Ferris Bueller Day Off Essay

“I said it before and I’ll say it again, life moves pretty fast, you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” This is how the audience meets Ferris Bueller. John Hughes’ 1986 film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off had quite a bit of appeal that brought the attention of many viewers. A film about a beloved senior in high school who decides to play hooky for the day and go on an adventure around Chicago. The trailer doesn’t do much to tell much about the plot, instead, it introduces the main character by a sequence of opinions that background characters are saying of the delightful Ferris Bueller. Bueller is described, via the trailer, as a character that influences his peers – gaining him popularity – in ways they find

Generic character types are difficult to identify because the trailer focuses on Ferris and the casts’ reactions to him. There are the minority who don’t like Ferris and there’s a majority who admire and look up to him. Through the trailer you have to infer who his best friend, girlfriend, and sister are and what role they play in the film. The film doesn’t introduce you to any of the characters, it simple just gives their opinion on the protagonist of the film. From the film, we can interpret that Ferris didn’t go to school that day, he found himself taking a shower and laying in bed while others are at school, driving in an expensive car when he should be at school, and dressing in a suit for whatever situation he was trying to get him or someone else out of. That’s pretty much the base of it, the narrative of the film is simple, Ferris Bueller is a teenager who is a senior in high school, one day he decided to skip school and drag his best friend and girlfriend into the day off with him. In a review article, the plot’s simplicity was admired, “that’s pretty much it, folks, and if the plot seems like simplicity itself, well, therein lies much of the films charm” (The Film Journal