Well, Townsend smashed Ricks and Gibsons. At the most, Charming Guy was playing a $35.00 nylon string POS they use to lure you into a making a buy. It probably had an 1.25" action at the 12th fret.
At least it didn’t start with that fiddle and banjo crap. It started with Seamen’s Chantys.
What? Overthink? Did you say “overthink”? Nothing is overthinked until we decide it is! Did we overthink when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Germans?
Just go with it, man. He’s on a roll.
Chris Miller wrote the original story for National Lampoon and he based it on his actual college experiences at Dartmouth. He filled it out into a book-length memoir, The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie.
He got there in 1959, I think, when the cool music was black r&b, just like in England. There are stories about the brothers visiting road houses for the real thing. Bluto would have contempt for the 50s folk scene as a matter of principle; a treacly folk song would set him off.
As you might expect, Miller glorifies the frat’s behavior and it’s worse than the movie. Both look a lot uglier today than they might when you’re young.
That was something thrown in by Bruce McGill and John Landis. Landis wanted all the major characters to have a little gimmick so he asked his stars what odd physical thing they can do. McGill’s was playing the Overture on his throat.
Exactly. When I was 9-10 years old, it was hilarious. Now, I really don’t see why those guys should be glorified. They really had no redeeming qualities at all.
Yeah, why would I possibly want to identify with a bunch of guys who drink, have parties all the time, and get laid? Oh, right…
You can have fun whether or not you’re otherwise a destructive, misogynistic jerk.
It’s a movie. Don’t overthink it. Forget about the modern cash register with an LED display in that one scene.
Lighten up. It’s a comedy. It’s STILL hilarious.
Overall I think smashing the guitar is one of the most justifiable acts Bluto commits in this movie. Pimple impersonation, anyone?
Did anybody notice McGill in Lincoln, BTW? He played Secretary of War Edwin Stanton - a pretty good likeness.
http://www.elvisblog.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Bruce-Mcgill-in-Animal-House.jpg
I have a feeling I’m going to regret asking you this, but how were the Deltas misogynistic?
Bluto spying on Mandy and the rest of the girls, Otter seducing the 13 year old, everybody looking up the togas of the girls during the Gator, Boone and Otter talking about conquests before the party, faking a relationship to get dates at Emily Dickenson College, Bluto kidnapping Mandy after destroying the town, etc.
Still a very funny movie.
Which reminds me… did Otter seduce Flounder’s pretty girlfriend from home when she came to the Delta party? I can’t remember.
No. He seduced Dean Wermer’s wife.
That I remembered (and it’s “Wormer”). Thanks.
Not sure if you know what “misogynistic” means.
Stephen Fry says that the difference between American and British comedy is that, in that scene, a British comedian would play the part of the guy with the guitar.