Ghostbusters (1984) 7 pages
"If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?"
Ivan Reitman's 1984 supernatural comedy. Three university parapsychologists — Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler — get fired from their grant, open a paranormal-extermination franchise out of a Tribeca firehouse, and end up the last line of defense when a Sumerian god rents the top floor of a Central Park West apartment building. Bill Murray's Venkman is a hustler who knows the racket; Sigourney Weaver's Dana Barrett gets possessed by an ancient gatekeeper demigod halfway through; William Atherton's Walter Peck shows up from the EPA at exactly the moment the gridlines start failing. Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis wrote it; László Kovács shot it; Elmer Bernstein scored it under a Ray Parker Jr. theme song.
This wiki is a structural and scene-level analysis built from the film's caption file and outside sources.
Film & Story
Ghostbusters (1984) is the main hub page. Cast and Characters (Ghostbusters) profiles the ensemble.
Analysis
- Plot Structure (Ghostbusters) — the film mapped onto the Two Approaches framework: containment-with-cardinal-rules versus controlled boundary-violation, with Walter Peck shutting down the grid as the structural midpoint and crossing the streams as the climactic test.
- Backbeats (Ghostbusters) — the film in 43 beats, with timestamps and
^bNblock-ref anchors, structured by the Two Approaches rivets.