John Hughes and his films are closely associated with the 80s. Open the director's filmography. You'll understand. His last film was made in 1991. Until his death in 2009, he remained silent. I didn't. Therefore, if anyone is considered the main author of the cinema of the 80s, it is his.
Ferris Bueller’s Weekend is his funniest and most relaxed movie. Created a whole fan myth and found a huge circle of admirers. A couple of years later, Hollywood businessmen even wanted to make a sequel for TV. But it turned into a rather bad series with Jennifer Aniston.
What is so extraordinary about this work? It seems that the setting of the story is quite common in modern teenage comedy. The students are busy until their parents see. The fun is that a large number of modern American comedies later used a similar move. But it was Hughes who made it canonical. He picked up the cast very accurately. Which is not surprising. Actors in his works, despite the often simple plot, always put to the fullest.
I think because of the meticulous approach to writing characters and the great casting of a simple comedy, Hughes has a masterpiece for many years to come. In addition, the director perfectly felt this bright time. His films about teenagers living in the 80s are filled with advertising attributes and aesthetics of that era. He himself was engaged in advertising, so he perfectly understood that teenagers love what music they listen to, what they live.
When a few decades later, fashion returned to the era of early MTV, synthesizers and disco, Ferris Bueller’s Weekend began to play with new colors. A large number of memes with the characters of this cult film flooded the Internet. And the soundtrack began to listen to people born at the beginning of zero.
Now, years later, it has become clear that this film has become a classic and even after 40 years, it evokes genuine emotions of joy in a new generation of viewers.
Ferris Bueller is a high school student who often misses classes, but can not be caught (especially this annoys a decent sister). The film will show us a day in the life of Ferris. He deceives his parents, allegedly feels bad, and himself (together with his girlfriend and best friend) goes for a walk.
It's an amazing movie. I really liked how Hughes made it. That is, here is purely visual, plans, shooting, angles, etc. Here every five minutes you can pause and look. Very beautiful. Plus, great acting. I don't know why John gave the lead role specifically to Broderick, hit the target. Matthew is damn good in the image of Ferris.
If you make the top of the best youth comedies of the 80s, then without “Ferris Bueller”, hand on heart, clearly can not do. The picture has long been a one hundred percent classic (the standard for many Hughes films). She has a pretty high rating on IMDB. So far, it's 7.8. Only the Breakfast Club was able to overtake this movie.
There is criticism of the film. I would like to comment on it because I love Ferris with all my heart. In general, let's be honest - scolding John a lot, well, a little weird. He's so cool and positive. I'm just talking about director Hughes. As a screenwriter, John occasionally (rarely) shuffled, such as Home Alone 3. Who is without sin?
Allegedly, the director justifies slackers. Allegedly, the main character uses everyone in a row. Ferris is a disgusting person and blah blah blah. Ie. Hughes shows the school principal as a villain, and the loboshaking student as a hero. What a nightmare! The director has always believed in the younger generation. In the Breakfast Club, John was worried with the teenagers. And in "Oh, that science!" the two heroes made themselves a magical computer girl. Saying Hughes doesn't care. Saying his students are stupid. Lie to yourself.
Two. This is a comedy made for young people. Comedy again! Answer the question - why does the director look like an idiot if he is for studying, if he wants to give knowledge? The man doesn't even notice Ferris standing in front of him. That is, studying the headmaster himself did not benefit, since he grew up such a clown. He ran away from the dog, climbed into someone else’s house. Here are all those for the director and against Ferris, answer.
Or is it because John (for the third time) decided to have fun and make a comedy? Heroes instead of school – drove a car, drove to the museum, the stadium, danced in the parade, etc. Why are they terrible? That's great. I know people in real life who did not study well, who skipped similarly - now they are adults, work, live, happily remember the past.
Understand, I do not mean that you must necessarily forget to study, to go crazy. Nope! The truth is that no school principal (teacher, etc.) will make you a good and happy person. You make yourself. And also, a very important point. Hughes has a note that the school will end, the characters will (possibly) disperse in different directions. You have to laugh, you have to be kids. After all, childhood will pass very quickly. You can not be one-sided and you can not watch comedy pictures, if you have a bad humor.
