Be Kind Rewind Page #4

Synopsis: In Passaic, NJ, Elroy Fletcher runs a video store in a condemned building he claims was the birthplace of Fats Waller. Fletcher goes on a Waller centennial trip, leaving his foster son Mike in charge of the store. Mike's peculiar friend Jerry tries to sabotage a power station and nearly electrocutes himself, getting magnetized in the process. He inadvertently erases every tape in the store. Mike and Jerry hatch an plan to hide the disaster by making a homemade "Ghostbusters" to rent to a woman whom Fletcher will be phoning to check on them. Soon, with help, their homemade versions of films develop a cult following. Will this new business save the store and the building? What about Fats?
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Michel Gondry
Production: New Line Cinema
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
PG-13
Year:
2008
102 min
$11,200,000
Website
578 Views


- Oh, no, no, no.

- I don't think so.

We're not boxing.

It's just... You know, it's just buddies...

...just, you know, horsing around.

- Yeah, well...

- It's nothing, just boys.

What I can do is that I can get that to you

first thing tomorrow morning.

No, I don't think so. Uh-uh.

I'm gonna come back before 7,

when you close.

- Oh, okay.

- And I really strongly suggest...

...that you get this place in order fast.

- Okay, well...

- Have a good day.

- Yeah.

She's a communist.

I don't like commies.

- I gotta get some rest, I still feel sick.

- Yeah?

Yeah, me too.

What time is it?

This is a message is for Mark.

I was wondering if you had a copy

of Ghostbusters?

Hey, bro, is Pablo around?

I'm under a little bit of pressure here.

Do you have a copy of Ghostbusters

that I could...? That I could borrow?

You do? Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh.

No, no, no.

Because I don't need it on DVD.

I need it on... I need it on VHS.

Yeah, well, you know,

they said that about laser discs too so...

Okay, take care.

Sh*t.

A clear image,

even in the middle of the day.

It's as powerful as the sun.

Excuse me. Excuse me, sir, I'm sorry.

Do you...?

Do you have Ghostbusters on VHS?

There's no VHS here, buddy.

Ho, ho, ho, Little Mikey?

What are you doing here, man?

- You know me?

- Of course I know you, Mike.

Oh, I get it.

Old man Fletcher sent you by here

to get a movie that he's missing.

He's too embarrassed to get it himself.

Ain't that right?

- Now, ain't that right, Little Mikey?

- No, no.

- Yeah, that's right!

- No.

- Okay.

- I call it like I see it.

- All right, you take... You take care.

- I got you.

Tell me the truth, doc.

How long have I got left?

Ten minutes.

Ten minutes?

This should help.

Miss Kobayashi had a fever of...

I'm Bill Murray, you're everybody else.

What, are you crazy?

She's never gonna buy it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She doesn't know

what the movie's supposed to look like.

The only thing that she knows

is what's on this box.

She's never seen it before.

If we stay 10 feet away from the camera

she's not gonna recognize us.

We come up with some special effects,

we do it ourselves.

She's gonna be back in, like,

two hours and 45 minutes.

She's on the phone with Fletcher

every night.

The first scene is at the library.

And take that thing off, please.

Okay.

And action.

- Start over. Sorry, cut.

- What?

I looked right in the lens.

- We gotta start over.

- We can't start over.

- I looked right in the lens.

- You just have to do one good take.

All right? Don't...

Listen, what you're doing is good.

- I am doing good, right?

- Just do the same thing.

- Yeah, just do the same thing.

- Am I doing great?

- You're doing great, but don't look...

- All right, you're doing good too...

...with the cinematography.

- All right, thanks. Okay, good.

Go check the cards.

Check the cards.

You're doing... That's good, that's right.

That's great. That's good.

- Put your head down, put your head down.

- I can't see.

Go back to the shelf.

Suspecting nothing, and ghosts.

Ghosts.

When you're walking down the street

And you see a little ghost

What you gonna

Do about Ghostbusters?

- What? What? What is that?

- That's the Ghostbusters theme song.

- No.

- I'm pretty sure it is.

- About this stuff...

- We've got one right there.

Let's get a closer look.

