:02:01
The librarian had speaking lines
in the script, but during production...
:02:04
her lines were dropped and replaced
with screams and whimpers.
:02:07
The original script called for a "stout,
studious-Iooking girl in her late 20's."
:02:10
But Alice Drummond as a terrified,
fleeing middle-aged librarian...
:02:12
was a perfect casting decision.
:02:23
The Ghostbusters logo was refined
by artists, but Dan Aykroyd created...
:02:26
the idea for the logo when he dreamed
up the original concept of the film.
:02:29
In a departure
from motion picture tradition...
:02:31
the production credits were
withheld until the end of the film.
:02:38
In the original script, this graffiti
contained an obscene sexual reference...
:02:41
to Bill Murray's character, Venkman,
but director Ivan Reitman thought...
:02:44
that "Ghostbusters" would benefit...
creatively and economically...
:02:47
from not being particularly raunchy.
:02:50
"It has an edge to it," said Reitman,
"but it's the kind of film...
:02:53
parents are comfortable taking
their five- and six-year-olds to see."
:02:57
Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd's co-writer,
came up with the idea...
:03:00
of Murray's character
giving shocks to the poor nerd.
:03:02
This idea was based
on a real experiment designed to see...
:03:05
how far people would go
in giving shocks to other people.
:03:09
The scene firmly establishes Venkman
as the cynical skeptic of the group.
:03:37
As was typical throughout the film,
the ESP test was shot as scripted...
:03:40
but with dialogue refinements
and added bits of business...
:03:43
made either during rehearsal or
extemporaneously while cameras rolled.
:03:45
In almost no instance does the scripted
dialogue in any given scene...
:03:48
appear verbatim in the final film.
:03:51
With a gifted comedy director at
the helm, and actors like Bill Murray...
:03:54
the likelihood of strict adherence
to any script was remote.