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So they never actually f!@#ed the goat?

posted 7 years ago by !!!deleted!!! (23416030)
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The whole movie was built up around the constant threat that the pledges would all have to have sexual intercourse with a goat. This culminated in the scene at the farmhouse, where the pledgemaster says "you will each have to f@#$, kill and eat the goat".

And then...nothing! None of it ever happens. Or if it did in the book, the filmmakers purposely skipped right over that graphic scene.

Lame. If their goal was to make people hate fraternities, that scene would have done it. Without it, there's nothing shocking about a frat that makes pledges get drunk and crawl on the floor. Yawn!

PS EDIT: After watching Goat, I read on its Wiki that the directors made the actors watch Todd Phillips' 1998 documentary FRAT HOUSE for inspiration. So I watched a bootleg copy of Frat House online, and guess what: Goat directly ripped off a number of scenes: the Tabasco drinking, the dog cage, the hemp necklaces, the hot-dog sharing. Even the direct line "if there was no hazing this wouldn't mean anything" came from Frat House.

FRAT HOUSE is brutal. If you can find it, watch it. It's everything Goat didn't have the b@lls to be.

[–] KingCobra686 7 years ago

This movie is based on a book about a guy's pledging experience. Most of the major events are straight from the book, but a lot of the details about the exact forms of the hazing are altered or embellished. They did not f@&k a goat in either storyline though.

Lame. If their goal was to make people hate fraternities, that scene would have done it.

I don't think this was intended to be a straight up anti-fraternity film. The book was a lot about Brad just trying to cope with his social issues and live up to his younger brother's reputation. The fact that he had that traumatic carjacking followed by difficult pledging just made all of that more difficult.

I was in a fraternity and I liked this movie. Its always tough trying to defend greek life in general. Most fraternities are chill, but there are always ones out there that take advantage of pledges and abuse them like this. Most fraternity movies are either ridiculous sex comedies like American Pie or they are brutal hazing fraternity hate letters. This one did a good job of not taking a side and making it black and white.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (23416030) 7 years ago

Fair enough, @KingCobra686, but considering how much of Goat was stolen from the "Frat House" documentary I mentioned above (have you watched it?), the directors could have at least added a goat-f@#$ing scene ;)

[–] KingCobra686 7 years ago

Is Frat House any good?

[–] !!!deleted!!! (23416030) 7 years ago

Its brutal. So brutal that HBO decided never to release it. You'll have to hunt down a copy...

[–] smoke0 7 years ago

Sounds like you just really want to see people having intercourse with goats.

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