Director: Jerry Zucker
So back in 2020 or 2021, I watched a YouTube video of the song “Unchained Melody” by Righteous Brothers with clips from the movie Ghost. I remember, being so flattered hearing the music and especially seeing the last scene in the video where the ghost boy and the girl kiss passionately, but it seems like they can’t touch each other. I was thinking about what could be the story behind this beautiful, sad scene!
After some years, I watched the movie Ghost, and now I know the story behind that beautiful scene I saw on YouTube. Let’s talk about it.
After a man is murdered, his spirit remains on earth to protect his lover from danger with the assistance of a fortune-teller.
Sam Wheat( Swayze) and Molly Jensen( Moore) are a happy couple living in an apartment in New York. Sam is a hardworking Manhattan investment counselor, and Molly is a pottery artist, who specializes in ceramic pots. There’s a scene where Molly shapes clay with aesthetic gratification as Sam embraces her from behind, and ‘Unchained Melody’ by Righteous Brothers plays on the jukebox, one of the most loved scenes in modern movie history.
One night, walking home after seeing a performance of Macbeth, Sam and Molly are attacked by a mugger. Sam desperately chases after the mugger following the attack, then walks back to see if Molly is all right and is astonished by what he sees. Sam finds himself dead in Molly’s lap! Soon we discover it was a planned murder.
Though Sam is killed, his spirit remains on earth as a ghost. He then finds Oda Mae Brown, a fortune teller, who has been pulling off weeping relatives for years, and now discovers that she has indeed got the gift. Her existence triangulates the relationship with comedy.
Swayze pulls off his character so well. Demi was good too( she with the hairstyle is classy). Whoopi Goldberg was amazing and simply hilarious as Oda Mae Brown must have to say. Tony Goldwyn was also good as Sam’s creepy best friend, Carl Bruner, and one special mention is the subway ghost.
Ghost is a classic and a proper 90s film. The background music was good. Doesn’t have the best graphics, but definitely has an amazing storyline.