The irony that the actor playing Rooney in this movie with kids pleaded no contest to a felony charge of soliciting a 14-year-old boy to pose for nude photographs.
Jeanie went to the same High School as Ferris, ... wouldn't she had recognized her Principal Mr.Rooney when he breaks into the house? In the movie she says(on phone) & acts like he is a total stranger.
I always wondered what happened to Cameron. He just seemed so depressed. I always wanted to see a sequel about his college and adult days. But, I wondered why they glossed over his depression? He clearly needed help.
How about when Mrs. Bueller is lamenting her day--during the drive home from the police station--she mentions how the commission she lost would've been enough to get Ferris a car... just before he darts across the road, forcing Jeannie to slam on brakes, thus distracting the audience from realizing there was one consequence to his actions: screwing himself out of getting a nice, new car.
"His parents aren't quite that well off." Hmm, having lived in the Chicago suburbs, I recognized from several scenes that the Bueller's would've have lived in a "upscale neighborhood". With John Hughes making other movies like The Breakfast Club and Home Alone filmed and set in the same area, they would have been rich af.
Ok, there’s a line which most people miss that makes Ferris an infinitely better character. After they destroy the car and Cameron says that he will take a stand Salone tells Ferris “you knew what you were doing the moment you got up” that means that Ferris took the day off just to get Cameron out of his depression and to try to get him to stand up for himself
I remember the 80's, but apparently you don't. We LOVE to remember the good, original, and creative movies, but some of us (you) also LOVE to forget all the garbage we were bombarded with. Seriously, there was a ton of crap back then - just like now - and the crap was far worse than today's crap.
I was an adult when it came out and I recognized it for what it was: a high school student's fantasy. Therefore, there was really nothing to criticize.
What I have noticed is the insane amount of things they were able to experience in the space of one school day. The ball game, the art gallery, the stock exchange, the restaurant, the parade, the swimming pool, and all the driving in between. Ferris is so awesome that he can even defy time.
Ferris can control time it’s obvious lol the perfect timeline would have been to hit the art gallery around 10am after that mingle at the parade for a bit go to restaurant and be at game in time for first pitch leave game early enough to get back to back home before his parents got home I know it sounds wild but he could have planned everything based on his parents routine he knew his parents would check up on him At some point and had to be home to answer phone lol
Actually, if I was a drunk/dope smoking teenager again in the 80s on a skip day, I could probably get most of this done. Exchange then gallery, then a swim, have some lunch, see some parade and hit an afternoon double header. Traffic wasn’t that bad in the 80’s and I had a car. My girlfriend was better looking too. Off the top of my head I recall one day we skip class after 1st period, went drinking at a buddies house, the space shuttle blew up, we went to lunch, performed in an airband competition at high schooled, were threatened with school suspension for cross dressing during the air band thing, then crossed a border to go drinking in a bar. My buddy who was still wearing a Tina turner wig for some reason had sex with a stripper in my car. The rest of the afternoon and into the evening got considerably more out of hand.
Paramarta, no, that was a huge sticking point with me and many others I think. That should scene should have been cut out or never happened actually. Rooney could have bought the dog a Gyro, Chicago hot dog or Deepdish Pizza. It would have fit SO much better
Fair point, but the audience is informed that the dog is totally fine because we not only see it wake up, but also get its revenge by attacking Rooney at the very end. If they had just left the dog in the alley, that would be dark!
@@DarkHelmet1976 I must admit I was rather aghast when I saw the dog lying there apparently dead from getting hit by that flower pot, but relieved when it woke up and attacked Rooney. I wasn't worried about Rooney. 😁
Rename the video "things only people hell bent on not having fun notice in Ferris Bueller's Day Off". If you're asking why Ferris has an 8 grand synth in his bedroom then the movie isnt for you.
It was a pretty crap list. I thought they were going to pick up on ADULT culture references, naughty INTERESTING stuff... Nope, just a crappy list of minor errors.
@@trex2957 "Errors". They're only errors if the filmmakers intended on making it realistic. If not - if it was a satire of some type - then I'd expect they were intentional.
