The Cast and Crew talk about "Animal House" (1978).
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@kamrank5758 ай бұрын
This changed college experience forever. Sadly, I do not think they can make this movie today.
@charliebay94417 ай бұрын
oh bullshit
@miguelservetus95346 ай бұрын
@@charliebay9441Truly curious. Could you expand and explain your thoughts?
@victoriashepard81767 ай бұрын
Truly a classic. Nothing like it ever came close. Clever lines and a good story.....I'll never forget Fawn Libowitz who died in the kiln explosion.
@gaidheal518 ай бұрын
I was a student at the University of Oregon when this was made. Several friends had parts as extras which made it even more fun to watch.
@everettrhay48558 ай бұрын
I was a unintentional extra in the food fight, in the fish bowl.
@user-rm4gv4eb5s8 ай бұрын
I was also a UO student during the filming, and watched multiple scenes being filmed. It was very exciting at the time to have a movie being filmed on your college campus. @@everettrhay4855
@ww2remembered9838 ай бұрын
Yep, me too! I was in the parade scene in Cottage Grove. We kept trying to party with them, but they were a tightknit group. Maybe if we were cute chick's, it would've been different!
@johnned48488 ай бұрын
I wonder which fraternity they got beaten up by before shooting started
@laurelcaccivio66518 ай бұрын
Most folks don't know that the Blues Brothers inspiration came from the cast hanging out at TaylorsTavern,being exposed to blues icons Curtis Salgado and Robert Cray.
@Petros72ful8 ай бұрын
I worked at the University of Oregon while this film was made. Cast and crew partied after hours around Eugene's clubs where local blues bands performed. Movie opened in a theater directly across the street from the "Animal House" used in the film. Walking out of the theater, there it was, same house and frat house next door. The "Animal House" has since been demolished, movie theater too. A medical office is on the site now. Frat house is still there.
@mariannefinkel3 ай бұрын
If only that building had been kept as a historic monument
@frankkolton17808 ай бұрын
"Mr. Blu... Mr. Blutarski, zero point zero". That still makes me burst out laughing.
@edwardduarte73938 ай бұрын
When something is so bad I go 0.0 she is a zero 0.0 howard stern used to play it
@buddyvilla73938 ай бұрын
Daniel Simpson Day has no GPA”
@robertpsotka35257 ай бұрын
Excellent
@paulclarke75718 ай бұрын
I ran track in my youth. We would travel to Eugene Oregon back in the day for track meets. I can remember being quite inebriated with many members of the team one night and Animal House was projected onto the side of the Delta house building used in the movie. We sat with hundreds and watched it play in all its glory. One hell of a great night!
@crysstoll11918 ай бұрын
Wow, wish i was there. Funniest movie, coolest town i've been in (in the US).
@jaggedstarrPI8 ай бұрын
For Gen X, the scene with Belushi on the ladder spying, basically initiated puberty all by itself.
@cg982432 ай бұрын
Amen
@acidgroove10110 күн бұрын
And if it was anyone else, it just would have been really creepy, but with Belushi’s charisma and immaturity and over-the-top silliness, it works.🤷🏻♂️ RIP John.
@teejayaich43068 ай бұрын
What a classic movie! Also, how amazing does Karen Allen look - what a smile, sparkle in her eye, the works!
@roquefortfiles7 ай бұрын
Karen Allen!! She's so cute here. The girl next door.
@chuckselvage31574 ай бұрын
Karen is a babe.
@jimbutler66458 ай бұрын
Animal House and Caddyshack are two of my all time favorites. Spectacular!
@trumpsuckspigbalz23518 ай бұрын
I was at the last night of Winterland with the Grateful Dead, NRPS, and the Blues Brothers. Belushi and Aykroyd were f'kin amazing. Belushi did a cartwheel onto the stage and the band broke into Soul Man. Ackroyd to he left looking nonchalant. Dead came on at midnight and played until dawn. BGP dosed the crowd up front. They had a full bar, in a concert. 😎 Watched a screening of Animal House before the show. They had a volleyball tournament on the floor with people from different states forming teams. We lined up the night before and slept on the sidewalk. Listened to taped Dead with free breakfast in the morning. BGP sent the lead roadie Ranger to the local KFC at noon and brought back a pick-up truck full of chicken, and gave it to everyone in line. It'll never happen again, this world wouldn't let it.
