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National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis. The film was a direct spinoff from National Lampoon magazine. It is about a misfit group of fraternity members who challenge the dean of Faber College.
The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine. The stories were based on Miller's experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College. Other influences on the film came from Ramis's experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, and producer Ivan Reitman's experiences at Delta Upsilon at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Of the younger lead actors, only John Belushi was an established star, but even he had not yet appeared in a film, having gained fame mainly from his Saturday Night Live television appearances. Several of the actors who were cast as college students, including Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, and Kevin Bacon, were just beginning their film careers, although Tim Matheson had recently appeared as one of the vigilante motorcycle cops in the second Dirty Harry film, Magnum Force.
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Upon its initial release, Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time and Roger Ebert proclaimed it one of the year's best. Filmed for $2.8 million, it is one of the most profitable movies of all time, garnering an estimated gross of more than $141 million in the form of theatrical rentals and home video, not including merchandising.
The film, along with 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie, also directed by Landis, was largely responsible for defining and launching the gross-out genre of films, which became one of Hollywood's staples. It is also now considered one of the greatest comedy films ever made by many fans and critics. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed Animal House "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was No. 1 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". It was No. 36 on AFI's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list of the 100 best American comedies. In 2008, Empire magazine selected it as one of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time".
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 humor, and satirized politics and popular culture.
Many of the magazine’s writers were recent college graduates, hence their appeal to students all over the country. Doug Kenney was a Lampoon writer and the magazine’s first editor-in-chief. He graduated from Harvard University in 1969 and had a college experience closer to the Omegas in the film (he had been president of the university's elite Spee Club). Kenney was responsible for the first appearances of three characters that would appear in the film, Larry Kroger, Mandy Pepperidge, and Vernon Wormer.
They made their debut in 1975's National Lampoon’s High School Yearbook, a satire of a Middle America 1964 high school yearbook. Kroger's and Pepperidge's characters in the yearbook were effectively the same as their characters in the movie, whereas Vernon Wormer was a P.E. and civics teacher as well as an athletic coach in the yearbook.
However, Kenney felt that fellow Lampoon writer Chris Miller was the magazine's expert on the college experience. Faced with an impending deadline, Miller submitted a chapter from his then-abandoned memoirs entitled "The Night of the Seven Fires" about pledging experiences from his fraternity days in Alpha Delta (associated with the national Alpha Delta Phi during Miller's undergraduate years, the fraternity subsequently disassociated itself from the national organization and is now called Alpha Delta) at the Ivy League's Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire. The antics of his fellow fraternities became the inspiration for the Delta Tau Chis of Animal House and many characters in the film (and their nicknames) were based on Miller's fraternity brothers. Filmmaker Ivan Reitman had just finished producing David Cronenberg's first film, Shivers, and called the magazine's publisher Matty Simmons about making movies under the Lampoon banner. Reitman had put together The National Lampoon Show in New York City featuring several future Saturday Night Live cast members, including John Belushi. When most of the Lampoon group moved on to SNL except for Harold Ramis, Reitman approached him with an idea to make a film together using some skits from the Lampoon Show.
Plot of Animal House :
In 1962, college freshmen Lawrence "Larry" Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to join a fraternity at Faber College. Finding themselves out of place at the prestigious Omega Theta Pi House's party, and rejected by other houses, they finally visit the slovenly and riotous Delta Tau Chi House, where Kent's brother was once a member, making Kent a "legacy", unable to be declined. Larry and Kent are invited to pledge and given the fraternity names "Pinto" and "Flounder," respectively, by John "Bluto" Blutarsky.
College dean Vernon Wormer wants to remove the Deltas, already on probation, from his campus, due to conduct violations and abysmal academic standing. He directs the clean-cut, smug Omega president Greg Marmalard to find a way for him to remove the Deltas permanently. Various incidents, including the accidental death of a horse belonging to Omega member and ROTC cadet commander Douglas Neidermeyer in the Dean's office at night, and the attempt by a Delta pledge to date Marmalard's girlfriend, further increase the tension between the Dean and the Omegas, and the Deltas.
Bluto and D-Day steal the answers to an upcoming test from the office trash, not realizing that the Omegas have planted a fake set of answers for them to find. The Deltas fail the exam, and their grade-point averages fall so low that Wormer needs only one more incident to revoke their charter. To cheer themselves up, the Deltas organize a toga party. Wormer's wife attends the party at Otter's invitation, having met him at a shop, and has sex with him, while Pinto hooks up with Clorette, a girl he met at the supermarket, and makes out with her; instead of having sex, though, he takes her home in a shopping cart. He discovers in a later scene that she is the mayor's 13-year-old daughter. Outraged, Wormer organizes a kangaroo court and revokes Delta's charter. To take their minds off their troubles, Otter, Donald "Boon" Schoenstein, Flounder and Pinto go on a road trip. Otter picks up four girls for them from a nearby college by pretending to be former fiancé of a girl at the college who recently died according to newspapers. They stop at a roadhouse bar, not realizing it has an exclusively black clientele, and are intimidated by the hulking patrons; they flee, damaging Flounder's borrowed car and leaving their frightened dates behind.
Marmalard and other Omegas lure Otter to a motel and beat him up, in revenge for rumors that Otter was having an affair with Marmalard's girlfriend. The Deltas' midterm grades are so poor that an ecstatic Wormer expels them all, vindictively telling them that their draft boards have been informed they are each eligible for military service. The Deltas feel defeated and despondent, but Bluto rallies them with an impassioned, historically inaccurate speech ("Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!") and they decide to take revenge on Wormer, the Omegas, and the town. The Deltas construct a rogue armored parade float named the "Deathmobile", using Flounder's damaged car as its base, and use it to wreak havoc on the annual homecoming parade before individually escaping. During the ensuing chaos, the futures of many of the main characters are stated in freeze frames - many of the Deltas become respectable professionals while a number of the Omegas have less fortunate outcomes.
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