Some of this pretty easily explained 1) The keyboard. It seems to stand that his parents are well off. His dad is eating at a very exclusive, members only club which would indicate they have money. And clearly Ferris is capable of talking anyone into anything. 2) We have no idea how far or close Cameron lives from the school. For all we know the school is just around the corner. 3) We are never told they are in a "super serious" relationship. Or have even been dating long. Ferris is impulsive which would be why he asked her to marry him. 4) depending on where you live some busses take A LONG time to get home. There are also After school busses that take kids home that stay for extracurricular activities such as clubs and sports.
And when Ferris picks her up from school Rooney was already on the steps with her waiting.. We have no idea how long they were waiting, only that they were waiting.
I guess my school was the only school to ever have late buses.. Our's was on Tuesday's and Thursday, there was a 6pm late bus for ppl who stayed after school for tutoring or whatever.
Your absolutely right. When I watch a comedy I never pay attention to how funny it is but rather count the minutes it takes to do things in real time. What a great date you must be.
One of the greatest movies of all time. And as someone who grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s in the Midwest in a middle class family and spent a lot of time in Chicago, I relate to all John Hughes’ movies on a crazy level. But with all of this, keep in mind, it’s a movie!! No movie is total reality. Crap, half the stunts Ferris pulls in the movie would likely never work in real life. But we’d like to believe they would, and wish they would. And that’s a whole lot of what makes the movie so much fun.
Agreed, that is why I don't watch any 'Everything wrong with .... movies, videos any more. I don't watch movies, any movies, and look to see what is wrong with them. Exception - I dislike, very much, movies based on otherwise great books where entire parts of the book are completely destroyed.
principal in the movie hit the sister's butt, shrugged off the dad (ferris) making out with the daughter (gf) thing and was convicted of child molestation later on. That guy also appeared in howard the duck as the bad guy. He had access to dozens of children while working and if this movie was so laissez faire about incest and principals touching students butts, its likely because the director and producers were pedos too. Hollywood has been trying to normalize this evil behavior for fifty years. At some point we, as a people, have to say NO MORE. No more statute of limitations, no more laws that make molestation a lesser crime than raping a full grown woman, no more judges giving only probation for abuse, NO MORE LETTING THOSE WHO STAND BY AND DO NOTHING GET AWAY WITH NO CHARGES!
P Stead :"there's nothing worth mentioning here" ... I politely disagree. I just very recently rewatched the movie, and while most things mentioned here escaped my attention, the "gifts and flowers" raised my eyebrows. Because that point is valid. Who brought that stuff into the house and decorated the hallway with it? I'm pretty sure I didn't notice that when I saw the movie as a teenager...but today? Yeah - it definitely stands out.
Never mind the fact that their house is a 7 bedroom, 5 bathroom, 4900 square foot house with a pool. It's worth 1.6 million today, and Cameron's house was designed a a famous architect. Obviously just based on the fact that he had a vintage Ferrari that was worth 6 figures back then also adds to teh fact that both families were very well off.
No evidence that Ferris's parents aren't well off? Big ass house, real nice cars, big ass house in a rich ass suburb of Chicago. Yep, they are right, no evidence...
Remember Jeanie got a new car for her birthday. Ferris got a new computer. Back then a computer was expensive back in the 1980s, maybe about $1,200 A new car was about $7,000 in the 80s. So Ferris' parents could have had good jobs that paid very well. Ferris' mother was a realtor. A realtor can make over $100,000 a year working full time.
Yeah, its like the people that say theres no evidence that socialism has ever been tried before. Or the people that say theres no evidence that hating white people is racism.
The bus that you called the "late bus" is in fact exactly what it is. In my HS we had the late bus to take you home from after school activities and practice
A lot of scenes were filmed there but the Bueller family house is in Long Beach, CA. You would think Hughes could have found a house in Winnetka for that...
(from memory): "um, he's sick... my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night... I guess he's pretty sick."
It's a movie that I can watch, then watch it the very next night and not get bored of it. Same with Terminator 2 and The Blues Brothers. Best films in my opinion.
Back when it came out on cable, I found it amusing for a couple of viewings. Beyond that, I didn't care to watch it anymore. "Better Off Dead"... that, I could watch over and over. "Two dollars!!!"
