SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
It’s time for Motion pictures You Missed, when we review a movie classic that someone somehow appears to have actually missed out on. This week, a New york city romance with Cher and a young Nicolas Cage.
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NICHOLAS CAGE: (As Ronny Cammareri) I love you.CHER: (As Loretta Castorini) Snap out of it.SIMON: “Moonstruck,” about a woman who is captured between her fiance and his hotheaded younger sibling.
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OLYMPIA DUKAKIS: (As Rose Castorini) Do you like him, Loretta?CHER:(As Loretta Castorini )Ma, I enjoy him awful.DUKAKIS:(As Rose Castorini)Oh, God, that’s too
bad.SIMON: The 1987 motion picture was directed by Norman Jewison.
The tremendously quotable movie script is by John Patrick Shanley. It was chosen for 6 Oscars. It won three, was a feeling at package workplace. Everyone knows this film except for Jack Corbett, a video producer at NPR. Jack, thanks a lot for being with us.JACK CORBETT, BYLINE: Oh, thanks for having me.SIMON: Now
, were you avoiding”Moonstruck,” or it simply didn’t enter your orbit?CORBETT: You understand, I learnt about it. I think I didn’t enjoy it because my mom actually liked it, therefore I presumed that-it was an act of rebellion.SIMON: Yeah. Yeah, I – no, I absolutely understand.
So you saw the film. Did you fall in love?CORBETT: As close as it could-a movie might make, yeah. It was, like,
probably the most, like, ridiculous motion picture I have actually seen in so long. Like, the Nicolas Cage speech in the basement- I don’t know how anyone but him could check out that off. And he’s slinging around bread in the basement.( SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE,”MOONSTRUCK “)CAGE:(As Ronny Cammareri)I lost my hand.
I lost my bride. Johnny has his
hand. Johnny has his bride. You want me to take my heartbreak, put it away and forget?SIMON: Cher won an Oscar for this motion picture. And the man who runs this sector, Danny Hensel, notes it was an excellent year. Holly Hunter was also nominated for”Broadcast News “and Glenn Close in”Deadly Destination.”However who won? Cher. What do you think about her performance?CORBETT: I was, like, falling for her. I’ve spent a great deal of time around that part of New York City, and I guess I was simply seeing the beats, the fantastic joys.SIMON: You know what I believe is an entirely terrific scene in there? Olympia Dukakis, who also won an Oscar, is great. And there’s just a very sweet, touching scene in between her and John Mahoney in the dining establishment. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, “MOONSTRUCK”)JOHN MAHONEY: (As Perry)How come you’re eating alone?DUKAKIS:(As Rose Castorini )I’m not eating alone. Can I ask a question?MAHONEY:(As Perry) Go ahead.DUKAKIS:(As Rose Castorini)Why do guys go after women?MAHONEY:( As Perry )Nerves.DUKAKIS: (As Rose Castorini)I think it’s because they fear
death.SIMON: It just underscored that romance is offered to people at all various stages of life, isn’t it?CORBETT: Oh, yeah. There were, like, three generations, and, like, they were all sharing such love, such romances. Like, it truly -like, marital relationship-it’s simply, like, so unpleasant and yet it’s, like
, so-I don’t know. It made me reconsider a lot about, I think, like, marital relationship in general.SIMON: It made you reassess marriage?CORBETT: Yeah. I thought before, I don’t understand, it appears, like, truly, like, messy. Now
I’m, like, oh, it’s messy, that’s great, but, like, not in a bad way.SIMON: Yeah. Do you think you’ll see it again?CORBETT: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I believe- it resembles, I want to rewatch it now.SIMON: Did you call your mother and say perhaps you were right?CORBETT: You know, I have to.
I have to.SIMON: That would indicate a lot to her, I think.CORBETT: I -she’ll probably hear this. I indicate, I’ll tell her.SIMON: Well, I hope so. Jack Corbett is a video producer for NPR. You can see him on the NPR
World Money TikTok page. Jack, thank you so much
for being with us.CORBETT: Thanks for having me. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG,” THAT’S AMORE “) UNIDENTIFIED CHORUS:(Singing)In Napoli where love is king … SIMON: And if there’s a
motion picture that you have actually missed out on, you can tell us all
about it at n.pr/ moviesyoumissed.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG,” THAT’S AMORE”) DEAN MARTIN:(Singing )When the moon strikes your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore. When the world appears to shine like you have actually had too much wine, that’s amore.SIMON:( Singing
)That’s amore. Records offered by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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