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Dec 18, 2020 · Yet, the film excels as one of cinema’s most polished and revered romantic comedies, with the American Film Institute listing it as the eighth best romantic comedy in its “10 Top 10” list dedicated to the genre.
Written by an Irish guy from the Bronx (John Patrick Shanley), directed by a Protestant Canadian (Norman Jewison) starring a woman of Armenian descent (Cher), a Greek-American (Olympia Dukakis ...
- The Original Title Was The Bride and The Wolf.
- John Patrick Shanley Based The Stylized Dialogue on Real people.
- Nicolas Cage Wanted to Make Punk Films, Not Movies Like Moonstruck.
- Cher Was Afraid to Take on Loretta.
- Dukakis and Cher Didn’T Think The Movie Would Be Successful.
- Norman Jewison Knew The Movie Would Win Oscars.
- Moonstruck Changed Olympia Dukakis’s Life For The better.
- Cher Enjoyed Playing The "Before" Loretta More Than The "After" Loretta.
- The Grandfather Released Tension from A Scene.
- Cher Used Sonny Bono’s Family as A Reference Point.
An earlier draft of Shanley’s script had it named The Bride and the Wolf, but the title perplexed Jewison. “I said, ‘The Bride and the Wolf? It sounds like a horror film,’” he revealed to the DGA. “So we had a big battle about that and it ended up being called Moonstruck because I convinced [Shanley] it’s about the moon. Everybody’s talking about t...
Shanley admitted to Bomb Magazine that Moonstruck’s language has a certain affectation and poetry to it. “I remember somebody saying, ‘People don’t talk that way, but if he talks that way in the movie you buy it,’” the playwright said. “There’s truth and not truth in that. I said, ‘Well, it’s not the way all people talk, but I was on the train and ...
When Cage was in his early 20s, he “wanted to make the kind of movies that are essentially punk gestures,” he told The Baltimore Sun. “I read the screenplay to Moonstruckand thought, ‘I would never pay money to see this film!’ But my agent insisted I do it, practically forced me to do it. When I saw the finished film I didn’t know what in the world...
In 1987, Cher wasn’t new to the acting world—she had been nominated for an Oscar in 1984, for Silkwood—but she was worried fans still wouldn’t take her seriously as an actress. A few months before Moonstruck was released, The Witches of Eastwick and Suspect came out, so she was in demand. “It wasn’t like Mask, which I felt I just had to do,” she to...
In an interview with The A.V. Club, Dukakis confessedshe didn’t think the movie would be a hit. “As a matter of fact, one day we were sitting around talking, and somebody asked Cher what she thought was going to happen, and she gave it the thumbs-down,” the actress said. “Nobody really expected too much out of it. And then look what happened. And t...
In the same interview with The A.V. Club, Dukakis saidshe knew the movie was a big deal when she went with Jewison to a benefit in Canada where he screened the film. “And he said, ‘You know, you’re gonna get an Academy Award for this.’ I looked at him like he was stark-raving mad. I thought, ‘This little movie and that little Italian lady are gonna...
By the time Moonstruckcame around for her, the then 55-year-old had mostly made a name for herself in theater. But when she landed the role as Cher’s mother, Rose Castorini, and ended up winning Best Supporting Actress (and saying the line, “your life is going down the toilet,” something her mother said to her once), she became famous. “It’s like s...
The “before” Loretta entails the gray-haired widow and the “after” is when she falls for Ronny. “But I much prefer playing her ‘before’ than ‘after,’” Cher told the Los Angeles Times. “The freedom is not interesting to me because that’s something I know, usually. Yet I don’t think of her as being constrained, exactly. My idea was to play her more a...
During shooting of the climax, cast members lost their cool because they couldn’t get the timing right. According to The New York Times, Jewison said Cage threw a chair at another actor, and Cher was threatening to report Jewison to the Screen Actors Guild for keeping them through lunch. Feodor Chaliapin Jr., who played Cher’s grandfather, walked i...
Cher, who is part Armenian and part Cherokee, didn’t know how Italian families worked. “I didn’t come from that kind of family. I really didn’t relate exactly to it, but I had a sense of it, like a distant sense of it,” she told Good Morning America. “Not like something that you can relate to first hand. I’ve known some families like that and I got...
But there is something more here, a certain bittersweet yearning that comes across as ineffably romantic, and a certain magical quality that is reflected in the film’s title. The movie stars Cher, as an Italian-American widow in her late 30s, but she is not the only moonstruck one in the film.
Nov 17, 2020 · Films like Knocked Up (2007) and Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) turned the rom-com into a “guy’s” genre, while films like I Love You, Man (2009) and Bridesmaids (2011) deployed genre tropes...
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta (Cher) accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny (Danny Aiello), than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny ...
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Dec 20, 2021 · The 1987 film, written by playwright John Patrick Shanley and directed by Canadian legend Norman Jewison, has so much personality that it seems like sheer luck it didn't come across as a giant,...
