The main reason it's a classic is because of the extreme display of advanced moviemaking technique. Camera lenses, camera angles, J cuts, L cuts, collage editing, a giant unbelievably ballsy parade scene, and so on.
The wide array of creative techniques are applied with such skill and precision that if you don't watch for them, they are invisible. But if you watch for them and appreciate them, it's a masterpiece of the art of film making, and that qualifies it as a classic.
Besides that, on the surface, it's great fun. Some people here complain that it's boring, I can't understand that at all. Nothing can please everyone, but if you can't have fun in this movie you either need some 4th grade fart jokes or else you should only watch action flicks.
Ferris is at least three movies in one, depending on what you watch for.
Movie one is a cinematic masterpiece, as described above.
Movie two is a raucous borderline slapstick comedy featuring an impishly charming young talented actor floating through a series of silly misadventures.
Movie three is what the plot is really about, but that focus goes over the head of most everyone here, and that is the story of a troubled teenage young man and how he struggles with his inner and outer demons and begins to find the courage to face them and work through them.
The loudest of these three is the comedy, and I would venture to guess that that is all most viewers have ever seen.
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