She aged well. I'd hit it.
Posted on 06/14/2011 5:16:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. As Kathryn has written, the original script for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off contained a bunch of conservative lines, including this gem:
FERRIS:
"My uncle went to Canada to protest the war, right? On the Fourth of July he was down with my aunt and he got drunk and told my Dad he felt guilty he didn’t fight in Viet Nam. So I said, “What’s the deal, Uncle Jeff? In wartime you want to be a pacifist and in peacetime you want to be a soldier. It took you twenty years to find out you don’t believe in anything?” [snaps his fingers] Grounded. Just like that. Two weeks. [pause] Be careful when you deal with old hippies. They can be real touchy."
Only one problem: They didn’t make the final cut, for some odd reason (my theory: studio execs didn’t want to offend liberals … like them). Instead, what we got from Ferris Bueller was a proto-Simpsons view of adulthood and being a teenager. All the adults in Ferris Bueller are invasive morons — including a principal who wants desperately for Ferris to stop cutting class — and all of the adolescents are brilliant, witty, and charming. That was the conflict that summed up John Hughes’s world: he was a conservative, but he was also an advocate for taking teenage angst just a bit too seriously for conservative tastes. The only moment of responsibility-taking in Ferris Bueller occurs after Cameron’s ill-fated use of his dad’s Ferrari, and it’s played as a statement of teenage rebellion rather than of maturation.
Hughes deserves credit, however, for doing something most conservatives never even bother doing: making a good movie with certain conservative undertones. Where else would you hear a character (Ferris) explaining, “-Ism’s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an –ism, he should believe in himself.” Of course, that message is buried in a punch line: “I quote John Lennon, ‘I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.’ Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.” But at least Hughes makes the attempt.
— Ben Shapiro is author of Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV.
Ferris Bueller would have been an even better movie if the kids had used better language. I watched it about 5 years ago and it seemed to me that they swore for no reason at all. Just threw the words in there to be “real” or something. No need for it.
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BUEHLER? BUEHLER?
The language was added to get a PG-13 rating. It was driven by marketing.
Yeah. I think it says bad things about our culture that the marketing people think that teens won’t see a movie unless it contains the word #$%& or &#@%. The marketing folks might be right, they might be wrong. Either way, it’s a sad commentary on how people judge the worth of a cultural artifact. “I liked it. He said the s-word a lot.”
I still consider it to be one of the best movies ever. It’s stupid, and it’s funny, and there is nothing wrong with either.
I never noticed anything even remotely political in it, and that’s not a bad thing.
‘Marketing people add swearing to appeal to teens.’
Art is not supposed to reflect society; it is supposed to elevate society. That’s why Michelangelo is famous, and Bach. It is also why most art and music and architecture today will NOT be remembered.
I watch Ferris Bueller now and then for 3 reasons:
1) Charlie Sheen’s small role foreshadowing his nuttiness.
2) The principal, Jeffery Jones,who obsessed over Ferris’ foreshadowing HIS eventual arrest on sexual offense and conviction of photographing a nude 14 year old boy.
2) Mia Sara
“Drugs?”
Great posts, I’m kind of curious to watch this agin.
You gotta love FR.
RE: 2) Mia Sara
Gorgeous girl. Never found out what happened to her since. Seems to have dropped out from show biz totally.
4) The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California.
Okay, the wide shots used a replica, but the close shots are the real thing.
Great movie.
I like it for what it is and don’t want them to change a damned thing. I never thought, “Gee, imagine what this film could have been ...”
I remember her being beautiful in Timecop, but nothing else. Going to have to hit IMDB...
“Time Cop” was the last thing in which I recognized her.
I love Ferris Buehler!! Where else will you find a movie talking about the Laffer Curve. Buehler? Buehler? Ben Stein is hilarious in his short part in the movie. Perfect highschool teacher.
She aged well. I'd hit it.
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