To start, a basic overview we’re introduced to the precocious, fourth-wall-breaking Ferris Bueller ( Matthew Broderick), a famed slacker at his suburban Chicago high school who decides to skip school by convincingly faking an illness to his parents, although his sister, Jeanie ( Jennifer Grey), and Edward Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), the Dean of Students at Ferris’s high school, aren’t convinced. The vast majority of audiences these days define timelessness in cinema through films that are often part of the self-serious IMDb vernacular - Citizen Kane, The Godfather, The Dark Knight, and so on - but it’s worth looking at timelessness through a lighter, more carefree perspective, something that Ferris Bueller exudes with unadulterated joy from the first frame to the last. Still hailed by many as one of the greatest coming-of-age films of all time, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has left a lasting impression on both the teenage audiences who resonate more immediately with its themes, as well as the adults who still find its messages on rebelliousness and freedom as applicable to their lives as they were when they were younger. However, if - even with its anthemic Simple Minds needle-drop - The Breakfast Club wasn’t enough to make audiences in 1983 notice Hughes’s knack for consciously portraying teenage angst, rebelliousness, and spirit, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was almost certainly the film to seal the deal. A single look at the most popular entries in Hughes’s filmography is enough to make his legacy crystal-clear his most prominent writing credits are none other than the first two Home Alone films, which have famously gone down as classics in the Christmas film canon, and he also helmed the eminently satisfying The Breakfast Club, which provided a humorous yet deeply insightful perspective on high school stereotypes that both recognized and shattered them in the most cathartic way possible. It’s difficult to name a director more influential to the teenage film landscape than John Hughes for that matter, it’s difficult to name a director who left such a tangible mark on Hollywood at large during the ’80s and ’90s.
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