Ferris Bueller’s Weekend is just a cool movie, necessarily a collection.
P.S.
Have you seen Charlie Sheen in this movie? Oh, that's great. I almost fell off my chair when he showed up. Ferris' sister complained to him - he's so bad, always skipping. And Charlie, that you're mad at your brother, take a walk, let's kiss. A-hee-hee, until tears...
A lost past. Part 33. Sometimes a day is more interesting than a lifetime.
The film tells the story of a schoolboy, a famous, mischievous hooligan and universal favorite Ferris Bueller. Another test forces him to play a seriously ill, so that the parents wrapped in the adoration of their beloved son allow the child to stay home and be treated. After the work is done and the parents go to work, Ferris begins the day off, which will be the best in his life and even affect the fate of those around him and friends.
The film is quite light and young, it looks very nice. At first glance, this is an extremely superficial and completely shallow film, but I assure you this is not so and closer to the end, the picture can present a number of completely stunning surprises that fundamentally change the structure of the plot and its depth. After all, teenagers sooner or later take a step into adulthood, and everyone has their own way. Here this step is made extremely original, easy, almost imperceptible and at the same time fundamental.
What’s so good about this movie apart from an interesting story? There are some nice bonuses that allow you to watch with unrelenting interest.
For example:
In one seemingly insignificant episode, Charlie Sheen is removed. However, as it turned out in the end - for the main character of this tape is almost the main episode of the whole story. And it was just nice to see the once beloved actor in such a simple and uncomplicated at first glance role.
One of the main characters of the film is the Ferrari 250 California, an unearthly beauty convertible in 1957, on which the main characters cut through the streets, and which will also play its key role in the entire story.
Ferris periodically breaks the fourth wall and addresses the viewer directly! Deadpool was not the first one! By the way, in the film Deadpool there is a scene after the credits with a reference to Bueller.
That's a great soundtrack!
In addition to the aforementioned Charlie Sheen, Matthew Broderick also plays in the film, who is actually Ferris Bueller. It was a little unusual to see him in such a role, a popular bully-schooler, but he was great. It was also somewhat unusual to see John Cusack in the film. The passion of the main character is played by Mia Sarah, who in 8 years will play her most or less significant role in the movie - the wife of the character Jean-Claude Van Damme in the action movie Time Patrol. I can’t remember a bigger and bigger role. Well, Bueller’s loyal associate is performed by Alan Cancer, whom I often saw in various films, but he mostly always remained in the shadow of other characters, as in fact in this tape.
Still agree that in the comedies of the 80s (and not only in comedies) there is a special charm, its own zest, completely immerses us in the atmosphere of that era. Such a movie is pleasant to the eye and perfectly accepted for the brain. Without a hitch or a hitch, we catch the idea of the picture and swim along with it throughout the timekeeping. Nowadays, such a movie is no longer made. However, time after time, I find many worthy films of the time, which I am glad to meet now, more than 30 years later. And this nostalgia, which so gently envelopes me when watching these films, the most amazing feeling that connects me with cinema. Therefore, everyone, everyone who has not seen this picture, be sure to see and enjoy this magnificent spirit of the 20th century.
8 out of 10
Ferris Bueller is studying in the final grade, but before the exams for a whole month, and outside the window a weathery spring day - the main character decides to skip 9 times per semester. Ferris is too cunning and resourceful to stupidly leave school, so he plays a scene in front of his parents, where he is almost at death, it is crowned with success and permission to stay home. He then summons his best friend, the phlegmatic and suspicious Cameron, who, unlike Ferris, feigns illness because he feels better. After that, the two skillfully rescue Ferris’s girlfriend, the languidly sighing beauty Sloan, from captivity of the school. Having built a whole security system (like a snoring dummy in bed, which comes into motion just by opening the bedroom door), the main character goes with friends to meet their best day in the stolen Ferrari of Father Cameron.
