12 Burst results for "Herald Ramos"
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Chris Kohls Reflects on Harold Ramis' Performance in "Ghostbusters"
"Any hobbies? I collect spores molds and fungus. Another classic line perfect for T-shirt, the late great Harold Ramis. There was supposed to be a side bar story of a romance between Annie Potts Janine and Harold Ramis character. It wasn't really developed, but he brings so much to all of this as well as the person who helped scale back aykroyd's script and make it far more manageable ramus didn't just act in it. He also wrote a lot of the final Ghostbusters. Yeah, him and reitman says that he basically came up with the whole concept of this as a startup business as opposed to an already existing business like franchise, which was originally was going to be. And yeah, what they did here is great. It's almost like a superhero origin story. And I got to say Egon is perfect. Whatever, you know, Harold Ramis was thinking Egon was going to be. He said, I played it as a new age Spock from Star Trek. It was spark for the 1980s. Perfect. Perfect. But see, the weird thing is he doesn't come across as Spock. But he comes across as whatever, you know, a scientist, a serious scientist who really takes his job seriously. He does have this kind of ability to almost to take things too seriously and not to get jokes and to take everything literally like it's unclear whether he even understands that the secretary is hitting on him. That's not even obvious. So it's like, and he's perfect. The way he plays that he created, you know, sometimes when we're acting, we think we're presenting the character in one way, and then you watch it back and it's something else. And this is one of the reasons why some actors hate watching themselves. Because they're like, oh, that's not really what I was trying to do. It doesn't matter if the audience loves it, it wasn't what you were trying to put on screen. But whatever he was trying to put on screen, this worked.
The Qwipster Film Review Podcast
"herald ramos" Discussed on The Qwipster Film Review Podcast
"He completed his first draft because he felt that his take was becoming true dramatic it was too serious dwelled overly long on the romance between mario and the princess in the way that he felt was just never going to entertain kids and besides nintendo had already been involved with a rainman carbon copy of a sort in one thousand nine hundred nine the wizard and that was not necessarily a very big critical success although it did make. It's money back at the box office during this time. Danny devito he decided to pass. He was going to be directing hoffa and he had signed on board for tim. Burton's batman returns. So he was going to be busy. Didn't have time for this. Tristar also departed during this as the distributor. Then that made way for disney's hollywood pictures. Disney wanted tom hanks to be the star in fact they actually had him agreeing to play. Mario for five million dollars but nintendo disagreed with this. They also interject. They thought that tom hanks was coming off a few box. Office bombs bonfire of the vanities and a few of its other movies did not do very well at the box office at all. And with such a spotty box off his record and with him only really being known for zany comedy say thought that he didn't have the range or the box office presence to pull this off course. He proved them all wrong over the next few years so they still needed a director. So licensed drives director. Greg beeman he was. The first director actually signed on to direct super mario brothers and he conceived of this alternate dimension kind of akin to a sword source re realm that you would find in old films but aimed at a much younger set. It was gonna be much more of a kid friendly version of that but the distributors they were having trouble really coming up with reasons to finance a full on fantasy flick from beginning and from an unproven director. So the producers who went to bat for him they also were underwhelmed because they took in this early screening of biman's upcoming movie called mom and dad save the world and they decided that that didn't do it for them and he just didn't seem the right fit so they decided to split ways with beeman now looking through a host of other potential directors they soon targeted herald ramos now herald ramos was a lover of the super mario brothers video game so he was enticed. But he wasn't sold on the film's current concept the way that it stood and so he passed and meanwhile the hired different screenwriting team to try to bring things into shape. Jim genuine in tom parker and they were hired to add the fun in color of the nintendo game. The screenwriters fell in love with the game while they were writing. This they re purpose..
