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'''Revenge of the Nerds''' is a 1984 American comedy film starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B. Scott, and Donald Gibb. The film was directed by Jeff Kanew. It chronicles the story of a group of nerds trying to stop harassment by the persecuting jock fraternity, the Alpha Betas. Exterior scenes such as the arrival of the nerds at college and the fraternity houses were filmed at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. The original residence of the Nerds, from which they were ousted, was in fact Cochise Hall[1]. Their subsequent residence was Bear Down Gymnasium.[2]
This film is number 91 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".
The movie is set at fictional Adams College, where two nerds enroll due to its acclaimed computer studies department. Unfortunately, the college also displays unethical favoritism toward their football team, the Atoms. This gives the coach (John Goodman), an arrogant bully, and his team, stocked mainly by the equally obnoxious jocks of the Alpha Beta fraternity, considerable power on campus.
This power is shown when the Alpha Betas burn down their own fraternity house as a result of carelessness during a party. They pressure the dean of the campus to let them take over the freshman dorm while their house is being rebuilt, and they literally throw out the freshmen residents. The freshmen are forced to bunk in the gym until they can find new housing or join and live with fraternities. The nerds are all rejected and attempts to approach the fraternities on their own lead to them being publicly humiliated and harassed.
The nerds, with some difficulty, eventually find a rundown house that they renovate. However, the Alpha Betas and their associated sorority, the Pi Delta Pis, harass them and attempt to drive them out of the school out of pure malice. It starts with the Alpha Betas throwing a rock that reads "NERDS GET OUT" through one of the new house's windows.
When the nerds approach the campus police, they are referred to the Greek Council, which oversees fraternity affairs, only to find that Stan Gable (the head of the Alpha Betas) is the president. He bluntly overrules their complaint because they are not a fraternity. The nerds attempt to start a chapter of a national fraternity, but all of the fraternal organizations reject them, with the exception of Lambda Lambda Lambda, the only one to which they did not send a group picture. It is, however, a predominantly black organization and only one of the nerds is black (he is also openly gay), and the head of the national organization, U.N. Jefferson, is uninterested in having them join. However, the nerds press the point using a regulation that, as a petitioning group, they have the right to join with probationary status. The nerds attempt to organize a party to impress the fraternity officials. However, they are tricked by the Pis, who falsely offer to be their dates only to completely snub them on party night. Another sorority, Omega Mu (known as the Mus, which sounds like "Moos"), come in their place, but they consist of social rejects themselves and the resulting awkwardness deadens the atmosphere. In desperation, the nerds resort to lighting large marijuana joints to liven up the affair, which proves successful. However, the party is spoiled by the Alphas who let pigs loose in the frat house.
The nerds, led by Lewis, decide to retaliate. They first execute a panty raid on the Pis, which is actually a diversion during which they install hidden cameras in the sorority's attic. The nerds also saturate the Alpha's jock straps in liquid heat (a liniment that produces sensations of heat) to create an agonizing and embarrassing experience at football practice. The Lambda fraternity head is impressed with the nerds' creativity, and a charter is granted for the chapter, officially making the nerds members of Lambda Lambda Lambda (or Tri-Lambs, for short).
However, the harassment by the Alphas only worsens, and the obviously biased Greek Council refuses to respond. Deciding that they must take power themselves, the nerds compete in Adams College's homecoming carnival, the winner of which will lead the council.
The Tri-Lams and Mus team up, and have a difficult time in several events, but manage to win a few others using their superior ingenuity. Some of the skills come naturally, such as Booger being able to belch the loudest. They design an ergonomically advanced javelin for the javelin throw, and they give their team member a chemical that will prevent him from feeling the effects of alcohol during another event in which drunkenness impairs the competition. They gain ground in fund-raising by selling plates with nude photos of Betty Childs (a Pi and Gable's girlfriend) which not only allows them to best the Alpha Betas, but also humiliate their female counterparts. During the carnival, one of the leading nerds (Lewis) pilfers Stan Gable's costume and tricks Betty into thinking he is Stan. Lewis and Betty have sex, after which Lewis reveals his identity to Betty. She is not upset, in fact she immediately decides that she likes Lewis better. The nerds seal their victory in the talent show with a spectacular song and dance routine using computers and sound effects.
