Geek Wisdom by Stephen H. Segal

Author:Stephen H. Segal
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781594745300
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2011-08-01T21:00:00+00:00

By starring in the quick triple threat of Beetlejuice (1988), Heathers (1989), and Edward Scissorhands (1990), Winona Ryder became the face of girl geekdom for a generation; it would continue with Dracula, Little Women (Jo is a protogeek!), and Alien Resurrection, among others.

“RAY, IF SOMEONE ASKS

YOU IF YOU ARE

A GOD, YOU SAY YES!”

—WINSTON ZEDDIMORE, GHOSTBUSTERS

“TELL HIM ABOUT

THE TWINKIE.”

—WINSTON ZEDDIMORE, GHOSTBUSTERS

GHOSTBUSTERS WAS, in its way, a straight-ahead satire of New York City. We laughed as much at the unflappability of the typical New Yorker as we did at the ridiculousness of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. It wouldn’t surprise us that any New Yorker might be so irreverent and arrogant as to claim godhood; in fact, many of us were surprised when Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Ray Stantz tried to deny it. Ghostbusters also poked fun at the arrogance of geeks. Ray and Egon, the brains of the outfit, might not have had the business acumen of Venkman or the earnestness of Winston, but they had this: They were right. The Twinkie comparison, the disaster of biblical proportions, the unlicensed particle accelerators; the whole thing was cockamamie, and it’s a miracle any of them survived. But they knew their stuff and refused to back down from the importance of their knowledge, despite a city full of jaded naysayers. Because of their dogged insistence, the city was—more or less—prepared for a major disaster. So, when you get right down to it, Winston was right, too: After all that, a little bragging would have been completely apropos.

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