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''National Lampoon's Animal House'' is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis. The film was a direct spin-off from ''National Lampoon'' magazine. It is about a misfit group of fraternity members who challenge the dean of Faber College. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in ''National Lampoon'' magazine. The stories were based on Miller's experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College. Other influences on the film came from Ramis's experiences in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis, and producer Ivan Reitman's experiences at Delta Upsilon at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Of the younger lead actors, only John Belushi was an established star, but even he had not yet appeared in a film, having gained fame mainly from his ''Saturday Night Live'' television appearances. Several of the actors who were cast as college students, including Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, and Kevin Bacon, were just beginning their film careers, although Tim Matheson had recently appeared as one of the vigilante motorcycle cops in the second Dirty Harry film, ''Magnum Force''. Upon its initial release, ''Animal House'' received generally mixed reviews from critics, but ''Time'' and Roger Ebert proclaimed it one of the year's best. Filmed for $2.8 million, it is one of the most profitable movies of all time, garnering an estimated gross of more than $141 million in the form of theatrical rentals and home video, not including merchandising. The film, along with 1977's ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'', also directed by Landis, was largely responsible for defining and launching the gross-out genre of films, which became one of Hollywood's staples.〔 It is also now considered one of the greatest comedy films ever made by many fans and critics. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed ''Animal House'' "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was No. 1 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". It was No. 36 on AFI's "100 Years... 100 Laughs" list of the 100 best American comedies. In 2008, ''Empire'' magazine selected it as one of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". ==Plot== In 1962, college freshmen Lawrence "Larry" Kroger and Kent Dorfman seek to join a fraternity at Faber College. Finding themselves out of place at the prestigious Omega Theta Pi House's party, and rejected by other houses, they finally visit the slovenly and riotous Delta Tau Chi House, where Kent's brother was once a member, making Kent a "legacy" who cannot be rejected. The visibly drunk John "Bluto" Blutarsky welcomes them, and they meet other friendly Deltas, including biker Daniel "D-Day" Day, ladies' man Eric "Otter" Stratton, and Otter's best friend Donald "Boon" Schoenstein, whose girlfriend Katy is constantly pressuring him to stop drinking and hanging out with the Deltas and do something with his life. Larry and Kent are invited to pledge and given the fraternity names "Pinto" and "Flounder," respectively, by Bluto. College dean Vernon Wormer wants to remove the Deltas, already on probation, from his campus, due to conduct violations and abysmal academic standing. He directs the clean-cut, smug Omega president Greg Marmalard to find a way for him to get rid of the Deltas permanently. Various incidents, including the accidental death of a horse belonging to Omega member and ROTC cadet commander Douglas Neidermeyer in the Dean's office at night, and the attempt by a Delta member to date Marmalard's girlfriend, further increase the animosity between the Dean and the Omegas against the Deltas. Bluto and D-Day steal the answers to an upcoming test from the office trash, not realizing that the Omegas have planted a fake set of answers for them to find. The Deltas fail the exam, and their grade-point averages fall so low that Wormer needs only one more incident to revoke their charter. To cheer themselves up, the Deltas organize a toga party. Wormer's wife attends the party at Otter's invitation and has sex with him. Pinto hooks up with Clorette, a girl he met at the supermarket, and makes out with her, but they do not have sex because she passes out drunk and he takes her home in a shopping cart. He later discovers that she is the mayor's underage daughter. Outraged by his wife's antics and the mayor's complaint, Wormer organizes a kangaroo court and revokes Delta's charter. To take their minds off their troubles, Otter, Boon, Flounder and Pinto go on a road trip. Otter picks up four girls as dates from a nearby college by pretending to be the former fiancé of a girl at the college who recently died. They stop at a roadhouse bar, not realizing it has an exclusively black clientele, and are intimidated by the hulking patrons; they flee, damaging Flounder's borrowed car and leaving their frightened dates behind. Marmalard and other Omegas lure Otter to a motel and beat him up, believing that Otter is having an affair with Marmalard's girlfriend. The Deltas' midterm grades are so poor that an ecstatic Wormer expels them all and tells them that their draft boards have been informed they are now eligible for military service. The Deltas are despondent, but Bluto rallies them with an impassioned, if historically inaccurate, speech ("Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!") and they decide to take revenge on Wormer, the Omegas, and the town. The Deltas construct an armored parade float named the "Deathmobile", using Flounder's damaged car as its base, and use it to wreak havoc on the annual homecoming parade before individually escaping. During the ensuing chaos, the futures of many of the main characters are revealed in freeze frames; many of the Deltas become respectable professionals, while a number of the Omegas have less fortunate outcomes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Animal House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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