Zero Credit(s)
"herald ramos" Discussed on Zero Credit(s)
"Pacific time a new trailer for ghostbusters. Afterlife dropped on the internet And i am not going to let them convince us. That movie did not already come out. Yes we have talked about that. We are currently living in the circle of the mandela effect. Where ghostbusters whatever the hell. It's called a new. A new legacy already came out. I convinced that it came out. It did poorly did so poorly. No one remembers it and now they're repackaging it like. Hey there's not a lot of movies out. Maybe we recruit some more of our money. Here's a new trailer. You remember fen wolford from the before times. Come see this movie. That's totally never been before. That seems so insane to me that That this is a fin wolfhard project. Then we'll far. Paul rudd and more actors who. I'm sure i've already seen on the big screen and their roles in this ghostbusters. Movie that i don't think anyone cares out so i would like to give you a quick ghostbusters quiz. Because i don't know anything ghostbusters. After i have. I have a lot of a lot of feelings about ghostbusters. I'd never seen a full ghostbusters movie. I think the first ghostbusters is quite good. Which one had the marshmallow man. That's ghostbuster us. hold on one. Yeah stay puff. Marshmallow man is ghostbusters. One man i hate that. I can't i actually have not seen a ton of ghostbusters movies. Actually both the to are good vigo the carpathian from two is cool. These movies exist. You know you should watch them. And then you'll definitely learn that they exist but i'd like to give you a little a little Ghostbusters quiz are here to receive your quiz. I would like to ask you if the following ghostbusters are in this movie. Sure i says it's already come out as i stated i can answer this thousand percent accuracy. Okay bill murray probably Dan ackroyd yeah. He's alive right. Dan ackroyd is definitely alive. Selling crystal skull vodkas of a few years ago time conspiracy theorists right. yeah. I remember the crystal skull vodka. I've seen it. It's on the shelves. You've seen the crystal skull vodka. You have not seen ghostbusters. Isn't life funny interesting. Data point herald ramos. I believe he passed away. Yes he passed away in twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen or something so it's gonna be real shocking when he's on the screen they've deep faked him on the fin wolf arts body right sigourney weaver. No i think she passed. She's not in it. Weaver passed away that sorry. Sorry context really sounded like sigourney. Weaver had passed away and i was very confused. Mary mix of i that she passed on the project Well that's good. She's also not a ghostbuster right. she's just like the museum curators and then. Of course ernie hudson. I think they replaced him in the tune. So there's no way they're getting back what they're only taking the cartoon cast forward. Well no it's like there's already bad blood there because they replaced him in the cartoon May have him do the kurt tune so like why would he come back all these years later like you got skinny over in the cartoon why would i e well however rick moranis he's retired. I have.
The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"herald ramos" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
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The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"herald ramos" Discussed on The Office Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner
"How much did you feel. Open to making suggestions on the show. Well what was interesting with the show is that that we had. We had great directors. We had a who's who of directors come into the show you know when you have. Paul fig can corpus Herald ramos j.j. abrams what was great. I mean ultimately all of these directors were my directing school. And and mild thing. Once i started directing on the show was that i do out my time there. I tried to pull something from each of these directors to keep with me whether it was a positive thing or a negative thing that i learned with all of these directors coming in. they all had such respect which. I'm thankful for for both randall. And i to let us do our thing because we knew the show. So well. And i think charles mcdougall might have been sort of the only director that was so specific with his moves you know he had such a vision of it that he would say zoom into his face down to the credit card up to the computer down to the keyboard right to his face. You know he had these other times you know. Most of the directors would say well. Yeah just cover this and make it feel you know like the office right and randall and i would do our thing right k. Quiz question to answer honestly. What type of scene would cause the biggest disruption in our work day or week that the conference room scenes where the black holes gains. I mean they were brilliant for what it was but when you got the entire cast sitting in chairs and you have michael scott doing one of his bits and depending on what kind of mood you're in but depending on what kind of mood john was in right who was messing with who it would. It would decide if we were going to be there for hours or we were going to get through it. You know but constantly people were breaking people were messing around people were yeah. It was chaos. That's a good answer you. You fail the quick. Oh shit really yeah. I have said that. Nothing could halt production like a jim pam c o see. I thought you meant an overall scene. Oh god there would be all sorts of huddles and groups and clearings of sets when there would be like a jim and pam moment. I had a very specific. Tom waits impression that i would do which would be something like a discussion at the monitor and the writers would get so aggravated but it was true though the writers would get called they would all come down we will dissect the scene we would rebuild it it also depended on who was directing and who had written it you know in who was present at the time those early jim and pam scenes where they were just starting or i mean the kiss. Oh my god you know we cleared said..
