Winston, the forgotten black Ghostbuster - Tv Rant
As a kid (and still today) Ghostbusters was my favorite movie, and i equally loved the television show "The Real Ghostbusters". But as i grew older i began to understand that Winston served no purpose, he was simply the token black dude , nothing more nothing less.
To be honest, the writers probably wanted to make the original title "The Real Ghostbusters & Blacky!" Where Winston would play the role of slimer , wandering about the firehouse eating all of the fried chicken while spouting out random words that the white people couldn't understand, and making the place filthy. In fact, if that was the case, he would have had a bigger part then he did in the actual cartoon and 2 movies combined.
Winston never contributed when the Ghostbusters where trying to solve a ghostly mystery. I could just imagine how it would have played out had he tried to put in his 2 cents.
Egon: There seems to be no info on this ghost available in my database!
Winston : Well i once read that...
Pete : *smacks Winston to the ground*
Peter: WHO THE FUCK TAUGHT YOU TO READ NIGGA
Winston: Sorry masta Venkman....
And he lays on the floor as slimer begins to violently rape him with his ectoplasmicly lubricated penis.
Hell, even in the films he wasn't treated as a important character, he is rarely mentioned in interviews as being a Ghostbuster and he wasn't even on the poster! Now its understandable that Winston was only in the last half of the first film, because his character was hired later on and not part of the original team. But in the second film its the same scenario. Winston is nowhere to be found in the first part of the film, and by this time, he was a well established part of the franchise. Hell he is even left out of the first bust scene, even though he is CLEARLY visible inside the courtroom early on. But they just let him sit back as the white man saves the day, ridiculous.
One of his rare lines in the first film sums this whole article up very nicely.
"This job is not worth $11,500 a year!"
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Winston, the forgotten black Ghostbuster - Tv Rant
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8 comments:
LMFAO, is all I gotta say. (+ that)
this is pure gold!!!!!
Awww Man, come on, I mean really, you sound like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or somethin'. At least a black mean got to be in the damn movie and I believe Winston actually made it to the end without dying. That was a first!
It’s wouldn't be the Ghostbusters with out Winston, he help a lot more than you are giving him credit for. He fix the equipment, and helped with the science in making their gear, though unlike the other members of the team, he wasn't a show off. I hate to say it, but maybe it is you that has the problem. He was a part of the team, yeah he was down played a little more than the others, but that don't mean he was forgotten. When I think Ghostbusters I think Egan, Winston, Ray, then Peter in that order. He brought balance to them and grounded the guys, other wise they would have been lost in their own little worlds, and failed to became the “Real Ghostbusters.”
I think the only reason Winston wasn't famous much is because the movie was not his "vehicle". The movie was really a vehicle for three comedic greats: Bill Murray, Harold Ramus and Dan Aykroyd. All three were friends, grew up in the Second City comedy culture, and of course Saturday Night Live. Wrote together, acted together. The character of Winston was simply another "character" to support the vehicle of those three comedians. I believe it's just an unfortunate coincidence in regards to Winston's character not having the same screen time nor even media press that the three main guys had.
If Winston was played by Eddie Murphy you wouldn't of said a word
Aint that the truth! and lets not forget that the three white characters are doctors whereas Winston of course couldnt be portrayed as an equal and is therefore not a doctor
Eddie Murphy would have rejected such an insult of a role!
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