Ferris Bueller’s
Day Off
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Ferris Bueller decides to skip school by
playing sick
He and his friends go on fun adventures
during the day; ranging from borrowing a
Ferrari, going to a baseball game, eating at a
fancy restaurant, and singing in a parade.
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Ferris Bueller; Main character who skips
school and is the driving force behind playing
hooky
Sloane Peterson; Ferris’s girlfriend who is
excused from school by Ferris
Cameron; Ferris’s best friend who stayed
home sick and ends up tagging along
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Statement: We as the audience can learn and
observe how to play hooky.
Evidence: Ferris shares with us, the audience,
the rules of how to fake sick, pointing out the
dangers of a phony fever and how to make
clammy hands.
Connection: Observational learning is the
acquiring of skills and knowledge by
observing and imitating others.
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Statement: Cameron’s sickness is an issue of
his cognitive perspective.
Evidence: Cameron believes that he is dieing,
but really he is just tight, and can’t see the
world in a positive light.
Connection: The cognitive perspective shows
how a person feels and perceives the world
around them.
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Statement: Ferris has conditioned Cameron to
give him car rides.
Evidence: Cameron knows that Ferris will be
persistent if he doesn’t give him a ride, so he
ends up going to his house.
Connection: Cameron has learned through
operant conditioning, that when he gives Ferris a
ride, he ends up having a good time with his best
friend, so he decides to continue to give him
rides.
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Statement: Communication does not need
words.
Evidence: Cameron makes a sink dripping
noise to communicate his boredom and his
body language suggests a lack of
enthusiasm.
Connection: Communication in this scene is
verbal noise communication, but is not
language. Body language is also a dominant
way people communicate.
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Statement: Discrimination in fancy restaurants is
due to social norms.
Evidence: Abe Forman is expected to be a high
class businessman, but instead, Ferris is posing
as him and this throws the host off. Also, the
female voice is trusting and the host believes her.
The deep male voice is easily believed as an
angry policeman.
Connection: Social psychologists deal with
gender roles and socio-economic situations like
the prestigious restaurant.
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Statement: Ferris has great musical intelligence.
Evidence: Ferris’s “Twist and Shout” performance
in the parade pleases everyone and evokes their
musical joy!
Connection: There are different levels of musical
intelligences according to Gardner’s theory of
multiple intelligences. Ferris, the shaking guy,
choreographed dancers, and older people all
display their unique strengths, or weaknesses, in
the intelligence.
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Ferris Bueller's Day off. Dir. John Director
Hughes. 1986. DVD.
Life moves pretty fast, If
you don’t stop and look
around once in a while, you
could miss it.
-Ferris Bueller