#Song at the end of ghost patrick swayze movie

Swayze said for him dancing was the most intense way to connect with another human being. Now it's like, oh my lord, they're going to dance. SWAYZE: It's hard to do these days with all the celebrity and fame stuff, you know? At functions, you know, it's really a bummer because it used to be just a private moment with my wife and I on a dance floor. We just, you know, just, you know, you put on and you put salsa on and we rock. But regardless of the genre, at his core Patrick Swayze was a dancer. BAKER: Swayze was an actor, a dancer, he even dabbled in songwriting. RICHARD KELLY (Director): Patrick was really kind of ballsy to take this role because the character, you know, turns out to be a pedophile, and it's not easy to find an actor who wants to play a role like that. Richard Kelly directed him in the 2001 indie cult film 'Donnie Darko.' He robbed banks in a Nixon face mask and was on the run from Keanu Reeves in the 1991 film 'Point Break.' In 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar,' Swayze sported a bustier and a garter belt as a drag queen. BAKER: Patrick Swayze is not often acknowledged as an actor with broad range, but at times he played against type. RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS (Singers): (Singing) I've hungered for your touchРІР‚В¦ If you need a reminder, it involves a pottery wheel and this Righteous Brothers song. The takeaway scene from this film, which left the audience breathless, has no dialogue. Wheat spends the rest of the film trying to communicate with his girlfriend, played by Demi Moore. BAKER: In the film, Swayze played Manhattan financier Sam Wheat, who's murdered by a co-worker. There was tears, you know, like a hard rain through the audience. RICKEY: And there was not just little teardrops, but there was there was projectile weeping. BAKER: Swayze was back on top of the box office charts three years later with the film 'Ghost.' It was like watching Baryshnikov crossed with James Dean. CARRIE RICKEY (Philadelphia Inquirer): There's a moment where he kind of leaps off the stage where he's dancing with Jennifer Grey into the audience, and I heard a gasp, a collective gasp from the audience.

#Song at the end of ghost patrick swayze movie

Here's Philadelphia Inquirer movie critic Carrie Rickey.

But most could agree on one thing: the laconic Johnny Castle became downright eloquent when Patrick Swayze danced.

BAKER: At the time, the critics pretty much panned the film. SWAYZE: (as Johnny Castle) Nobody puts Baby in a corner. BAKER: An entire generation of high school girls sighed as he stood up for his partner with this unforgettable line. So I'm gonna do my kind of dancing with a great partner. But I always do the last dance of the season. PATRICK SWAYZE (Actor): (as Johnny Castle) Sorry about the disruption, folks. BAKER: In the final scene of the film, after being asked to leave the Catskills summer resort where he teaches, Swayze steals the mic and the stage to reclaim what's rightfully his. (Soundbite of song, 'I've Had The Time Of My Life') He made his first film in 1983 in Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Outsiders.' And then in 1987 he landed a role that would forever embed him in the anthology of American pop culture, as the roughhewn dance instructor Johnny Castle in 'Dirty Dancing.' My mother's a choreographer, so in all my younger formative years, into my teens and early adulthood I've done just about every musical ever written.Р”В«AKER: In that 2004 interview on NPR, Swayze credits the role of Danny Zuko in the original Broadway production of 'Grease' as his first big break. PATRICK SWAYZE (Actor): I kind of came out of the womb onstage. JESSE BAKER: Patrick Swayze said he always knew he was going to be a performer. Through his movie career, the actor played some real characters - a surfer dude bank robber, a road-tripping drag queen, a lovelorn ghost, and of course a dirty dancer. Patrick Swayze died yesterday after a long and public struggle with pancreatic cancer.