Blaine's appeal is so similar to Duncan Kane's, I think. He's just this nice, mostly steady, kinda boring, good looking guy.
Ferris is totally the genie! He's even dancing to the theme song from I Dream of Jeannie near the start of the movie, which I always took to be an homage to the midday TV you watch when skipping school. They refer to this at the end, too, when Sloane says that he knew what he was doing when he got up that morning. Plus Cameron has that whole nervous repetitive speech habit which is sort of like magical speech, like a mortal trying to evoke something magical: "I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go."
And there's also Jeannie Bueller's plot of getting over herself and Ferris and her perpetual sense of unfairness through not only the kiss from the boy in the police station but also she and Ferris having the common enemy of Ed Mooney. When she runs into that house she has every intention of turning Ferris in, but once Mooney comes into the equation, she flips, and in some sense she flips for good, thanks to both Charlie Sheen and Ed Mooney who delivered her to Charlie in the first place.
(Btw, if the story had been longer, I was going to imply that Charlie Sheen and Duckie are brothers, since they are now on Two and a Half Men, but there wasn't really room for all that trickiness.)
Random weirdness: at the baseball game, Sloane is keeping a box score. It's such an odd little character note, especially as we really don't get to know her all that well.
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Ferris is totally the genie! He's even dancing to the theme song from I Dream of Jeannie near the start of the movie, which I always took to be an homage to the midday TV you watch when skipping school. They refer to this at the end, too, when Sloane says that he knew what he was doing when he got up that morning. Plus Cameron has that whole nervous repetitive speech habit which is sort of like magical speech, like a mortal trying to evoke something magical: "I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go."
And there's also Jeannie Bueller's plot of getting over herself and Ferris and her perpetual sense of unfairness through not only the kiss from the boy in the police station but also she and Ferris having the common enemy of Ed Mooney. When she runs into that house she has every intention of turning Ferris in, but once Mooney comes into the equation, she flips, and in some sense she flips for good, thanks to both Charlie Sheen and Ed Mooney who delivered her to Charlie in the first place.
(Btw, if the story had been longer, I was going to imply that Charlie Sheen and Duckie are brothers, since they are now on Two and a Half Men, but there wasn't really room for all that trickiness.)
Random weirdness: at the baseball game, Sloane is keeping a box score. It's such an odd little character note, especially as we really don't get to know her all that well.