Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.  This film will always be regarded as a classic throughout my lifetime, and my grandkids lifetime.  The acting of Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck propel the movie to its legendary status.  Broderick embodies the perfect character throughout the entire movie and his development is clearly prevalent.  At the beginning of the film, he wouldn’t get in trouble for anything at all.  By the end he was willing to take the fall for taking out his best friend’s dad’s Ferrari. 

Another actor that really made the movie that much better, was Ben Stein.  Stein played Ferris’s homeroom teacher and gave the lecture to the students.  His voice is very generically monotone and boring, and he bores all of his students.  The scene where he repeatedly says “Bueller…Bueller” is well remembered by movie-goers, because the scene before Ferris just fooled his parents into allowing him to stay home.  The other scene that Stein has an impact on is when he is giving the students a lecture on supply-side economics as dorkily as possible.  During that scene they pan to a lot of the students faces, and the look of sheer boredom and the lack of care each of them has is just gut busting.  One can’t describe the movie any other way but a true classic in the American film industry. 

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off set the standard for any type of skipping school movies.  This film can connect with any audience whether they’re 17 or 70.  It connects with 70 year olds because they reminisce about the glory days and their golden times back when they went to high school.  And on the other end of the spectrum, it relates with 17 year olds or even younger, because they are in high school right now or are about to be and can’t wait to have fun times like Ferris did. 

Bueller represents the perfect class clown role model throughout the motion picture.  He respects all of his peers and fellow classmates, but always questions and opposes authority.  The primary antagonist is the principal, Ed Rooney.  Bueller and Rooney duel for a good duration of the movie.  This movie shows you that it’s okay to have fun sometimes.  All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

An element that I particularly loved in this flick was the setting and the scenery.  They explore downtown Chicago and even take part in the Von Steuben Parade.  Ferris and pals are also seen at Wrigley Field for the Cubs game.  All of the events that they partake in and go to are not farce or impossible.  They go to high school in Chicago so it would be relatively easy to get to these happenings.  Which my counterpart heavily disagrees with and thinks it would be incredibly unmanageable to get to these places.

This movie is, and will forever be a classic because it is a basic display of the pursuit of happiness, which originated in 1681 from John Locke.  I know theories and past methods can become outdated, but this one will not be phased out.  Just like the Constitution, we have lived by that for hundreds of years.  We will continue to pursue happiness daily.  Everyone wants to be happy in life, with themselves and their peers., and this movie portrays that brilliantly.