Valentine's Day News: World To 'End' On Sunday
At least, according to a 'Ghostbusters 2' character
While many hopeless romantics from around the world are busy preparing for Valentine's Day this Sunday, not everybody is aware that the world has been predicted to have its demise on the same day.
Well, this claim is according to Elaine, a character on "Ghostbusters 2," which was released in 1989.
Part of the opening scene of the movie features Dr. Peter Venkman, played by Bill Murray, interviewing a guest, Elaine, on his show "World of the Psychic." Obviously spooked, Elaine alleges that she had a talk with an alien who bought her a drink at a bar and eventually led her to its room. Elaine says that it was in the room where the alien told her that the world would end on Feb. 14, 2016.
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Meanwhile, the actress who played the role of Elaine, Chloe Webb, is clueless as to why the writers of the movie, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd, chose the date Feb. 14, 2016 as the end of the world for her line in the movie. She can only guess that Ramis and Aykroyd picked the date to serve as a "romantic bookend to the movie's climax," which features the Statue of Liberty eliminating the "slimy vibe" of New York as Jackie Wilson's "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me" plays on.
Webb is best known for her role as Nancy Spungen, the punk-rock girlfriend in "Sid and Nancy." She is currently filming an indie film in California. In a phone interview with Washington Post, she alludes to "Ghostbusters 2" as "pretty funky-fresh."
"I was thinking 'Ghostbusters II' is as fresh as Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl.' We did a reading of it in L.A. in a big theater full of hipsters, with David Lynch's meditation group, with a rock band behind us, and it got a standing ovation. It's just so true. 'The crazy shepherds of rebellion'! 'Ghostbusters II' is like a comedy version of the same thing: a little band of people saying 'I know you think I'm crazy, but this is not right, this is not good.'" she said.
Last year, the movie "Back to the Future 2" was also reviewed as it features scenes from 2015, which is the future that Marty Mcfly and Dr. Brown supposedly visited. According to Time, there are 10 things about the year 2015 in the 1989 movie that actually came true, such as personal drones, tablets, wearable technology, and a few other things.
Does this mean that there is a chance for Chloe's predictions in the "Ghostbusters 2" movie to come true too?
"As long as there's more love than slime, the world goes on," answered Webb.
