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- $250 million today
- 25 million tickets sold
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Rosemary’s baby
All of Ira Levin’s books and plays have to do with a conspiracy. Rosemary’s Baby has to do with a conspiracy to birth the Antichrist and for the Satanists to take over the world, the Stepford Wives is about a conspiracy for the men in Stepford, Connecticut to kill off the women and replace them with lookalike robots, the Boys From Brazil has to do with a crazy doctor’s conspiracy to clone and mass produce Hitler, and Deathtrap is about two gay lover’s conspiracy to kill off one man’s wife, and then a conspiracy for each partner to kill each other off.
Ira began writing the book in 1965, Church of satan was officially founded in 1966.
Coincidentally, Ira Levin’s novel “Rosemary’s Baby” includes characters named Roman and Mia, and the film version would be directed by Roman Polanski and co-starred Mia Farrow.
Ira Levin
was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary’s Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), This Perfect Day (1970), The Boys from Brazil (1976), and Sliver (1991). Levin also wrote the play Deathtrap (1978). Many of his novels and plays have been adapted into films. He received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award and several Edgar Awards.
Levin was born on August 27, 1929, and grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx. Levin was educated at the private Horace Mann School in New York. During his youth, he was described as “a nice Jewish boy from New York”. He attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa from 1946 to 1948 and then New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English.
The post movie conversations are always a lot of fun, a ton of material being shared.
this was among the first ones so there was no official hour to end this on. When we started talking about next weeks films the conversation really sort of became preview watching.
here are the topics we covered this week.
Other perfect movies
Other Polanski films
Easter eggs in Rosemary’s baby
interview with anton levey book
Samy davis junior’s membership to the church of satan
What satanists are really like?
Cults and the governement
Scientology
Charles Manson and the government
Mia Farrow and Woody Allen
Sinatra
Satanic talkshow guests
The Elite and Child abuse
Ted Gunderson
Mcmartin school case
Capturing the Friedmans
Kinsey
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Roman Polanski
Early life
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański born 18 August 1933, is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, ten César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d’Or.
Roman Polanski was born on 18 August 1933, in interbellum Paris. Polanski’s father was Jewish and originally from Poland. Polanski’s mother was born in Russia. Her own mother was Jewish, but Bula had been raised in the Catholic faith. She had a daughter, Annette, by her previous husband. Annette survived Auschwitz, where her mother was murdered, and left Poland forever for France.
The Polański family moved back to Kraków, Poland, in early 1937, and were living there when World War II began with the invasion of Poland. Kraków was soon occupied by the German forces, and the racist and anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws made the Polańskis targets of persecution, forcing them into the Kraków Ghetto, along with thousands of the city’s Jews.
Polanski witnessed both the ghettoization of Kraków’s Jews into a compact area of the city, and the subsequent deportation of all the ghetto’s Jews to German death camps. He watched as his father was taken away. He remembers from age six, one of his first experiences of the terrors to follow:
I had just been visiting my grandmother … when I received a foretaste of things to come. At first, I didn’t know what was happening. I simply saw people scattering in all directions. Then I realized why the street had emptied so quickly. Some women were being herded along it by German soldiers. Instead of running away like the rest, I felt compelled to watch. One older woman at the rear of the column couldn’t keep up. A German officer kept prodding her back into line, but she fell down on all fours … Suddenly a pistol appeared in the officer’s hand. There was a loud bang, and blood came welling out of her back. I ran straight into the nearest building, squeezed into a smelly recess beneath some wooden stairs, and didn’t come out for hours. I developed a strange habit: clenching my fists so hard that my palms became permanently calloused. I also woke up one morning to find that I had wet my bed
The author Ian Freer concludes that Polanski’s constant childhood fears and dread of violence have contributed to the “tangible atmospheres he conjures up on film”.[22] By the time the war ended in 1945, a fifth of the Polish population had been killed,[23] the vast majority being civilians. Of those deaths, 3 million were Polish Jews, which accounted for 90% of the country’s Jewish population.[24] According to Sandford, Polanski would use the memory of his mother, her dress and makeup style, as a physical model for Faye Dunaway’s character in his film Chinatown (1974).
