{"id":405841,"date":"2022-02-14T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-ivan-reitman-remembering-the-ghostbusters-director-and-rebel\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:14:44","slug":"watch-ivan-reitman-remembering-the-ghostbusters-director-and-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ivan-reitman-remembering-the-ghostbusters-director-and-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ivan Reitman: Remembering the &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; Director and Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef920f93ac0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef920f93ac0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ivan-reitman-remembering-the-ghostbusters-director-and-rebel\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Ivan_Reitman_Remembering_the_%E2%80%98Ghostbusters_Director_and_Rebel%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Ivan Reitman: Remembering the &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; Director and Rebel&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ivan-reitman-remembering-the-ghostbusters-director-and-rebel\/#%E2%80%9CIvan_Reitman_Remembering_the_%E2%80%98Ghostbusters_Director_and_Rebel%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Ivan Reitman: Remembering the &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; Director and Rebel&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ivan-reitman-remembering-the-ghostbusters-director-and-rebel\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ivan-reitman-remembering-the-ghostbusters-director-and-rebel\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Ivan_Reitman_Remembering_the_%E2%80%98Ghostbusters_Director_and_Rebel%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Ivan Reitman: Remembering the &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; Director and Rebel&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CIvan_Reitman_Remembering_the_%E2%80%98Ghostbusters_Director_and_Rebel%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Ivan Reitman: Remembering the &#8216;Ghostbusters&#8217; Director and Rebel&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        If there\u2019s a word in American life that should probably be retired (or at least used a lot less often), it\u2019s \u201crebel.\u201d Back in the \u201950s, when Marlon Brando was rebelling against \u201cwhatever ya got,\u201d the rebel was a rare breed. But the rock revolution opened the door to a generation of rebels \u2014 the freak-flag-flying music stars, plus their armies of followers. The hippies and yippies were rebels. So were the glam rockers, punks, disco divas, and r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ers, not to mention the raging antiheroes of New Hollywood films like \u201cBonnie and Clyde\u201d and \u201cM*A*S*H\u201d and \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest.\u201d By the time the director Ivan Reitman came along in the late \u201970s, it seemed like there wasn\u2019t much <em>left<\/em> to rebel against \u2014 at least, not in middle-class American life. But that\u2019s where Reitman, who died Saturday at 75, had an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>What if rebellion as we knew it really <em>was<\/em> played out? After the moralistic fervor of the \u201960s and \u201970s, what if there was nothing left to the idea of a \u201ccounterculture\u201d but the sheer scruffy joy of bad behavior? What if the rebel no longer stood for anything but himself?<\/p>\n<p>In 1978, when Reitman, a television, theater, and low-budget horror producer from Toronto, launched his Hollywood career by producing \u201cNational Lampoon\u2019s Animal House,\u201d the world was ripe for a new breed of rebel, the kind who didn\u2019t take anything he stood for seriously. It was also ripe for the kind of rebellion that looked like you could have a blast doing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnimal House\u201d represented the collision of a shaggy m\u00e9lange of talents: Doug Kenney and Chris Miller, from the National Lampoon (the film was based on Miller\u2019s outrageous short-story reminiscences of going to Dartmouth); Harold Ramis, a refugee from \u201cSCTV\u201d; the director John Landis, who had helmed \u201cThe Kentucky Fried Movie\u201d (the first film from the \u201cAirplane!\u201d team); and, of course, a cast that featured John Belushi, who as Bluto became the film\u2019s iconic, anarchic, food-fight-happy id.<\/p>\n<p>From the outset, though, it was Reitman\u2019s gut-busting impulse to take the ribald, semi-underground naughtiness of the Lampoon and pour it into something new: a slob comedy for mainstream audiences. The key to \u201cAnimal House\u201d is that its heroes were frat-house louts and losers and layabouts who wanted nothing out of life but the right to party. That\u2019s all they stood for. Yet they were going to have to fight for that right. And \u201cAnimal House,\u201d in elevating toga parties and frat high jinks to a higher form of debased hilarity, flipped the very idea of rebellion on its head.<\/p>\n<p>The movie had a seismic influence on the culture. It made frat houses hip (they\u2019d been fading for years), and the fraternity came roaring back to the center of college life. But the extraordinary thing that \u201cAnimal House\u201d did was to purge rebellion of everything <em>but<\/em> sex, drugs, and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll \u2014 or, in the case of Bluto, sheer mayhem. The movie cruised along on a template of hedonism that has never left us \u2014 you can draw a direct line from \u201cAnimal House\u201d to the bacchanal dreams of \u201cMTV Spring Break\u201d to \u201cJersey Shore\u201d to the binge-drinking-and Tinder-hook-up decadence of today. This was a rebellion that preened, that caroused, that had no shame. The only thing it was trying to overthrow was any vestige of respectability.