The first time I saw Ghostbusters, the way Murray delivers that line (Call it Fate, call it Karma, call it Destiny...) and the way they've got the music stirring in the background, I thought that he was going to bust out into a musical number. For two seconds, I thought this movie was a musical and I never knew that.
Were they trying for that? Maybe. I don't know. But it kinda cracks me up that there's this false-start musical number that never existed.
lol you know i never saw it that way, but now that you mention it, it certainly plays that way. that's almost certainly the joke Venkman was going for.
shareI remember thinking, "Oh, whatever musical number these guys think up will be hilarious!" and then almost immediately after, "Wait...this isn't a musical..." It was the oddest sensation.
shareYeah. I know what you mean. It is funny how he starts singing a little bit.
shareYeah! It's in there *just* a touch...!
I can't help but wonder if that was Murray's line reading or something Reitman or Aykroyd had directed/scripted. I might never know since it's not one of the talked-about moments in the film, so it's unlikely to come up in any interviews.
I just watched the movie for the first time and this is exactly what I thought was about to happen. “Oh it’s a musical, who knew?”
But it never happened.
Just googled to see if anyone else got the same vibe and this is where google took me
Thanks, Googalian overlords!
I wonder how many people have had exactly this same experience, seeing it for the first time and "realizing" it's a musical, only to then un-realize it immediately. I also wonder if the filmmakers knew what they were doing. Murray did the take that way, maybe they were in the editing room going, "Maybe we can fake some people out into thinking it's about to turn into a musical and we can psyche 'em out!"
It was a great bit of singing and a bit of a musical rise that when combined created a wonderful moment.
And it's great that the teaser for the new movie re-used that moment. It really sends chills down my spine when I hear it, so the makers of the film obvious got the same feeling from that moment and it stood out to them as an emotional thing for lovers of the original film.