Hey, have you talked to Elvis lately?

We're moving on to stage two.

We can capture her.

We have the megapixels.

You just have to stay with me, okay?

- Okay.

- Okay.

Excuse me.

We got her. We did it,

because we're Ghostbusters.

- All right.

- Pound it.

I'm in the hotel reading area

for children...

...and I'm getting a lot of creepy vibes.

I think I did hear something.

You heard something?

Stay where you are, I'm on my way.

I got... I got slimed.

Okay, Wilson, go now. Wilson, now!

- Wilson?

- Should I come in now?

- Yes, for duck's sake, now, Wilson.

- I wasn't sure.

If you or any of your family

have seen ectoplasmic apparitions..

...or heard funny noises in your attic...

Call Ghostbusters.

We're fully staffed and ready

...to fulfill your supernatural needs.

- We're ready to believe you.

- We're ready to believe you.

Look at the refrigerator.

Hello, I need Ghostbusters, fast.

There's a strange alien in my refrigerator.

- Okay, go.

- Rock 'n' roll. How does it look?

- Amazing, very real.

- Hey, come on. Yeah.

Okay, now, the next scene

is the car screeching through the night.

- Okay.

- Well, not night...

...because we're not in the night.

We gotta just go with the day.

No, no, no. All dramatic scenes

are shot at night.

You got... You gotta...

You gotta shoot it at night.

- The day is fine. What are you doing?

- And then, you also have to wet the floor.

- You wet the floor.

- Would you stop?

That's just a waste of water.

Would you stop?

Mike, I'm not gonna botch this job, man.

If you wanna do it in the day,

you'll find somebody else.

Miss Falewicz will be back

in less than an hour. We don't have time.

We just need a minimum amount

of professionalism.

I can shoot a night scene in the day,

give me the camera.

- No.

- Give me the camera.

Let me just show you how you...

You... You cannot touch the camera. You're

gonna erase everything that we've done.

Mike, look on the side of the camera.

There's a button that says, "negative."

See? Makes it look like nighttime

in the day. Am I right?

- Oh, there it goes.

- Thank you, you're welcome.

Your face is negative, though. Don't.

- There's something we can do about that.

- What?

- Okay, go.

- All right.

- Close your eyes.

- You're telling me that now?

Sorry. Good job.

Gotta run,

got a date with a Ghostbuster.

Busting makes me feel good.

Okay, Wilson.

- Ghostbusters, open the door!

- Wait, wait, do it one more time.

Ghostbusters, open the...

Are you the Gatekeeper

or the Keymaster?

Are you the Keymaster?

I want your key inside of me.

- Are you menstruating?

- That's not from the...

Back off, I'm the scientist here.

I'm gonna open that refrigerator door.

Let's show this prehistoric b*tch

how we do things downtown.

We ionized it.

It was a complete particle reversal.

Can I go now?

As the 100-foot marshmallow man

tried to kill them...

...they decided to reverse reality

by crossing their beams.

Run, everyone, run.

There's a Stay Puft Marsh...

Okay.

- Nice working with you, Dr. Venkman.

- See you on the other side.

The end. Starring Bill Murray

and other actors.

Written by Dan Aykroyd,

directed by Ivan Reitman.

Ghostbusters

Wait, wait. Miss Falewicz,

Miss Falewicz. Hi. Hi.

- I was waiting for you.

- Yeah, I'm here.

By the way, it looks a load better.

Big improvement.

- Oh, yeah. We were just...

- Mr. Fletcher will be pleased.

Yeah, we were doing...

We were doing inventory here.

A nice and tidy house.

First step to combating depression:

- To have an optimistic view of the future.

- Hey, that sounds...

You know what I do

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Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry (French: [miʃɛl ɡɔ̃dʁi]; born 8 May 1963) is a French independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. His other films include the surrealistic science fantasy comedy The Science of Sleep (2006), the comedy Be Kind Rewind (2008), the superhero action comedy The Green Hornet (2011), the drama The We and the I (2012), and the romantic science fantasy tragedy Mood Indigo (2013). He is well known for his music video collaborations with Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers and The White Stripes. more…

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