I said Chicago is dull and soulless. Except for a fantastic art gallery (which is true). The art gallery forms a special part of a sequence in that film. A bit later on Ferris and gang go for lunch at a posh French restaurant called Chez Quis (which is a little joke on the pizza chain Shakey's), which has some memorable lines from the film.
So I was combining a real truth about Chicago with a fictional twist about a non-existent restaurant, which I got the name wrong for, and have done for about 20 years.
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Mart. I'm not entirely sure about this, but small part of me is convinced you'd kill a man to play the part of Ed Rooney in your local theatre production of FBDO.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Mikee you would be good as one of the guys from the car park that take the Ferrari for a ride.
Yeah! I'd like that. Other parts I think I'd suit perfectly for, particularly alongside ringo are the two guards in the train who can't tell the difference between the man in the suit and the actual monkey. Quick witted writers can say that the guy who gets gorilla-bummed is the poster of their choice.
quote:Originally posted by mart: Yeah I was thinking Thorn for Ferris too.
Not sure if Thorn would be happy with that.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: The guy's got no heart, and I don't know whether that's an 80s thing or what but it really impaired my enjoyment of the film. There's one line where he's talking about European Socialism and he says something like "But socialism in Europe won't affect wherever or not I can have a car". It's just a throwaway line, but it's that kind of blinkered selfishness that makes Ferris a horribly shallow representative of the same self-satisfied middle-class smugness Ed Rooney, his parents and every other character represents. Compared to JD and Veronica from Heathers, or Harry Hard-on from Pump Up The Volume, or the kids from Dazed and Confused Ferris is depressingly safe, conformist, and frankly boring.
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: But how would you know if a movie was good unless you saw it?
lol! You sound like Pia. She recently told me I can't call Harry potter shit because I've never read any of the books seen any of the films. If I can't make flimsy, snap decisions on whim and fancy, how else am I to be an insufferable chore?
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Actually, seeing Thorn reference JD and Veronica in that post really brings home how much better a movie Heathers is. It totally vomits over Ferris Bueller, pours Drano down its throat and leaves FBDO lying in the woods with an Ich Luge bullet lodged in its throat.
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Granted, Nathan, but I'm thinking of whether Thorn has the right amount of smarm, selfishness and likeable energy required to play Ferris. I think he has.
However, he also has the right amount of neuroses, negativity and high-strung sullenness to play Cameron.
As versatile as he is, he'd be no good at Sloane, though.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: lol! You sound like Pia. She recently told me I can't call Harry potter shit because I've never read any of the books seen any of the films. If I can't make flimsy, snap decisions on whim and fancy, how else am I to be an insufferable chore?
You should keep her dude. She sounds like she has a good head on her shoulders. I've not read any Potter, or saw any of the films, so I don't say anything bad about it.
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Actually for a good Ferris/Cameron pairing, ideally you need people who know each other well enough to play off each other. I'm thinking Omikin as Ferris and Ben as Cameron would be interesting. Bandy (Ferris) and Benway (Cameron) might also work. Ringo and Mikee is another possibility.
Louche would be the perfect Jeanie.
Thorn could play the Charlie Sheen character. He'd be great.
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Is anyone else finding that these last couple of months have whizzed by, in a frankly disturbing fashion? While it's naturally good that it's Friday, it only feels like Wednesday, and only 2.30 on Wednesday at that. And it only feels like May. Is it just me being an old gipper?
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: Is it just me being an old gipper?
I don't know how old you are, herbs, but I feel the same way. The summer is practically gone. They don't make long summers like they did when I was a boy. The ones you get nowadays are short.
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quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: I think Samuel Norton for Ferris, and Harlequin for Cameron.
Miss Golightly as Sloane?
Lol...they're welcome to help me skive off school, but no way am I hanging around with them all day with Harly trying to pull me and Rick trying to protect me and having a go at Harly for being sleazy/homeless/whatever - not my idea of fun!
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Actually, seeing Thorn reference JD and Veronica in that post really brings home how much better a movie Heathers is. It totally vomits over Ferris Bueller, pours Drano down its throat and leaves FBDO lying in the woods with an Ich Luge bullet lodged in its throat.
This is so true. Heathers is one of my favourite films ever, and J.D. and Veronica are so fucking cool.
I used to be able to quote the entire thing, all the way through, and probably still could if I tried hard enough. Loads of great quotes but you can't really beat "fuck me gently wth a chainsaw!" God I really want to watch that again now, it must've been about a year since I last saw it, which is way too long.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Dang would be Mr Bueller.
Whenever someone on here compares me to someone famous, it's guaranteed to be someone I've never bloody heard of. Like when Herbs compared me to some newspaper columnist a while ago, and I had no idea who that was either.
I expect you're going to tell me that's exactly the sort of thing "Mr Bueller" would say.
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