I Took It Again to See if
Stand by Me is a 1986 film about a author'south recounting of a boyhood journey to find the dead body of a missing local boy.
- Directed by Rob Reiner and written by Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans, based on the novella The Body by Stephen King.
The Author [edit]
- [voiceover] I was twelve going on thirteen first fourth dimension I saw a dead human existence. It happened in the summer of 1959. A long time ago. Just just if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a pocket-sized town in Oregon called Castle Stone. At that place were only 1281 people, but to me information technology was the whole world.
- [voiceover] As time went on nosotros saw less and less of Teddy and Vern until somewhen they became just two more faces in the halls. That happens sometimes. Friends come up in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant.
- [typing, almost Chris] Although I haven't seen him in more 10 years I know I'll miss him forever. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anybody?
Dialogue [edit]
- [The iv boys begin following the tracks]
- Vern: Well, what do we need a pistol for anyway?
- Chris: It's spooky sleeping out at night in the woods. Nosotros might even see a bear.
- Gordie: Or a garbage tin.
- Vern: I brought a comb.
- Chris: What do nosotros demand a comb for?
- Vern: Well, if nosotros get on TV, we wanna look good, don't nosotros?
- Gordie: That'due south a lot of thinking, Vern.
- Vern: Thanks.
- Teddy: 2 for flinching. [punches Vern in the arm twice]
- Vern: Ow.
- [The boys finish and stare into the distance]
- Teddy: How far do you recollect it's gonna be?
- Chris: [exhales] If we follow the tracks all the way into Harlow, it'd exist about 20 miles. Sound virtually right to you, Gordie?
- Gordie: Yeah. Yeah, it might even be 30.
- Vern: Gee, mayhap nosotros should simply hitchhike.
- Teddy: No style, that sucks.
- Vern: Why non? Nosotros could go out to Route 7 to the Shiloh Church building, and so down the Back Harlow Road. We'll be there past sundown.
- Teddy: That's pussy.
- Vern: Hey, it'due south a long ways.
- Teddy: Did your mother ever have any kids that lived?
- Vern: What practice y'all mean?
- Teddy: Jesus.
- Vern: Hey, I'm kinda hungry. Who'due south got the food?
- Teddy: Oh, shit! Did anybody bring anything?
- Chris: Not me. Gordie? [Gordie shakes his caput]
- Teddy: Oh, well, this is great! What are we supposed to do, consume our feet?
- Chris: You mean, you didn't bring annihilation either?!
- Teddy: Shit, this wasn't my idea, it was Vern's thought! [to Vern] Why didn't you bring something?!
- Vern: What am I supposed to do, call back of everything?! I brought the comb!
- Teddy: Oh, corking, you brought the comb! What do you demand a rummage for?! You lot don't even have any pilus!
- Vern: I brought it for yous guys...
- Gordie: HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY! Let's see how much money we got. [the boys sit down to count their money] Okay, I got $1.02. [Chris and Teddy hand Gordie their coin] 68 cents from Chris. 60 cents from Teddy. [Vern easily Gordie his money; he looks at Vern in disbelief] Seven cents, Vern?
- Vern: I oasis't plant my pennies still.
- Gordie: Well, ii.37's not bad. Quidaciolu'due south is at the finish of that little road that goes by the junkyard. I remember we can become some stuff at that place.
- Gordie: Hey, Vern, looks like your mom's been out driving again.
- Vern: That's so funny, I forgot to express joy.
- Teddy: Stand dorsum, men! Paratroops, over the side! [the boys toss their numberless over the fence, and so begin scaling it]
- The Writer: [voiceover] "No trespassing" was enforced by Milo Pressman, the junkman, and his dog, Chopper, the most feared and to the lowest degree seen canis familiaris in Castle Rock. Fable had it that Milo had trained Chopper, not just to sic, but to sic specific parts of the homo anatomy. Thus, a kid, who had illegally scaled the junkyard fence, might hear the dread cry, "Chopper, sic balls." But right at present, neither the dread, Chopper, nor Milo was anywhere in sight.
