A worn copy of Jack Kerouac’s The Town and the City rests on a Fender Bassman guitar amplifier beside his bed. In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the titular truant’s suburban Chicago bedroom spoke to his standing as a roguish Renaissance almost-man.

Which is why bedroom scenes featuring Andie or Duckie from Pretty in Pinkor Samantha from Sixteen Candles or Gary from Weird Science command uncommon attention: the band posters and records and ephemera are a tidy form of character exposition, hints of his or her place in the crucial high school caste system. The bedroom is the teen’s domain, a safe space for self-expression, a place where identities can be explored, constructed, and put on semi-public display.Īs the teen whisperer of the 1980s, director John Hughes grasped the fundamental cultural importance of the adolescent room. If a teenager truly believes he’s the center of the universe, the very core of that world is his bedroom. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Click here to join the Reader Membership Community today! Close

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