20 Things You Somehow Missed In Ghostbusters
12. The Ghost-Free Montage
When business begins to boom for the boys in grey, we are treated to the extremely hype montage that made every kid watching want to don a flight-suit and wear their parents hoover on their back.
With the Ecto-1 racing around NYC and various news articles and stories about their rise in popularity, the whole section gets across the idea that the guys have been at this for a while now. However, it does this without bombarding us with ghosts and saving some of that CGI budget. The montage only shows the guys finishing jobs - leaving buildings holding traps filled with a little dry ice for the smoke.
The only ghost in the scene is part of a dream and wasn’t even intended for the montage in the first place. Ray’s fantasy of the promiscuous spirit was part of an entire sequence that was cut and spliced into the montage.