I truly think you're being deliberately obtuse. There's NO mention of Roman Catholicism in this mess at all but it's an important element in both THE BOOK (remember that?) and Polanski's film, i.e. the Pope's visit, Rosemary's discomfort when he's belittled, her dream imagery (including Minnie's "young, healthy, and not a virgin" rant heard through the wall, the Kennedys, the Pope), viewing a crèche in a store window). This is more developed in the novel in which her conflicted state about abandoning her faith and its resultant semi-estrangement from her family gives readers the sense of a young woman who is finally able to infer the possibility of what's happening around her BECAUSE of her upbringing, with its strong belief in an Antichrist. These elements are all crucial to the story. And again, the author's creation is Irish Catholic, hence white. If he'd wanted her anything else (including various other "shades of white" of faith/ethnic background), that's how he'd have written her. One has to wonder if he'd even have sold the rights to NBC if he knew of their proposed changes, especially given his strongly pro-individual philosophical leanings. And at this point, I'm really tired of explaining it.
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MsLadybird99
10 years ago
Then the issue is with Catholicism not being mentioned and not the race of Rosemary, which is not important. Rosemary grew up in America, not Ireland, like millions (70% last I checked) of other Hispanic Roman Catholics in this country. Is her Irish ethnicity a such a major part of the book that another actress of any European ethnicity could have played this role without mentioning her Irish family? Of course. I think you are full of it.
There are countless adaptions of books that not only stray from the details of the original book, but turn it on it's ear. There is much to complain about the TV adaptation vs. the original movie (which did not dwell on ethnicity either), but having a woman of color in the role is not one of them, for people that don't have a problem with seeing brown/black faces anyway. It's this kind of prejudice that kept black and brown ballerina's and opera singers from performing so called 'classic' roles and were therefore relegated to the corps or the chorus instead of out in front.
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