- Teddy: Have y'all guys been watching The Mickey Mouse Gild lately? I remember Annette'southward tits are getting bigger.
- Gordie: Yeah, I've been noticing lately that the "A"and the "E" are starting to curve around the sides.
- Vern: Annette's tits are bully.
- Chris and Teddy: Yes.
- Vern: This is a actually expert time.
- Chris: The most.
- Teddy: A blast.
- The Writer: [voiceover] Vern didn't just mean existence off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad tracks to Harlow. He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more and that we all knew it. Everything was there and around u.s.a.. Nosotros knew exactly who nosotros were and exactly where we were going. It was grand.
- [Teddy spits h2o at Vern; Gordie and Chris laugh]
- Vern: Cracking! Spit at the fat kid. Real skilful. What time is it, Gordie?
- Gordie: Um... [checks his lookout] It's one:15.
- Vern: We better get get the food. Junkyard opens at 3:00. Chopper will be here.
- Chris: Ooh, sic balls.
- Teddy: [to Vern] You go. Yous can pick usa upward on the mode back.
- Vern: I'm not going alone. We should all go.
- Teddy: I'm stayin' right here.
- Gordie: Yeah, homo, I'm not goin'. I'grand not goin' all the way out there.
- Chris: Girls, girls, girls, cool it. Nosotros'll flip for information technology.
- Gordie: Okay, odd homo goes?
- Teddy: That's you, Gordie, odd as a cod.
- Gordie: [to Chris] Flip or eat lead.
- [The four boys flip their coins, and all have landed tails upward]
- Vern: Four tails! Oh, Jesus, man, that's a goocher.
- Chris: Oh, come on, Vern. That doesn't hateful anything. Let'south go once more.
- Vern: No, human being, a goocher. That's actually bad. Remember when Clint Bracken and those guys got wiped out on Weed Colina in Durham? Billy told me they was flippin' for beers, and they came up with a goocher before they got into the car. And bang! They all got totaled! I don't like this, man, sincerely.
- Teddy: Vern-o, nobody believes that crap about moons and goochers. It's baby stuff! Now come on, flip again. [to Vern] You gonna flip, or not?
- [They flip their coins once again, and this time all show tails except for Gordie]
- Teddy: You lose, Gordie! [cackles] Gordie loses! Oh, Gordie just screwed the pooch! [laughs]
- Gordie: Does the word "retarded" mean anything to y'all?
- Teddy: Gordie, go and get the provisions, you morphadite!
- Gordie: Don't telephone call me any of your female parent's pet names.
- [Gordie gets upwardly to exit]
- Teddy: What a moisture end you are, Lachance!
- Gordie: Shut up!
- Teddy: I don't shut up.
- Vern, Chris, and Teddy: I grow up, and when I look at you, I throw upward! [They indicate at each other's open mouths making gagging sounds]
- Gordie: And then your mother goes around the corner and she licks it up.
- Vern, Chris, and Teddy: Ooh!
- The Writer: [voiceover] Finding new and, preferably, icky means to degrade a friend's female parent was always held in high regard.
- Milo: HEY! Hey, y'all kid! What are you doing there?! Come over here! [Gordie starts running] You! You come back here! Come up Back Hither, GODDAMMIT! I'LL SIC MY Canis familiaris ON Y'all!
- Vern, Chris, and Teddy: RUN, GORDIE, RUN! RUN, GORDIE!
- Milo: Chopper! Sic him! Sic him, boy!
- The Writer: [voiceover] Now he said, "Sic him, boy." Simply what I heard was, "Chopper, sic balls."
- [Gordie keeps running and starts screaming as Chopper goes later him. Gordie scales the fence and Chopper tries to jump afterward him. The boys are surprised past Chopper'south advent]
- Gordie: That'south Chopper?
