Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS (Post 1676715)

Scream this from the mountain top!!! Please!

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS (Post 1676706)

So what's the theory if the creators and/or writers are Greek?

Negative outcomes aside, if this was intentional, they were clever and have received a great deal of publicity from Greekchat alone. I would've never heard of this movie without the 3 threads on GC. For every Greek who claims to boycott this movie, there will be Greeks and nonGreeks who see it out of curiosity or because they want a silly comedy.

Originally Posted by DMBabyZTA (Post 1676152)

I can promise you if they used YOUR letters you'd feel the same way.

Originally Posted by heyitszeta (Post 1676913)

I find it highly amusing that everyone from ZTA is freaking out when this movie is actually based on my organization, and bears a much stronger resemblance to us than ZTA.



Actually, we're over it. We're thinking of going to see it together, probably in our letters, because we realize that it is just a movie. And who knows, we just might enjoy it! :)

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS (Post 1676922)

What organization are you in?

Originally Posted by heyitszeta (Post 1676949)

Zeta Tau Zeta Fraternity.

Originally Posted by twinkle555 (Post 1676960)

Care to give us all a run down of your org? I would like to see the similarities you speak of :)

Originally Posted by ZTAMich (Post 1663351)

This movie depicts a sorority called “Zeta Alpha Zeta” and refers to its members as “Zetas” and its facility as the “Zeta House.” The chapter house shown in the movie has the word “ZETA” above the door in turquoise, one of the official colors of the Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity.

Originally Posted by ZTAMich (Post 1663351)

The Fraternity is the exclusive owner of the registered trademarks Zeta Tau Alpha and the Greek letters ZTA, and has been consistently using the term Zeta and Zetas to conduct business for nearly 100 years. The Fraternity believes that the use of “ZETA” in the film is improper and confusingly similar to ZTA. Zeta Tau Alpha is working with legal counsel to explore its options.

Originally Posted by texas*princess (Post 1633510)

it's TV!!! Who cares.

Originally Posted by heyitszeta (Post 1676966)

Colors: Royal Blue and Gold (in the movie they are turquoise and yellow)

Originally Posted by AU_ZTA86 (Post 1676981)

Actually, those are not our official colors. From IO:
Colors – The colors of Zeta Tau Alpha are turquoise blue and steel gray. The significance of these colors is explained in the Initiation Service.

Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1676985)

There is nothing to be concerned about. ZTA and this movie are going to be fine.

And for the record, it HAS been my letters before. My fraternity has boycotted movies before and I saw them anyway.

Originally Posted by heyitszeta (Post 1676966)

Sure!

Name: Zeta Tau Zeta (Zeta Alpha Zeta...yeah, pretty close, haha)

Colors: Royal Blue and Gold (in the movie they are turquoise and yellow)

As a side note, our main shirts are the exact shirt worn in the movie, except obviously with ZTZ instead of ZAZ, and the lettering is royal blue instead of turquoise.



We refer to our members as Zetas and our facility as Zeta House. Our house has both our letters and the word ZETA on it (in the preview the house also has both).



We have been using the term Zeta and Zetas to conduct business for nearly 100 years as well. It is very similar to ZTZ, however we figure anyone with a brain will figure out that the movie is fictional, and no, we are not the same sorority as in the movie. We also believe that anyone who wants to use the word term "ZETA" certainly may. After all, it is just a letter in the Greek alphabet.

My fraternity is local, and one of the authors of the movie attended my (very small) college. During the time she was at my school, Zeta was having trouble keeping numbers up, and ended up deactivating and reactivating. The plot line in this story is that Zeta Alpha Zeta is not able to keep their numbers up and they are risking losing their charter...sound familiar? Our alumnae came to homecoming this past year and told us about this movie and that the author didn't want to make it blatantly about us, so she altered names and colors slightly. We all had a good laugh about it, because, as texas*princess so eloquently worded it: :)

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1676993)

Even if you are right and one of the movie's screenwriters based ZAZ on ZTZ and changed things so that ZTZ wasn't identifiable, don't you see why another group would be mad if those changes pointed to them instead. I think ZTZ is safe to feel okay about it...only people from Occidental college know who you are and will probably not think the girls of ZAZ in the movie represent the co-ed ZTZ. On the other hand, most people will see ZETA in turquoise and think ZTA who has used the name ZETA and the color turquoise in its chapters all over the US for 100 years. There is a higher likelihood that they will be identified as the chapter in the movie not ZTZ. So, cut ZTA some slack for being a little upset.