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re: Just watched Stand By Me
Posted on 7/12/18 at 9:26 am to upgrade
Posted on 7/12/18 at 9:26 am to upgrade
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That line really stabs you in the chest.
Because it's true. Those are the kids you really grew up with. They know things about you, that your parents, God willing, will never know. You know things about them too. You prank-phone-called people with them. They're the guys you sh*t in a paper bag, lit it, and put it on someone's front porch, with. They know when you first grew pubic hair, masturbated, had a beer/cig/cigar, got to first base, etc.
Stand By Me is the most realistic movie about kids that age. At least from when I grew up.
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 9:35 am to chinese58
I think this is accurate, but I've always looked at that quote a little deeper. 12 is around the age boys start hitting puberty. It's kind of the last year of pure, innocent kid fun. Doing goofy shite just for the sake of doing goofy shite. Everything changes when you hit puberty and your hormones get out of control and your ego starts taking over. Doing stupid kid stuff becomes uncool, and there's a loss of innocence.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:01 am to Brosef Stalin
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?”
I watched this movie not too long ago, for the first time in a long time, and this line gave me chills. I think back to when I was around that age. The friends I had. The adventures we went on. The things we talked about that we thought were so important.
We were 12; we owned the world.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:21 am to boxcarbarney
See ya later.
—— not if I see you first.
—— not if I see you first.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:29 am to Brosef Stalin
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I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?”
I quote this a lot. Last weekend most recently.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 11:56 am to The Spleen
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Doing stupid kid stuff becomes uncool, and there's a loss of innocence.
Very true. After 12, everything becomes about girls and doing bad shite because the older, "cooler" kids are doing it. I still remember sipping my first beer at like 14 with my friends, and then immediately spitting it out because it tasted like shite. Didn't help much that it was a hot bud light.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 12:12 pm to Triple Bogey
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After 12, everything becomes about girls and doing bad shite because the older, "cooler" kids are doing it.
Yep. And you can kind of see that play out in the movie when they get to the body at the same time as the older, cooler guys. While seeing the body changed them, so did the confrontation with the older guys and the gun being pulled.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 12:28 pm to The Spleen
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12 is around the age boys start hitting puberty. It's kind of the last year of pure, innocent kid fun. Doing goofy shite just for the sake of doing goofy shite.
They actually explicitly say this in Gordie's narration around the campfire - this was before they discovered girls and could talk all night about the things that "seemed important" like why Wagon Train never got anywhere and what the frick was Goofy anyway.
The saddest part of the end wasn't that Chris died, either, it was that Teddy and Vern became "faces we saw in the hall" as everyone's lives grew apart. Those adolescent friendships are so, so short, and yet we remember them for decades after the fact.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 1:45 pm to Muthsera
100 percent this.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 2:24 pm to Muthsera
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They actually explicitly say this in Gordie's narration around the campfire - this was before they discovered girls and could talk all night about the things that "seemed important" like why Wagon Train never got anywhere and what the frick was Goofy anyway.
I had forgotten about that, and I'm sure that is what originally guided my interpretation of that line.
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Those adolescent friendships are so, so short, and yet we remember them for decades after the fact.
Yep. The summers I was 11 and 12 were probably the 2 best summers of my life. There were 3 of us guys that were inseparable. I only talk to one of them anymore, and only every few years. The third moved away in high school, never to be heard from again.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 2:26 pm to Muthsera
It’s so true. The small group that I hung out with at that age, two of us stayed really close for a long time, one became so so and one guy we just didn’t get along with after a few years. Teenage years were fun too, but it’s a different kind of fun.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 2:32 pm to upgrade
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Teenage years were fun too, but it’s a different kind of fun.
It's less innocent and protected and more figuring out what the world is really about.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 4:30 pm to Muthsera
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was that Teddy and Vern became "faces we saw in the hall" as everyone's lives grew apart. Those adolescent friendships are so, so short, and yet we remember them for decades after the fact.
Yep. I only have one that I really talk to anymore. Saw the other at my 20 year reunion. Really had little to say. “Not aging well” sometimes starts in high school. Lol
Another guy recently died suddenly and tragically. Even though I hadn’t spoke to him in years it hit me pretty hard. He was a genuinely good dude and became a good family man.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 4:49 pm to Muthsera
This is a movie that you should be suspicious of a person when they say they don’t like it. One of the best coming of age movies ever.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 4:55 pm to Muthsera
I've never been able to rewatch this movie. It's a good movie, but not one I want to see again.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:12 pm to Muthsera
One of my all-time favorites. The best part was that I was the same age as they were (12-13) when it came out. I saw it no fewer than five times at the dollar theater.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:21 pm to the paradigm
The line towards the end of the movie when Gordy pulls the gun is still one of my favorites. "Suck my fat one you cheap dimestore Hood".
This post was edited on 7/12/18 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:34 pm to Muthsera
I guess I had already seen this before and forgotten but...
This goofy chubster....
...is Jerry O'Connell.
This goofy chubster....
...is Jerry O'Connell.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:40 pm to IllegalPete
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Gordie basically stayed Gordie, nerd for life yet managed to stay in the business for 30 years.
Then you had Vern, a real aha moment when I realized who he was decades later.
And interestingly enough, both those guys are on The Big Bang Theory-- Wil Wheaton playing himself, and Jerry McConnell now playing Sheldon's older brother.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:50 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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Stephen King short stories have made some of the greatest movies.
Actually, Stand By Me (from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption(from Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) are a little longer than short stories, referred to as novellas. Some of his true short story movie adaptations have been real dogs (Maximum Overdrive, from Trucks, The Lawnmower Man, etc.
But you are right about those two, which is even more amazing when you think that they are from a collection of four gathered novellas in one book (Different Seasons)
The other two novellas in that book were The Breathing Method, which was never made into a movie; and Apt Pupil which WAS made into a pretty good movie with Ian McKellan, Ross from Friends, and that kid actor from The Client. It never got the love that the other two did, maybe because it was much 'darker' in tone.
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