Possible GB2, deleted scene.

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When Ghostbusters II came out I read the novel adaptation. In the book there was a scene where Ray was driving ECTO-1A after they had met Venkman at the museum to take pictures… while driving ECTO-1A Ray has a “relapse” of his Vigo possesion and he drives off the road. Now, in the movie, during the musical montage after the courtroom. There is a quick shot of Venkman riding in ECTO-1A, wearing the same close as at the museum, and he get’s a really confused look on his face like, “What the Hell is going on!?!”

So anyway, I’m thinkin’ it was a scene that was shot and cut from the movie, but stayed in the book (that happens a lot in movies). Then they just used some of that extra footage for the montage.

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And you would be correct in believing so.

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hmm… very interesting…

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I think I know the scene you’re talking about, the one where there’s alot of shots of the 1a running around and then venkman’s in the back seat with said look on his face, before he looks over his shoulder towards the window? I haven’t seen gb II in a while, need to get my copy and do a gb movie marathon :smiley:

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Yeah, the E-1a nearly powersliding around that bend is the probably the only thing of merit in the whole of GB2!

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Yeah, theres actually another thread about this scene that I started awhile ago, and I think the movie would have been MUCH better if they’d left in a lot of the stuff they cut out.

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:shock: Could you give a link to that thread. :slight_smile: I’m fascinated by deleted scenes…

For anyone who has the DVD, check out the trailer to Ghostbusters II. There’s a scene with Ray and the Mayor, it looks like they might be outside the museum(?), and Ray is yelling at him, “If we don’t do something by midnight, you’ll be remembered in history as the man who let New York get sucked down into the tenth level of hell!” That never made it into the movie.

I also think the random scenes shown during the credits are a brief look at some deleted scenes.

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I have to disagree with that, I think there’s plenty of cool parts in the movie II. In fact one of my favorites is: “Vhy am I covered vit goo?”

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I agree, there was even an entire scene cut which featured Lewis fighting off Slimer with a proton pack inside the firehouse.

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also i think there art alt takes of sceanes like when venkmen says im a voter arnt u supose to lie to me and kiss my butt i think that may have been a scean shot for when it made tv and the orginal movie version said ass

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I would tend to believe that…In the trailer/preview for the movie, Venkman says, “Some times weird ‘things’ happen, someone has to deal with it and who ya gonna call?” In the movie he says “shit” instead of “things.”

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Well of course they’re gonna edit for content, if you look closely you can see the lips not quite sync up, as well as the voice sounds different. They do that on a lot of movies they put on tv

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no in the final movie he says but instead of ass i think they had a take with ass but they chose to leave the clean on in.

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Well that sucks..

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i read the scipt on the net and they cut so many awsome things like the scene that you see the two ectos !!! and the line venkman talkin to the mayo r about the price of the job and the mayor says i wont pay and venkmans says think about the satute tomorrow morning here

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Ok wait.. If there’s a point where you see the two ecto’s.. Doesn’t that leave a plothole so large you could drive an ecto through it? I mean, the movie implies that’s what they turned the car into, because if they had two ecto’s.. then why not drive them both and split up into two teams of two, instead of taking cabs etc.. .That doesn’t make much sense.

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part of the script

this is the part where they are in the street

DANA

That’s where the buggy stopped.

VENKMAN

Okay, let’s take a look.

Venkman walks right out into the middle of the street, completely

oblivious to the CARS HONKING and whizzing past him and starts motioning

like a traffic cop, bringing traffic to a standstill. Then he signals

for Dana, Stantz and Spengler to join him in the middle of the street.

STANTZ

(reading the PKE meter)

Is this the spot?

DANA

A little to the left. Right there! That’s

where it stopped.

Stantz reads the PKE meter.

STANTZ

Nothing. Not a trace.

SPENGLER

Why don’t we try the Giga-meter?

VENKMAN

What’s that?

