He reminded me of a Ghostbuster.
He has described his role as that of a "ghostbuster," exorcising the U.K.'s World Cup demons.
earlier this year i went to sxsw and on the first night got really drunk, i found myself walking through the festival and finding [the name of a Ghostbuster has been redacted - ed], i ran up to him and we talked for a while, then i tried to get a picture of me kissing him on the cheek whilst ma mate took a photo.
Last summer, after the release of a new "Ghostbusters" movie that co-starred Ms. Jones with a predominantly female cast, she was bombarded on Twitter with racist and sexist insults.
And the existence of a rival Ghostbusters film, one with input from the original creators giving it the appearance of legitimacy, has just made that event that much likelier.
The first time he received a photo of a young "Ghostbusters" fan, taken by her father, posed with her proton pack and wand, looking "all fierce and cool," Feig said he "completely burst into tears". .
Now anyone that knows me, or has listened to my podcasts knows that I am a severe "GhostHead" (a term used to describe a fan of the Ghostbusters franchise a la a "DeadHead," which was coined in the late 90's by one of the founders of the Ghostbusters online community Norm Gannon).
Earlier this summer, in a year that Hollywood and the Oscars sought to diversify after a groundswell of criticism over its largely Anglo ranks, a reboot of "Ghostbusters" with a black and female leads generated epic trolling and outrage over the movie's "forced diversity," so much so that its actors received death threats. .
Tinfoil, marshmallows and shaving foam are used in a makeshift version of Ghostbusters; an adroitly positioned pizza creates a halo of blood behind a dead man's head in Boyz 'n the Hood; giant boxing gloves (recalling the outsized hands Bernal wore in The Science of Sleep) help re-create the boxing documentary When We Were Kings.
There was a chapter on Harry Price, the famous paranormal investigator and ghost-hunter, and I dreamed of growing up to be a Ghostbuster long before Bill Murray convinced me it would be the best job in the world.
