Ghost – Ghost is Jerry Zucker’s 1990 film, which really needs no introduction as it has become a real cult over the years and has always achieved record ratings on every TV passage. The film, which will be broadcast tonight at 21.21 on Canale 5, is, like films of the likes of Guardia del Corpo or Pretty Woman, a title that has become a landmark of a genre and that is therefore always interesting to watch from social and cultural changes.
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Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) are two young lovers starting a new chapter in their lives in a loft in New York. He’s a bank teller, she’s an artist: the two seem to have a promising future together, as if they had all the time in the universe to fulfill their every dream and wish. But fate intervenes and one evening Sam is shot dead during a suspected robbery. Hovering between the world of the living and the dead, unable to protect the woman he loves who appears to be in danger, Sam must find the world to unravel the mystery behind his murder. For this he decides to ask Oda Mae Brown for help (Whoopie Goldberg), a psychic who can hear him and who becomes his go-to place to take care of all the unfinished business. All this while Molly gets close to Carl (Tony Goldwyn), Sam’s best friend who apparently has secrets he doesn’t want to reveal.
The Troubles of Patrick Swayze
Ghost is not only a film that went down in cinema history with violence, but also the film that, together with Dirty Dancing, helped make Patrick Swayze an immortal actor, a performer capable of oblivion and defeating death itself, two movie characters who made history and captured the hearts of millions of viewers. While his role in Dirty Dancing was that of “fair and damn” canon, his Sam in Ghost is actually a very sweet, kind character who is mesmerizing with the very goodness of his soul. As we read on IMDB, it was Patrick Swayze who wanted to come on board the project. The reported interview reads, “I had to do Ghost for my soul. I came from The Hard Guy of the Road House and Cross Vendetta. I didn’t want to be seen as just an action movie actor.” Such was the weight of Patrick Swayze’s presence in the film that it was always the actor who suggested it Whoopie Goldberg played Oda Mae. Patrick Swayze has always been a huge admirer of the actress and was the one who insisted on the production that the Sister Act actress have the role of co-star.
However, despite this large involvement in the intentions of the film, Patrick Swayze’s shooting of Ghost also had contraindications. For example, the fact that his character was a ghost implied that Sam was immune to the cold, so in scenes shot outdoors at night, Patrick Swayze could not wear coats or clothing other than his character’s throughout the film. Worse still, the temperatures were actually very cold during the nighttime chase through the streets of New York. Since the scene involved a run, everyone was out of breath. However, since Sam is a ghost, he can’t breathe, and we didn’t want his breath to be visible through the condensation. Because of this, the poor actor had to chew ice cream to film the scene and be believable in the role of a ghost. But as stated on the Internet Movie Data Base website, Patrick Swayze’s biggest challenges weren’t physical, they were emotional and rational. Indeed, given his ghostly nature, Sam is a character who, for most of the film, finds himself as an observer rather than an element of the plot: for Patrick Swayze, Sam was the most difficult character ever to interpret from this point of view. precisely because it required some subtraction work.