He played Mr. Vargas, the biology teacher, in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a role he reprised in the 1986 television spin-off Fast Times. If the account is closed and he can't get the money back then it would be lost. The quotable "ditto" that Samand, in that epic final scene, Mollysubstitutes for "I love you" was reportedly something Rubin used to say to a girlfriend in high school. "I guess seducing someone's girl, even when they're dead, is worse than killing them in the first place.". Official Sites Makes the most sense. This is where the actual story begins, as the violent murder (plus the fact that Sam had the unfinished business of never truly telling Molly he loves her) causes him to stick around as a ghost. Not being easy to pin down, genre-wise,didn't hurtGhostin the slightest with audiences. When the East German GDR government constructed the Berlin Wall on the morning of August 13, 1961, not only did it end the freedom of movement between East and West Berlin, tearing apart lovers,. "I really think it was a blessing for me that the movie came into my life," he later said, per Wendy Leigh'sPatrick Swayze: One Last Dance. Design and text 1996 - 2023 Jon Sandys. And, coincidentally, Bill Medley played an instrumental (so to speak) role in another legendary Swayze momenthe and Diane Warnessang theDirty Dancingtheme "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," and they won the Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals. I want to make films that make you look at life through looking at death. 4. Answer: He tells Sam he was pushed and takes exception to Sam's incredulous response, adding that he didn't jump nor did he fall. Answer: The subway ghost was a paranoid schizophrenic who committed suicide by throwing himself in front of the train. Trivia: Writer Bruce Rubin's mother has a cameo in this movie. "Ditto" --- After Molly says she loves him. Cheery stuff. And he would say, 'Okay.' His concern when he notices Sam investigating the phony accounts and the way he insists that he take over. In a 1992 interview, the actor would open up about his struggles with drinking and cocaine abuse, and he credited being excited to go work onGhost as a project that was key to keeping him in line. But they weren't so awkward as to let body doubles stand in for them, as Zucker originally planned. The biggest stars in Hollywood were considered for the role of Sam Wheat, a banker who's murdered after he uncovers a money-laundering plot, just whenlife couldn't seem sweeter. For one, he was mostly insane, with periodic lucid periods. It is assumed the ghosts in the "cholera pit" died during a wave of illness that swept through New York during the mid-1800s. Question: After the subway ghost shows Sam how to move things, he gets angry at Sam's question about his death, making him kick a cigarette dispenser. No one on this earthly plane for sure can say whether that happened or not, butthe legacy ofGhostis the lasting lesson that lovefor a person, a place, a moviesticks with us as long as we're around. During his conversation with Sam, he's offended by any suggestion that he committed suicide. She was paid a reported $350,000 forGhost, then went on to star inA 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 forStriptease in 1996. [the Subway Ghost kneels and flicks away the bottlecap as if it were a marble]. He then jumps in front of a train. It would be, "he can run, but he can't hide.". If we could see them, our first question would be, how did you die? He probably got visited regularly by the same ones who took Sam to heaven at the end. As Sam leaves, he stops in front of a subway billboard for some kind of huge company. Ghosts Series 3: The Beautiful Message of This Adorably Daft Comedy, Ghosts Series 2: 'They're stuck in an existence they didn't ask for like all of us', How Ghosts Adapted Its Story for an American Audience, Horrible Histories: the 15 greatest songs, Always Sunny to Talking Sopranos: The Best TV Rewatch Podcasts Hosted By Cast & Creators, The Star Trek Story Bridging the Gaps Between Deep Space Nine and Picard, Taskmaster and The Underrated Comic Genius of Kiell Smith-Bynoe, BBC Ghosts Deaths: How Pat, Thomas, Fanny, Humphrey & Julian Died (and the Flashbacks Were Still Waiting to See). "And I thought, 'Wow, this is really a recipe for disaster,'" she recalled at an AFI screening ofGhost in 2013.