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John Scalzi@scalzi.com |
Ferris Bueller makes sense if you treat him as an incarnation of the Trickster God, like Loki or Bugs Bunny, which means he's fun to watch and an absolute horror to have to live with for more than two hours
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Jason Parton
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I dunno. Bugs was often retaliating when people were jerks to him. Bugs didn't go out of his way to cause trouble. Ferris is more like... I do what I want and you can't stop me. Kind of sovereign citizen energy.
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Elizabeth the WeatherFox
@weatherfox64.bsky.social
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This makes a lot of sense.
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Michael vs. 2024
@thepmann.bsky.social
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As Cameron's experience bears out. Sloane is basically a high priestess.
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True Tourtillott
@truet.bsky.social
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It’s a better movie if you watch it through the prism of Cameron theory.
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crAsh
@crashbanzai.bsky.social
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there's a reason his sister hates him so
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NetKnave
@netknave.bsky.social
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Ferris later changes his needs and Wade and becomes Deadpool
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Roger Ailes
@rogerailes.bsky.social
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He had Ben Stein as a history teacher. No wonder he's so fucked up in Election.
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Neovagina Evangelion
@gammarae.design
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Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
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Christine Cavalier✅
@purplecar.bsky.social
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The whole movie makes sense if you realize it’s Cameron’s story.
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Noisy Bridge Rod & Gun Club
@ofnadwy.bsky.social
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The implication that Jeanie is also then a god with a different, more orderly portfolio is enticing
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David
@crookedknight.bsky.social
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Which is why the TV show was a failure.
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A K M Adam
@akma.bsky.social
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I'm Cameron, in many ways, so although I kinda sorta like Bueller, I spend the whole film wincing and wishing he wouldn't do *that*. Matthew Broderick performs the alchemy to make the (tbh) obnoxious protagonist endurable.
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Dr Fim (Mealtime Anarchist)
@fim.bsky.social
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I was once told a theory that ferris is basically part of cameron’s split personality disorder. I don’t like it.
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@tujungadude.bsky.social
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bueller <==> beetlejuice
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Patrick Smith
@drpaddysmith.bsky.social
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It's also a screwball comedy masquerading as an 80s teen flick. Katherine Hepburn is pretty annoying in Bringing Up Baby, after all.
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@brettrickman.bsky.social
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It's now my head canon that Ferris Bueller is a Loki variant.
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Dag.
@3fecta.bsky.social
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Still hard to get over the fact that Alan Ruck (Cameron) is 67 years old now.
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Patrick
@ptb2003.bsky.social
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My family lived in Winnetka in the 80s and went to New Trier. My cousins talk about 2-3 guys who were THAT guy- whiny popular white rich kid who got away with everything. Great in the movie though.
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Your Pal in Ypsi
@ypsidoodle.bsky.social
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Recently I re-watched this for the first time in 30 years, and I shouldn't have, because my reaction was "Christ, what an assshole."
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Rhinestone Browboy
@rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social
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He’s a Manic Pixie Dream Narcissist.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
@ericallyn.bsky.social
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Ferris is the Road Runner and Rooney is Wile E. Coyote. (Which is actually a little weird, because Coyote is a trickster in many indigenous cultures.)
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Eric Christensen
@erchristensen.bsky.social
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When I was younger, I was home sick, and my grandmother was looking after me. We watched the movie. At the very end, she was so upset. "What?! He didn't get caught?!"
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@realdrnefario.bsky.social
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The thing is that we don't live with Loki or Bugs Bunny, but we live with people like F.B.
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Pedro Giglio
@jigu.com.br
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Rise up, "FBDO is Actually About Cameron" gang!
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Ray Anselmo
@rayanselmo.bsky.social
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Ferris Bueller, the Anansi of the 1 Percent.
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Charles Cooper
@cooper42.bsky.social
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Absolutely true.
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Dave Shramek
@dshramek.bsky.social
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Thus Cameron's scene in his car.
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Cranky Prognathodon
@sdrekkar.bsky.social
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This is pretty much how I feel about the MCU Tony Stark.
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Nick The Time Miser
@nscottg.bsky.social
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i always liked that theory that the whole movie is a figment of Cameron's mind it doesn't really hold up but it's fun to consider
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Chris in NY
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back when Cracked dot com was real they ad "important scenes cut from movies" and basically the backstory is that Ferris was Charlie Sheen's best friend and he engineers the whole day to save Cameron from a similar fate
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Kat Z
@katzindc.bsky.social
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Just hitting me how exhausting it would have been to be his friend. No wonder Cameron was struggling.
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Sandra Cormier
@chumplet.bsky.social
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Sandra Cormier
@chumplet.bsky.social
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PERFECT
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Bob M
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It's the "mostly harmless" vibe that keeps him bearable. He joshes some freshmen, he fools his parents and the stuffy dean, he gets one over on a snooty maitre d straight out of a Marx Bros movie. Honestly the scariest thing he does is take his hands of the wheel on Lake Shore Drive.
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Stacy (she/her)
@yarnylibrarian.bsky.social
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That is the perfect explanation of Ferris Bueller that I didn't know I needed.
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@zendao42
@zendao42.bsky.social
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All in-house gods are nightmares
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Facetiously Esoteric
@facetiousone.bsky.social
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I grew up with a friend just like Ferris, except it's real life, so he partied like a madman as well. Everything always worked out for Ferris, not so much for his friends he dragged along. He quits being a fun friend by your early twenties.
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Buttadeus
@thewanderingjew.bsky.social
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Yeah, I think this nails it. You can't take him literally like that, imagining what it would be like to live with/around him. That's obviously awful. But for one day? It's an adventure.
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