He's written some movies with economically conservative messages (Ghostbusters, Back to School, Armed and Dangerous). Yet he made an anti-Reaganomics statement on the audio commentary for National Lampoon's Vacation. Strange.
shareYeah having the EPA guy be such a douche was kind of on the nose. I didn’t see much of a political message in National Lampoons Vacation, what did he say in the commentary track?
shareThere many people with Progressive leanings but they're not exactly big fans of government agency making long term economic policies that affect the general population. Sadly, in today's political climate we see the Right wing and Left wing making all the noise in Washington with the Moderate Dems and Center-Right Republicans being pushed aside. The lecherous mass media that the Right likes to call "liberal" have been very active in gaslighting both Leftwing and Rightwing camps while relentlessly misrepresenting moderates with hyperbolic disdain.
shareI think that's clutching at straws. The Ghostbusters, or rather Bill Murray's character, are in conflict with a EPA bureaucrat who believes their business is a hoax because that's the funny way to take it.
A really lazy conservative writer would probably make the movie all about the govt harassing with entrepreneurs and Ramis even jokes in the commentary that this is a dumb, easy take on something which is inserted purely for comedy and to move the plot along.
Making comedy that’s actually funny is now considered conservative.
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