Following a jingoistic speech by their coach, the Alphas retaliate by wrecking the Lambda house, and the nerds are again disheartened. One of the nerds (Gilbert) decides to personally confront the Alphas at the homecoming rally. When Gilbert is about to be beaten, the otherwise timid dean, himself a nerd, finally stands up to the coach and exercises his rightful authority. As the dean is about to be beaten up himself U.N. Jefferson arrives with a group of muscular Lambdas to intimidate the Alphas while Gilbert is given a chance to speak his mind to the audience. He poignantly speaks about how he and his friends were harassed, but in spite of this, he re-affirms that he is a nerd and proud of it. His friends gather around in support and call on any of the audience who have ever felt left out or picked on to join them. The entire audience does so, and the Alphas find themselves hopelessly outnumbered.
The film ends with the Dean finally gathering up the courage to tell off the football coach, and eject the Alphas from their building for the Lambda's use until the Alphas repair the damage they caused to the Lambda's house. The Dean points out to the coach that they're jocks, so they should be right at home sleeping in the gym.
★ Robert Carradine as Lewis Skolnick - The protagonist of the film and the leader of the nerds. He has a distinctive yelping laugh that has become a hallmark of his character.
★ Anthony Edwards as Gilbert Lowell - Lewis' best friend. He counters Lewis' generally positive attitude with mild pessimism and realism.
★ Timothy Busfield as Arnold Poindexter - The nerdiest of the nerds. Provides mild comic relief. Characterized by coke-bottle glasses and atrocious violin playing.
★ Andrew Cassese as Harold Wormser - He is actually middle or high school age but his parents forced him to skip a few grades because of his genius I.Q., much to his consternation, as he would much rather play video games with his friends.
★ Curtis Armstrong as Dudley "Booger" Dawson - A disgusting, uncouth and smartmouthed pothead who supplies most of the toilet humor of the film. When asked by Toshiro why he goes by "Booger", he merely responds "I don't know" while picking his nose.
★ Brian Tochi as Toshiro Takashi - The stereotypical intelligent Asian. Has difficulty understanding American culture but does enjoy his porn.
★ Larry B. Scott as Lamar Latrell - A stereotypically effeminate black gay man. He is the only one at the Tri-Lam dinner to have a date, though as Booger puts it, "Yeah, but that's with a guy."
★ Ted McGinley as Stan Gable - The primary antagonist and the Alpha Beta President of the Greek Council that tries to revoke the Tri-Lambda's fraternity charter. He is the star quarterback of the school's football team.
★ Donald Gibb as Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski - A fellow Alpha Beta and the stereotypical dumb, over muscled jock. Has little to no intelligence, and is the primary muscle of the team.
★ Julia Montgomery as Betty Childs - The unattainable love interest of Lewis. She is a member of the popular girl's campus sorority, Pi-Delta-Pi. Dated Stan Gable until she mistook Lewis for Stan in a dark bounce-house.
★ Michelle Meyrink as Judy - An Omega Mu whom Gilbert gets to know after she is having computer trouble and Gilbert explains to her not to worry, "the computer is your friend". He immediately makes graphics of Gilbert and Judy dancing, which impresses her. By knowing Judy, Gilbert helps get the party moving by getting Judy to bring her sorority sisters.
★ Bernie Casey as U.N. Jefferson - The head of the Lambda Lambda Lambda national, who did not embrace the nerds until they stood up to the Alpha Betas. Subsequently, he welcomed them into the fraternity.
★ David Wohl as Dean Ulich - The Dean of Adams College who is timid and allowed the Alpha Betas to rule until he finally shows his authority.
★ John Goodman plays Coach Harris, the head coach of the university football team.
★ James Cromwell is briefly shown to be Lewis' father.
★ Matt Salinger, son of J.D. Salinger, appears in a small role as an Alpha Beta.
On January 3rd 2007 ''Revenge of the Nerds'' was released as a special edition DVD entitled "Panty Raid Edition" (The special edition name was changed from "The 'We've Got Bush' Edition", with preliminary artwork shown on websites such as The Digital Bits). Special features included : Audio Commentary, Making of Documentary, Deleted Scenes, Television Pilot, and two theatrical trailers.
A remake of the original Revenge of the Nerds 1984 film was slated for release in 2007; however, the film was canceled in 2006.
It was to be directed by Kyle Newman, who was going to reteam with screenwriter Adam F. Goldberg, who also wrote the movie ''Fanboys''. Very few details about the project have been released thus far, but some filming took place in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia State Capitol, Inman Park and Emory College. The cast included the likes of Katie Cassidy, Jenna Dewan and Adam Brody.
