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.
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“Ferris Bueller’s a perfect movie.”
I agree.
Save Ferris
You killed the car.
No way. Eighties were a wonderful time to be in high school. I was so glad to be raised in that era. Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, Ferris Bueller, Top Gun and so many other incredible movies. I feel sorry for high school students today and in fact in the 90’s.....what a shame.
I agree,
Ferrisss iss about rich, white peopless. We hatess them, yes we doesss...
Excellent 80s movie. Fuddyduddies may not like...darn whippersnappers and their rock and roll stuff...
He’s a righteous dude.
You are so right.
The current FSA (Free S**t Army) wants to kill that lifestyle like Muslims want to kill whites and Jews.
Allen Siegal is probably not much fun to be around, he probably only appreciates movies with gay cowboys eating pudding.
“Ferris Bueller’s a perfect movie.”
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Not sure about perfect, but tied with “War Games” as Matthew Broderick’s best.
“Ferris Bueller’s a perfect movie.”
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Not sure about perfect, but tied with “War Games” as Matthew Broderick’s best.
All except the principal who is now a convicted sex offender.
Thanks for that.
A lot of girls said I looked like Broderick (but never got me dates), I guess I wasn’t as suave or lucky as Ferris.
As opposed to the 70’s, which were a horrible decade to be in high school. Lessee . . . bubble gum or disco? Hmmm . . . Had to go seriously off the grid for any decent music.
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