- August 22nd, 2023, 7:48 am#4985383
This is something that’s always sort of bugged me. Well not bugged me, but intrigued me.
Now we all know Ghostbusters is primarily a comedy but that doesn’t mean we can’t find the mythology of the ghosts and lore fascinating.
There’s a detail on GB2 that maybe some of you have noticed. When Oscar is placed in front of the Vigo painting on some sort of make shift alter there’s a rather fascinating stone tablet with all sorts of carvings and glyphs.
Now the filmmaker side of me thinks, ok, the audience gets it. It’s just some sort of tablet that conveys mystic imagery to the audience so they understand this is a ritual. That’s all you need. Economical storytelling. In and out.
But the GB fan in me wants to know…where did that come from? Was it with the Vigo painting? Was it at another museum that Janosz had to steal? Did Janosz make it? Does it have anything to do with Vigo being trapped in the painting…like some sort of ancient Ghostbusters trap? What do the glyphs mean?
I always thought GB2 might’ve made a mistake not showing Janosz discovering or opening the crate that Vigo is in. They maybe should’ve had a scene where He’s receiving a delivery of sort of stuff from all over the world for the new art exhibit and maybe the delivery guy is in some weird trance. Janosz is all “hey this last piece isn’t on the manifest or inventory!” But the delivery guy ignores him. And then he delivery guy, still in a trance, walks out into traffic and is hit by a car. Something like that? Anyways later on we see Janosz prying open the Vigo painting. And inside is the painting and the stone tablet. And maybe Janosz notices some odd pink slime at the bottom of the crate?
I sort of want to write out of the scene as an exercise. If you’ll indulge me. (This was done just quickly so don’t mind any mistakes)
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Ext Manhattan Museum of Art Midday
Janosz Poha stands impatiently in front of The Manhattan Museum of Art. Workers and assistants busily offload crates and boxes of varying sizes from a large delivery truck. Janosz watches in horror as burly blue collar delivery men haphazardly bump and bang each item. He winces and cringes at every bump. A 350 pound thick necked man with grease stains on his shirt drops a small box. We hear something inside break. Burly man shrugs, wipes his nose with his hand and picks it up the box
Janosz: Careful! dat could be zee Vermeer mirror!
Another worker shouts to the thick neck burly man
Worker: You hear that Bruce? Vermeer mirror! Looks like another 7 years bad luck.
Bruce(the thick neck man). Eh. Add it to my tab
They both laugh
Janosz buries his head in his hands in horror.
The workers offload the items and work their way up the steps to the museum entrance. Janosz is left alone as New York commuters yell & honk their car horns at the inconvenience of the delivery trucks tying up the busy thoroughfare. Drivers shout various epithets in a way only New Yorkers could
Janosz turns to make his way back to the museum when a hand suddenly grabs him from behind!
Janosz jumps and let’s out a rather feminine squeal
Janosz: Oh my!
In front of him is a delivery worker with a rather large and old looking crate on a dolly. This worker is different than the rest. Something in his eyes tells us this man is not right. He wears a name tag identifying him as Leroy
In an almost robotic monotone voice yet in a thick Brooklyn accent Leroy speaks
Leroy: This is shall be the final item. It was overlooked in the back of the transportation vehicle. Many Apologies.
Janosz: What is dis? Did zey send me a surprise! Oh I love surprises!
Leroy just stares at Janosz blankly.
Janosz: Riight. Well I’ll just have the big man take it in. I’ll give it a quick look and zee if they labeled it.
Janosz turns his back to Leroy. He examines the crates and looks for identification marker of any kind
Janosz(Soto): Oh zat Randolph he knows Janosz loves his surprises! I wonder vhat it could be?
As Janosz talks to himself, Leroy starts to walk backwards towards the busy New York intersection in a very odd peculiar way.
Janosz(still facing us and not noticing what’s happening behind him): Oh Leroy you’ve made my day. You don’t mind if I call you Leroy?
Leroy continues to move backwards inching his way towards oncoming traffic.
Just then then Bruce and his fellow delivery works emerge from the museum. Bruce sees Leroy and shouts
Bruce: Ho! Leroy! Moonwalk on your own time!
Janosz is still smiling ear to ear over his surprise crate. He’s ecstatic.
With Janosz facing us we see Leroy go just out of focus. Janosz starts to hum and sing a happy foreign tune in celebration as he lovingly caresses his new prized crate. Then we hear, but don’t see, cars crashing and horns honking. Janosz pays no attention and assumes it’s just the New York commuters being themselves
Janosz: Leroy, wheel dis in please. I think dis is going to be something special, don’t you? Leroy?
Janosz turns around
Janosz: Leroy?
He sees the chaos and horror
Janosz: Oh my!