“We saw the whole city,” says Ferris Bueller, as the day begins to sink. The journey shows how much you can do while your parents are at work and everyone else is at school. And despite the seemingly formal wrongness of the actions of the heroes, you absolutely support it. The bubbling energy of youth, the feeling of freedom, the saturation of life, the ease of being - all this bribes. The viewer unwittingly takes a free seat in the back seat of the Ferrari: Ferris repeatedly breaks the fourth wall, directly addressing him, dragging him into his adventure as much as Cameron. But you're glad.
"Everyone... thinks he's a cool dude." Indeed, Ferris Bueller is loved by everyone. He is so charismatic, and everything is given to him with such incredible ease. But he also has his enemies - Ed Rooney, the headmaster of the school, who was so often fooled that for him the capture of Bueller became an end in itself and the sister of the main character, who does not understand why Ferris, despite all his antics, is allowed so much. "It's not about your brother, it's about you," Jean will hear near the end of the film. That is why, despite the apparent proximity of the defeat, the final victory remains with Ferris – it is not about him, and the author’s sympathy is on his side.
You can not live according to your routine, constantly afraid to perform and be in eternal tension (like Cameron), because: “Life proceeds quickly enough, if sometimes you do not stop and look around, you can miss it.”
Ferris Bueller's Weekend is a great atmospheric comedy with a very correct message. It bursts with youth (but not hormones – there is no place for vulgar or flat humor, and the ball is ruled by lightness, joy and irony), a time when it seems to you that everything is possible, because “the rule a. – you can not go too far”, b. – “only weak people give up.”
9 out of 10
“Life moves fast enough. If sometimes you don’t stop and don’t look around, you can skip it.
This youth comedy was released in 1986, and twenty-eight years later entered the American Register of National Cultural Heritage. “Ferris Bueller’s Weekend” (there is another common title for the film “Ferris Bueller Takes a Day Off”) really enjoyed great success at home, collecting more than seventy million dollars at the box office with six invested in its creation. Based on his motives, the series was even released, which, however, did not live up to expectations and after one season was closed. By the way, in the series, the role of the evil and obstinate sister of the main character was played by Jennifer Aniston herself. Returning to the full-length film, it is necessary to say that the director and screenwriter of it was John Hughes - one of the best filmmakers for the entire history of Hollywood, who worked for a family audience. He gave us the franchise “Parents”, gave the traditional pre-holiday epic “Home Alone” and pleased “Curly Sue”.
So, who is Ferris Bueller and what does he have over the weekend? This is the hero Matthew Broderick, a high school student who does not want to go to school at all and comes up with a whole system of how to cheat, pick up his girlfriend, best friend and go to Chicago on a red Ferrari to have fun there. For parents, he pretends to be sick, a purely childish antics, often and quickly bitten, but our Ferris Bueller has the ability to convince, and he carefully thinks about and furnishes soy tricks. Well, actually grew up Kevin McCallister from “House Alone”, and the desire to ride in a red “Ferrari” – it’s like after the movie “Holiday”, where the driving was stunning blonde. But Ferris has his own enemies - his own older sister, who does not believe a single word of him and tries to bring her brother to clean water, as well as one of the leaders of the school - the unpleasant and self-confident Ed Rooney, who more than once turns out to be fools, since the resourceful Ferris repeatedly overplays him.
In the film, the hero Matthew Broderick often uses the method of so-called “hacking the fourth wall”, when he directly addresses the viewer through the camera, explaining his actions and actions. Young people, even those on the other side of the ocean, could find something in common with Ferris Bueller, because sometimes his fun ideas coincided with our desires when the street smells like spring and there is no desire to go to school. True, not all Ferris’s tricks end in such a way that they can be attributed to youthful ease and maximalism, yet there is very little responsibility in Ferris Bueller, so he will serve as an example for emulating, perhaps, his peers, but the older generation can say: “Don’t be friends with Ferris, he will teach you the bad!”. But in any case, the atmosphere of an entertaining movie, which serves as a way to relax and distract from everyday life to an errant viewer, still does not allow you to scold Ferris, but it is hilarious when Ed Rooney once again gets confused. Who did not want to make fun of school principals or deputies, considering them boring?
