That scene at the end where he looks at the painting is genius. As mentioned by J. Hughes in an interview, here he realizes that the closer you look at the painting there is nothing; which is exactly what he thinks of himself.
He's staring into the face of a child with her mother, something he's never had from his emotionally absent parents. Something he wants so desperately that he just stares deeper and deeper into her soul. There is so much anguish and despair. The tortured look on his face in this scene is so haunting. This is one of my favourite 2 minutes in cinematic history.
This scene made me cry in the film, it's so beautiful and so unlike the rest of the film and its tone. There's no dialogue, just images, there's music but no words. No slapstick antics or zany jokes. John Hughes films were never sneering patronising comedys laughing at teenagers like so many today. He treated them like real people with hopes and dreams and flaws and fears.
Stanley Kubrick once noted that the most memorable film scenes are with stunning visuals and excellent music. Dialogue is seldom necessary. Seems like John Hughes pretty much perfected that approach at the Chicago Art Institute.
John Hughes (1986) "The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees. But the more he looks at, there's nothing there. I think he fears that the more you look at him the less you see. There isn't anything there. That's him"
I tell you America would be a lot better and the world would be a lot better if John Hughes was still around. John Hughes wanted all people in his movies no matter their struggles to have their moment in the spotlight. You clearly saw that in many of his movies, like Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, and Some kind of wonderful. I wonder what John Hughes would say about 9/11. I respect his work tremendously.
This scene captures the fleeting moment of adolescence, those last few moments we remember of high school before graduation and college. They pretend to be both children (holding hands in the line of kids on the school trip) and then adults (posing with their arms crossed, imitating what the other museum-goers are doing), but in truth they are neither children nor adults in this moment.
Cameron breaks my heart in this scene. He’s looking at all of these pictures of children and of their parents because it’s what he never had. His parents were too selfish to care for him and he wanted parents who would love him. The closer he looks at the pointillism, the less he sees, which is what he sees in himself. This scene always gets to me. I’m so used to John Hughes movies being hilarious but then he throws this into the mix and it’s just so beautiful.
Yes but...The painting he's looking at is all built up from dots. The more he looks into the painting, the less he sees. This is how Cameron feels about himself. He feels like he is nothing the more you look into him.
@@dafunkymonkee power of seeing and not being told, also combined with the tone of the music It is soothing yet changes like how Cameron changes the more he sees and how the art works change The music of the ideal young yet naive bit innocent to the real world couple is far more soothing and relaxed and calm No words and body language leave it open to our emotional interpretation We feel a little of what Cameron feels because of our own experiences and experiences of others in these situations We see and feel Cameron's confusion and pain mixed with the bonding of these friends and how we envy Ferris and Sloane We envy their youth and happiness and remember how they felt at this litteral crossroads of life Confused and scarred yet loving the connections and bonds and envying their innocence of not knowing yet what life will really throw at them At the same time, younger crowds relate to this as they too would be innocent of what is to come in life, and contrast Cameron being moved by facing his inner fears and thus demons and despite being in fear and pain, realising that something is wrong and now acknowledging it's there and what it is the first step to both recovering and also adapting to new adult things as well as the calm of kissing a lover and being confused but content in a controlled way that despite adolescence angst they and also you the viewer at that younger age anyway are thinking of these things both sex and love and some thing more that makes you feel like an adult All this is in one well filmed scene
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Its so strange when you're high on something crazy watching this movie with a friend just giggling at everything and laughing your assed off and then this scene happens and the whole mood changes like that.
The scene is amazing and yes so unexpected. The whole tone of the film is very breezy and infantile then suddenly there's this. It's like finding a diamond on a beach full of pebbles.
My friend and I watched this and completely missed the tone of the scene we just thought it was funny how it was zooming in on his face but the scene is actually genius
Just went to Chicago to visit and this was the first place i went...it was really awe inspiring to see art made hundreds of years ago. I made it Ferris.....30 some odd years later but i made it!
He had a story he wanted to tell. Why I'm often (not always, but often) dissatisfied with movies now is that they are not stories somebody really wanted to tell. Bless you Hughes.
I don't know of many writers/directors who've put out so much well-regarded work in such a short space of time. I mean, you have your directors like Tarantino and Scorsese who you know will give you a real quality film, but they'll take years to between each one. Hughes, for a straight decade, was just knocking out classic after classic.
I have seen Ferris, Uncle Buck, Home Alone 1/2, Miracle on 34th Street, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles. No particular favorite of the bunch
The first time I saw this film, I could literally feel what Cameron was feeling in this scene. As painful as it is, it felt comforting to know that somebody understood... also notice one of the first paintings with a lonely bar-sitter, as opposed to another man there seated next to a woman who is clearly "with him".
