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Or any style, really But the more
he looks at it, there's nothing there
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He fears that, the more you look at him,
the less you see There's nothing there
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That's him
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This is the German Day parade There's
many German references in the film
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The town I grew up in
The original citizens were Germans
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There's a lot of German street names,
a lot of Germans in Chicago
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There I go with my 80's haircut
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Bueller was a German name
I used a number of those references
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It just happened that this was an actual
parade, which we put our float into, -
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- unbeknownst to anybody,
all the people on the reviewing stand
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Nobody knew what it was,
including the governor
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This is a nice scene,
where he pulls up next to his father
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Cameron's whining and complaining
He's always looking for a parent
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He's always in search of a parent
Ferris is his father figure and friend
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He's running down all the things
that he's done for him here
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Again, this is his great, rubbery face
His monkey face A primate face
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I had to do this all in one
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As soon as I got off him, Matthew had
to jump down, and she had to sit up
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In wardrobe, I gave him
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a rabbit's foot, which I thought
would be a nice little touch
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Down in the footwell, they came up
with the idea of using the rabbit's foot
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It's kind of an icky moment, isn't it?
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He gave her a very good goosing here
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This is all really natural
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Of course he's made it into the paper
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I saw this hole in the door and thought
his eyeball there would be pretty funny
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I've got something about shoes,
I don't know what it is
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I've done a lot of shoe jokes
Teachers always had odd shoes
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I thought his shoe being chewed up by
the dog would be the final humiliation
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Like I said, this was a real parade
We shot it over two days
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The first Saturday was the real parade
The second one, we did pick-up shots
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Ladies and gentlemen,
you're such a wonderful crowd.
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We'd like to play a little tune for you,
it's one of my personal favourites.
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It's dedicated it to a young man who
doesn't think he's seen anything good.
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Cameron Frye, this one's for you.
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Matthew lip-synched this song It was
the most awful song of my youth
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Every time it came on,
I just wanted to scream, claw my face
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I was taking German in high school, -
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- which meant
that we listened to it in school
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I couldn't get away from it
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I can't recall how many cameras we
had We had some up in the buildings
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We had people on the street
Five or six, probably
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The woman playing the accordion
didn't realise we were doing a comedy
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I think she thought
it was a tribute to Germany
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This was shot on the second day
Those are extras in the background
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A nice little walk and talk
with Cameron and Mia Sara, -
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- which says a little bit
about their relationship
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I think Cameron probably was secretly
desperately in love with her
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And she was like a sister My wife,
who was my high-school girlfriend
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We were always three
Me, my wife, and one of my friends
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One of my troubled buddies
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That's a Calder statue behind them
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Matthew got into this pretty good
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Then we went to "Twist and Shout"
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What happened, for real, -
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- was that people from
all over the immediate area -
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- showed up and were singing along
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We got thousands of people
That guy, for example
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I noticed we was up there dancing,
and asked the 2nd unit guy to grab it
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The people run all the way down,
as far as you can see
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At the end of the shot we had a crane
As it came up, -
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- we realised
there were thousands of people
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They came from all over the immediate
area, and thought it was a real event
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We used lots of local talent
This was a dance group we used
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We held open auditions for people
who did interesting things Like him
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That's my prop man
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These were triplet lawyers
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That's a Chagall mosaic I tried to show
as much of the city's art as possible
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The window cleaner
was one of our people
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These were just real people
singing along with the song
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It was a wonderful day
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This is in Los Angeles,
shot quite some time later
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Paul McCartney said in an interview
that he didn't like the horns on this, -
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- and that, if they'd wanted horns, they
bloody well would have put them in
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I felt really bad
because I had offended a Beatle
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But it wasn't really part of the song
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We saw a band
and we needed to hear the instruments
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So I'm sorry I offended him,
but it put the song back on the charts
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It was the first time in years a Beatles
song was on the "Billboard" charts
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I think Matthew was really driven
by the crowd
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That little thing where he fell back
He missed his cue and almost fell
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This is Louie Anderson I don't think
Louie's ever forgiven me for this
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That was his role
I had to cut it out
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So now Rooney is accepting deliveries
