I don’t think she does. I think she just covers for him to the principal and their parents so he will graduate and she will be rid of him for her last year of high school.
I happened to be in the demographic that was just at the right age and life situation that I didn’t necessarily relate to Ferris, but he resonated as the middle finger that we’d all love to flip to the world at one point or another.
In other words, Ferris wasn’t supposed to be a nice guy. He was the not-nice version of ourselves that we coudn’t be.
The film was really a wish-fulfillment fantasy about getting to be a jerk to all the people who bug you, and getting away with it.
You hate Ferris? you heartless wench!
I am a teacher and I still liked the whole movie!
My favourite bit is the classroom scene:
“Bueller? … Bueller?”
I get that the movie was supposed to be a wish-fulfillment fantasy but it absolutely failed at this, for me.
Ferris was a smarmy, loathsome little shit who deserved to get caught and punished to the fullest. I hated the character and not once did I ever wish I could get away with any of the smarmy, loathsome shit he pulled.
I like the theory that Ferris is really just Cameron’s fever dream. It doesn’t quite fit, but it’s pretty good.
The teaser, by the way? Apparently it’s an advertisement for Honda. We have three Hondas at Casa de Lightnin’, but I may just have to boycott in response.
And while doing so, he notes to the camera, “My sister got a car. I got a computer.”
Also, because as much as Jeanie dislikes her brother, she hates Rooney far more.
And by the way, I thought I read somewhere that Matthew Broderick turned down the idea of a sequel because he hated the character so much. But I enjoyed the movie.
OP, I am worried about you. Some of the…language you have used to describe Mr Broderick, its…well, its really pinging my gaydar.
Save Ferris.
I thought he was a douche. I realize it wasn’t a documentary and there was some level of disbelief-suspension required, but I couldn’t buy the idea that someone like him would be universally loved at school. Hell, nobody is universally loved at school— even if you’re the greatest person in the world, you’re going to be loathed by the envious fuckups.
I wanted Sloane too, though. No way Ferris fuckin’ Bueller deserved that.
Dan Quayle once picked Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as his favorite movie, which ought to tell you something.
I’ve never watched this movie and I don’t intend to. I just don’t identify with 80’s children protagonists
Are you also burning to start Garfield on a diet and exercise program?
Have you seen the Making of Farris B.? It ran several times on the bio channel last month. It probably comes with the dvd to.
Farris Bueller was originally supposed to be much darker and the character very snarky. Filming was very unstructured and they had to literally craft the movie in the edit room. What came out was nothing like what was originally planned.
Its amazing such a creative mess resulted in a great classic comedy.
Garfield’s a cat. He can’t help being a debauched pleasure slave and inhumanly evil.
Ferris is what we wish we could get away with if everybody we trod on still loved us. I agree, the character is a sociopath.
I’ve always wanted to do a sequel 25 years later where Ferris’ daughter turns out the same way and he has to face the consequences but she doesn’t. It would be called “Ferris Bueller Gets His”. All the original characters would be back enabling the daughter and smirking at Ferris.
I heartily endorse the OP. I first saw this movie fairly soon after it came out and I hated, hated him. I wanted him to be caught and punished so bad. Evil triumphs in the end. What the hell kind of message that that send? What a selfish, spoiled brat he was. Ugh.
I.E. a teenager.
I’m really surprised. I assumed that most of you would have wanted to shed your social anxieties and come sit at the cool table, but I guess you really liked sitting over in the corner plotting revenge on the people who don’t even know you exist.
I normally can’t roll my eyes far enough back in my head when I hear people lay out their “great” ideas for sequels or alternate versions of originals… But I really like this idea.
“fech”?
Most teenagers are a bit full of themselves perhaps, but they’re not sociopaths. If they were, Ferris wouldn’t stand out at all.