Ghostbusters II Page #17
- PG
- Year:
- 1989
- 108 min
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While he's talking, the Ghostbusters jump in the Ecto-2 and drive
off without him.
LOUIS:
Hey! Wait! Okay, I'll meet you there.
CUT TO:
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EXT. MUSEUM - NIGHT (ECLIPSE)(LATER)
ECTO-2 pulls to the curb across the street from the museum. Hundreds of
spectators are already there gawking at the building as the Ghostbusters
jump out and gape at the sight that greets them.
EXT. MUSEUM THEIR POV - BUILDING
The building is now totally covered in a shell of psycho-reactive slime.
CITY WORKMEN and FIREMEN are trying to cut their way in with blowtorches,
jackhammers, power tools and the "jaws of life," but they can't even make
a dent.
GHOSTBUSTERS:
They size up the situation as they don their proton packs.
STANTZ:
It looks like a giant Jello mold.
VENKMAN:
I hate Jello.
They stride manfully across the street and approach the main entrance to
the museum.
STANTZ:
(to the Fire Captain)
Okay, give it a rest, Captain. We'll take
it from here.
FIRE CAPTAIN:
(skeptical)
Be my guest. We been cutting here for three
hours. What the hell's going on? You know
the Titanic arrived this morning?
VENKMAN:
Well, better late than never.
The workmen and firemen put down their tools and fall back as the
Ghostbusters draw their particle throwers.
SPENGLER:
(monitoring valences)
Full neutronas, maser assist.
They adjust their settings and prepare to fire.
STANTZ:
Throw 'em!
They trigger their throwers and spray the front doors of the building
with bolts of proton energy, but it has no effect on the hardened slime.
VENKMAN:
(to the firemen)
Okay, who knows "Cumbaya?"
A few of the firemen and workmen tentatively raise their hands. Venkman
grabs them and lines them up at the entrance of the museum.
VENKMAN:
All right. Nice and sweet --
(starts singing)
Cumbaya, milord, cumbaya --
Stantz, Spengler, Winston and the firemen sing along, reluctantly holding
hands and swaying to the music.
ALL:
(singing)
Cumbaya, milord, cumbaya, Cumbaya, milord,
cumbaya, Oh, Lord, cumbaya.
Stantz inspects the wall of slime with his infra-goggles and finds that
they have only managed to open a hole the size of a dime.
STANTZ:
Forget it. The Vienna Boys Choir couldn't
get through this stuff.
VENKMAN:
Good effort. Now what? Should we say
supportive, nurturing things to it, Ray?
SPENGLER:
It won't work. There's no way we could
generate enough positive energy to crack
that shell.
STANTZ:
I can't believe things have gotten so bad
in this city that there's no way back.
Sure, it's crowded, it's dirty, it's noisy.
And there are too many people who'd just as
soon step on your face as look at you. But
there've got to be a few sparks of sweet
humanity left in this burned-out burg. We
just have to mobilize it.
SPENGLER:
We need something that everyone can get
behind, a symbol --
His eyes fall on ECTO-2's New York State license plate which features a
line drawing of the Statue of Liberty.
STANTZ:
(he sees it, too)
Something that appeals to the best in each
and every one of us --
SPENGLER:
Something good --
VENKMAN:
And pure --
WINSTON:
And decent.
EXT. THE STREET - NIGHT (SAME TIME)
There is a commotion among the crowd as the Mayor's limousine arrives
with a police escort. Jack Hardemeyer steps out followed by the Mayor
himself and they cross to the museum entrance.
Hardemeyer, his ASSISTANT and several police BODYGUARDS confront the
Ghostbusters.
HARDEMEYER:
Look, I've had it with you. Get your stuff
together, get back in that clown car and get
out of here. This is a city matter and
everything's under control.
VENKMAN:
Oh, you think so? Well, I've got news for
you. You've got Dracula's brother-in-law
in there and he's got my girlfriend and her
kid. Around about midnight tonight, when
you're partying uptown, this guy's going to
come to life and start doing amateur head
transplants. And that's just round one.
MAYOR:
Are you telling me there're people trapped
in there?
HARDEMEYER:
(to his assistant)
This is dynamite. Call A.P., U.P.I., and
C.N.N. and get them down here right away.
When the police bring this kid out I want
them to hand it right to the mayor and I
want it all on camera.
STANTZ:
Mr. Mayor, if we don't do something by
midnight, you're going to go down in history
as the man who let New York get sucked down
into the tenth level of hell.
The Mayor stops to consider the situation.
MAYOR:
(to the Fire Captain)
Can you get into that museum?
FIRE CAPTAIN:
If I had a nuclear warhead, maybe.
MAYOR:
You know why all these things are happening?
VENKMAN:
We tried to tell you last night, but Mr.
Hard-On over here packed us off to the loony
bin.
Hardemeyer flips out.
HARDEMEYER:
This is preposterous! You can't seriously
believe all this mumbo-jumbo! It's the
Twentieth Century, for crying out loud!
(viciously, to Venkman)
Look, mister, I don't know what this stuff
is or how you got it all over the museum,
but you better get it off and I mean right
now!
He pounds the wall of slime with his fist, and they all watch in
amazement as his fist goes through the wall and he is sucked bodily
through the slime curtain. Only his shoes can be seen, embedded in the
slime.
MAYOR:
(to Venkman)
Okay, just tell me what you need.
CUT TO:
EXT. LIBERTY ISLAND (NEW YORK HARBOR) - NIGHT
With the city skyline in the b.g., the Ghostbusters prepare their
equipment. Each of them dons a makeshift backpack consisting of tanks,
hoses, nozzles and an abundance of gauges, valves and regulators.
Venkman looks up at the Statue of Liberty looming above them.
VENKMAN:
Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?
WINSTON:
Wonder what?
VENKMAN:
If she's naked under that toga. She's
French, you know.
SPENGLER:
There's nothing under that toga but 300 tons
of iron and steel.
Stantz is looking worried.
STANTZ:
I hope we have enough stuff to do the job.
VENKMAN:
Only one way to find out.
(to Stantz)
Ready, Teddy?
They enter the statue.
CUT TO:
INT. STATUE OF LIBERTY - MOMENTS LATER
The Ghostbusters are working from the iron staircase that spirals
straight up 100 feet inside the hollow super-structure of the statue.
Spengler and Winston are busy assembling hundreds of wires connected to
various relays on the interior surface of the statue. Venkman and Stantz
are mounting large auditorium loudspeakers near the top of the staircase.
They finish the installation, then Stantz dons one of the new backpacks
and gives the order.
STANTZ:
Okay, boys. Let's frost it.
They begin hosing the inside of the statue with the psycho-reactive
slime.
CUT TO:
INT. FIREHOUSE - NIGHT (SAME TIME)
Janine watches as Louis, wearing a Ghostbuster uniform, slings a heavy
proton pack onto his back.
JANINE:
I'm not sure this is such a good idea? Do
they know you're doing this?
LOUIS:
Oh, yeah, sure -- no. But there's really
not much to do here and they might need
some back-up at the museum.
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