Snarf Talk
"herald ramos" Discussed on Snarf Talk
"I guess part of it is like ranking the movies to even though. This is bill murray. Yeah so is it gets that thing like are you. ranking bill. Murray raking the movies that bill. Murray in caddyshack someone the grace. If we were doing that i would have ranked us different. I don't know i'm looking at bill. Murray movies i consider caddyshack to via bill murray movie and as a movie. It's the best one. It's amazing movie. So can yeah. I could see what you're saying and it totally makes sense anyway. It doesn't really matter. It doesn't i got it number one. Everybody loves caddyshack. It's the most quotable movie of all time is bill. Murray have as much screen time in his other movies now. Should i have done it that way. I don't care doesn't matter does. it doesn't change anything. He's great moments in it. Yeah guess when you're thinking about it. Sodas had night so does chevy chase. They all have great moments in it. But i'm gonna hung up on it. We all love caddyshack. It's everybody does literally one of the best comedies of all time. My favorite is just the gopher dancing at the end. That's the only reason why i watch. And then i love how they replaced bill. Murray dan aykroyd the great number. Your number one is ghostbusters. Yes my number one is about. It is it. Is life changing. They haven't done. I haven't seen a movie like this since this movie came out like the way it's impacted me no a you've seen it like no. There hasn't been a movie like this. Ghostbusters is john of movie. Yes it is. It's its own thing. I feel like stranger. Things is trying to tap into mean and it's a sci-fi movie at the same time. I know the reason i say that is because they're doing like aliens type stuff you don't see ghosts and a a crew of people trying to get rid of ghosts. Bust them if you will you know and the way all the way just took hold of the culture sigourney. Weaver was amazing. Yes and rick moranis. Rick moranis was amazed and aykroyd. Who wrote the movie based on his own life experiences. His dad was a paranormal investigator. He wrote the movie based on his own life experience. It's unbelievable getting earning him. Ernie hudson while ernie hudson's in the second one he's in the first one to z in the fafsa herald ramos carol ramos. And that's it ernie hudson bill. Murray dan aykroyd narrow getting those guys get like. You can't replace those four men.
Midnight Double Feature - A Film Podcast
"herald ramos" Discussed on Midnight Double Feature - A Film Podcast
"It's one of the greatest of all time and it's so hard to it's so hard to really pick one ghostbuster Sorry groundhog day at. That's gotta be probably my favorite herald ramos You know it's it's it's definitely passed this The little girl playing with the puppy is katherine. Ryan's i've guess jason reitman sister was like. Oh that's fucking cool like putting cameos in all types of shed and you know he basically said you know he'll check it out and stuff like that. We're introduced Pete's to end the show the world of the psychic. I don is waiting to spend some time on this. What what is this. Shire was this one. Is this show. I just wanted ner what a full episode of the show looks like because it looks like they're just coming back from break for this like one segment all access. Tv yes like he finishes the shower and then he's like next up. Cats way hairless cat herald scouts. We're so how does that relate to psychics. What is. That's what i love is like the his line of like no respected psychical communist show. They think you're fraud. I am a fraud. I don't give a shit about any of this stuff. This is one of my favorite sayings the entire movie And i think like it's just just so his that first thing in the fence one way made bank man is fantastic. You know when he's like shocking that couple guy and like you know he's hiding the cod for like like these pretending to the goes getting it all russia's line she's like nope sorry. Good man. I think this is why this update with batman like this is this is good and i think it's because of kevin don's performance dude like him like bake high think the world's gonna add like in the ninety s everywhere dude but he always writes about them right right like the climax of the movie takes place on new year's eve. Yeah right i. I fucking love that little leg in kind of the same thing what. You're talking about the first one when he shocking the dude that guy is getting every single one of them right and it's like what the fuck delay squiggly lines three reasonably lines on the thing. That's four updated. So your alien had a room in the.