<\/p>\n<p>After \u201cAnimal House\u201d put Reitman on the map, he wasted no time transitioning into the role of director, making a trio of films that redefined American comedy. It\u2019s no coincidence that all three starred Bill Murray. In Murray, Reitman found his muse, his antic lazy-bones hero, his ironic anti-rebel. And Reitman, as a filmmaker, turned out to be have a blockbuster broadness infused with a human touch. His <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> weren\u2019t subversive, exactly, but they had spirit and sass, thumbing their noses at the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>The first of them, \u201cMeatballs,\u201d came out in 1979, and it was the scruffiest of summer comedies \u2014 a low-budget throwaway, produced in Canada, in which Murray played the world\u2019s most disreputable camp counselor. The movie was a sleeper hit that almost singlehandedly launched the tawdry genre of \u201980s summer-camp comedies (skewered to perfection in \u201cWet Hot American Summer\u201d), most of which were rated R and did their best to be titillating. \u201cMeatballs\u201d was rated PG and revolved around Murray\u2019s attempt to cheer up a despondent camper. Yet it was the first comedy to showcase the Murray Attitude \u2014 the snark, the what-the-hell detachment, the total abandonment of responsibility presented as a higher value. In the film\u2019s most famous scene, Murray gives a pep talk to his campers, telling them that if they\u2019re worried about beating their rival camp in an upcoming olympiad, they shouldn\u2019t be, because <em>\u201cIt just doesn\u2019t matter!\u201d <\/em>In a goofy way, he and Reitman were undercutting a century of movie nobility.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cMeatballs\u201d was merely the appetizer. \u201cS<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>es,\u201d Reitman\u2019s 1981 follow-up, was a military jape that showcased Murray at his most gloriously unhinged; it was like \u201cM*A*S*H\u201d updated to the age of round-the-clock mockery. Murray, leading his fellow soldiers in basic-training choruses of Manfred Mann\u2019s \u201cDo Wah Diddy Diddy,\u201d was the most blissfully cockeyed of troublemakers. All of which set the stage for what may be the defining laughfest of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhostbusters\u201d was comedy on a grand scale: a gooey special-effects movie that skewered the whole idea that it was a gooey special-effects movie. Murray was the main Ghostbuster, but really, he seemed to be inside the movie and outside it at the same time, doing a running commentary on the absurdity of everything that was happening. Released in 1984, \u201cGhostbusters\u201d was the quintessential comedy of the Reagan age, because it presented the ghosts as this awesome threat\u2026which turned out to be a complete joke, which mirrored the slight unreality of the era. Reitman had now taken the snarky, nattering American rebel and given him an entire movie to skewer. And that\u2019s exactly what Murray did. He bestrode \u201cGhostbusters\u201d like a hipster Groucho even as he was popping the movie like a balloon.<\/p>\n<p>Reitman must have known that he couldn\u2019t top \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d not with its beloved Stay Puft Marshmallow Man climax, and he didn\u2019t really try (though he did churn out the misbegotten \u201cGhostbusters II\u201d five years later). Even so, it took a while for Reitman to refocus his career. He directed the drab comedy-action-thriller \u201cLegal Eagles\u201d (1986), followed by two movies that were the quintessence of what made high-concept comedy annoying: \u201cTwins\u201d (1988), which teamed Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, and \u201cKindergarten Cop\u201d (1990) which teamed Schwarzenegger and a roomful of school kids. But \u201cDave\u201d (1993), starring Kevin Kline as a presidential look-alike who is tapped to be the stand-in for the Chief Executive, had an old-fashioned \u00e9lan, and Reitman rediscovered his audacity as a producer when he got the cracked idea to make a movie out of Howard Stern\u2019s \u201cPrivate Parts\u201d starring Stern himself. The film\u2019s biopic-of-Howard stuff is banal, but when it turns into the war over words between Stern and his WNBC overlord (the role that established Paul Giamatti), \u201cPrivate Parts\u201d has an exuberant prankishness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnimal House\u201d aside, the most influential thing Reitman did as a producer, apart from producing his gifted filmmaker son Jason Reitman (\u201cUp in the Air\u201d), who recently carried on his father\u2019s legacy with the successful reboot \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife,\u201d was to shepherd the career of Todd Phillips (\u201cJoker\u201d). Phillips was at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998 with the controversial documentary \u201cFrat House\u201d when he spied Reitman, whom he\u2019d never met, and pitched him out of the blue on his idea for \u201cRoad Trip\u201d \u2014 a movie directly inspired by the spirit of Reitman\u2019s \u201970s and \u201980s comedies. Reitman bit, and two years later \u201cRoad Trip\u201d became Phillips\u2019 first feature, with Reitman serving as executive producer. 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