The Inner Bean

So, it’s that time of year when the 80’s movie film craze sneaks in on me and I start to catch myself planning out how I can hook up with Judd Nelson in the Breakfast Club. While I was listening to an amalgamation of 80’s movie soundtrack songs, the Ferris Bueller song came on and I started to think about Ferris. Not Matthew Broderick, but Ferris and Cameron, and how awkward that whole movie was. It was honestly never one of my favorites, and I could never quite put my finger on why.

The thing that bothered me even as a teen was why on EARTH was the principal so worried about Ferris Bueller? He wasn’t even that badass. Okay, so he did sing in the street, and he manged to convince everyone he was practically dead on ONE day from school, but haven’t we all done that?

I just can’t wrap my head around it. He was a total nerd. Cameron was way more pathetic and even a little cooler than Ferris. I got the impression that Cameron missed way more school. So why was everyone so obsessed with Ferris?

I guess the movie is a classic, but it’s almost like John Hughes just wanted squeeze out as many hits as he could before he got to 1990 and his movies started to smell bad, but seriously. Ferris Beuller? If you thought he was all the rage, I want to know why. Honestly, I thought Farmer Ted from Sixteen Candles was way cooler, or even Ducky from Pretty in Pink… but Bueller… I don’t know. Maybe there was always the potential for Anthony Michael Hall to become a hot psychic.. but whatever happened to Matthew Broderick and who cares?

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