...Mikaela Hicks Ferris Bueller’s Day Off In the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the main character, Ferris, speaks directly to the viewer, which is called breaking the fourth wall. This type of narration helps hook the audience to the movie with Bueller’s charm and “wisdom.” It also brings a more comical and aloof feeling to the movie, with Bueller making jokes and explaining his view of the people in his lives. He has basically made himself the narrator of the movie. This happens very often throughout the movie, even with the opening scene starting with Bueller giving the audience tips on how to play sick for the parents. The reasoning behind breaking the fourth wall, especially in this movie, is to explain to the audience the different types of situations the characters have gotten themselves into. He will go into detail about the how and why of certain situations, such as the opening monologue when Bueller explains “Life moves pretty fast” (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off). He is basically saying, why would one not do all they can to enjoy a beautiful day. At another point in the movie, Bueller explains the character of Cameron in a nutshell after listening to a conversation between the two of them arguing about whether or not Cameron will be picking up Ferris to enjoy the day together. In this direct address, Bueller lets us know that Cameron is a severe hypochondriac. And he believes Cameron is like this because of his home situation. Cameron feels better when he does not feel good...
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...“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” It may be a bit of a stretch to say everyone in the English speaking world knows what movie that quote is from, but it’s not that long of one. Since its 1986 release “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has become an American classic, and its late director John Hughes became a king in the teen movie genre. Hughes wrote countless classic ’80s films, such as “Pretty in Pink,” the first two “Home Alone” films, “Christmas Vacation” and “Flubber.” The man penned some classic one-liners and also wrote quite a few life lessons into his films. That spurs the question — what other films from the 1980s include valuable life lessons? Yes, the ’80s are the butt of all decade jokes, but where would America be without those crucial 10 years of big ugly hair, heavy eye makeup and leg warmers? No matter the fashion, people were still people in the ’80s, and there’s always something to be gleaned from the past. We’ll examine life lessons taught to us by several films from the ’80s; “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Back to the Future,” “Heathers” and (how could we not?) “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Unknown-3 You never know what kind of friends you’ll make in detention. Photo from IMDb. “The Breakfast Club:” One of the most important lessons in “The Breakfast Club” is to not judge someone based on first impressions. Did anyone honestly expect a beauty queen and a rebel to fall for each other? How...
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...What was the task(s) of the Breakfast Club? Did they succeed or fail in performing their task(s)? Evaluate their group performance of the task(s). Their tasks were to write a essay no less than 1,000 words describing who they are, think about why they are in detention, and not to talk, sleep, or move while they are there. They succeeded in performing their tasks but not by the way their instructor wanted them to. They came together and opened up with each others feelings. Identify and analyze informal role emergence in the Breakfast Club. Is there role status? Role conflict? Role Reversal? Role Fixation? Provide examples of character behavior to support your answer. Andrew shows role reversal when he opens up during “group therapy” with his...
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...Ferris Bueller’s Day Off begins as high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes being sick in order to stay home from school. Although Ferris’ mother and father allow him to stay home, his sister Jeannie is not convinced that he is actually ill. As Ferris’ absence is noted, Principal Rooney suspects he is truant and claims he will catch him in the act. Ferris convinces his friend Cameron, who is also absent, to come over to his house, knowing he would sit and feel sorry for himself alone. Once at Ferris’ house, Ferris convinces Cameron to call his girlfriend Sloane Peterson out of school by pretending to be her father and to claim her grandmother has died. Rooney believes Ferris is somehow behind the phone call, but he lets her out of school anyway....
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...Time Management (A) Lesson pacing in the classroom is extremely important. The reason it is so vitally important is because it lends purpose, direction, and structure to the classroom. Teachers, of course, need to develop lesson plans which meet certain educational objectives. Teachers could accomplish this with a nice long lecture with a follow-up question/answer session. However, they also need to keep the students engaged, interested, and retaining the information. Teachers don't really want a Ferris Bueller's Day Off classroom scenario..."Anyone?...Anyone?", nor do students. Okay, that's fine. A teacher could incorporate tons of interaction and many different activities into the lesson. Here's lies the rub...they need to do all of this in 45 minutes. Lesson pacing ensures that the teacher can accomplish all of these classroom needs. (B) One might think that if a class includes English Language Learning (ELL) students, then the pacing of the lesson would need to slow significantly. However, this is not necessarily the case. Of course it will need to slow some to allow for language clarification and to allow the ELL students time to translate in their heads. The pacing really just needs a little change-up. Direct instruction should be in more simplified language and with more interaction. The use of visual aids and graphic organizers should be incorporated into direct instruction. Direct instruction also need not be given in one big chunk...
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...Skipping school is a normal thing for middle and high schoolers. Ferris Bueller's day off takes it to a whole nother level. The movie is a high school senior who likes to take lots of days off from school by faking sick. When he is home from school he tries to squeeze every ounce out of it. In the movie, he takes his girlfriend and his friend to Chicago. They watch a cubs game, go out to a fancy restaurant, and do a lot of other fun things. However, His principal Rooney smells something funny with Bueller and tries to catch him skipping school. Ultimately he fails but he comes very close to catching him and holding him back another year. He manages to almost get caught but like all movies, he wins in the end and doesn’t get caught. Bueller is an amazing character and that really connects to a lot of people and that really helps makes the film what it is....
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...All movies, books and even plays regarding heroic figures use the same archetypes for their characters. An archetype signifies a symbol which connects to literature, art, and real life. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the plot revolves around a group of stranded boys on an island that witness changes in themselves. Throughout the story, each character has an archetypal symbol that connects to a hero’s journey. These archetypes represent the guideline that allows the story to be read through the archetypal literary lens. In literature, the archetypal literary lens allows the reader to read a story by recognizing symbols, character types, and motifs. With this in mind, Golding uses Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack to display the various...
