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Such could be the sum total of Landis' career, which took off after his epochal 1978 film Animal House. In that picture, we were told, "It was the Deltas against the rules. And the rules lost." Since then, Landis has continued to break rules, whether by making an R&B...
Landis' contempt for rules, however, has had less entertaining results. The deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two child extras on the set of Landis' Twilight Zone--The Movie segment four years ago suggested that, indeed, there are some rules to which even cinematic iconoclasts ought to adhere. Landis has...
Speculations on Landis' prospects for acquittal were on the lips of all who attended the Pudding seminar, but, as judicial prudence would have it, the trial was the one subject made off limits. David Lane Seltzer '87, who has organized the Pudding's new directors series, asked the audience not...
FOR TODAY'S young adult, that can hardly be denied; an entire generation of college students has received much of its pop-cultural indoctrination from Animal House and such Saturday Night Live gang spinoffs as Trading Places. Landis' most successful work has come from his association with the late John...
For all Its laughs, American Werewolf displays a classic Landis weakness. Almost every one of the film's creative elements, from characters to special effects, shows a degree of thought and attention to detail most youth comedies do without. Yet all the effort--clever dialogue, gruesome special effects, expertly choreographed...