).
Gerard
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Rosemary's Baby Miniseries Gets Delivery Date, Will Go Up Against Revenge, Grey's Finales (http://tvline.com/2014/04/10/rosemarys-baby-miniseries-premiere-date-nbc/)
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VIDEO: Watch the First Trailer for NBC's Rosemary's Baby Miniseries (http://www.tvguide.com/News/NBC-Rosemarys-Baby-Video-1080521.aspx)
Finally more than brief glimpses.
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It looks so schlocky... not a hint of the atmosphere that made the 1968 film so memorable... I see the role of Minnie Castevets has been rewritten as Margaux and a French actress cast... She's a year older than me so middle aged and no doubt much more glam than the funky yet frightening persona the immortal Ruth Gordon projected...
G.
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my god. that looks absolutely DREADFUL.
WAY worse that I could have imagined it.
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We need to give it a chance. This is not a "remake" of Polanski's film; it's another adaption of Levin's novel. Let's wait and see. As good an Polansski's cinematic version was, there's nothing to say a better one couldn't come along. I enjoyed the '02 version of Carrie much more than the '76 which is a classic on its own standing. The '13 version was a dud. Let's wait and see. We've had four versions of DS. The original stands on its own with all its many, many foibles. The '91 was a Hammeresque brought-down. The '04, from what we've been seeing here so far has been admirable. The '12, to me, was among the best. Let's wait and see.
Gerard
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'Rosemary's Baby' miniseries 'brings a little bit of the horror back,' says star Patrick J. Adams (http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/rosemarys_baby_miniseries_brings_a_little_bit_of_the_horror_back_says_star_patrick_j_adams-2014-05)
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'Rosemary's Baby': Zoe Saldana says Roman Polanski's version 'does not exist in my nature' (http://zap2it.com/blogs/rosemarys_baby_zoe_saldana_says_roman_polanskis_version_does_not_exist_in_my_nature-2014-05)
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My interview with Zoe Saldana & Patrick J. Adams:
www.fangoria.com/new/rosemarys-baby-zoe-saldana-patrick-adams-interview/
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Wow, the first part, anyway, landed with a thud in the Fast Overnights, bringing in only an average of 3.7 million viewers. And what's worse, while the first hour had 4.1 million, the second hour fell to 3.3, so apparently hundreds of thousands of people weren't too impressed with what they saw in that first hour and they tuned out.
I DVR'd it last night, but I haven't watched it (or read any of the reviews). But a huge amount of people are going to have to have DVR'd and then actually watch for this to become even the slightest hint of a hit once the Live + 7 DVR numbers get factored in!
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Whatever becomes of this version on the ratings front, it seems that it's setting itself up for failure with the critics by being stretched out into a two-night, four-hour broadcast. The book is not a long one, and has a very narrow focus. There just isn't enough stuff there to make such a long film! They're going to have to throw in a lot of extraneous material and/or just s-t-r-e-t-c-h things out pointlessly. But this is America, where to make something better you have to make it bigger.
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'Rosemary's Baby': Zoe Saldana wishes she cared 'about what other people think' (http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/rosemarys_baby_zoe_saldana_wishes_she_cared_about_what_other_people_think-2014-05)
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the trailer was singularly unimpressive...
I smell a total dud. [easter_rolleyes]
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Not surprising given the ratings for the first part, but, whoa, the second part did even worse in the Fast Overnights, averaging only 3.3 million viewers.
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even thought this is being touted as an *adaptation* of the novel and not a remake of the original movie there are some classics that are just so indelible that cannot be remade or improved upon.
this was almost destined to crash and burn.
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I still haven't watched this yet, but I can see their point that the original's Rosemary was certainly a woman of a different time - a pre-Women's Lib woman who, as they put it, "was very respectful and obedient of her husband." So, I can see why they felt the story was ripe for an updating to today's world. But I suppose that if that sort of update is going to work in an "adaptation" to a story that, let's face it, greatly depended on the wife being so "respectful and obedient" to her husband, said adaptation has to be careful to still make the situation Rosemary finds herself in believable - or at least suspension of disbelief believable. And like I've said, I haven't watched it yet, but if they tinkered with things to the point that the central plot makes little sense because the audience can't accept that a more independant Rosemary would ever find herself in the situation that she's in, then, yes, the whole thing was destined to crash and burn.
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yes...
part of the reason Rosemary (in the book and in the original movie) found herself in the situations she was in was because she was subservient to not only her husband but also a series of male doctors in who's care she put herself in and who's increasingly bizarre demands she submitted to.
her sense of helplessness was what fueled much of the drama.
there was also a subtle dig at a woman "asserting herself" (getting "above her place") because it was Rosemary who wanted to take the apartment over a less expensive one her husband had already selected and was made to pay for her request dearly.
like some of our DS "damsels in distress" Rosemary was very much a product of a different time and place that is hard to replicate in a way that makes any sense.