John Hughes’ commentary on the museum scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
This was a very self-indulgent scene of mine. This is the Chicago Art Institute which when I was in high school was a place of refuge for me. I went there quite a bit, I loved it, I knew all the paintings. And this was a chance for me to go back into this building and show all the paintings that were my favorites.
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And then this painting (Seurat’s ‘A Sunday Afternoon…’), which I always thought was like making the movie. Pointillist style, which if you’re very very close to, you don’t have any idea what you’ve made, until you step back from it.
[Cameron] is looking at that little girl, which again is a mother and a child. The closer he looks at the child, the less he sees, of course, with this style of painting. Or any style of painting. The more he looks at it, there’s nothing there.
And he fears, the more you look at him, the less you see… there isn’t anything there.
That’s him.
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