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"elmer bernstein" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"You on Saturday night with in my day the Steelers wheels and the movie was reservoir dogs from 1992. Lots of people have covered that song. Lots and lots of people, some of them shouldn't have. Michael buble did a cover? No, I don't know why I'm laughing. Keith urban as well. Did a cover of that? I can imagine Keith urban doing it, but Michael buble. Anyway, I weighed 180 T and 80 with the movies and the clothing and the food and did you throw things at the screen? Did you roll your lollies down the floor? That perpetual. Build up spade and people just get really annoyed. Were you a naughty person in the movies or were you well behaved? Oh, 880 ten 80. Can I Jim? The one I remember as Elmer Bernstein's score to the magnificent 7, whether yield Werner and Steve McQueen. Oh yeah, brilliant. Yeah, a real driving rollicking tune that one, isn't it? Yeah. There are a lot of different things. The people in the village they are the same as well. It was all right. Yeah, yeah, brilliant. So for you, that's one of the great ones. What's another capital for you? That you love. That was also a Steve McQueen and the robbers on it. Let's see, I like the musicals, of course. What was your favorite? And Mary Martin. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, can you, what were some of the big songs from that? Nothing like our game? Nothing like a date. How does that one go? How does that one go? Just like a couple of bars, go. Nothing like a day. Nothing and as well. There is nothing like a team. Very good. Very good you can hold a tune there to jump very nice indeed. And what about the food that you were eating in the movie theaters or you like me? Popcorn. Popcorn? Yeah. Just plain popcorn or was it, yeah. Yeah, nice, nice. Do you still go to the movies these days, Jim? I'm a host brand. I've got horse by legs and I'm partially blamed. I couldn't see the screen. Yeah, that wouldn't be quite the same wood. Oh, that's a shame. No. And what about some when you're at home? Are you able to pick up any of the are you partially cited? You can see some of the images on. I can't really see it, but I listen to the soundtracks. I've got to say specific and so in the music and my fear lady and I've got a more awesome soundtrack. It's good enough for me. Oh, good on you, Jim. Yeah, very nice indeed. Well, thanks for calling nice to hear from you. Okay, yeah. Thanks, Jim. Take care. Very nice to hear from a very nice person indeed always like chatting with Jim. You're welcome to come back any time you like. I wait 180 ten 80 as the number. A traverses romaine, your choice of music is tremendous. I'm having a great night here at home. This one's from David and David says, draws from in, you've got to see drawers. I don't know. I was doing a great big mining act like baby shark. You know, it just looks so plastic and stupid, but hope my producer said, I know you've got to see it. It's a great movie. Maybe I will. I don't know, there's so many good books to read in movies to see though. I don't know if I could waste much on. What else is on here? Can I remain check out the George Lucas film American Graffiti? What a soundtrack of classics? Wall to wall hits in the great movie, how about rock around the clock? The clock tonight. It sits from David. Goodnight. Good on your David. Thank you. Now Kate, you've seen through one of my favorites. Mark not for did the musical score for two movies that I know of, one of them was Kel, CAO, about an IRA operative, very sad movie, but really good. And the other movie that I know of that he did the music score for was local hero. Which was a movie about a small village in Scotland, which I love as well in cases. It's got to be the music from local hero by Matt, not for the remain, the music was epic, not sure what the movie was, well it was like a hero. I really like your show, says Kate, I'll keep this tremendous thank you so much. Who knows what's really our next who knows what's all I can tell you actually. To Cindy lauper trek now that's all I'm going to tell you for now 19 past 8, looking forward to chatting with you. It's in my day. On news talks. New stock ZB brings you cricket news from around the world. Thanks to general finance, for great secured term deposit rates. Whether it's the black cats northern hemisphere tour, or the T 20 World Cup in Australia. Keep it loud for match updates and news across the day. International cricket coverage with general finance dot co dot NZ. Check out their credit rating. Only on news talks in the. Live onto zone pay per view, September 17th, part three Canelo versus triple G to take the trilogy, bad blood, a score to settle, controversy, brutality, pure hostility. For victory for history, for the trilogy, Canelo Alvarez versus gennady golovkin, September 17th, live on dissolve, pay per view, visit DA zn, dot com. Switching and saving with Geico azizi, so you're freed upon her life's big questions, like is the word dictionary in the dictionary. If so, a price says something like dictionary now. A dictionary is the word you are reading now and the pages they were printed on. Basically, this thing you are looking at right now that you're holding, reading words from its dictionary. As in, hey, look at me. I'm holding a dictionary in my hands as I read the definition of dictionary. Yeah, it's probably something like that. Switch and save with Geico. It's easier than you think. Good times, great memories. In my day with Roman Travers, use talks at B 21 pass date really good to have you here. It's in my day through tool, midnight, get a romance against all odds. It's a great song, a pretty average movie says Nathan. He's one of the cleverest, most amazing musicians that I know from that sort of pop era of the 80s and 90s in the sense that he can play the drums and sing and he's got a great voice. I might give it to you very soon. Nathan, if you're very, very good. Can I remember? I love listening to you. I was 16 and saw aloha Bobby and rose. The song was Benny and the jets. I love that song to this day and I've seen jaws as well since the texture. Why am I the only person in the world who hasn't seen drawers? There's something wrong there. Maybe it's because I grew up as a Catholic, I don't know, nothing to do with the Catholic Church, thou shalt not see. Stupid movies, I don't know. This is a great trick. And it's from a couple of movies. If you haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite, you've got to see that before you die. You're going to whip your pants with laughter and it's also from ghost of girlfriends past. This is Cindy lauper. In time after time, our news talks there'd be.
