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		Behold the most mind-blowing theory of Ferris Bueller ever: Ferris is Cameron's Tyler Durden (iheartchaos.com)		103
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MeinRS6		2009-05-01 11:05:20 PM

that's a pretty cool theory.

Benevolent Misanthrope		2009-05-01 11:23:22 PM

Cool indeed. It makes complete sense.

dj_bigbird		2009-05-01 11:24:56 PM

Dammit, now I need to re-watch Ferris Bueller with this new perspective.

Stay Cool Babylon		2009-05-01 11:32:00 PM

dj_bigbird: Dammit, now I need to re-watch Ferris Bueller with this new perspective.

After all these of WGN, you don't have the entire film memorized?

kmmontandon		2009-05-01 11:36:08 PM

That fails to explain the separate houses for Bueller and Cameron.

That, and I'm sure the girlfriend addressed each guy by his name at least at some point in the film ...

dj_bigbird		2009-05-01 11:40:19 PM

Stay Cool Babylon: dj_bigbird: Dammit, now I need to re-watch Ferris Bueller with this new perspective.

After all these of WGN, you don't have the entire film memorized?

This sentence no verb.

But yeah, I DO have it memorized, but a re-viewing with this new perspective will be VERY interesting...

BKITU		2009-05-01 11:42:09 PM

kmmontandon: That fails to explain the separate houses for Bueller and Cameron.

And Ferris's parents. And Jeannie. And Rooney.

I like a good thought experiment as much as the next nerd. This isn't even close to being a good one.

TheOnion		2009-05-02 12:14:47 AM

This is worth a quick thought and a 'oh that's pretty cool', but it breaks down very very quickly if you actually watch the movie. Fight club, its 100% possible, Day Off, its 0% possible, unfortunately

ArcLight		2009-05-02 12:17:53 AM

Well, if he's actually in bed imagining the whole thing as the article suggests, it makes sense that he imagines people reacting to Ferris as a separate person.

Not sure why he'd be imagining Ferris singing in the shower....

Still not as good as the 'Tyler Durden is Hobbes' theory, tho.

Eddie Adams from Torrance		2009-05-02 12:27:52 AM

*FAP*

/hot like Mia Sara

kaminariko		2009-05-02 12:39:46 AM

I think it's pretty obvious that Ferris represented Cameron's alter-ego, but to declare that they were the same person kind of takes away from the themes of Cameron's declaration of independence and his rite of passage.

mitchcumstein1		2009-05-02 12:40:30 AM

I am Cameron's smirking revenge

i386.photobucket.com

GreenAdder		2009-05-02 02:25:32 AM

kmmontandon: That fails to explain the separate houses for Bueller and Cameron.

All figments of his imagination. Cameron never even left his bed that day, until it was car-kicking time.

Etchy333		2009-05-02 04:58:27 AM

His name is Ferris Bueller.

Etchy333		2009-05-02 05:03:55 AM

E.T. was actually the story of a young boy contracting a highly contagious, hallucinogenic flu, and the government trying to quarantine it.

notmtwain		2009-05-02 06:40:47 AM

Belongs to the theories that make sense only when you are really really high.

I haven't heard such a compelling theory since Donald Sutherland explained that one atom in your fingernail might be a whole universe in Animal House.

seabass242		2009-05-02 07:54:01 AM

I am Jack in Egypt's land. Let my people go!

elvisaintdead		2009-05-02 08:02:50 AM

Etchy333: His name is Ferris Bueller.

timefishblue		2009-05-02 08:03:36 AM

Any movie with a pathetic guy and a non-pathetic guy is Fight Club. And everything that would contradict that was just imagined, so how could you disagree?

Also: Every movie was just a dream. How could you prove me wrong?!??

Also also: Every plot hole exists because a wizard did it.

badscooter		2009-05-02 08:05:38 AM

mcvey		2009-05-02 08:06:23 AM

timefishblue: Any movie with a pathetic guy and a non-pathetic guy is Fight Club. And everything that would contradict that was just imagined, so how could you disagree?

Also: Every movie was just a dream. How could you prove me wrong?!??

Also also: Every plot hole exists because a wizard did it.

Damnit I was just writing this post in my head until I scrolled down and read this. Basically, ^^THIS^^. Theories like this are great... but this is reaching.

Sique		2009-05-02 08:15:29 AM

No wonder Ferris missed so much school.

kyleaugustus		2009-05-02 08:20:40 AM

Courtney Cox-Zucker		2009-05-02 08:43:05 AM

Not a new theory, I'd heard this years ago.

Chick... chicka chicka.

ghoti_nap		2009-05-02 09:11:23 AM

Courtney Cox-Zucker: ....

Chick... chicka chicka.

Actually, it's:

chick chick.. chickaaahh.. Oooooh Yeah..

Jakevol2		2009-05-02 09:12:58 AM

All the events that happened between Jack and Ennis after leaving Brokeback Mountain were Ennis' elaborate fantasy. Brokeback Mountain was Ennis' only real homosexual experience. He holds onto that memory as his life turns more and more to shiat. As he fails in life, Jack succeeds. Until the day he accepts his life as it is and then Jack "dies."

FiveByFive		2009-05-02 09:17:02 AM

Also, Sloane hasn't been farked like that since grade school.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE!

generaltimmy		2009-05-02 09:20:32 AM

Rainman is actually about Tom Cruise and his autistic alter ego.

Star Wars is about Anakins fantasy about fulfilling his destiney to overthrow the empire.

All the posters on Fark are really me..I pay a lot in Total Fark Memberships.

badhatharry		2009-05-02 09:30:36 AM

No, that theory doesn't make any sense.

crack head		2009-05-02 09:36:22 AM

SAVE FERRIS!

