Greeks in the movies

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by flirt5721

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.

Dude, that's Fratty.

[CyprusGirl]

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

[Firehouse]

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

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by macallan25

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.

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.

[macallan25]

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.

[Kevin]

Animal House

All other Greek movies are simply imitations.

[macallan25]

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.

[Firehouse]

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.

[agzg]

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

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Firehouse

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.

I said "events"

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by Firehouse

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

This is an EXCELLENT movie!

[KAY10]

School Daze. A Spike Lee Joint.

[Alpha Sig Scott]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Yeah, I think the Sky Diving scene was one of the alltime movie greats.

Filthy clothes coming out instead of the parachute

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

[Richard(SNU)]

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.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by Liberal_South

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

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