I always thought this was the finest scene in the movie for its pure pathos and poignancy. It captures the joy and wonder of youth (symbolized by the trio walking hand in hand with the schoolchildren) but also its pains - when Cameron suddenly sees in the Seurat all the love that's been missing from his life.
According to Hughes (God rest his soul), Cameron looking at the little girl is him looking into his fear. The longer and closer he looks at her, the less he sees; there is nothing there. He is afraid that people look at him the same way as that girl; that there is nothing there. He is the girl.
@@gcHK47 I just heard the documentary and this is it and I always wondered about this particular scene and the fascination of the character for this small detail in the painting. This is far from a "teen" movie sometimes in it and that's why it's a masterpiece in my opinion
Notice too how static the camera is, it's all about the framing instead. The camera doesn't move once. In lots of the film the camera is tilting, panning, dollying, crane shots, helicopter shots, etc, so you get that sense of fluidity and movement, but here it's a fixed lockdown shot so your mind doesn't get distracted by camera movement and you can just focus on each segment. Great cinematography.
I love the orchestrated version of The Smiths - Please, Please, Please let me get what I want in the background. A cheerful sounding song with dark lyrics. Like a man with a smile on the outside and crippling depression on the inside.
This scene is also interesting when you take one of Ferris earlier lines into context “(Cameron’s) House is like a museum, it’s very beautiful, and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything. Can you imagine for a moment what it was like for Cameron to grow up in that joint as a baby?” Now, in the City Art Institute, it’s very beautiful but for Ferris and Sloan it’s also a very warm place. However, for Cameron, it’s just as cold as before
Graduated in 2022 and I had met the love of my life and we had watched this movie in school. Our teacher played it since our last day was only a week away. I get nothing but a heavy heart watching this scene with the soothing music and them exploring the museum. Wish I could go back to simpler times..
Yea it really is. Even at 16 it speaks leagues to me. I’ve always been a bit mature for my age and even now it’s difficult as I start to feel the panic and anxiety of life. Of losing my youth and starting to take up the responsibilities in the adult world. I see less and less the more I look at life as I can no longer go back to a state of easy going fun like in early childhood and more and more feel the pressure of the future and how my life will go. It’s like being stuck in a weird limbo. You just want to have fun and hold on to your youth but you have to accept that time just keeps going despite ones sentiment and eventually start thinking about what you’re gonna do in the world. This whole movie and specifically this scene connects so deeply at least with me on that level and it’s a true masterpiece that is largely undermined.
This is one of the best comment sections on RUclips. If you’re here, we are all with you. Beautiful scene! As a kid, I liked how this movie told the story of the rebel without a cause. Now in my thirties, I think it’s a wonderful life. Appreciate life. Appreciate others.
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Song by Smiths: "Please, please, please, let me get what I want", instrumental cover by Dream Academy
It's already been said, but the scene with Cameron staring at the little girl in the painting is especially wonderful. I feel like it especially contrasts well with what Ferris and Sloane were doing. The juxtaposition between them kissing and Cameron morosely gazing into the painting really reinforces how lonely and morose Cameron's life is
So I interpreted this as something completely different. Cameron is looking at the painting because he can see a love that the mother expresses to her child. The colors are vibrant, the scene is festive, and everyone is enjoying themselves, even the kids and parents. This is something Cameron never had. It's like he sees it, but he never had it. I see it in his eyes, I never got to have that love. I grew up without it.
This scene is art, ironically filmed in an art museum. If there's one scene I have to choose from every movie that I have seen that I hold dear to my heart it is this one. Nothing resonates with me more.
I hated this scene as a kid, because it broke with the comedy of most of the rest of the film, but as an adult I see it's brilliance. It's a haunting and beautiful scene. I teared up when I visited the Art Institute of Chicago.
This is one of my mom's favorite movies, I watched it as a kid and loved it. I discovered The Smiths in my early teens and loved Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want, but I never put together that I'd heard it here, until earlier today when my mom heard me practicing the song on guitar. It really blew my mind to find out that a song which means so much to me now was in this movie that meant so much to me when I was younger. What an incredible film.
This scene allows you to sit back and reflect. That even though your watching a movie, you should stop and realize theres more to life. IDK who thought of it but its such a slick break in the middle.
This is quite possibly the most beautiful and powerful scene of... anything modern... and I just wish it wasn't so hard to find this song and soundtrack. So few were released in the 2016 30th anniversary release. Oh John Hughes, you underestimated yourself.
I went to the Chicago art museum a couple of days ago. Literally went on a scavenger hunt to find the art showed in the movie. I got to see most of them. The painting that Cameron stared into had me starstruck and I instantly had goosebumps. Never thought I would be able to see it with my own eyes in person. This scene is why I appreciate art and all its beauty. I was only 8 when this movie came out. Till this day it brings out the kid in me every time I watch it. I just wanted to be as cool as Ferris.