On November 22, 2006 the film was scrapped by Fox Atomic when Emory University decided not to participate in the film. According to the Hollywood industry trade publication ''Variety'', another issue was that Fox Atomic's Peter Rice was not completely satisfied with the dailies and that the film felt smaller than the kind of pic he's aiming to release from Fox Atomic, the teen-oriented label launched in 2006.[3]
★ The concept of Nerds having their revenge is often cited in issues concerning nerd pride and positive self identification with the term. It is frequently manifested by the perceived notion that the formerly persecuted nerds will be making high salaries in their careers as well as mature into interesting adults, thus becoming more attractive to women. Conversely, the persecuting individuals who were considered "cool" during adolescence will experience unhappy adulthoods, such as unfulfilling jobs, failed marriages or having children too early. Bill Gates, the world's wealthiest man, is often the most cited example of real life nerd revenge.
★ In the 2003 biographical film American Splendor, Harvey Pekar belittles his friend Toby Radloff for naively believing that the characters in the movie represented Toby. He notes that unlike Toby, a 28 year old file clerk living with his grandmother in a poor neighborhood, those characters were college students from suburban, middle income families who will eventually earn degrees, get good jobs, and stop being nerds. This view is indirectly alluded to in Revenge of the Nerds III where Lewis is depicted as having become a successful computer expert but has abandoned his nerdiness for a more yuppie lifestyle.
★ During a sketch on the stop-motion animation show, Robot Chicken, which featured an elementary school show and tell, Ogre burst into the room, yelling his signature "NEEERRRDDDSSS!!!"
★ The song "Computer Camp Love" by Datarock heavily references some plot ideas of the film, and actually directly quotes an exchange of lines between Lewis, Gilbert and Booger in the first verse.
★ After Lewis first has sex at the party, he makes reference to Hugh Hefner by walking down the stairs in a silk robe while blowing smoke rings.
★ Rapper Lupe Fiasco has a mixtape loosely based around the film called .
★
1. http://www.life.arizona.edu/undergraduate/has/halldescripts/cochise.asp
2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/locations
3. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17655]
'''Revenge of the Nerds''' is a 1984 American comedy film starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B. Scott, and Donald Gibb. The film was directed by Jeff Kanew. It chronicles the story of a group of nerds trying to stop harassment by the persecuting jock fraternity, the Alpha Betas. Exterior scenes such as the arrival of the nerds at college and the fraternity houses were filmed at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. The original residence of the Nerds, from which they were ousted, was in fact Cochise Hall[1]. Their subsequent residence was Bear Down Gymnasium.[2]
This film is number 91 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".
| Contents |
| Plot summary |
| Characters |
| Notable bit parts |
| DVD release |
| Shelved remake |
| References in Popular Culture |
| External links |
| References |
Plot summary
The movie is set at fictional Adams College, where two nerds enroll due to its acclaimed computer studies department. Unfortunately, the college also displays unethical favoritism toward their football team, the Atoms. This gives the coach (John Goodman), an arrogant bully, and his team, stocked mainly by the equally obnoxious jocks of the Alpha Beta fraternity, considerable power on campus.
This power is shown when the Alpha Betas burn down their own fraternity house as a result of carelessness during a party. They pressure the dean of the campus to let them take over the freshman dorm while their house is being rebuilt, and they literally throw out the freshmen residents. The freshmen are forced to bunk in the gym until they can find new housing or join and live with fraternities. The nerds are all rejected and attempts to approach the fraternities on their own lead to them being publicly humiliated and harassed.
The nerds, with some difficulty, eventually find a rundown house that they renovate. However, the Alpha Betas and their associated sorority, the Pi Delta Pis, harass them and attempt to drive them out of the school out of pure malice. It starts with the Alpha Betas throwing a rock that reads "NERDS GET OUT" through one of the new house's windows.
When the nerds approach the campus police, they are referred to the Greek Council, which oversees fraternity affairs, only to find that Stan Gable (the head of the Alpha Betas) is the president. He bluntly overrules their complaint because they are not a fraternity. The nerds attempt to start a chapter of a national fraternity, but all of the fraternal organizations reject them, with the exception of Lambda Lambda Lambda, the only one to which they did not send a group picture. It is, however, a predominantly black organization and only one of the nerds is black (he is also openly gay), and the head of the national organization, U.N. Jefferson, is uninterested in having them join. However, the nerds press the point using a regulation that, as a petitioning group, they have the right to join with probationary status. The nerds attempt to organize a party to impress the fraternity officials. However, they are tricked by the Pis, who falsely offer to be their dates only to completely snub them on party night. Another sorority, Omega Mu (known as the Mus, which sounds like "Moos"), come in their place, but they consist of social rejects themselves and the resulting awkwardness deadens the atmosphere. In desperation, the nerds resort to lighting large marijuana joints to liven up the affair, which proves successful. However, the party is spoiled by the Alphas who let pigs loose in the frat house.
