MYST Post #4 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Nothing beats a classic like this, where a well known high school kid known as Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) pretends to be very ill so he could have the day off and go an adventure to the city of Chicago. Along with Ferris there are his two other companions that join him and ditch school  faking illnesses and pretending to give a fake call to the dean about a grandparent passing away. The two people are Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck) who is Ferris's long time best friend and Sloan Peterson (Mia Sara) who is Ferris's girlfriend and lover. As they plan this smart way of faking everything, they have a dean who keeps tabs on Ferris just because of who he is as a student and he ditched a lot the last quarter for senior year. So the devious Dean Ed Rooney ( Jeffrey Jones) is on a mission to try and catch Ferris so he can keep the boy from screwing up what he wants the school to be like and also have him repeat another year, and to keep people from not having everyone following Ferris's style. Meanwhile, Ferris's sister Jeanie (Jennifer Grey) plays along with Ferris being sick and she pretends to yell  at her parents because she never gets a chance to stay home even if her eyes were bleeding. After the guys get away with ditching the school even though they were absent , they go to Chicago to enjoy one of the best day offs from high school anybody could ask for.  But on the bad side that causes Dean Rooney to be suspicious and is doing business off campus, which obviously is to hunt down Ferris and screw his chances of making it to college and destroy his day off.

There were a lot of great scenes in the movie especially when they are in the city and they are at the Chicago art museum. The camera shots and angles shown in this scene really do a lot of interacting between object and human. As Ferris and Sloan went to a different part of the museum to talk, Cameron stands right in front of a very famous work of art, that catches his attention, because he looks at a boy with his mom which reminds him how his dad is a jerk and does not care about anything except for the old school Ferrari, that Ferris and the crew end up taking and there is not a single mile put on that car. The camera switching from Cameron to the boy in the painting shows some sort of connection between the two and that gives you clues that could symbolize who Cameron was as a boy and it really got me thinking about the scene after it was over with and what its significance was.

A lot of the camerawork during the film did a lot of close up shots on people and there were times where Jeanie was in her house and Rooney tried to sneak to catch Ferris being fake sick. The camera went back and forth showing that two were sneaking up on each other closer and closer. Up until they both tried to scare each other, and Rooney jumped out and scared Jeanie cause she had an reaction to kick him in the face and they did a repeat on the kick to show it was a knockout. There were other times where they have the camera directly below them, like when they were in the sears tower at the top and the three stood on the railing and put their heads on the windows looking down. The camera looked at  Ferris and the other two when they were looking as far down as possible and then the camera would be on the opposite side looking down just like the three did, giving a perspective of what it looks like looking down on the sears tower.

Overall I give this movie a 10/10 just because I personally think of it as one of my favorite movies and planning to ditch the school like that would totally be a professional way of doing it. Knowing people at a school at central, I do not think there are too many people that would have the guts to do something like these guys did. If it causes the Dean to go on a secret  out of school duty then I give respect to Ferris for pulling something off like that. This link at the end is one of my favorite scenes from the movies with Cameron and Ferris arguing about one picking up the other.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ZMU6UyXdPMs