I wish i was a kid again being in that line on a fieldtrip. This movie is one reason why i dream of one day going to Chicago to see the whole Wind City in all it's glory.
An incredibly beautiful and moving interlude. All of it. Hughes's use of that evocative music really deepens the emotional impact. Cameron's introspection deep into the little French girl's face....and beyond.... serves not only as an exposition of Seurat's masterpiece of pointillism, but is one of the most emotional and memorable scenes in cinematic history.
I have only seen this film once in my 34 years on this earth. This scene stuck with me since I was 10 years old. This is the only scene I clearly remembered all these years.
Yeah the movie is hilarious, but this is the scene that everyone remembers. This is John Hughes at his simplest, full of warmth and kindness and longing. Thank you John for all these special moments. I won't ever forget them
I always loved this scene for the great song that plays alongside it-the sound is depressingly innocent-which emulates the feeling teens feel when they realize that their childhood is over.
I remember watching this movie when I was 14. It was a screwball kinda commedy, and then, from nowhere, this scene that was magical, almost out of this world. It hipnotised me, I watched it over and over on the VHS :))
I think I watch this movie every year, and I hope to watch it every year for the rest of my days. I adore it. And I hope my little boy does too, who's due any day now.
@@manuelorozco7760 thanks. This movie will forever have a special place in my heart. My high school used to have it on VHS. When a teacher was out sick and we had a substitute teacher and no curriculum to follow, often they would let us watch a film. It just so happens that our library of films was limited and this film would get played often. Yet I never really got tired of it. It's definitely 1 of my favorites films of all time. Cameron's house and his father's garage have been an inspiration ever since and I'm hoping it build a garage like it in future for my own vintage cars.
... back when this movey came out back in 87 i cried so hared i camed... beautifual and gorgoise i want to wach it for the first time again... goodbye harold schwimptenheimer.
I’ve always loved this movie. I first watched it when I was around 3. I would watch this movie constantly growing up. I was often sick and I would always want to watch this when I was out of school. It really had an amazing impression on me. I remember every scene in such great detail. I always feel a little melancholy watching this movie. I feel nostalgic for some reason watching it even though I was born well after the 80s. This scene in particular always makes me feel so emotional not necessarily sad just emotional. Now it’s my senior year of Highschool and lately I’ve been thinking of this movie a lot.
Randomly remembered this scene for some reason. Wasn’t disappointed in the comments that backed up my intuition abt how deep this part of the movie was.
This is one of the movies I'd watch on repeat as a kid, one of the many John Hughes movies I'd have going on rotation. This scene was always fun (as a kid) because there were so many cool pictures and the music was nice as well. Coming back to it as a 28 year old it actually tears me up a bit Cameron just staring deeper and deeper into the painting. Everyone has their own interpretation of it but me personally it's just soul crushing. It's like he's looking at a childhood that he never had, that he'll never be able to have. Cameron is the definition of a tortured soul.
I think this might be my favourite scene from all the movies I've ever watched. 80s movies knew how to do inspiring, fun and feel good in a way that seems to have got lost in more current times.
Damian Chamberlin I went to the museum in Chicago just to stare at this painting and make out with my girlfriend in the glass panes. I even asked “Who wants an Orange Whip?”
This scene and song gives me the pleasure of nostalgia ☺️☺️☺️when the times were simpler people didnt stick to their phones they would just enjoy the life as it was . The kids in the 80s and 90s were the luckiest generation of kids. When will we experience this i ask to god everyday ❤️❤️
John Hughes was an legendary director. His unique ability to find the exact perfect music to match a particular visual was unmatched then or now. And how can you tell how good he was rewatch his movies they are timeless ❤😂
Fitting when you realize that the instrumental is of "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" - a sentiment I'm sure Cameron would echo. "Lord knows it would be the first time."
The Heart and soul of John Hughes gently taps us on the shoulder and resonates an old memory that makes us smile when we think of someone we once loved long gone with an echo of the song "don't you forget about me" playing in the background
1:06 is such an iconic shot. All three in same pose and angled out and the viewer's left. With the other museum visitor in a mirror opposite pose and turned 90 degrees and positioned far and away to the viewer's right. Each character is standing still as their lives are flying past. This shot shows so much intentionality and attention to details. This whole scene was executed perfectly.
Love how the kids are likely on their first field trip and the trio are kind of on their last.
As if the scene couldn't have more flavor oh god you genius you
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@@bethanyzamora1146 Game's dropping on Christmas. Super hyped
fuck man why'd you have to go and say that
I never thought of it that way wow
That scene at the end where he looks at the painting is genius. As mentioned by J. Hughes in an interview, here he realizes that the closer you look at the painting there is nothing; which is exactly what he thinks of himself.
Great analysis!!! I wouldn't never thought of it like that.
Very good interpretation
That’s word for word what John Hughes said during this scene in the dvd commentary. I’m guessing that’s how he thought of that.
