Greeks in the movies
 

Name your favorite movie that had greeks in it. Mine is Can't Hardly Wait with Trip McNeely

Fandango with Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson. About a group of seniors from UT Austin that is loosely based on a group of fraternity men from around 1970-1971.

Underated, but very funny movie.

Revenge of the Nerds

The Classic one of course.


Animal House!:D

Going Greek

Legally Blonde!

Old School

Mine has to be Sorority Boys and First Daughter

My favorite as well. This one rang truest.

I don't remember any Greek stuff in First Daughter (either one)??? The one w/Katie Holmes or the Lifetime one??

One night, a bunch of us stayed up all night, watching old movies. There was one black & white movie about a vaudeville boarding house and everyone pawned things because "the show must go on!" After the show was a success, the producers gave all the boarding house people their things back, and two young ladies were able to wear their sorority pins with pride again! It was so campy, and either a Shirley Temple or a Three Stooges movie.

We got a lot of milage out of that one line, though!

I second that. I've been watching that movie all my life. Couldn't have been any older than six when I first saw it...

It has a fraternity that sings hail to the chief (or something like that) thats my favorite part in the movie. I don't remember the name of the fraternity it's like Lambda Zeta Phi or something with a Lambda in it.

without a doubt Animal House!

Dude, that's Fratty.:p

I quite liked "My fat greek wedding" - all of the characters were hilarious :)

There's a very entertining movie, good quality, called, "Dead Man On Campus."
You can find it in rental.

One of my all time favorite movies. Lived in Texas for 20 years and this movie was GREAT.
Kevin Costner was almost an unknown at the time. The skydiving stuff was HILARIOUS.

Yeah, I think the Sky Diving scene was one of the alltime movie greats. I have been to Dom's rock as well. Pretty cool.

Animal House

All other Greek movies are simply imitations.

Yeah I agree....allthough I would add Fandango to the list too. Both are based on true events...which make them all the more entertaining. Animal House though is more centered around the Greek aspect, as Fandango is about a roadtrip between pledge brothers at Texas. Some claim the group was from Baylor.....but my dad will always contend that he new the character portrayed by Kevin Costner very well when he was at UT.

I don't think Animal House was "based on a true event". The writer, Chris Miller, was a member of Alpha Delta Phi at Dartmouth. He and the other writers sat down and told every fraternity story they could think of and then crafted a script around that. That's why the movie has such wide appeal; just about every fraternity man in America could cast that movie with members from his own house.

One of the co-writers for Animal House was Harold Ramis, a Zeta Beta Tau.

I said "events"

This is an EXCELLENT movie!

School Daze. A Spike Lee Joint.

Filthy clothes coming out instead of the parachute:eek:

Very funny and Marvin J. McIntyre is gotta be the original hippie pilot/drug freak.

Just found this...
 

Looks like two of the unavailable "gems" are now available.

I'll probably pick these up...

http://adifferentcity.com/title.php?37

http://adifferentcity.com/title.php?36

I saw Fraternity Row on TV about 10 years ago, I've never seen Brotherhood
of the Bell, but I've been told it's one of the best.

Greeks as in Actors members of GLOs or roles? Or either/or?

Oh, that is a great movie, but it protrays greeks in a terrible light... and not in a funny way, but in a serious way... speaking of serious college movies, Higher Learning is an excellent movie, that features greek life

***Sigh***:( nd I couldn't have been much older than 25 when I saw it!!!!!!!!

Revenge of the Nerds all the way! Though Animal House comes a close second.

The song the sorority sings to the Lambdas in Revenge of the Nerds is hilarious!

I thought it ws illarious when all those nerds went to the fraternity to start a chapter at their university

Ditto on School Daze. DST was portrayed in a positive light :)

School Daze is my absolute favorite.

Coming in second is Road Trip. It was interesting seeing elements of NPHC and IFC frats combined into the fictional Xi Chi fraternity.

edited to say I killed the thread.

aw, I deleted the first part. Oh well.

Although this is not my fav, but I have to say The Graduate, 1967 with Dustin Hoffman. It has our real letters, flag and crest on screen, potray our fraternity house Charge at UC Berkeley.

http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/...graduate35.jpg

Gone With the Wind.