C/D - The character of Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Greatest character in American cinema ever? Darni3ll3 clone? Antihero? Schmuck? Post your opinions here.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Well he's the Xander, obv. Ferris is the Buffy and Whatsername's the Willow.

But yes.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim, I have no idea what you just said.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

He is the center of my two favorite parts of the movie:
"When Cameron was in Egypt's land...let my Cameron go..."
and of course:
"Ferris Bueller, you're my hero."

Tim, wouldn't a more classic interpretation be that Cameron is the superego, Ferris is the id, and Sloane is the hot chick?

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

NA: well yes but that may be more or less the same thing.

Ally: sorry but surely that's position normal? who is the bez and who is the xander: movie dept

Burning question re: FBDO: is Rooney the Bez or is that Ferris's sister?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Cameron is cute. I like his suspenders.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

sister = Xander?

― chris (chris), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

sister = Warren

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris in that thread I linked to (which is a classic, genuinely grebt incl a marvellous cameo from PF) you said that Ed Rooney was the Xander (and Grace = Bez). Make your mind up!

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

tossing/turning mannequin in Ferris' bed is Bez.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm having second thoughts, can't make up my mind whether it's really the secret story of a career educationalist realising the futility of teaching or the story of an agry young woman's quest for inner peace, realised during her pummelling of a dodgy headteacher.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Am attracted to the theory that FBDO is a re-write of Candide / Cool Million with Rooney as the central character and the whole Ferris Cameron piece is social background / colour. Except it's totally mad, obv.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst thread ever.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That'd be my fault. Sorry.

The whole of FBDO is made for us to identify with Cameron isn't it? How in love with Mia Sara (is that her name?)is Cameron?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

you've just got to watch poor old Ed sink lower and lower into the miasma until he is reborn into the real world on the school bus. He takes the gummi bear - he is once again, a baby.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite scene is when the bare-breasted nurse cradles the head of the dead woman who is stuck in limbo. Shattering.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

You know that the dude who played Cameron (should know his name but can't think of it right now) costarred in TWO sitcomes with Heather Locklear? Neither of which I watched.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

We must escape this attempt to link one of the Greatest Movies Ever with a TV series that, er, isn't immediately. Instead let us imagine Cameron as what happens when a Samuel Beckett character stumbles into a Thornton Wilder play.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Mia Sara is more of a Beckett character, no?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm...actually you're onto something. I suspect Rooney thinks he's a Wilde character but is in fact from Simon (of whom I am not fond).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Cameron was great, but Ed Rooney was the best character in the whole movie.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

should know his name but can't think of it right now

Alan Ruck.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't it weird how Ruck just basically disappeared for a while after FBDO and then suddenly reappeared in the Star Trek movie, Speed, and Spin City like 10 years later? Or does it just seem that way? Where was he?

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I should have known that because I always get it confused with Alan Rickman. They should make a buddy-cop movie together.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

full filmography here.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

he was grounded for smashing up dads ride.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic for the Gordie Howe jersey.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic, but the Gordie Howe jersey is a pretty strange thing for a kid from the North Shore to wear.

― hstencil, Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe he moved there like a year before the movie.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the origins of Cameron are a mystery.

But yeah, the Red Wings jersey does match the Ferrari and the khakis well.

― hstencil, Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It's classic because it reveals a deep respect for the game of hockey!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

not to mention a deep disrespect for the franchise of Bill Wirtz!

― hstencil, Thursday, 12 June 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

al ruck was *30* when he played cameron.

― pisceboy, Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I learned how to make that drippy noise with my mouth from watching cameron in the scene at the stock exchange. it still makes me happy.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you serious about him being 30? Aside from being really tall, he looks like he's about 15 in that movie.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I always loved the 'Cameron' character much more than Ferris. Had the best blue eyes aswell!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I read he was thirty which makes me feel a little better about thinking he was cute way past the age when I should be thinking 16 year olds are cute. But still, he looks like a kid.

Oh, and to answer the question, undoubtedly classic.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

God if he was 30 there that explains why, when he reappeared in Spin City, he now looks about 60. He probably is!

I feel responsible for starting this Cameron discussion (with my J0hn D as Alan Ruck posit, obv). I'm not sure wether to be pleased or scared.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 June 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

you know those "try and name a band everyone on ilm likes" threads?
was this ever done with films?
surely everyone likes ferris bueller's day off?

― robin (robin), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It was, and people hate ferris

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate hate HATE this movie

grrr

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

essplain!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 June 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(it's not perfect - it's by John Hughes for chrissakes - but I have no idea how the film could be hated. and Bueller was a cabaret voltaire fan!)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 13 June 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

you mentioned my main reason in your last post

(hint: not the cab volt thing)

my hatred for the 80s teen movie knows no bounds

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 June 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

so no Hughes among the top 100 english language films, then?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 13 June 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

jess in adverse reaction to culture cliché shocka!

you guys DO know that the fellow who played rooney was like convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography? it lends an eerie resonance to the scene where he is found in bueller's house.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 13 June 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

when cameron was in egypt land

― let my cameron go (gabbneb), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't know who cabaret volaire were last time i saw the film
in what way is he a fan?
are they playing in the background or something?

― robin (robin), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

he has a poster on the wall i think

― ron (ron), Friday, 13 June 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Cameron = classic. I always identified with him. Ferris Bueller himself is very close to being the most annoying guy in the universe.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah but thats Matthew Broderick for ya ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 13 June 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

this movie has been on in the bg of several key life experiences (well two) but i don't ever recall actually sitting down and watching it end to end. a lot of it is still in my memory banks though so that makes it good.

they use chicago locations pretty well i thought. it was one of my first tastes of the North Shore (see also "Risky Business") before I actually moved there. i still see this from the POV of a city kid looking down on those silly surbanites than from the POV of one of the silly suburbanites themselves which wd probably be more accurate.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

that sharper image sparky mc spark spark thing in his room seemed so cool at the time...

― ron (ron), Friday, 13 June 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

REVIVE!

Why bcs CAMERON'S HOUSE IS FOR SALE.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/370-Beech-Street_Highland-Park_IL_60035_M75005-48869

http://p.rdcpix.com/v05/l5be11f42-m2o.jpg

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:22 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/sidecar_ferris/

― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:26 (fourteen years ago)

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