He's staring into the face of a child with her mother, something he's never had from his emotionally absent parents. Something he wants so desperately that he just stares deeper and deeper into her soul. There is so much anguish and despair. The tortured look on his face in this scene is so haunting. This is one of my favourite 2 minutes in cinematic history.
At least give John Hughes some credit for ripping the words right out of his mouth lol
This scene made me cry in the film, it's so beautiful and so unlike the rest of the film and its tone. There's no dialogue, just images, there's music but no words. No slapstick antics or zany jokes. John Hughes films were never sneering patronising comedys laughing at teenagers like so many today. He treated them like real people with hopes and dreams and flaws and fears.
He was a pure artistic director.
Same here.
Stanley Kubrick once noted that the most memorable film scenes are with stunning visuals and excellent music. Dialogue is seldom necessary. Seems like John Hughes pretty much perfected that approach at the Chicago Art Institute.
Beautifully articulated…😔
Facts
John Hughes (1986)
"The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees. But the more he looks at, there's nothing there. I think he fears that the more you look at him the less you see. There isn't anything there. That's him"
I tell you America would be a lot better and the world would be a lot better if John Hughes was still around. John Hughes wanted all people in his movies no matter their struggles to have their moment in the spotlight. You clearly saw that in many of his movies, like Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, and Some kind of wonderful. I wonder what John Hughes would say about 9/11. I respect his work tremendously.
Someone what's the name of that painting
Thank you
"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat, sometimes incorrectly called "A Sunday Afternoon in the Park."
@@matthewlawton9241…. what a fantastic analysis.. thank you for offering this to this scene.
This movie was really about Cameron tbh
Decoy Protagonist trope. It was all a trick!!!
ferris and cameron are the same person
There is a theory that the film centers around cameron and ferris is just a figment of his imagination to go against his dad
@@herbiegarbett3678 Actually they are the total opposite of each other.
@@herbiegarbett3678 Actually they are the opposite of one another.
This scene captures the fleeting moment of adolescence, those last few moments we remember of high school before graduation and college. They pretend to be both children (holding hands in the line of kids on the school trip) and then adults (posing with their arms crossed, imitating what the other museum-goers are doing), but in truth they are neither children nor adults in this moment.
Like a great movie said "too old to be a kid, too young to be a man"
Interesting interpretation! I doubt that it was intended that way though
Loved your take on it.
Just them having a good time. People who say it’s about them leaving childhood and becoming adults are probably just boring people.
@@dougphillips2035 or maybe they're people who appreciate movies as art.
Cameron breaks my heart in this scene. He’s looking at all of these pictures of children and of their parents because it’s what he never had. His parents were too selfish to care for him and he wanted parents who would love him. The closer he looks at the pointillism, the less he sees, which is what he sees in himself. This scene always gets to me. I’m so used to John Hughes movies being hilarious but then he throws this into the mix and it’s just so beautiful.
Yes but...The painting he's looking at is all built up from dots. The more he looks into the painting, the less he sees. This is how Cameron feels about himself. He feels like he is nothing the more you look into him.
At least i am lucky to have parents who love me!
Riddle me this I never thought it that way before
Yes the fact that he’s focusing particularly on the face of the child is very meaningful and sad 😔
The amazing thing is that his parents aren't even in the movie and are barely referred to, but his father is a key presence through the car.
There are movie scenes. Then there are iconic movie scenes. Then theres the museum scene from Ferris Buellers Day Off.
I totally agree with you!
This is what made the movie for me
Its truly teens becoming adults
yes I can't explain why but I get emotional every time
@@dafunkymonkee power of seeing and not being told, also combined with the tone of the music
It is soothing yet changes like how Cameron changes the more he sees and how the art works change
The music of the ideal young yet naive bit innocent to the real world couple is far more soothing and relaxed and calm
No words and body language leave it open to our emotional interpretation
We feel a little of what Cameron feels because of our own experiences and experiences of others in these situations
We see and feel Cameron's confusion and pain mixed with the bonding of these friends and how we envy Ferris and Sloane
We envy their youth and happiness and remember how they felt at this litteral crossroads of life
Confused and scarred yet loving the connections and bonds and envying their innocence of not knowing yet what life will really throw at them
At the same time, younger crowds relate to this as they too would be innocent of what is to come in life, and contrast Cameron being moved by facing his inner fears and thus demons and despite being in fear and pain, realising that something is wrong and now acknowledging it's there and what it is the first step to both recovering and also adapting to new adult things as well as the calm of kissing a lover and being confused but content in a controlled way that despite adolescence angst they and also you the viewer at that younger age anyway are thinking of these things both sex and love and some thing more that makes you feel like an adult
All this is in one well filmed scene
@@idontcareaboutpcpolitics222 I don't what to say other than thank you... your insight is really appreciated thank you for commenting, I wish you well in life
I love how Ferris and Sloane kiss in front of the blue stained glass art...kind of like moonlight.