Candygram4Mongo		2009-05-02 09:50:10 AM

Now I have to rethink "Blazing Saddles" from a "Fight Club" perspective...

/the sheriff is Mongo's alter ego?

Contents of a Space Wasp's stomach		2009-05-02 09:54:36 AM

I guess this makes sense.

"Goonies" was just a hallucination Mikey had when he suffered from oxygen deprivation while dying from an extreme asthma attack, that actually began when him and Brand were on the front porch of their house listening to Cyndi Lauper. Tragic movie, never understood why so many people liked it.

So why not Ferris Beuller?

strothgar		2009-05-02 10:00:52 AM

In response to those saying "What about the Bueller family," What if that house and that family is what Cameron dreams of having. Heck, those could be his parents, just acting entirely different, being nice and not overbearing. You never see 'his' family. Ferris fakes being sick, because he doesn't want to be. Cameron is sick and he doesn't want to be.

"He'll keep calling me....He'll keep calling me..."

nirwana		2009-05-02 10:02:16 AM

Etchy333: His name is Ferris Bueller.

strothgar		2009-05-02 10:14:57 AM

nirwana: Etchy333: His name is Ferris Bueller.

Actually, wouldn't it make more sense if his name was "Ed Rooney"

www.postmodernclog.com

Arthur Jumbles		2009-05-02 10:17:08 AM

It might be called Ferris Bueller's Day Off but it's Cameron's movie.

rogue49		2009-05-02 10:22:14 AM

Yes, but the real question is...was Chong Cheech's alter ego?

/and how much weed does it take to get to this point??

El Morro		2009-05-02 10:23:38 AM

I don't think so. Too many aspects of the film are against it (which people have mentioned before).

Contents of a Space Wasp's stomach: "Goonies" was just a hallucination Mikey had when he suffered from oxygen deprivation while dying from an extreme asthma attack, that actually began when him and Brand were on the front porch of their house listening to Cyndi Lauper. Tragic movie, never understood why so many people liked it.

That's actually a really cool idea.

In any case, the only "Tyler Durden alter ego" theory that works almost perfectly is the "Calvin and Hobbes all grown up alter ego" theory (new window).
The first time I read that, it blew my mind.

PDXBishop		2009-05-02 10:36:34 AM

strothgar: In response to those saying "What about the Bueller family," What if that house and that family is what Cameron dreams of having. Heck, those could be his parents, just acting entirely different, being nice and not overbearing. You never see 'his' family. Ferris fakes being sick, because he doesn't want to be. Cameron is sick and he doesn't want to be.

"He'll keep calling me....He'll keep calling me..."

Well, considering that after the credits, the whole movie is revealed to be a dream of "Ferris"'s, I actually find this whole theory somewhat plausible (albeit deeper than the movie actually seemed to be).

/No, that's not a spoiler; if you've never seen that part of the movie, you're either impatient or just a flat-out n00b.

lovefirststool		2009-05-02 10:37:32 AM

Garfield doesn't really exist either.

Wrong_Intentions		2009-05-02 10:51:42 AM

Harry Tuttle is Sam Lowry's Tyler Durden.

Scorpio is dirty Harry's TD.

Superman is Clark Kent's TD.

Batman " Bruce Wayne "

Wombatzu		2009-05-02 10:56:46 AM

The Greeks and Romans never really existed but were made up by monks in the Middle Ages. we are now living in the year 1376...

or something.

/Head Ferris and Head Sloan are obviously angels
//All of this has happened before and will happen again
///Danke schoen

TeddyRooseveltsMustache		2009-05-02 10:58:24 AM

I think I have to agree.

mathmonkey		2009-05-02 10:59:55 AM

PDXBishop: strothgar: In response to those saying "What about the Bueller family," What if that house and that family is what Cameron dreams of having. Heck, those could be his parents, just acting entirely different, being nice and not overbearing. You never see 'his' family. Ferris fakes being sick, because he doesn't want to be. Cameron is sick and he doesn't want to be.

"He'll keep calling me....He'll keep calling me..."

Well, considering that after the credits, the whole movie is revealed to be a dream of "Ferris"'s, I actually find this whole theory somewhat plausible (albeit deeper than the movie actually seemed to be).

/No, that's not a spoiler; if you've never seen that part of the movie, you're either impatient or just a flat-out n00b.

I think you need to watch that part again.

Jakevol2		2009-05-02 11:06:24 AM

"The Dude" smoked a "wet" joint and NOTHING in The Big Lebowski happened.

Obdicut		2009-05-02 11:10:29 AM

That theory is the exact reverse of Fight Club.

In Fight Club, he goes out and does real stuff and attributes it to an alter ego. He does things and has no memory of them, because it's him as an alter ego doing them.

In this theory, he fantasizes doing stuff with his alter ego.

Makes no sense.

pubes		2009-05-02 11:11:41 AM

Meh, this was the 80's when Hollywood thought their audiences were stoopid and they made movies that insulted the intelligence of the average 6 year old and spoon fed plots to the crowds. If this theory was sound, they would have explained it ad nauseum be fore the flick was over.

elvisaintdead		2009-05-02 11:15:50 AM

nirwana: Etchy333: His name is Ferris Bueller.

Mugato		2009-05-02 11:20:09 AM

Jaws was never a real shark.

In fact, everything leading up to the voyage of the Orca was all of Brody's nightmares. The actual Orca voyage was Brody alone on a boat trip to face his fears.

The "shark" represented the water and his fear of it. "Quint" and his hatred of sharks represented Brody's hatred of the water. "Hooper" and his fascination with sharks represents Brody's fascination with the sea.

When "Quint" is killed, Brody is able to kill the "shark" and then able to overcome his fear of the water and paddle back home with his new found fascination with the sea.

"I used to hate the water."
"I can't imagine why."

/can be done with any film
//no matter how insipid