> It featured a number of techniques that I recognized from other, later films: direct addresses to the camera, on-screen graphics, the prominent use of backgro

> It featured a number of techniques that I recognized from other, later films: direct addresses to the camera, on-screen graphics, the prominent use of background songs to create de facto music videos, the sudden exhilarating blur of fantasy and reality. That would be any Hughes film and lots of films from the 80s, the MTV decade. Breaking the 4th wall was not close to a Hughes invention: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050751793/ https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050751793/ > Matthew Broderick, unbearably young Weird. I always thought he seemed too old to be Ferris in high school. He seemed like a fairly mature but more believable high school kid in Wargames a few years earlier.