Cameron should have a girlfriend too.
Mine too
borinakoune He doesn’t need a girlfriend, he needs to be happy and good with himself
Its a represetation of the night of van Gogh If you look closer
😔🙏🏼
Its so strange when you're high on something crazy watching this movie with a friend just giggling at everything and laughing your assed off and then this scene happens and the whole mood changes like that.
The majority of the movie is fun and chaotic and then this scene is like a little time out
i watched it off acid, imagine that fucking roller coaster
@@casanovaconor8349 Me too, it was insanity. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it. This whole movie was such an experience on acid.
The scene is amazing and yes so unexpected. The whole tone of the film is very breezy and infantile then suddenly there's this. It's like finding a diamond on a beach full of pebbles.
My friend and I watched this and completely missed the tone of the scene we just thought it was funny how it was zooming in on his face but the scene is actually genius
Just went to Chicago to visit and this was the first place i went...it was really awe inspiring to see art made hundreds of years ago. I made it Ferris.....30 some odd years later but i made it!
1superduck same here!
Joel G. Where is it at?
SmokeBoyTone Art Institute of Chicago ...If I spend more then 12 hours in the city I feel compelled to visit it again and again and again
stirange I’m military so it’s free :-) ...but I would pay double the cost of admission to visit the Art Institute of Chicago
1superduck Even though I lived in Chicago for 14 years it’s been a while for mw
What an amazing scene. John Hughes knows exactly what he's doing.
John Hughes movies tug at your heart. The man knew how to portray the innocence we all have, and we never want to let go.
He had a story he wanted to tell. Why I'm often (not always, but often) dissatisfied with movies now is that they are not stories somebody really wanted to tell. Bless you Hughes.
I don't know of many writers/directors who've put out so much well-regarded work in such a short space of time. I mean, you have your directors like Tarantino and Scorsese who you know will give you a real quality film, but they'll take years to between each one. Hughes, for a straight decade, was just knocking out classic after classic.
I have seen Ferris, Uncle Buck, Home Alone 1/2, Miracle on 34th Street, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles. No particular favorite of the bunch
samplexample I pretend Home Alone 3 never happened
The first time I saw this film, I could literally feel what Cameron was feeling in this scene. As painful as it is, it felt comforting to know that somebody understood...
also notice one of the first paintings with a lonely bar-sitter, as opposed to another man there seated next to a woman who is clearly "with him".
Oh my gosh I just noticed that this scene is truly something else
That’s Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
I always thought this was the finest scene in the movie for its pure pathos and poignancy. It captures the joy and wonder of youth (symbolized by the trio walking hand in hand with the schoolchildren) but also its pains - when Cameron suddenly sees in the Seurat all the love that's been missing from his life.
I never thought it that way before
According to Hughes (God rest his soul), Cameron looking at the little girl is him looking into his fear. The longer and closer he looks at her, the less he sees; there is nothing there. He is afraid that people look at him the same way as that girl; that there is nothing there. He is the girl.
@@gcHK47 I just heard the documentary and this is it and I always wondered about this particular scene and the fascination of the character for this small detail in the painting. This is far from a "teen" movie sometimes in it and that's why it's a masterpiece in my opinion
Damn Cameron just needs to hang on. He’ll marry a woman one day.
Notice too how static the camera is, it's all about the framing instead. The camera doesn't move once. In lots of the film the camera is tilting, panning, dollying, crane shots, helicopter shots, etc, so you get that sense of fluidity and movement, but here it's a fixed lockdown shot so your mind doesn't get distracted by camera movement and you can just focus on each segment. Great cinematography.
I love the orchestrated version of The Smiths - Please, Please, Please let me get what I want in the background. A cheerful sounding song with dark lyrics. Like a man with a smile on the outside and crippling depression on the inside.
It's an Instrumental version by Dream Academy. Really great version.
@@anth0nybalb0aI imagine it was already known in the United States at that time.
Oh my god, it is!!!!! How could I've missed that????😂
Always Loved this scène , and only just Found that this song is originaly from the Smits
@@Kilb-ill by being a deaf c**t.
my favorite part of this film so beautiful.
This scene is also interesting when you take one of Ferris earlier lines into context
“(Cameron’s) House is like a museum, it’s very beautiful, and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything. Can you imagine for a moment what it was like for Cameron to grow up in that joint as a baby?”
Now, in the City Art Institute, it’s very beautiful but for Ferris and Sloan it’s also a very warm place. However, for Cameron, it’s just as cold as before
One of the most powerfull scenes ever made.
i really dont know why it hits so deep for me
lol how. You are just a hipster
"so, for once in my life, let me get what i want. (lord knows, it would be the first time)"
It reminds me of Cameron and his issue with his dad
Yeah, so please please please
Let me, let me, let me...
