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Get Over 'Ferris Bueller,' Everyone
The Atlantic ^ | JUN 9 2011

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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41 posted on 06/14/2011 8:11:02 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: caper gal 1
As opposed to the 70’s, which were a horrible decade to be in high school. Lessee . . . bubble gum or disco?

Not a total waste: Foreigner, Journey, Styx, REO, ELO, Blondie, The Cars, The Police, and oh yeah:

PUNK

42 posted on 06/14/2011 8:14:50 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: dfwgator

In my youth, I was torn between Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald.


43 posted on 06/14/2011 8:15:35 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Avery Iota Kracker

Don’t forget Rita Hayworth and Paulette Goddard.


44 posted on 06/14/2011 8:18:51 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: BerniesFriend

Now THAT was a movie!


45 posted on 06/14/2011 8:18:58 PM PDT by Prokopton
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To: wku man

I must see this...


46 posted on 06/14/2011 8:19:58 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: death2tyrants

I dig the graphics.


47 posted on 06/14/2011 8:21:23 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Free Vulcan

Hey ho, let’s go.


48 posted on 06/14/2011 8:22:31 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Free Vulcan

Oh yeah - I was a young man in the 80’s, an early 20’s Reagan Youth who not only loved Foreigner, ACDC, KISS, Molly Hatchet, Kansas and Styx, but the great New Age & Punk stuff that came out. Couple that with MTV (back when it was good) and life was indeed sweet.


49 posted on 06/14/2011 8:22:31 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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To: nickcarraway

One of my favorites.
Loved the ‘Twist and Shout’ part. LOL


50 posted on 06/14/2011 8:23:22 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Ah yes, back when MTV was MUSIC Television and not and endless string of reality TV piffle.
51 posted on 06/14/2011 8:24:30 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: nickcarraway

Ferris does ‘Twist and Shout’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgd46QiHz4I


52 posted on 06/14/2011 8:26:35 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: dfwgator

Two words, “Ally Sheedy.”

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Indeed.

She was very cute and appealing in War Games.

I thought her and Broderick were very natural in their roles as well, and I am not a big fan of the “art of acting”.

The computer geeks might have stolen the show, though.


53 posted on 06/14/2011 8:30:49 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: EyeGuy

54 posted on 06/14/2011 8:44:06 PM PDT by struggle
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To: nickcarraway
Well.........I was 27 when the movie came out and...I loved it. It took me back a few years to the time when my classmates were just as ‘lively’ lol. It was a really good movie and captured the mischievousness that all teens have. Save Ferris!
55 posted on 06/14/2011 8:44:46 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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To: caper gal 1

Have you ever watched ‘Dazed and Confused’? It eptomizes the 70’s. I had a blast so don’t really know why you think the 70’s were a horrible decade to be in high-school. :P


56 posted on 06/14/2011 8:47:15 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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To: Army Air Corps

And Ingrid Bergman.


57 posted on 06/14/2011 8:47:32 PM PDT by Avery Iota Kracker (A weiner a day keeps the other bad news away....)
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To: Shadowfax
John Hughes made some good movies. This wasn’t one of them.

What didnt you like about it?

58 posted on 06/14/2011 8:49:04 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Avery Iota Kracker

Absolutely! She was stunning.


59 posted on 06/14/2011 8:50:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"Does anyone know?
Anyone?
Bueller?"
60 posted on 06/14/2011 8:50:25 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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