STANTZ

Egon and I have been working on a gauge to

measure psychomagnetheric energy in GEVs -

giga electron volts.

SPENGLER

That’s a thousand million electron volts.

VENKMAN

I knew that.

Spengler switches on the Giga-meter, the device he was testing in the

lab, and passes it over the spot on the street where the buggy stopped.

The indicator goes right into the red zone and the DEVICE starts CLICKING

WILDLY.< this was cut

STANTZ

I think we hit the honeypot, boys. There’s

something brewing under the street.

goin under part

STANTZ

He pans the walls with his flashlight, admiring the excellent tilework,

and speaks quietly to Venkman and Spengler over his walkie-talkie.

STANTZ

(reverently)

This is it, boys, the end of the line. Van

Horne Station. The old New York Pneumatic.

It’s still here.

EXT. EAST 77TH STREET - HOLE - NIGHT (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

Venkman has no idea what he’s talking about.

SPENGLER

(explaining)

The New York Pneumatic Railway. It was an

experimental subway system. Fan-forced

air-trains, built around 1870.

STANTZ

(over the walkie-talkie)

This is about as deep as you can go under

Manhattan without digging your own hole.

SPENGLER

(to Stantz)

What’s the reading?

INT. VAN HORNE STATION - NIGHT (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

Stantz shines his flashlight on the meter and whistles at the extremely

high reading.

STANTZ

(on the radio)

Off the top of the scale. This place is

really hot. Lower me to the floor.

As Venkman and Spengler feed him some more cable, he pans his flashlight

down the wall of the station, then onto the floor.

STANTZ

(shouts)

Hold it!! Stop!! Whoa!!

INT. VAN HORNE STATION - STANTZ’S POV - FLOOR - NIGHT

Below him is a river of bubbling seething, glowing slime, a veritable

torrent of disgusting ooze.

As he stares into the foul effluent, we become aware of the strangely

amplified and magnified sounds of great ENGINES THROBBING and pulsing in

the bowels of the city, of WATER RUSHING through pipes, STEAM HISSING

through ducts, the muffled RUMBLE of the SUBWAY and the ROAR of TRAFFIC,

and mixed with it all, the unmistakable sounds of human conflict and pain

– VOICES SHOUTING in anger, SCREAMING in fear, GROANING in pain, a sad

and eerie symphony.

INT. VAN HORNE STATION - STANTZ - NIGHT

STANTZ

(ranting on the radio)

Oh, my God! It’s a seething, bubbling,

psychic cess! Interlocked tubes of plasm,

crackling with negative GEVs! It’s glowing

and moving! It’s – it’s a river of slime!!

court room cut

PROSECUTOR

She goes to the exhibit table and picks up a specimen jar containing the

slime sample Stantz removed from the tunnel.

CON ED

I been working underground for Con Ed for

27 years and I never saw anything like that

in my life. We checked out that tunnel the

next day and we didn’t find nothing. If it

was down there, they must have put it there.

DEFENSE TABLE

Venkman and Spengler look at Stantz.

STANTZ

(defensively)

Hey, I didn’t imagine it. There must have

been ten thousand gallons of it down there.

SPENGLER

It may be ebbing and flowing from some tidal

source.

LOUIS

(nervously)

Should I say that?

SPENGLER

I doubt that they’d believe us.

Louis moans and goes back to his notes.

funny part

VENKMAN

No, I guess I’m just saying that shit happens

and somebody has to deal with it.

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ray crazy ride !!

EXT. MUSEUM - DAY (LATER)

The Ghostbusters cross to ECTO-2.

SPENGLER

There’s definitely something going on in

that studio. The PKE levels were max-plus

and the Giga-meter was showing all red.

WINSTON

I’d put my money on that Vigo character.

VENKMAN

Yeah, that’s a safe bet.

(to Stantz)

You and Spengman see what else you can dig

up on Vigo and this little weasel Poha.

Those two were made for each other.

INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (LATER)

The Ghostbusters are driving back to the firehouse. Stantz is at the

wheel. His eyes are vacant, he seems distracted and very tense. Stantz

swerves suddenly and HONKS the horn angrily.

STANTZ

(to another driver)

Idiot!

(honking)

Move it, you jerk!

Venkman and Winston exchange surprised looks.

EXT. STREET - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

Stantz drives extremely fast, HONKING vindictively, weaving dangerously

through traffic.

INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

Winston looks at Ray, concerned.

WINSTON

Going a little fast, aren’t we, Ray?

Stantz turns on him.

STANTZ

(viciously)

Are you telling me how to drive?

WINSTON

No, I just thought –

STANTZ

Well don’t think!

He HONKS again and tromps hard on the accelerator.

EXT. STREET - DAY (CONTINUOUS)

Ecto-2 is now barreling down the avenue. Pedestrians leap to safety as

Stantz runs a red light.

INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

They hang on to the safety straps as Stantz continues his maniacal ride.

WINSTON

(to Stantz, really worried

now)

Are you crazy, man? You’re going to kill

somebody!

Stantz looks at him and smile demonically.

STANTZ

No, I’m going to kill everybody!

He swerves off the road.

EXT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

The car heads right for a big tree.

INT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

At the last possible moment, Winston cold-cocks Stantz, grabs the wheel

and steps across to stomp on the brakes.

EXT. ECTO-2 - DAY (CONTINUOUS ACTION)

The car skids into the tree and stops. The Ghostbusters stumble out

dazed and shaken, but unhurt. Stantz rubs his eyes and looks at the

others, completely at a loss.

STANTZ

(himself again)

What happened?

VENKMAN

You just picked up three penalty points on

your driver’s license.

WINSTON

Are you all right?

STANTZ

Yeah, I guess so. It was the strangest

thing. I knew what I was doing but I

couldn’t stop. This really terrible feeling

came over me and – I don’t know – I just

felt like driving into that tree and ending

it all. Whew! Sorry, boys.

They inspect the damage to the car.

VENKMAN

(confidentially, to

Spengler)

Watch him, Egon. Don’t even let him shave.

EXT. CARL SCHURZ PARK - NIGHT (LATER)

Preceded by a police car, Ecto-2 enters the small park on the East River

at 88th Street and disappears into an underground entrance. The CAMERA

PANS UP to reveal Gracie Mansion, the residence of the Mayor of New York

City.

INT. GRACIE MANSION - MOMENTS LATER

The Ghostbusters, now wearing police raincoats over their longjohns are

ushered through the house by a butler to a set of double oak doors. The

butler knocks lightly, then opens the door to reveal the MAYOR sitting in

front of the fireplace in his well-appointed private study, flanked by

Jack Hardemeyer, both in tuxedoes. The Ghostbusters enter.

INT. STUDY - CONTINUOUS ACTION

The Mayor is impatient and a little angry at having been pulled out of

his formal reception. He frowns at their bizarre attire.

MAYOR

All right – the Ghostbusters. I’ll tell

you right now; I’ve got two hundred of the

heaviest campaign contributors in the city

out there eating bad roast chicken waiting

for me to give the speech of my life.

You’ve got two minutes. Make it good.

STANTZ

You get enough negative energy flowing in a

dense environment like Manhattan, it starts

to build up, and if we don’t do something

fast this whole place will blow like a frog

on a hotplate.

WINSTON

Tell him about the toaster.

VENKMAN

I don’t think he’s ready for the toaster.

MAYOR

(shaking his head)

Being miserable and treating other people

like dirt is every New Yorker’s God-given

right. What am I supposed to do – go on

television and tell eight million people

they have to be nice to each other? I’m

sorry, none of this makes any sense to me,

and if anything does happen we’ve got plenty

of paid professionals to deal with it. Your

two minutes are up. Good night, gentlemen.

The mayor exits, leaving the Ghostbusters to Hardemeyer.

