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Animal House Review

November 13th 2006 11:41


National Lampoon’s Animal House, John Landis, 1978

When I saw the movie Animal House it changed my life. It was like it was telling me; it’s cool to be yourself. Much later it meant much, much more. It was telling me; it’s cool to make the films you want to make.
When Duke Hendrix and I teamed up it was one of the first films we talked about.
His favourite scene;
Neidermeyer’s verbal spray at a quivering Kent Dorfman during the military parade. And the horse cops the tee-shot.
My favourite scene;
When John Belushi walks down the stairs, grabs a guitar off some cry-baby playing to these chicks and smashes it.

Beautiful.
Animal House is a big mix of political, rebellious satire and vomit jokes – with a low-budget go-for-it attitude. Made for around $3 million and shot in just over a month it’s well and truly cemented a place in movieland legend.
What Animal House tells us is that to succeed in what you believe in, you have to work below the surface. Like some crazy submarine – doing the guerilla thing. Forget underground, the cry-babies have hijacked that cause.
Guerilla film-making is the way forward.
Like someone once told me about Animal House;
“It’s like hip with everyone who’s ever wanted to make that one last stupid gesture for the sake of nothing else but their right to make it.”

Until next time and happy film-making.
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