Yeah, that's a little closer to how I look now.
Posted on 06/14/2011 7:15:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Twenty-five years after its release, John Hughes's most-loved work doesn't hold up
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which hit theaters 25 years ago this week and will soon be re-released on Blu-Ray and DVD, inspires a special kind of reverence in suburbia. "Today you'd be hard-pressed to find an American high-school yearbook that doesn't quote somewhere in its pages Ferris Bueller's view on existence," author Susannah Gora writes in her book You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, And Their Impact on a Generation. Before going with a bromidic Bob Dylan lyric, I almost made my own senior quote, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." In hindsight, it seems about as profound as a fortune cookie. I guess being 17 is a good excuse for banality.
Adults, on the other hand, should know better. Yet they too remain fixated on Ferris, a role that earned Matthew Broderick a Golden Globe nomination. The line, "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?", delivered by Ben Stein's monotonic economics teacher, is American educators' go-to, passive-aggressive rallying cry. References can also be found outside the classroom. This February, Baseball Prospectus writer Larry Granillo dedicated two blog posts to determining the precise Cubs game Ferris and his pals attended while playing hooky. An episode of the FOX medical drama House that aired in March centered on a homeless guy who called himself Ferris Bueller. "I think," Juno director Jason Reitman says in Don't You Forget About Me, a 2009 documentary about the late Hughes, "Ferris Bueller's a perfect movie."
A quarter century after its release, the explanation for why Ferris Bueller's Day Off remains a pop-culture touchstone is simple.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
I find it rather amusing when my step-son (who is now 16) gives me and his father grief for being so stuck on 80’s music...but then the music he listens to (of today) has remix after remix USING 80’s music....
Don’t know what brought this on, but same to you, buster.
Good idea!
It’s not so much I would “root” for the character, I just tend give a little slack to someone who was raped by an authority figure, who took advantage of a child’s family situation. If my best friend did that to someone, I’d be horrified, and I’d be sympathetic to much worse behavior than whatever she did. You’ve reminded me how truly awful that movie was.
This isn’t over yet Buster, do you read me?
This has to be one of the stupidest articles I have ever seen.
Ferris is a great movie.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Want to let me in on it, or are you just off your meds today?
Matthew Broderick as the cool kid? Not very likely.
The article doesn't seem to be about the movie itself so much as the cult the author thinks grew up around it.
Upon seeing the “SAVE FERRIS” on her graduation cap last Thursday, several of her classmates asked who was Ferris.
Google - Ferris Bueller quotes or watch the movie again! ;)
You think you’ve been very clever in passing off an insult. You’re disturbed..but then you knew that, didn’t you?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.