I was selected by the Sorting Hat when I had just turned 11 (a very significant age) - that's when I was chosen to take my vows and be inducted into training as a neophyte Priest Forever of the Order of Melchizdek.
I only just figured this out/remembered it/realised what it meant : but I have been able to reconstruct the event precisely and fully understand what it meant.
And I now know that my life began on 3rd January 1992 at approx. 7.30 pm, GMT.
On BBC2.
When I saw this :
STOP :
"Lord Business is the Enemy of Everything, Prince of Lies, Despoiler of the World and the Corrupter of All Human Goodness and Decency"
As a Small Businessman, are these really values you want to be instilling in your daughter's precious minds?
Because this will cause them to become confused.
: CONTINUE
Nothing is more allegorically representative of the Male-Dominant Age-Just-Gone, as of 2012, than bricks.
There is no female Masonry.
The Lego Movie is an instruction manual for how to cope, in the male mind, for a world without any instruction manuals.
Follow and Praise the Powerful the Empowered Black (Haired) Woman, because she can do anything, and have as your spiritual guide, Melchizedek, The Dark Messenger.
Meaning "Batman".
The Superhero Formerly and Also Known as "Millionaire Playboy and Corporate CEO Bruce Wayne"
Who does show up and appear in the movie to negotiate with (conduct business) with Lord Business.
"YOU DON'T HAVE 2 B THE BAD GUY"
Why Does This Bartender Dress Like a Nun and Talk Like a Priest?
She is a Priest Forever of the Order of Melchizedek.
[Commander Sela has claimed to be Tasha Yar's daughter]
Guinan:
How much do you know about what happened to the last ship called Enterprise?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Enterprise C? It was lost at the battle of Narendra III, defending a Klingon outpost from the Romulans.
Guinan:
And the survivors?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
There were stories of prisoners taken back to Romulus, but these were only rumors.
Guinan:
No. There were survivors. And Tasha Yar was one of them.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Guinan - that was 23 years ago. Tasha Yar was only a child.
Guinan:
I know that. But I also know she was aboard that ship. And she was not a child. And I think... you sent her there.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
How can that be?
Guinan:
I don't know. I just know that you did.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Tasha died - a year before you came on the Enterprise. You never met her.
Guinan:
I know that.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
If you have only a vague intuition...
Guinan:
You can't just dismiss this. If I'm right, then you are responsible for this whole situation.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
I think it's time that I met Commander Sela.
I'm a secular Jesuit - I realise that now.
And the leader of the Jesuit Order is The Black Pope.
That's why I live in a library, surrounded by books.
You notice how Giles and the other Watchers in Buffy always seemed to wear BROWN Tweed, or some variation?
That's Melchizedek, The Dark Messenger.
The Dark Messenger is a Brown Dwarf at one end of Orion's Belt, a close companion to Sirius (A and B ) the brightest (binary) star in all the heavens, which since antiquity has gone by the name Betelgeuse
(Betelgeuse)
(Betelgeuse)
And Ford Prefect is not, in fact, from Guildford, as he had told Arthur Dent, but in reality from....
"A small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse."
Which is why they cast Mos Def.
That's one hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
Recognise the difference between Guilt, Shame and Law.
Islam uses Law, Talmudic Judaism uses Shame, and Christianity uses Conscience, which is to say Guilt.
Thomas A. Sandifer III, And what is Real, we are taught, is what is Royal.
But what and who is truly Royal...? And who are merely pretenders to the throne, unworthy of The Crown..?
No, Shame is social, Guilt is personal.
And Law is civic.
Shame is "You have brought dishonour upon your family and your house and disgrace upon the Emperor and on the Klingon Empire!"
Law is "You can't park there, Sir."
Guilt is when you *know* what you did....
There are Thieves in the Temple 2Nite...
https://youtu.be/EbOzfXAJm4I
Well... The Second Rule of Fight Club is "You Do NOT Talk About Fight Club..."
Because only a generation of men raised by women would ever have to be told "No" twice.
