Duckie totally is a charmer like Ferris, and Cameron both is attracted to and can handle a charmer. When I rewatched FBDO I saw that Cameron made that sheepish smile many, many times and he was so adorable doing it, too. The other thing I realized is that while of course when I saw the movie for the first time I fell head over heels for Cameron (and I'm still half in love with him now) almost the entire movie really is about him, not Ferris. Ferris does all these things, but many of the times he's talking to us, he's talking about Cameron, not about himself. There is so much information about Cameron that he isn't really the secondary character that you think he is. And of course, he gets the big scene. So when the prompt said I got bonus points for slashing Duckie with another Hughes character, there was no other choice.
Molly Ringwald developed a kind of iciness as she got older, so while I adore Sam in Sixteen Candles I find both Andie and Claire from The Breakfast Club to be pretty annoying. And when I rewatched PiP I saw Duckie's crush on her to be desperate but also performative and oddly sexless—like, he wanted to love and worship her but I never felt like he wanted to kiss her, which is odd given that they shot the whole film with him getting her in the end.
I could not resist a Some Kind of Wonderful reference! What was really interesting, too, about writing this is being able to write about a universe I understood intimately. I was going into senior year in the summer of 1986. I knew people who drove 1984 Nissan Sentras (it was really fun to freeze frame the shot of Cameron's car and verify the model using the pictures on wikipedia). I had a 1985 VW Golf with a tape deck myself and OMG the mix tapes, and sitting in a hot car in the summer on a highway that isn't going anywhere still a little damp from swimming and wearing only your swimsuit and some shoes is VERY familiar. I can't believe that was 20 years ago!
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Date: 2007-01-22 01:25 am (UTC)Duckie totally is a charmer like Ferris, and Cameron both is attracted to and can handle a charmer. When I rewatched FBDO I saw that Cameron made that sheepish smile many, many times and he was so adorable doing it, too. The other thing I realized is that while of course when I saw the movie for the first time I fell head over heels for Cameron (and I'm still half in love with him now) almost the entire movie really is about him, not Ferris. Ferris does all these things, but many of the times he's talking to us, he's talking about Cameron, not about himself. There is so much information about Cameron that he isn't really the secondary character that you think he is. And of course, he gets the big scene. So when the prompt said I got bonus points for slashing Duckie with another Hughes character, there was no other choice.
Molly Ringwald developed a kind of iciness as she got older, so while I adore Sam in Sixteen Candles I find both Andie and Claire from The Breakfast Club to be pretty annoying. And when I rewatched PiP I saw Duckie's crush on her to be desperate but also performative and oddly sexless—like, he wanted to love and worship her but I never felt like he wanted to kiss her, which is odd given that they shot the whole film with him getting her in the end.
I could not resist a Some Kind of Wonderful reference! What was really interesting, too, about writing this is being able to write about a universe I understood intimately. I was going into senior year in the summer of 1986. I knew people who drove 1984 Nissan Sentras (it was really fun to freeze frame the shot of Cameron's car and verify the model using the pictures on wikipedia). I had a 1985 VW Golf with a tape deck myself and OMG the mix tapes, and sitting in a hot car in the summer on a highway that isn't going anywhere still a little damp from swimming and wearing only your swimsuit and some shoes is VERY familiar. I can't believe that was 20 years ago!