@tonyarc94556 ай бұрын
Dude he NEVER makes cart wheels. Clown
@fellspoint93644 ай бұрын
Great observation about the denial of fun in today’s world
@johnlozauskas7784 ай бұрын
@@fellspoint9364 let me tweak what you said, "denial of fun is today's "woke" world." If you think I am wrong or being disrespectful to you, let me know and I will take down my comment.
@larrypower86598 ай бұрын
They needed a band for the Delta House parties (“Toga! Toga!”) but didn’t have one. They put out feelers to the Eugene, OR, musicians community and Robert Cray’s name came up often. He put the musicians for Otis Day and The Knights together, and that’s him on bass-“Otis, my man! He loves us.”
@randolphveale9198 Жыл бұрын
RIP John Belushi, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis, John Vernon, Verna Bloom
@stevenprado1082 Жыл бұрын
& Ivan Reitman, Matty Simmons and Stephen Furst.
@mckessa179 ай бұрын
And John Candy
@SolidMikeP8 ай бұрын
This comment hurt
@pressureworks8 ай бұрын
Elmer Bernstein
@pressureworks8 ай бұрын
@@mckessa17 not in this film.
@fredsenior8938 ай бұрын
one of the greatest movies ever
@ScooterOnHisWay20247 ай бұрын
There is something about Karen Allen that is and always has been completely endearing. She seems so likable. I loved her in Scrooged in a small part as well.
@dannysprung71337 ай бұрын
With good reason. She is just like that in real life. I met her on a cruise, and did a few excursions and lunch with her (and a group).
@christheghostwriter7 ай бұрын
She looks like a real person who accidentally ended up in movies
@HankColter6 ай бұрын
I thought I saw her day hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts and pass me going the opposite direction. Come to find out years later that she probably lived in that area ( Great Barrington ).
@MattSejnowski7 ай бұрын
I loved this movie! A few months after viewing it, I was set up with a blind date and took her to see it. She just sat through it stone faced. It turned out to be a great test of compatibility and I used it later several times successfully!
@stickman17426 ай бұрын
If a chick has no sense of humor then flee. Smart system.
@roquefortfiles5 ай бұрын
We saw this film in grade 6 or 7 at a crappy old movie theater. The kind that don't exist anymore. We were literally falling out of our chairs laughing. This is a landmark comedy
@SamJ_19804 ай бұрын
Great idea. I should have known better when I made my ex wife watch Spaceballs while we were dating and she hated it. I should have ended things right there.
@heatherwhatever77143 ай бұрын
@@roquefortfilesGreat name.
@heatherwhatever77143 ай бұрын
@@SamJ_1980👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@robertmaybeth34348 ай бұрын
Behind a perfect film is unexplainable magic that nobody could create if they tried. It happens just once in a long while when some brilliant, extremely talented, and incredibly lucky people somehow get together, the creative talent is arranged just right, all the stars and planets align, and you get a film like this one. But that doesn't seem to happen often anymore, does it?
@GreenChilliD8 ай бұрын
Harold Ramis was a treasure
@Zonker669 ай бұрын
This was put up in 2018... it's 2023... and it has 140 likes. I give up on the modern world.
@jzer218 ай бұрын
It’s an old film. What do you expect?
@MrOnemanop8 ай бұрын
Recognition, support, appreciation, nostalgia. (My 25 year old son knows and "gets" it.)@@jzer21
@tims0018 ай бұрын
Wtf U talking about? It has 195k likes
@NickLight288 ай бұрын
Kids today just don’t understand
@gilbertkohl69918 ай бұрын
Nope! That's views....
@stickman-18 ай бұрын
An absolute masterpiece of comedy. The casting was perfection.
@marksamuelsen27508 ай бұрын
I’m a 74yo Veteran and a retired Corporate Pilot and I had just returned to NYC after being in the Air Force and living in Hawaii for a couple years when this movie came out. It was and still is the most memorable funniest movie I have ever watched.
@jimdennis24518 ай бұрын
I saw it when it was first on HBO (back when you had the little box with the slide switch on top of your TV) at my best friend's house. It was the first R rated picture I had ever seen. Somehow my mom found out and I was grounded for a week.
@misslora38966 ай бұрын
@@jimdennis2451I saw it the 1st time on HBO too in the early 80's. Being a 13 yr old girl I didnt really get it. Thankfully, I saw it again when I was a older and found it hysterical.
@Reefark4 ай бұрын
airplane?
@FunBobbyMarley8 ай бұрын
Against my wife's wishes I am showing this to my high school kids this weekend. Good times.
@mickclap22367 ай бұрын
Be careful, in these times people look for a way to be offended.