They have a point about the bus. In the original cut, Rooney gets on it immediately after running away from the house to get away from Jeanie. It was supposed to be a shock when he shows up and catches Ferris at the door. You weren't supposed to still think he was waiting around for Ferris. However, they moved the scene to the end credits because they wanted to make people stick around to see Ferris' post-credits scene at the end.
Granted, I noticed these things the first few times I saw it. Only because every school day from 1986-1990 I contemplated doing everything Ferris did. It IS amazing what I could accomplish as a teenager before the internet and cell phones!
Stay tuned, folks. Next up... we fact check Home Alone. It's chock full of ulikely scenarios and absurd stunts that every adult was already fully aware were merely comedic farces. "/
Tree Corleone I know it's not irony, but that's what most people think irony is. So I wrote it like that for people to understand. But nice of you to notice. :-)
The "late bus" can be explained: field trip, band practice, sporting event transport, or any number of after-school things. As for the wealth of the family, um... giant houses, vintage Ferrari (among other cars kept in a glass garage with a polished floor). Both the Buellers and Cameron's family were loaded.
The producer of this movie was interviewed in later years and said that "one must consider the fact that Ferris MAY only exist in Cameron's mind.".. Making this movie....FIGHT CLUB!!!
The mysterious gifts in the house when Ferris’ parents come home is likely because of deleted scenes. Originally Ferrie and Jeanie had two younger siblings. Likely they were the ones who brought all those things into the house. But John Hughes needed to shorten the film and ended up cutting all their scenes and likely eliminated any scenes of them bringing the gifts into the house.
@@jonp2338 If you notice the gifts are seen when the parents get home. Likely the two younger kids would have been home around the time Jeanie got home.
+LINDA H Are you kidding, I love to watch it. Funny is good for you, and this is Laurel and Hardy funny, can't get funnier than that, and beside it is done without scatological humor. By the way, I'm 74 yrs young.
My high school actually did have a "late bus," for all the kids who had school sanctioned after-school activities. Athletes, school club members, tutors, band members etc all had access to the late busses which was usually at about 4:30 to 5 pm.
-On a few field trips and other out-of-school activities, that bus for me was driving through the streets at five or six -Both Ferris's parents seem to be in well-paying jobs, so between that and Ferris's persuasiveness, it's remotely possible that he could own that synthesizer. -Sloane was worried about being caught by Mr. Bueller with no cover. With the giant shades hiding most of her face and the boys in the bucket, she was able to keep cool long enough (though how they all changed positions in that small space in less than five seconds....) -That ten minutes line might be being taken a little too literally
-The bus could also have been between Rooney chasing his being-towed-away car, and later, going back to Ferris's house. In between, he might have gotten a lift from the bus and then gotten a rental car to go back to Ferris' house to (almost) bust him.
Considering that the Bueller home is located in one of the most affluent suburbs of one of the most expensive cities in the country, dropping a few thousand on toys for their teen isn't such a stretch.
jumbofordman and that Chrysler Town & Country LeBaron station wagon that Mrs. Bueller drove was quite an expensive midsize station wagon back in its day too. Yes it was a midsize despite being small by today’s standards.
jumbofordman And his friend's dad had a 1961 GT 250 Spyder, which one recently sold for £5.5 million, which I would expect is north of $10 million American. So we discount it say to half million. He friend has bucks. His mother was a real estate agent and his father was going to lunch at that swanky restaurant after all. Looper missed the boat on that "fact".
My school had a late bus for people who participated in after school sports or activities. We also had an early bus that picked me up at 6am for band practice at 7 before school started. Yes I was in the band and on the football team.
Good try, but what school trip comes back after 6, unless they went to a Six Flags kinda trip, driving through the suburbs, kids with school books.......really.....this whole movie was a FANTASTIC FANTASY.......NO NEED TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING AT ALL
Yes but how did they have the argument after the phone call, make up, go to Cameron's house, pick up the Ferrari and then get to the school within 10 minutes?
You need to understand "Chicago time". 10 minutes = a half hour or more. I found that out the hard way one time when I asked how long it took to get to the church for a wedding.