TuneInPOC
"elmer bernstein" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"You on Saturday night with in my day the Steelers wheels and the movie was reservoir dogs from 1992. Lots of people have covered that song. Lots and lots of people, some of them shouldn't have. Michael buble did a cover? No, I don't know why I'm laughing. Keith urban as well. Did a cover of that? I can imagine Keith urban doing it, but Michael buble. Anyway, I weighed 180 T and 80 with the movies and the clothing and the food and did you throw things at the screen? Did you roll your lollies down the floor? That perpetual. Build up spade and people just get really annoyed. Were you a naughty person in the movies or were you well behaved? Oh, 880 ten 80. Can I Jim? The one I remember as Elmer Bernstein's score to the magnificent 7, whether yield Werner and Steve McQueen. Oh yeah, brilliant. Yeah, a real driving rollicking tune that one, isn't it? Yeah. There are a lot of different things. The people in the village they are the same as well. It was all right. Yeah, yeah, brilliant. So for you, that's one of the great ones. What's another capital for you? That you love. That was also a Steve McQueen and the robbers on it. Let's see, I like the musicals, of course. What was your favorite? And Mary Martin. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, can you, what were some of the big songs from that? Nothing like our game? Nothing like a date. How does that one go? How does that one go? Just like a couple of bars, go. Nothing like a day. Nothing and as well. There is nothing like a team. Very good. Very good you can hold a tune there to jump very nice indeed. And what about the food that you were eating in the movie theaters or you like me? Popcorn. Popcorn? Yeah. Just plain popcorn or was it, yeah. Yeah, nice, nice. Do you still go to the movies these days, Jim? I'm a host brand. I've got horse by legs and I'm partially blamed. I couldn't see the screen. Yeah, that wouldn't be quite the same wood. Oh, that's a shame. No. And what about some when you're at home? Are you able to pick up any of the are you partially cited? You can see some of the images on. I can't really see it, but I listen to the soundtracks. I've got to say specific and so in the music and my fear lady and I've got a more awesome soundtrack. It's good enough for me. Oh, good on you, Jim. Yeah, very nice indeed. Well, thanks for calling nice to hear from you. Okay, yeah. Thanks, Jim. Take care. Very nice to hear from a very nice person indeed always like chatting with Jim. You're welcome to come back any time you like. I wait 180 ten 80 as the number. A traverses romaine, your choice of music is tremendous. I'm having a great night here at home. This one's from David and David says, draws from in, you've got to see drawers. I don't know. I was doing a great big mining act like baby shark. You know, it just looks so plastic and stupid, but hope my producer said, I know you've got to see it. It's a great movie. Maybe I will. I don't know, there's so many good books to read in movies to see though. I don't know if I could waste much on. What else is on here? Can I remain check out the George Lucas film American Graffiti? What a soundtrack of classics? Wall to wall hits in the great movie, how about rock around the clock? The clock tonight. It sits from David. Goodnight. Good on your David. Thank you. Now Kate, you've seen through one of my favorites. Mark not for did the musical score for two movies that I know of, one of them was Kel, CAO, about an IRA operative, very sad movie, but really good. And the other movie that I know of that he did the music score for was local hero. Which was a movie about a small village in Scotland, which I love as well in cases. It's got to be the music from local hero by Matt, not for the remain, the music was epic, not sure what the movie was, well it was like a hero. I really like your show, says Kate, I'll keep this tremendous thank you so much. Who knows what's really our next who knows what's all I can tell you actually. To Cindy lauper trek now that's all I'm going to tell you for now 19 past 8, looking forward to chatting with you. It's in my day. On news talks. New stock ZB brings you cricket news from around the world. Thanks to general finance, for great secured term deposit rates. Whether it's the black cats northern hemisphere tour, or the T 20 World Cup in Australia. Keep it loud for match updates and news across the day. International cricket coverage with general finance dot co dot NZ. Check out their credit rating. Only on news talks in the. Live onto zone pay per view, September 17th, part three Canelo versus triple G to take the trilogy, bad blood, a score to settle, controversy, brutality, pure hostility. For victory for history, for the trilogy, Canelo Alvarez versus gennady golovkin, September 17th, live on dissolve, pay per view, visit DA zn, dot com. Switching and saving with Geico azizi, so you're freed upon her life's big questions, like is the word dictionary in the dictionary. If so, a price says something like dictionary now. A dictionary is the word you are reading now and the pages they were printed on. Basically, this thing you are looking at right now that you're holding, reading words from its dictionary. As in, hey, look at me. I'm holding a dictionary in my hands as I read the definition of dictionary. Yeah, it's probably something like that. Switch and save with Geico. It's easier than you think. Good times, great memories. In my day with Roman Travers, use talks at B 21 pass date really good to have you here. It's in my day through tool, midnight, get a romance against all odds. It's a great song, a pretty average movie says Nathan. He's one of the cleverest, most amazing musicians that I know from that sort of pop era of the 80s and 90s in the sense that he can play the drums and sing and he's got a great voice. I might give it to you very soon. Nathan, if you're very, very good. Can I remember? I love listening to you. I was 16 and saw aloha Bobby and rose. The song was Benny and the jets. I love that song to this day and I've seen jaws as well since the texture. Why am I the only person in the world who hasn't seen drawers? There's something wrong there. Maybe it's because I grew up as a Catholic, I don't know, nothing to do with the Catholic Church, thou shalt not see. Stupid movies, I don't know. This is a great trick. And it's from a couple of movies. If you haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite, you've got to see that before you die. You're going to whip your pants with laughter and it's also from ghost of girlfriends past. This is Cindy lauper. In time after time, our news talks there'd be.