INT. PARKVIEW PSYCHIATRIC - PADDED ROOM - NIGHT (SAME TIME)

Venkman, Stantz, Spengler and Winston are in a padded cell. They are

handcuffed and the cuffs are chained to thick leather belts around their

waists. Venkman stands there banging his head into the padded wall

while the others try to explain the situation to a skeptical

Psychiatrist.

STANTZ

We think the spirit of Vigo the Carpathian

is alive in a painting at the Manhattan

Museum.

PSYCHIATRIST

I see. And are there any other paintings in

the museum with bad spirits in them?

SPENGLER

(impatient)

You’re wasting valuable time! We have reason

to believe that Vigo is drawing strength from

a psychomagnetheric slime flow that’s been

collecting under the city.

PSYCHIATRIST

Yes, tell me about the slime.

WINSTON

It’s potent stuff. We made a toaster dance

with it, then a bathtub tried to eat his

friend’s baby.

The psychiatrist looks at Venkman.

VENKMAN

Don’t look at me. I think they’re nuts.

INT. PARKVIEW PSYCHIATRIC WARD - DAY (SAME TIME)

The Ghostbusters are sitting in the dayroom, a dingy lounge for patients

in the locked ward. There is a television set, a Ping-Pong table and a

few tables and chairs. Stantz is looking at the sky through the heavy

wire mesh covering the windows.

STANTZ

This is it. boys. It’s starting. Shit-storm

Venkman is doing occupational therapy, weaving on a little hand-loom.

VENKMAN

It better not start yet. I’m trying to

finish my potholder before lunch.

WINSTON

You think all those predictions about the

world coming to an end in the 1990s are true?

A PATIENT at the next table joins the discussion.

PATIENT

(with certainty)

  1. My dog told me.

VENKMAN

What kind of dog?

PATIENT

Labrador.

VENKMAN

(shakes his head)

Habitual liars. They can’t help it. It’s

in the breed.

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EXT. MUSEUM THEIR POV - BUILDING

The building is now totally covered in a shell of psycho-reactive slime.

CITY WORKMEN and FIREMEN are trying to cut their way in with blowtorches,

jackhammers, power tools and the “jaws of life,” but they can’t even make

a dent.

GHOSTBUSTERS

They size up the situation as they don their proton packs.

STANTZ

It looks like a giant Jello mold.

VENKMAN

I hate Jello.

They stride manfully across the street and approach the main entrance to

the museum.

STANTZ

(to the Fire Captain)

Okay, give it a rest, Captain. We’ll take

it from here.

FIRE CAPTAIN

(skeptical)

Be my guest. We been cutting here for three

hours. What the hell’s going on? You know

the Titanic arrived this morning?

VENKMAN

Well, better late than never.

The workmen and firemen put down their tools and fall back as the

Ghostbusters draw their particle throwers.

SPENGLER

(monitoring valences)

Full neutronas, maser assist.

They adjust their settings and prepare to fire.

STANTZ

Throw 'em!

They trigger their throwers and spray the front doors of the building

with bolts of proton energy, but it has no effect on the hardened slime.

VENKMAN

(to the firemen)

Okay, who knows “Cumbaya?”

A few of the firemen and workmen tentatively raise their hands. Venkman

grabs them and lines them up at the entrance of the museum.

VENKMAN

All right. Nice and sweet –

(starts singing)

Cumbaya, milord, cumbaya –

Stantz, Spengler, Winston and the firemen sing along, reluctantly holding

hands and swaying to the music.

ALL

(singing)

Cumbaya, milord, cumbaya, Cumbaya, milord,

cumbaya, Oh, Lord, cumbaya.

Stantz inspects the wall of slime with his infra-goggles and finds that

they have only managed to open a hole the size of a dime.

STANTZ

Forget it. The Vienna Boys Choir couldn’t

get through this stuff.

VENKMAN

Good effort. Now what? Should we say

supportive, nurturing things to it, Ray?

