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  • Alison Wilderalisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com
    Sep 3, 2026, 7:03 PM

    I would like to take this opportunity to share my appreciation for a specific bit of the score in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

    When Charlie Sheen and Jeanie are saying good-bye, the score becomes a realistic doo-wop song that reacts to the script in real time. "My name is Jean, but...some guys call me Shauna."

    "Shauna...Shauna...Shaaaaunaa Jeeeeaaaan..."

    This level of self-awareness in a score is absolutely unheard of and one of my favorite moments in all movie music.

    youtu.be/BjBswOwKSnk?t=234

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  • Alison Wilderalisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com
    Sep 3, 2026, 7:04 PM

    (My embed client doesn't play from the proper spot, but if you click, through to YouTube it does, and it's at 3:54. Although this whole scene is so good.)

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  • Alison Wilderalisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com
    Sep 3, 2026, 7:06 PM

    Oddly, the only other example of this I can think of off the top of my head is the screaming music in the movie Election, also starring Matthew Broderick. Not quite the same, but in the ballpark.

    Good stuff.

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