Rewatchables Reference

• The opening 'They bought it' scene – Ferris talks to camera, includes 'life moves pretty fast' line, leads into Ben Stein's 'Bueller... Bueller...'
• Cameron debating whether to leave his house – 'He'll keep calling me... I'll go, I'll go, I'll go... shit'.
• The Ferrari/'Star Wars' scene – parking attendants take the car, 'Star Wars' music plays, euphoric looks flying through the air.
• The Art Institute museum scene with The Smiths' 'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want' and Cameron staring at the Seurat painting.
• The parade – Twist and Shout / Danke Schoen.
• Ferris sprinting home – stopping for the two sunbathing girls ('Hi, I'm Ferris Bueller').

• Cameron's introduction line – 'You're not dying, you just can't think of anything good to do' – especially relatable during quarantine.
• Alan Ruck himself – reinvented as Connor Roy on Succession 35 years later.
• Ben Stein's 'Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?' – one of the most omnipresent impressions of the late '80s.
• The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California – only 56 ever made, now worth $17-18.5 million each.
• The soundtrack/use of pop music – possibly the best use of pop music in a movie ever.
• Mia Sara as Sloane Peterson.

• Jeffrey Jones in real life – involved in a child pornography scandal.
• Ferris's room decor – very '80s unframed posters, the Bryan Ferry 'Slave to Love' poster over his bed.

• Emilio Estevez turned down Cameron – glad he did, Alan Ruck was better.
• Molly Ringwald wanted to play Sloane but Hughes told her the part wasn't big enough.
• John Cusack was the casting director's backup choice for Ferris.
• Anthony Michael Hall believed Hughes wrote both Ducky and Ferris Bueller for him.
• Bill Paxton was offered the parking garage attendant role, turned it down, and Hughes never offered him another role.

• Both parking attendants – Richard Edson (Stranger Than Paradise, Do the Right Thing) and Larry 'Flash' Jenkins ('Fletch', The White Shadow).
• Max Perlich and Scott Coffee from the classroom scene.

Jeffrey Jones – 'You don't like my policies, you can come on down here and smooch my big old white butt. Pucker up, buttercup.' 'Nine times.'

• Charlie Sheen at the police station – stayed up over two days straight so the character would have a certain look.
• Edie McClurg as Grace – 'The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads – they all adore him'.
• Jennifer Grey as Jeannie Bueller – great comic actress, karate kicks on Rooney, preview of Dirty Dancing physicality.

• Mia Sara – yes.
• The Ferrari as a cultural object – yes, peak flex in the mid-80s.
• Matthew Broderick – debatable; The Producers on Broadway circa 2001 might actually be his Apex Mountain.
• Chicago in movies – very possible, the movie uses the city the best.
• The 'all in one day' movie subgenre – competitors include 'Dazed and Confused', Dog Day Afternoon, 'Before Sunrise'.

• Cameron's Red Wings jersey – he's in suburban Chicago, should be a Blackhawks jersey. Hughes did it because he idolized Gordie Howe.
• Rooney not recognizing Ferris from 20 feet away at the Ferrari pickup scene.
• Ferris's mom doesn't notice the mannequin's arm is black from 6 feet away.
• Ferris's dad doesn't recognize Sloane in the cab.
• Nearly 10 outfit changes in the first 20 minutes.
• Who's working at the parking garage while the attendants are joyriding the Ferrari around Chicago?

Replace Jeffrey Jones (due to real-life crimes) – Alan Rickman or Ronnie Cox suggested.

• How did they do everything in 8 hours?
• Why did Cameron's dad hate Cameron so much?
• Did Ferris become a software billionaire given his hacking skills in 1985?
• Is Ferris a figment of Cameron's imagination? (The 'Cameron's Fight Club' theory).
• What are the legs on the Sloane/Ferris relationship?

Not really viable since it's 'a day off' – not 10 days off. Fox made a Ferris Bueller TV show in 1990 with Charlie Schlatter and Jennifer Aniston that wasn't good.

John Hughes – cemented him as 'the guy for his time' and the owner of the '80s more than any other writer-director. Broderick and Alan Ruck are a tight second and third.

• Broderick was first choice for Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties (turned it down). Was cast in The Flamingo Kid (dropped out). Turned down Johnny Utah in 'Point Break'.
• Charlie Sheen's 1986: Lucas, Ferris Bueller, and Platoon all in one year – springboard to 'Wall Street'.
• Three replicas of the Ferrari were used; the replica company was sued by Ferrari for putting Ferrari badges on replicas and went bankrupt.