- The Writer: [voiceover] Chopper was my commencement lesson in the vast difference betwixt myth and reality.
- Teddy: Come on, Choppy! Kiss my ass, Choppy, buss my donkey! Come up on! [Chopper starts bitter Teddy'southward shirt] Bite shit!
- Gordie: Come up on, Choppy! Sic balls, Choppy!
- Milo: Hey, you kids! STOP TEASING THAT DOG! YA HEAR ME?! Cease TEASING HIM! [to Teddy] Sonny, I'm gonna vanquish your donkey, teasing my dog similar that!
- Teddy: Yeah? I'd similar to see you try to climb over this fence and go me, fatty-ass!
- Milo: Don't you phone call me that, yous little tin can weasel. Peckerwood loony'due south son.
- Teddy: What did you lot call me?
- Milo: I know who you are. You're Teddy Duchamp. Your dad's a loony. A loony upward in the nuthouse at Togus. He took your ear and he put it to a stove and he burnt it off.
- Teddy: My begetter stormed the beach at Normandy.
- Milo: He's crazier than a shithouse rat. No wonder you lot're acting the way you are, with a loony for a father!
- Teddy: You call my dad a loony once again, and I'll kill you.
- Milo: [mockingly] Loony, loony, loony.
- Teddy: [yells and jumps on the fence] I'M GONNA RIP YOUR HEAD OFF AND SHIT DOWN YOUR Cervix!!!! I'K GONNA KILL HIM!!!! [the other boys restrain him]
- Milo: Y'all come up on and try information technology, you fiddling slimy bounder!
- Chris: He wants yous to go over in that location so he tin can beat the piss out of y'all and so take you to the cops!
- Milo: You scout your oral fissure, smart guy! Let him do his own fighting!
- Gordie: Sure, you only outweigh him past 500 pounds, fat-ass!
- Milo: I know your proper noun. You're Lachance. I know all y'all guys. And all your fathers are gonna become a call from me, except for the loony upwardly in Togus.
- Teddy: [lunges again, but the others restrain him again] I'Thousand GONNA Kill YOU!!!!
- Milo: You little foul-mouthed whoremaster!
- Teddy: Y'all SON OF A Bowwow! I'LL KILL YOU! [the boys brainstorm walking abroad]
- Milo: Come back here! Come up dorsum here, y'all hear me?!
- Teddy: Nobody ranks out my sometime man!
- Milo: Come back here!
- Teddy: My male parent stormed the embankment at Normandy!
- Milo: I said come dorsum here!
- Teddy: HE STORMED THE BEACH, You lot FAGGOT!
- Milo: Come dorsum hither!
- Teddy: I'm sorry if I'm spoiling everybody'south good fourth dimension.
- Chris: It'due south okay, homo.
- Gordie: Maybe it shouldn't be a expert time.
- Chris: You lot saying you wanna go back?
- Gordie: No. Nosotros're going to run into a dead kid; mayhap information technology shouldn't be a party.
- Gordie: Do y'all call up I'm weird?
- Chris: Definitely.
- Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
- Chris: Aye, but so what? Everybody'due south weird.
- Vern: Yous call back Mighty Mouse could beat upward Superman?
- Teddy: What are y'all, croaky?
- Vern: Why non? I saw the other day, he was carrying five elephants in one hand.
- Teddy: Boy, you don't know nothing. Mighty Mouse is a drawing. Superman is a real guy. No way a cartoon could beat out up a real guy.
- Vern: Yep, maybe you're correct. Information technology'd be a practiced fight, though.
- Teddy: Jesus.
- Chris: I mean, yous could be a real writer anytime, Gordie.
- Gordie: Fuck writing! I don't wanna be a writer. It'south stupid. It's a stupid wasted time!
- Chris: That's your dad talking.
- Gordie: Bullshit!