@donna82436 ай бұрын
Show them Blazing Saddles next 😉
@Mr-Angelo0U8125 ай бұрын
@@mickclap2236yea for real there are too many weak types like that for sure nowadays✌
@ront769Ай бұрын
Do so at your own risk. They might be doomed to spending seven years in college!
@genegrant4332Ай бұрын
If they are boys, Kelly's heros next
@hedgehog1965uk8 ай бұрын
I'm still in love with Karen Allen all these years later.
@theboyisnotright63128 ай бұрын
I notice she is still pretty danged hot 🔥🔥
@user-gv4cx7vz8t6 ай бұрын
Starman.
@thomas16308 ай бұрын
I saw this movie in sept 78 with a girlfriend we laughed so hard and people around us were almost like friends we were seeing the funniest thing ever. When I show this to my 20 something son its not at all the same. Nothing compares to this, closest thing is Caddyshack.
@theprettyone8 ай бұрын
I had just graduated from HS when this came out and I saw it. This is the first movie I ever saw more than once in a theater and is one of a few movies I still rewatch today.
@captaindunsell85688 ай бұрын
I am so glad that these three great screenwriters had the perfect use of the college experience…
@tcarrollnjobama8 ай бұрын
I remember the entire audience on the floor gasping for air 2:33 laughing in the theater. By far the most hilarious college life movie of all time. I watch it everytime it's on.😂
@jazzmahobian8 ай бұрын
Same here. The theater was uncontrollably laughing and my sister and brother in law and myself were almost crying laughing so much.
@paulolson7348 ай бұрын
I was in a 2 yr aircraft mechanic school when it premiered. Part way through the program the school decided to accelerate and go to 18 months. The class (about 22 guys) had grown kind of tight and several of us would be highly inconvenienced by the schedule change. The movie was really taking off and someone got the idea to go see it as a class. Deltas v Omegas and Faber became us against the school. It became glorious. We kept the schedule we agreed to at the beginning.
@keithball64809 ай бұрын
My girlfriend (later my wife) saw Animal House for the first time at Cape Cod drive in, September 1978. We still use the line " playing cards", when asking the obvious. By the way, I think Bluto's WW2, speech is one of the most inspirational speeches in the history of film.
@astralclub59648 ай бұрын
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
@coochoocoocoo8 ай бұрын
"When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!" best line ever. When I visited Pearl Harbor this is what I was thinking.
@postulator8908 ай бұрын
@@coochoocoocoo "Pearl Harbor?" "He's on a roll..."
@williamfoote28888 ай бұрын
He was a magnificent bastard.
@gregjohnston92878 ай бұрын
I was a student at The University of WisconsIn when this movie came out. Fantastic response in the theater.
@freakybuttrue8 ай бұрын
Lucky enough to had seen this in theater as a teen on opening weekend. And the crowd did just go absolutely nuts, I'd never seen people laugh so hard, hop around, fall, lean back, unbelievable. Masterpiece. I still say, "Face it, you fucked up, you trusted us."
@Arete378 ай бұрын
I had a science class at UO in that classroom several years ago. It hasn't changed. Neither had the frat houses.
@thunderstruck54848 ай бұрын
Me too, was in high school, such a great time to go to the movies every week!
@markbernhardt62818 ай бұрын
"Christ, seven years of college, down the drain."
@caesarfiorini8 ай бұрын
this came out in summer '78. I started college that September. Crazy ass time to do so.
@thunderstruck54848 ай бұрын
@@caesarfiorini and we could drink at 18 ! Very inspirational movie!
@billconnelly4840Ай бұрын
WAS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN ME AND A FRIEND SAW THIS IN 1978 WHEN IT CAME OUT AT THE OLD WARNER THEATER IN HARRISON NEW JERSEY . AND WE WALKED. 2 MILES FROM THE ARLINGTON SECTION OF KEARNY. Good memories, great funny movie. Those were the days. ❤😅🤣🤣 good memories.
@karensmith11588 ай бұрын
From Long Island, NY, I was living on campus at Ole Miss (too long to explain how I got there) when the movie was released at local theaters. I went to the movie with a friend from New Jersey and we were both completely stoned. Given the Frat/Sorority climate at Ole Miss, we dissolved in laughter at the utter truth of the movie, but there were some Ole Miss students who took offense, which made us laugh even harder. I could not have been at a better place, in a frame of mind that really made me appreciate the movie. Goes down at one of my best memories
@steventwiddy34028 ай бұрын
One of my all time favorite movies, I bet I’ve seen it 30 times and know damn near all the lines for it !
