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#68 - Ghostbusters (1984)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Logic of the Time Loop

There was originally a fourth rule that explained why the gremlins wouldn't replicate in the snow, because it's water still to address the heckler of who would have bought all the snow. And then they eventually cut it out because the whole thing fell apart and just like the original drafts of Groundhog Day. They just start picking it apart. Right. There's another instructive example here in Ghostbusters where they don't really explain the logic of the ghosts like here's you pretty much learn like they are the ghost leave ectoplasm you can see them. It's pretty simple right. Like it's it's kind of cartoon ghost logic. Yeah. So there's so little rules that

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