Ferris Buellers bedroom. Classic or CLASSIC!

A new bedroom:

http://jalopnik.com/5879809/exclusive-ferris-buellers-mysterious-super-bowl-ad-is-for-honda

Haha a bunch of people on my Twitter feed are still 100% convinced this is for a sequel, no matter how much I insisted it was for an ad campaign and nothing more.

sounds typical of dunces who like Ferris Bueller

^^^

in my dotage, I have grown to really hate this movie

One of my favourite movies of all time.

would've been a shorter movie if Cameron's car had exploded in the first reel and killed Ferris and Sloan instantly.

Its much better, not to mention a lot less racist, than the other John Hughes 80s movies.

I dislike this movie a great deal but that's true.

Its much better, not to mention a lot less racist, than the other John Hughes 80s movies.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, January 27, 2012 6:01 PM (53 minutes ago)

????

tbf it doesn't give any non-white actors any lines, so they don't have the opportunity to serve as blatantly racist caricatures.

What about the two "Middle Easterns" garage guys ("what kind of country do you think this is?")?

xpost, was curious enough to google it, prb don't need further explanation here.

Forgot about those guys, but still, much less racist than Long Duk Dong.

I love this movie. Primary racial wtf is the black folks dancing during the parade scene.

yeah those guys definitely stick out as some kind of "ew urban people/immigrants!" nonsense, altho their ethnicity is sort of indeterminate.

xp

Oh yeah, I forgot about Long Duk Dong. Somehow.

I love this movie. Primary racial wtf is the black folks dancing during the parade scene.

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:06 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i really love this scene, though haven't seen the film for in awhile; can you refresh my memory/expand a bit? is it caricaturish or what?

yeah well there's just you know everybody being all goofy and then hey there is an all-black dance team doing a choreographed dance on some stairs spliced in. Maybe not too caricatured but definitely makes me o_O whenever I see that part.

aw. idk how much of this is just blind affection for JH & this movie - like i guess reasonably i should see that the guy has form per long duk dong - but it never rung out, to me. i could handle all-black dance team w/o black seeming an important variable; or w/o choreographed seeming to have been considered 'appropriate' for that group or w/e.

dance team in question rolls in around 2:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vltUWa_tOhE&feature=related

Thumbs up to Hughes for taping a Bryan Ferry Boys + Girls poster on Ferris' wall.

will stick w/ Jon Cryer's Smiths poster

You wanted the full ad you got it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA

And, for true Bueller geeks, the name of the agent, Walter Linder, is a nod to the name listed under sausage king of Chicago Abe Froman on the restaurant-reservation list in the original film.

why did they make him do such boring stuff

Also, why would they spend a jillion dollars to air this during the Super Bowl and then release it online 6 days early?

Seriously, that ad is completely pointless. I'm not even the biggest stan of the original movie, but divorcing it completely from the Chicago context makes absolutely no sense to me.

Any Angelenos know which hotel that is? Beverly Hills Peninsula?

why did they make him do such boring stuff

(Spot is directed by Todd "Hangover" Phillips.)

What about the two "Middle Easterns" garage guys ("what kind of country do you think this is?")?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

isn't one of them former Sonic Youth drummer Richard Edson?

Richard Edson of Stranger Than Paradise?

yes

"Middle Eastern"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nY72TdvmuKk/RyHbPC3StaI/AAAAAAAAALU/zELA-mhDoAA/s320/bueller_joyride.bmp

dunno neither of these guys read as "middle eastern" to me

damn:

His more notable roles include a disreputable parking garage attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

I thought at the time his accent was Lebanese.

"I speak indie rock, with a hint of ska."

More importantly, his co-pilot is Flash Jenkins, who played Gummy in Fletch!

"and a strong skronk aftertaste"

dunno neither of these guys read as "middle eastern" to me

pretty sure Hughes' intention was for them to read as "threatening/urban/ethnic"

Have the "Bueller 2" idiots in yr F'book feeds wised up yet?

Haha, I don't know, I haven't been on Facebook much at all in the last four or five days.

eesh I always read the garage attendants as heroes! Who wouldn't 'borrow' a rad car from some stupid rich kids if they could get away with it?? These guys are the best characters/people in the movie. And I like this movie.

yeah, that is a pivotal scene in the "Ferris is a total douchebag" reading of the film. we loved those guys as kids, and quoted "uuuhhh... what country do you think this is?" incessantly.

Hm.
I always liked John Hughes movies growing up, yeah, but I'm realizing that I never actually liked, in the sense of wanting to be or be friends with, any of his main characters except maybe Ducky and Annie Potts (and that was only half his movie). Ok i kinda had a crush on Cameron. But everyone was pretty spoiled and boring! Even if they weren't rich and/or stupid! But then they did things that were relatively wacky in comparison to their little lives, and who's not a fan of relatively wacky things.