Graduated in 2022 and I had met the love of my life and we had watched this movie in school. Our teacher played it since our last day was only a week away. I get nothing but a heavy heart watching this scene with the soothing music and them exploring the museum.
Wish I could go back to simpler times..
I wonder if today's youth knows how incredible this scene is...Art in motion rarely is there such captured beauty.
I am 27 amd i first saw this movie as a high school senior! I did not think i would like this movie at first.
Yea it really is. Even at 16 it speaks leagues to me. I’ve always been a bit mature for my age and even now it’s difficult as I start to feel the panic and anxiety of life. Of losing my youth and starting to take up the responsibilities in the adult world. I see less and less the more I look at life as I can no longer go back to a state of easy going fun like in early childhood and more and more feel the pressure of the future and how my life will go. It’s like being stuck in a weird limbo. You just want to have fun and hold on to your youth but you
have to accept that time just keeps going despite ones sentiment and eventually start thinking about what you’re gonna do in the world. This whole movie and specifically this scene connects so deeply at least with me on that level and it’s a true masterpiece that is largely undermined.
Raff I know how you feel. Before the the pandemic, being a young adult felt great
I love this scene as a 15 year old
@@raff1495 Let it gently go.
Look back fondly.
Enjoy the journey ahead.
This is one of the best comment sections on RUclips. If you’re here, we are all with you. Beautiful scene! As a kid, I liked how this movie told the story of the rebel without a cause. Now in my thirties, I think it’s a wonderful life. Appreciate life. Appreciate others.
Song by Smiths: "Please, please, please, let me get what I want", instrumental cover by Dream Academy
Who, of course did 'Life in a northern town', written about....
God, it’s such a gorgeous cover
Where do you find the instrumental? I've only found it with lyrics
Hank Hardigan ...Nick Drake
@@johnpopken6261 It's on a CD called Boutique Chill AMazon ASIN: B000BHNEGY
The idea of feeling safe with a loving family is so foreign and unimaginable to him...
At least not foreign to me
@@manuelorozco7760 - who gives a fuck what you think...
SlickRick, right?? 🙄
Beautiful music, so romantic 💘
Its an original instrumental rendition of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths, if you didn't know! :) Both versions are amazing
Dream academy's version of the smiths song
The Smiths....
Check out the video by the Dream a
Academy who created this version, gorgeous and classy
@@coffee_singing2315 I literally search up this video to see if it was actually this song, and yes!!!!
Best part about this scene is it's music. It hypnotizes you.
Hide the razor blades first.
Music like this makes me wish i lived in the 80's.
the smiths - please, please, please, let me get what i want
It's already been said, but the scene with Cameron staring at the little girl in the painting is especially wonderful. I feel like it especially contrasts well with what Ferris and Sloane were doing. The juxtaposition between them kissing and Cameron morosely gazing into the painting really reinforces how lonely and morose Cameron's life is
So I interpreted this as something completely different. Cameron is looking at the painting because he can see a love that the mother expresses to her child. The colors are vibrant, the scene is festive, and everyone is enjoying themselves, even the kids and parents. This is something Cameron never had. It's like he sees it, but he never had it. I see it in his eyes, I never got to have that love. I grew up without it.
But i grew up with it. I did not always believe it
Whenever you're depressed listen to this song. It's amazing.
What's it called?
The song is called, "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want"
By The Dream Academy. In the clip, its only the instrumental.
open.spotify.com/track/0smzrlYiBiecxfG8p5QDcQ?si=Fx5LQRJVT4Sd6k4kR_SA9A
the smiths. please please
@@BocanadaMusic the original and vocal version is of the same name but by the smiths
This was the moment where you realise it's not just a clever and well made teen classic
Its a perfect film that catches the first phase of adulthood
I was 19 just about to graduate HS when i first saw this movie. So I know what you mean
This scene is art, ironically filmed in an art museum. If there's one scene I have to choose from every movie that I have seen that I hold dear to my heart it is this one. Nothing resonates with me more.
I hated this scene as a kid, because it broke with the comedy of most of the rest of the film, but as an adult I see it's brilliance. It's a haunting and beautiful scene. I teared up when I visited the Art Institute of Chicago.
went there the other day and was overwhelmed when I turned the corner to see Nighthawks
@@MColemanTV Incredible painting. Hopper is one of my all time favorites.
This is one of my mom's favorite movies, I watched it as a kid and loved it. I discovered The Smiths in my early teens and loved Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want, but I never put together that I'd heard it here, until earlier today when my mom heard me practicing the song on guitar. It really blew my mind to find out that a song which means so much to me now was in this movie that meant so much to me when I was younger. What an incredible film.
This is the greatest scene in any film IMO. Can't even describe how perfect it is.
This movie is a classic. Beautiful music.
