They were a couple of passers-by in town for the German-American parade seen later in the film. The two guys in the bizarre hats, by the way, have no significance to the film at all. Bruce Wayne goes one better, surveying the city from the very top of the building, in The Dark Knight. With its glass walls overlooking a convenient gorge (the area isn’t called Ravinia for nothing), the location was ideal.įerris Bueller’s Day Off location: looking down on the city: Willis Tower, 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicagoįirst stop for Ferris, Sloane and Cameron is the Skydeck of Willis Tower, 233 South Wacker Drive – tallest building in the US and probably better known by its former name of Sears Tower – occupying the block surrounded by Franklin Street and Wacker Drive, Adams Street and Jackson Boulevard ( CTA: Quincy Station Pink, Brown, Purple and Orange Lines).
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The home of Cameron ( Alan Ruck), where the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California, is kept in a state of pristine perfection, is 370 Beech Street, between Linden Avenue and Wade Street, Highland Park (Linden Avenue, by the way was home to Tom Cruise in his breakthrough movie Risky Business). His dad, though, commutes to Chicago itself where his office is in the glass fronted block at 333 West Wacker Drive, overlooking the Chicago River. It’s finally been repainted and the lettering is now gone.įerris’s mum, Katy, works fairly locally in the Winnetka branch of real estate company Koenig and Strey, 583 Chestnut Street at the northwest corner of Elm Street, Winnetka. Just to the north of Northbrook Station, between Cedar Lane and Meadow Road, you can see the famous ‘Save Ferris’ water tower. The hallways of Glenbrook North had previously been used in John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club. The frontage, where Ferris poses as her dad to pick up Sloane ( Mia Sara), is not the school’s main entrance, but the Center for Performing Arts. The school, from which Ferris ( Matthew Broderick) bunks off to spend a day freewheeling around the big city, is Glenbrook North High School, 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, a northern suburb of Chicago on the Metra rail North Line from Chicago’s Union Station. Like many John Hughes films, it’s set in the fictitious Illinois town of ‘Shermer’ (Shermerville was the name of Hughes’ neighbourhood of Northbrook until 1923). That's him." Eleanor Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, adds, "Cameron could not have anticipated that this would be anything but a fun goofball day and in a sense that painting becomes our first concrete clue that Cameron is deeper than everyone else in that movie.Most of the locations for slacker classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off can be found around Chicago, of course – though not all of them. He fears that the more you look at him there isn't anything to see. The more he looks at it there's nothing there. Writer and director John Hughes explained himself in DVD commentary, Smithsonian Magazine reports, that as Cameron examines the painting deeper and deeper, "The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees with this style of painting. But the most poignant moment comes when Cameron stops in front of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat. This slower (in a good way) moment in the film follows the trio as they explore the museum and utilizes long shots of world-famous paintings, like "Nude Under a Pine Tree" by Pablo Picasso, "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper, and "Greyed Rainbow" by Jackson Pollack.
They thought it was the most boring thing they'd ever heard." I thought I'd taught them a good lesson about economics. "And I started reading the role off-camera, and the students laughed so hard that John Hughes said to me, 'Would you ad-lib a scene just as if you were teaching economics, and we'll see how it goes.' He said, 'Don't write anything down, just something that's really interesting to you,' and I did the scene about tariffs and about voodoo economics, and the student extras applauded and laughed. I guess it's pretty serious."Īs it turns out, Stein was the one who was really sick. "I had a bad cold, so I'd had all kinds of cold medicine, so I was woozy," Stein revealed during a webcast. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. But another comedic moment comes when, after Stein has said "Bueller" what seems like thousands of times, a girl named Simone offers up, "Um, he's sick.
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