Any Angelenos know which hotel that is? Beverly Hills Peninsula?

that was my first guess but a look at their website seems to indicate no

I was also thinking about how Stephen Spielberg, despite the premises of most of his movies being so fantastical, made much more realistically human films of the 80s (and beyond). I'm pos only thinking this because I rewatched Minority Report last weekend and it is a totally great movie!! Also I'm on my phone so can't search for a Spielberg thread.

most classic thing was the Emulator ferris used

Re: the new ad -- there's something so pathetic about a man in his late 40s pulling the same shit he did when he was a teenager. At least back then he had friends, now he looks like some sociopathic loner. I kept expecting a reveal of dead bodies in the back of the CR V.

I want to see a middle-aged Elliot reunite with E.T.

oh last time I was in NYC I saw M Broderick walking down the street in the village. He was talking to a woman and drinking coffee and wearing sunglasses. He didn't tell me anything about this commercial.

Then I went and bought some perfume from a fancy perfumerie.

Still think, as darraghmac alluded to, it's kinda funny that someone thought it was a good idea to get Matthew Broderick to star in an automobile commercial.

I always liked John Hughes movies growing up, yeah, but I'm realizing that I never actually liked, in the sense of wanting to be or be friends with, any of his main characters except maybe Ducky and Annie Potts

I had friends in high school who were like Ferris, really cool as long as you were willing to do exactly what they wanted you to do... and they pissed me off. His sister had the right idea, trying to fuck with him.

Its this whole thing about forced nostalgia. Hey, remember this fun movie? Well here, let's ruin it completely. Its better than this year's VW Star Wars commercial, which is annoying and awful (and remember this is coming from the guy who got in thread beef with whiney over loving their ad from last year's Super Bowl).

Yoda is currently shilling for Vodafone in the UK

it's kinda funny that someone thought it was a good idea to get Matthew Broderick to star in an automobile commercial.

daaaaaaaaamn, I didn't even remember that. And neither does anyone else in America.

TV seems to want to ruin everything these days. Like today I was waiting at the bus station and the tv there made me know that Drew Carey hosts the Price Is Right. I miss my innocence.

xp Yep, he was in a car wreck that killed two people in Northern Ireland, and fined a cool $175.

xxpost -- oh man, it just hit me. As it were.

I remember there was a whole thing happening when Broderick hosted that episode of SNL he did a year later because the Sugarcubes were performing and the angst was whether or not they could perform "Motorcrash."

Let Einar be Einar.

laura bush, rebecca gayheart and brandy are calling their agents right now

as a matter of fact there's a new Brandy (and Monica!) single due any day now

Would love to see a Jon Cryer + James Spader reunion commercial.

Broderick sadly coming across more as his character from Election in this

Hey, answering yesterday's question, I just figured out that the hotel, or at least the driveway, is the Montage.

An in depth analysis from our own Alex in NYC

http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2013/06/favorites-of-ferris.html

Classic enough for a documentary, evidently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59pCVMYiJo

In advance, a local rep has been screening this in the afternoon the past week. Someone I used to work with bought me the video a few years ago, and every so often she would check in to see if I'd watched it. I finally did, today--I was the only person there for a 4:30 screening, me and 250 empty seats.

The "Twist and Shout" scene, I'd seen that on TV once; great scene. (It's a scene I could just as easily have hated, but it works.) Also really liked the museum scene, which came out of nowhere and was completely at odds with the rest of the film. Charlie Sheen was funny--one of those cases where he seemed to be off in his own movie. The end-credit bus sequence was clever.

Honestly, though--I won't say this to my co-worker; she obviously loves the film--I found most of the rest excruciating. The scene where Ferris's friend destroys the car and decides to stand up to his dad especially.

I still covet that giant "Slave to Love" poster.

featured here as "a foundational text of Reagan-era (and beyond) white male privilege"

https://www.bam.org/film/2018/on-whiteness

I saw an hour of it on cable channel on Sat night before going out: chuckling at the Grace/Rooney scenes and lusting after the "Slave to Love" poster in the first third, groaning at how the audience is supposed to accept Ferris' self-absorption as cool in the second act.

Then I went out wearing a shirt as cool as Ferris' vest.

would've been a shorter movie if Cameron's car had exploded in the first reel and killed Ferris and Sloan instantly.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 27, 2012 1:00 PM

a foundational text of Reagan-era (and beyond) white male privilege

Don't disagree, and it's not without interest--there are lots of bad, annoying '80s films that fit that description. One of the biggest problems, I was thinking later, is Matthew Broderick. He's great in Election and You Can Count on Me. That's his character, and he grew into it well: middle-aged, wound too tightly, this bland, weasely everyman. In Ferris, he's supposed to be a wildly charismatic teenage wiseguy. For me, he wasn't even close.

Obsessed with this
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ghanaian poster from Deadly Prey Galleries pic.twitter.com/LwGdOU4ll9

— Stephen Scarlata (@StephenScarlata) January 23, 2019

Oh, Ed. You sounded like Dirty Harry when you said that.

Shoot shoot shoot em up!