Academic Culture in Movies I watched the movie Animal House; it gave me an interesting perspective on academic life in the 1960’s. The movie follows two friends Lawrence "Larry" Kroger and Kent Dorfman, as they try to gain acceptance from a fraternity at Faber College in 1962. The movie starts off with Larry and Kent going to a social event at one of the better fraternities on campus the Omegas. The Omegas are the snooty, uptight, rich fraternity. Larry and Kent are not like them and find themselves
movies from Grease to American Graffiti to Cooley High, but few hold up as well in the present day as the cult classic Animal House. Walking around a college campus, one can still hear students quoting lines from the film, or see a poster of John Belushi chugging a bottle of Jack Daniels in someone’s living room, or even see students wearing the infamous “College” shirt. Animal House is such a staple of college life, even with it being over thirty years since its release. Being able to relate to students
It was good to be bad; it was something that made them hip and cool. They were bad characters indeed, except that their idea of what it is to be a bad person seems to be very much romanticized. It was as if they grew up watching "National Lampoon's Animal House&... ... middle of paper ... ...ut anything, he would have taken up the girls offer to party with them. However, after that night, he finds that there are some things he does care about, like his own well being. Instead of staying