But it did, so Moore and Swayze improvised-"I hope it wasn't a masterpiece"-and it worked.ġ8. Demi Moore took some pottery lessons so that Molly's artistry would look authentic-and the piece that she's working on when a shirtless Sam sits down behind her and she gives him an impromptu lesson wasn't supposed to collapse. It mines the same territory, but it just goes for the jugular."ġ7. Because then I think you can form a philosophy of life.To me, Jacob is the deeper version of Ghost. I want to make films that make you look at life through looking at death.
"To me, a movie that touches those subjects is a movie that touches you," Rubin said. But I believe in that state of being," Rubin told the Washington Postin 1990, after the release of Jacob's Ladder, the second supernatural drama of his to come out that year, about a former soldier played by Tim Robbins who's haunted by visions upon his return from Vietnam. Blanche looked at it and said, 'This is a movie.' That's when I understood how simple movies really are." Up to that point, all of my treatments were like outlines for novels. "I wrote a treatment and showed it to my wife, Blanche. "That's when I got the idea of making the story about a ghost trying to solve his own murder," Rubin recalls on his website. Bruce Joel Rubin said that the seed of the idea for Ghost was planted when he was watching a production of Hamlet, and he was inspired by the part where the ghost of Hamlet's murdered father appears and entreats his son to avenge his death. "It announced to us that she had her own ideas about who her character was."ġ2. It was "kind of an in-your-face choice," Rubin told Vanity Fair in 2015. But could you imagine Molly with long hair? Moore's hair was long when she was cast, so it was a surprise when she showed up with her now-iconic boy cut, courtesy of hairstylist John Sahag. She was paid a reported $350,000 for Ghost, then went on to star in A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal, Disclosure, The Scarlet Letter, Now and Then and more, all leading up to her record-setting $12.5 million payday for Striptease in 1996.ġ0. "It's either going to be something really special, really amazing, or really an absolute bust." "And I thought, 'Wow, this is really a recipe for disaster,'" she recalled at an AFI screening of Ghost in 2013. Ultimately, though, she saw Molly for the strong survivor that she was. Just as actors like Toms Cruise and Hanks didn't necessarily want to play a dead guy, Moore didn't necessarily want to play a person who was sad for almost an entire movie. Demi Moore, however, was everyone's first choice to play Molly, the love of Sam's life whose guard is understandably up when a psychic calls and claims she has an urgent message from her dead boyfriend.