It is noticeable that Matthew Broderick feels very confident in front of the camera, he clearly gained experience in the fantasy “Lady Hawk”, where he played alongside Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. And Broderick embodied the image of a resourceful, cheerful and enterprising high school student very successfully and convincingly. In this film, he met his future girlfriend Jennifer Gray, who played his... sister! This is the Jennifer Grey we know, remember and love from Dirty Dancing. Now she does not look like herself after plastic surgery, but in Ferris Bueller... she pleased with her presence, and even managed to get rude, and then fall in love with the “bad guy”, who was performed by Charlie Sheen himself. Poor Ed Rooney perfectly embodied Jeffrey Jones and this role is one of the most successful and famous actor. Good company Broderick’s hero was Mia Sarah, who played Ferris’s girlfriend (later the actress will receive a nomination for Saturn for her role in the fiction “Time Patrol”, which is clearly underrated), and Alan Rak in the image of the best friend of a merry man, who will gloriously suffer for that red Ferrari.
Do not pay attention to the fact that the film was released in 1986, it still looks, entertains, gives a message of good mood and fun. This is what its director and screenwriter John Hughes is famous for, because he has other imperishable classics, such as Home Alone. And if you’ve seen blond Macaulay Culkin a thousand times, maybe you should see another resourceful character from John Hughes, namely Ferris Bueller? And high school students would like to say that you better learn, but everyone knows that you contain a piece of Ferris Bueller and do not forget to have fun with friends and girlfriends.
How to Make Lots of Friends and Make Everyone Love You
Once upon a time there was Ferris Bueller, who did not want to live by the rules and spend beautiful sunny days sitting at his desk and listening to unbearably boring lectures about the Great Depression or symbolism in literature.
And one such beautiful day Ferris, taking a girl and best friend, goes to the city to spend one of the best days of their lives! To do this, you just need to fool your parents, convince the whole school that you are mortally ill, build ingenious devices for insurance and steal a rare car from the garage of your best friend’s father. And then you have an adventure where you can be anyone and all the doors are open to you. Will Ferris once again be able to get away with it, especially when the headmaster goes on the trail, like a bloodhound, with a paranoid thought to unmask the “young scoundrel”, and the sister is asleep and sees how to frame a brother who always gets away with everything?
The role of Ferris Bueller was brilliantly played by Matthew Broderick. To be honest, I don’t think much of this actor. Maybe he did well on the stage, I don't know, but I don't remember great acting in movies. But the image of a daring cheerful schoolboy succeeded young Broderick to fame!
"He's very popular." All the fans, rockers, tricksters, bullies, slobs, slobs, bogeymen and hooligans adore him. They think he's a great guy!
No, skipping, of course, bad, but charming Ferris everything is forgiven, because Bueller, the soul of the company, a funny man and a fool, knows how to live to the fullest, while making everyone around happy.
What do you think Ferris is going to do?
- Scare everyone who lives by the rules.
I also liked the young Alan Rak, who played Ferris’ best friend, a paranoid and pessimist.
Forgive the expression, Cameron is so tense that if you put a piece of coal up his ass, in two weeks, diamonds will come out.
Despite the fact that this is a comedy of the 80s, it is interesting and fun! And the reception of Ferris in the camera to the audience only adds to her highlights.
It's a great movie! He's really super-positive, even though times have changed, cinema has gone far ahead, not to mention humor. Yes, there is absolutely no vulgarity, and if you do not think of humor without at least a couple of jokes below the waist, then perhaps this film is not for you. But for those who appreciate it, I recommend this comedy as one of the best in its genre!
Unboring, funny, funny, positive, bright!
10 out of 10
Ferris Buehler Weekend is the kind of comedy I laughed at for the first 10 minutes and spit/sobbed for the remaining 1.5 hours. No, there are a lot of funny moments in it, but the context in which they are presented dilutes them with bitterness in the proportion of 10:1.