@sunpwrd8 ай бұрын
I moved to Eugene in 1975, so when they started shooting the next year, it was fun to see an actual movie set on 11th St. with the old fraternity house "dirtied up". We knew all the locations in the film, so that lent it a special feel, but I honestly found it to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. This "Making Of" story brought back great memories.
@roquefortfiles8 ай бұрын
We saw Animal House in 78 in our old "movie row" (no longer there) we were practically rolling around in the isles laughing so hard. Not just a joke here and there worked. Everything worked. I saw the film again in high school where they played it in the main auditorium which was sloped just like a movie theatre. We had probably 300 people watching and it was nearly a riot that night. People were going crazy. Stuff was getting thrown around. It was nuts. I'll always remember it.
@tomsampson80846 ай бұрын
I lived in Oregon in the mid '80's and spent a lot of time in Eugene. I even stayed in the Eugene Hotel many years later where Belushi stayed. I remember going to many of the sites. I stood on the steps where Belushi was shown pissing and pretended to piss (it was mid day). I know those houses on 11'th are long gone but I was there.
@roquefortfiles6 ай бұрын
That's great. I got to work with John Landis and told him how much of a riot we had seeing Animal House in 78. I also got to meet Bruce McGill. Very nice guy. I told him we were dying laughing watching Animal House. What a classic. @@tomsampson8084
@lakelevelthe59066 ай бұрын
I saw this movie on opening night at a theater in a smallish city in the Midwest. Going in, no one knew what to expect. I was astonished to see the audience leap to their feet at the end and cheer. I saw the owner of the theater, standing at the back, literally rub his hands together and laugh maniacally. What a great movie, I loved it.
@mikewhite45605 ай бұрын
As a Junior in a CATHOLIC Highschool, the CATHOLIC STANDARD & TIMES BANNED it. Therefore, I had to SEE IT, underage, & Snuck in...
@redties-ug6ls8 ай бұрын
Saw this as an advance peak in a theatre on the south side of Milwaukee. The audience went nuts. Its was possible the most fun I've ever had at the movies.
@massaforrest2 ай бұрын
Peek
@redties-ug6ls2 ай бұрын
thunks@@massaforrest
@Jzigg37652 ай бұрын
What theater?
@Jzigg37652 ай бұрын
I'm from Milwaukee so just curious which one.
@redties-ug6ls2 ай бұрын
@@Jzigg3765 I don't remember honestly, so long ago and I'm in my mid 70's now. I do remember the background shots of the bridge to nowhere by MKE harbor though.
@sp-lc1fy7 ай бұрын
In the fall of 78, I started my senior year of high school. This movie was quoted often and is still funny, "seven years of college.....wasted!"
@smittykinsАй бұрын
“Right down the drain.”
@probuiltconstructionremode55418 ай бұрын
I saw this movie in the early 80’s in high school and it immediately modeled my college career! I was so many of those outrageous characters in 4 years.
@Facetimegirl7 ай бұрын
Saw it when it opened, and yes the place went nuts. Had to see it again because the laughter drowned out some of the lines. We still say so many lines from that movie -- especially "Nothing is over until we decide it is "
@rustybear51258 ай бұрын
One of my favorite movies of all time, certainly my favorite comedy of all time.
@stanleymasterson11358 ай бұрын
Never become a film critic
@walter29908 ай бұрын
Also, Blazing Saddles, just saying...
@crysstoll11918 ай бұрын
Me too, with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I laugh just thinking about either one.
@MrJohnmarr8 ай бұрын
@@stanleymasterson1135 OK Buzz Killington
@rentslave8 ай бұрын
John played his last joke on the night that he died. At the Meadowlands Racetrack in the shadow of 30 Rock across the river,a horse named Animal House won its only ever race there.
@rustyrelicsfarm24065 ай бұрын
Any link to any articles?
@pauladouglas98916 ай бұрын
Karen Allen is adorable and hasn't aged at all.
@marcussmith30378 ай бұрын
R.i.p. comedy legend John Belushi
@AC3handle8 ай бұрын
I love listening to John Vernon. Even just doing an anecdote, he makes it sound like a dramatic reading.
@roquefortfiles8 ай бұрын
John Vernon was fabulous as the Dean. He really knows how to play intimidating but he seems like such a sweet guy in real life.
@fernandomurillo92728 ай бұрын
Nov-18-23. I’m 56 I remember this movie back in the day want to go to college. Sadly I had to go to work to help the family. Seeing this movie back them was awesome RIP to all the actors thank you 🙏🏻 for laughs. This movie will live forever
@ronnie2378 ай бұрын
Loved that movie. I was in college in the 60’s. Animal House reminded me so much of my college days.