at the Bueller house
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That was just a little ad lib
I wanted to have something, -
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- and I thought the "shave and
a haircut" thing was kind of nice
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This was the town I grew up in
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I don't know why, but they let us
paint on their water tower
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It was there for a while A lot of people
remember this If you go to this town -
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- and ask what was painted on the
water tower, they'll say "Save Ferris"
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This, of course
No animals were hurt
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It's hard to get them
to lay down like that, though
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She discovers what she already knew
I enjoyed -
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- taking two pursuers and putting
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They miss the prey but attack each
other, which I thought was fun to do
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Jeanie's just awful to everybody
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If you don't give her what she wants
or say what she wants you to say, -
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- she mistreats you
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Now he's really crossed the line
because now he's in the house
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Of course she thinks it's Ferris
It's a little cat-and-mouse game
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This was all shot
in that same house in Long Beach
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A little tight, but the floor plan
worked really well for the picture
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There's a little fly here We saw
the fly and added the fly sound
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It was an accident, but it was nice to
have a fly chase him, in his condition
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We sped that up just a little bit,
because she didn't run fast enough
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This was nice a nice shot
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We originally shot in super 35,
wide-screen I was able to do all this
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in one, without any scanning
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But in television versions
it had to be recomposed
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The licence on this was "Nervous"
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I milked those licence-plate jokes
pretty hard in the 80's
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I liked to detail things
as much as I could
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We couldn't use the garage's name,
so we made it A1-EZ OK Park
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This is not a phoney phone call
There's an intruder:
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Male, Caucasian, possibly armed,
certainly weird, in my kitchen
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My name is Bueller
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It's nice that you hope my brother
is feeling better, but I'm in danger
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It's hard to play one-sided phone calls
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She did a really good job of making it
appear as if she's talking to somebody
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She was probably talking to me
I usually do the other side
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This is Charlie Sheen's character
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There was a little bit more
to do with his family
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I had to lose it because of the shuttle
stuff His dad owned the tow company
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The tissue in the nose was a
cheap joke, but I thought it was funny
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I thought he would have developed
a hole in his pocket by now
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It was necessary for him to leave some
evidence that he was in the house
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This is a really sad, pathetic shot here
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It reminded me of an old 30's
"The Little Rascals" or something
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The end of one, with the guy
running down the road, chasing the car
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This is a very pretty shot
down Michigan Avenue
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Cameron is very relaxed here
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He's got the car back,
everything seems to be going fine
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Matthew's beginning to notice
that there's a problem here
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Cameron, of course,
remembers exactly how many miles
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That's a nice little camera-take
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We had a really hard time doing this
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It was very bright and it was
painful for him to keep his eyes open
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This took a while
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This is really just another attempt
on his part to get some attention
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God bless the police
I'm saved
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Here we get a little hint
of her religious convictions
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That's Louie again
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This scene was supposed to be done
down at the beach, -
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- but the surf was pretty bad The pier
we were going to use was underwater
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So we had to redo it,
bring it up to this bluff
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It was very windy
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It was early on, and Matthew was
uncomfortable talking to the camera
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He would see his reflection,
it was like working in a mirror, -
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- which was distracting
It was difficult to do
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We were both feeling our way
through this technique
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I discovered that when he looked
at the camera, he couldn't look away
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When looks away,
he breaks the illusion
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To make and break the illusion
was really distracting
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Here he had to stare up into the sky,
which is hard I didn't want him to blink
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She's very tender with him here
I think he's enjoying her attention
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But my discomfort with this scene, and
Matthew's, I think worked ultimately
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This actually happened
to a friend of mine
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The story's about a guy I know
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You can see him wincing a bit there,
because he's looking right into the sun
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This is Ferris's therapy, -
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- which is to help Cameron, but to do it
somewhere where he can also relax
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We never identified where this was
or whose house this was
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I always presumed
it was just someone else's house
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It certainly wasn't Matthew's house
or Cameron's house
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They just stopped
and used someone's jacuzzi
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By looking up here he indicates
that he's doing this deliberately
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This is an example of them having
worked together a lot They play it well
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Cameron, wake up!
