Rewind retro video of the day... In anticipation of our upcoming John Hughes tribute night, here is The Dream Academy with their 1986 cover of The Smiths Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want from the unreleased Ferris Buellers Day Off soundtrack. The song would peak at #83 in the UK. The scene in the movie where the instrumental version of the song is played is when Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron visit the Art Institute of Chicago. Director John Hughes stated, [This was] a self-indulgent scene of mine- which was a place of refuge for me, I went there quite a bit, I loved it. I knew all the paintings, the building. This was a chance for me to go back into this building and show the paintings that were my favorite. Some of the works in the scene include: • Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper • The Old Guitarist (1904) by Pablo Picasso • Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) (1913) by Vasily Kandinsky • Bathers By a River (1917) by Henri Matisse • America Windows (1977) by Marc Chagall • Day of the Gods (Mahana No Atua) (1894) by Paul Gauguin • Greyed Rainbow (1953) by Jackson Pollock • A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886) by Georges Seurat The last painting was done using the pointillist technique, which Seurat invented. This technique is analogous to the four-color CMYK printing process where tiny dots of cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow, and key (black) are placed on a sheet of paper. Up close, you only see the individual dots. But if you back off a distance, your eyes stop seeing the dots and the colors merge, forming a complete image. It was this painting that fixates Cameron. Hughes said, A pointillist style, which at very very close to it, you dont have any idea what youve made until you step back from it. I used it in this context to see that [Camerons] looking at that little girl. Again, its a mother and child. The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees. Of course, with this style of painting. Or any style of painting really. But the more he looks at, theres nothing there. I think [Cameron] fears that the more you look at him the less you see. There isnt anything there. Thats him. The Art Institute scene was originally placed after the parade scene where Ferris lip-synchs Wayne Newtons 63 song Danke Shoen and The Beatles 64 Twist and Shout. But test audiences felt the AI scene was anticlimactic following the excitement of the parade scene, many stating that it was the worst scene in the film. So the film editors swapped places of the two scenes, and after a second test screening, the audience considered it one of the best scenes in the film. The original Smiths version was heard in the 86 film Pretty in Pink, produced and written by Hughes. youtube/watch?v=zhdk_44Gmew
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:17:04 +0000
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