Intertextual connection of Ferris Bueller

1.) In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris fakes sick and then sneaks out of the house to do whatever he really feels like. He is an icon at school and in the community who everyone loves and thinks is perfect at whatever he tries and is the pinnacle of excellence. His best friend is shy and tries to hold Ferris back from doing the crazy things he does to no avail.
2.) The connection we made was to the movie Van Wilder. In the movie Van is in his 8th year of college and has no plans to ever get out. His father decides to stop paying for his tuition and that his son has become a complete failure. Van doesn't want to leave so he tries to raise money by planning parties, in the end someone sets him up to be expelled, however at his hearing he persuades the panel to allow him to leave, but graduate.
3.)The connection between the two of these movies is that the main character is an icon in his community and school and inspires a lot of people even though they really don't know what to do with their lives. They both have best friends who are largely submissive until the end of the movie where they come out and take a stand. In Van Wilder this is Taj when he figures out that Van can appeal his expulsion and in Ferris Bueller it's Cameron when he decides to take the blame for ruining his dad's Ferrari.
4.) Having this connection really allowed me to see how sometimes being the cool guy is great, but sometimes it's really awful, at some point when you need to move on in life no matter how much you love where you are or how much people love you where you are. This is evident in both movies where Ferris realizes that his run of high school is coming to an end and when Van is forced to realize his run is college is over. This is important to see in real life and here at memorial it is often seen with sports. Many people who play sports in high school and that are really good feel that's life, and it's not. They get out and realize that high school isn't real life and they flounder.

A Moral Look on House

The show House brings up many different moral and ethical dilemmas in the way Dr. House practices medicine. He rarely actually sees patients and when he does he doesn't show any real care into their problems, he just looks at each patient as a biological problem that needs solving. When dealing with patients he does some pretty unethical things in the eyes of modern medicine. When treating a woman who has come in with unexplainable symptoms, he treats her based only on his judgements without any clear prognosis to back him up. In the end he figures out what is really causing her problems, in this case a tape worm in her brain, and treats her accordingly. Dr. House also has a problem with prescription pain killers and uses his power as a doctor to feed this addiction. In this first episode he sees a patient who he suspects is an addict and is taking about things such as fibromyalgia, he is really just looking for pain pills so house goes to the pharmacy and fills a prescription for vicadon which he pours in his pocket, then he fills the container with candy and gives it to the man. All in all Dr. House's antics are unusual and sometimes very unethical, but he is one hell of a good doctor and solves mysteries many others fail to. If i were to be a fictional character in a medical show, I would want Greg House to be my doctor.