Ya know what always bugged me about Ferris Bueller’s Day
Off? In the first reel, Cameron is bedridden with a severe flu and within
five minutes, he’s up and dressed and even spry. Punching the passenger
seat with indecision, jumping up and down by the rear bumper, throwing
things... After that, his illness is never mentioned again. It’s like he was
never sick to begin with.
I know John Hughes wrote screenplays on the fly, most of
them over the course of a weekend. In this case, it seems like while in the
process, he thought, “Wait, hang on a second... My protagonist is faking an
illness to stay home from school. His best friend is staying home from school
on the very same day because he actually is ill. That migt be a little
too coincidental. Too much sickness for one movie. Maybe I’ll nix the 'Cameron
being sick' subplot.” But then he forgot he’d changed his mind, shot the scenes
of Cameron buried under the covers with a pharmacy by his bedside, realized
his mistake, and just left it in anyway. I could be mistaken, but there might
be a line about Cameron being something of a hypochondriac. Even if that were
the case, it’s still a pretty big plothole.
I love the movie, but this has always driven me insane.
Anyone else? Anyone?
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