{"id":2272,"date":"2012-01-30T06:10:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2012-01-30T06:10:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:10:02","slug":"broderick_broderick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/30\/broderick_broderick\/","title":{"rendered":"Broderick? Broderick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, a ripple of excitement rolled across the InterWebs last week following the release of a short &#8220;teaser&#8221; video featuring actor Matthew Broderick in what appeared to be a reprise of his signature role, Ferris Bueller. Many people hoped that whatever this was about would turn out to be a full-fledged sequel to the classic <em>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/em>. Well, the big secret was revealed today, and alas, it&#8217;s just a Honda commercial made for this year&#8217;s Super Bowl advertising extravaganza. (Personally I figured all along this was going to be the case. There&#8217;s no way a movie studio could keep a sequel to a generational touchstone secret throughout its production. Nor is there any reason for them to do so &#8212; as excited as people were over a mere ad, just think of how loud the buzz would be following the announcement of an actual <em>feature<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>In any event, Honda is no doubt hoping this little exercise in Gen-X nostalgia will inspire all we 40-somethings who desperately need our own Bueller-esque screw-off day to rush out and buy a CRV, thinking it will somehow give us the freedom that Matthew\/Ferris is enjoying. Nonsense, of course, and we should all be offended that the marketers think we&#8217;re so easily manipulated. But if you can manage to overlook the cynical purpose behind it, this is actually an entertaining little homage to one of my favorite movies:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tKJPCXZ5gDs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love the bit with the stuffed panda in the car. The scene in the museum with the walrus, though&#8230; I know it&#8217;s a reference to Ferris&#8217; line about the Beatles song &#8220;I Am the Walrus&#8221; in the original movie (&#8220;I could be the walrus, it still wouldn&#8217;t change the fact I don&#8217;t own a car.&#8221;), but I can&#8217;t help but think Broderick is pondering his own increasing doughiness, and then I hate myself for being unkind, because I&#8217;m not exactly looking the way I did back in 1986 myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, a ripple of excitement rolled across the InterWebs last week following the release of a short &#8220;teaser&#8221; video featuring actor Matthew Broderick in what appeared to be a reprise of his signature role, Ferris Bueller. Many people hoped that whatever this was about would turn out to be a full-fledged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}