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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Jasinski, Aaron
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2011 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Fan Art | | Released: | 02/11/11 | | Run: | 25 | | Technique: | Giclee | | Size: | 20 X 16 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
- EB Awards
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- Event
- The Road to Shermer, A Tribute to John Hughes, Gallery 1988
- Comments
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"I chose Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as it’s the John Hughes film that had greatest impact on me back in the day.
After re-watching the film and contemplating a bit, the thought occurred to me that it is not really about Ferris Bueller. It’s about Cameron Frye, Ferris’s uptight best friend with a miserable home life and a lot of fears. Through the course of the film, Ferris doesn’t change or grow, nor do any characters except for Cameron (and, to a lesser degree, Ferris’s sister). Ferris acts as the catalyst by which Cameron is forced to confront those fears and (at least in his mind) overcomes them. The pivotal point of the film is the scene where Cameron throws himself into the pool. This is the only time in the story where Ferris seems to express real concern and emotion for anything. It’s as if in this world, everything is a joke or a game, except this moment when Cameron’s life is truly in question. Cameron is symbolically 'reborn’ as he emerges from the pool to a new awareness that will allow him to deal with his father’s anger in regards to his prized car. Cameron is the character in the movie I think most people can identify with and his 'redemption’ seems the most compelling arch of the story."-Aaron Jasinski
The title of the show, The Road To Shermer, put on by Gallery 1988, refers to Shermer, Illinois, a fictitious suburb of Chicago used in several of Hughes films: Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and National Lampoon's Vacation.
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