Question: Why does Rosemary change her hairstyle in the movie and why did Terry die?
Shipper
6th Mar 2020
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Answer: I read this book as a kid and so did my mom. She said she cut her hair because she was tired of them clipping pieces for their spells. I don't remember that part in the book. I might have to read it again.
In the book (@1967), the reader is given no description of Rosemary's appearance. She gets a "haircut" at Vidal Sassoon because "everything was right and bright and lovely," and she wanted a haircut. We're told nothing about the look of her hair, before or after, except that Guy doesn't approve of the change. He thinks it "looks awful." In the film, Mia Farrow wears a wig. The "haircut" is Mia's real hair. The pixie accentuated the increasingly gaunt, sickened look of pregnant Rosemary.
Answer: Terry was not pushed. She killed herself. She didn't want to be responsible for birthing the spawn of Satan. The film shows Minnie and Roman returning home shortly after the suicide. (The film shows their alibi.) During an earlier scene, Terry and Rosemary meet in the basement. Terry reveals herself to have been a homeless addict, "picked up off the street" by her kind-hearted benefactors (who promptly got her knocked up by the devil). It's assumed Terry believed she'd gotten pregnant before the Castevets took her in. Roman, against Minnie's better judgment, later told Terry the truth about the father of the baby, assuming she'd be honoured. No one in the coven would have murdered the unborn son of Satan. If they'd known of Terry's qualms or plans of suicide, they'd have chosen a way of handling the situation that would have preserved the pregnancy.
Answer: They may have found out that Terry was not healthy-or fertile-enough, is my guess.
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Answer: Terry was murdered by the the Castevets (pushing her out the window). Terry became suspicious about Roman and Minnie and why they had taken her into their home. It may also be that once they met Rosemary and Guy, they found Rosemary to be a more suitable "mother." Regarding Rosemary's hair. When she became pregnant, she experienced severe and constant pain keeping her housebound. She finally decided not to give into it anymore and made an effort to go about her normal life, having lunch with Hutch, getting a new haircut, planning a party for her and Guy's old friends that they never saw anymore, and so on. It was only after she threatened Guy to go back to her original doctor that a spell was apparently put on her to stop the pain.
raywest ★
Terry may have actually committed suicide (with a little 'help') because she couldn't face the fact that she was to be used to procreate with Satan. This is indicated if you listen to Ruth Gordon's voice as the nun in Rosemary's "dream" when Rosemary was actually overhearing Minnie through the wall, chastising Roman with "If you had listened to me we wouldn't have to do this! We would have been all set to go instead of having to start from scratch! I told you not to tell her in advance. I told you she wouldn't be open-minded!"