Peter Venkman and every good guy in this film are afraid of one thing, the EPA. I was thinking about how sad it is that in this fine film the environmental Protection Agency is the villain.
Recall: There is a mean redhead guy who comes to the fire station and forces them to turn off their containment device. This leads to the whole Zul thing being more powerful.
Just by looking at scared, sad Venkman's face we can discern that this fear of the EPA is a larger fear of regulation in a political moment when many markets become deregulated. Our economy is just coming out of the oil embargo and we are finally realizing that the Keynesian model has shortcomings. There is a double dip recession in the eighties and many people claim that if only we had less regulation our markets would be operating just fine. Even though this was a flawed viewpoint, this was the prevailing view.
Poor Dr. Venkman gets yelled at repeatedly by the EPA guy and then they inevitably get forced to shut down the containment device, which unleashes every Spector which they have already captured. If only the government would intervene less in business this small startup "The Ghostbusters" that was doing very well for itself could have operated in peace.
Recall: There is a mean redhead guy who comes to the fire station and forces them to turn off their containment device. This leads to the whole Zul thing being more powerful.
Just by looking at scared, sad Venkman's face we can discern that this fear of the EPA is a larger fear of regulation in a political moment when many markets become deregulated. Our economy is just coming out of the oil embargo and we are finally realizing that the Keynesian model has shortcomings. There is a double dip recession in the eighties and many people claim that if only we had less regulation our markets would be operating just fine. Even though this was a flawed viewpoint, this was the prevailing view.
Poor Dr. Venkman gets yelled at repeatedly by the EPA guy and then they inevitably get forced to shut down the containment device, which unleashes every Spector which they have already captured. If only the government would intervene less in business this small startup "The Ghostbusters" that was doing very well for itself could have operated in peace.