Exactly. I lived with in walking distance of every school I lived in except high school, and if the district hadn't decided to build a new school, instead of fixing the old one, it would have been. And yes, a LOT of walking to and from home that took maybe 10 minutes at most.
And it could have taken more than 10 minutes for them to inform the school nurse and have her go get Sloan out of the class and then meet up with Rooney and go outside. And they had a Ferrari.
I was 15 when this came out and as a 15 year old I thought that art stayed in museums and didn't circulate. No one told me any different. My first trip to NY (25 years old) we went to The Met and my girl found The Scream by Munch. It's tiny, like really small. I'm thinking I thought this would be bigger. I turn to my right and there's Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island. And it's fucking huge!! Brought me right back to being an out of place, slightly insecure 15 year old. I stood there just like Cameron and took it in. I'll never forget that moment in my life. John Hughes made great movies. This one being my absolute favorite. So many timeless references and quotes that have made way into my daily life and now the life of my kids.
You guys missed the most obvious adult thing: Rooney sees what he thinks is an adult man french kissing his own teen daughter and responds by shrugging it off with a "So that's how it is in their family." WHAT THE WHAT!??!?
That guy was later convicted of child molestation. Looper doesn't mention it because its too obvious or too dark for this vid. He also hit ferris' sister's butt. I think the look on her face says that was ad-libbed. But to insert the dad makeout scene in the movie tells me the writer and producer and or director are trying to turn incest in to something funny or normal. Thats hollywood for you.
I used to have such a kid crush on Mia Sara. She was so beautiful. Between her and the girl in the "Cradle of Love" video, they rocketed me into puberty.
No, his movies are never from just one perspective-his talent lay in accurately depicting kids from poor homes, wealthy homes, nerds and popular kids, stoners and jocks, etc. He understood everyone, not just the rich kids, which is why his movies are still very watchable. Watch The Breakfast Club. Also, ignore Looper-this bit is complete bullshit.
+Brandon Wiesner have no idea what you're talking about dude. Dorothy b is right. some characters are poor, (Pretty in Pink) most are middle class. Although in Home Alone the family is pretty wealthy. Looper is complete shit.
They didn't stay for the entire game. They went to the parade passing through and stopped for Danke Schoen (2:33) and Twist and Shout (2:49) so that was under 6 minutes. As the Sausage King, he received quick service at lunch (easily under an hour). I think you just linger too long on RU-vid :)
I saw it at the theater in 86 when I was 13 and wondered how he managed to change clothes every few scenes. Time/space implausibilities exist in nearly every movie set over the course of a day so I tend to tune them out in general. The nice toys just reinforced that they had wealthy, yuppie parents who in the 1980's were being told to buy kids shit to makeup for leaving a generation home alone.
Not like that they don't. This wasn't some baseball or softball team coming back from a game. This was an assortment of different types of kids, male/female, nerds/trouble makers. Also they seem to be middle school aged. This was a screw up, but at least it was funny
They clearly didn't even watch it, or even watch the scenes they describe. Especially for a video supposedly showing what adults catch that kids miss, it's amazing they missed this. The "singing telegram": I heard that you were feeling ill Headache, fever, and a chill I came to help restore your pluck Because I'm the nurse who likes to ... [door slams] Hmmm, what rhymes with "pluck"?
The obvious one is that there is no way Ferris and his friends could have visited all of those sights in Chicago in one day, especially after driving in from the burbs. Did they only see one at-bat at the Cubs game?
So they went to Chez Joseph just to lie to the waiter about being the Sausage King, and so Ferris could go to the restroom and give a speech about Camron and his dad's Ferrari. Then they had to leave right away before even their bread arrived. That would be exhausting. I would rather stay in school, if that was the case.
I had a stereo very similar to his. These were quite common in the 80s. Mine was encased in glass and had glass doors. my high school best friend had a snythesiser very similar to Ferris'. Neither I nor my best friend came from money. it was really no big deal back then.
Saw this like 10x when it played in the theaters..... bought the VHS tape.... the DVD.... paid for VOD when on the road, .... now Blu-ray. Wish I was so Timeless.