@brianwells45073 ай бұрын
Kudos for the brilliant casting job on this hilarious movie!❤ Still stands the test of time, absolute classic!
@allenf.59072 ай бұрын
Agree that the casting was perfect. Pretty well spelled out here in the "Making Of" I didn't realize that there was so much writing behind it as it seems a bit off the cuff. Ah, college days, and nights.
@stephenfestus92688 ай бұрын
I was a junior in college when the movie was released and during the home coming parade, we took my old Pontiac painted it black with the words Deathmobile painted on the side and used it to slow down the parade. We were never reprimanded for the stunt, but we had our picture in the local newspapers.
@getit90668 ай бұрын
My fave character of all: Fawn Liebowitz
@bobpegram80428 ай бұрын
For anyone who has ever been in a fraternity this movie is a comedy masterpiece.
@mikebollum32728 ай бұрын
I saw this movie the first week after release and loved it. The casting was fantastic, the comedic timing spot-on, and the laughs were constant. Sometimes low budget movies with no-name actors are the best. This movie is clearly one of the best.
@averygordon53348 ай бұрын
I went to a school that invented food fights, among other things. Loved it!
@rickstclair22178 ай бұрын
the first thing that hit me, experienced everything that happened in the movie in college but took place over 4 years not in one semester!!
@music4dages8 ай бұрын
My memory of first seeing Animal House was waiting in line with my ticket only to wind up being arrested by 8 Berkeley police officers for………………………littering. The cop that arrested me was spot on double for Neidermeyer. I had to go back the next week to actually see the movie. PS - I was found innocent for lack of evidence because the cops couldn’t find the beer bottle they claimed I illegally disposed of. Good times.
@user-yo1kn8yq7k7 ай бұрын
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SHOW ALL THE OUT TAKES 🥳
@LagrangePoint9018 ай бұрын
The first time I saw this movie I laughed so long and hard I had to go back and see it again because I missed so much laughing. The cafeteria scene with Belushi was a total black out. I almost had an epileptic seizure with the jello scene!!
@georgedennison33384 ай бұрын
I was an undergrad at Oregon when Animal House was shot. We hadn't heard a lot about it, it was common knowledge there was going to be movie set on campus, but not a lot of info about when, where, etc. I was headed to a 7:30 am PE Major activity class one foggy morning. I was riding my bike; there was no one around cause of the ungodly hour & as I came across the big quad in front of the library, there was a statue about 10 ft from the diagonally crossing sidewalks in the center of the quad. I'd been across that quad on foot & bike a lot of times in nearly 4 years, but I could not remember a damn statue there. I stopped, read the plaque, Faber was the guy's name, no connection. The statue looks like it's been there a while, there's no fresh dirt. I walked away scratching my head, wondering if I was really that unaware of my surroundings. It was a few days later, I drove by the house turned into the Delta House, did a double take, & thought, Oh, yeah, the movie... I didn't go out of my way, but saw the scene where the ROTC guy gets hit in the head w/ the golf ball, the big food fight scene in the main dining room at the student union, then got a real close, up front of the small cafeteria scene where Belushi stuffs his face because I ate there every day & because John had told me about the timing of the shoot. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. I discovered 2 life impactful things in college, jazz and heroin. In the '70's, they kinda went together. I had 2 very good HS friends, 1 went in the Army, the other moved to the SW to work in aviation manufacturing. We all ended up in Eugene about 5 yrs post HS graduation & we all had discovered heroin; me in Eugene, D in Germany & K in SoCal. It wasn't the common tragic story, the dope was cheap, we all kept doing our thing, hell, I was a PE major, studying Sports Medicine & working in the Training Room. But, there was good jazz at the Eugene Hotel, 6 nights a week & I was a regular. So, you can imagine my surprise when Belushi & Ackroyd showed up, at MY hangout on a friggin' Tuesday night. This was the mid '70s, Eugene was the favorite concert locale for the Dead, there was not a huge jazz following in Eugene; it was typically 6-10 of us, & I, or my buddies were the token white guys. While we were the minority, the common thread was everybody was doin' dope; bartender, musicians & 99% of the patrons. So was Belushi; Akroyd was a strong maybe. Never talked to him about it, or saw him partake, John, yes, cause John came back after Dan left town. He wasn't wild & crazy during that time. He fit in, we all had an affinity for jazz & liked doing dope. Everybody had jobs, no body was sloppy drunk or sloppy high. We knew we had a good thing at the Hotel; it was like a plush, old communal