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The car is a complete embodiment of Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron’s true adversary. The car and the jersey are linked in an extremely interdependent way. Hockey himself, Gordie Howe, the same player whose nameplate is on the back of Cameron’s jersey. The team they won against? The Detroit Red Wings, captained by Mr. When Ferris Bueller premiered in 1986, the Chicago Blackhawks hadn’t won the Stanley Cup since 1961, the same model year of the Ferrari. There’s also a lesser-known temporal connection between the jersey and car. They are a constant reminder of Cameron’s anxiety and his father’s oppressive presence that looms over the entire movie.

The impossibly loud shade of red they both possess dominates the focus point of each frame. Cameron lets us know just how scared he is of a man we never even see, and this fear is manifested in the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider he unenthusiastically borrows without permission from his father’s garage. The audience doesn’t need a measuring stick to understand exactly how Cameron feels about his dad.

This relationship with his grandfather would have served to contrast his oft-spoken feelings about his father, however, these differences did not need to be explained. The scene revealed that Cameron’s grandfather, who he had a glowing relationship with, used to take him to Red Wings games in Detroit when he was a kid. In a 2017 interview with Mel Magazine, actor Alan Ruck said the choice to wear an opposing team’s jersey was explained in a deleted scene. The first time we see him in that bright red hockey jersey he’s behind the wheel of his car trying to psyche himself up to join his friends, a battle he appears to be losing.įerris, Sloane, and Cameron at the Art Institute of Chicago. He’s buried under the covers suffering from a multitude of psychosomatic issues, and it takes some major convincing from Ferris to get Cameron to leave the house. When we first meet Cameron, he is literally isolated by himself in a house in the middle of the wilderness. Seeing someone wearing a Red Wings jersey in downtown Chicago would be a triggering sight to a Blackhawks fan, and instantly identifies Cameron as an outsider to the local community. The Red Wings and Blackhawks were both part of the original six teams that still exist in the National Hockey League, with a bitter rivalry dating back to the 1920s.

FERRIS BUELLER SEARS TOWER FULL

He sticks out like a sore thumb among a city full of Chicago Blackhawks loyalists. When Cameron isn’t saying it out loud, the Detroit Red Wings jersey he wears is constantly reminding us that he doesn’t want to be here. Ferris’s only objectives are to not get caught, have a good time, and keep Cameron from having a nervous breakdown. He ropes in his cool-girl counterpart Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara) and his despairingly neurotic best friend Cameron Frye. Beloved high school senior Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) plays hooky for a day to take in the numerous sights and sounds the Windy City has to offer. While not a major sound effects movie, the surround sound mix has some fun rear effects like Jeanie peeling out in the morning and the fake snore Ferris recorded.Īll the music fills the speakers, from the MTV fanfare to the Ira Newborn score, the parade rendition of “Dana Sheen” and “Twist and Shout” and all the pop music on the soundtrack.įerris Bueller had extensive special editions in the past and all those bonus features appear on the 4K UHD too.Famously written in just a few days in anticipation of an impending writer’s strike, the plot to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is incredibly simple. Now you can tell as the film grain jumps in 4K. When Ed Rooney is running back and forth from the dog, there is a cut between two takes. The stubble on Broderick’s face betrays his teenage appearance in closeups, and I did notice one cut I never did before. The sterile Sears Tower, fancy restaurant or high school halls show the sorts of environments from which Ferris wants to escape. It is a bright sunny day whether in the Bueller backyard or downtown Chicago. It is that one notch clearer, but still looks like the film we all remember with its grain.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off gets a 4K UHD that does not betray its original aesthetic.

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