Rosemary

Rosemary’s Baby The opening sequence of Rosemary’s Baby sets up the suspense and horror to follow in the entire film. In this opening ominous moments foreshadow many eerie events that lead to the eventual birth of Satan’s and Rosemary’s child. The films opens with a slow pan of the city and dips down showing the many skyscrapers and leads into the first shot of the Bramford (or the Hotel Dakota which …

…suicide he makes threatening motions at her wrists and neck where his wife slashed herself revealing his truly disturbed nature at this point. He is obviously troubled by his wife’s death as he turns the water in the tub off and then leaves. Brando’s portrayal of Paul is certainly a powerful one showing such powerful emotions mixing sex, anger and feelings of betrayal all into the erotic thriller of Last Tango in Paris.