Ferris Bueller's Day Off Page #12
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1986
- 103 min
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She slips into the Dean's outer office.
131 INT. DEAN'S OUTER OFFICE 131
Rooney's secretary is behind her desk. Jeanie walks in. The
secretary looks up and greets her with a weary smile.
SECRETARY:
Hello, Jeanie. Who's bothering
you now?
Jeanie scowls at her.
JEANIE:
Is Dean Rooney in?
SECRETARY:
I'm sorry, he's out. Can I help you?
JEANIE:
(condescending)
I seriously doubt it. When's he back?
SECRETARY:
I don't know. He left the grounds
on personal business.
132 EXT. STREET. CU. CURB 132
A car tire rolls into FRAME and stops. Slide across to the
sidewalk. Rooney's dress shoe steps out onto the pavement.
Move up to reveal Rooney standing at the door of his
bile-green LeBaron. Rooney peels off his shades and looks
around like he's Dirty Harry. In his mind he is Dirty Harry.
CU. FIRE HYDRANT
Rooney's dres shoe on the hydrant. He ties his lace and
pulls up his sock.
EXT. STREET
Rooney straightens his tie and jacket and slips into a rowdy
hot dog joint.
133 INT. HOT DOG STAND 133
It's jammed with construction workers, secretaries, suburban
businessmen. It's loud and confusing. Rooney pushes his way
in and scopes the crowd.
HIS POV:
A young person is playing a video game in a far corner.
CU. ROONEY
He suspects it's Ferris. It look sort of like Ferris. He
smiles and cuts into the crowd.
CU. THE BACK OF THE VIDEO PLAYER'S HEAD
MOVE IN on the player.
ROONEY (OC)
I've been waiting a long time
for this.
The player looks up.
ROONEY (OC)
Your ass is mine.
The player turns around. It's a GIRL.
CU. ROONEY
The blood evacuates his face. He stares at the girl.
CU. GIRL
She stares at him. She picks up her Coke. She puts the straw
to her lips and sucks.
CU. ROONEY
He's still staring. He can't think of anything to say.
CU. GIRL
Holding the straw in the mouth, she draws it out of the cup.
She raises it, pointing it directly in Rooney's face.
CU. ROONEY
He squints
CU. GIRL
She blows a strawful of Coke in Rooney's face.
CU. NAPKIN HOLDER
A hand yanks a napkin hold.
INT. HOT DOG STAND. SERVICE COUNTER
Rooney wipes his face. Behind him is the kitchen and a
grease-covered TV set broadcasting a Cubs baseball game.
There's a long foul ball. The TV camera follows the ball
into the stands. A kid makes a stab at the ball. Rooney
wipes his suit off. The TV camera zooms in on the boy
triumphantly holding the foul ball aloft. It's Ferris.
He does a little celebration dance. Rooney wads up the
napkin and tosses it in a trashbin. The TV camera returns to
the game. Rooney glances at the screen.
ROONEY:
What's the score?
HOT DOG MAN:
Zero to zero.
ROONEY:
Who's winning?
HOT DOG MAN:
Cubs.
Rooney nods and exits.
134 EXT. WRIGLEY FIELD. STANDS 134
Ferris sits down with the baseball. He shakes his stinging
paw. On either side of him are Cameron and Sloane. Cameron's
scarfing nachos.
FERRIS:
I think I broke my thumb.
SLOANE:
Can we leave now?
FERRIS:
You want to leave? We just got here.
SLOANE:
You got a call, you broke your thumb,
what's left to do?
Cameron offers his nachos to Sloane. She looks at them with
disgust.
SLOANE:
No wonder you're always sick.
Ferris leans back, puts his hands behind his head and turns
his face to the bright sun.
FERRIS:
Do you realize that if I played by
the rules, right now I'd be in gym?
135 EXT. HIGH SCHOOL. PLAYING FIELD 135
A boy's gym class is doing laps. A blue Fiat pulls into the
shot.
136 INT. FIAT 136
Jeanie's at the wheel. She sneaks a glance at the school.
JEANIE:
I can't believe my brother's making
me put myself in a position where I
could get expelled. Selfish little
moron.
(pause)
Ferris? You're overshadowed
me long enough. I'm gonna get
you, buddy.
She puts the car in gear and drives out of the shot.
137 EXT. STATE STREET 137
A parade is underway. Floats and politicians. Marching
bands, drum and bugle corps, soldiers, school kids. Figure
skating club in outfits and skates performing their routines
on pavement. It's GERMAN-AMERICAN APPRECIATION DAY.
EXT. STATE STREET. FLOAT
Riding atop on a float is Ferris. He's waving to the crowd.
He and half a dozen homely German-American Beauty Queens.
He's leading the girls in singing, "DANKE SHOEN".
EXT. STATE STREET. SLOANE AND CAMERON
They're watching Ferris go by. They wave to him.
SLOANE:
I love him.
CAMERON:
It's hard not to.
Cameron breaks a smile. As worried as he is about the day
and getting caught, he has to admire Ferris for his lack of
inhabitions. Cameron mumbles a few words.
CAMERON:
Stop...water...want...
SLOANE:
Do you believe in reincarnation?
CAMERON:
Huh?
SLOANE:
Do you believe that you lived before?
CAMERON:
Yeah. Sort of.
SLOANE:
DO you ever wonder what you were?
CAMERON:
I don't have to wonder. I know.
Sloane looks at him with amazement.
CAMERON:
I was a tractor tire.
EXT. STATE STREET. FLOAT
Ferris is on his knees, reaching down from the float,
shaking hands with people in the crowd.
FERRIS:
Guten tag, dude!
EXT. STATE STREET
Sloane and Cameron continue their conversation.
CAMERON:
What were you in a previous life?
SLOANE:
I'm not sure but I think I know
who Ferris was.
CAMERON:
Hannibal.
SLOANE:
From the A-Team?
CAMERON:
No. The guy who rode the elephants
into Switzerland.
Sloane laughs at herself. They step out of the crowd and
head down the street in the direction the parade's heading.
SLOANE:
I think if he was anybody, he
was Magellan. You know, the guy
who went around the world.
Cameron nods.
SLOANE:
I could see him ignoring popular
belief and taking off on some
impossible mission.
CAMERON:
Yeah. As long as I've known him,
everything works for him. There's
nothing he can't handle. I can't
handle anything. School, parents,
the future. Ferris can do anything.
EXT. STATE STREET. FLOAT
Ferris is playing "TWIST AND SHOUT" on the accordian. The
girls on the float are singing.
FERRIS:
WELL, SHAKE IT UP, BABY, NOW!
GIRLS:
SHAKE IT UP, BABY
FERRIS:
TWIST AND SHOUT!
GIRLS:
TWIST AND SHOUT!
FERRIS:
COME ON, COME ON, COME ON, BABY ON!
GIRLS:
WORK IT ON OUT!
EXT. STREET. SLOANE AND CAMERON
They continue their conversation.
SLOANE:
The future's worse for a boy, isn't
it?
Cameron doesn't understand what she means.
SLOANE:
A girl can always bail out and
have a baby and get some guy
to support her.
CAMERON:
That's a pretty grim thought.
SLOANE:
True, but it's an option. No options
is worse.
CAMERON:
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
SLOANE:
College.
CAMERON:
Yeah, but to do what?
SLOANE:
What are you interested in?
CAMERON:
Nothing.
SLOANE:
Me either.
They walk on for a few beats. We HEAR "TWIST AND SHOUT"
GROWING LOUDER AND LOUDER. The sons is taking over all the
other tunes in the band. It's infecting the entire parade.
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