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...contributing to the plot of the poem. There are both basic and complex archetypes shown in the poem. The epic poem includes many archetypes but the most dominant ones including the hero, the shadow, and the herald. In the epic poem, Beowulf, the author uses archetypes to develop the plot. The main character Beowulf, displays a superior archetype in the epic poem by being the hero within the story. A hero is defined as one who gets praised for brave acts and Beowulf does exactly that. Beowulf displays this archetype in various ways...
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...Ferdinand. The story takes place in a field in Spain that holds many bulls, including Ferdinand. Ferdinand is just not like the other little bulls though. He likes to pick and play with flowers under his favorite cork tree. This is happening while all the other little bulls are fighting and showing off their strength. Even though Ferdinand grows to be bigger and stronger than the other bulls, he still does not want to play with the other bulls and instead wishes to continue smelling the followers and enjoying nature under his favorite cork tree. Throughout the story, archetypes such as the loner or an outcast, the hero and symbolism are observed that connect...
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...die? That's one way of looking at the Psyche myth. Those of you who heard Robert Bly's White Bear story on the first day of this conference heard a variation of the Eros and Psyche myth. The form that Psyche broke was the understanding with her unseen lover who came every night. The piece of the story I want to focus on is what happens in an unconscious relationship when it is broken. Psyche was the third most beautiful princess. She was considered so beautiful that she was worshipped rather than sought as a partner. Her father the king seeks to know whether his beloved daughter Psyche will ever find a husband. He goes to the Oracle at Delphi. You know, if you go ask the Delphic Oracle for advice, you are bound to fulfill the advice, so be careful. Don't ask for the advice unless you are prepared to really do what you are told to do. The Oracle tells the king that he must abandon his daughter on a mountain top to meet her fate — an inhuman bridegroom. And so, with death is the beginning of the next stage, Psyche is dressed as for a funeral. All the people of the kingdom grieve. Undoubtedly the king must have had second thoughts of, "Why did I ever ask?" The kingdom then mourned beautiful Psyche, left her on the highest crag, abandoned and wailing. As it turned out, Psyche was wafted down into a wonderful, magical valley where all her needs are cared for. All day long she wanders the valley, enjoying this wonderful home that has all the conveniences and provides for...
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...mythological characters such as Hercules, to modern day characters such as Superman. All of these heros were given a path that they must follow in order to discover their ultimate destiny and become a hero. Joseph Campbell book, “A Hero With A Thousand Faces” has best explained the important stages that every hero needs to go by in order for fulfill their destiny, “ A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won" (Campbell 1). It is in this storyline that most storytellers need to go by in order to create the most closely related idea of a hero. Even though some heros do not follow these stages and their journey becomes more complex in relation to society, Shakespeare’s character Hamlet, seems to be the most hard to understand. Shakespeare created Hamlet as a hero who corrupts the archetype so much that the basic stages of his heroic journey must be changed in order to recognize him as a hero. Aristotle defined a hero as “a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle”. Aristotle simply states that the hero's downfall is usually cause by his own fault. Usually the hero’s death is seen as a waste of human potential but usually results in greater knowledge and awareness for whoever hears of the hero’s story (Aristotle). In most traditions of the hero archetype, the journey of the hero follows a path that can...
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...Stereotype Archetype Every human being has called for aid at least once in their lifespan. So why is it that, in literature, the female character is the most often the one in need of the most help? Women are so stereotypically needy that the origin of the first word that is selected in the archetype of the damsel in distress is another word for woman. Yet, as represented in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a man can be the character in anguish. This unique book was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886. The iconic plot, inspired by the fears of the Victorian era, has served as a template for modern books and films. The novel is about a man, Dr. Jekyll, who becomes addicted to transforming into a new persona, Mr. Hyde, and...
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...In both the Odyssey, by Homer, and The Epic of Gilgamesh, created by the Sumerians, both were stories created a long time ago made for folklore or to explain what has happened in a certain time in history. Both stories contain myths, unimaginable acts, and just the idea of immortality is present in both stories. The historic novels both have their own twists to the stories as well as some similarities in the story. In both stories, the Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh, there are similar character archetypes, villains, plot, and the hero’s journey. Although in the Odyssey, most of the villains turned out to be allies, whereas in the Epic of Gilgamesh, they stayed enemies and didn’t switch over to his side. The Hero’s Journey in both stories...
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...anti hero archetype because of his poor physical state, and his pusillanimous nature. To begin with, his poor physical condition comes to bite him many times in this story. Winston is an average guy who drinks, smokes and sits in an office all day. He sounds like an old uncle and one of the first lines in the story states, ¨Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly up the landings, resting several times on the way.¨ Winston gives off the image that he won't be the action hero we hoped for, but it makes him more relatable this way. He hates working out, likes to write and has coughing fits. Another quote even says that ¨Winston’s greatest pleasure in life was in his work,¨ so we know that we are going...
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...In her 1926 short story “Sweat” Zora Neale Hurston crafts an exploration of the strength of African-American femininity. This concept of hers is the beating heart of her story, yet it is so low profile that it is hardly heard. It is whispering when it could rightly yell, it is working for peace when it seemingly ought to rage. Yet, through her take on the archetype of the battered-yet-loyal wife, an archetype present in the mediums of literature, theater, and film, Hurston achieves a depiction of strength without violence. Hurston’s “Delia” is a giver, not a taker, and though at times caught between the conflict the two roles, Hurston endows her with the moral strength to be true to herself. However, Hurston does not make this an easy task....
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