"THE BED.....IS ON......MY FOOT!"
"Your Momma Eats Kitty Litter!"
Yeah, Mr. Feig. 4-Chan, the gamer community, YouTube, etc., are so dominated by the right wing.
Here’s a tip:
If you want to flip the characters of the original Ghostbusters from men to women, fine. Actually, if I had seen the trailer with the sound off, I’d probably think that the four women you picked looked like they would be very funny.
But if you’re going to declare this a chick-flip of the original, here’s some pointers:
Don’t lead with a joke about the bookish scientist woman getting ectoplasmic slime in her vagina. I don’t recall Bill Murray talking about his scrotum.
Don’t make the Ernie Hudson parallel act like she’s on In Living Color. Once you announce so obviously how PC you’re going to be, you really can’t go there without seeming racist.
“Yay! Girls Night Out Woo-hoo! We’re going to have a sexy firefighter because the men had a sexy... Sigourney Weaver?” Not Pamela Anderson (or Loni Anderson)... Sigourney Weaver. The joke was that Bill Murray was reaching way out of his SOCIAL CLASS, and that her possession was what made her so sensual. C’mon... Annie Potts was cuter than Sigourney Weaver.
If you’re going to write black girl humor as a white man, you can’t cut PC corners. You want to do an exorcism joke, you have to go to religion. “The power of PAIN compels you” doesn’t work. Girl’s gotta go to Christ. Oddly, the original ghostbusters reflected the somewhat unorthodox but sincere Christian beliefs of Dan Akroyd and the psychology department at St Bonaventure University.
The light show worked in the mid 80s coming off Poltergeist, which in turn was coming off of Close Encounters. The visual metaphor simply doesn’t work anymore.
I thought it was “The power of Patty,” as in Patty, the character’s name.
"THE BED.....IS ON......MY FOOT!"
"Your Momma Eats Kitty Litter!"