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Ghostbusters DVD - 1999 "Star" Featurette


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Here are a few choice multimedia samples from this featurette. Click on images to enlarge them. The Sony video links were provided by Rachael Schunk from Sony Pictures. These clips feature a brief DVD ad at the start and end. The video download links require a special program. The numbers in parenthesis after certain multimedia files is the time code from the DVD.

"Interview with Ivan Reitman" - START OF FEATURETTE (0:00-0:41)
* Windows Media (Sony) - Streaming / Download (0:51, 320x240, 1.8 Mb)
* Real Video (Sony) - Streaming / Download (0:52, 320x240, 1.9 Mb)
['Ghostbusters' by Ray Parker Jr. plays over scenes from the film]
Ivan Reitman: When you have a film that becomes a phenomena all over the world, it's a wonderful thing. It just makes you feel good that you can just touch the culture in that way. It sort of gives one... you know, as a director you get a certain confidence from that.

(0:27)
Ivan Reitman: When you have a film that becomes a phenomena all over the world, it's a wonderful thing.

"Interview with Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis" (0:41-1:18)
* Windows Media (Sony) - Streaming / Download (0:48, 320x240, 1.7 Mb)
* Real Video (Sony) - Streaming / Download (0:50, 320x240, 1.8 Mb)
Dan Aykroyd: One day I read an article on quantum physics and parapsychology and I thought 'Wouldn't it be great to marry this concept in a fantasy that there could actually be equipment that would enable one to, you know, entrap a phantom spirit.'
[movie clips - the guys firing their weapons, 'Nice shootin' Tex']
Harold Ramis: Then when they came to me with the Ghostbuster concept, I had just finished directing National Lampoon's Vacation, the first one. And, ah, I really looked forward to working with Bill, and Danny, and Ivan on this one. I love the premise, and Ivan and I really saw eye to eye on how to reshape the script.

(2:30)
Harold Ramis: I finally showed my eight-year-old son the Ghostbusters movies. I waited to show them to him. And my four-year-old tagged along. I wanted them to like the movie, but I didn't want them to be too scared. They both really like them both and saw them over and over. And at one point, my four-year-old finished watching Ghostbusters II, and turned to me and said "Dad, you're a really good scientist." I thought, that was the highest compliment of all.

"Interviews -- This is Gonna Be Huge" (6:11-6:54)
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* Real Video (Sony) - Streaming / Download (0:55, 320x240, 2.0 Mb)
Ivan Reitman: You know, I'm often asked 'When did you know that this movie was going to be as successful as it turned out to be?'
Dan Aykroyd: I guess we had maybe a little bit of a feeling halfway thorough that we might be making something special.
Harold Ramis: Danny and I, as we were getting into this, we thought 'This is gonna be huge. This can not fail.'
Ivan Reitman: I think it was the first day of filming, one of the montage shots, which was four guys in full dress, backpacks, running around with traps in their hands. I had been sort of setting up the shot, and here they came as a group together. It was the first time I saw them all dressed up in a real location with the stuff. And I had this extraordinary shiver down my back. It was an image I had never seen before, and it was an image that just seemed to be right.

(8:47)
Dan Aykroyd: My favorite moments making the film were on the big stage at Columbia, with the huge rooftop set filling almost the entire stage, and getting blasted in the head with air cannons.

(9:18)
Harold Ramis: When the movie was out the Summer of '84, I was in New York working on something else and we were like heroes. We would walk down the street and people would virtually cheer when they saw us. It was great.

"Interviews -- Like Heroes" (END OF FEATURETTE, SANS END CREDITS) (8:47-9:58)
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* Flash (Spike) - Streaming / Download (gives url)
Dan Aykroyd: My favorite moments making the film were on the big stage at Columbia, with the huge rooftop set filling almost the entire stage, and getting blasted in the head with air cannons.
[movie clip - When someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'Yes']
Dan Aykroyd: The whole career, I guess, kinda changed after the first movie because it was so successful.
Harold Ramis: It just opened a lot of doors in lots of ways.
Dan Aykroyd: It underscored my credentials as a screenwriter, so I've been able to get other things done as a result of it.
Harold Ramis: When the movie was out the Summer of '84, I was in New York working on something else and we were like heroes. We would walk down the street and people would virtually cheer when they saw us. It was great.
Ivan Reitman: Why Ghostbusters was special, I think, in my life was that it was kind of a culminating moment of work with a group of people that I worked with before and we had learned to work together in a really unique and special way. To have a film that work out as well as Ghostbusters was extraordinarly satisfying and very happy.
Dan Aykroyd: It's certainly one of the movies I've made that I really do like, you know.
Ivan Reitman: I said, 'There's something about this movie that's gonna just jump,' and it did.
[movie clip - I love this town]


SHOW CREDITS

Producer and Director
Alita Renee Holly

Editor
Thomas Teltser

Director of Photography
Mark C. Brems

Technical Director
Morgan Holly

Post Production Facility
Motion Arts, Inc.

Production Assistants
Julia Jones
Kelly Mohan

Special Thanks to
Joe Medjuck
Susan Patricola

Dan Aykroyd was interviewed at the House of Blues,
Los Angeles, CA

Executive Producer
Michael Stradford

copyright © 1999 Columbia Tristar Home Video, Inc.
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