Why pinto animal house

Cray was instrumental no pun intended in getting the musicians together that appeared as the band. However, John Landis did not think Chase was right for the part, and convinced him to star in Foul Play instead, by telling him that it was an ensemble film. The role went to Tim Matheson , who later starred with Chase in Fletch Chase has said that he regrets not doing the film.

Black extras had to be bussed in from Portland, for the segment at the Dexter Lake Club, due to their scarcity around Eugene. A sequel was planned that would take place during the Summer of Love and involve the Deltas reuniting for Otter's wedding.

However, when More American Graffiti bombed at the box office, Universal stalled the project. It was scrapped for good when John Belushi died in O'Rourke blames this movie for the decline and fall of the "National Lampoon" magazine.

After the immense success of the movie at the box office, various Hollywood studios and producers began to offer jobs to the best Lampoon writers. When they realized they could make much, much more money writing movie scripts than writing for the Lampoon, they left for Hollywood. O'Rourke noted that many of the projects these writers worked on never amounted to much, which hurt the writers' careers as much as the magazine. On Delta's fraternity banner, the motto "Ars gratia artis" roughly translated as "Art for Art's Sake" can be seen.

This also appears in the studio logo of MGM. Other than John Belushi 's opening yell, the food fight was filmed in one shot, with the actors encouraged to fight for real.

Flounder's groceries handling in the supermarket was another single shot. By filming the long courtroom scene in one day, Landis won a bet with Ivan Reitman. The characters of Stork and Hardbar were created to give Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller a reason to be on-set, and had come from different portions of a deleted character named Mountain. Hardbar was named after a real frat brother of Miller's, who masturbated excessively. Kevin Bacon 's favorite of his films.

Stacy Grooman , Flounder's girlfriend Sissy, was actually a student at the University of Oregon at the time the movie was filmed. John Landis sacrificed his heavy beard, and much of his hair to appear in the film as a cafeteria dishwasher who catches Bluto mooching and tries, unsuccessfully, to stop him. The scene was filmed, but despite his personal sacrifices, Landis eventually also sacrificed the scene. Photos of both his haircut and the cafeteria sequence appear in the book. The writers chose as the setting because they saw it as "the last innocent year.

The University of Oregon reluctantly allowed its campus to be used, and gave the crew thirty days to complete filming. This meant that the cast and crew faced six-day work weeks and completed shooting with only two days to spare. Chris Miller based Pinto on himself as a Dartmouth sophomore, as "Pinto" had been his frat nickname, whereas he saw Boon created initially by Harold Ramis as an older and wiser version of himself.

Dean Wormer was based more or less on Richard Nixon. Bluto was a pastiche of several fellow frats of Miller's, mostly three nicknamed "Alby", "Seal", and "Bags". The only exceptions were the road trip scene and the parade, which was filmed in the nearby town of Cottage Grove. The car that Flounder drives, which his brother lent to him, and the Delta's also use at the end, as the "Deathmobile", is a Lincoln Continental. This model, which continued with few changes for years, has shown up surprisingly often in popular films.

One reason is because of its uncommon "suicide door" design. The back doors hinge at the rear and have been known to scoop people under the car when it is moving with the doors open. Among many other films, suicide door Continentals have been seen in Goldfinger , Inspector Gadget , and The Matrix The movie was set to be filmed at the University of Missouri, until the President of the school read the script and refused permission.

It was filmed at and around the University of Oregon in Eugene instead. There was a certain amount of friction between John Landis and the writers early on, because Landis was a high-school dropout from Hollywood, and they were college graduates from the East Coast. Harold Ramis remembers, "He sort of referred immediately to 'Animal House' as 'my movie. Professor Jennings bites an apple while lecturing about good and evil in John Milton 's "Paradise Lost.

Producer Matty Simmons suggested that the setting be changed to college and the content be toned down. Ramis also incorporated ideas from an earlier treatment he wrote titled "Freshman Year", based on his experiences in college. During their bonding week before filming, the seven Deltas partied a lot in their hotel. Bruce McGill actually stole the piano from the hotel's lobby and moved it into his room so that the group would have music.

Jack Webb turned down the role of Dean Wormer, feeling the movie would be bad for his image. The interior scenes of the Delta house were filmed in a Sigma Nu fraternity. The exterior of the Delta house was a dilapidated house from the s that was torn down in the mid-'80s.

The sorority house's exterior is the real exterior of the Sigma Nu house that was used for the interior scenes. John Landis and Bruce McGill staged a scene for reporters visiting the set, where Landis pretended to be angry at Bruce for being difficult on the set.

Landis grabbed a breakaway pitcher and smashed it over McGill's head. He fell to the ground, and pretended to be unconscious. The reporters were completely fooled, and when Landis asked McGill to get up, he refused to move. Universal Pictures turned down Composer Elmer Bernstein 's repeated request for additional money to produce a stereophonic soundtrack. This film remains one of Bernstein's few movie scores to be produced originally in mono format.

