And could always delete is absences from the school computer...wouldn't he have done it before his big day off? Seems like something he'd have covered but I'm guessing its done here in the movie to show the audience his ingenuity.
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Well, he needed the password to get into the system. Getting that password was risky so maybe he didn't try it until his absentee days started getting real high.
As an aside, it's kind of funny that the first two instances I ever remember seeing of what we now call "social hacking" was in two Broderick movies, Wargames and Ferris Bueller.
I think the hacking of the school computer and Ferris' smirk to us is kind of a meta moment nodding to Wargames.
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[If he was absent nine times]
"And could always delete is absences from the school computer...wouldn't he have done it before his big day off? Seems like something he'd have covered but I'm guessing its done here in the movie to show the audience his ingenuity.
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This is the kind of thinking I wish everyone should be able to do. I mean, at least 'normal human beings' - but those don't seem to really exist on this planet in any great quantity.
A GREAT point, I never thought of that!
Yeah, there totally should be like only one or two absences on the computer.
To the one that said something about it being too risky for Ferris .. uhm.. hello? Are you talking about a FERRIS BUELLER that AVOIDS TAKING RISKS??!!
What Ferris Bueller is THAT? For the one we were shown in the movie, this guy does nothing _BUT_ take risks from the second he wakes up, to the second he goes to bed!
His whole life is one big risk-taking adventure - and he suddenly becomes scared to take one, very specific risk?
Sorry, your story doesn't hold water, the original poster is right, and I can only dream that hollyweird movie writers were be even half as intelligent as him. If they were, we would actually get good stories that are well thought through instead of the mass-produced, calculated, misandristic, politically correct, man-hating garbage, junk for the masses, paint-by-the-numbers stupidity and horror that everyone seems to love so much.
I mean, if your audience is completely extatic from the cheapest dog food, why offer them gourmet meals?
I think the even more unlikely scenario is he decided that day in particular would be the one his parents would likely be alerted to it, and at the exact moment his parents were on the phone about it is when he decides to hack into it and change it, but who cares? It's a movie, dont dwell on these kind of things
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What would bother me more than anything is why rejoice that ferris got away with ditching school while Cameron would probably get the *beep* beat out of him for screwing up his dad's car
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