Moses spent 40 years, "lost" and wandering in the desert when he claimed that they were following after God - and Cairo to Jerusalem is an 8 day walk. Why?
Because the first generation of his followers were all ex-slaves, born into servitude, with slave-minds and slave-fears and slaves-inhibitions.
You cannot build a nation out of slaves.
To build a nation, that first generation had to be sacrificed, having birthed a generation of hungry, free, rebellious and rapacious pirates, brigands and ruffians.
A nation of bandits.
The first Mafia.
Mosaic Law sets no end point of history - it is meant to last for all eternity. Neither does the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church.
Only Latin Christianity speaks of a SECOND Coming and a Final Judgement Day in the End Times - because this is the only thing which makes both European Feudalism and Slavery possible - if there is to be some measure Karma and justice after death, which causes peasants and indentured servants to adhere to the social order, and accept the authority of Lords and Princes as their betters.
The Russian Orthodox have no such tradition, as feudalism never existed in Russia, merely serfdom, which is entirely different.
This is why the Western half of Ukraine, which is Catholic, are falling over one another to be toadies and quislings for the West, competing for the position of overseer in the task of selling out their people and their country, whereas the Eastern half of the country will stand and fight and die to defend and protect what is theirs.
"U gotta know who ur Father is."
Y'see, in this life..?
Things are much harder than in The AfterWorld;
In this life - u r on ur own...
And if DeElevator tries 2 break u down - Go Crazy.
Spike, Firstly, we did actually give you a warning period. We put a contextual notice on the account and sent a warning email at least two weeks before taking action.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but can you tell me when that was?
Because I didn't see it, and nothing red flashed up on my account to say Take Action Now Before We Delete All Your Work! - I would have remembered that.
If it was from a human being, I would have seen it and responded to it - if it was from a machine, and autogenerated it would have been filtered out by my junk mail filter, along with four thousand overly cheery Your Video is Now Available! emails I get four dozen of per week.
But if you say you did, I don't dispute that.
Secondly, we never said that you weren’t in violation of our Community Guidelines (https://vimeo.com/help/guidelines). We have consistently maintained that you are, in fact, violating our Guidelines. That is the main point of this conversation.
Well, you did say that, because you just said "There are exceptions for PRO members to upload material they did not create as long as they own the necessary rights and permissions", and you haven't asserted or produced any evidence alleging or suggesting that I don't have the right to do so.
You haven't said "We have reason to believe you don't have the necessary rights or permissions to upload this, please can you provide proof of it or take it down", and provided its for personal use and time-shifted viewing, the law says I DO - that's why VCR's and TIVOs aren't illegal.
You just deleted all of my work then sent me an email asking me to submit to you four and a half thousand pieces of paperwork.
To you. In writing.
On another continent.
And - most insultingly of all - actually expected me to do it.
Because you insist that I'm being unreasonable.
While we want to support filmmakers, we do not allow rips of third party material.
Firstly, "rip" is a pejorative term - it has no legal meaning, basis or grounding.
This is why Vimeo guidelines use internal POLICY as the standard, not Copyright Law, as YouTube does.
If you want to use your own rules, you have to define what words MEAN when you use them, otherwise you are just speaking at crossed purposes - and all the Hipster-talk DOESN'T help.
Say what you mean.
A piece of DV video is a rip of the physical universe, but you allow that.
I don't use "rips" in my film-making. I use found footage.
Say what you like about YouTube, but at least they have a system in place based on law and due process.
Your system isn't - so again, let's not pretend that this has anything to do with the Guidelines, because it doesn't.
And that's fine - but when you want to portray yourselves as creator-orientated and appeal to artists and be crazy, temperamental random and unpredictable, then you have to accept that people are people and not corporate entities or naughty children and treat them as such.
Especially when they pay your salaries. And bad publicity of abusing your customers can adversely affect your relationship with say - Apple Inc....?
There are exceptions for PRO members to upload material they did not create as long as they own the necessary rights and permissions but this does not extend to straight rips of episodes of Frontline or films like “Barbarians at the Gate” (as non-exhaustive examples). It is not relevant whether the videos are public or private, the same rules apply from our end.
