Ghostbusters: 30 Things You Might Not Know About The Classic Comedy

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Peck21) Here’s how actor William Atherton recalled to the A.V.Club the enormously satisfying sequence where his Walter Peck gets a truckload of marshmallow fluff dumped on him:

I went under the bag, and I asked, ‘How much shaving cream is in there?’ And they said, ‘Not that much.’ So I said, ‘Well, how much does it weigh?’ ‘It’s about 75 pounds, but it’s shaving cream.’ You know the whole thing about 75 pounds of feathers and 75 pounds of lead? It’s about the same thing. [Laughs.] So can we figure out what’s going to happen with this?’ So they put some poor stunt guy underneath to show the sissy actor ‘Okay, nothing’s going to happen.’ So they unleashed it, and it flattened him. So they took out half of the shaving cream, and I went in very happily and was slimed.

22) In one of the DVD commentaries, Reitman recalls being confronted by Atheron after the film was released. The actor complained that Peck was so despicable in the movie that people were accosting the actor in real life and trying to start bar fights with him. What higher compliment could you receive as an actor?

23) There was only one Ecto-1, which is surprising given that most iconic movie cars are actually several different vehicles which serve different functions. The Ecto-1 finally crapped out in the midst of filming on Ghostbusters II.

24) The shot of a possessed Dana levitating and then spinning above the bed was done practically on set, without any post-production effects. Reitman learned the effect from magician Doug Henning when the two worked together on Merlin the musical on Broadway.

25) The Ghostbusters’ proton packs were originally envisioned more like magician’s wands.


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