The writer got it, I got it, and then Jewison didn’t get it. He thinks he has to say something nice to me.’ And then all that happened.
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I thought, ‘This little movie and that little Italian lady are gonna get an award?’ I said, ‘You really think so?’ He said, ‘Yeah!’ I thought, ‘He’s just being nice because I came up here to do the benefit for him.
“And he said, ‘You know, you’re gonna get an Academy Award for this.’ I looked at him like he was stark-raving mad. Club, Dukakis said she knew the movie was a big deal when she went with Jewison to a benefit in Canada where he screened the film. NORMAN JEWISON KNEW THE MOVIE WOULD WIN OSCARS. And that’s because we were all stupid and didn’t understand what Norman Jewison was really doing. “Nobody really expected too much out of it. “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. Club, Dukakis confessed she didn’t think the movie would be a hit. DUKAKIS AND CHER DIDN’T THINK THE MOVIE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL. I wondered if, at this point in my career when there might be some people out there interested in seeing my movies, they would accept me in this role.” 5. "I was a little frightened because there seemed to be all kinds of possibilities and all kinds of risks here. “It wasn’t like Mask, which I felt I just had to do,” she told the Los Angeles Times. A few months before Moonstruck was released, The Witches of Eastwick and Suspect came out, so she was in demand. 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. “I was in such a state of shock that I had made a sweet, romantic movie I had to go and do Vampire's Kiss right after,” he told The New York Times. His follow-up film, Vampire’s Kiss, was completely different from Moonstruck (for instance, Cage eats a live cockroach). That was my era of wanting to make new-wave, alternative films.” When I saw the finished film I didn’t know what in the world to make of it. “I read the screenplay to Moonstruck and thought, ‘I would never pay money to see this film!’ But my agent insisted I do it, practically forced me to do it. 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. NICOLAS CAGE WANTED TO MAKE PUNK FILMS, NOT MOVIES LIKE MOONSTRUCK. It’s just making a choice about which of the many things, many aspects, you’re going to choose to go with for a whole picture or play.” 3. I said, ‘Well, it’s not the way all people talk, but I was on the train and I heard two women talking and they were talking in the exact style of Moonstruck.’ I said, ‘Well, you know, I chose that.’ And that’s what style is all about. “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. Shanley admitted to Bomb Magazine that Moonstruck’s language has a certain affectation and poetry to it. JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY BASED THE STYLIZED DIALOGUE ON REAL PEOPLE. It should be noted the definition of moonstruck means “mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon crazed dreamily romantic or bemused.” 2.
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The father’s talking about the moon, the full moon. “So we had a big battle about that and it ended up being called Moonstruck because I convinced it’s about the moon. “I said, ‘ The Bride and the Wolf? It sounds like a horror film,’” he revealed to the DGA. THE ORIGINAL TITLE WAS THE BRIDE AND THE WOLF.Īn earlier draft of Shanley’s script had it named The Bride and the Wolf, but the title perplexed Jewison. Despite being superstitious about love, she agrees to marry Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), that is until she meets his jaded brother (Nic Cage), goes to see La bohème with him, and realizes “I love him awful.”ĭirector Norman Jewison referred to the movie as “an operatic multi-generational romantic comedy,” which is one reason the movie grossed an impressive $91,640,528 and won three Oscars, including ones for Olympia Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley. (She even won the Best Actress Oscar for her spellbinding performance a few months later.) Cher plays Loretta Castorini, a widow living with her Sicilian family in Brooklyn. Cher’s career made her more famous for singing than acting, but 30 years ago-on December 16, 1987- Moonstruck arrived in theaters and transformed her into a full-fledged movie star.
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