The Ferris Bueller Finale With Music From Inception
One of the many reasons that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off works so well as a film is that the music kicks ass *and* it meshes so well with the action. In the heyday of MTV, this was no accident — parts of the movie function almost as elaborate music videos. No scene illustrates this more than when Ferris is hurrying across backyards and through homes to beat his parents & sister back to the house. As good as that scene is, I think Todd Vaziri improved it by re-cutting it to music from Inception. So good!
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Speaking of the heyday of MTV:
As a dad, I have introduced my kids to the music/movies/tv/books/comics of my childhood. It’s fun to revisit them after so many years; it’s interesting to see what my kids engage with and what they don’t; it’s insightful to see them all through my kids’ perspectives.
Yet despite the fact that I invested *years* of my youth religiously watching MTV (and VH1, when needed), I have never shared a single video with them. [1] They straddle the preteen/teen years, and I suspect the very concept of a music video is wholly unfamiliar to them.
Is it worth sharing decades-old videos with my kids, or is it best to allow this 20-year artform to respectfully die a quiet death?
What even lands in the Canon of Music Videos?
Great bands and music didn’t always translate to great videos.
There were, of course, Video Music Awards- do I use those in the same way I might find a Best Picture winner when I’m in the mood for an old movie?
I would love to hear anyone else’s thoughts on this.
[1] This is a lie- I definitely have shown them every OK Go video, simply as an appreciation of engineering marvel, like I imagine my Dad driving us to the Hoover Dam.
Music videos are very much alive and well. There just isn’t a single stream any more. My daughter’s YouTube experience is pretty limited right now, but they’ve talked about videos they’ve seen of new songs that they are into.
This thread does a pretty good job. My kids and I watch music videos for a few minutes before and after we watch a movie. Currently these are playlists in apple music as we avoid youtube.
https://kottke.org/23/10/the-50-greatest-music-videos-of-all-time-ranked
In my submission for "most orthognal comment of the year", the LA Dodgers just made a trade and now have players with the last names Ferris and Beuhler.
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