The main character (whom they are trying to present us as a hero in the second sense of the word) is a sassy teenager spoiled by his parents, deprived of any ideas about responsibility and frankly parasitic on the trust of others. Unlike real life, he gets away with it like magic. And the damage that he causes (for example, a broken car that would be safe if you didn’t take Ferris “a day off” or don’t try to expose him to the blow of your best friend) is presented by the director in a good light (" the overdue confrontation of Cameron with his father, about whom we do not know anything at all, except his love for cars and that he must be talked to heart), or they are simply laughed off (igning the police call the sister is like the parable “The Boy Who Screed Wolf”). Financial issues are modestly omitted (for example, Buehler’s proposal to take the blame would be fraught not with some pathetic scandal, but with the financial responsibility of his parents for a very large amount of money, because if Cameron’s father would not sue his own underage son, then the damage to property by a stranger did not suffer).
All of the film's jokes are aimed at aiding Buehler's antics and ridiculing the main antagonists - the evil director (a responsible person who - oh, terrible, scary to think! - believes that children should learn) and the grumpy sister (a serious girl, unlike her brother, who came out of the age of childhood fun but successfully degraded back to the end of the film). Mocking literature (I can’t help but agree that this is really one of the most useless subjects) and history, showing the boredom and impracticality of these disciplines, the director tries to justify absenteeism, forgetting that other, more useful disciplines are taught in schools (for example, human biology or native language).
“Hee-hee, ha-ha, but what’s going to grow out of a person who doesn’t care about everything and can’t do anything but lie and manipulate?” Despite the fact that I sometimes know how to disconnect and get a huge pleasure from the “black” comedies (I am a big fan of quality films of this genre), here I failed to do it. The same "black" comedies, as a rule, do not pretend to be moral and serious. Their characters do not empathize, they do not try to draw any conclusions. You just turn off your brain and laugh loudly at all necessities. But Ferris Buehler's Weekend is a serious film. He was shot qualitatively, the director approached his shooting with all responsibility. It feels the morality embedded in it, verbalized by Buehler (but at the same time transformed into a screen “life” in an extremely perverse form). All this propaganda of frivolity does not give an opportunity to laugh, but instead makes you think about how many around these Ferris Buellers - liars, scammers, manipulators. What if the doctor I see one day turns out to be Ferris Buehler, who skipped couples at university and got his degree by hacking into the dean's database and correcting his grades? Or was it the engineer who built the house I live in? It’s not fun, it’s not fun.
Tired of going to school? It's spring on the street and the final exams are on the nose? The best parents in the world are so naive that they will believe the groans of colic in the stomach and wet palms in the morning? Your sister can't stand you, but you can negotiate with her, too? So it's time to take a little day off, even the ninth semester. And rest assured, Ferris Bueller will do this business without even getting out of bed. At least that's what the uninitiated will think. But the beloved girl and best friend will take part in the most unforgettable and daring adventure, which can only imagine an ordinary prick from high school.
It is not a fresh thought to say that John Hughes was brilliant at comedies about American youth. But it’s fair to assume that Ferris Bueller’s Weekend is an extremely skillful, free-spirited and really funny improvisation on a given topic. Hughes successfully and lovingly ironically over his well-known school education, this time leaving the latter no chance. The archetypal teacher tries to do the roll call with the most boring voice, and to give a lecture as much as possible without passion. Archetypal pupils with pens hanging from their mouths are especially hard at drilling a board with a sheep’s eye in the sleepy-tight atmosphere of the class. And the archetypal headmaster, meanwhile, is obsessed with a ruthless and long-awaited reprisal with a malicious violator of school order. And the author "Sixteen Candles" and "Breakfast Club" clearly did not lose, replacing the former cast in the person of Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall on no less charismatic Broderick. It was he who was the most amazing find of the director, thanks to which the film became what it is now.
His Ferris Bueller is a real thunderstorm of the school system cracking at the seams. The universe around him is built so that he is the most charming, inventive, lucky and witty favorite of the whole city. He is respected, he is unquestioningly believed, and bouts of an unknown disease, fabricated by our genius, will cause an immediate response - school friends will begin to collect donations for a new kidney, and the police station, all as one, convey sincere wishes for a speedy recovery. He is the perfect friend, the perfect truant. And especially for him - just today - any random improvisation, all the craziest ventures and the most hopeless situations will be incomprehensibly resolved as best as possible. The director does not go far in his intentions, setting himself only one task: that we, too, on this ideal day, would have insanely fun together with Ferris.
