FILM 2265: GHOST (1990)

FILM 2265: GHOST (1990)

TRIVIA: The role of Oda Mae Brown was not written with Whoopi Goldberg in mind, but Patrick Swayze, an admirer of hers, convinced the producers that she would be right for the part.

The horrific sounds made by the "dark shadows" are really the sounds of babies' cries, played at extremely slow speed backwards.

The role of Molly Jensen was given to Demi Moore largely in part because Moore could cry out of either eye on cue.

Bruce Joel Rubin originally pitched Oda Mae as a real psychic. But producers thought it would be funnier if she were a charlatan who starts hearing Sam.

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Luis Guzmán (who was considered for the role of Willie Lopez) revealed in a documentary focused on character actors that he's frequently stopped by fans of the movie who think he's the actor who played Sam's killer. People ask him why he killed Patrick Swayze, to which he always replies that Rick Aviles, the actor in question, was the one who did it.

Bruce Joel Rubin got the idea for the film while watching a production of Hamlet. When Hamlet's dead father tells him to avenge his death, Rubin thought that would make a great movie.

Starting in the early 1990s (shortly after the release of this movie), hip-hop lyrics often included Patrick Swayze's name or the phrase "I'm Swayze" as a reference to or replacement for the earlier slang, "I'm ghost", meaning "I'm leaving/out of here/gone, et cetera." The Notorious B.I.G. was one artist who was especially fond of including this phrase in his songs. Swayze's appearance in the video for Ja Rule's "Murder Reigns" was also a reference to this movie's and his own interesting place in hip-hop culture.

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