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Animal House was the first film produced by National Lampoon, the most popular humor magazine on college campuses in the mid-1970s. The periodical specialized in satirizing politics and popular culture. Many of the magazine's writers were recent college graduates, hence its appeal to students all over the country.
Feb 28, 2023 · February 28, 2023. Directed by John Landis, ‘National Lampoon’s Animal House’ is a 1978 comedy movie set in 1962 that revolves around the two fraternities at the fictional Faber College — Omega Theta Pi House and Delta Tau Chi House. While Dean Vernon Wormer favors the former, the latter is the bane of his existence.
- THE MOVIE WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT CHARLES MANSON. The first draft of the screenplay by Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney was entitled Laser Orgy Girls, and was about the cult leader and murderer in high school.
- THE FINAL SCRIPT WAS THE RESULT OF A THREE-MONTH BRAINSTORMING SESSION. During a cram writing session, the writers all contributed stories about their Greek life hijinks: Chris Miller of his time in Alpha Delta Phi at Dartmouth, Ramis in Zeta Beta Tau at Washington University in St. Louis, Kenney in the Spee Club at Harvard, and producer Ivan Reitman in Delta Upsilon at McMaster University.
- THE FILMMAKERS HAD OTHER ACTORS IN MIND FOR THE LEAD ROLES. They originally wanted Dan Aykroyd to play D-Day, Brian Doyle-Murray to play Hoover, Bill Murray to play Boon, and Chevy Chase to play Otter.
- CHRIS MILLER'S REAL FRATERNITY PLEDGE NAME FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE FILM. His pledge name, like Thomas Hulce’s character's in the movie, was “Pinto.”
When they arrive at college, socially inept freshmen Larry (Thomas Hulce) and Kent (Stephen Furst) attempt to pledge the snooty Omega Theta Pi House, but are summarily rejected.
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Mar 13, 2024 · Taking place at Faber College in 1962, Animal House was the first movie to properly explore the sheer joy and liberation of going to college. Tailing a number of erratic students, including John Belushi as Bluto, Tim Matheson’s Otter and Peter Riegert’s Boon, the film explores their numerous humorous wrongdoings in the face of potential ...
Nov 13, 2009 · July 28. “Animal House” released in theaters. This Day In History. July | 28. Choose another date. 1978. “Animal House” released in theaters. On July 28, 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal...
May 23, 2018 · Forty years since its release, “Animal House,” the iconic college comedy, continues to endure with memorable lines like “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life,” and “seven years of college down the drain.” Set in the 1960s, the film follows the tussle between the down-and-dirty Deltas and the spoiled and stuck-uppy Omegas.
