caddyshack

Even slap stick sleeze ball 80's comedy flicks need some some direction, depth, character and content.
And caddyshack films delivers on all fronts.
caddyshack 2 not as successful film,Spawn in the backdrop of a class conflict, there was no better way to emulate this divide, than through the discourse of a golf course.
caddyshack 1
This is more the case with part 2, however the part 1 was more about the conflict between the judge and the realestate tycoon.
Characters such as chevy chase who plays like in all his films, the cynic, the antagonist, the patroniser, set in motion an extra funny antedote to a film whilst this folly and trivial rivalry is played out on the golf course.
Every film, needs some skit or comic book style antedote and this feature is covered with the use of the golfer which evades detection from the golfers playing up above.
The films success, i believe is probably strewn by the effect the whole movie produced, from the little skit like episodes, the attitude to well to do people treating golf so seriously, to the characterization of the actors, especially to the personality of dangerfield who almost acts like an everyday working guy who seems out of place in a conservative and upright and proper upper class english like golf club that was only once reserved to fit and proper high bread types.
The judge symbolising this class divide or personality divide, you can be the judge.
Bill murray eptomises the dysfunctional golf course management who is preoccupied with the golfer as is dan aykroyd replacing this role in caddyshack 2
Before ben stiller, wil ferril their was bill murray chevy chase who provided the personality behind these films.
They showed that essentially acting had its limits and these actors have made a huge career by simply being  themselves whilst improvising the roles within their periphery, rather than trying to be someone else.
Then again if acting for comedy was taken serious then movies will not be funny. They are talented but you also know that they make incredibly interesting people to talk to in real life. like my dad did overseas when he spoke to bill murray while he was supervising an archeological exhibition, he ranted to my father is a checy like bill murray style of  comic patronising,"oh they do the digging, while i watch".
For me, dangerfield represented the frustrations of the working class towards the upperclass and this high strung battle was fought out on a golf course with pompous ideals with a  repressed stiff upper lip atmosphere  that dangerfield breaks down and condescends. The brevity of this conflict provided us with the highly charged and let loose comic antics of patronisation of authority  that we  all relate to as comedy is also an outlet of our frustration and injustice in society expressed through the antedote of sacasm and parody.
 And the most powerful message ,through the antics of dangerfield who changes the culture of a repressed and outdated institution through his arrogance and tenacious ways.
This content fueled the contemporary relevance this movie had  for the time and is still relevant today.
It is a movie that you don't need to think on any deep level about a film, but just enjoy the parody and skit saturday night live fueled comedy around the backdrop of a relaxing golf course scenery.
scenery is very underestimated in a film and it played it role.
I think film makers wrote movies around personalities and being inspired by their tendencies and that makes these characters have a very well respected role within the music industry.
I watched a little of chevy chase roast and this program tries to do the andrew dice clay treatment with an unsuccessful element. I was embarrassed and appalled by other well to do actors condescending of chevy.
I think this rant of roast could be done without using it as an opportunity by actors to express their frustrations whilst not focusing on being ironic, funny, playful and this is all about being humble and the ability to laugh at yourself. it seems that these people who make a joke about another respected actor, could not make fun of themselves and this is the most important aspect of comedy is the ability to laugh at yourself and the rest of the episode of human folly since the fall of the roman empire. [so to speak]
nicholas lazarou
There is nothing like cozying by your bed covers in a nice comfortable corner watching a caddyshack film.