This scene allows you to sit back and reflect. That even though your watching a movie, you should stop and realize theres more to life. IDK who thought of it but its such a slick break in the middle.
No smart phones back then. People just stood and appreciated what they were seeing. Happier times....
I maybe 27 but i do miss being a kid not having a smart phone too
Including no kids who plays Fortnite everyday
Manuel Orozco Then get rid of it what’s stopping you
@@kikoonthemove jeez chill
@@Max-el7zd fuck off
This is quite possibly the most beautiful and powerful scene of... anything modern... and I just wish it wasn't so hard to find this song and soundtrack. So few were released in the 2016 30th anniversary release. Oh John Hughes, you underestimated yourself.
Please, please, please let me get what I want by the dream academy
I went to the Chicago art museum a couple of days ago. Literally went on a scavenger hunt to find the art showed in the movie. I got to see most of them. The painting that Cameron stared into had me starstruck and I instantly had goosebumps. Never thought I would be able to see it with my own eyes in person. This scene is why I appreciate art and all its beauty. I was only 8 when this movie came out. Till this day it brings out the kid in me every time I watch it. I just wanted to be as cool as Ferris.
Just took my husband and kids to this museum today and did the same pose as them in front of the statue.❤️❤️
Lolita Hansen While the Kids were staring at the painting while you and your husband kissed in the moonlight?
LOL
No matter how many times I watch this, it just doesn't feel old, not at all.
So much emotion without a single word being spoken, this scene is beautiful
I saw this scene today and it made me cry. I miss going to museums.
I have not been to one in three years since the California Science Center. I am not usually a museum person
I wish i was a kid again being in that line on a fieldtrip. This movie is one reason why i dream of one day going to Chicago to see the whole Wind City in all it's glory.
I swear, I could get lost in that song forever
🎼🎶🎶
An incredibly beautiful and moving interlude. All of it. Hughes's use of that evocative music really deepens the emotional impact. Cameron's introspection deep into the little French girl's face....and beyond.... serves not only as an exposition of Seurat's masterpiece of pointillism, but is one of the most emotional and memorable scenes in cinematic history.
I have only seen this film once in my 34 years on this earth. This scene stuck with me since I was 10 years old. This is the only scene I clearly remembered all these years.
One of my all-time favorite movie scenes. I've probably watched this 500 times over the years.
This single scene brought this movie to the next level and showed there is way more going on here than a teen comedy. Truly brilliant.
This movie is a real rollercoaster of emotions considering that this part was like at 50 minutes of movie
I remember back in the 90s this movie would come on sometimes on the weekends my freinds and I would smoke weed and watch it I miss those days 😢
This is my favorite scene in any movie ever
A little timeout in a crazy chaotic film.
In the final hours of my final day, I hope this is the song that is playing in my head as I recall the moments of my life.
The scene ripped my heart right off
Yeah the movie is hilarious, but this is the scene that everyone remembers. This is John Hughes at his simplest, full of warmth and kindness and longing. Thank you John for all these special moments. I won't ever forget them
nothing like looking at a painting, seeing yourself in it and realizing you understand art
Noah Seltzer One of my favorite paintings that moonlight one by Vincent Van Gough
This scene is awesome because if you showed just this clip to someone who has never seen the movie they’d create such a different perspective of it.
I always loved this scene for the great song that plays alongside it-the sound is depressingly innocent-which emulates the feeling teens feel when they realize that their childhood is over.
I graduated from high school the year this movie came out. I missed the 80s.
I remember watching this movie when I was 14. It was a screwball kinda commedy, and then, from nowhere, this scene that was magical, almost out of this world. It hipnotised me, I watched it over and over on the VHS :))
Cameron had such clear skin im jealous
This proves one thing: that the music makes the scene. Without it, it would just be boring pictures of paintings. But now, you can feel the emotions
I disagree but it certainly makes it way better
@@metta9743 I’m listening
Please please please let me get what I want- the smiths
This was a great cinematic moment in a comedy film.
Imagine being at a museum and this plays lol
division100 I’m just staring at a painting while my friend and girlfriend make out
easily one of my favorite scenes in this film. and that's saying A LOT.
Who’s watching this during Covid 19
Me. I rewatched the movie last night
I think I watch this movie every year, and I hope to watch it every year for the rest of my days. I adore it. And I hope my little boy does too, who's due any day now.
gav240z Early congrats
@@manuelorozco7760 thanks. This movie will forever have a special place in my heart. My high school used to have it on VHS. When a teacher was out sick and we had a substitute teacher and no curriculum to follow, often they would let us watch a film. It just so happens that our library of films was limited and this film would get played often. Yet I never really got tired of it. It's definitely 1 of my favorites films of all time. Cameron's house and his father's garage have been an inspiration ever since and I'm hoping it build a garage like it in future for my own vintage cars.
gav240z Cool. I don't consider it a favorite really. But i have seen the movie 3 times in the last 8 years.
