Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Ferris Bueller's Day Off or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Ferris Bueller's Day Off

[kenneth]

The first edit of the film had a running time of two hours and forty-five minutes.

[wallace]

This was the second Paramount Pictures film to be shot in the Super 35 format after Top Gun (1986).

[wallace]

While Sir Paul McCartney admitted that he liked the movie, he personally disliked the "Twist and Shout" sequence for its inclusion of brass instruments. Upon hearing McCartney's reaction, John Hughes felt bad for "offend(ing) a Beatle. But it wasn't really part of the song. We saw a band, and we needed to hear the instruments."

[fred]

John Hughes had wanted to film a scene from the script where Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron go to a strip club. Paramount executives told him there were only so many shooting days left, so the scene was scrapped.

[tamara]

The squeak made by Ferris' finger, as he runs it down the car, was actually made by a female crew member.

[richard]

According to Alan Ruck, Cameron wears a Gordie Howe Detroit Red Wings jersey because Cameron had a grandfather in Detroit, who he had a great relationship with, and who used to take him to Red Wings games. It could also be seen as a dig at his Blackhawks-loving father. The two teams are bitter rivals.

[miriam]

According to the Inside Story (1986) documentary, Charlie Sheen's character's name is actually Garth Volbeck. There was going to be a whole backstory to his character and family. It was also revealed that the Volbecks are the family to whom Ferris's mom was showing the house in her job as a realtor. If you look closely, the tow truck that tows Rooney's car is from Volbeck's Wrecking Service. Also, a deleted backstory shows that Ferris and Garth were friends in the eighth grade. Garth's family's pretty messed up, and Ferris tried to help him, and be his friend, but Garth eventually dropped out of high school and wound up in the police station next to Jeannie. That's why Ferris is so intent on giving Cameron a good time. He blames himself for not helping Garth enough when he could.

[lonnie]

The text that appears on the screen when Ferris is explaining how to fake being sick to his parents was added later, because John Hughes thought the scene was too flat and not funny enough (according to him in the DVD commentary).

[chris]

Ben Stein was exceptionally moved by the film, calling it "the most life-affirming movie possibly of the entire post-war period." "This is to comedies what Gone with the Wind (1939) is to epics", Stein added. "It will never die, because it responds to, and calls forth such human emotions. It isn't dirty. There's nothing mean-spirited about it. There's nothing sneering or sniggering about it. It's just wholesome. We want to be free. We want to have a good time. We know we're not going to be able to all our lives. We know we're going to have to buckle down and work. We know we're going to have to eventually become family men and women, and have responsibilities and pay our bills. But just give us a couple of good days that we can look back on."

[melinda]

John Candy auditioned for the role of Cameron Frye, but producers turned him down, fearing he was too old for the part.

[duane]

The hand that presses the speaker button on Cameron's phone belongs to John Hughes. When the crew left, Hughes took the camera and shot it himself, since no one else was getting it right.

[beth]

When the trio is back at Cameron's house, attempting to push the mileage back, nearly four minutes pass between Ferris saying, "We'll have to crack open the odometer, and roll it back by hand", and after the Ferrari speeds through the glass to the foliage down below when Ferris says "You killed the car." During Cameron's rant about his problems with his father, neither Sloane nor Ferris say anything or make any sort of noise. Neither makes a sound, such as a scream, even when the car goes out of the window.

[ray]

According to the original script, Sloane has a brother, and her father left the family for a twenty-five year old bimbo.