Jimmy : [watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] This movie has one of the greatest villains of all time.
Edgar : Yeah. Principal Rooney is so mean.
Jimmy : Rooney? Rooney's not the villain.
Edgar : Oh, you mean the sister, that girl from...
Jimmy/Edgar : ... Dirty Dancing / Wind .
Jimmy : Okay, first of all, Wind is what you retained from Jennifer Grey's career? And no, she's not the villain either.
Edgar : Then who is?
Jimmy : Cameron.
Edgar : Cameron? No. Cameron's his best friend, Cameron's his sidekick.
Jimmy : Edgar, I think I know a little something about Campbellian storytelling. Ferris is the hero, Jennifer Grey is the foil, Principal Rooney is the fool, Sloane is the sidekick, Cameron's the villain.
Edgar : Wait, how is Cameron the villain?
Jimmy : Ferris just wants to show Cameron a fun day for once in his pathetic little life, but Cameron acts like a whiny knob the whole time, subverting every attempt at fun with his passive-aggressive anxiety and relentless nay-saying, essentially ruining what might be Ferris's last day of freedom by being a miserable, agoraphobic, cockblocking enemy of fun!
Edgar : Cameron's sick, he doesn't even want to go out, but Ferris guilts him into it and... and makes him steal his father's luxury automobile.
Jimmy : Are we even watching the same movie?
Edgar : I think so.
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