******************
Anyways, something like that. Then later a scene of him opening the crate and discovering the painting and tablet.
Now we all know Ghostbusters is primarily a comedy but that doesn’t mean we can’t find the mythology of the ghosts and lore fascinating.
There’s a detail on GB2 that maybe some of you have noticed. When Oscar is placed in front of the Vigo painting on some sort of make shift alter there’s a rather fascinating stone tablet with all sorts of carvings and glyphs.
Now the filmmaker side of me thinks, ok, the audience gets it. It’s just some sort of tablet that conveys mystic imagery to the audience so they understand this is a ritual. That’s all you need. Economical storytelling. In and out.
But the GB fan in me wants to know…where did that come from? Was it with the Vigo painting? Was it at another museum that Janosz had to steal? Did Janosz make it? Does it have anything to do with Vigo being trapped in the painting…like some sort of ancient Ghostbusters trap? What do the glyphs mean?
I always thought GB2 might’ve made a mistake not showing Janosz discovering or opening the crate that Vigo is in. They maybe should’ve had a scene where He’s receiving a delivery of sort of stuff from all over the world for the new art exhibit and maybe the delivery guy is in some weird trance. Janosz is all “hey this last piece isn’t on the manifest or inventory!” But the delivery guy ignores him. And then he delivery guy, still in a trance, walks out into traffic and is hit by a car. Something like that? Anyways later on we see Janosz prying open the Vigo painting. And inside is the painting and the stone tablet. And maybe Janosz notices some odd pink slime at the bottom of the crate?
I sort of want to write out of the scene as an exercise. If you’ll indulge me. (This was done just quickly so don’t mind any mistakes)
******************
Ext Manhattan Museum of Art Midday
Janosz Poha stands impatiently in front of The Manhattan Museum of Art. Workers and assistants busily offload crates and boxes of varying sizes from a large delivery truck. Janosz watches in horror as burly blue collar delivery men haphazardly bump and bang each item. He winces and cringes at every bump. A 350 pound thick necked man with grease stains on his shirt drops a small box. We hear something inside break. Burly man shrugs, wipes his nose with his hand and picks it up the box
Janosz: Careful! dat could be zee Vermeer mirror!
Another worker shouts to the thick neck burly man
Worker: You hear that Bruce? Vermeer mirror! Looks like another 7 years bad luck.
Bruce(the thick neck man). Eh. Add it to my tab
They both laugh
Janosz buries his head in his hands in horror.
The workers offload the items and work their way up the steps to the museum entrance. Janosz is left alone as New York commuters yell & honk their car horns at the inconvenience of the delivery trucks tying up the busy thoroughfare. Drivers shout various epithets in a way only New Yorkers could
Janosz turns to make his way back to the museum when a hand suddenly grabs him from behind!
Janosz jumps and let’s out a rather feminine squeal
Janosz: Oh my!
In front of him is a delivery worker with a rather large and old looking crate on a dolly. This worker is different than the rest. Something in his eyes tells us this man is not right. He wears a name tag identifying him as Leroy
In an almost robotic monotone voice yet in a thick Brooklyn accent Leroy speaks
Leroy: This is shall be the final item. It was overlooked in the back of the transportation vehicle. Many Apologies.
Janosz: What is dis? Did zey send me a surprise! Oh I love surprises!
Leroy just stares at Janosz blankly.
Janosz: Riight. Well I’ll just have the big man take it in. I’ll give it a quick look and zee if they labeled it.
Janosz turns his back to Leroy. He examines the crates and looks for identification marker of any kind
Janosz(Soto): Oh zat Randolph he knows Janosz loves his surprises! I wonder vhat it could be?
As Janosz talks to himself, Leroy starts to walk backwards towards the busy New York intersection in a very odd peculiar way.
Janosz(still facing us and not noticing what’s happening behind him): Oh Leroy you’ve made my day. You don’t mind if I call you Leroy?
Leroy continues to move backwards inching his way towards oncoming traffic.
Just then then Bruce and his fellow delivery works emerge from the museum. Bruce sees Leroy and shouts
Bruce: Ho! Leroy! Moonwalk on your own time!
Janosz is still smiling ear to ear over his surprise crate. He’s ecstatic.
With Janosz facing us we see Leroy go just out of focus. Janosz starts to hum and sing a happy foreign tune in celebration as he lovingly caresses his new prized crate. Then we hear, but don’t see, cars crashing and horns honking. Janosz pays no attention and assumes it’s just the New York commuters being themselves
Janosz: Leroy, wheel dis in please. I think dis is going to be something special, don’t you? Leroy?
Janosz turns around
Janosz: Leroy?
He sees the chaos and horror
Janosz: Oh my!
******************
Anyways, something like that. Then later a scene of him opening the crate and discovering the painting and tablet.