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"elmer bernstein" Discussed on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
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Eight seven central on abc. I remember when they were making all those movies that were trying to be airplane and missing by a thousand miles so when they would do those they'd hire leslie nielsen whenever they could any seen. They're doing the comedy music. And i'm thinking if you know how to make this kind of film like airplane you would be making fun of comedy music. There wouldn't actually be using it. Oh you would be very serious. That's the thing if you look at all. Elmer bernstein was one of the greatest composers for comedies. And i always loved it because he treated at all seriously at a house. You know there wasn't. He wasn't out there writing goofy music to remind you that what you're watching is funny. He was literally following the story. And doing what was real so if it was like a an you know any moment was treated with respect and sort of this grand jury that you that most people didn't weren't brave enough to do. I don't know what it was but he knew how to do it. He was he was it was. It was the same thing the same reason why they would hire. Somebody like leslie nielsen. And tell him. Don't play it like a comedy. Say this is the most serious movie ever and the lines are absurd but say them absolutely straight and that's what the zed did so well. Imitators did not do well right and and watch always scary well and that happened with leslie nielsen. He started to realize he was funny and once she did that. It was no longer funny. He was playing the lapse wall. So i don't think he was getting see him on an episode of. I just saw him on an episode of hawaii. Five o from. I'm obsessed with that show the old one and almost every night. I'll watch an episode. But am i love to see the old guest stars yet. Different people that he was on it and he he was amazing like he was great. That guy's such. He was such a great actor especially he was just straight and to the point and i just love that guy. The title for that always used to crack me up because the character's names were like dan jones as bob smith. I'm zoo as komo's right. You can't kim. Was it kim jong chin-ho worse than it had one name solo right but he played kona. I'm in season eight. He's not on. Hey a former guest of this show gavin. Macleod was on hawaii big chicken chicken. He was a drug dealer. And how about that hawaii. Five o theme song mike. It's the it's the best combined well just theme songs in general from that era where we're just so amazing and brave and just in your face and the best you can even imagine. Well they their goal was to burrow into your brain permanently succeeded and they succeeded and it was like. I remember on the incredible brad. Saying you know when this movie's over. I want our theme playing and i want kids screaming running from the theater singing this song and and what he was asking for was basically what we grew up with all of that. Great stuff that. We grew up with a way that we were treated musically we were given these incredible melodies to to to go even mission in palo at mancini shifts and all those guys and john williams is doing research for this particular show was fun because i got to sit and listen. We're gonna. I was gonna ask you about them. I got to listen to john. Williams lost in space themes and the time tunnel and earle. Hagen's montagne.
Ghostheads UK
"elmer bernstein" Discussed on Ghostheads UK
"The cute here. We get it. They cute trying to cash another baby. Yoda but the little bitty baby. Yoda ones a much cuter and looking better designed and painted and they all by hasbro as well and police mini-state of they look kind of cheap pichet to say Perhaps the painting these redoing a maybe the outlet has been released as like a A prototype so thing and maybe they're going to be redone say but there again soon as they get in the hands of the collectors they collect his will be preps Painting them weather in them to make them look a little bit more marshmallow than just plain white and a little bit blue. and well. 'cause you've a couple of the way they look like you've got one schmos you've got one match takes burn in and of what you call one on fire. You got this bitten. Oh this loads loads. And no doubt. They're going to carry gopher this. I can understand with marked on these because they've been leaks with these mini marshmallows for ages. Because you've got to remember that this film has been put back so many times by by now we should have this on blu ray by now if it came out on this visual date last year and and then when it go back again well but it would be out now but it's not and it's actually been put back again to remember. I still saying that it's going to be released on video on demand sometime. I don't know how have you locked. Think perhaps you know. Send your comments if you wanna see and we want to see it on. The big screen of goals but who knows is probably going to be on cinema as well as video demand after one. I'm looking forward to seeing and this clip They brought out report. It really did to me. It look like a clip specially made for advertising been then said that they actually a part of the film where poured gets attacked by a dog and there the actual badge. Now use the the release everything now to do with these mini staples in you can actually see a badge with tear. Doug weaver especially modified. Pk in it's mouth and it says attack on i. o. Six so he gets attacked. He sees the marshmallows. Then it gets a tap bother territory. And of course he likes it to his car and you see the terror. Doug land on his call which she's in the trailer in the main trailer. Now i'm looking forward to it. I really am looking forward to this film boats. It's it's good that we finally got some think more than just cornfields. Because i'm sick too difficult and field and to be fair. This film is so dropping off. Everyone's radar because he's keeps being pushed back by the time. This film's out. The kids are all going to be growing with kids themselves. This going to be mova time. Different freights present when they filmed him when the premier is us strength but there again strange times and covert and everything is just how releases govern the moment. so i'm really looking forward to it also What is well is a couple of clips some reactions to the to the clip that was released and we certainly life fifty-seven seconds long something like that. My initial reaction to it was because i was at the time when he put it on. I was like what the trader. But he's actually just to clinton. I was like this is really really good and there is a couple of easter eggs in this when you watch the ghostbusters news. Actually when when they say. It's like the terminator there's a terminator to reference straightaway in it. Great and i understand by the looks real