:07:01
who proposed drilling a hole in his head
to test some higher brain function.
:07:04
The line..."That would have worked
if you hadn't stopped me"...
:07:07
was pure improvisation
by Harold Ramis.
:07:18
Though written in such a way that it
could be staged later in the studio...
:07:21
this scene was shot in a caged area
inside the main reading room...
:07:24
all part of the whirlwind shooting
session at the New York Public Library.
:07:29
Much of Venkman's dialogue sounds so
characteristically like Bill Murray...
:07:32
that many critics assumed he had
written or ad-libbed all his own lines.
:07:35
In actuality, most of his lines
were scripted for him.
:07:38
Co-writer Ramis said, "I like
putting myself inside Bill's head.
:07:41
Even if I don't get it exactly, it gives
him a strong anchor to play off of."
:08:16
On his way to the set on the morning
this scene was shot...
:08:19
director Ivan Reitman came up with
the idea of this stack of books...
:08:22
and the new dialogue
was hastily written.
:08:58
The scientists' first contact
with the gooey residue, "ectoslime"...