[second post this morning]
That was a satisfying exploration!
After the pastor talked about the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club (1985) on Sunday, and everyone in the congregation knew it, I decided to ask around at work.
Have you seen John Hughes movies?
Of course! said two white coworkers in their mid-forties (born around 1980)--one man and one woman.
"I lived for the next one," said an older white woman.
I'd thought the most famous was Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), but in 2016 Variety ranked it third--after Planes, Trains & Automobiles, and Breakfast Club at 1.
Anyway, I thought Big Boss--same age group, and from just south of Chicago, where the movie was set--might have seen Ferris.
He had.
"The guy goes downtown in a red car?"
I'd forgotten the red car. (In fact, I hadn't liked the movie and only saw it once, almost forty years ago when bink and I were living in Chicago.)
I asked Big Boss if he'd gone to downtown Chicago himself, growing up.
"No. Growing up in a gang," he said, "you had about a ten-block radius. It wasn't safe to go into someone else's territory, and downtown Chicago was someone's territory.
I always thought I should go back as a tourist, but I never have."
________________Well, there ya go. I would never have thought about that!
And that's the benefit of getting out of the world-view I grew up in : IT'S INTERESTING!
It's not about guilt and reparations.
It's about The Better Story.
Knowing Big Boss's take makes the existence of Ferris Bueller a better story --something multi-dimensional you can unfold, enter into—like going through the hidden entrance in a video game, or Meow Wolf, or on a riverbank...
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For another take on Ferris Bueller--I always loved this trailer remix, made in 2011 by Joseph Brett, who said:
"My aim was to make it look more like an indie coming of age film; perhaps the kind of film Sofia Coppola or Godard might make."
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off--Recut Trailer"
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