Ferris turns blue

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Movie
German title Ferris turns blue
Original title Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Hughes
script John Hughes
production John Hughes,
Tom Jacobson
music Ira Newborn
camera Tak Fujimoto
cut Paul Hirsch
occupation
synchronization

Ferris Blue is a 1986 high school comedy directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick . What is unusual for a feature film is the fact that the main character occasionally breaks through the fourth wall to speak directly into the camera to the audience.

In 2014 the film was included in the National Film Registry .

action

The Bueller family home in the film, standing in Long Beach

Ferris Bueller, the darling of his classmates and the teachers' enemy, is in high school last year. As a master of blueing is a specialist in simulating various illnesses in order to avoid the annoying school lessons.

One morning he decides to pursue his longing for freedom instead of compulsory schooling, and pretends to be sick to his parents. After convincing acting, the way is clear for a trip through Chicago . All that's missing is his best friend Cameron Frye, a neurotic hypochondriac , and Ferris' friend Sloane. After initial difficulties, Ferris persuades his friend Cameron to join him. The two can get Sloane out of her literature class by calling Headmaster Rooney about her grandmother's fake sudden death.

Carelessly, the three friends set off for fun in the Ferrari 250 GT California borrowed from Cameron's pedantic father, without realizing that the despotic school principal Ed Rooney has suspected anything. He is now doing everything in his power to put the hated student down.

The truants drop off the Ferrari in a parking garage and set off on foot into the city center without noticing that the two parking garage guards are "borrowing" the car for a secret jaunt. The three friends experience all kinds of adventures in Chicago and visit, among other things, the Sears Tower , the Chicago Stock Exchange , a fine French restaurant, a Chicago Cubs baseball game in Wrigley Field and the Art Institute of Chicago . At the German-American Steuben Parade in Chicago, Ferris gets on a float in the parade, grabs a microphone and intones the songs Danke Schoen and Twist and Shout .

Meanwhile, Rooney takes drastic measures and snoops around the Bueller family home. There, in addition to the family's Rottweiler , he also meets Ferris 'sister Jeanie, who, driven by her envy of Ferris' spontaneity, also wants to uncover his machinations. Both the dog and Jeanie attack the alleged burglar, whereupon Rooney has to retreat badly battered, but loses his wallet in the process.

Jeanie was taken to the station by the police due to the supposedly wrong emergency call and has to be picked up by her mother. Meanwhile, on the drive home from Chicago, Ferris discovers that the Ferrari's odometer has risen significantly due to the car park attendants' jaunt. In anticipation of a lecture from his father, Cameron falls into a state of shock from which Sloane and Ferris find it difficult to get him out. Later, however, Cameron is transformed and finds that he had spent the best day of his life with them and that he finally wants to give his opinion to his father, who loves his car more than his son. Ferris has now jacked up the Ferrari on the drive axle in Cameron's garage and lets it run at full throttle in reverse gear so that the odometer turns backwards. When Cameron notices that the odometer is not turning back as expected, he gets angry, kicks the car, the driven wheels hit the ground and the valuable vehicle falls out of the panoramic garage through a glass wall into a forest.

For the finale, headmaster Rooney, parents, Jeanie and Ferris arrive at the Bueller's house almost at the same time. Rooney stops Ferris at the back entrance, but he unexpectedly receives the help of his sister, who found Rooney's lost wallet and thus knows that it was illegally in her house. So Ferris manages just in time, before his parents enter his room, to lie down in bed and this time too, triumphantly not to have been caught. The battered school principal clears the field defeated and also has to be taken away by a school bus on the way home, where he is exposed to the ridicule of the accompanying students.

background

Production background

John Hughes wrote most of the script in less than a week. The shooting took place in autumn 1985. Most of the film was shot in the Chicago area. An exception is Ferris' house. This is in Long Beach , California (4160 Country Club Drive). Cameron's garage and home is actually The Ben Rose Auto Museum , located in Highland Park, Illinois. The school scenes were filmed in the following locations: Exterior at Glenbrook North High School in Illinois. The interior shots were filmed in the former Maine North High School , where the John Hughes film "The Breakfast Club" was made a year earlier. The scenes for the parade actually taking place was Steuben Parade (named after Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben ) filmed in Chicago, where up to the actor himself no one involved knew the real reason of the filming. John Hughes called Ferris Blue a love letter to his hometown Chicago: “I wanted to capture as much of Chicago as possible. Not only the architecture and landscape, but also the spirit. "

In the scene in which Ferris and his friends are gazing at the view over Chicago from the Sears Tower, two Rhenish jocks in the foreground with hats on in real Kölsch philosophize over the height of American skyscrapers. This is the text of the German synchronization, in the English original their conversations are practically inaudible. The two were not booked extras, but real German tourists from Cologne who visited Chicago and, since they were present at the time of the filming, were unceremoniously included in the shooting.

