"He quotes how life moves fast and you could miss it if you don’t stop and take a gander. I see him as a dying breed who would enjoy the things in life generations past did; there’s places to go and things to see not on the internet. "
I don't know about 'dying breed' (doesn't really make sense, when you think about it), but I agree with the jist of what you are saying.
This movie is unique in that Ferris is unique in that the choices he makes are definitely unique for a teenager. He doesn't go with the masses, he doesn't do what everyone else does - he does what -he- wants to do, regardless of whether peers would approve or not. He makes really peculiar choises that his peers wouldn't understand even in the eighties, let alone these days.
If he lived today, he would make those peculiar choices even more - or at least there would be even more contrast to them, because nowadays teens would make such choices even less than back then.
No teen wanted to go to a museum in the eighties - Ferris did it anyway. Teens would rather go to some corporate fast food joint than an expensive, fancy restaurant that their rich parents might use for business deals. Ferris's peers wouldn't go to a high building just to admire the scenery and admire the peace.
Superficial teen social culture has always been shallow - now it's cell phones (or mini-computers would be a better term) and 'fake-socialicing' in the internet, back in the eighties it was more regular phones, diaries, gossip, notes in class and such, but the structures and hierarchies remain the same, and the shallowness and predictability and peer pressure is always the same.
Ferris was so far outside of this typical teen sociality, that he would definitely be a 'dumb-phone' owner. He wants to experience life instead of clinging to distractions, he knows how fast life moves. He doesn't belong to clubs or isms, and thus, he would despise friendface and twatter.
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7 years ago
Typical teens of the eighties would rather have spent their day with having sex with Sloane and forgetting Cameron's dilemma.
Today's teens might choose to spend their day off using their phones and having some beer and pizza.
Nothing has changed, Ferris would still make different choices than the moronic masses. Therefore, he wouldn't vape, he wouldn't be glued and addicted to a rectangular pixel box, and he definitely wouldn't just 'waste' his day by doing the brainless teen activities of drinking and partying and such.
He was never about addictions, he was about doing the more interesting things you never usually do, taking the unwalked path. Making memories that last (or at least exist). He doesn't advocate getting wasted and not remembering the stupid stuff you did while intoxicated.
He wants to do stuff he will remember, and help his friends and other people in the process. He lifted and freed Cameron out of his fear-filled pit, self-imposed prison. He helped his sister get rid of anger by influencing her good side and encouraging it to come out (he was totally at her mercy), making her happier and more free.
What Ferris did was all about freedom. What typical teen would do, would be all about imprisoning yourself. Think about it from this perspective.
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