find that the use of youth tribes and subcultures can clearly be identified in mid-80s comedy-dramas; particularly in those written‚ produced and directed by John Hughes. The primary texts I will be analysing are The Breakfast Club‚ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Weird Science. I have selected these texts as they are few of many that represent young people in an oppositional approach compared to the dominant ideologies of society at that time. I will be using Paul Hodkinson’s Youth Cultures: Scenes‚ Subcultures
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skipping school without getting caught. Ferris represents the personal traits that all high school students want to attain. They want to be popular with everyone and be able to get away with anything. In the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off‚ Ferris decides to take a day off from school for a little fun by pretending to be sick. As Ferris says‚ "Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while‚ you could miss it." To this end‚ Ferris convinces his best friend Cameron to take
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have their own version of the trickster; the Norse had Loki‚ the people from Ghana had Anansi‚ and the Greeks had Prometheus. Just as it is in folklore‚ films often utilize the trickster archetype and none more so than John Hughes’ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Ferris displays the classic characteristics of a trickster; he mediates between parties of people‚ applies “shape shifting” by the way of disguises‚ and displays quite a bit of amorality throughout the film. These actions call to mind the myths
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Possible or Not? Ferris‚ Sloane‚ and Cameron spend one amazing day ditching school‚ exploring the great city of Chicago and take time to visit many landmarks and take part in many exciting activities. The day depicted in the movie would be a great and exciting day for anyone‚ but is it possible for them to have done all of the things they did in one day? I believe it is reasonable to believe that Ferris and company may have been able to do all the things they did in
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want to go to school that day so he decides to fake being sick to fool his parents into letting him stay home. His parents are nice and caring people who would never think that their son would lie and believe his horrible sick acting. He gets his girlfriend Sloan Peterson out of school by calling in to falsely report that one of her family members had died. He also gets his friend Cameron‚ who actually is sick‚ to join him and Sloan for a day in Chicago before they go off to different colleges. Two
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There is one underappreciated factor in John Hughes’ 80s high school movies that make them so good‚ and that’s the acting. In one of the most well known films to this day‚ The Breakfast Club‚ the condescending Mr. Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) supervises detention where five students with completely different personalities felt trapped‚ but by being stuck together‚ they learned they had more in common than they thought possible. There was an athlete‚ a criminal‚ a princess‚ a basket case‚ and a brain;
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It’s no mystery that “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is a film intended for the younger crowd in America. The movie follows mischievous high school senior‚ Ferris Bueller‚ for an entire day as he skips class and does whatever it takes have a care-free “day off” in downtown Chicago. Ferris pulls out all the stops and uses his cunning ways to convince his girlfriend and hesitant best friend to join him while avoiding their suspicious principal‚ and he even goes as far as persuading that friend to secretly
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FIGURES OF SPEECH .Anaphora The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.) "I needed a drink‚ I needed a lot of life insurance‚ I needed a vacation‚ I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat‚ a hat and a gun." (Raymond Chandler‚ Farewell‚ My Lovely‚ 1940) .Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. "We notice things that don’t work. We don’t notice things that do
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Hughes is a very significant example of a filmmaker to reach a whole new level of achievement in Hollywood. As the director and writer of several well-known teen movies such as Sixteen Candles (1984)‚ The Breakfast Club (1985)‚ and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)‚ from the mid-1980s Hughes has been respected as one of the more influential figures of Hollywood for redefining and leaving a long-lasting impression on movies with a teen demographic. Through deeply focusing on new themes and motifs such
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Ferris Bueller and Catcher in the Rye – Comparative Essay Salinger’s 1951 novel‚ “The Catcher in the Rye”‚ and John Hughes’ 1987 teenage comedy film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”‚ both reflect the lives of teenagers in a time span of nearly 40 years. The two authors successfully convey society’s values on materialism and education in the two different eras using language and a variety of techniques. These values have affected both Holden Caufield and Ferris Bueller‚ the former negatively and the latter
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