Hey, wake up!
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Oh, shit! Cameron!
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Come on, wake up!
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- What is that?
- Ferris Bueller, you're my hero
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He is genuinely angry here He really
does not like being one-upped
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Ferris is not really a nice guy
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He's an interesting guy
He's not necessarily virtuous
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This was maybe the best day
I had making this picture
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I really enjoyed shooting this scene
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I worked with Charlie's brother
on "Breakfast Club"
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It was very similar
to working with Emilio
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He was very good in this scene
Very subtle, very flat He looked great
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And it's Jeanie with someone that
she would never look at otherwise
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She's getting advice from him,
and everything he says to her is right
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We made him up to look slightly sickly,
not a lot of colour in his face
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There's a wonderful
vocal quality in this
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They really worked together well
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There was no rehearsal on them
He was just hired for the day, -
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- so they didn't have much time
to work on this
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They might have worked together
before There was a nice chemistry
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Part of Ferris's character
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He dealt with everybody equally,
so he can be as close with this guy -
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- as he can with Cameron
His friends were from everywhere -
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- in that high school social strata
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Spend more time dealing with yourself,
and less worrying about your brother
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It's painful to get advice from
someone who you think is below you
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She's really very rude to him,
and it doesn't bother him at all
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This doesn't work
It would be a wonderful thing if it did
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It would've saved a lot of my friends,
when I was young
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But running the car in reverse
doesn't work
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By the time we were shooting this
sequence, it was around October, -
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- so every day, before shooting,
we had to paint all these leaves green, -
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- and be very careful
we didn't knock them off
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This is a nice moment
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This says a lot
about high-school friendship
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It's so painful when he says,
"What are we going to do next year?"
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These three
have a really close relationship
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It appears as though there's a certain
maturity to these three relationships
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Cameron mentions that they've
known each other since fifth grade
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So I'm sure that she knew, -
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- when she started dating Ferris, -
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- that she was
going to get Cameron, too
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That's a very nice moment from Alan, -
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- where he has to admit, in expression,
that he watched her undress
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We got this house It was actually
a place where a guy kept his cars
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It was built over a ravine
in Illinois
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We feared that breaking one of
the window panes, as we'd have to, -
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- would affect the structural integrity of
the building, breaking all the windows
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And these windows had aged, so a
new piece of glass would be obvious
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So we had to remove all of the glass
and replace it with new glass, -
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- so that, when we were done, we could
put back the original glass, not break it
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So it was complicated negotiations,
but it was important
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It's very unusual to find
a steel and glass Miesian building -
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- in the woods, over a ravine
It was an absolutely perfect location
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Ned knew the guy who owned the
house, because he collected Ferraris
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So they had something in common,
and we didn't have any problems
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Here's Cameron realising
that he has to stand for something, -
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- that he can't continue
to be pushed around
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That was quite a good
dramatic moment
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He's quite a volatile character
He's got a lot of anger and frustration
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He doesn't speak his mind, then whips
himself for not doing what he wants to
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It builds up a lot of aggression in him
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The car has really come to symbolise
his alienation from his father
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He sees his father's the care he takes
with this car not with his son
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That decision to kick the car
is life-changing for him
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You see not only
how frustrated and angry he is, -
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- but how strong he is, in a way
He knows now he's gone too far
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This will define his relationship
with his father for the rest of his life
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He's lost his temper We saw him lose
his temper earlier, with his own car
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Now he's vented all his anger
on this extremely valuable car
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Now he feels guilty He realises what
he's done and how much it will hurt
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But he's still willing to take it
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He's not backing off
He's taken a stand
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This is the only thing
that Ferris hasn't anticipated
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He probably thought that Cameron
would get caught taking the car, -
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- and that he'd deal with it,
as he should He'd have to confront it
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But I don't think he realised
he would go this far
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And now he's made it much worse
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We hoped the car
would clear the building
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We feared the impact would
slow the car, that it would fall out, -
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- but it actually shot out
of the building -
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- and flew over the mark
that we had hoped for
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Fortunately it hit a fence, which kept it
from going over to another property
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The town made us protect the ravine, -
