A Ghost Story - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[sylvia]

David Lowery, who both wrote and directed the film, characterized his idea to create a movie about a ghost as a primordial miasm in his brain, as he visioned a ghost exactly like the one that is presented in the movie. He believes that it is a very goofy image that is breaking from the norm in terms of how a story is told and the tools that are used for it.

[stephanie]

The pie scene was done with just one take. Rooney Mara said it was vegan chocolate flavored and tasted terrible.

[jeffrey]

A24 acquired the film before it even premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

[jeffrey]

The film reunites writer/director David Lowery with regular collaborator Casey Affleck, as well as Rooney Mara, both of whom starred in his feature Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013).

[kenneth]

The prognosticator has the longest piece of dialogue in the entire film. The monologue is more than double the combined dialogue of the main characters, who spent much of the film in silence

[kylie]

In the Pie Scene, it takes Rooney Mara from the second she sits down and starts eating to when she cannot eat any more and runs to the bathroom exactly 4 minutes

[harry]

When Rooney Mara writes the note to stick in the wall, she was instructed to write something of deep personal meaning to her, and not to share it with anyone. That note remained in the wall when the house was demolished. Since then, Mara claims she has forgotten what she wrote.

[bryan]

Filming was hidden to public. The project wasn't announced until months after filming had wrapped.

[kyle]

The pioneer girl hums the song 'I Get Overwhelmed' - the song Casey Affleck's character sings.

[jesse]

David Lowery wrote the film as a reaction to the 2015 New Yorker article The Really Big One by Kathryn Schulz. The article discusses potential natural disasters that could destroy humanity much in the same vein as the monologue given by the Prognosticator in the middle of the dance party who predicts that humanity as a whole is doomed.

[chad]

In the directors commentary for the film, David Lowery says that he plays the neighbor ghost.

[jim]

The card trick shown at the party is called "Haunted Deck". The magician uses an extremely fine and almost invisible loop of elastic about the thickness of a human hair, which is wrapped around his hand and which he slips over the card, and then pulls with his hand or finger to extract the card from the deck.

[harry]

Several variations of pies were baked and tested in preparation for the pie eating scene. Rooney Mara, a self-confessed picky eater, opted for a reduced sugar, gluten-free and vegan chocolate pie. Director David Lowery said it was delicious.

[wallace]

Was shot in Irving, Texas, off of the funds made from Pete's Dragon.

[leo]

Rooney Mara had never eaten pie before filming the scene in which she eats an entire pie.

[michele]

In order to achieve the shape for the ghost Casey Affleck had to wear several petticoats and a hoop under the sheet.

[kristen]

In an interview, David Lowery explained that the movie was inspired by his life and relationship with his wife. Lowery hadn't wanted to leave Texas and move to Los Angeles, and had argued with his wife about it. Much of the dialogue in the film is taken from those arguments.

[russell]

Director David Lowery intended to use music from singer-songwriter Ke$ha in the background of the squatters party scene. When producers reached out to Kesha, she not only allowed them to use her songs, she also arrived on set and served as an extra in the aforementioned scene.

[harry]

In one scene the young Hispanic girl Yasmina plays on the piano a few bars of the Ode to Joy, from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. In a later scene the Prognosticator speaks at length about this symphony, during which the film's musical score also begins to play part of this symphony.