The Original Animal House

Tom Earp · #1 01-09-2007, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by dekeguy

Tom,
I think he is talking about an article that appeared in Esquire several years ago that was written by one of the screenwriters for the film. The movie was derived from this guys experiences and further developed by several other contributers.

G41965,
Is that the article you were talking about? I read it some time back and it was pretty obvious that it was the inspiration for the movie. Where did you find it?

I also would be interested to know where this reference came from since it it was not intirely so new but some many years ago.

Sister Havana · #2 01-09-2007, 06:23 PM

I think he's talking about this book: The Real Animal House, by Chris Miller (movie's screenwriter). It came out a few months ago.

Tom Earp · #3 01-09-2007, 06:25 PM

Oh, an after thought lo these many years from the filming!

g41965 · #4 01-09-2007, 06:50 PM

Tom,my wife saw the book at the bookstore and got it for me knowing I would like it , it's new-2006. Chris Miller the author of the book ,cowrote the screenplay for the movie with Harold Ramis. Chris Miller was an Alpha Delta Phi at Dartmouth 1959-1963, most of Animal House is based on his time at Dartmouth, this book might be considered the uncensored version of the movie, not exactly the same- more graphic, funnier more personal. Miller was the basis for Pinto in the movie Animal house . Harold Ramis was a ZBT at Washington U in St.Louis and contributed to and rewrote the screenplay.

Tom Earp · #5 01-09-2007, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by g41965

Tom,my wife saw the book at the bookstore and got it for me knowing I would like it , it's new-2006. Chris Miller the author of the book ,cowrote the screenplay for the movie with Harold Ramis. Chris Miller was an Alpha Delta Phi at Dartmouth 1959-1963, most of Animal House is based on his time at Dartmouth, this book might be considered the uncensored version of the movie, not exactly the same- more graphic, funnier more personal. Miller was the basis for Pinto in the movie Animal house . Harold Ramis was a ZBT at Washington U in St.Louis and contributed to and rewrote the screenplay.

This has been explained many times.

But it is still not the the movie was really about was it?

Second guessing is hindsight.

macallan25 · #6 01-09-2007, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp

This has been explained many times.

But it is still not the the movie was really about was it?

Second guessing is hindsight.

Focus Tom......I know you can figure this one out.

TSteven · #7 01-09-2007, 07:28 PM

It seems like the second link no longer works.

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Originally Posted by TSteven

http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/trivia.htm

Co-screenwriter Chris Miller based the National Lampoon short stories that gave rise to the film on his experiences in a fraternity at Dartmouth, from which he graduated in 1962:

"I was at Dartmouth in the early sixties and I belonged to the outlaw fraternity on campus at that time (Alpha Delta Phi). I always said that one day I was going to write the story of that experience. So, around 1974 or so, I started writing it as a novel and then the novel got cut up into chunks, which became short stories that ran in the Lampoon. The stories were documentary. They were cinema verite. When the script was written, the actual incidents that the two stories were about were the fraternity initiation that I underwent (The Night of the Seven Fires) and the experience I called Pinto's First Lay.

http://www.nationallampoon.com/flash...house/ah1.html

"I was Pinto in my fraternity. That was my name. In the movie, I think that Pinto is me as a pledge and Boon is me as a senior. All the other guys are guys that are so archetypal that everybody knows them. Everybody had friends like those other guys.

"I think the parts of the movie that were most true to my life were the road trip and what goes on during the road trip. In fact, the guy who was the original guy who tried to get a date with the dead girl was at the premiere. When the incident came on, he stood up and raised his hands in the air just like Rocky."

Now living in Venice, California, Miller said at the film's 25th Anniversary Reunion that he's writing a prequel to the movie. "We can't exactly do a sequel with the death of John Belushi," he said.