movies
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
All that Neal Page (played by Steve Martin) wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport.
As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith (played by John Candy), who is a shower curtain ring salesman and all-around blabbermouth, never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company.
And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal, that’s when the fun starts.
As the title suggests, to get home they try via three main modes of trasnport with hilarious results. Another famous actor is in this movie, being Kevin Bacon.
Similar to Ferris Bueller, this is an iconic movie of the 80s, as is the promo picture for the movie shown below:
ET – “Phone Home”
E.T. (Extra Terrestrial) was the top grossing film of the 80’s.
The Steven Spielberg film, released in 1982, is the story of Elliot, a lonely boy who befriends a friendly alien, who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the alien return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.
E.T. learns to speak English by repeating what Gertie (played by Drew Barrymore in one of her early movies) says in response to her watching Sesame Street .
It enlists Elliott’s help in building a device to “phone home” by using a Speak & Spell toy, hence the infamous line repeated even to this day.
Elliott and E.T. ride a bicycle to the forest on Halloween, where E.T. makes a successful call home. Again, something else synomonous with the film and the 80’s is the picture of them flying in front of the moon.
According to Wikipedia, after his parents’ divorce in 1960, Spielberg filled the void with an imaginary alien companion. Spielberg said that E.T. was “a friend who could be the brother I never had and a father that I didn’t feel I had anymore”. Hence the movie was born.
Save Ferris (Bueller)!
One of the most iconic movies of the 80’s was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – the story of a kid who wagged school and spent the day with his best friend and girlfriend.
I think it is every kid’s dream to have a day like this and get away with what he did. And what a legend he was at school too!
There are plenty of web pages dedicated to ‘Save Ferris’ – just to show what sort of a cult following it has.
I found this great poster which I have yet to frame and hang on my wall at home (due to the size), but when I unroll it and show my friends they love it.