The 1984 film that begins with a ghost in a library now has a spot on the shelves of the Library,along with 675 other films ‘that deserve to be preserved“We came, we saw, or we kicked its ass.” The boast of Dr Peter Venkman,played by Bill Murray, proved truer than he imagined on Wednesday when Ghostbusters gained cinematic immortality at America’s Library of Congress.
Featuring ectoplasm, and the proton pack and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man,the 1984 cult comedy joined 675 “motion pictures that deserve to be preserved because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance” on the national film registry, or the library said.
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Source: theguardian.com