Bangarang Radio: A Podcast Network
"herald ramos" Discussed on Bangarang Radio: A Podcast Network
"Dr angry and they drive off a cliff. I was reading recently. That during the filming. And i'm assuming it's during that scene he got bit Two or three times by the groundhog. Your your that at all. And and i'm assuming it's during the scene where he's got. He's driving in the truck with the groundhog. Because there's no other part of the movie where he's that close to the groundhog to where he can get bit but yeah apparently he got it was. They were so concerned about the bites that he ended up getting rabies shots. Yeah i just kinda learned at the other day. This past groundhog day has almost every year. I try to watch groundhog day on groundhog day. Cheesy as hell right. But i do it and i had it on. Vhs up until this last groundhog day because vhs took a dive it enhance was on. Its last leg. And i couldn't get it out of the vcr 'cause like the tape. The vcr was like eating the tape out of the reels or whatever. I'm sure you experience that probably a long time ago. 'cause i'm probably the last person on the planet that's still has a vcr. I don't have any lack. But i did. I do remember exactly. You're talking about because of my favorite movies died. That was yeah. See exactly but but anyway. Yeah so i was. I was looking up some things about the film. Some interesting facts and that was one of the lump tournament. what else was something else. That was interesting. But i think the ned ryerson scenes are some of my favorites because we all have that person we went to high school with or whatever and we tried to avoid them and pump blake if we see them like shit like i don't wanna see this guy because he's doing. No i want you to buy this. And i'm doing this now. You should totally by my thing or you know whatever whatever it is and so the whole ned. Ryerson thing is great. I think one of my favorite facts about the movie too is that they were doing the math. Like how long who's in the loop for no they. They don't really have like a definitive. But it's anywhere between ten and three years. He was going through the loop seriously. Yeah wow that's crazy. I don't remember who wrote the screenplay for that. And i'm sure it's probably based on a book like everything else is i do know that it's Wow now i'm going to forget his name a director's name. I'm forgetting his name is going to have to look that up now. 'cause herald ramos there. We go Herald ramos was the hill. Raymond yeah it was herald ramos right. You're is. I'm makes up my movies. And i guess i was gonna say yeah and i guess says he actually wrote it with someone else so which i guess isn't surprising but i don't know i just have a soft spot for that movie. I think i mean. That's my favorite bill. Murray movie and i think it's one of his best known as a very very good bill. Murray movie i don't know is it my favorite. That's a good question to. I'll a big fan of the steve zizou life. I have never seen life aquatic. It's very different. Bill murray role but very good bill murray role a lot of movies around that time like lost in translation. And all that they were those were very different. In my opinion there are kind of weird. You know it's still funny in a way. Because like he's not he's not like slapsticky he's like sarcastic funding throughout the entire movie is it's really good Another movie i just never really got super into was scrooge. I just never could get into that one to watch it a few times and i was like it's not for me. Yeah i i guess that was also kind of weird you know. It's like a weird t. That's the one obviously screws christmas christmas story. So since we're on the topic of movies. I know when you had me on the nonsense podcast I think it was like i. I was spying like your movie posters. And i'm trying to think of i think it was a hitchcock movie poster that i spied in the background which migrate there Nor was it northwest by. What's that movie. called by. northwest northbound. Okay it is. Cary grant up for to catch a thief right. Okay yes okay. Now i remember. I knew it was a very grim. Remember which one it was. So what's where did. Where did you get interest in older films like that. A mother hundred percent. My mother She likes old movies and stop. I remember being a little kid. Downstairs watching You know the the end of the philadelphia story with her which is k. grant and Kari grant james dealer in katherine hepburn all star studded cast for the time. Yeah and For years and years you've had hanging in the house. She has breakfast at tiffany's poster-hanging she hasn't into wonderful life poster-hanging now with milo further even more of them hanging throughout the house She got me watching all his old movies. And i love them. I love even the campy ones. I love it. It's just so fun to watch because it's all based around the acting whether they overreact or whether it's just right on acting it's all based around the act and gives them how limited they were set and all that stuff the great movies. Yeah and suburban some of this stuff going back to that era. Some of the stuff that they were able to pull off with special effects was still pretty cool. I mean you obviously when you look at it. Now you're like oh wow like if the head was fake or whatever but for the time considering like you're like oh that's the head to actually pretty decent like you know they. They had to physically make those special effects which is just so and that went for like everything they had to make these things and black and white especially on film so hired to shoot the lighting and everything mattered. so much Yeah so what. I mean so what are your do. You have like an all time. The top five or top ten of like or partial louisa to certain actors or definitely a love. He's great great i. I love watching his acting. Big james stewart fan humphrey bogart. Obviously three of the biggest.