The Ben Rose House, which functions as the home of Cameron's family in the film

To play the drug addict in the scene at the police station, Charlie Sheen had not slept for 48 hours. This should make the withdrawal more authentic.

Ferris complains that he didn't get a car, but that he got a personal computer , which was very expensive at the time ( Broderick previously played a geek in the movie War Games ). For this he also has a film in Sampler of type E-mu Emulator II , which alone around 8,000 in 1984 dollars cost. The Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California is an extremely expensive and very rare Ferrari. Good copies are traded for several million euros. With these prices, it is not surprising that the film team reached into their bag of tricks. The company Modena Design and Research created a fiberglass structure for an MGB and equipped the car with a more powerful engine. Ferrari later sued the company for using their logos.

Many license plates occurring in the film are abbreviations that stand for films of John Hughes: Am car of sister Jeanie is "TBC" for "The Breakfast Club" ( The Breakfast Club ), the carriage of mother Katie is "VCTN" for "National Lampoon's Vacation “( The shrill four on the move),“ MMOM ”stands for“ Mr. Mom ”on father Tom's car and“ 4FBDO ”stands for“ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ”(Ferris turns blue) on Headmaster Rooney's car. Only on the license plate of the borrowed Ferrari is "NRVOUS", which is supposed to represent Cameron's nervous state of mind in relation to the unauthorized use of his father's car.

Time and again, people appear in the film who support a spontaneously initiated campaign to save Ferris. The title of the campaign was used to name the American ska band Save Ferris .

Film music

No official soundtrack has been released for the film. In the following, only the individual pieces are listed as they are used in their order in the film.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created for the 1986 cinema premiere at Berliner Synchron . Lutz Riedel , who also played a small role as a policeman, was responsible for the dialogue direction and script .

role actor German Dubbing voice
Ferris Bueller Matthew Broderick Santiago Ziesmer
Cameron Frye Alan jerk Benjamin Völz
Sloane Peterson Mia Sara Judith Brandt
Headmaster Edward R. Rooney Jeffrey Jones Norbert Gescher
Jeanie Bueller Jennifer Gray Rebecca Völz
Katie Bueller, mother Cindy Pickett Gisela Fritsch
Tom Bueller, father Lyman Ward Lothar Mann
Grace, Rooney's secretary Edie McClurg Christel Merian
Junkie at the police station Charlie Sheen Nicolas Boell
Economics teacher Ben stone Reinhard Kuhnert
English teacher Del Close Lothar Koester
Snobbish head waiter Jonathan Schmock Wolfgang number
Detective at the police station Robert Kim Lutz Riedel
Singing nurse Stephanie Blake Philine Peters-Arnolds

reception

Publications and Audience Success

The film opened in theaters on December 18, 1986. With grossing over $ 70 million, it was a financial success. In 1987, publications as video and laser disc followed . On August 3, 2000 the film was released for the first time on DVD and on May 4, 2006 a new edition with more bonus material was released as Die Blaumacher-Edition .

Reviews

Ferris makes blue received mostly positive reviews. The consensus among critics at Rotten Tomatoes is: "Matthew Broderick is charming in Ferris Bueller's Day Off , a light and indomitable joyous film about being young and having fun." Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert gave the film in his Reviewed June 11, 1986 three out of four stars. It is "one of the most innocent films in a long time" and a "sweet, warm-hearted comedy". Richard Roeper , Ebert's colleague at the Sun-Times, went even further, Ferris makes blue is one of his all-time favorite films: “He has one of the best repetition rates I know, I can watch him over and over again. There is that too, and I'll say it with absolute certainty: Ferris makes blue is a kind of suicide prevention film or at least a story about a young man who wants to give his boyfriend some self-esteem. Ferris makes it his mission to show Cameron that the whole world moves in front of him, and that life can be pretty wonderful when you wake up and hug it. And that's the enduring message of Ferris Bueller's Day Off . ”Conservative columnist George Will called it the“ most cinematic film, close to the general spirit of movies, effortless escapism . ”Essayist Steve Almond called Ferris “ the best teenage film I've ever seen. ” "John Hughes has made many good films, but this one is the only one that is" true art "and deeply analyzes the ecstatic and often problematic attitude towards life of a teenager.