I completely understand, and you are right - all you had to do was ask, and say "Please".
I am perfectly happy to take that stuff down tonight. Right now.
If there is anything else (specifically) that you take issue you, please let me know, and I will be happy to make my life, and your life easier, and sing your praises to the Gods of the Internet.
Rules are fine so long as they as consistent - I use my account for time-shifting viewing for material I find interesting, and if you look at my stats, you will see that is true, since most of that stuff is marked Private anyway.
I'm storing content for personal use and time shifted viewing, not distributing it to other people.
Every law in the world says I can do that, and there is nothing in your guidelines that specifically says that I can't do that. If you don't want people to do that, when they pay their money to to be able to do that, you should specifically and explicitly say you can't do that - but that would tend to drive away business, I would think.
If you look at the stats for my account, you will see that that is true - the vast majority of the content on there is marked as private, and the only person accessing that stuff (for my personal reference, as. Research tool) is me.
Thirdly, it is true that when we have taken action against you in the past you have taken steps to comply.
Quite true. I am a good customer.
However, the fact that these are conversations that we keep needing to have actually counts against you.
Fine, now this is a conversation - that's good. Doing Better.
There hasn't been a conversation (or any issue, so far as I was aware) in over a year - I talk to my mother more often than I do you guys.
I'm a reasonable human being and we're all adults here and I comply with reasonable requests - I have a 100% track record of doing precisely what you ask me to do, when you ask me to do it (and all these nice conversations all get recorded faithfully on my blog to reflect that fact).
In this instance, I wasn't asked to do anything - I am happy to be proved wrong if that is incorrect.
We have had several different warning about this, and it seems to be a recurring issue.
Can you list them? I'm not trying being rude or insolent, I just don't recall any warnings since last June, my bipolar can make me rather excitable, and I like to be sure of my grasp of the facts.
As you mentioned, the first time we had to have this conversation we did everything we could to clarify our position and help you comply with these rules.
And, at that time I did. I think I deleted about 200 videos in 10 minutes, which I had been meaning to do for a while, but you gave me the extra kick needed to spur me into action.
Again, I have a 100% track record of doing exactly as requested, when requested, and I understand what is expected of me.
Eventually, we need to stop giving chances and I am afraid that time has come.
Yes, but if I can change, then you can change - everybody can change.
[Rocky IV]
Lastly, although we can no longer provide hosting for your videos I recognize that you have amassed a wide body of work here and not everything was a rip.
Magnanimous of you, but still unfair - most of them weren't rips (as you call them), at least if those I made public via my channel, and never have been.
One thing I can do is to put your account in Temporary Access Mode.
See? All you had to do was ask.
That's exactly what I expected you to do in the first place.
This would force all your videos private and create a limited window for you to go in and archive them so that they are not lost when the account is shutdown.
That would be very helpful, thank you, since I do not have a single respoitory of back-ups.
I actually don't have a computer currently, but provided you can give me a few days, I should be able to sort out a portable HDD to rip everything onto and archive it (which seems more than a little ironic to me, and I am sure you).
I realize this is frustrating,
That isn't the word I would use.
Only in the sense that Moby Dick was rather frustrating to Captain Ahab.
The word I would use probably only exists in Japanese, Old Norse and Klingon.
But you probably wouldn't like to hear it.
but we have elected to no longer provide hosting for your material.
Well, I have elected to continue to be your customer. Whether you like it or not.
Deal with it.
Please let me know if you would like me to put your account in temporary access mode.
I would like that very much indeed. That's all I expected to begin with.
Please let me know how much time I have to clean up my account/rescue my work.
Good morning, welcome back, I hope you all enjoyed your staff retreat. I shall make this brief :-
Now - I am (and have been) perfectly happy and willing to do any and all housekeeping to tidy up my account with regard to the videos I uploaded to it for my personal use only, with no intention of sharing - or indeed with any Public videos which may be in breach of the Golden Rule - I am the first to admit there may be some that slipped through the net of my due diligence, certainly not many, and I am perfectly willing to take down any you may legitimately have a grievance with or believe are in violation of either the spirit or the letter of your guidelines or terms of service - indeed, your own records will reflect the fact that in every instance when I have been asked to take remedial action on my account, I have done so.