good so i'm going to do now with play some reactions to the clip the been online and well you enjoy an loss of linked to each one of these clips so you can actually see them on youtube themselves. So i hope we've got geek. That's life and his reaction. Hellabrunn welcomes a geek. Dad life issue host jay glattfelder. Here it has been nearly. Oh gosh over a year. Since we've seen any new footage from ghostbusters afterlife. And today all the ghostbusters and sony pictures. Social media accounts dropped this a cute little clip from the new ghostbusters film and I you know. It's really short. But i wanna talk about it here on the channel because i am a big ghostbusters geek. I'm super pumper. This movie and plan to cover just about every aspect of it for merchandising to the film itself so if you want to be notified win these episodes drop make sure that his scribe button and that bill icon if you like this video and want me to do more. Click that button all right. Let's dig into it. Let's talk about it so you know what i. I saw this clip. When i woke up this morning kind of scrolling through my social media feeds. I thought maybe it was a commercial for some new state of marshmallows that they were going to release. I'm really excited for the new ghostbusters. Zero it starting to hit toy shelves right not toy shelves Starting to hit a grocery store shelves right now and but no. This is actually a clip from the movie revealing a new mini puff character and it just opens up with paul rudd. Ina grocery store here to get some baskin robbins ice cream. I'm guessing there's a sponsor of this film and hear a scream in the background. So one of the things. I quickly notice as the scene is unfolding is the elmer bernstein. Score from the first ghostbusters. Movie i think it's such an essential component to what made that first movie special and it's kind of one of the things that really drags ghostbusters to for me Is it was completely different score. Didn't really fit the mood. So i really hope that this is actual score that we might get in the final films. I really really doug How they really pulled in that original elmer bernstein score it made the video came really awesome as well so i i hope that is just a small sign of things to come for what we're gonna get in ghostbusters and then a very quickly. We see the stay puff marshmallows. Almost the same types that we had in the first ghostbusters film But in this case these little cute mini puffs Kind of hop out of the bag and start to wreak havoc They're cute it definitely had of five of gremlins of for me with them kind of got gliding on the roomba as well as you know starting to roast themselves over one of the grills in this i guess it's kinda like a walmart And then also making the smallest little hand of flame thrower thing whatever. Those are called But gosh it was just a really funny scene Was really short now under a minute. I love them. I think it's a clue to shandra mining company. It must tap in some way to kind of reactivate whatever metallurgy or physics that he use to open the portal of for goes to enter new york city in nineteen eighty-four and very clearly tapped into that. Somehow maybe it's activated. I'll stay puff marshmallows in this town. That they're in so. I think it's really cool But i'd love to see little action figures of these mini puffs. It's such a great marketing opportunity. Look at how much overdone The child or grew From the mandalorian. And i know my son loves stay. Puff and these little guys are so cute. I of spark a whole bunch of them. Just kind of put around My office and toy room. So i really dig it excited to see more and really excited if hopefully finally see this movie when it drops in fall of twenty twenty one fantastic now. We have got to number one. And it's from the real. Rejects greg and john here ghostbusters. Afterlife released a little teaser here. Many puffs character reveal ghostbusters. Afterlife is a movie that i keep forgetting kind of exist. It's like every time i hear about it. I'm excited every time i see something of it. I'm like ooh. I'm really looking forward to it. But for some reason. I kind of forget about this from time to time. You know a whole lot else going like either. A lot of bigger movies happening right now. Let's see.
SpyHards Podcast
"elmer bernstein" Discussed on SpyHards Podcast
"Do it. And i did it and movie never got released was. The director became quite famous. Eventually john mckiernan. Who did predator all that. Sorta stuff but That just totally hooked me. I went. This is what i should be doing. This is absolutely what i should be doing so much. More my talent than trying to write pop songs you write a pop song dislike. You're aiming for this teeny little bullseye. And it's really not my talent. Talent is very broad very eclectic musically all over the place which is perfect for film composition. So i had been working with a group of musicians at a studio called clover studios and The guy who was the producer was producing me in my brother's named chuck plotkin who ended up being head of anr of geffen produced. A lot of the bruce springsteen albums but my friends in fact one of them who i was. We just spoke to earlier today. My friends at turned out who were playing all the demos. Their parents were all film composers. It was just totally Serendipity so this friend who. I was talking to few hours. Goes peter bernstein bass player. Whose father happened to be elmer bernstein. then there was andrew gold the great guitar player whose father was ernest gold. Who wrote exodus then. There was wendy waldman who singing and writing songs. Her father was fred steiner. Who wrote the perry mason theme allotted to star trek slot. Twilight zones a rocky and boeing field theme. And so i went. Your dad's are film music. So i called them up into three of them. Basically became my mentors each in very different ways and helped me start my career. It was really really amazing new. Your first film was Acapulco gold right. I don't think that was my first film. But maybe one of the first ones. I'd have to look it up right right. What was sort of that. I i guess i'm looking more at the not so much. What the credit was so much as your first film because the way i always look at it as a musically talented person it seems like it'd be hugely overwhelming sitting down to do your first film score when you're presented with the materials so what was what was that. I experience like really hard to remember. But i i wasn't overwhelmed at all because i was just never that way i just. I had written three musicals in college. I had gotten What's called a watson. Thomas watson fellowship to go to. That's where i was in england writing music for a year I went all sorts of awards. I mean i was never There's never a problem for me to just sort of sit down and do something in fact but i tell young students. I talk at film schools. I never say no. Can you do this kind of.