Young actors Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck and Jennifer Gray received positive reviews for their portrayals. Jeffrey Jones also received a lot of praise for his performance as a malicious school principal. Nina Darnton of the New York Times criticized the Sloane character for lacking "specific details" that would have made other Hughes teenagers memorable. Sloane is a "solid, but easy to forget character". On the other hand, Ruck as a sensitive friend Cameron and Jennifer Gray as a scheming but sympathetic sister would have delivered the most authentic representations. Mark Hemingway of the National Review wrote that films celebrate freedom and that there is no better portrayal of "average American freedom" in film than Ferris makes blue . For author Ben Stein , who appears in the film as an economics teacher, Ferris is perhaps the “most life-affirming film of the entire post-war period.” On the other hand, the film was poorly received by some film critics, who found the film's message mostly too hedonistic. David Denby of The New Yorker criticized Ferris was a "disgusting distillation of the superficial, greedy side of the Reagan era."

The Lexicon of International Films largely agreed with Denby's opinion that although the film was “trying to deepen” it “only paints the largely superficial portrait of a youth who finds fulfillment in expensive, extravagant little things.” The TV Spielfilm , however, wrote: “Teenie comedy, sometimes without dumb slapstick… Seldom truancy was so funny… 'The' classic of the lively teenage film.” Filmstarts gave 4.5 out of 5 stars and noted that the film was “a comedic gem that plays behind its inconspicuous, harmless facade Timeless wisdom reveals, exposing the zeitgeist of the eighties and is therefore of lasting relevance. ”The film is primarily reminiscent of the transience of youth. As Prisma wrote, “ Ferris Goes Blue was the culmination of a whole series of teen comedies written under the master of the genre, John Hughes. Hughes seems to have hit the youthful attitude towards life in the eighties: skipping school, having trouble with teachers and parents and of course love are among his favorite subjects. His personal recipe for success: He always tells his stories from the perspective of teenagers. "

Awards

Matthew Broderick was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actor - Comedy or Musical . In 2014, Ferris macht blau was included in the National Film Registry as "historically, culturally or aesthetically significant" .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW awarded the film the rating “valuable”.

Spin-off as a series

In 1990 a spin-off series was produced under the name Ferris Bueller , but it was discontinued after only 13 episodes due to a lack of audience ratings . The reason for the failure was the act, which was viewed as flat, the numerous changes and the similar concept of the series Parker Lewis - The Cool One from School, which started almost at the same time . The plot of the series has been moved from Chicago to Los Angeles . Instead of Broderick, Charlie Schlatter played the role of Ferris, and none of the other actors from the film were hired. The role of Jennifer Gray was taken on by Jennifer Aniston . It was one of her first roles and it gave Aniston her breakthrough.

literature

  • Jonathan Bernstein: Pretty in Pink. The Golden Age of Teenage Cinema. New York 1997. ISBN 0-312-15194-2

Web links

Commons : Ferris goes blue  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susan King: 25 titles added to National Film Registry , Los Angeles Times online, December 17, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014
  2. ↑ John Hughes and Chicago at AMC
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ridelust.com
  4. ↑ http://www.supercars.net/cars/2017.html
  5. ↑ Ferris turns blue with the German dubbing files
  6. ↑ Ferris turns blue at BoxOffice
  7. ↑ http://www.ofdb.de/film/1956,Ferris-macht-blau
  8. ↑ Ferris turns blue at Rotten Tomatoes
  9. ↑ "Ferris makes blue" with Roger Ebert
  10. ↑ Richard Roeper: Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( Memento June 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Will, George F .: (June 28, 1986). "Finally ... a 'movie' movie".
  12. ↑ Steve Almond: John Hughes Goes Deep: The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( Memento from June 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ Review in the New York Times
  14. ↑ Hemingway, Mark: October 8, 2009: Missing John Hughes . National Review
  15. ↑ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ; (World According to Ben Stein) (DVD). Paramount Pictures. 2006.
  16. ^ Denby's review, reproduced on Google Books
  17. ↑ Ferris turns blue. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 30, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  18. ↑ "Ferris makes blue" at film releases
  19. ↑ Ferris turns blue on Prisma
  20. ↑ Susan King: 25 titles added to National Film Registry , Los Angeles Times online, December 17, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014