Ferris Bueller at 25

So rarely do I take up a separate post about a movie I've already reviewed but I just finished watching a two hour documentary on Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
It was jam packed with lots of new info I had never heard about the film and since it's one of my all time favorite's I thought I'd share it with you.
Did you know:
That they tested Meg Ryan for Sloane Peterson's role (which eventually went to Mia Sara.)
The parade at the end was actually filmed during a real parade for German American appreciation.
When Matthew Broderick was running through back yards at the end of the film (which was really filmed very early in shooting) he popped his kneecap out of place and he couldn't do the choreographed dance scene he was supposed to on the float in the parade so he just made it up as he went.
Emilio Estevez was offered Cameron Frye's part but he declined it (Thank God!  I love Alan Ruck in this movie!)
This was John Hughes most successful film. (It cost 10.8 million to produce but grossed 70 million).
Jennifer Gray came up with the alternate name of Shawna for Jeanie's character on her own.
They improvised a lot.......A LOT.  In fact, some of the most famous lines are improv like- Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop and look around once in a while....you might miss it.
The original edit was 2 hours and 45 minutes long.
Eric Stoltz tested for Ferris Bueller. (He was also cast as Marty McFly for Back to the Future but got fired after a few weeks of FILMING to be replaced by Michael J. Fox - it was really weird to see some of the footage of Stoltz wearing the same costume and saying the same lines as Fox when they released the original scenes with Stoltz!)
At the time of filming the actors playing Mr. and Mrs. Bueller were actually dating.
John Hughes approached Matthew Broderick for a sequel but only had ideas of what he wanted to do (Ferris in college, or at a boring job) and hadn't gone past that point.  Broderick said no if it was only an idea (since he had no script to read), and John Hughes said well I'm not going to push forward with the idea if Ferris won't sign on.  Broderick now regrets his decision and says he should have said yes, of course he would do a sequel.

My own personal note:
My favorite character from this movie isn't Ferris, it's Cameron...."Call me Sir Goddammit!"