Around the World in 80s Movies
"elmer bernstein" Discussed on Around the World in 80s Movies
"They were staying in the family cottage. They got up the investigated and they saw this tube shaped flitting of blue and green lights at the top of the stairs. This caused him immediately to escape in stay elsewhere in the early nineteen eighties. Dan's father he found a bunch of journal articles that were written by dan's grandfather in the early twentieth century that described their families. Alternate lives as it were already and spiritualists. They let seances. People fell into trances at once described. A trumpet had voices coming out of it. As it mysteriously floated on its own around the room. It fell crashing down to the floor when somebody was not part of the the say on circle walked into the room. Accurate would later. Convert that same seance room into his private office. He claimed where his family. They've always done their business in that room. So why not while there. He was reading an article on quantum physics and parapsychology really keyed in on this theory. That would shape some of his beliefs later about the possibility of freezing an apparition using modern technology. Now accurate is somebody who thinks parapsychology has always been unfairly. Unfairly disregarded many people have unexplainable experiences and yet dismissed them as somehow just their imagination. Most people just keep all of that inside only about ten percent. He says reports that they've seen anything like that to somebody else and he mused that more people might actually reach out if there were ads on television or listings in the yellow pages that cokes people to anonymously contact paranormal investigators that were ready to believe them around. This time aykroyd. Who happen to be a fan. Not only of ghosts and parapsychology but he also is a fan of old comedy any amused while he was watching a lot of old comedies. That and comedy have always really gone together. Laurel and hardy did the live ghost bob. Hope did a film called ghost. Breakers abbott and costello did hold that ghost olsen and johnson ghost catchers the bowery boys did spook busters and ghost chasers. The three stooges did the ghost talks and martin and lewis did scared stiff. He mused that he may be. The time was ripe for it. Goes comedy for the nineteen eighty s. Something that would incorporate not only some of the funds slapstick comedy of yesteryear but also more modern thought parapsychology. Quantum theory scientific gadgetry. The work of celebrity ghost hunters like hans. Holzer accurate took all of these ideas and he started writing a ghost hunting. Comedy screenplay in late nineteen eighty-one it was meant to be a vehicle for him and his frequent collaborative comedic partner john belushi the title he put on the screenplay ghost smashers set in the future. Supernatural beasts have emerged on earth after microwave transmissions torn a hole in the fabric of our dimension accurate and belushi were to play these blue collar guys name stance and bank men who work for this inter dimensional franchise that specializes in trapping ghosts. Their inter. dimensional. Employer named shandor has trapped zule. This deadly minion of a powerful demi-god cal goes earlier and stanton bateman are assigned to take on goes irs powerful that have been sent into their dimension to retrieve zoll the final act would depict the ghostbusters entering into goes irs supernatural dimension to battle the demi god as ackward was putting all of this together in march of nineteen eighty two while he was writing line for blue cheese character. Accurate would receive a fateful phone. Call from his agent bernie brielle stain. Brill scene informed. Aykroyd that belushi had just died of a drug overdose. This tron and depressed accurate really found not much joy in continuing to work on this rather grim script that he had meant for his fallen best friend and he pushed it aside at least for now in one thousand nine hundred three accurate started to talk about what he was working on any mentioned his half complete ghost smashers script to his agent brill's dean and he wondered if you know maybe this was still worth completing. He had a lot of really good ideas that he was putting into it. He thought maybe maybe could co star. Somebody else michael keaton. Maybe another saturday night. Live alum likes chevy chase or maybe bill. Murray listing showed a copy of the script to blue cheese former agent. Mike ovitz and ovitz took the idea over to universal pictures to executive. Sean daniel daniel thought you know the natural choice to head on. Was the person that accurate had worked with best in movies blues brothers and trading places director. John landis unfortunately at that time landis was mired in legal issues following tragedy that caused the deaths of several actors doing segment of twilight zone. The movie he was seeking to get away from hollywood for a while. Now at that time ovitz represented the other snl alum. That was discussed bill. Murray he thought you know this could sell pretty easily if were a bill. Murray and dan ackroyd vehicle so he set up a meeting between the comedians and murray expressed interest. He thought you know maybe should take it to ivan reitman. Somebody at worked with before they made two successful movies together. Meatballs and stripes in and right man happened to be another ovitz client so ovitz took it the right man but reitman has he read it. He really didn't like it. He thought you know this was all action. The characters were fighting monsters on every page. This would easily cost. Just forty pages. He read one hundred and fifty million dollars to make. It was an action packed. fantasy extravaganza. There was not much in terms of characterizations are suspense or pacing. A romance and it was also too dark to really be funny and it used a lot of parapsychology lingo that only a physicist might fully comprehend. He pushed aside and pretty quickly forgot about it. Accurate though decided to complete the script after all he added a third ghost smasher named ramsey. This was a role he hoped could be filled by. Trading places co star. Eddie murphy eddie murphy. Though was pretty busy at the time he was doing. Snl and he was going to follow that up with a stand up comedy tour eventually becoming tv. Special called delirious but accurate was not dismayed. He continued to complete the script and in order to help sell the concept. He enlisted the help of a character. Illustrator friend named tom and riga's in rica's drew up. Conceptual art demonstrating the look of various creatures that accurate hat in his script as well as a lot of scientific equipment that was used by the ghost smashers accurate videotape himself wearing a prototype. Go smasher uniform and he was holding a makeshift neutron wand the weapons that these measures would use to capture ghosts. Wants a script was complete. He sent the package again to ivan. Reitman roman took a look at the videotape. And he thought this was intriguing. He gives the script another look. He still found the whole thing exhausting but he liked the concept of a company that was called out to extinguish ghosts like some of firemen. He decided he was going to meet with accurate and he offered some suggestions on how he could make that story much more accessible. First reitman felt that this story should be set the modern day not in the future. It should be in an american city that everybody who is watching this film would recognize new york city preferably and instead of jumping right into the action right away. This should be an origin story. It should show how the company started and the invention of the ghost catching equipment and how the men make their first bust. Audiences would be keyed in all the way from the beginning as to what was going on. Raymond was pretty busy at the time. He had several projects that were cooking including one with herald ramos. It was called big