Animal House (2/10) Movie CLIP - A Real Zero (1978) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Otter (Tim Matheson) calls on his Delta brothers to empathize with "total loser" Kent Dorfman.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. National Lampoon's Animal House is set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA. The first glimpse we get of the campus is the statue of its founder Emil Faber, on the base of which is inscribed the motto, "Knowledge Is Good." Incoming freshmen Larry "Pinto" Kroger (Tom Hulce) and Kent "Flounder" Dorfman (Stephen Furst) find themselves rejected by the pretentious Omega fraternity, and instead pledge to Delta House. The Deltas are a motley fraternity of rejects and maladjusted undergraduates (some approaching their late twenties) whose main goal -- seemingly accomplished in part by their mere presence on campus -- is disrupting the staid, peaceful, rigidly orthodox, and totally hypocritical social order of the school, as represented by the Omegas and the college's dean, Vernon Wormer (John Vernon). Dean Wormer decides that this is the year he's going to get the Deltas expelled and their chapter decertified; he places the fraternity on "double secret probation" and, with help from Omega president Greg Marmalard (James Daughton) and hard-nosed member Doug Neidermeyer (Mark Metcalf), starts looking for any pretext on which to bring the members of the Delta fraternity up on charges. The Deltas, oblivious to the danger they're in, are having a great time, steeped in irreverence, mild debauchery, and occasional drunkenness, led by seniors Otter (Tim Matheson), Hoover (James Widdoes), D-Day (Bruce McGill), Boon (Peter Riegert), and pledge master John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi). They're given enough rope to hang themselves, but even then manage to get into comical misadventures on a road trip (where they arrange an assignation with a group of young ladies from Emily Dickinson University). Finally, they are thrown out of school, and, as a result, stripped of their student deferments (and, thus, eligible for the draft). They decide to commit one last, utterly senseless (and screamingly funny) slapstick act of rebellion, making a shambles of the university's annual homecoming parade, and, in the process, getting revenge on the dean, the Omegas, and everyone else who has ever gone against them.

CREDITS:
TM & © Universal (1978)
Cast: James Widdoes, Tim Matheson, Bruce McGill, Peter Riegert, John Belushi, Douglas Kenney
Director: John Landis
Producers: Ivan Reitman, Matty Simmons
Screenwriters: Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller

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[SantaDog]

The overwhelming hostility towards Flounders picture gets me every time.  The beer cans flying, the boos, and the beer splash on the screen is the icing on the cake.

[joannehines]

Loved it when Bluto yelled out as soon as he saw Flounder's face!! 💘

[scspera]

“We need the dues!” 😆🤣🤣🤣

Highly underrated line.

[nickvalentino]

that scream bluto makes gets me every time

[jeffreyhorton]

Belushi's reaction is legendary but D-Days reaction gets me more. He looks as if he genuinely cannot contain himself and his continued laughter cracks me up.

[jmoneymaker]

“Well let me tell you the story of another loser.” The beer cans being thrown is priceless.

[chichieltransgenero]

Bluto sobered up fast when he saw Flounder's mug

[rodbelding]

Literally every actor in this movie played their part perfectly

[MrOldrock]

Never really noticed D Day's reaction until now when Hoover shows the slide of Flounder. Hilarious!

[percybyssheshelly]

Stork was one of the comedy geniuses behind the whole movie.

[igotjams]

"We need the dues"
That's been my catchphrase since I saw this movie at age 14.

[JimmySteller]

RIP Flounder. 2:17 will always be one of my favourite reactions in this movie.

[hodag]

"The Stork" was really Doug Kenney, one of the co-writers of the movie and a really funny National Lampoon writer, who sadly died not long after the movie came out. 

[alexthompson]

"Everybody thought The Stork was brain damaged." *Stork looks downcast*

[xx_k_god_xx]

2:02, Belushi "*belch* Why not?!" Dude was pure comic brilliance

[mickeymousebiker]

Bluto's reaction is timeless. The best in filmdom. Hoover reminds me of a very young FDR. D-Day reminds me of a dude I rode bikes with back in the 1960s.

[maat-erovermind]

So sad Belushi died pretty young. I loved his acting :(

RIP John Belushi aka Bluto

[katherinemurray]

The quintessential college movie, hands down.

[timmccoy]

Bluto's shocked scream still kills me 😅😂😅😅😂😅

[garysolorzano]

"I myself was so obnoxious, the seniors used to beat me up once a week".

Just once a week?