I accept the fact that I am overdue in such housekeeping and there are perhaps a few things uploaded to my account which perhaps should not have been there - again, I was, and am perfectly prepared to be reasonable about this.
Now - I love being a customer of your company.
I wish to go on being a customer of your company.
We all know that though the final decision to terminate accounts is no-doubt discressionary to members of the Trust and Safety Team, you yourselves have rules and guidelines about when and where this action should be taken, and it's quite clear to me that you haven't followed those.
You have admitted that I am not in breach of Guidelines - so, though you may not admit it, this is a discretionary decision on your part, it has nothing to do with the rules.
You know that you are meant to notify me before terminating my account, give me enough (reasonable) time to take remedial action myself (which I am perfectly willing to do), and which you have not done.
I have a good idea myself of the precise parameters of the content you have concerns about, and I am fully confident myself that I can have the whole corpus cleaned up within 20 minutes, never mind 24hrs, which is what I propose as a reasonable amount of time to take remedial action (although, the last time this occurred, I believe you offered me One Week to take action, and the outcome was satisfactory to all concerned.
I am prepared to take remedial action. I want to take remedial action. I want to continue to be your customer.
The ball is currently in your court, because the decision lies with you as to whether or not to aallow me to do any of those things.
In the absence of those options, the only course of action open to me is to complain, and complain publicly
Your company is one, we both know, which likes to pretend that they don't care about money and is entirely staffed by quirky creatives and starving artists.
And we both know that isn't true.
I am a film-maker and a documentarian who has had his work taken away from him - my experience (currently) of Vimeo in the last 7 Days is one of a company that steals my work, destroys my content, throws my money back into my face and patronises me whilst doing it.
This stands in stark contrast to my experience of the previous two years, where your company (to me) has been the best thing since sliced bread and oxygen and the one thing I would recommend to all my friends.
Film-making is my life. And I would like for film-making to continue to be my life.
Your company depends on its reputation with up-and-coming creatives, hipsters and starving artists.
If they start to get the idea that "Vimeo will steal your work, destroy your content, doesn't want your money and is incredibly patronising to starving artists and up-and-coming film-makers", that creates a PR nightmare that need not happen.
I am not asking for special treatment, I am only asking for fair treatment and consistent treatment, in line with that which I received when this problem last occurred and when you last prematurely terminated my account.
I am prepared to do whatever it takes to put this right and get my work restored, I just ask you to be fair, follow your own rules, tell me what I need to do and be reasonable, which is what all your previous communication have emphasised in making these decisions.
I will do what is required - in fact, as a hyper-manic bipolar documentarian with a blog, I might do just about anything.
Please be reasonable, and if you can't be reasonable, give me a reason - because I am NOT in breach of guidelines (as you yourself admit, Sean M) and this has nothing to do with the rules.
Give me 24 hrs to clean up my account, and after that, I am happy to pay again to have my PRO Mmbership restored (since Sean M has already initiated a refund without waiting to hear back from me).
I hope you can respond to my plea constructiveall,
>>> It is true that PRO members can upload videos they did not create as long as they hold the necessary rights and permissions >>>
Then I would consider that fact very carefully, as it leaves you in an extremely actionable position - by your own admission, I am not in breech of Guidelines.
Paul, The golden rule of Vimeo is that you are only supposed to upload videos that you created yourself or had a hand in creating. Fair use and/or permission from the rights holder do not make an exception to this general rule. It is true that PRO members can upload videos they did not create as long as they hold the necessary rights and permissions, but this is not a blanket permission to upload rips. We have actually gone over this before, and although there was some progress it has become a recurring problem and there are several rips uploaded to your account. I am afraid that we can no longer provide hosting. That said, I do see that your most recent PRO subscription was within the refund window so I have initiated a refund. We wish you the best of luck in finding a hosting platform better suited to your needs.
