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>>> THAT WAS FROM NATIONAL

LAMPOON'S "ANIMAL HOUSE."

HARD TO BELIEVE 45 YEARS SINCE

THE RELEASE OF THE SUMMER OF

1978.

DESPITE A BUDGET OF $3 MILLION,

THE FILM TOOK OVER AMERICAN POP

CULTURE, PULLING IN NEARLY 142

MILLION AT THE BOX OFFICE.

UNTIL RECENTLY I SAW IT AS A

CHAOTIC COMEDY UNTIL THIS WEEK

WHEN I READ TY BURR'S OPINION

PIECE IN THE "WASHINGTON POST"

ENTITLED I WAS ON CAMPUS WHEN

ANIMAL HOUSE DEBUTED.

IT CHANGED EVERYTHING.

HE ARGUES THAT THE MOVIE WAS

MUCH MORE THAN A CELEBRATION OF.

TY BURR IS THE AUTHOR OF "TY

BURR'S WATCH LIST."

HE ATTENDED A PREVIEW OF THE

FILM IN 1978 AT DARTMOUTH, WHERE

HE SAYS THE RIGHT TO SAY WHAT

YOU WANTED AND OFFEND WHOEVER

YOU WANTED AND GRAB WHAT YOU

FELT WAS YOURS.

YOU ATTENDING THAT SCREENING FOR

THE MOVIE JUST OFF CAMPUS AT

DARTMOUTH IN HANOVER AT A SMALL

THEATER.

WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT?

>> WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT WAS

THAT THE PLACE WENT WILD,

BECAUSE IT IS A HILARIOUS MOVIE.

I WANT TO STRESS THAT YOU COULD

ENJOY THIS MOVIE ABSOLUTELY AS A

MOVIE.

I HAVE TO POINT OUT THAT ONE OF

THE SCREENWRITERS WAS IN

ATTENDANCE, CHRIS MILLER.

HE WAS A DARTMOUTH ALUMNI WHO

HAD GONE TO ONE OF THE MORE

NOTORIOUS FRATERNITIES ON

CAMPUS, ONE THAT ISN'T

RECOGNIZED ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY

WERE BRANDING THE FLESH OF NEW

MEMBERS.

NEVERTHELESS, THE AUDIENCE WENT

WILD.

I LITERALLY REMEMBER HIM BEING

CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF

CHEERING FRATERNITY GUYS DOWN

FRAT ROW AT DARTMOUTH.

IT WAS AS THOUGH ALL THE

DEBAUCHERY AND FUN WAS GIVEN THE

OKAY, HAD BEEN THE CULTURAL

OKAY.

THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A COLLEGE

COMEDY THAT SAID, YEAH, WE'RE

IDENTIFYING WITH THE, QUOTE,

UNQUOTE, LOSERS.

WE LOVE THESE GUYS, WE LOVE

THEIR OUTLOOK ON LIFE.

I SAW IT WITH MY OWN EYES.

>> I'M ONE OF THOSE, FOR BETTER

OR WORSE, SEVEN YEARS OF COLLEGE

DOWN THE DRAIN, DID IT MATTER

WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL

HARBOR.

WE COULD GO ON AND ON.

I'VE NEVER PUT IT IN A POLITICAL

CONTEXT THE WAY THAT YOU DID.

YOU WROTE, BY 1978, THE

PROGRESSIVE LIBERALISM THAT HAD

SUSTAINED THE COUNTER CULTURE

FROM BEFORE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA

TO THE FALL OF NIXON HAD STARTED

TO FEEL LIKE OPPRESSIVE

DOCTRINE.

"ANIMAL HOUSE" SAID YOU DIDN'T

HAVE TO MEAN IT AT ALL.

THE MOVIE FED INTO FRUSTRATION

WITH AN OVERBEARING POLITICAL

CORRECTNESS, THE FEAR THAT YOU

COULDN'T SAY WHAT YOU WANTED TO

WITHOUT STEPPING ON SOMEONE'S

TOES.

YOU'RE HERE TO ARGUE THIS WAS

THE BEGINNING OF WHAT KIND OF AN

ERA?

>> I WOULD SAY YOU CAN PUT TOO

MUCH WEIGHT ON IT, BUT THE

TRANSITION BETWEEN THE '60s AND

THE '80s.

'70s SHOULD BE PUT ASIDE.

WHEN EVEN THE FRAT CULTURE SORT

OF HAD TO PAY LIP SERVICE IN

PUBLIC TO, YEAH, WE BELIEVE IN

THESE THINGS, THESE PROGRESSIVE

IDEAS.

THE MOVIE ALLOWED THEM TO SAY,

NO, I CAN JUST HAVE FUN.

I WILL SAY THAT THIS IS IRONIC,

IT RESONATED WITH THE MORE

CONSERVATIVE FORCES ON THE

CAMPUS AT THAT TIME.

YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT THE

DARTMOUTH REVIEW, THE FIRST

CONSERVATIVE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER,

STARTED UP TWO YEARS LATER AND

THE STUDENTS WHO STARTED IT WERE

IN THAT AUDIENCE AND HAVE

WRITTEN ABOUT BEING AFFECTED BY

THAT MOVIE AND WANTING TO BE

PLUTO.

>> CAN I MAKE THIS POINT?

THOSE OF US WHO WORE TOGAS ARE

NOW OLDER PARENTS OR

GRANDPARENTS.

AS YOU POINT OUT, 45 YEARS LATER

THE WHEEL HAS TURNED ONCE MORE.

THE STUDENTS WHO EMBRACED THE

FILMS SLEDSHID SHREDDING OF THE

TABOOS.

>> I DON'T KNOW IF I'D GO THAT

FAR YET.

BUT I WILL SAY THAT THE WHEEL

TURNS AND THAT YOU'RE HAVING

YOUNGER VOTERS COME INTO THIS

ELECTION, AND THEY ARE PROBABLY,

POSSIBLY GOING TO LOOK AT THIS

MOVIE AND OTHER MOVIES OF THEIR

ILK, THOSE '80s COMEDIES WITH A