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- so every little seedling
had to be protected
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We put down burlap, cut holes, and put
the seedlings and trees through it, -
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- so that we could remove all the glass
We didn't leave a single piece of glass
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The ravine was left
exactly as we had found it
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It's kind of a scary shot,
dollying up to this hole
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Again, this was all composed
for wide-screen
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We also didn't know
what a replica car was going to do
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when it hit
We didn't know if it was going to split
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We used a metal body, so it would bend
rather than shatter, like fibreglass
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You can see in that window
how advanced autumn was
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Those leaves have fully turned colour,
at the top they're gone
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This was shot later We didn't need to
paint the ravine This was all painted
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Cameron, it's my fault I'll take the heat
for it We'll wait for your father -
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- and I'll tell him I did it
He hates me anyway
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This is the first time we see Ferris
frightened This is beyond his control
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Now he's morally obligated
to solve the situation he set up
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The change in Cameron's character
comes when he rejects that
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When the car flew out, he was very
frightened Now he finds his strength
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I think they have their friendship
He's accomplished the day
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If he didn't know exactly
what the day was going to mean, -
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- he put in motion circumstances
that have led to this
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He knew it involved Cameron
Since it was near graduation, -
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- their relationship would change, and
he had something to fix in Cameron
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He didn't know the specifics, but set up
circumstances so he could deal with it
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It was nice to leave Jeanie furious
with this guy, ready to punch him, -
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- and then come back and see that,
in that time, she's fallen for him
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When it played in the theatres,
I was surprised people got that
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When they first kissed
You saw it in the background there
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She gives a nice look to Charlie Sheen
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A nice, motherly look
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A great look of anger and disgust
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She's embarrassed She played hard,
now her mother treats her like a child
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This is the first time you see
any innocence from her at all
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There's a softness in her, which really
came from somebody listening to her
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It's a key thing Her problem is that
she's uncomfortable with herself
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She isn't happy with herself
or her name, -
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- so she uses a pseudonym
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It's a nice thing in the score
The voices in the background -
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- begin singing "Shauna, Jeanie",
which I thought was a nice touch
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I like the maturity of their relationship
They seem like a married couple
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Their romance is something deeper
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It's not really teenager
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It doesn't have the urgency
of early teenage romances
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They're very comfortable
with each other
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I think she enjoyed this scene
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I don't know about him
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Now this is just the chase
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We shot this all over the place
This took forever
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We were chasing the weather
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Some of it was done in California,
some in various suburbs of Chicago
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I had three sisters growing up I know
all about mother-daughter arguments
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This is extremely
and deliberately contrived, -
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- that they should meet eye-to-eye
She's in the car, he's on foot
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These are the backyards I used
these houses in "She's Having a Baby"
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"16 Candles" and "Uncle Buck" were
basically shot in this neighbourhood
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They're beautiful houses
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This oblivious father
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They should be facing the other way,
but we were running out of light
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Like I said,
it was a very contrived scene
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This song I didn't want to do
a score It was a long sequence, -
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- and I didn't have any ideas, so I
was looking for songs that could play
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There you can see a palm tree,
which drove me nuts
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A palm frond that was cut off
so it didn't show in the movie, -
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- then they put it in a trash bin
and set it in the shot
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I found a song by The English Beat
It was a twelve-inch dance remix
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I'd been a big ska fan
in the 70's and early 80's
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I found this song It was the right length
and the right feel
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We just licensed it and used it here
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I needed something
that was going to drive this scene
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It wasn't a high-speed chase, no stunts,
so I needed something with drive to it
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This was a really contrived moment
They both look right at each other
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So it was vital that he, up to now,
played an oblivious suburban dad
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This is a nice scene,
he actually ran through this house
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A lot of this we made up as we went
along I knew I needed a chase
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In the script, I probably just said
that he runs home
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We added these bits as we went along
This is in Long Beach
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I did this under
an overcranked shot, -
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- so that I could really
time things precisely
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If I had him hanging in the air, it
bought me a little time A cheap trick
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I kind of liked that
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he's gone so mad, he's hiding in the
bushes, waiting for him to come home
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How would you feel
about another year of high school -
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- under my
close, personal supervision?