trouble. This was meant to be a potential vehicle for a few comedians including bill murray and john candy and it was gonna be set on an alien planet right suggested getting ramos on board to help right ghost masters and to offer him a starring role to help. Sweeten the deal. The visited ramos's office on the burbank studios lot and reitman began to explain the premise and told ramos that you know maybe he should cannibalize a lot of the concepts. He was putting into big trouble and use them in ghost measures including one about characters becoming dogs and then turning back to human again. Listen for about twenty minutes. Ramos said he was in in may of nineteen eighty-three set up a pitch meeting with columbia pictures. Chair frank price. He pitched it as poltergeist. But with bill. Marion gandak rate as the rescue team. Price agreed to fund twenty five billion dollars. If this film could get into theaters by june of nineteen eighty-four. They needed a big summer. Release and it was also two months prior to the summer olympics. Which would cut into the potential audience. This left only thirteen months to overhaul the entire accurate original script to cast the film and to find an affects house that could deliver hundreds of high-tech optical effects now another hurdle was that murray still not officially committed. He said he was trying to branch out at the time as a serious actor in the pet project that he had been co writing this adaptation of w somerset. Mom's drama the razor's edge. It was stalled. They were having a hard time trying to get somebody to make this film and that left his in doubt for some time aykroyd devised a solution that might benefit all parties. He said that they should contact columbia. And say that if they wanted. Murray for ghost masters they'd have to fund the razor's edge. I saw columbia had a producer attached to the razor's edge within an hour of frank. Price hearing murray's ultimatum. Now murray was off on the other side of the world making razor's edge ramos and right men visited the basement of accolades. Martha's vineyard home to hammer out a new script. Accurate was very optimistic about working with ramos. Work with right before toronto. Tv game show called. Greed and ramos also had a surprising knowledge about psychics about the history of the medium medium's ancient myths and quantum physics. I they decided they were gonna title this to ghostbusters ghostbusters. Just had a more comedic ring to it. Not that the comedy would work better if the character would control their own fate instead of just do whatever they do just for a paycheck heroes went from blue collar latkes to scientists and that was meant to explain their ability to create these sophisticated hardware inventions. Right men pushed the idea. Further by having the characters become university. Parapsychology professors professors. Who were forced out of jobs. And the started their own practice and design their high tech tools to prove their theories on the job while exterminating ghosts in a new york that has suddenly become overrun by ghost activity. Now an accurate original script. There really was very little distinction between stance and bank men in ramsey ramos bought. This was all wrong. He felt that even the smallest character in ghostbusters should have a distinct personality and something to contribute to the overall plot or the comedy so ramos rewrote banks. Dialogue specifically for bill murray. He had a knack for that having experienced scripting him before and he added another ghostbuster character that he could play ramos. Took the name. Egon from former classmate. Who was a hungarian refugee and spangler after german philosopher. Oswald spengler he modeled egan's appearance after somebody that he saw on the cover of an architectural magazine. The character of ramsey was rewritten as winston zanu. More an ex military demolitions expert that was hired to be the ghostbusters headquarters security guard. Winston would be there as a non scientist and he could act as an audience surrogate for the ghostbusters to explain their concepts. And all of their hightech hardware to the murray's character peter bank and he became the pitch man of the group the mouth accolades ray stance. He would be the enthusiastic engineer. The heart or the hands and ramos's egon spangler would be the stoic data driven nerd the brain. There were more character touches involving ghosts in their life and the containment system. But raymond decided he didn't want any elements that portrayed ghosts sympathetically. He wanted them eliminated. Because those things took away from the comedy he also nixed accolades intended ending where the men would fight solo in different dimensions because he thought the comedic chemistry work much better when these men were together as for the first bust made by the ghostbusters they decided to centered around one of accolades. Various apparitions called onion head. The onion head goes deep was later renamed by the real ghostbusters cartoon but at that time it was called onion head and he was called that because this goes was meant to have a disgusting stench about him. How many of its scatalogical qualities was cut from the film due to pacing issues now all of goes irs minions that aykroyd concocted the state puffed marshmallow man a giant mascot come to life was one that showed the most comedic possibilities so its appearance was pushed to the climactic ending. It used to be kind of in the middle of ackward story. It was going to be a surrogate for the main. Daddy goes or goes. There was a name that accurate took from a real life account of a haunting in england and they went back and forth to how goes or should look when she looks like the devil. Maybe it should be evil. Shandor who is rewritten to be kind of a cult leader for the purpose of their new story. Chander would be portrayed as kind of comical guy in a suit somewhat like peewee herman they surmised or maybe he should be mr steep left himself. Raymond pushed for goes to have a much more in drowsiness. Look it could be pretty much any. Look that he or she wanted so after grace jones and and carlisle could not commit to playing goes on short notice secured. The services of yugoslavian actor slits giovane now ramos also felt that the story really should have a love interest so they created a character dana barrett. They put the their first revision in that first ramos. Accurate script details would be revealed to be a inter dimensional extraterrestrial now realizing that this angle really. It was meant more for laughs than romance. They still needed aroma so they later changed dana to a human client altogether and she would be living in a building that becomes the source for the dramatic uptick in ghosts in new york. They also developed a comical neighbor. Indiana's building in louis telly. Who would get possessed. And then dana would be put into mortal jeopardy because bank men would end up falling for dina that would give the ghostbusters additional incentive to prevail when she turns into a victim now. Many actresses did audition to play dana barrett. Denise crosby daryl hannah julia roberts among others sigourney weaver's agent got her an audition but raymond thought maybe she was just too serious but that was kind of the point of her auditioning. She hoped that shedding her ice queen image would increase her appeal to do other kinds of movies. She'd performed dini comedy before she didn't quite a bit off broadway and she would in her audition win reitman over altogether she spontaneously pretended to be possessed. Like a dog in her audition. She got on all fours. She started howling. She started gnawing on the furniture cushions in his office. Raymond was pretty much sold. After that and her dignified intelligence had ramos in ripened reconsidering the character of dana barrett altogether s. Somebody who would be much stronger instead of fashion model. They let weaver choose her to be a