*Most* accurate movie in regards to Fraternities and Sororities

[Psi U MC Vito]

It's funny, but from my understanding, Animal House was more or less true at the time it's writer went to college. Granted there were some license taken, but a lot of it was true.

[UofM-TKE]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

It's funny, but from my understanding, Animal House was more or less true at the time it's writer went to college. Granted there were some license taken, but a lot of it was true.

I was an active in the 1970's and I was just talking last week to a Phi Sigma Sigma who was a Little Sister of our house and she told me this story. When she saw Animal House, she was with her family. They enjoyed the movie but didn't really get it. But she was laughing hysterically and pointing out to her family which character in the movie corresponded to people that she knew.

Like all good comedy, Animal House exaggerates to tell its story, but if you dial it down a notch or two, everything looks familiar to me too.

This link has been posted on GC in the past, but I think it is worth posting again: http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/ah1.html. This is the story which grew into the movie: The Night of the Seven Fires. The main writer of the movie Chris Miller, was an ADPhi at Dartmouth and wrote the story in the link for the National Lampoon, showing what pledging was like at his chapter.

There has been a 30th anniversary special on the making of Animal House shown on cable stations recently, with film from the ADPhi house which makes you believe that the story could be true.

[PM_Mama00]

Sorority Boys.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

That's because Spike Lee is an eternal __________.

I love that movie but hate hate hate that Tisha Campbell slept with Half Pint. LOL. What an idiot.

Originally Posted by Senusret I

That was definitely a surreal moment in the movie for me. I was like..... would somebody REALLY do this, especially after already reaching the pinnacle of Gamma Ray-ness?

Originally Posted by DrPhil

That could be a thread in and of itself.

I will say that people excuse a lot of otherwise ridiculously stupid behaviors when they claim to be appealing to a higher authority. Her higher authority was the need to belong.

I almost felt sorry for ol boy until he woke up the next morning with Jasmine Guy in his bed.

I took a whole course on Spike Lee films last semester and one of the things we discussed re: School Daze was that she was actually not to have slept with just Half Pint, but that a train was supposed to be run on her instead. It was taken out of the screen play and substituted with the Gammas clocking Half-Pint in the hallway.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I took a whole course on Spike Lee films last semester and one of the things we discussed re: School Daze was that she was actually not to have slept with just Half Pint, but that a train was supposed to be run on her instead. It was taken out of the screen play and substituted with the Gammas clocking Half-Pint in the hallway.

I'm glad that was taken out. It would've been too much for a theater film.

That sexual component isn't unrealistic because there are idiots who do such things.