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Ghost (1990)
In Jerry Zucker's romantic, supernatural chick-flick
about a supernatural love affair between a sculptor/artist and a
NY investment banker:
- the sexual, hypnotically-spinning, non-nude pottery
wheel love scene; a 45 rpm record was loaded in a jukebox; girlfriend
Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) sensuously molded, formed and sculpted
a phallic-shaped clay object to the tune of "Unchained Melody" (the
1965 recording by the Righteous Brothers) when she couldn't sleep
at 2 am; her shirtless lover Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) kissed
Molly as he was seated behind her; he assisted her in reshaping
a collapsed piece of pottery (her failed "masterpiece")
by putting his hands together with hers, as she instructed: "Put
your hands here. Now get them wet. Let the clay slide between your
fingers"; the sequence continued with their extended love-making
and kissing ("hunger for your love") in their darkened
apartment
The Pottery Wheel Love Scene
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- the oft-repeated response "Ditto" when
Molly told him: "I really love you"
- the scene of senseless violence in which Sam was
mortally wounded and died in his beloved Molly's arms in an alleyway
after a serious and unexpected incident
- the scene of Sam's funeral
- the miraculous sequence in which Sam came back
as a spirit to warn her about a threat to her endangered life; while
she was seated at her pottery wheel, she spoke to herself about how
she was still reeling from his death: "...I broke into tears.
It's like I think about you every minute. It's like I can still feel
you"; the recently-murdered ghost-spirit Sam was crouched next
to her, and tried to reveal himself behind the grieving Molly as
she sculpted clay; he reassured her: "I'm here, Mol"; she
sensed his presence and asked: "Sam?"
- the scene in which spiritualist Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi
Goldberg) convinced a bereaved Molly that her dead lover Sam was
trying to contact her by speaking: "Molly, you in danger girl,"
and using Sam's favorite expression: "Ditto"
- in the finale's bittersweet, tear-jerking farewell
scene, Sam became visible to the grieving Molly; he explicitly told
her about his love and gave her his last goodbye - within the light,
before he passed on into the light of heaven: Molly: "Sam?"
Sam: "Molly." Molly: "I can hear you. Oh, God." (They
kissed. He bid goodbye to spiritualist Oda Mae (Whoopi Goldberg).)
Sam: "I love you, Molly. I've always loved you." Molly (tearfully): "Ditto." Sam: "It's
amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you. See ya." Molly:
(responding likewise) "See ya. Bye"
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Sam's Shocking Murder
Sensing Sam at Pottery Wheel
A Bittersweet Farewell
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