Average word count of scenes in Sixteen Candles - 96.13 words

Average length of dialogue - 10.12 words

Frequencies of character mentions in the script -

Jim: 65 times

Brenda: 57 times

Mike: 35 times

Ginny: 60 times

Sara: 27 times

Sam: 265 times

Randy: 42 times

Jake: 157 times

Rock: 13 times

Caroline: 68 times

Driver: 4 times

Grace: 2 times

Rudy: 24 times

Geek: 110 times

Howard: 30 times

Dorothy: 25 times

Fred: 19 times

Helen: 5 times

Dong: 50 times

Patty: 2 times

Cliff: 26 times

Bryce: 16 times

DJ: 3 times

Lumberjack: 14 times

Tracy: 5 times

Robin: 4 times

Jimmy: 9 times

Ted: 2 times

Jack: 1 time

Freshman: 2 times

Biker: 9 times

Bruno: 4 times

Irene: 3 times

Girl: 1 time

Guy: 2 times

Megan: 1 time

Housekeeper: 1 time

Organist: 5 times

Reverend: 7 times

Average word count of scenes in Breakfast Club - 308.79 words

Average length of dialogue - 11.32 words

Frequencies of character mentions in the script -

Brian: 98 times

Bender: 173 times

Vernon: 67 times

Claire: 96 times

Andrew: 84 times

Allison: 67 times

Carl: 12 times

Average word count of scenes in Ferris Bueller - 111.03 words

Average length of dialogue - 12.43 words

Frequencies of character mentions in the script -

Katie: 42 times

Tom: 27 times

[Cut]: 6 times

Ferris: 275 times

Jeanie: 65 times

Misc: 29 times

Cameron: 185 times

Rooney: 111 times

Sloane: 107 times

Frequencies of different locations in each movie:

There are 159 'INT.' locations in Ferris Bueller.

There are 102 'EXT.' locations in Ferris Bueller.

Total = 261

There are 39 'INT.' locations in Breakfast Club.

There are 4 'EXT.' locations in Breakfast Club.

Total = 43

There are 147 'INT.' locations in Sixteen Candles.

There are 54 'EXT.' locations in Sixteen Candles.

Total = 201

Shot Descriptions (and frequencies) within each script:

Ferris Bueller

CLOSE-UP. FERRIS: 2 times

CU. : 2 times

CU. TV SCREEN: 1 time

CU. PHONE: 4 times

CU. TV: 6 times

CU. FERRIS: 19 times

CU. FLOWERING TREE BRANCH: 1 time

CU. SOFA: 1 time

CU. WASHING MACHINE TOP: 1 time

CU. LUCITE ENCASED PROOF SET: 1 time

CU. KITCHEN DRAWER: 1 time

CU. COIN COLLECTION: 1 time

CU. VACCUUM CLEANER: 1 time

CU. SNOOPY BANK: 1 time

CU. BIRTHDAY CARD: 1 time

CU. FLOOR AND BED: 1 time

CU. BANK: 1 time

CU. TABLE LEG: 1 time

CU. FERRIS' BED: 1 time

CU. COMPUTER MONITOR: 2 times

CU. SPEAKER: 1 time

CU. LED METERS: 1 time

CU. TV MONITOR: 1 time

CU. VIDEO CAMERA: 1 time

CU. COMPUTER SCREEN: 1 time

CU. DRESSER DRAWER: 1 time

CU. ROONEY: 19 times

CU. ROONEY'S FOOT: 1 time

CU. ROONEY'S HAND: 1 time

CU. ROONEY'S FACE: 1 time

CU. FERRARI STALLION: 1 time

CU. FERRARI GRILLE: 1 time

THEIR POV: 2 times

CU. CAMERON: 14 times

HIS POV: 11 times

CU. PHONE ANSWER MACHINE: 1 time

CU. PARKING ATTENDANT: 2 times

CU. DOORKNOB: 1 time

HER POV: 5 times

CU. JOYCE: 1 time

CU. FERRIS' SYNTHESIZER: 1 time

HELICOPTER SHOT: 1 time

CU. SLOANE AND CAMERON: 2 times

CU. WAITER: 2 times

CU. CAB DOOR HANDLE: 1 time

CU. PROPELLER: 1 time

CU. HUMAN FETUS IN A BOTTLE: 1 time

CU. SLOANE, FERRIS, CAMERON: 1 time

CU. FIRE HYDRANT: 1 time

CU. THE BACK OF THE VIDEO PLAYER'S HEAD: 1 time

CU. GIRL: 7 times

CU. NAPKIN HOLDER: 1 time

CU. FERRARI UNDER-CARRIAGE: 1 time

CU. RASTAMAN: 1 time

CU. CAR GRILLE: 1 time

CU. CASSETTE PLAYER: 1 time

CU. LARGE BREASTS: 1 time

CU. CAMERON, FERRIS AND SLOANE: 1 time

CU. CAMERON'S FATHER: 1 time

CU. JEANIE: 2 times

TOM'S POV: 2 times

FERRIS' POV: 1 time

CU. TOM: 2 times

CU. CARD: 1 time

CU. CAR ANTENNA: 1 time

CU. SPEEDOMETER: 1 time

CU. SLOANE: 7 times

CU. BOY: 2 times

CU. JACUZZI JET: 1 time

UNDERWATER SHOT. A hyrdojet spews a gush of air bubbles.: 1 time

CU. BLASTER: 1 time

CU. BEER CAN LID: 1 time

CU. OREO PACKAGE: 1 time

CU. SLOANE AND FERRIS: 3 times

CU. JEANIE'S HAND: 1 time

CU. FERRARI TIRE: 1 time

CY. ACCELERATOR: 1 time

CU. ODOMETER: 1 time

CU. TIRES: 1 time

CU. MERCEDES BUMPER: 1 time

CU. TIRE: 1 time

CU. TREE: 1 time

CU. BEDSPREAD: 1 time

CU. PIECE OF PAPER: 1 time

HIS POV. MIRROR: 1 time

CU. PORCH: 1 time

Sixteen Candles

CLOSEUP - SINK: 1 time

CLOSEUP - : 12 times

DISSOLVE TO: 7 times

CLOSEUP - TEST: 3 times

CLOSEUP: 2 times

POINT OF VIEW -: 5 times

CLOSEUP - DESK: 1 time

CLOSEUP - FLOOR: 1 time

CLOSEUP - THE WORLD'S MOST PERFECT BREASTS: 1 time

THEIR POINT OF VIEW: 1 time

POINT OF VIEW - THREE FRESHMEN BOYS: 1 time

POINT OF VIEW - THE HEAD OF A TEENAGE ORIENTAL BOY: 1 time

CLOSEUP - PORTRAIT: 1 time

POINT OF VIEW - THE COFFEE TABLE: 1 time

JAKE'S POINT OF VIEW: 1 time

POINT OF VIEW - THE ROLLS: 1 time

CLOSEUP - PHOTOGRAPH: 1 time

CLOSEUP - GINNY: 1 time

POINT OF VIEW - THE CARS: 1 time

CLOSEUP - BIRTHDAY CAKE: 1 time

Breakfast Club

N/A (No shot descriptions in the entire screenplay)

Concordance of the word 'school' within the script for Ferris Bueller:

Displaying 10 of 62 matches:

THE MORNING KIDS GETTING READY FOR SCHOOL CLOCK RADIOS KITCHEN APPLIANCES SHO

ROOM AN AURAL TOUR OF A HOUSE ON A SCHOOL MORNING BEGINING IN THE KITCHEN AND

tful life JOYCE You're not going to school like this to Tom Maybe I should cal

lks into the room She's dressed for school She's cute and stuck up A major pil

YCE annoyed Thank you Jeanie Get to school JEANIE angry defeated You're really

ut my eyes you guys'd make me go to school It's so unfair FERRIS Please don't

ctor's office and that's worse than school He flips on his stereo and fills th

id and childish but then so if high school Right He equalizes the sound a litt

ow can I be expected to handle high school He bends down OUT OF FRAME as he lo

ver for him He's eighteen Gone from school Gone from life His legacy is a gas

Concordance of the word 'birthday' within the script for Sixteen Candles:

Displaying 10 of 27 matches:

ably haven't come down to me Happy Birthday at school pissed that I let them w

eed four inches of bod and a great birthday DISSOLVE TO INT HOUSE SECOND FLOOR

ops She smiles waiting for a happy birthday from him SAM bright cheerful Hi Da

etter hurry And that's it No happy birthday Sam is stunned She watches him hur

ED Sam smiles and nods expecting a birthday greeting from Ginny GINNY The firs

rcastically Thank you Yes it is my birthday How nice of you to remember INT HO

at Brenda Again she's expecting a birthday greeting BRENDA to Sam You missed

her one last chance to mention her birthday BRENDA Don't give me that pouty lo

elieve this They fucking forgot my birthday Theme music comes up EXT HIGH SCHO

usy today If she can't remember my birthday I can't expect her to remember my

Concordance of the word 'essay' within the script for Breakfast Club:

Displaying 8 of 8 matches:

k you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are what

erent today We are going to write an essay of no less than a thousand words des

tice of Bender VERNON And when I say essay I mean essay I do not mean a single

r VERNON And when I say essay I mean essay I do not mean a single word repeated

ender turns away and crumples up his essay paper He throws it at Claire It miss

RY DAY Brian is busily preparing the essay Andrew looks up and sees the newly m

RY DAY We see Vernon pick up Brian's essay and begin to read BRIAN VO Dear Mr V

But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are You

Lexical Richness (Vocabulary Variety) = Unique Words / Total Words

Richness of Ferris Bueller:

0.1914

Richness of Sixteen Candles:

0.1812

Richness of Breakfast Club:

0.1706

20 instances of 'unique' words within each script (after removing script words, 'stop' words, and numbers):

Ferris Bueller -

[('affect', 1), ('apologies', 1), ('building', 1), ('bullshitting', 1), ('cloth', 1), ('creeps', 1), ('decent', 1), ('footsteps', 1), ('inside', 1), ("kid's", 1), ('laps', 1), ('lock', 1), ('mature', 1), ('plate', 1), ('politicians', 1), ('spoiling', 1), ('squealing', 1), ('tongue', 1), ('walking', 1), ('watches', 1)]

Sixteen Candles -

[('classic', 1), ('convertable', 1), ('creeps', 1), ('decent', 1), ('eek', 1), ('finished', 1), ('fixes', 1), ('footsteps', 1), ('friends', 1), ('inside', 1), ('knees', 1), ('lock', 1), ('mature', 1), ('models', 1), ('plate', 1), ('refuse', 1), ('tongue', 1), ('tune', 1), ('walking', 1), ('watches', 1)]

Breakfast Club -

[('day', 1), ('finished', 1), ('friends', 1), ('gutless', 1), ('highly', 1), ('inside', 1), ('interesting', 1), ('knees', 1), ('knew', 1), ('lock', 1), ('night', 1), ('nod', 1), ('pixie', 1), ('right', 1), ('stairs', 1), ('tongue', 1), ('tune', 1), ('uniform', 1), ('walking', 1), ('watches', 1)]

Verbs --

10 most common verbs in Ferris Bueller - [('is', 209), ('have', 91), ('are', 87), ('was', 77), ('be', 70), ('looks', 60), ("don't", 48), ('know', 48), ('get', 45), ('do', 42)]

Total number of unique verbs - 1187

10 most common verbs in Sixteen Candles - [('is', 162), ('are', 88), ('looks', 78), ('have', 73), ('know', 63), ("don't", 50), ('be', 48), ('get', 47), ('going', 38), ('was', 35)]

Total number of unique verbs - 1213

10 most common verbs in Breakfast Club - [('is', 110), ('do', 85), ('know', 79), ('see', 76), ('are', 67), ("don't", 64), ('be', 57), ('think', 52), ('have', 46), ('was', 45)]

Total number of unique verbs - 716

Adjectives --

10 most common adjectives in Ferris Bueller - [('good', 21), ('other', 21), ('little', 20), ('sick', 17), ('old', 16), ('open', 15), ('serious', 15), ('real', 14), ("it's", 13), ('better', 11)]

Total number of unique adjectives - 558

10 most common adjectives in Sixteen Candles - [('open', 21), ('old', 19), ('sure', 18), ('little', 18), ('other', 16), ('good', 14), ('next', 13), ('big', 13), ('happy', 12), ('serious', 11)]

Total number of unique adjectives - 582

10 most common adjectives in Breakfast Club - [('other', 17), ('right', 12), ('old', 10), ('few', 9), ("it's", 9), ('real', 9), ('wrong', 8), ('next', 8), ('big', 8), ('better', 8)]

Total number of unique adjectives - 320

Prepositions --

10 most common prepositions in Ferris Bueller - [('in', 268), ('of', 256), ('on', 166), ('at', 158), ('with', 132), ('for', 103), ('into', 67), ('that', 63), ('like', 60), ('as', 51)]

Total number of unique prepositions - 107

10 most common prepositions in Sixteen Candles - [('in', 285), ('of', 242), ('on', 205), ('with', 174), ('at', 138), ('for', 102), ('as', 64), ('that', 59), ('like', 53), ('into', 51)]

Total number of unique prepositions - 91

10 most common prepositions in Breakfast Club - [('in', 152), ('of', 137), ('at', 95), ('on', 84), ('that', 59), ('for', 54), ('with', 52), ('like', 47), ('about', 45), ('if', 32)]

Total number of unique prepositions - 92