musician. Investments should treat dana as if dana was out of his league and he needed to prove himself worthy of her attention. Her audition performance also had them changed the script so that dina would be possessed like louis and they would become terror. Dogs millions of dozer in the next script revision. Now the neighbor character lewis. Telly that was written with john. Candy in mind specifically his johnny larue persona from setv when reitman gabe candy script can't really had a hard time as to how to wrap his head around how to play lewis. He thought well maybe should be a german guy and he went to have a lot of big dogs around. Raymond was not interested in any of that he thought it was distracting. And besides they were gonna have terror dogs later. The audience would be confused by having all of these dogs all over the screen. So further complicating the issue was the fact that candy at that time was negotiating with disney to make three hundred fifty thousand dollars a movie and he thought he shouldn't do ghostbusters for that. Which reitman was not pleased about after doing his cameo for the ghostbusters music. Video reitman really never worked with candy again now. Raymond called on other improvisational comedians. To read for the louis tully role now that candy was not really going to be in the running that included others like michael mckean and others reitman had worked with before right in the end with choose candies. Setv buddy rick moranis who eagerly accepted under the condition that he could rewrite the swinging bachelor character meant for candy into a nerdy accountant that he thought he could really add a lot of comedic value to now sigourney. Weaver proved to be just as silly in quick-witted as the other comedians. That she had on board she was really game for anything that they threw at her and and more in a scene where demon arms burst through an armchair to assault dina while she's sitting in it. The technicians were very cautious. They didn't want to touch her own. Roughly and also wanted to avoid certain places. They thought it would be rude to grabber timid. takes weaver. She started barking at them. In get rough molested me and they stopped holding back after that for winstons anymore. The top choices of eddie murphy and gregory hines. They were unavailable doing other movies and that opened it up to auditions. Ernie hudson he he was somebody right. Men had worked with before he was in his. Nineteen eighty-three production space hunter. He was initially disregarded because he was not really a comedian definitely. Didn't have an improv background. And after many mexico they they did in the end. Choose hudson over. Runner-up clermont derek's because they liked his everyman qualities and winston's was much larger. They went through a lot of rehearsals. Winston was almost as much of a ghostbuster. Is everybody else. But the studio heads as they were about to film starting growing worried that the funniest bits in the movie like getting slammed by onion head or conjuring the stay puff marshmallow man. Those were going to winston to be played by an unknown non comedian. Audiences paid to see bill. Murray and dan ackroyd be funny and they should get the biggest laugh lines. So winston's role was gutted to just being random guy seeking a steady paycheck. Who shows up halfway through to become a ghostbuster now. After sandra bernhardt turned down the ghostbusters secretary. Role of janine mullets. It went to you runner up any pots now. Pot said that the scripted chemistry. Between janine and egon which was mostly removed for the final cut. It came easy to her because she had a real life crush on ramos. Something that also was echoed by sigourney. Weaver in a good bipoum at the end of the shoot. Raymond let all of his comedians improvise as much as they wanted to and he would workout. All of the best moments into the final cut right man was used to working with the main guys. He worked with murray. This was the third time after stripes and meatballs but also ramos had worked alongside murray in nineteen seventy five in the off. Broadway show called the national lampoon show which reitman happened to have. Produced ramos appeared also in stripes and he wrote both stripes and meatballs for right reitman as well as writing animal house for reitman before that. These guys can really do no wrong. They were setting trends in film comedy. During this era now as far as the visual effects that was another obstacle most visual effects companies. Were either busy or maybe they were too small to inexperienced to really handle the job. They consulted sin affects magazine publisher donncha to see what was out there. Maybe they could get somebody and shade tip them off that industrial light and magic affects through. Richard edlund was contemplating leaving and starting his own company. At that time edmund was somebody who knew how to present goes. You just really been acclaimed for his work for poltergeist and he seemed like this would be the perfect guy for the job but he didn't have the money so columbia and mgm. They helped finance edlund leaving and starting his own studio called boss film studios and they acquired douglas troubles shop entertainment effects group in marina del rey to get started on ghostbusters for columbia and the film. Twenty ten four n gm. Now raymond wanted them to make scary ghosts. Not funny goes so that the humor would release the tension. I guess onion head was the exception of being kind of funny ghost. Accurate called. Onion had ak slammer. The ghost of john belushi after reitman compared him to bluto from animal house and that comparison caused the effects crew to start lifting facial expressions as well as behavior directly from baluchis performance as bluto. The terror dogs went through several different designs during the conceptual phase. They were lovely silly in the beginning and then they become kind of corpse dogs and then in the end they became gargoyles. Come to life. Raymond also worried that the marshmallow man finale. Maybe that might be a stretch too far. He was really gambling there but they couldn't come up with any better alternate as to what would be the big bad at the end so luckily test audiences once it was all said and done howled with laughter on mr stay puffs arrival now. Raymond instructed his acclaimed cinematographer laszlo kovacs. Even though ghostbusters was abroad comedy. He should not shoot it like when it should be much more dramatic. The actors should be the ones to provide the jokes. Everything else should look like a dramatic picture. He should capture new york city as its own character. Meanwhile the legendary john decuir he designed the million dollar rooftop temple at burbank studios. The largest at that time in hollywood had a floating pyramid cyclorama manhattan skyline as well as a six story building. The painters added People engaged in love making an a few of the windows of the building to amuse themselves. Of course it was too small to be visible by movie going audiences but they amused the crew around. The phenomenal scoring. duties went to reitman's goto composer. Elmer bernstein perfectly set the mood for nearly every scene in this film. It's very light and myrtle when it's time for comedy and it's very eerie when it's going for more horrific vibes it's also marvelous to observe how it sets the audience up for a hearty laugh or a big scare time after time. Although bernstein really disliked having to take a back seat to some of the pop music of the soundtrack for some key sequences the hit soundtrack does mesh very well with what's going on in the film especially re parker juniors hit theme song. The story of that theme song could be a episode of this podcast in and of itself. Although i won't go into it though the film's title in the end became a copyright issue. They discovered that film ation had produced a live action. Kids show called the ghostbusters in nineteen seventy five