3. Cameron Frye Imagined The Entire Thing - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Buellers Day Off will hold some sort of magical place in my heart because for one, it was the movie that told me I wanted to write about movies and learn about movies, and two, it was the first time I ever heard a Beatles song. So the fact that without this movie I wouldnt be here lecturing about movie fan theories aside, the tale of Ferris still has always been a wonderful and endlessly watchable one for me, but one where I could take the odd theorems that go along with it. The entire story has Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) taking his sheltered and scared friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) along for a day of living throughout Chicago with Ferris girlfriend Sloan (Mia Sara), doing everything and everything, hitting the tipping point with Ferris crashing a parade float and singing the Beatles cover of Twist and Shout to Chicagos mass public. While the entire movie is wrapped in its magical realism, some movie fans have found a more logical way of explaining the movie and Camerons change from a scared nothing to a confident man. In a Fight Club-influenced explanation, this theory states that Cameron imagined Ferris and Sloan as ways for him to take control of his life, and the fantastic elements of the story are just imaginative dreams as well. While this does alter the point of the film, it still holds the same moral - of figuring out a way to take control of yourself and your own life, no matter the consequences. Because of this, I have come to the conclusion that even with crazy theories and odd explanations; Ferris Buellers Day Off is absolutely bulletproof. This makes me very happy.