Film Career
Polanski’s fascination with cinema began very early when he was around age four or five. He would watch German newsreels being project in a square through a fence in the Krakow ghetto.
Polanski attended the National Film School in Łódź, the third-largest city in Poland. Polanski’s directorial debut was also in 1955 with a short film Rower (Bicycle). Rower is a semi-autobiographical feature film, believed to be lost, which also starred Polanski. It refers to his real-life violent altercation with a notorious Kraków felon, Janusz Dziuba, who arranged to sell Polanski a bicycle, but instead beat him badly and stole his money.

Polanski’s first feature-length film, Knife in the Water, was also one of the first significant Polish films after the Second World War that did not have a war theme. Knife in the Water is about a wealthy, unhappily married couple who decide to take a mysterious hitchhiker with them on a weekend boating excursion. Knife in the Water was a major commercial success in the West and gave Polanski an international reputation. The film also earned its director his first Academy Award nomination (Best Foreign Language Film) in 1963.
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Paramount studio head Robert Evans brought Polanski to America ostensibly to direct the film Downhill Racer, but told Polanski that he really wanted him to read the horror novel Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin to see if a film could be made out of it. Polanski read it non-stop through the night and the following morning decided he wanted to write as well as direct it. He wrote the 272-page screenplay in just over three weeks. The film, Rosemary’s Baby (1968), was a box-office success and became his first Hollywood production, thereby establishing his reputation as a major commercial filmmaker. The film, a horror-thriller set in trendy Manhattan, is about Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), a young housewife who is impregnated by the devil. Polanski’s screenplay adaptation earned him a second Academy Award nomination.
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In February 1969, Polanski and Tate began renting the home at 10050 Cielo Drive in the Benedict Canyon region of Los Angeles. In August, while Polanski was in Europe working on a film, Tate remained home, eight-and-a-half months pregnant.
On March 23, 1969, Manson entered the grounds of 10050 Cielo Drive, which he had known as Melcher’s residence. He was not invited.
Looking for Melcher he was turned away by a documentary photographer who was on the premises at the time. That evening, Manson returned to the property and again went to the guest house. He entered the enclosed porch and spoke with Altobelli, the owner, who had just come out of the shower. Manson asked for Melcher. Altobelli told Manson through the screen door that Melcher had moved to Malibu.
On the night of August 8, 1969, Manson directed Tex Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to Melcher’s former home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles. According to Watson, Manson told them to kill everyone there. The home had recently been rented to actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski. (Polanski was away in Europe working on The Day of the Dolphin). Manson told the three women to do as Watson told them.
The Family members killed the five people they found: Sharon Tate (eight and a half months pregnant), who was living there at the time, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski, who were visiting her, and Steven Parent, who had been visiting the caretaker of the home. Atkins wrote “pig” with Tate’s blood on the front door as they left. The murders created a nationwide sensation.
Tate’s unborn child was posthumously named Paul Richard Polanski. Charles Manson, along with members of the cult, was arrested in late 1969, eventually tried, and found guilty in 1971 of first-degree murder.
Polanski has said that his absence on the night of the murders is the greatest regret of his life. He wrote in his autobiography:
“Sharon’s death is the only watershed in my life that really matters”,
and commented that her murder changed his personality from a
“boundless, untroubled sea of expectations and optimism”
to one of
“ingrained pessimism… eternal dissatisfaction with life”.
Polanski was left with a negative impression of the press, which he felt was interested in sensationalizing the lives of the victims, and indirectly himself, to attract readers. He was shocked by the lack of sympathy expressed in various news stories:
“I had long known that it was impossible for a journalist to convey 100 percent of the truth, but I didn’t realize to what extent the truth is distorted, both by the intentions of the journalist and by neglect. I don’t mean just the interpretations of what happened; I also mean the facts. The reporting about Sharon and the murders was virtually criminal. Reading the papers, I could not believe my eyes. I could not believe my eyes! They blamed the victims for their own murders. I really despise the press. I didn’t always. The press made me despise it.”
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