The nerds, led by Lewis, decide to retaliate. They first execute a panty raid on the Pis, which is actually a diversion during which they install hidden cameras in the sorority's attic. The nerds also saturate the Alpha's jock straps in liquid heat (a liniment that produces sensations of heat) to create an agonizing and embarrassing experience at football practice. The Lambda fraternity head is impressed with the nerds' creativity, and a charter is granted for the chapter, officially making the nerds members of Lambda Lambda Lambda (or Tri-Lambs, for short).
However, the harassment by the Alphas only worsens, and the obviously biased Greek Council refuses to respond. Deciding that they must take power themselves, the nerds compete in Adams College's homecoming carnival, the winner of which will lead the council.
The Tri-Lams and Mus team up, and have a difficult time in several events, but manage to win a few others using their superior ingenuity. Some of the skills come naturally, such as Booger being able to belch the loudest. They design an ergonomically advanced javelin for the javelin throw, and they give their team member a chemical that will prevent him from feeling the effects of alcohol during another event in which drunkenness impairs the competition. They gain ground in fund-raising by selling plates with nude photos of Betty Childs (a Pi and Gable's girlfriend) which not only allows them to best the Alpha Betas, but also humiliate their female counterparts. During the carnival, one of the leading nerds (Lewis) pilfers Stan Gable's costume and tricks Betty into thinking he is Stan. Lewis and Betty have sex, after which Lewis reveals his identity to Betty. She is not upset, in fact she immediately decides that she likes Lewis better. The nerds seal their victory in the talent show with a spectacular song and dance routine using computers and sound effects.
Following a jingoistic speech by their coach, the Alphas retaliate by wrecking the Lambda house, and the nerds are again disheartened. One of the nerds (Gilbert) decides to personally confront the Alphas at the homecoming rally. When Gilbert is about to be beaten, the otherwise timid dean, himself a nerd, finally stands up to the coach and exercises his rightful authority. As the dean is about to be beaten up himself U.N. Jefferson arrives with a group of muscular Lambdas to intimidate the Alphas while Gilbert is given a chance to speak his mind to the audience. He poignantly speaks about how he and his friends were harassed, but in spite of this, he re-affirms that he is a nerd and proud of it. His friends gather around in support and call on any of the audience who have ever felt left out or picked on to join them. The entire audience does so, and the Alphas find themselves hopelessly outnumbered.
The film ends with the Dean finally gathering up the courage to tell off the football coach, and eject the Alphas from their building for the Lambda's use until the Alphas repair the damage they caused to the Lambda's house. The Dean points out to the coach that they're jocks, so they should be right at home sleeping in the gym.
Characters
★ Robert Carradine as Lewis Skolnick - The protagonist of the film and the leader of the nerds. He has a distinctive yelping laugh that has become a hallmark of his character.
★ Anthony Edwards as Gilbert Lowell - Lewis' best friend. He counters Lewis' generally positive attitude with mild pessimism and realism.
★ Timothy Busfield as Arnold Poindexter - The nerdiest of the nerds. Provides mild comic relief. Characterized by coke-bottle glasses and atrocious violin playing.
★ Andrew Cassese as Harold Wormser - He is actually middle or high school age but his parents forced him to skip a few grades because of his genius I.Q., much to his consternation, as he would much rather play video games with his friends.
★ Curtis Armstrong as Dudley "Booger" Dawson - A disgusting, uncouth and smartmouthed pothead who supplies most of the toilet humor of the film. When asked by Toshiro why he goes by "Booger", he merely responds "I don't know" while picking his nose.
★ Brian Tochi as Toshiro Takashi - The stereotypical intelligent Asian. Has difficulty understanding American culture but does enjoy his porn.
★ Larry B. Scott as Lamar Latrell - A stereotypically effeminate black gay man. He is the only one at the Tri-Lam dinner to have a date, though as Booger puts it, "Yeah, but that's with a guy."
