Scenes We Love: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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We're starting a new every-day-or-so post here at Cinematical which will look back at some of our favorite scenes in film; the ones that stand out, make you laugh, make you cry -- quite literally the scenes that make the movie. Of course a great film probably has more than one great scene in it, but that's what we'll all get to discuss in the comments section, I'm sure. First up (for me) is Ferris Bueller's Day Off ... partly because it's one of my favorite films of all time, and partly because I watched it on cable over the weekend.
When you have a film like Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- where practically every scene is an instant classic -- it could be hard to highlight one as being a cut above the rest. However, the parade scene has always been my favorite -- so much so that, as a little kid, I actually held my boom box up to the television and recorded this scene so I could replay all those good vibes over and over again. A few extra tidbits on this scene (from IMDB)
- During the parade several of the people seen dancing (including the construction worker and the window washer) originally had nothing to do with the film. They were simply dancing to the music being played and John Hughes found it so humorous that he told the camera operators to record it.
- The dance sequence by the group on the stairs during Ferris's lip-synch performance of Twist and Shout is taken directly out of Michael Jackson's Thriller video.
- The Parade sequence (Twist and Shout scene) was filmed during the Von Steuben Day Parade. An annual event in the Chicagoland area.
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2-03-2009 @ 6:44PM
chuck said...
Does anyone rememebr that Rodney Dangerfield also sang Twist and Shout in Back to School which was relased the very same summer.Both were really fun scenes!
chuck
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2-03-2009 @ 6:47PM
Joseph Finn said...
Heh. I could open my office window and throw a rock to where Cameron and Sloan are, with the post office building behind them; I'm right on the corner of Jackson and Dearborn (Von Stueben, by the way, was a Revolutionary War cavalry trainer, a Polish Baron who came over to help).
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2-03-2009 @ 10:24PM
Scott Weinberg said...
I'm totally with you on the scene and the movie, Erik, but FBDO has kinda fallen prey to the "Stairway to Heaven" overkill syndrome. I've seen too much of it, too many times, to really ENJOY it anymore.
This is why I'd never want to be a film editor.
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2-03-2009 @ 10:40PM
paul said...
For me Out of Africa comes to mind. Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen submitting to a shampoo by Robert Redford's character Denys Finch Hatton. Her face here, I think, was as beautiful as I've ever seen it. Or at the end of the movie the lions resting at the grave of Denys Finch Hatton. Roger Ebert writing about Sydney Pollak's handling of Redford's star power in this movie said; "He understands the special, somewhat fragile mystique of his star, who has a tendency to seem overprotective of his own image. In the wrong hands, Redford can look narcissistic. This time, he seems to have much to be narcissistic about."
Alien: peekaboo!
Aliens: Ripley taking the reins of armored transport carrier and riding to the rescue of the soldiers coming face to face with an implacable foe.
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2-03-2009 @ 11:53PM
AndyIII said...
What a perfect pick and possibly a perfect movie.
The miracle of 'Ferris Beuller's Day Off' and the character of Ferris Beuller is that done improperly, you could have hated his Ferris's guts and been really annoyed by the movie. But Matthew Broderick is so good, and the movie is so well made that instead of feeling left out, you feel like you're along for the ride with the coolest kid in school...who is also the most popular kid. And this scene is basically the climax of that cool. How that worked out is a tiny miracle.
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