Hi there, I’m assigning your case to a member of our Trust & Safety team who can better assist you with this inquiry. You’ll hear back from us again shortly. Thank you for your patience.
> We sent an email notifying you that your videos may be in violation of our guidelines, and when you did not respond within the grace period specified, our content moderators took action on your account. >
That is not true - I received no prior notification of possible violations at all, this happened completely without warning, and I was given no opportunity to take remedial action.
> Permission to use copyrighted material can come in a variety of forms, but the permission must be given in writing. You can acquire a formal license from the copyright holder, or receive permission via email. > There is no mention of this in the content guidelines or terms of service, and this is the first I have heard of this - and from memory, when I last checked, I had well over 4000 videos, primarily for personal use and access hosted on my account.
It's not reasonable or consistent with with either your own guidelines or terms of service to request or expect me to produce at this stage somewhere in the order of several thousand pieces of documentation in a formalised manner, particularly when with my account suspended, I cannot even myself see what content of mine you are currently hosting.
"It means, basically, that some movies are clearly being made by Invisibles and they contain messages for other Invisibles.
Invisibles talking to each other in their own secret language… the movies are signals, they let us know that others are out there…”
"I know what I saw."
"...When Dan came to audition for Saturday Night Live, he regularly met with John and listened to blues records. One time, Dan showed John the cover of an album by John Lee Hooker, which showed him wearing the hat and shades that would later become the Blues Brothers trademark look.
John said 'If we ever put this together, this will be the look!'.
The suits and the ties that they wore came from the Beatnik Era in the 50's and the 60's, where musicians would wear straight apparel, so that they could go out into straight society and not be hassled.
Also, there was an MIB reference, y'know, to the 'Men in Black', the guys in black suits that always turn up when there are UFO sightings, and tell you to be quiet about it... "
"I was on the phone 'Sure I would love to' I look back, saw the Ford, went back like this, turned back like a half a second later, and it was gone and that car did NOT go past me.
It did not make a U turn because I would have seen... 42nd Street, I would have seen that thing take a U turn and go away.
That car vanished!
That car was a cloaked vehicle of some type and whether this was like a warning to me because the guy that got out of the backseat gave me a real dirty look. That car vanished.
I know what I saw. And it was just this fast, talking on phone, guy gives me a dirty look, talking on phone, car gone.
That's what happened."
“What happened was, we sold the show to the Sci Fi Channel and it was called Out There and I basically interviewed all of the people I admired in various fields of study like Colin Andrews in the crop circle movement, Linda Moulton Howe, the expert in cattle mutilation, John Mack.... I talked to him. I talked to the Allagash guys who were taken in a canoe in the trip in Maine and I, I mean, the last show we did, I had both Bassett, who has the UFO time clock and Greer, both Bassett and Greer were there. They were my two guests for the two.
Well, the show was cancelled that afternoon and I was outside, before I knew it was cancelled, in between the interviews and, uh, I was outside and Britney Spears called me because she wanted me to appear on Saturday Night Live with her. And so, I was outside having a cigarette, the phone rang, I was like, 'Hello Britney, how you doing?... Sure, of course I will...' I turned away like this (moves head to left), I turned back (moves head back towards camera) and there was a black Ford across the road, a black Ford Sedan and I was trying to look at the plate but the plate seemed kind of fuzzy and... Definitely a police car and two guys were there and a big, big tall guy got out of the backseat and he stood in the street, on 42nd Street it was. We were on 42nd Street and 8th avenue and he looked right at me and literally, I was on the phone 'Sure I would love to' I look back, saw the Ford, went back like this, turned back like a half a second later, and it was gone and that car did not go past me. It did not make a U turn because I would have seen...
42nd Street, I would have seen that thing take a U turn and go away.
That car vanished! That car was a cloaked vehicle of some type and whether this was like a warning to me because the guy that got out of the backseat gave me a real dirty look. That car vanished. I know what I saw. And it was just this fast, talking on phone, guy gives me a dirty look, talking on phone, car gone. That's what happened.
