Ghostbusters villain: I WAS A SOCIAL OUTCAST! NO ONE RESPECTED ME OR ADMIRED ME! THEY SAID I WAS WEIRD! THEY SAID I WAS CRAZY! THEY SAID I DIDN’T FIT IN! THEY TREATED ME LIKE I WASN’T WORTH ANYTHING!
Erin: Uh. Hi. I’m a woman working in a STEM field…
Abby: …likewise and not stick-thin enough for some people.
Holtzmann: STEM too and kinda gay.
Patty: I’d be here all day.
Ghostbusters villain: NO ONE HAS SUFFERED AS I HAVE SUFFERED!
oh, nothing, nothing, just thinking about how Patty Tolan thought she was joining a BOOK CLUB but she still got them a car, and strapped on a proton pack gladly, and got worried that Erin’s nice clothes kept getting sticky so she made sure everyone got jumpsuits, and she brings people sandwiches even when they haven’t asked for them, and she thinks the best of everyone (even Rowan, briefly) and she’s always willing to put herself in danger to help everyone else, and she keeps saving Holtzman’s life, and the hipster graffiti dude tells her he loves her on his way out of getting scolded, and she wishes a death metal band would play something gentle so the demon stops being so angry, and she brings the humanities to a STEM team and her expertise is what makes their plans actually work, and when she’s asked what Rowan’s form should be her request is “small and cute”, and she has a full time job but she’s willing to spend her free time making her city safer, even though ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO READ BOOKS AND TALK ABOUT BOOKS.
let’s be real abt ghostbusters for a second because it is not even debatable that after the girls save the city and holtzmann’s face is on television they get 200 calls a day like “there’s a ghost in my bed and i need jillian holtzmann to come and take care of it”
#every time there’s a call from a creepy dude asking for holtz they send kevin#bc 1) there’s never a real ghost so he cant possibly screw it up#2) he always makes the creepy guy feel incredibly inferior#3) kevin feels SO good about himself cause he presses a couple buttons on his fake proton pack and BOOM no ghost ! (via geekholtz)
I think basically everyone agrees that the Ghostbusters trailers fucking blew but there’s “doing a shit job of selling your film” and then there’s “making it look like you’ve cast the black actress as someone ‘street smart’ when really she’s just a huge fucking history nerd"
That’s the point where it tips over into being damaging for more than just your box office.
You mean the black actress is NOT cast as ‘street smart’ but is actually at the same level of intellectual nerdery as the white characters? Maybe I should watch this movie after all.
When she says “You may know science, but I know this city,” she’s not saying it like “I grew up on the streets” or whatever. It’s immediately after this line, “I read a lot of nonfiction.” Her entire thing is that the scientists all know science, but she knows THE HISTORY of the city. At one point she’s griping about joining the Ghostbusters… because she expected it to be more like a book club.
She’s smart, and caring, and she’s always dropping knowledge about the history of where they are. She immediately identifies at least one ghost because she knows what the building above them was.
Heck, during her character introduction she had a book open, I think.