living room w/ an inexpensive bar & free live jazz. On Friday, Saturday, if any of the regulars showed up, a big crowd was 20-30, a huge crowd 40-50. The Eugene Hotel might sound swank, but this WAS the 70s, only 5-6 stories, not very big of a footprint & much closer to 40's Art Deco thank modern corp hotel. We sent some drinks to Dan & John, but gave them their space; can't recall how many nights Ackroyd was there, he was in town twice during the shooting. When John came back on his own, he tried to slide in & sit in the corner, but at the first set break, we hollered at him to come join us & we all got to be friends. He was a quiet, kinda shy guy until something hit him or we'd get to talkin' & telling stories, then he'd go off. Laughed 'til our sides hurt & tears ran. Never crossed paths w/ him again, but if I'd had any idea where he was headed, I would have talked to him about our philosophy about heroin. We respected it, & vowed to stop when it changed from wanting to needing. The three of us partied for almost a year together, then 1 night at about 2:00 am, I was making a run to Springfield to score & got to thinking about whether it was a want or need situation. I made a realization & wheeled my car down through the grass median a couple hundred feet across to the highway going the other direction, came back to muly house & told the guys, we need to stop. We did. K was the only one to backslide, but he was troubled. Three months after HS ended, he was driving w/ the 4th of our group of lifelong friends & my best friend & traveling partner, Art. Art & I hitchhiked all over between our little hometown, SF & LA in high school. The other 2 couldn't leave like Art & I could. I'd been on my own since 16 & Art's mom didn't care. Keith crashed his sports car w/ Art one day, 3 days before my birthday & 2 days before Art's. Art was killed & Keith survived, forever haunted. He didn't make it to 40. It was a different time, but a damn good time to be coming up; like the one actor said, It was the 70's & the was no AIDs & the actress said, We were all children of the 60's. Boy, were we...
@PeterRichardsandYoureNot8 ай бұрын
It always amazes me how the sorry behind the story has its own life as well as sub stories and plots that have to go a certain way in order to allow the overall project to gel together into a working film.
@goudagirl60958 ай бұрын
Hollywood is a wicked mistress, she'll eat you up and spit you out without a care in the world. Even worse today, look at the crap it churns out lately!
@robertmaybeth34348 ай бұрын
Behind a perfect film is unexplainable magic that happens that nobody can create if they tried. It happens just once in a long while when some brilliant, extremely talented, and incredibly lucky people somehow get together, the creative talent is arranged just right, all the stars and planets align, and you get a film like this one. But that doesn't seem to happen often anymore, does it?
@hughneff18508 ай бұрын
My dad took us to this in 78. I was 11, a golf caddy in Wilmette, il. A few years later I was fortunate enough to loop for Bill Murray which was amazing but... Realistically... Belushi will always be the MAN ❤ Chicago
@ColdWarAviator7 ай бұрын
Belushi's Blues Brothers role cemented him as a legend in Chicago! Watching him and Akroyd speeding through lower Wacker Drive trying to make it to the assessor's office to pay the tax bill for the Nuns is burned forever into my memory.😊
@philipatoz8 ай бұрын
One reason AH worked so well is it so perfectly was written around stereotypes found in just about every college frat scene in America. Each of those key characters - we knew them in real life. The drinking, debauchery, madness of especially one's first year or so of college - made it all funny and fun. While this video makes it look like the movie came out of organized chaos, it seems as if the bones of the script and writing were very structured. They got exceptionally lucky with the casting. There's a tremendous amount of immaturity and absurdity with 19 year old kids in their first year of college, and they captured it perfectly.
@GermanShepherd19837 ай бұрын
Especially the Omega's.
@everettrhay48558 ай бұрын
I walked into the back of the student union cafeteria, anyone who has been there calls it The Fish Bowl. I noticed a large crowd of people in the dining area, and thought to myself, I going through, I’ve got a bus to catch. Well I was stopped by someone and was told filming was in progress and I had to wait for the shot to end. Long story short I was handed a corn dog and told to throw it when the director yelled action. Now I don’t know if they used it in the final print or not, I’ve sense tried to find myself in the crowd. It proves difficult because I was in the 3rd grade and was quite small, compared to the other extras. After it hit the fan, I was allowed to walk through the cafeteria, to get my bus and wandered right past John. Good times at the U of O student union
@Arete378 ай бұрын
I spent many hours in the Fish Bowl.
