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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Random Movie Trivia - Animal House Part 2

Because Animal House was so full of fun trivia, I decided to split this movie's trivia into two posts.  So, here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Animal House Part 2
  • To get the role of Neidermeyer, Mark Metcalf lied about his ability to ride a horse.  After getting the part, he immediately signed up for horse-ridding lessons.
  • The hole Bluto makes in the wall with that guitar was the only actually damage made to the fraternity house during filming.  Instead of having it fixed, the fraternity put up a plaque commemorating it.
  • Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the screenplay, based some of the pranks off of real-life experiences, specifically the scene where Boone and Otter are hitting golf balls at ROTC.
  • In the scene where Donald Sutherland is seen bearing his butt, that came about because the coed he was sleeping with (Karen Allen) was reluctant to go nude but Sutherland said he would do it too and she thought that was so sweet that she agreed to follow (birthday) suit.
  • To prepare for the roles of Delta members, the actors (except John Belushi who was in New York) attended a fraternity party at the SAE house at Oregon.  The real fraternity members didn't enjoy the actors being there and a brawl ensued.  When Belushi found out, he had to be physically restrained from getting revenge.
  • Pretty much the entire cafeteria scene with John Belushi was improvised.  He wasn't told to pile food on his tray, but when he started doing it the director just stuck with it.  The "zit" incident was also completely improvised and the reaction from the actors is genuine.
  • The scene where Bluto smashes a bottle over his head to cheer Flounder up took 18 takes because the actor playing Flounder (Stephen Furst) kept laughing.
  • The parade scene was filmed on the same lot as the clock tower scene from Back to the Future and the director had to make sure none of the camera angles including a shot of the clock tower.
  • DeWayne Jessie's performance as Otis Day was so successful that he changed his name to Otis Day and toured as "Otis Day and the Knights".
  • Universal president Ned Tanen protested the road trip scene to an African-American bar because he thought it would cause race riots during screenings.  When director John Landis showed the movie to Richard Pryor, Pryor wrote a note to Tanen that said "Ned, Animal House is fucking funny and white people are crazy. -Richard".
  • A sequel was planned to be set in the summer of 1969 where the fraternity would reunite for Otter's wedding, but after the sequel to American Graffiti bombed, the movie was scrapped.
"Wait, what?  Satan?"

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