Taking A Day Off From Adulthood Kelsey Moore
Template for “Two Critics (One
Veteran, One Youth) Assess This Is Our Youth”
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Ø Mentions the director
and how their show is able to bring us back to the days where we were between
childhood and adulthood.
Ø Talks about the great performance
of the actor as the main protagonist, and talks about the character’s
background. (First move)
Ø Talks about how we are
so attached to the actor (second move)
Ø Talks about the actors
authentic looks (third move)
Ø Talks about the
intelligence and grace of the actor (fourth move)
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Ø Talks about the
relatable scenes, and gives an example of teenage romance between the
protagonist and his love interest. (First move)
Ø Mentions some of the
teenage angst that exists between parents and their children (second move)
Ø Uses as simile to make
the point on adolescence (third move)
Second Review
Ø Uses the score system
to date the show, then goes on to talk about how the creator gave life to a
kid-adult film (First move)
Ø Talks about how the
show is meant to show the uncomfortable transition from childhood to adulthood
Ø Talks about a popular
show that surrounds a cast of characters who are supposed to act their age but
don’t. (second move)
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Ø Compares it to being a
fly on the wall during the time period. (First move)
Ø Talks about the actor
who plays the major role, and the history of the character being played.
Ø Mentions a friend of
the character who plays a role in the show (second move)
Ø Mentions some of the
hijinks that the characters are involved in and how it all leads to the main
protagonist getting the girl
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Ø Mentions elderly woman
talking about how cute the lead actor is
5th
paragraph
Ø Talks about how short
the show is
Ø Makes a short joke
about a friend
It didn’t take too long for John Hughes to drive us down memory lane, to show us a time where we were walking down the tight rope between childhood and adulthood, fearing that the latter would swallow us whole if we lost our balance. A great source of this classic teenage angst comes from the performance of Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick, who plays the titular role of Ferris Bueller, a mischievous high school senior who wants to skip school one last time with his closest friends Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara) and Cam Frye (Alan Ruck) before they go their separate ways in college. It’s hard to take your focus off our Broderick, with his smooth baby face (he was 23 at the time!), charismatic personality, and his varsity jacket on his slim frame. The intelligence and grace Broderick has and is able to portray in the funny, charming and fearless Ferris Bueller makes us pay attention to the more mature theme of fighting the pressure to become an adult.
Hughes’ coming-of-age comedy entertained audiences with scenes that could understood by people of all ages—Bueller’s romantic relationship with the beautiful Sloane Peterson and his desperation to keep them together, in particular. There is a separate side to this story, however, as we get to see Cam Frye and the struggle he has with a family that almost doesn't notice that he exists; a lot of this I-hate-my-parents paradigm is brought out when Cam talks about how his father loves his cars more than him. Overall, these Chicago kids are attempting to walk on the hot coals that represent their apprehension as try to reach the side of adulthood.
One score and seven years ago, John Hughes breathed life into a new film, wrapped in teenage angst, silly hijinks, and dedication to the idea that all coming-of-age films have equal footing.
Ferris Bueller’s Day off is about that special time in your life when you are on the border between childhood and adulthood, which I feel I am able to discuss because I have been through it, at least vicariously. (My favorite show is Comedy Central’s Workaholics, a show about three best friends who are fresh out of college and are supposed to be contributing adults to society but instead smoke weed, drink, and fool around.)
Watching this movie is like being a high school student who decides to spend the day on the town with his friends in 1987. Matthew Broderick is Ferris Bueller, a witty, spontaneous, charismatic teenage who fakes being sick (he puts pillows and a dummy head on his bed, and hooks up a recording that snores every time someone opens his bedroom door!) so he can spend the day with his two closest friends. Cam (Alan Ruck) and Sloane (Mia Sara) are talked into joining Ferris in his day off, and spend their day crashing a city parade, taking in some art exhibit sights, joy riding in a Ferrari, and watching a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, all while Ferris hopes to convince Sloane to marry him so that they can be together forever after high school! Overheard Old Woman: “That Matthew is such a little cutie pie!” WOW! Old Women! LOL! The movie ends way earlier than I was hoping, not because it was actually a short movie, but because it is something I would love to see as a television series. But YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT! About 10 times a day I cry when I realize that Ferris and I aren’t friends. It’s so disheartening.
It didn’t take too long for John Hughes to drive us down memory lane, to show us a time where we were walking down the tight rope between childhood and adulthood, fearing that the latter would swallow us whole if we lost our balance. A great source of this classic teenage angst comes from the performance of Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick, who plays the titular role of Ferris Bueller, a mischievous high school senior who wants to skip school one last time with his closest friends Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara) and Cam Frye (Alan Ruck) before they go their separate ways in college. It’s hard to take your focus off our Broderick, with his smooth baby face (he was 23 at the time!), charismatic personality, and his varsity jacket on his slim frame. The intelligence and grace Broderick has and is able to portray in the funny, charming and fearless Ferris Bueller makes us pay attention to the more mature theme of fighting the pressure to become an adult.
Hughes’ coming-of-age comedy entertained audiences with scenes that could understood by people of all ages—Bueller’s romantic relationship with the beautiful Sloane Peterson and his desperation to keep them together, in particular. There is a separate side to this story, however, as we get to see Cam Frye and the struggle he has with a family that almost doesn't notice that he exists; a lot of this I-hate-my-parents paradigm is brought out when Cam talks about how his father loves his cars more than him. Overall, these Chicago kids are attempting to walk on the hot coals that represent their apprehension as try to reach the side of adulthood.
One score and seven years ago, John Hughes breathed life into a new film, wrapped in teenage angst, silly hijinks, and dedication to the idea that all coming-of-age films have equal footing.
Ferris Bueller’s Day off is about that special time in your life when you are on the border between childhood and adulthood, which I feel I am able to discuss because I have been through it, at least vicariously. (My favorite show is Comedy Central’s Workaholics, a show about three best friends who are fresh out of college and are supposed to be contributing adults to society but instead smoke weed, drink, and fool around.)
Watching this movie is like being a high school student who decides to spend the day on the town with his friends in 1987. Matthew Broderick is Ferris Bueller, a witty, spontaneous, charismatic teenage who fakes being sick (he puts pillows and a dummy head on his bed, and hooks up a recording that snores every time someone opens his bedroom door!) so he can spend the day with his two closest friends. Cam (Alan Ruck) and Sloane (Mia Sara) are talked into joining Ferris in his day off, and spend their day crashing a city parade, taking in some art exhibit sights, joy riding in a Ferrari, and watching a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, all while Ferris hopes to convince Sloane to marry him so that they can be together forever after high school! Overheard Old Woman: “That Matthew is such a little cutie pie!” WOW! Old Women! LOL! The movie ends way earlier than I was hoping, not because it was actually a short movie, but because it is something I would love to see as a television series. But YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT! About 10 times a day I cry when I realize that Ferris and I aren’t friends. It’s so disheartening.