@everettrhay48558 ай бұрын
I attended 1-4 grade at the Conden School. You can see it in the background, during the golf lesson
@marcmaschal28973 ай бұрын
This is so well done.Its rare you get a documentary where all the main actors and creators of the movie are in it.
@gazmix589Ай бұрын
apart from a few rip to them
@SH-th4wy2 ай бұрын
This was the first movie I ever stayed in my seat for and watched it again. SO many classic scenes!
@ugocdf77068 ай бұрын
What a delight! To now know all these truths about this classic elevates it even more..... I have read all the comments down here and they share similar experiences,so i thought i should give mine: apart from a similar age to everyone else ( i am 57) i was born in europe, completed my studies there so i did not experience these wild archetypes nor the frat realities,very little American youth culture of those years.....still the whole movie resonated! It was just real, ....and unforgettable. Thank you to all of you And thank you to Donald Sutherland...... Will be watching this till my last day on earth
@alandrobnak8 ай бұрын
When the film came out I was already living off campus in a tattered old victorian house with a group of 5 other guys for at least a year. We rented the house from a widowed woman who moved out years after her dentist husband died. We were not frat affiliated but we partied hard regularly for two years, summers included. When a few of us saw the film, well that just put gasoline on the fire. For instance, cutting down a pine tree at the local Holiday Inn for our Christmas in July party, driving it back to the house with it stuffed in the back seat of my 67 Camaro convertible. Then hanging it upside down in the living room. Santa was there with an escort of two hot panted elf maidens. Many fun memories best not mentioned.
@BAKER22-l4u8 ай бұрын
BS
@alandrobnak8 ай бұрын
What a lame comment, you must be a very troubled individual. Pity you're not having any fun life experiences. Get out of your momma's basement and have fun.@@BAKER22-l4u
@crysstoll11918 ай бұрын
@@BAKER22-l4u Why that comment, you were there? Sounds legit, wish i was there, sounds like good old fashioned fun to me.
@gatorspad36328 ай бұрын
I get a lot of the same stuff over and over from youtube. Thankfully their algorithm popped this up in my feed. I’m about to be 59 years old and this is one of my coming of age movies. What a gem! A great look at the genius behind the classic. Thanks, for once, youtube!
@jeffkilgore63208 ай бұрын
I was pledging a fraternity in the Midwest. What a movie!
@CindyBarg8 ай бұрын
Must've watched AH a hundred times after numerous pay-views in the cinema. Belushi was my crush! Threw a Toga Party for my 18th and nobody got inside without one... we turned them away at the door, chanting "N o T o g a - N o P a r t y ! N o T o g a - N o P a r t y !"
@josephmcfarland84428 ай бұрын
Karen Allen, you are so adorable, freckle face.
@thomaskauser89788 ай бұрын
I walked across the oval at The Ohio State University the Monday after the movie premiere and someone had put a toga on the statue of the founder with toga , toga ,toga written on it . The University went ballistic.
@georgehanson29788 ай бұрын
There’s no way a movie like this could be made today.
@WarriorMigs247 ай бұрын
You're right timeless
@stickman17426 ай бұрын
This is true in the sense that no one in Hollywood is capable of making it. Not even close. It isn't like they can do anything and just have to decide, they are only set up to do a few things. Hollywood does not have the comedians today that they used to have. They don't want comedians anymore. There are talented people in the world that could make this movie today, but they are not in modern day Hollywood. Even back then, this was made somewhat outside Hollywood. Difference back then is that Hollywood was much smaller and many small production companies could make films and if they were good they would spread around the country. What people saw was the best of the best. Today, the big Hollywood studios have a monopoly on most organized distribution and no one else can get in no matter how good. The internet is the only savior as Hollywood can never control that so they can't monopolize distribution ever again.
@charliebay94417 ай бұрын
I remember reading "Pinto Gets Laid" when I had graduated from Mad Magazine to National Lampoon in about 7th grade (in 1974). Heady stuff for a newly minted pot-head. Then the movie came out a few years later and everything made sense.
@VelmaTheID8 ай бұрын
I remember vividly watching this with my father when it came out in 1978. We both loved it. I remember people literally falling out of their seats laughing at it. A great memory.
@r5t6y7u88 ай бұрын
34:00 The whole thing ran 175 minutes. Deleted scenes included the Deltas talking about previous guys who'd since graduated, a football games between the Deltas and Omegas, and the guys lining up for physicals after they'd been drafted. Sure would like to see that.
@NJBeachlover17 ай бұрын
One of the best movies ever!
