Part four of my review of the infinitely awesome motion picture, Ghostbusters(1984) starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, and William Atherton.
Directed by Ivan Reitman.
Trivia
In the original draft for Bill Murray's character, sexual obscenities were written on Peter Venkman's door; but Ivan Reitman wanted to make his film a target audience for families so the phrase "Venkman Burn in Hell" was added. In fact, this is a nod to the final scene in Stephen King's Carrie - where there is a for-sale sign on the vacant lot where Carrie's house once stood, and someone has graffitied it with "Carrie Burn in Hell".
Scenes in the montage sequence of the Ghostbusters running around New York (and also driving in the Ecto-mobile) were done on the first day, largely without film permits. In one scene, someone who looks like they might be a security guard begins chasing after them, and Dan Aykroyd can be seen actually driving the Ecto-mobile.
In the scene when the terror dogs (Zuul and Vince Clorthow) come to life, were actual statue designs on an old church in Philadelphia.
As revealed in an interview with Mix Magazine Online the hit song 'Ghostbusters' was created 4:30 in the morning when after almost 2 long days of trying to create a song Ray Parker Jr. saw a commercial for a drain company that reminded him of a scene from the film. That commercial helped him coin the popular line "Who you gonna call?"
The character of Winston was initially written to be a guard at the Ghostbusters firehouse. Also, in earlier drafts of the script, Winston was the one who conjured up the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
When the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man arrives, Ray says that he remembered the Stay-Puft marshmallows from when he use to go camping at Camp Wauconda. Camp Wauconda is an actual boy scout camp outside of Peoria, IL.
The electric shock experiments that Venkman conducts on the college students parodied the real life Rhine Experiments, which related to ESP. In the early 1930s, Duke psychologist JB Rhine, interested in parapsychology, wanted to test for ESP. Using Zener Cards, a deck of 25 cards with 5 different symbols, test subjects were asked to report what card the test administrator was holding up without being able to see it. Though Rhine reported that one test subject was able to correctly guess all 25 cards correctly, the results have never been duplicated, and Venkman is apparently using electric shocks in an attempt to repeat the original results. Also, the Miligrim experiment was used as an inspiration, where people were asked to give increasing electric shocks to strangers. This experiment was more about seeing how far people would go when being pushed, and the movie used the same premise to see how people would like to have the good guy giving electric shocks unfairly in a test.
Michael Keaton turned down both the roles of Dr. Peter Venkman and Dr. Egon Spengler.
Chevy Chase turned down the role of Dr. Peter Venkman, he claimed that the script used in the movie wasn't the original script and in the original script was very dark and even more scarier.
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Ghostbusters(1984) Movie Review 5/5by OcpCommunications197 views
"Well that's what I heard!" LOL!
Bromden75 4 months ago
I have to check this movie out again.Good film.
killerrodan 4 months ago