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#68 - Ghostbusters (1984)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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How to Be a Ghostbuster

The ghostbusters are the ultimate play on, like, the blue collar job, civil servant type thing. And you take all those disparate things on your whiteboard, you add them, you squish them together and they turn into the ghostbusters,. Right? You just start riffing off. Yeah. But Jimmy and I have a term that we kind of invented for this called premise paint, right? Yes. So you might take the most basic trope of the ghost world and then mix them with some New York City. That might get you those stone creatures that show up later on or something. Or the library being a haunted house. It's almost like, if you can imagine your palette

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