Pop-Punk & Pizza
"herald ramos" Discussed on Pop-Punk & Pizza
"You drive angry and they drive off a cliff. I was reading recently. That during the filming. And i'm assuming it's during that scene he got bit Two or three times by the groundhog. Your your that at all. And and i'm assuming it's during the scene where he's got. He's driving in the truck with the groundhog. Because there's no other part of the movie where he's that close to the groundhog to where he can get bit but yeah apparently he got it was. They were so concerned about the bites that he ended up getting rabies shots. I yeah i just kinda learned at the other day. This past groundhog day has almost every year. I try to watch groundhog day on groundhog day. Cheesy as hell right. But i do it and i had it on. Vhs up until this last groundhog day because vhs took a dive it was on. Its last leg. And i almost couldn't get it out of the vcr 'cause like the tape. The vcr was like eating the tape out of the reels or whatever. I'm sure you experience that probably a long time ago. 'cause i'm probably the last person on the planet that's still has a vcr. Don't have any lack. But i did. I do remember exactly you're talking about because of my favorite movies died. That was you see exactly but but anyway yeah so i was. I was looking up some things about the film. Some interesting facts and that was one of the lump tournament. what else was something else. That was interesting. But i think the ned ryerson scenes are some of my favorites because we all have that person we went to high school with or whatever and we tried to avoid them and pump blake if we see them like shit like i don't wanna see this guy because he's doing. No i want you to buy this. And i'm doing this now. You should totally by my thing or you know whatever whatever it is and so the whole ned. Ryerson thing is great. I think one of my favorite facts about the movie too is that they were doing the math. Like how long who's in the loop for no they. They don't really have like a definitive. But it's anywhere between ten and three years. He was going through the loop seriously. Yeah wow that's crazy. I don't remember who wrote the screenplay for that. And i'm sure it's probably based on a book like everything else is i do know that it's Wow now i'm going to forget his name of director's name. I'm forgetting his name. And i'm going to have to look that up now. 'cause herald ramos there. We go Herald ramos was the hill. Raymond yeah it was herald ramos. I'm up my movies. And i guess i was gonna say yeah and i guess says he actually wrote it with someone else so which i guess isn't surprising but i don't know i. I just have a soft spot for that movie. I think i mean. That's my favorite bill. Murray movie and i think it's one of his best known as a very very good bill. Murray movie i don't know is it my favorite. That's a good question to. I'll a big fan of the steve zizou life. I have never seen life aquatic. Very different bill murray role but very good bill murray role a lot of movies around that time like lost in translation. And all that they were those were very different. In my opinion there are kind of weird. You know it's still funny in a way. Because like he's not he's not like slapsticky he's like sarcastic funding throughout the entire movie is it's really good Another movie i just never really got super into was scrooge. I just never could get into that one to watch it a few times and i was like it's not for me. Yeah i i guess that was also kind of weird you know. It's like a weird t. That's the one obviously screws christmas christmas story. So since we're on the topic of movies. I know when you had me on the nonsense podcast I think it was like i. I was spying like your movie posters. And i'm trying to think of i think it was a hitchcock movie poster that i spied in the background which migrate there Nor was it northwest by. What's that movie. called by. northwest northbound. Okay it is cary grant to catch a thief right. Okay yes okay. Now i remember. I knew it was a very grim. Remember which one it was. So what's where did Where did you get interest in older films like that. A mother hundred percent my mother She likes old movies and stuff. I remember being a little kid. Downstairs watching You know the the end of the philadelphia story with her which is k. grant and Kari grant james dealer in katherine hepburn all star studded cast for the time. Yeah and For years and years you've had hanging in the house. She has breakfast at tiffany's poster-hanging she hasn't into wonderful life poster-hanging now with milo further even more of them hanging throughout the house She got me watching all his old movies. And i love them. I love even the campy ones. I love it. It's just fun to watch. Because it's all based around the acting whether they overreact or whether it's just right on acting all based around the act and gives them how limited they were set and all that stuff the great movies. Yeah and suburban some of this stuff going back to that era. Some of the stuff that they were able to pull off with special effects was still pretty cool. I mean you obviously when you look at it. Now you're like oh wow like if the head was fake or whatever but for the time considering like you're like oh that's the head to actually pretty decent like you know they. They had to physically make those special effects which is just so and that went for like everything they had to make these things and black and white especially on film so hired to shoot like the lighting and everything mattered so much yeah So what i mean. So what are your do. You have like an all time. The top five or top ten of like or partial. Louisa marshall this certain actors or definitely a love. He's great great i. I love watching his acting. Big james stewart fan humphrey bogart. Obviously three of the biggest.
