- November 15th, 2017, 7:58 pm#4900974
JurorNo.2 wrote:Yeah that isn't the theme. The establishment literally asks them "what do you need from me?" Walter Peck is one dude with an axe to grind. And an immature guy taking responsibility is not what happens to Venkman (maybe you are mixing up Stripes with Ghostbusters). Can you point to me where Venkman takes responsibility for something?RichardLess wrote:The theme is the underdogs triumphing over the establishment. Also an immature guy taking responsibility. The difference is, unlike a lot of movies, Ghostbusters doesn't hit you over the head with these themes with a lot of pathos or contrived mid movie conflicts.
Right and, again, I get that this is *your* opinion. We've covered this ground before.
The storytelling rules it doesn't follow is A: there is no theme and B: No character arc for main characters. Otherwise what rules are you talking about? It's told in 3 acts, good guys win, Guy gets the girl. We have the audience surrogate in Winston, the montage showing progress, the government villian. Those are standard movie storytelling tropes. The unusual part is that they do it without a theme or character arc for the main characters.