Why does ferris have the British flag on his door?
Why would an American do this? Seems a little odd to me...
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That would be a possible explanation if, say, Sloane were British.
shareYou people have it all wrong!! Check out the other posters in his room: Blancmange, Killing Joke. Its obvious that Ferris has a taste for british obscure new wave/synthpop/goth acts of the 80s. Maybe the flag is there to reaffirm his big love for British popular culture. Even the trenchcoat with hat that he uses to pick up Sloane, looks like something they would wear in England. This taste for that culture, obviously comes from John Hughes himself. At that time he was into a lot of unknown english bands, and he grew up with the beatles. Maybe that's why he wrote Ferris that way. The sountrack for this film is notorious for its eclectic mix of obscure songs. Thats why Hughes never marketed it. He felt it wouldnt go well with the audience.
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British synth pop was big in the 80s and Hughes filled a lot of his films' soundtracks with it. John Hughes was a huge Beatle fan. Even on the commentary he mentioned his room back when he was in high school during the 60's was covered with pages out of British Rock magazines. I've been watching this movie since I was a little kid, and I always had the feeling that the Union Jack was an appreciative nod to the British Invasion; both 60s (Stones, Beatles, The Who, etc.) and 80s (Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Culture Club, etc.) Also Ferris's room is plastered with posters from 80s English bands, Killing Joke, as mentioned, and also Cabaret Voltaire, Simple Minds (of course!), and Bryan Ferry. All synth UK musicians/bands.
Ah, it's nothing :)... You're very kind.
Just doing old Ferris some justice. I'm surprised not even the rotating head user (an obvious reference to the beat's instrumental playing at the end) caught that one.
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On the DVD commentary John Huges says that he had the same kind of things put up in Ferris' room that he himself had in his room as a teenager.
shareI'm shocked in a 4 page thread no one has posed this:
What was by far the most popular sneaker for White American Suburban teens in the mid 80's?
Reebok.
What was their logo?
The British Flag
Am I the only person in this thread that was in high school in 1986?.
Yeah! I used to wear Reeboks when I was in elementary school during the late eighties! British Knights too! Reeboks came out with the "Pumps" around '89 or so.
My (American) friend has a Union Jack in his room. At least for my friend it's out of appreciation for British music/style. (There's a scene in "SLC Punk!" where Matthew Lillard's character talks about Americans that love the British scene being posers.) But it could also be ancestry or something. It's ancestry that prompts my (also American) friend to having an Irish flag in his room and me (you guessed it - American) having a Serbian flag in mine.
On the run from Johnny Law...Ain't no trip to Cleveland.
Re; In honour of Bobby Sands
I'd know what I like to do with British flag.....
Feed it your idol, perhaps?.
In response to the flag question, I def remember my brother (we grew up in the 80's) having a similar flag, and similar things, as a tribute to British rock, all around his bedroom. This was a very common look in those days in "thinking" American's teen's homes. So the pride of Brit Rock was the reason he decided to put it up, in the movie, I'm supposing.
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Back in the early 80s British punk rock and new wave music became popular mainly due to the exposure from the new cable channel MTV. When MTV first got started mostly British bands were willing to produce music videos at the time. America's rebellious and counter culture youth accepted this new music along with it's flag as kind of a statement to that culture.
shareJust an FYI if not mentioned yet, he also has the American flag up.
Yeah, and the field of stars is on the wrong side. Regardless of how you hang the flag, if you hang it as a banner like he did, the field of stars stays in the upper-left (not on the upper-right), according to the US Flag Code. But, I wouldn't expect a lot of set decorators back then to know that, unless they've served in the military.
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