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====Parade scene==== The parade scene took multiple days of filming; Broderick spent some time practicing the dance moves. "I was very scared," Broderick said. "Fortunately, the sequence was carefully choreographed beforehand. We worked out all the moves by rehearsing in a little studio. It was shot on two Saturdays in the heart of downtown Chicago. The first day was during a real parade, and John got some very long shots. Then radio stations carried announcements inviting people to take part in 'a John Hughes movie'. The word got around fast and 10,000 people showed up! For the final shot, I turned around and saw a river of people. I put my hands up at the end of the number and heard this huge roar. I can understand how rock stars feel. That kind of reaction feeds you."<ref>{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Thomas |title=Sad Wise Eyes in a Boy's Face |date=1986-06-19 |work=[[Argus-Press]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=00QiAAAAIBAJ&pg=3254,3793155 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |page=9 |access-date=2017-07-22 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022358/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=00QiAAAAIBAJ&pg=3254%2C3793155 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Bob |last=Thomas |title=Young star of Ferris Bueller seeks to get away from high school roles |date=1986-06-19 |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=saQyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1289,4733180 |agency=Associated Press |pages=F17 |access-date=2017-07-21 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022345/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=saQyAAAAIBAJ&pg=1289%2C4733180 |url-status=live }}</ref> Broderick's moves were choreographed by [[Kenny Ortega]] (who later choreographed ''[[Dirty Dancing]]''). Much of it had to be scrapped, though, for Broderick had injured his knee badly during the scenes of running through neighbors' backyards. "I was pretty sore", Broderick said. "I got well enough to do what you see in the parade there, but I couldn't do most of Kenny Ortega's knee spins and things like that that we had worked on. When we did shoot it, we had all this choreography and I remember John would yell with a megaphone, 'Okay, do it again, but don't do any of the choreography', because he wanted it to be a total mess." "[[Danke Schoen]]" was somewhat choreographed but for "[[Twist and Shout]]", Broderick said, "we were just making everything up."<ref name="bratpackbook">{{cite book |last=Gora |first=Susannah |title=You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried. The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation |publisher=Crown |date=2010-02-09 |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XawD2yexM_kC&q=ferris+bueller |isbn=978-0307408433}}</ref> Hughes explained that much of the scene was spontaneously filmed. "It just happened that this was an actual parade, which we put our float into—unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor."<ref name="DVDCommShoot" />
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