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Thank God you're all right
We've been worried sick about you
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And the sister comes to rescue him,
which is the idea that
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you can say what you want about
your brother, but no one else can
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She's not going to let Rooney
walk off with her brother
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And she's learned a few things
from Charlie Sheen
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That was a nice camera-take This is
a great moment That little cough
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Jeanie's learned something about
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She probably will not go to school
after this, several times
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She's certainly got the genes
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And he's back to the dog again
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The idea here was to do
a very heavy score, -
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- as if it were the end
of some war movie -
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- and the bridge is about to blow up,
and the train is coming
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All he's doing is getting in bed What
happens if he gets caught? Nothing
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We thought it was funny
to play it so hard
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All these little parts had to match up
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He's got to turn the music off The
baseball that he catches, the foul ball
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I got that nice picture
of Bryan Ferry behind him
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It worked very nicely for him,
the running and sweating
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He appears to have a fever, so he may
not go to school tomorrow, either
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Now he's slipping back
into being the little boy
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There's a nice little thing he does here,
with the "blankie"
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- How'd you get to be so sweet?
- Years of practice
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The blankie
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I mean, he's six there,
and it's just what they want
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He bites his finger here
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Matthew's very good at this
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This might have been the last day,
or very close to it
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When this played in the theatres
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This was the point where people
That beautiful smile
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Just as the fade began,
people started to stand up
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And then this came on, and they
thought it was just a title sequence
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Some would continue out,
some would stand
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Then they realised it wasn't over yet
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This sequence had actually come in
a little earlier
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I thought it would be interesting -
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- to really not end the picture
where you thought it would
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And there's nothing worse
for a school administrator -
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- than to have to ride the bus
with the kids, -
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- and suffer the humiliations
that they have to suffer themselves
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And what could be stranger
for a kid on the late bus -
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- than to look up
and see the dean of students, -
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- regardless of the condition
he's in here, get on your bus?
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It was a wonderful moment of
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They had this thing between them
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They both were startled
that this was happening
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That the teacher was on the bus,
humiliated to have to ride with them
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I never rode a bus in high school
I was too terrified
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I went four years without ever
getting in a bus Even field trips
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These were all real kids
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We shot the interiors
and it started to rain, -
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- so we finished
two months later in Burbank
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We had this girl's glasses made for her
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They were so thick
They distorted her vision so badly -
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- that I think she got sick
She was nauseous all the time
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They weighed a lot, so she had to hold
her head so they wouldn't slide down
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I told her that she had a cold I wanted
her to offer him her gummi bears, -
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- having just rubbed her nose
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She's struggling to keep those glasses
from sliding down her nose
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I don't think he even knows
what a gummi bear is
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You really see here, he hates kids
He just hates them
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And now he's right in the belly
of the thing He's right inside of it
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It was nice that the bus wasn't in good
shape It shook as it pulled away
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Now the people that were heading
for the door stopped and turned back
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Also, people were coming in
from the lobby, -
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- when they heard
that the movie wasn't over
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The studio also had no idea
what this footage was in dailies
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They checked the script
and had no idea what was going on
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I thought it was important that Ferris
get everybody at the end of the movie
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He's made fools of all of us