and that resulted in some unexpected lengthy negotiations at the start of the shoot early. Promotional teasers four ghostbusters ran with the no ghosts logo and it did not have the title and that caused some people to think that they were making a casper movie scenes mentioning gusts busters during this film needed to have alternate takes to use alternate names like ghost stoppers or ghost blasters or ghost breakers four weeks into the shoot columbia finally secured the rights to the new ghostbusters for half a million dollars and one percent of the profits for any ghostbusters films that they made. Meanwhile they weren't out of the woods with that. No ghosts logo. Harvey comics sued although unsuccessfully for fifty million dollars because the logo had a resemblance to fatso from casper. When it came time to publicize the film there was an additional snag bob. Woodward's book called wired the short life and fast times of john. Belushi was just coming out and that interrupted bill. Murray dan aykroyd in wanting to do promotional interviews. Accurate in particular was depicted in the book as an enabler of belushi addiction. Aniko kit himself accurate categorically denied all of this he called the book exploitative trash murray meanwhile would walk out on interviews if they started bringing the book up. He didn't want to promote it anymore than he had to at press junkets reitman and the other cast members had to field a lot of the questions while they're big stars marine aykroyd. They would habitually show up late to talk only to the reporters that they truly trusted. Nevertheless despite all of these issues ghostbusters shattered every expectation and became in nineteen eighty-four a pop culture phenomenon that exists to this day at that time it topped the box office for its first seven weeks in the summer that was dominated by big releases and it remained in the top ten for four months. It took in a monumental two hundred and thirty million dollars just in the united states. Only beverly hills cop gross more in nineteen eighty-four and that didn't even count the massive soundtrack sales as well as all the tie in merchandise. That not only came out in one thousand nine hundred four. It's still very lucrative today. Now if you wanna see how. Chemistry benefits film. I think you should look no further. The ghostbusters this is the perfect example. In pinpointing why chemistry work each part of this unsolvable adds to the overall peace to make it a comedic masterpiece. This is a movie that came out at the peak. Time for all of these actors and all of these creative minds to do exactly what they do. Best have fun with this material and take on one hell of a very wild and inventive ride. I cannot say any more about ghostbusters to convince you. It is a really funny movie. One of my favorite comedies of all time. I've watched this film. I would guess probably thirty to forty times somewhere in that range. And i just love watching it. I know every beat and yet there's just so comfortable and fun to watch. I can't give it anything less than four stars out of four four stars on my scale means that i do think this is an excellent comedy. I definitely recommend it to everyone. Four stars out of four four ghostbusters. Now there's a lot of other things to talk about with ghostbuster. Is you know this is a film that has a lot that people have written it over the years and so a lot of that material. I'm going to carry over into the next episode specifically covering thousand nine hundred nine's sequel ghostbusters. I have a lot to say about that film as well. So i hope that you'll join in and listen to that when the episode comes out if you have your own thoughts on ghostbusters that you want to impart. You can write to me by my contact information on my website. That's a quick stir dot net q. W. i p. s. t. e. r. dot net links to my twitter. Feed my facebook page. My are also there if you want to get in touch until next time. Thank you so much for listening. Join me on this trip around the world in eighty s movies. This has been and i am talking with my daughter lily. Lily's now currently nine years old and if you've been a longtime listener of this show you know that she used up here on early episodes when she was like five and six years old. Willy what have you been doing with yourself. Not really mostly school and piano. I think really saying is that we have basically burdened her with school and making her practice piano in her time she has had no time to be interviewed by me for the podcast which is of a sad thing but you have been watching some of the eighties movies with me and the one that we watched recently. You were excited to see even though you've seen it before you don't remember it and it was ghostbusters. What do you think about ghostbusters. I really liked the movie. I just don't like the parts where the ghost turn into scary things. That's like a big part of this movie. How do you get through some of those scarier scenes. I think those are the parts that were a lot of people. A lot of kids think are the most fun because i guess focus on the happy parts in the exciting things out of all the characters that are in ghostbusters. Which would you say is your favorite character not necessarily goes you all that s line guy slammer now as far as these stay puffed marshmallow man mr puck but do you think about him as the the bad guy. Were you scared where you laughing at. I think he's kind of cool. Because i liked and one thing i noticed about him is he unfortunately is not wearing any pants. Do you find that disturbing. I find that disturbing to you. I don't know why you you know he gets up and gets dressed. He puts the hat on. He puts the bid on. or what. have you in the tie and just as good enough now. For some reason during the movie you seem to really like race dance. Which is the the one that kind of like a kid. Sometimes when he's really excited about. I'd like race race dance dance. Billy likes ray. I happen to like peter mcmahon. Because i'm the big bill. Murray fan are there any characters in this movie that you dislike the library ghosts that turns into a monster. What about the terror dogs. I think that they're actually kind of cute. If you walked into your room in the terrier dog was in there you would actually be okay with that. I don't know if they're in the mood to snuggle. But if they're down for that maybe you can turn them around. Maybe that's all. They need to have more sunny disposition. Now as far as ghostbusters car. I know that you're really into really cool looking cars. Do you think the echo one is a car that you drive around. Because i would seem like a weirdo. Victor one has a lot of room could probably pack your friends in their pac stuff. Dan okay now. You would probably look like a weirdo driving around as a nine year old with a car full of stuffed animals so now we're going to be watching ghostbusters to next to you excited about that. Do you remember watching that at all. Last time really is completely forgotten. All of the ghostbusters films. But the good thing about it is that she can enjoy them all over again as if they were brand new. I wish i could do that. I've seen ghostbusters. So many times that it no longer holds a lotta surprise for me. But i do enjoy watching an especially when i can expose lily to it every couple of years when she's forgotten about it so we're looking forward to ghostbusters to on the next episode. So unscaled what ten. What are you. Give the first ghostbusters. Seven this is the lowest you've ever given any movie that we've ever watched but i respect that because we're at least in a scale of one to ten within the scale used to give them a hundred and stuff like that so scale of one to ten lily gives it a seven on a second time watch but the first one that she remembers. I definitely have my work. Cut out for me to convince her that. It's a much better film than that anyway until next time. Thanks so much say by..