Vigo Commands is the seventh chapter on the DVD of Ghostbusters II. This Chapter has Vigo confront Janosz.
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In the evening, Janosz Poha was still at the Manhattan Museum of Art. He was about to apply a touch up on an eyelid on the Vigo painting when Vigo fired orange hued lightning bolts at him. Janosz screamed in shock and fell off the step ladder. He exclaimed he was "stinging." On the floor, Janosz tried swatting his arm to repel the bolt. The painting shifted in appearance to a chamber filled with the Psychomagnotheric ectoplasm. Vigo reappeared as a giant floating head. He ordered Janosz to listen to him. Janosz was naturally surprised to hear a voice. Vigo identified himself as "Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia." Janosz implored Vigo to command him. Vigo monologued, "On a mountain of skulls in the castle of pain I sat on a throne of blood. What was, will be. What is, will be no more! Now is the season of evil." Janosz keyed on "evil." Vigo ordered him to find a child so he could live again. The painting's image transitioned back to normal. Janosz processed what was said. He questioned the child part. The painting fired lighting bolts directly into Janosz's eyes. He patted his chest then his face. Janosz calmly stated "a child" as if he now understood.
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- In the September 29, 1988 draft:
- On page 21 to 23, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has just closed and the last of the visitors and employees are leaving. Jason Locke, the precursor to Janosz Poha, continues work on Vigo while Rudy the Museum Guard does his rounds. He reminds Jason to sign out when he leaves. Jason is mesmerized by Vigo. Vigo says a variant of his 'what was will be, what is will be no more' line and tells Jason to present the child. Jason states there is no child. Bolts of red hot energy shoot out from Vigo's eyes into Jason's eyes. Rudy sees him run out the museum. Rudy remarks he knew he would forget to sign out.
- In the movie, Rudy is omitted from the scene and Vigo's speech is much shorter. Janosz repeats "Child" before he's blasted in his eyes.
- On page 21 to 23, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has just closed and the last of the visitors and employees are leaving. Jason Locke, the precursor to Janosz Poha, continues work on Vigo while Rudy the Museum Guard does his rounds. He reminds Jason to sign out when he leaves. Jason is mesmerized by Vigo. Vigo says a variant of his 'what was will be, what is will be no more' line and tells Jason to present the child. Jason states there is no child. Bolts of red hot energy shoot out from Vigo's eyes into Jason's eyes. Rudy sees him run out the museum. Rudy remarks he knew he would forget to sign out.
- In the November 27, 1988 draft:
- On page 28 to 29, the Manhattan Museum of Art has just closed and the last of the visitors and employees are leaving. Janosz continues work on Vigo while Rudy the Museum Guard does his rounds. He reminds Janosz to sign out when he leaves. A current from Vigo shocks Janosz then Vigo introduces himself with a longer speech where he says "twenty thousand corpses swing from my walls and parapets and the rivers ran with tears" and "by the power of the Book of Gombotz, what was will be, what is will be no more. Past and future, now and ever, my time is near." Janosz is blasted again but directly into his eyes and he screams and falls to the floor. Rudy sees him run out the museum. Rudy remarks he knew he would forget to sign out.
- In the February 27, 1989 draft, Rudy is no longer in the scene and more resembles the final version.
- The restoration room was on a sound stage in the Burbank Studios in Los Angeles.
- Vigo's floating head was filmed at ILM.
- Originally, it would just be Vigo talking from the painting. Clay animation and an animated cartoon were considered. Eventually, as the script changed, it was decided Vigo would be brought out as much as possible and the painting would be replaced with a floating head hovering in a columned corridor coated with slime. Wilhelm von Homburg was filmed in front of a bluescreen and then matted over a miniature version of the slimed corridor built by the ILM model shop. After each take, the slime had to be cleaned up and reset.[1][2]
- In Ghostbusters IDW 20/20:
- On the Dramatis Personae, Vigo taking control of Janosz is mentioned.
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| Vigo: I Vigo, the scourge of Carpathia, the sorrow of Moldavia, command you. Janosz: Oh, comand me, Lord. |
References[]
- ↑ Eisenberg, Adam (November 1989). Ghostbusters Revisited, Cinefex magazine #40, page 9. Cinefex, USA. Line reads: "To make the image work, actor Wilhelm von Homburg was filmed in front of a bluescreen and then matted over a miniature of the corridor built by the ILM model shop."
- ↑ Eisenberg, Adam (November 1989). Ghostbusters Revisited, Cinefex magazine #40, page 9. Cinefex, USA. Bill George says: "The slime corridor was a forced perspective set that was pretty straightforward. Both columns and bricks along the sides had to be built in forced perspective, and they were all sculpted out of foam. There were arches between the columns and beyond those we had light coming in. The only unusual aspect was that the producers wanted slime oozing out of the columns, which meant that we had a major cleanup after each take. It was really no big deal--just a big mess."
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