Ghostbusters

Ivan Reitman had been trying to find somewhat to combine the slob, mostly played by Bill Murray, winning out over the squares in the system. The solutions found have been uneasy, at best, in Meatballs and Stripes (Stripes needed to edge into pure fantasy territory just to get audiences to forget some inconveniences in the plot), but it’s in Dan Aykroyd’s insane musings that were the original script to Ghostbusters that Reitman found the most perfect vehicle for his vision of the slob winning...