@jeffshockley90278 ай бұрын
I bought the book. It just added to the story. If you can find it, it’s worth it!
@prajnachan3338 ай бұрын
What a great video about this iconic masterpiece 👏 Really takes you inside and personal with these people. Its amazing how some things just take on a life of their own. An energy field comes to life and suddenly everyone's going along for the ride. I didn't even remember that Kevin Bacon was in it- and he couldn't get any of the girls at the after party of the screening to believe that he was in it. The beginning of his incredible career. "At certain times while making it, it was felt to be certain actors or my movie- once it was in theaters, it was John Belushi's (!) Of course! The main "Animal" of them all. Beautiful film, beautiful people. Everything about this was perfect. Especially the laughter (!) 😂 🕉
@jimtatro65508 ай бұрын
Animal House was the first R-rated film I ever saw, I was 11 years old and my best friends sister took the two of us because we loved Belushi from SNL. It’s still in my top ten favorite movies ever.😂👍
@snapmalloy55568 ай бұрын
I was a junior in high school when this hit the theaters. It was a cant miss movie.
@billvill618 ай бұрын
Saw this the fall before my senior year in high school. Suffice it to say, I chose my college based on this criteria! 😄
@redflame448 ай бұрын
fell in love with this movie after seeing it when i was teenager.... then we tried all the mayhem when we went to parties... LOL.... great times!!
@danriley58488 ай бұрын
I saw this at the drive in when I was a kid and it was hilarious.
@m.asquino74038 ай бұрын
We need this in 2023
@acpiper8 ай бұрын
This interview had to be mid-80's - Indy time-frame. The shock to me was Stephen Furst's weight loss.
@HankColter6 ай бұрын
1998 copyright
@scottcopeland46318 ай бұрын
One of the, if not the best comedy movies ever
@joelewing44983 ай бұрын
This has been a joy. Well, well put together. Thank you for posting this. I needed the lift tonite.
@nyterpfan8 ай бұрын
I was soooooo madly in love with Karen Allen back in the day....MAN, she was beautiful..(and STILL is!!)
@mikeh53498 ай бұрын
Loved the movie when it first came out and still watch it when ever it's on now
@lealsan4 ай бұрын
Thank you Guys...
@toad8298 ай бұрын
Best Comedy Ever ....Hands Down !!!
@jenniferwhitewolf37848 ай бұрын
I lived in Eugene at the time this was filmed, .. There was always some way we knew where they were filming, but they sure did a great job of keeping the foamers back and away. A few locals got to be extras... but everywhere from the motel the whole crew stayed at to the locations, you had virtually no chance of any more than a fleeting glance of any of the stars or craft people. It didn't matter... we were all quite proud of the movie having been made in our town,, and nearby Cottage Grove where the parade was filmed.
@juno44942 ай бұрын
This iconic work doesn't need yet another thumbs-up from me, but suffice it to say that I joined a frat in college (in early 80s) because of this movie, and that some of my fondest life memories came from that frat experience. Thanks entire cast, staff, and admin for pushing a part of my life in such a rewarding direction!
@goudagirl60958 ай бұрын
Animal House was hiliarious, but Kentucky Fried Movie was OVER THE TOP! If you grew up in the 70s that one is a must see!
@crazyralph63868 ай бұрын
Rex Kramer……Danger Seeker! 😂
@charliebay94417 ай бұрын
Groove Tube and Tunnel Vision as well. Brown 25.
@emdunaway7 ай бұрын
I worked across the street where the house once stood but always a reminder of the movie. And other landmarks from movie. Great movie.
@WarriorMigs247 ай бұрын
Timeless
@jerrymorelock20568 ай бұрын
I hurt for days after seeing Animal House from laughing so hard. And what they said about knowing a Flounder, etc.--truth.
@damonblankenship94508 ай бұрын
Greatest comedy ever made.
@Rick94828 ай бұрын
This look back was just as enjoyable as the movie.
@79steelymatt8 ай бұрын
Doug Kenney would have gone on to write classics if these men talk so highly of him I guarantee he was even funnier than they even say it’s sad he left the world so young
@604746 ай бұрын
I lived this movie. Literally…From top to bottom. 😂😂😂 I spent so much time in the Dean’s office, as the Frat President, I could have been tenured…
@TXMEDRGR8 ай бұрын
One of the funniest movies of all time, and maybe the funniest.
@bigfred3774 ай бұрын
Blazing Saddles (4 years prior) was actually the first comedy to have the composer write the music as if it was a serious film. Difference was, Mel Brooks didn't tell John Morris.