But don’t think Hughes is focusing on Matthew’s acting skills alone. In the new film, he experiments more boldly than ever, re-creating the atmosphere of his youthful universe with funny details and all sorts of references. Standing in an elegant suit in the morning, the hero calls himself Bueller, Ferris Bueller. No, no, and skipped his joke about the Alien in the stomach, and two not the most honest auto mechanics soar in a red Ferrari over the road to the grandiose and liberating anthem of the brainchild of Lucas. This time his character will not only quote Lennon, but also perform the most enchanting and explosive number to one of his early hits. Accomplices in his adventure will be an old friend Cameron - a typical wooden kid in second roles, whom Ferris must help overcome sullenness and eternal self-doubt, and charming in all respects cute Sloan, without whom the adventure picture would be incomplete and not so attractive. Promised and a number of comic episodes with Ed Rooney - the mentioned director-nerd, who is waiting for a complete failure storm of the home fortress Ferris, built in the spirit of Kevin McCallister (here to a series of deadly obstacles is also a Rottweiler). But the main advantage of an already fascinating comedy is the perfectly appropriate destruction of the fourth wall. The effect of direct dialogue between the hero and the viewer makes Ferris feel a particularly palpable sympathy, which is increasing as his simple-minded and funny confession about himself, his friends and the last restless days of school life.
It is not surprising that with such a striking set of advantages, Ferris Bueller’s Weekend has become a favorite and unequivocally cult film for a huge number of Americans. But to watch it will be a joy for everyone who is tired of the vulgar humor of today’s comedies. In this film, he is also not particularly original and typical of his genre, and the trick is how the director can make the viewer laugh from the heart not the latest jokes. It is unclear whether the secret lies in the editing, actors, good music or clever interweaving of plot moves. Maybe all at once, but also the ability to tell the story of unimaginable adventures as if it was something quite real and familiar. Perhaps that’s why we so willingly believe that all of us – come from youth, we often dreamed of quitting our sickening studies and running away to walk with friends. And it’s time to say loud words that “Ferris Bueller” is the apogee of the director’s creativity. Loud, but not empty, because John Hughes really managed to laugh, and the viewer – to remember his not aging comedy and a young promising guy with such a kind and crafty smile.
People don’t know how to relax – this is a well-known fact. But we are very good at wasting time on unproductive nonsense and then regretting it. It may be a purely subjective opinion, but no, be honest with yourself. Sometimes you miss school, work, college or college, no matter why. This creates such a desirable free time, which will be wasted, and tomorrow again somewhere to go and you have not learned any positive experience from your unscheduled vacation, this happens often with everyone. Maybe not with everyone, but with many.
This film shows you how to spend your free time. Take a cool car and friends, go to the big city, break away there in full, and at the end catch catharsis and solve some life problems in addition. Great! A recipe for a good trip. However, it does not quite work, the main character everything is given too simply, he does not have to strain to get his, things just happen as he wants. Because of this, it is not possible to worry about him, everything will be fine with him, no matter what happens. As a character Ferris does not look like a real person, he is more of a cartoon character who got into the movie, and he will hint at this in every possible way, communicating with the viewer directly, breaking the fourth wall. Reality is distorted around Ferris, people begin to sing and dance, and play along with the hero in every possible way. And this is what everyone needs, we dream that problems are solved simply and elegantly (usually with the help of a phone and a slightly changed voice), that we are loved by everyone, we have clear plans for the future, which are sure to come true! But reality doesn't work that way. And the movie seems to know that because there are two other main characters. Ferris’s girl, her name really doesn’t matter in this context, she exists just to be the girl of the main character, she is not a character in herself, she is only an additional quality, an accessory. She shows some emotions and even expresses thoughts a couple of times, but does not carry any value. Unlike Cameron, Ferris' best friend. Cameron is the exact opposite of his friend, who, by his presence, amplifies the effect produced by Ferris, because as we know, something bright stands out more in the dark. But Cameron is a character, he behaves like a real person (probably the only one in this film), his actions are justified, he has a background. And what's amazing is that he's the only character that really evolves through the film, he's the only one who learns an important lesson for himself. He will have to face his problem, and we do not know how it will turn out, maybe he will have problems, but the main thing is that he has overcome himself.