John Hughes loved British music more than people realise. Many of his movies have them in major scenes.
Small wonder, the Brits created XX century music.
@@undershaft8828The British have the best rock in the world
The film editing/cinematography in this movie is just too good
Goosebumps.. each & every time. (RIP John Hughes)
... back when this movey came out back in 87 i cried so hared i camed... beautifual and gorgoise i want to wach it for the first time again... goodbye harold schwimptenheimer.
sorey everybodey if you cried when reading this.
this is so breathtakingly beautiful. john hughes, you understood us. growing up doesn't have to be the end...
I’ve seen this more times than any of his other work
two things: this scene gave birth to every artsy teenage girl's favorite movie scene AND cam and sloane really would have been such a cute couple
You didn't have to call me out like that
@@greentea5095 lmaoo don't worry i exposed myself too
This film is a proper masterpiece
The new I phone ad,....totally this.
I’ve always loved this movie. I first watched it when I was around 3. I would watch this movie constantly growing up. I was often sick and I would always want to watch this when I was out of school. It really had an amazing impression on me. I remember every scene in such great detail. I always feel a little melancholy watching this movie. I feel nostalgic for some reason watching it even though I was born well after the 80s. This scene in particular always makes me feel so emotional not necessarily sad just emotional.
Now it’s my senior year of Highschool and lately I’ve been thinking of this movie a lot.
One of those beautiful scenes that transcends the movie in which it’s in . . . and it’s already a great movie!
Randomly remembered this scene for some reason. Wasn’t disappointed in the comments that backed up my intuition abt how deep this part of the movie was.
This is one of the movies I'd watch on repeat as a kid, one of the many John Hughes movies I'd have going on rotation. This scene was always fun (as a kid) because there were so many cool pictures and the music was nice as well. Coming back to it as a 28 year old it actually tears me up a bit Cameron just staring deeper and deeper into the painting. Everyone has their own interpretation of it but me personally it's just soul crushing. It's like he's looking at a childhood that he never had, that he'll never be able to have. Cameron is the definition of a tortured soul.
I like how it zooms in so close at the end you can see the film grain
Saying this movie is a classic is an understatement
One of the most iconic scenes of cinema's history! I wish someday I could visit this museum!
After seeing the commentary by John Hughes on this scene the beauty is overwhelming
I think this might be my favourite scene from all the movies I've ever watched. 80s movies knew how to do inspiring, fun and feel good in a way that seems to have got lost in more current times.
the use of that specific art in this movie is incredible. to use pointillism to show cameron's feelings. genius.
Every time I see this scene I want to book a flight to Chicago
Damian Chamberlin I went to the museum in Chicago just to stare at this painting and make out with my girlfriend in the glass panes. I even asked “Who wants an Orange Whip?”
I have lived in California all my life! Never been to Chicago
@@manuelorozco7760 go !
@@dmcrun3572 I will maybe when the Dodgers play the Cubs
I’m in Chicago now
possibly my favorite movie scene ever, it’s so beautifully done. the music choice makes it so nostalgic for some reason but i can’t pinpoint why.
This scene and song gives me the pleasure of nostalgia ☺️☺️☺️when the times were simpler people didnt stick to their phones they would just enjoy the life as it was . The kids in the 80s and 90s were the luckiest generation of kids. When will we experience this i ask to god everyday ❤️❤️
I agree! If I could go back...somehow....my childhood I differently would want that.
The song is so emotional😫🤧
The dream academy please please (let me get what I want )
Yep. It's like a medieval folk tune
Reiji Minato uh no it’s not
Brent Neal, the original it's actually a The Smith's tune, man.
John Hughes was an legendary director. His unique ability to find the exact perfect music to match a particular visual was unmatched then or now.
And how can you tell how good he was rewatch his movies they are timeless ❤😂
i just want to give cameron a hug
Fitting when you realize that the instrumental is of "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" - a sentiment I'm sure Cameron would echo.
"Lord knows it would be the first time."
The Heart and soul of John Hughes gently taps us on the shoulder and resonates an old memory that makes us smile when we think of someone we once loved long gone with an echo of the song "don't you forget about me" playing in the background
This scene was low key other worldly
I would just like to add that Cameron Frye was interested in impressionism from a young age.
“I understood that reference.”
I've hesitated for one day...and just watching this scene has convinced me. I'll order the Blu-Ray in a few minutes!
1:06 is such an iconic shot. All three in same pose and angled out and the viewer's left. With the other museum visitor in a mirror opposite pose and turned 90 degrees and positioned far and away to the viewer's right. Each character is standing still as their lives are flying past. This shot shows so much intentionality and attention to details. This whole scene was executed perfectly.
I always come back to this video..
The director of the movie called it an ode to Chicago. It sure is.