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"herald ramos" Discussed on Bangarang Radio
"You drive angry and they drive off a cliff. I was reading recently. That during the filming. And i'm assuming it's during that scene he got bit Two or three times by the groundhog. Your your that at all. And and i'm assuming it's during the scene where he's got. He's driving in the truck with the groundhog. Because there's no other part of the movie where he's that close to the groundhog to where he can get bit but yeah apparently he got it was. They were so concerned about the bites that he ended up getting rabies shots. Yeah i just kinda learned at the other day. This past groundhog day has almost every year. I try to watch groundhog day on groundhog day. Cheesy as hell right. But i do it and i had it on. Vhs up until this last groundhog day because vhs took a dive enhance was on. Its last leg. And i almost couldn't get it out of the vcr 'cause like the tape. The vcr was like eating the tape out of the reels or whatever. I'm sure you experience that probably a long time ago. 'cause i'm probably the last person on the planet that's still has a vcr. I don't have any lack. But i did. I do remember exactly. You're talking about because of my favorite movies died. That was you see exactly but but anyway. Yeah so i was. I was looking up some things about the film. Some interesting facts and that was one of the lump tournament. what else was something else. That was interesting. But i think the ned ryerson scenes are some of my favorites because we all have that person we went to high school with or whatever and we tried to avoid them and pub blake if we see them like shit like. I don't wanna see this guy because he's doing. no. I want you to buy this. And i'm doing this now. You should totally by my thing or you know whatever whatever it is and so the whole ned. Ryerson thing is great. I think one of my favorite facts about the movie too is that they were doing the math. Like how long who's in the loop for no they. They don't really have like a definitive. But it's anywhere between ten and thirty years. He was going through the loop seriously. Yeah wow that's crazy. I don't remember who wrote the screenplay for that. And i'm sure it's probably based on a book like everything else is i do know that it's Wow now i'm going to forget his name a director's name. I'm forgetting his name all going to have to look that up. Now 'cause herald ramos there. We go Herald ramos was the hill. Raymond yeah it was herald ramos right. You're is. I'm mixing up my movies and i guess i was gonna say yeah and i guess says he actually wrote it with someone else so which. I guess isn't surprising but i don't know i i just have a soft spot for that movie. I think i mean. That's my favorite bill. Murray movie and i think it's one of his best known as a very very good bill. Murray movie i don't know is it my favorite. That's a good question to. I'll a big fan of the steve zizou life. I have never seen life aquatic. Very different bill murray role but very good bill murray role a lot of his movies around that time like lost in translation. And all that they were those. Were very different. In my opinion there are kind of weird. you know. it's still funny in a way because like he's not he's not like slapsticky he's like sarcastic funding throughout the entire movie is. It's really good Another movie i just never really got super into was scrooge d- i just never could get into that one to watch it a few times and i was like it's not for me. Yeah i i guess that was also kind of weird you know. It's like a weird t. That's the one obviously screws christmas christmas story. So since we're on the topic of movies. I know when you had me on the nonsense podcast I think it was like i. I was spying like your movie posters. And i'm trying to think of i think it was a hitchcock movie poster that i spied in the background which migrate there Nor was it northwest by. What's that movie. called by. northwest northbound. Okay it is. Cary grant up for to catch a thief right. Okay yes okay. Now i remember. I knew it was a carey grim. Remember which one it was So what's where did. Where did you get interest in older films like that. A mother hundred percent. My mother She likes old movies and stuff. I remember being a little kid downstairs. you know the the end of the philadelphia story with her which is k. Grant and Kari grant james dealer in katherine hepburn all star studded cast for the time. Yeah and For years and years you've had hanging in the house. She has breakfast at tiffany's poster-hanging she hasn't into wonderful life poster-hanging now with milo further even more of them hanging throughout the house She got me watching all his old movies. And i love them. I love even the campy ones. I love it. It's just fun to watch. Because it's all based around the acting whether they overreact or whether it's just right on acting it's all based around the act and gives them how limited they were set and all that stuff the great movies. Yeah and suburban some of this stuff going back to that era. Some of the stuff that they were able to pull off with special effects was still pretty cool. I mean you obviously when you look at it. Now you're like oh wow like if the head was fake or whatever but for the time considering like you're like oh that's the head to actually pretty decent like you know they. They had to physically make those special effects which is just so and that went for like everything they had to make these things and black and white especially on film so hired to shoot the lighting and everything mattered so much yeah So what i mean. So what are your do. You have like an all time. The top five or top ten of or partial louisa partial to certain actors or definitely a love. He's great great. I love watching his acting. Big james stewart fan humphrey bogart. Obviously three of the biggest.
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"herald ramos" 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..
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"herald ramos" 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..