And then comes the understanding, the author of the film associated himself with Cameron, he is the one for whom we are here, Ferris is only a catalyst for change, who drew all the attention to himself, and it is he who will ultimately be loved by the audience.
The genre of the film is a comedy, so it is not surprising that solving some personal problems is not the main focus, they hang out somewhere behind and if you want, you can follow their development, or you can just enjoy the jokes. What is not very easy to do, the humor here is rather weak and predictable, perhaps the film tries to ridicule the cliches, but it seems that it just reproduces them. However, it is well filmed, and the secondary characters are surprisingly well written.
The main serious topic, which is revealed in the film, is again associated with the relationship between teenagers and parents, which is a bit sad, perhaps teenagers do not have other serious problems. It’s been almost 30 years since the film’s release, and it seems that Hollywood has never found new themes for teen movies. Oh, well, we learned to joke... Oh. Hmm.
Undoubtedly worth a youth comedy by John Hughes, the jokes of which today, almost 30 years after the release of the film on the big screen, seem very funny. The film was accepted by both critics and a wide audience, as evidenced by the amount of fees, which exceeded the budget of six million almost twelve times.
The main character, Ferris Bueller, a hangman, a cheerful man, as well as a guy popular in his district, whose role was perfectly played by Matthew Broderick, is engaged in what he tries almost every day to spend fun and with laughter. To do this, he invents various pranks, each of which is very original.
In the center of the plot are two overdue conflicts that arise from Ferris with the headmaster of the school, who is tired of suffering the regular truancy of a young guy who hides behind “respectful” reasons, and with his sister, who is simply fed up that his brother gets away with everything. After all, even a drug dealer, whose episodic role was played by Charlie Sheen, after hearing the heartbreaking story of his sister about her hated brother in the police station, where she went absurdly, decides to advise her to seek advice from a young guy named Ferris, from which the girl is even more disappointed.
The main advantage of this picture is an abundance of good jokes and funny situations, thanks to which the film will not seem boring, and time will fly by quickly and imperceptibly.
7 out of 10
Would you like to skip school or work?
Do you have the courage to do that?
Life passes by you, and you humbly look after it?
Then you need Ferris Buehler!
Ferris Buehler is someone who knows how to live.
Would you like to know what real life is according to Ferris Buehler? This is an art book for you.
So what's the movie about? The film will answer a few questions:
Is it possible to skip school with impunity?
What to do if the director and parents try to catch you in truancy?
What to do if your best friend resembles a spider-web plant?
The above questions form the plot of the picture.
The artistic features of the film can be discussed for a long time. It's hardly a great movie. This film is as serious as its hero, Ferris Buehler. But also charming. You can't argue with that.
And by the way, it's a bad movie. If you are an employee of a serious firm where being late for work equates to being deprived of a bonus, then this movie is not for you. You'd better get around him. He can revive you and you will lose your job if you act like the main character. Is it not worth living to the fullest?
Speaking about the characters of the film, we can say that they are quite stereotypical. There is a plant-man and an eternally evil director and teacher out of this world. And the main character of the film is probably not even Ferris Buehler. Still, he is Ferris – a man-company and from the beginning to the end of the film does not change. But his plant friend is forced to overcome his complexity. He is living the best day of his life. This day he will remember more than one year, and this is especially valuable against the background of the routine and tightness in which he lives. And although he resists change, he realizes that everything is right.
Charlie Sheen also played a small role. He played a bully who has his own hooligan philosophy. Not a bad role, though small.
To sum it up, the film is only meant to entertain. This is not a serious picture, as I said, and not the most brilliant of comedies. It’s important to let go of routine and laugh at yourself.
And if everything goes wrong, just think about what Ferris Buehler would do in your place!
8 out of 10