Combining different iconic pop culture elements with almost nothing in common can be really difficult. But when it came to Deadpool, Wade Wilson said ‘hold my post-credit scenes’. Well, according to Marvel’s 2016 Ryan Reynolds installment, the movie featured an iconic scene by re-enacting a particular sequence from The Office, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Delighting the fandom and casual moviegoers with a particular moment of breaking the fourth wall, Deadpool created a connection between The Merc With The Mouth, Steve Carell’s mockumentary sitcom, and the man responsible for the best day off ever.
Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool and its Iconic Pop Culture Reference
Coming up with a story about the psychopathic, motor-mouth mercenary Wade Wilson, Marvel turned Ryan Reynolds’ 2016 installment of Deadpool into a blockbuster. Filled with double-meaning jokes and sarcasm, the movie eventually became a fan-favorite source of entertainment. Thereafter, Marvel released a sequel in 2018 and is currently waiting to delight fans with another installment in 2024.
Meanwhile, let’s take a look at how, despite not having a lot in common with Steve Carell’s The Office and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the 2016 Deadpool movie created an iconic connection between the two. Well, in Ryan Reynolds’ movie, Wade Wilson often expressed the habit of breaking the fourth wall, which led him to talk or look directly at the camera as if addressing the audience, one-on-one.
This very habit of breaking the fourth wall was spotted in Steve Carell’s The Office and even in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Therefore, following this common element, Deadpool featured a post-credit sequence as a re-enactment of an exactly similar scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Carell’s The Office. In all three scenes, the actors were spotted breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly with the audience, asking them to leave as the movie was over.
Using that very pop culture reference from the two projects, Deadpool re-enacted the very scene. The Merc With The Mouth was thus spotted speaking directly with the audience asking them to leave, during the post-credit scenes. Take a look at the common sequence from Deadpool, The Office, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off as shared by Grinning Grims.
Deadpool Screenwriter and Producer Discussed the Inspiration
While we’re discussing the scene, why not learn how the screenwriters and the producers were inspired to enact the masterpiece? According to CinemaBlend, screenwriters/producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick addressed the pop culture sequence and noted the inspiration behind it. As explained by Reese, the idea struck as lightning after they figured out the fourth-wall-breaking similarity between the three.
“Ferris Bueller is obviously famous for many things, one of them is breaking the fourth wall, so it just kind of clicked in my head, like, ‘What if Deadpool is in the robe, and he’s walking down the hallway.’ We wrote it, and everyone was like, ‘My God, this is it.’”
Discussing how the amalgamation of the same scene from the projects helped people finally understand what they were actually trying to create with their screenplay, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick mentioned the reaction of one particular executive at Fox.
“What’s interesting is it was that moment that unlocked the movie for a lot of people. One of the execs at Fox, after reading the Ferris Bueller coda was like, ‘This movie is Ferris Bueller meets Natural Born Killers.’ And that’s what this movie is. In a way, she’s right. That’s exactly what it is. So it was just a fun nod to one of our favorite movies growing up.”
Certainly, the re-enactment of the scenes from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Office, paid off well, for Deadpool. Fans were undoubtedly amazed by the scene, although it took a few minutes for some to actually realize where it was taken from.
Deadpool is available on Disney+.