The clip where Otis Day and the Knights perform "Shout" has, for several years, been shown on the Autzen Stadium jumbotron immediately after the third quarter at every University of Oregon home football game, with thousands of fans singing along. The noble brass theme heard when the Faber campus is first shown is an excerpt from Johannes Brahms ' "Academic Festival Overture". This melody is based on a German student drinking song called "We have built a stately house".

Kennedy , was assassinated on November 22, Niedermeyer's line "You're all worthless and weak, now drop and give me twenty! Mark Metcalf , who played Niedermeyer, appears in the video. Dee and his bandmates were thrilled when they found out they could get Metcalf to essentially play Niedermeyer in the video. In addition, the music video for Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" featured a high school student, mostly inspired by Flounder, being ridiculed by a teacher Metcalf again.

At the video's conclusion, the principal played by Stephen Furst recreates his gag from the movie and sprays Metcalf in the face with seltzer water. Although the film takes place in Pennsylvania, a Tennessee flag is shown in the courtroom. This is because the set decorator was unable to find a large enough Pennsylvania flag for the scene, and the blue Oregon state flag wouldn't work, because it had "State of Oregon" text on the upper part. So the set decorator used the most generic flag he could find, which turned out to be the Tennessee state flag.

The full name of the Delta House changes during the movie. When the movers are taking out the contents of the frat house the name is Delta Tau Chi. Earlier in the movie it is Delta Chi Tau. One such party at the University of Maryland attracted around 2, people, while students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tried for a crowd of 10, people and a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The film's budget was so small that during the twenty-eight days of shooting in Eugene, John Landis had no trailer or office, and could not watch dailies for three weeks.

His wife, Deborah Nadoolman , purchased most of the costumes at local thrift stores, and she and Judith Belushi-Pisano John Belushi 's wife made the party togas. Meat Loaf was the second choice for Bluto, in case John Belushi dropped out of his role. The film was inspired by co-writer Chris Miller 's short stories in "National Lampoon", drawn from his experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth where he graduated in Its story of the nonconformist, boisterous members of the Delta House fraternity and their uptight antagonists — the militaristic creeps of Omega House, the sneering Dean Wormer — was unpretentious, anarchic comedy.

Let's hear it for the underdogs! Slobs vs. Bad: Sure, the movie was sold as slobs vs. But the snobbery was actually baked into the supposed "slob" side. The full title, let's not forget, is "National Lampoon's Animal House. Fortunately, Matheson and Riegert moved on to busy careers playing roles that took advantage of their likability. Bad: The movie inspired a short-lived TV spinoff, "Delta House" , and a wave of comedy movies that emphasized gross-out gags over actual, you know, humor.

Good: Even when "Animal House" does gross-out gags, there's some clever writing. Well, at least the kind of writing than can crack you up if you're in the right mood. We're talking about the scene featuring Delta House newbies being sworn in, when Hoover James Widdoes instructs them to say the pledge after him:.

Bad: You can call sensitive language "politically correct" all you want. But it's still jarring to hear women, minorities and the differently abled described in offensively dated terms we're not going to repeat here. Good: Yeah, but you have to laugh when Dean Wormer tells Flounder about his feeble grade point average and delivers the immortal advice: "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Bad: The "jokes" about Otter and Boon being "well-known homosexuals" and other supposed humor at the expense of gay people have all aged about as well as an open bottle of seltzer. High points include Bluto stopping on the stairs at the decrepit Delta House, and listening as Stephen Bishop who also composed music for the movie plays guitar and serenades females with an excruciatingly sensitive rendition of a folk song.

Bluto listens, then takes the guitar and smashes it against the wall. Bad: With college so expensive, watching the Delta House screwballs goof off, and pay no attention to studies whatsoever, will either seem like an escapist time capsule — "seven years of college down the drain!

Even though DeWayne Jessie, as Otis, isn't the voice we hear on the soundtrack, he's still fun to watch. Bad: Which brings us to that scene where the white Delta House guys bring their dates to the Dexter Lake Club, and, realizing they're the only white people there, start to feel uncomfortable. According to a New York Times article about "Animal House," that scene gave Universal brass the vapors even back in the '70s.

Contrary to rumors, it was iced tea—and not real whiskey—in the bottle that Belushi chugs after Delta is expelled from campus. Actor DeWayne Jessie played Otis Day, the leader of the band at the Dexter Lake Club, and legally changed his name to Otis Day after gaining popularity following the release of the movie. He still tours with the band Otis Day and the Knights to this day. Katy : You mean you want someone he can screw on the first date. Boon : Well put. You see, Pinto's never been laid.

Pinto : Hey! Boon : What'd I say? Pinto : Before we go any further, there's something I have to tell you. I lied to you. I've never done this before. Clorette De Pasto : You've never made out with a girl before?

Pinto : No. No, I mean, I've never done what I think we're gonna do in a minute. I sort of did once, but I was drunk Clorette De Pasto : That's okay, Larry.