Wanneer film sequels zich zelf niet meer serieus nemen

RDJ134 9 mei 2017 om 15:35 uur

Film Sequels zijn niet per definitie een slecht ding, want dat heeft Terminator: Judgement Day en Aliens wel bewezen. Maar zo nu en dan verschijnt er één of meerdere vervolgen in een franchise puur voor het geld en neemt deze zich zelf niet meer. De website Cracked heeft hier nu een artikel over gemaakt en daar van kan je hier onder één stukje lezen.


#4. Ghostbusters II Is About How Nobody Wanted To Make Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters II is the sequel that everyone thought they wanted until they got it. The original worked because everyone was excited about making it -- the film had some weaknesses, but everybody was just so damn charming. You can tell they had a good time, and that made it a good time to watch. For the sequel, the biggest challenge was getting everyone interested with no clear direction in mind -- especially Bill Murray, who famously doesn't do sequels (seriously, it's only this and, for some reason, Garfield 2). So it's fitting that the movie itself is all about the team trying to figure out a reason to get back into the ghostbusting business.

That, and the whole plot revolves around a mysterious goo that makes the cast argue relentlessly with each other, which is an accurate picture of behind-the-scenes life. At the beginning of the movie, Spengler has left the team and carved out a nice career for himself in an academic field that interests him more than playing an action hero does. In reality, Harold Ramis had mostly quit acting and gone back to his preferred career as a comedy writer. Meanwhile, Venkman is miserable. He realizes that he's been typecast, and can only find work as the host of a TV show about the supernatural -- a subject he's not especially interested in anymore. In reality, Murray had become pigeonholed into playing the same cynical comedy straight-man character, though he was interested in breaking into more serious roles.

Murray, naturally, was the cast member who was least interested in returning (and would later notoriously vow to fight a third film to his dying breath), and Venkman spends most of the movie refusing to put on the suit.

Then, of course, there's Ray, the only member of the team who can't let the Ghostbusters go, and continues cosplaying as himself at kids' parties until he can convince the crew to get back together. Behind the scenes, Dan Aykroyd really was the only one who couldn't let go of Ghostbusters. (Hell, he still can't.)

As for Winston, he existed, and presumably continued to exist. No arguing that.

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