6. The Ghostbusters Ghostbusters
Personally, I liked working for the university! They gave us money and facilities. We didnt have to produce anything. Youve never been out of college. You dont know what its like out there! Ive worked in the private sector... they expect results! Take away the supernatural elements from Ghostbusters and you have a simple little story about three entrepreneurs that go into business together, find success in the marketplace, expand their business, create new jobs, and then have their progress hindered by the government. It would be a pretty boring movie. Perhaps 2012s failed adaptation of Atlas Shrugged should have taken note and included more ghosts and lasers. Attentive readers will by now have noticed the recurring theme of government-as-villain in these texts, Ghostbusters throws in a few jabs at academia for good measure (take that, people trying to better themselves!). The key libertarian themes here are the workings of the free market, as these men find a hole in the market and fill it (theres a joke to be made about the invisible hand and ghosts, but Im too tired for that sort of thing), and a little bit of good-old power corrupts, here exemplified by EPA agent and villain Walter Peck, who has no dick.