Then, two hours later, we were told to not continue taping and the show was cancelled and none of them would air.
I don't know. I don't know. Was it an MIB experience?
You know, black helicopters, military abductions that happen, people are taken and talk about being visited by military personnel and being debriefed about their abduction.
Was it technology associated with some of these beings that are visiting?
They wanted to warn me off or they wanted to give me verification that I was on the right track?
I don't know.
But I do know I turned back a second later and it takes so long for an automobile accelerating from zero to forty miles an hour to reach the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street going past me and then pulling a U turn and going out towards Times Square, I would have seen that car. And I looked around. I mean, man, I was looking (!) and it was gone. So, I don't know.
The tapes exist, I have them, we're gonna try to repackage them. We might put them out on DVD.”
"Let's redo one of those old ghost comedies, but let's use the research that's being done today. Even at that time, there was plausible research that could point to a device that could capture ectoplasm or materialization; at least visually."
The racial politics of Ghostbusters (or more likely Hollyweird in general) is mildly alarming, though...
I quote The Enemy:
Aykroyd pitched his story to director and producer Reitman, who liked the basic idea but immediately saw the budgetary impossibilities demanded by Aykroyd's first draft. At Reitman's suggestion, the story was given a major overhaul, eventually evolving into the final screenplay which Aykroyd and Harold Ramis hammered out over the course of a few months in a Martha's Vineyard bomb shelter, according to Ramis on the DVD commentary track for the movie.
Aykroyd and Ramis initially wrote the script with roles written especially for Belushi, Eddie Murphy and John Candy. However, Belushi died due to a drug overdose [Not True] during the writing of the screenplay, and neither Murphy nor Candy could commit to the movie due to prior engagements, so Aykroyd and Ramis shifted some of these changes around and polished a basic, yet sci-fi oriented screenplay for their final draft.
The Living Legend that is Ernie Hudson, better known as Winston Zeddemore, aka "Sir Not-Appearing-on-the-Poster"
"Winston Zeddemore was written with Eddie Murphy in mind, but he had to decline the role as he was filming Beverly Hills Cop at the same time. When Murphy had the role, Zeddemore was going to be hired much earlier in the film, and would accompany the trio on their hunt for Slimer at the hotel and be slimed in place of Venkman.
When Ernie Hudson took over, it was decided that he be brought in later to indicate how the Ghostbusters were struggling to keep up with the outbreak of ghosts."
In the first movie, Winston never ever fires his weapon (by which I mean his neutrona wand, not his large, African penis) until the final ten minutes of the film, because the lengthy sequence showing he and Ray out on a job at an old army barracks, plagued by a remarkably blonde, caucasian succubus has been deleted and re-purposed as an erotic dream inserted into the montage sequence in the middle of the movie, so we don't get to see Winston save the dumb slumbering White Man from the consequences of his own kinky sex drive.
And then he disappears after his first scene in Ghostbusters 2 and then again during the courtroom battle with the Scolleri Brothers, after the movie takes time out to make clear that he was present in the court, along with Company Directors Dr. Spengler, Dr. Stantz and Dr. Venkman, who stood accused of violating the court order placed upon Ghostbusters Inc.
Logicially and narratively, there is no reason for him to have not strapped on a proton pack and taken part in this life or death confrontation for the life of the company.
This had to be some form of racial thing, right? I mean there is just no other way.
Right..?
I understand it differently now - alchemically, magickally, symbollically, and from the lips of Dan Ayckroyd and Ivan Reitman themselves :
Ray, Egon and Peter are Company Directors of Ghostbusters as a business, as a legal entity.
(and entities, of all kinds, are what we are about discussing here)
They OWN the business. It's a High-Tech Start-up
They OWN the franchising rights.
Winston is AN EMPLOYEE.
He earns $11,500 a year, before taxes
He is the only employee sanctioned to wear the gear and participate in professional paranormal eliminations.
(Louis has to wear a borrowed jump-suit)
He is the ONLY ONE who gets to join in with the actual business of the company and of busting ghosts.
