John Hughes Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Through the non-linear structure, this allows the audience the opportunity to see how the characters present lives are intrinsically joined to their past. It also allows the characters to be suspended in time so their lives seem linked even though none of the characters were actually in the children’s home at the same time.

The play used a non-linear structure of scenes which went from a younger age of the characters to and age sometime older and continued with this back and forth from young to old throughout the play. By having the structure go back and forth between different times in the past instead of using the typical linear structure that goes from past to present allows the play to have a way of being suspenseful and keep the audience engaged and interested in watching to see what happens next.

In the movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, there are two very clear and distinct classes. The movie clearly does not support the power structure it portrays, which is one with many classes, and different amounts of power and wealth. Ferris and his friends have great lives from the perspective of most people, and the movie highlights their easy lives.The two classes are present in the movie, as well as in our society. While we respectively label them as the "Middle Class" and the "Working Class," Marxist thought distinguishes them by the terms "Bourgeoisie" and "Proletariat." There is a great difference between these two classes and it is evident throughout the film.

In the movie, “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” the main character of Ferris Bueller convinces his two best friends, Sloane and Cameron, to skip school with him to experience what the city has to offer. While they had their adventures around the city of Chicago, making the best of every situation and putting himself out there. He manipulates his way through difficult situations, but still manages to make many memories before he and his friends go off to college. The question many people ask is: Is “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” really possible in one day?

The hero of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off notes, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris’ observation parallels to all comedies and Northrup Frye’s essay, “The Structure of Comedy”. Despite Ferris Bueller’s Day Off being made in 1986, its comedic plot line still relates to the 21st century. Wanting to skip school, sibling rivalry, antics with friends, and young love in this film are relevant to modern comedies.

GLC 20 Ferris Bueller’s Day-Off Movie Assignment (35 marks) Choose three characters from the movie to analyze. Ferris Bueller’s Day-Off is a movie with many characters that are introduced. It also explores the life of a high school teen who has skipped school to cheer his friend. As we see the characters going through various moments in their life, we can see their different personalities. This movie also allows us to make connections with the characters since we are also students in high school.

There is much to say John Hughes' marvelously crafted Sixteen Candles. Hughes' interpretation of what it's like to grow up a teenager trying to find themselves is impeccable. In this comedic, blissful coming-of-age film, the story follows Samantha Baker-- or Sam as she is most often called-- as she navigates through her sixteenth birthday; everyone forgot this very important day in Sam's life. This movie truly has it all: annoying little siblings, misunderstood teenagers, an older sister who sucks up all the attention, conservative grandparents, freshman geeks, the popular cheerleader, and, of course, the hottie that everyone has a crush on. Though stuffed with stock characters, Sixteen Candles somehow achieves a beautiful balance. The geek

As one of the most widely acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era, Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. He had a brilliant career with relatively few films. An outsider, he worked beyond the confines of Hollywood, which he disliked, maintaining complete control of his projects and making movies according to his own ideas and time constraints. To him, filmmaking was a form of art and unlike Hollywood, not a business.

For the past four days I have endured a family vacation in the bustling city of Chicago. I’ll admit, at times – meaning ¾ of the trip – I felt that we could relate to the 1980’s movie National Lampoon’s Vacation. From wandering around the city for a few hours simply trying to find a specific popcorn shop, to being forced – morally – to buy a clock in the Brooks Field Zoo gift shop due to one of my siblings dropping it, and breaking it. There was a lot of anger, and definitely a great deal of laughing. Although a decent amount of the laughing was at the expense of other people. This vacation is certainly something that I will never forget.

When you think of one of the most successful and most awarded actors in Hollywood, you may not think of simple old fellow by the name of Harrison Ford who has won over 30 awards and has made millions from starring in famous movie series such as the Star Wars trilogy or the Indiana Jones trilogy. Harrison Ford has changed the way most people think of movies and film by showing off his spectacular acting skills and great skill in the film industry. He managed to accomplish all of this despite being unskilled when he first started acting in small plays and now he is still making movies even though he is over 70 years old. The great actor Harrison Ford’s accomplishments should be spread to young children across America to inspire them and give them hope and confidence.

Roger Ebert, film critic, expresses his appreciation for Hughes direction away from the Hollywood types movies: “ Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club”... They are both about fairly typical American teenagers, kids you can like even when you can’t stand them, kids who are vulnerable and serious and spend infinitely more time speculating about sex than actually experiencing it. Although the article is not like the scholarly article mentioned in the previous paragraphs which meant that this article did not list any citations, but Roger Ebert was able to interview John Hughes himself and cast members of the Breakfast Club. Roger Ebert is a well known film critic as it stated on the top of his journal website which gives the readers a background of the

Film directing lets a person express themselves through creating characters that can relate to one’s emotions and thoughts. Director Tim Burton has dictated many films, all containing a similar aspects. However, he expresses a deeper message outside of the grimness and darkness of his films. Four of his motion pictures include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Big Fish. Within these films, Burton provides the message that family is defined by love, not blood.

Director Tim Burton is known in Hollywood for his early film career that was fueled by almost unbelievable good luck, but it's his talent and originality that has kept him at the top of the Hollywood tree by being able to merge fantasy as well as horror together to create the blockbuster movies he has produced today. Even though Tim Burton started off his early career having extraordinary good luck, he quickly morphed into being one of the most well known directing names today. Every director has a certain structure or style that acts as a signature to their name. Burton’s films Edward Scissor Hands (1990) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) both share similar technical features that ensure we, as the audience know who the mastermind behind these films

Many of his films cover new ground in flimmaking and he is a renowned scriptwriter and director of independent film.

In October of 2015, the article “So You Want My Job: Film Director” interviewed the film director John Dowdle over what it takes to become a film director. In the article, Dowdle argues that if a person wants to be a film director, it is best not to master in anything else-- “The people who seem to stick with it are the ones who have no other marketable skills.” (Dowdle, ln 13). John Dowdle is a film director, who is known for the horror film Quarantine and the action film No Escape, which starred Owen Wilson. Despite claiming that the majority of directors have little to no other marketable skills, Dowdle admitted that he originally wanted to be a writer, but that changed after he went to the University of Iowa, and took a film class.