SPENGLER

It won’t work. There’s no way we could

generate enough positive energy to crack

that shell.

STANTZ

I can’t believe things have gotten so bad

in this city that there’s no way back.

Sure, it’s crowded, it’s dirty, it’s noisy.

And there are too many people who’d just as

soon step on your face as look at you. But

there’ve got to be a few sparks of sweet

humanity left in this burned-out burg. We

just have to mobilize it.

SPENGLER

We need something that everyone can get

behind, a symbol –

His eyes fall on ECTO-2’s New York State license plate which features a

line drawing of the Statue of Liberty.

STANTZ

(he sees it, too)

Something that appeals to the best in each

and every one of us –

SPENGLER

Something good –

VENKMAN

And pure –

WINSTON

And decent.

EXT. CENTRAL PARK - NIGHT (LATER)

The Statue of Liberty is sprawled inert on her back in the park behind

the museum, her toga up over her knees. The Mayor looks nearly suicidal.

The Ghostbusters stand beside him commiserating.

VENKMAN

She’s all right. She’s just sleeping it off.

MAYOR

(stricken)

We just had it restored.

VENKMAN

This probably isn’t a good time to bring

this up, but the last time we did a job for

the city you stiffed us.

STANTZ

(handing the Mayor an

invoice)

This is a bill for tonight’s job.

The Mayor looks at it and gasps at the amount.

MAYOR

What! This is way too much.

(hands the bill back to

Venkman)

We won’t pay.

Venkman looks at the Statue.

VENKMAN

(to Stantz)

I think she looks pretty good here, don’t

you?

STANTZ

Yeah, and a lot easier to get to than that island.

Realizing he has no alternative, the Mayor sighs and takes the bill back.

MAYOR

All right, all right. If you can wait until

Monday I’ll issue you a check.

SPENGLER

Sorry. No checks. Company policy.

CUT TO:

EXT. LIBERTY ISLAND - DAY (WEEKS LATER)

The sun is shining brightly and Liberty is back on her pedestal where she

belongs. The Mayor and a host of officials are commemorating her return.

The Ghostbusters, Dana, Janine and Louis are there as honored guests.

VENKMAN

(looking up at the statue)

Pretty impressive, huh?

SPENGLER

(musing)

It’s probably the first thing my

grandparents saw when they came to this

country.

VENKMAN

From where – Neptune?

SPENGLER

They came from Ostrov in Eastern Poland.

VENKMAN

Ostrov? I’ve been there. Good party town.

STANTZ

(in a similarly reflective

mood)

My great-grandparents were Swiss. I still

have the pictures they took of the statue

from the boat when they arrived.

VENKMAN

Oh, right, you told me that. They came to

America seeking other kinds of cheese, as I

recall. How about you, Winston?

WINSTON

My people weren’t taking any pictures from

those slave ships, man. And there wasn’t

any Statue in Charleston Harbor to welcome

them, either. What are you, Dana?

VENKMAN

Miss Blue Blood? Her family’s been here

since the year 12.

DANA

That’s not true. It was 1620.

VENKMAN

Same difference.

STANTZ

What’s your story, Pete?

VENKMAN

Me? I’m a little of everything. Some Irish,

some German, some French, Dutch – the women

in my family slept around. And that’s what

made this country great.

DANA

That’s a terrible thing to say.

VENKMAN

So what? It’s a free country.

(looking up at the Statue)

Thanks, Lib.

They all look up at the Statue.

EXT. STATUE OF LIBERTY - HEAD OF STATUE - DAY

Slimer flies out one of the observation windows, THEME MUSIC KICKS IN and

the CAMERA PULLS UP and AWAY FROM the island TO a HIGH

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haha that was a awesome read and im sure theres lots more deletes and better alt. takes on things. i woundering if all the footage still is around somewhere. it be nice if sony recut it and made it how it could have been that be just as good as having a GB3 i say