“When you’re young, you look forward to movies that will stay with you forever, even after your youth is over.” New YorkerAnthony Lane Recent articles about 80s movies“After the first 20 minutes, my friend turned to me and said, Ferris Bueller’s Day“In 1986, he quietly declared, ‘This is the greatest movie ever made,’ and I had no reason to disagree.” Whether or not we saw the film when it was released in theaters, many of us had a similar reaction, but perhaps this would not have been the case had the final product been more faithful to writer-director John Hughes’ original vision. Either way, this is New CinemaStix Video Essay Above.
Incredibly, the creator of this video, Danny Boyd, Ferris Bueller The screenplay “took Hughes less than a week to complete, reportedly writing it in just two nights. He finished it just as the Writers Guild was about to go on strike, and just 36 hours after pitching the film to Paramount with only the tagline, ‘High Schoolers Skip a Day of School.'”
I myself was in the midst of puberty. Ferris BuellerEnthusiasm for the film aside, I did read it myself, and all I remember is being grateful that Hughes’ montage of Ferris collecting pennies from cookie jars and couch cushions to the sound of Pink Floyd’s “Money” didn’t make it into the final film.
“Ferris Bueller“The first cut was 2 hours and 45 minutes long and just didn’t work,” Boyd says. And the only hope was in the editing room. Luckily, that room was Paul HirschEditor Star Wars, blow outand FootlooseThe film needed to be reconstructed, not just cut, but rearranged in a way that would satisfy audiences who had already expressed dissatisfaction at preview screenings. Trip to the Art Institute of Chicago The last one to come Parade scene The scene where Ferris rides the float seemed right in the script, but not on screen. Hirsch and Hughes realized the parade “couldn’t get any better than this,” and realized they needed to end the trio’s journey there (and change the music, too). Thanks to this post-production intervention, Ferris Bueller lives on in the pantheon of modern trickster gods.
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