The new movie Legally Blond is based on USC DG's!!!

SouthernDG · #1 07-08-2001, 08:43 PM

How funny - I was surfing the Legally Blonde movie web page and I noticed that the sorority was called Delta Nu and as was about to send a card I found this - "If you are going to join a sority, BE CAREFUL! If a rushee makes the wrong choice it can ruin the rest of your entire life. Delta Gamma is the best you can be." How true!! I had heard Reese went to Univeristy of Southern California to do research and obviously she discovered the BEST!!!

CutiePie2000 · #2 07-09-2001, 09:33 AM

I just went and checked that out and you're right!
Yay! Go Delta Gamma!

RACH_DG · #3 07-09-2001, 10:04 AM

Wow, I think that is pretty great!!! However, I wish there was more information about why that quote was included, and if the movie Legally Blonde really is based on Delta Gamma!!! If anyone has any additional info let us know!!!

deegeemorehead · #4 11-17-2001, 02:42 AM

hey! I'm a dg from morehead state in ky. i loved legally blonde! it was awesome. i didn't know about how her sorority was based on "delta gamma." thanks for the info!!

mumbles026 · #5 11-21-2001, 02:09 AM

Hey guys.. if you look closely in the beginning when they are showing Elle's president room.. there is a paddle and it has our EXACT crest.. except not our letters.. its awesome! you should definatley check it out..
itb,
nicole
eta delta

dzsaigirl · #6 12-08-2001, 02:55 PM

And except the crest has a dog head (like her dog Bruiser

)

Cute movie!

volgirl2376 · #7 01-04-2002, 09:38 PM

I dont think the movie was BASED on Delta Gamma, but the house scenes were filmed in a Delta Gamma house in California. There was a girl who was on MTV who did "Becoming Britney Spears" and she lived there and was a Delta Gam.

Hootie · #8 01-31-2002, 07:10 PM

You know it's funny because before I read this thread and saw the movie in the theatre I thought to myself that it reminded me of Delta Gamma. Although the colors sorta reminded me of DZ (aren't they pink and green - I know AKA is). Anyhow, great movie and if that is indeed their house, it's beautiful!

Hootie

PS. I saw that MTV show where the DG became Britney Spears! How funny!

JadeSea325 · #9 02-06-2002, 01:27 PM

The woman that wrote Legally Blonde is an alumni of JMU. GO DUKES!

CarolinaDG · #10 07-17-2002, 12:30 AM

I talked to a Cali. DG and she said that Reese DID stay with USC DG's... And that they are exactly like the movie portrays them. Down to the Tiffany's bracelets. I don't know any USC DG's, so I don't know myself, but that's what the Cali. DG said. I think, though, if the colors were supposed to be pink and green (they never really said, just the sign out front is kind of a teal color) then it's probably so that it doesn't resemble DG too much.

AritheDG · #11 12-29-2006, 05:31 AM

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I talked to a Cali. DG and she said that Reese DID stay with USC DG's... And that they are exactly like the movie portrays them. Down to the Tiffany's bracelets. I don't know any USC DG's, so I don't know myself, but that's what the Cali. DG said. I think, though, if the colors were supposed to be pink and green (they never really said, just the sign out front is kind of a teal color) then it's probably so that it doesn't resemble DG too much."

That is totally not true. I am a California DG at Pepperdine University and know and visit the DG's at USC all the time, and they are SO not like the girls in the movie. Yes they are beautiful, (but honestly, what DG isn't?) but they are not materialistic and ditzy like the girls in the movie.

The USC DG's are one of the strongest DG chapters not only in California, but in the nation. And i mean come on, just cause a few girls own Tiffanys jewelry, doesn't mean that they are rich snobs. I'm sure there are girls on here who own Tiffanys and agree. ;o) Just wanted to clear that up!

P.S. Some scenes were filmed at the Alpha Nu house at USC, how cool is that?! Every time I walk into the entrance way at the USC DG house, I give a little smile! ;o)

CutiePie2000 · #12 01-04-2007, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by AritheDG

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That is totally not true. I am a California DG at Pepperdine University and know and visit the DG's at USC all the time, and they are SO not like the girls in the movie. Yes they are beautiful, (but honestly, what DG isn't?) but they are not materialistic and ditzy like the girls in the movie.

I will back you up there because I visited Alpha Nu chapter once, and they gave me a tour of the house. The girls were definitely attractive, but they were smart and had it together too.

That being said, in Legally Blonde, (to my memory), the only sisters that were portrayed ditzy were Serena and Margot. Elle was pretty savvy as was the Delta Nu/fitness guru gal who was being defended by Elle.

JohnsDGsweethrt · #13 04-25-2003, 07:19 AM

Wow that is really awsome! I know the DN crest on the movie was exactly like ours but I had no idea that was our house! Does anyone know the legally blonde website? Thanks!

CutiePie2000 · #14 04-25-2003, 10:35 AM

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Originally posted by JohnsDGsweethrt
Wow that is really awsome! I know the DN crest on the movie was exactly like ours but I had no idea that was our house! Does anyone know the legally blonde website? Thanks!

http://www.mgm.com/legallyblonde/

I have visited the house at U of Southern California (Alpha Nu chapter) and there are a LOT of similarities between
Delta Gamma-Alpha Nu chapter and "Delta Nu" in the movie.

I think DGs at USC was the source of the inspiration for Delta Nu!

sherbertlemons · #15 04-25-2003, 02:39 PM

Just thought I might add... if you read the book Legally Blonde, which the movie is loosely based on, Elle really is a Delta Gamma. (The name was only changed to Delta Nu for the movie.) The woman charged with her husband's murder isn't a sister of Elle's in the book, though. She's a Kappa Alpha Theta. If I remember correctly, her stepdaughter (the real murderer) is a Kappa.

I think the author has it in for Kappas!