He is THE AUDIENCE.
Ackroyd and Reitman SAID SO.
So we have to earn the right to participate in the fun by investing in the other three characters.
Likewise, they have to buy their way into our affections before you get to see any (to use Doc Brown's words) serious shit.
And, in a deft subversion of the conventions and expectations of the Magickal Negro Hollywood stereotype, he is a practical, down to earth, blue collar man (who probably used to work as a mechanic or something similar), he is the one with the most down to earth, practical Common Sense.
He doesn't get excited by spontaneous sponge migrations, he never tried to drill a hole in his own head, he doesn't get involved with possessed people, and he knows where ALL THE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS ARE IN THE BUILDING.
And he doesn't run around, screaming and hollering and buffoonin' around, blaming all of the Bad Craziness on all o' the Crazy White Folks for being Bad and Crazy and White, he doesn't get self-conscious or feel inferior in a room full of eggheads and PhDs, he's proud of who he is, can handle some good natured joshing and teasing from The Boss, and he's never ashamed of who he is or what he is.
He just works hard, and takes pride in his work.
Carter G. Woodson and Booker T. Washington would be proud.
That's better...
"They began to use words like - 'Universal Appeal' ..." - Dave Chappelle
I Quote The Enemy :- (Consider also 'The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews')
Nimoy approached Beverly Hills Cop writer Daniel Petrie, Jr. to write the screenplay when a concept that executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg described as "either the best or worst idea in the world" arose—Star Trek fan Eddie Murphy wanted a starring role. Nimoy and Murphy acknowledged his part would attract non-Star Trek fans to the franchise following the rising popularity of Murphy, but it also meant the film might [Absolutely would]be ridiculed.
The IMDB Version:
"The film was originally supposed to have Eddie Murphy instead of Catherine Hicks.
Murphy was supposed to have played a professor concerned with UFOs who spots the decloaking Klingon ship at the Super Bowl.
"Captain...! There be whales here..!"
Apparently, all others are convinced the ship is a half-time special effect while Murphy believes it is real. "
"Only in Southern California..."
The "Late" William Cooper of the Office of Naval Intelligence, of course, insisted that this was real....
Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes were hired to write a script with Murphy as a college professor who believes in aliens and likes to play whale songs.
Murphy disliked the part, explaining he wanted to play an alien or a Starfleet officer, and chose to make The Golden Child—a decision Murphy later said was a mistake.
The character intended for Murphy was combined with those of a marine biologist and a female reporter to become Gillian Taylor.
Egon Spengler:
The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space.
Ray Stantz:
Cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium.
Peter Venkman: [to jailbirds]
Everyone getting this so far? So what? I guess they just don't make them like they used to.
Stantz: [slaps Venkman up the head]
No! Nobody ever made them like this! The architect was either a certified genius or an authentic wacko!
Venkman:
Ray, for a moment, pretend that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics, and just tell me what the hell is going on.
Stantz:
You never studied. The whole building is a huge super-conductive antenna that was designed and built expressly for the purpose of pulling in and concentrating spiritual turbulence.
Your girlfriend, Pete, lives in the corner penthouse of Spook Central.
Venkman:
She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and because she sleeps above her covers.
Four feet above her covers! She barks, she drools, she claws...
Spengler:
It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building!
Something terrible is about to enter our world, and this building is obviously the door.
The architect's name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide.
He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery.
And then in 1920, he founded a secret society.
Venkman: Let me guess: Gozer worshippers?
Spengler: Right.
Venkman: [to Stantz]
"No studying"!
Spengler:
After the First World War, Shandor decided that society was too sick to survive.
And he wasn't alone; he had close to a thousand followers when he died.
They conducted rituals up on the roof, bizarre rituals intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it may actually happen!
Venkman: [singing]
So be good, for goodness sake! Whoa! Somebody's coming! Somebody's coming!
Ray Stantz:
We have to get out of here. We've gotta get a judge or something.
Zeddemore:
Hey, wait a minute! Hold it! Now are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian god is gonna drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city?!
