Wonkette Movie Night: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.'
How could I possibly be expected to write a movie post on a day like this?
Well it worked for Ferris, I figured I’d give it a try. It is something all of us did as teenagers. We still do it as grown-ups but we call it a mental health day. I think all of us could use one or 365 of those.
So begins Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. He has faked being sick to get out of school and he is going to turn the time into teaching a valuable lesson to his best friend, Cameron. That having fun is good. That is the entire lesson. Stop and smell the roses or join a parade and sing “Twist And Shout.” When this scene comes up in the move I want you to join in, sing along, get up and shake it or wiggle in your seat and chair dance. I like imagining all of us doing this at the same time, don’t you?
That’s where you see the friendship that is at the heart of the movie. How we love our friends for exactly who they are.
Again I have unintentionally picked a movie that is perfect for current events. Ben Stein’s monotone description of the Smoot-Hawley Act has gone viral as tariffs take center stage in world events with the dumbest president ever. From The Independent:
“On X/Twitter, one economics professor shared the clip with the caption: “Ferris Bueller is strikingly more instructive than 99.99% of political commentators on tariffs.”
Another user added: “Apparently it is once again time to bring back the lesson on tariffs from Ferris Bueller...”
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off stars Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Cindy Pickett, and Charlie Sheen. Directed by John Hughes.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is available for free with ads on Pluto TV. $3.99 on Apple TV, Prime, Google Play, Fandango At Home or YouTube.
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The animated short is The Rock by Seth Boyden.
Our next Movie Night selection is Arrival. It is available with subscription on Disney+ and Paramount+. $3.99 on Prime, Google Play, Fandango At Home, YouTube and Apple TV.
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In 2010, Edie McClurg told Vanity Fair Magazine that her character's hairdo should be from the 1960s "because Grace felt she looked best in the 1960s, and kept her look from that era." The women's hairdresser on the set had mainly been hired to blow out Mia Sara's long, straight hair, and she didn't know how to set the big teased 1960s hairstyles. So McClurg teased, set, and styled her own character's hair. Once she arrived on the set, John Hughes looked at her hairstyle and the first thing he said was, "How many pencils do you think you can fit in that hair?" They tested it with one, two, and three pencils; however, a fourth pencil fell out. This testing was the origin of Grace's first scene in the movie, in which she pulls several lost pencils out of her hair.
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