★ Ted McGinley as Stan Gable - The primary antagonist and the Alpha Beta President of the Greek Council that tries to revoke the Tri-Lambda's fraternity charter. He is the star quarterback of the school's football team.
★ Donald Gibb as Fred "The Ogre" Palowakski - A fellow Alpha Beta and the stereotypical dumb, over muscled jock. Has little to no intelligence, and is the primary muscle of the team.
★ Julia Montgomery as Betty Childs - The unattainable love interest of Lewis. She is a member of the popular girl's campus sorority, Pi-Delta-Pi. Dated Stan Gable until she mistook Lewis for Stan in a dark bounce-house.
★ Michelle Meyrink as Judy - An Omega Mu whom Gilbert gets to know after she is having computer trouble and Gilbert explains to her not to worry, "the computer is your friend". He immediately makes graphics of Gilbert and Judy dancing, which impresses her. By knowing Judy, Gilbert helps get the party moving by getting Judy to bring her sorority sisters.
★ Bernie Casey as U.N. Jefferson - The head of the Lambda Lambda Lambda national, who did not embrace the nerds until they stood up to the Alpha Betas. Subsequently, he welcomed them into the fraternity.
★ David Wohl as Dean Ulich - The Dean of Adams College who is timid and allowed the Alpha Betas to rule until he finally shows his authority.
Notable bit parts
★ John Goodman plays Coach Harris, the head coach of the university football team.
★ James Cromwell is briefly shown to be Lewis' father.
★ Matt Salinger, son of J.D. Salinger, appears in a small role as an Alpha Beta.
DVD release
On January 3rd 2007 ''Revenge of the Nerds'' was released as a special edition DVD entitled "Panty Raid Edition" (The special edition name was changed from "The 'We've Got Bush' Edition", with preliminary artwork shown on websites such as The Digital Bits). Special features included : Audio Commentary, Making of Documentary, Deleted Scenes, Television Pilot, and two theatrical trailers.
Shelved remake
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A remake of the original Revenge of the Nerds 1984 film was slated for release in 2007; however, the film was canceled in 2006.
It was to be directed by Kyle Newman, who was going to reteam with screenwriter Adam F. Goldberg, who also wrote the movie ''Fanboys''. Very few details about the project have been released thus far, but some filming took place in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia State Capitol, Inman Park and Emory College. The cast included the likes of Katie Cassidy, Jenna Dewan and Adam Brody.
On November 22, 2006 the film was scrapped by Fox Atomic when Emory University decided not to participate in the film. According to the Hollywood industry trade publication ''Variety'', another issue was that Fox Atomic's Peter Rice was not completely satisfied with the dailies and that the film felt smaller than the kind of pic he's aiming to release from Fox Atomic, the teen-oriented label launched in 2006.[3]
References in Popular Culture
★ The concept of Nerds having their revenge is often cited in issues concerning nerd pride and positive self identification with the term. It is frequently manifested by the perceived notion that the formerly persecuted nerds will be making high salaries in their careers as well as mature into interesting adults, thus becoming more attractive to women. Conversely, the persecuting individuals who were considered "cool" during adolescence will experience unhappy adulthoods, such as unfulfilling jobs, failed marriages or having children too early. Bill Gates, the world's wealthiest man, is often the most cited example of real life nerd revenge.
★ In the 2003 biographical film American Splendor, Harvey Pekar belittles his friend Toby Radloff for naively believing that the characters in the movie represented Toby. He notes that unlike Toby, a 28 year old file clerk living with his grandmother in a poor neighborhood, those characters were college students from suburban, middle income families who will eventually earn degrees, get good jobs, and stop being nerds. This view is indirectly alluded to in Revenge of the Nerds III where Lewis is depicted as having become a successful computer expert but has abandoned his nerdiness for a more yuppie lifestyle.
★ During a sketch on the stop-motion animation show, Robot Chicken, which featured an elementary school show and tell, Ogre burst into the room, yelling his signature "NEEERRRDDDSSS!!!"
★ The song "Computer Camp Love" by Datarock heavily references some plot ideas of the film, and actually directly quotes an exchange of lines between Lewis, Gilbert and Booger in the first verse.
★ After Lewis first has sex at the party, he makes reference to Hugh Hefner by walking down the stairs in a silk robe while blowing smoke rings.
★ Rapper Lupe Fiasco has a mixtape loosely based around the film called .
External links
★
References
1. http://www.life.arizona.edu/undergraduate/has/halldescripts/cochise.asp
2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/locations
3. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17655]
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