- Chris: Bulltrue! I know how your dad feels almost you, he doesn't requite a shit nearly you. Denny was the one he cared about, and don't try to tell me dissimilar! You're simply a kid, Gordie...
- Gordie: Oh, gee, cheers, Dad!
- Chris: I wish the hell I was your dad. You wouldn't exist going effectually talking nearly taking these stupid shop courses if I was. It's like God gave you something homo. All those stories that you lot can brand up, and He said, "This is what nosotros got for you kid, endeavor non to lose it." But kids lose everything unless there'south someone there to wait out for them. And if your parents are besides fucked upward to practice information technology, then maybe I should.
- Vern: Come up on, you guys, let's get moving!
- Teddy: Yeah, by the fourth dimension we become there, the kid won't even be dead anymore.
- [The boys have come across a train trestle, and are contemplating crossing it.]
- Vern: Any of you guys know when the adjacent train is due?
- Chris: We could go downwardly to the Route 136 span.
- Teddy: What are you lot, crazy? That'south five miles down the river! You walk five miles down the river, yous gotta walk five miles back. that could take 'til dark. We go beyond hither, we could get to the same identify in 10 minutes.
- Vern: Yeah, but if a train comes, there'due south nowheres to go.
- Teddy: Hell, there isn't. You only leap.
- Chris: Teddy, it's 100 anxiety.
- Vern: Yeah, Teddy.
- Teddy: Wait, you guys tin go around if yous want. I'm crossing here. And while you lot guys are dragging your candy asses halfway beyond the country and dorsum, I'll be waiting for you lot on the other side, relaxing with my thoughts.
- Gordie: Do you use your left hand or your correct hand for that?
- Teddy: You lot wish.
- [They start crossing the bridge; Gordie feels the tracks for any vibrations given off by trains; Vern charily crawls along the tracks with Gordie walking behind him and the comb falls out of his shirt pocket into the river]
- Vern: [disappointedly] I lost the comb.
- Gordie: Forget it, Vern. [they continue walking along; Gordie all of a sudden hears a distant audio and looks back the way they came; he so feels the tracks again, and as he does and so, he hears a chugging sound; he looks back in the opposite direction once more and sees black smoke coming upwardly from the trees; realizing a train is coming, Gordie stands upwardly to alert the others] TRAAAAIN!!! [Chris and Teddy turn around just in time to see a train coming effectually the corner from the opposite stop of the bridge]
- Vern: Oh, shit! [crawls as fast as he tin]
- Chris: [to Teddy] Move it, human being! Proceed, move information technology!
- Gordie: [furious with desperation] Get upward, Vern! Damn information technology! Become Upwardly! [gets Vern on his feet every bit the train starts to come up onto the bridge] Move It! [Vern immediately cowers] Shit, Vern! Get up! Come on, man!
- Vern: I don't wanna! We're gonna fall!
- Gordie: [looking back at the oncoming train] WE'RE GONNA DIE, DAMN It! Become Up!!!! [Vern gets to his feet] GO! GO! [the ii run as fast equally they can]
- Chris: Become, homo! Go!
- Gordie: DAMN IT, VERN, Get FASTER!!!!
- Vern: I tin't, Gordie!
- Gordie: Get! [the railroad train gets closer to Gordie and Vern]
- Chris: Run! Run! [he and Teddy become off to the side of the tracks equally the train gets just inches away from Gordie and Vern] Run. Run, man! Move your donkey, man!
- Gordie: Move it! Movement it! Go, Vern! Come up on, human! Vern! Get!
- Chris and Teddy: Run! Goddamn it! Run!
- Gordie: RUN, VERN! [Chris and Teddy watch with horror; Gordie, thinking speedily, grabs Vern, and the two leap off the side of the span just as the railroad train is about to hit them; equally the railroad train passes, Chris and Teddy run over to the end of the bridge and see Gordie and Vern disheveled but unharmed]
- Chris: Hey, at least at present we know when the adjacent train was due.
- Gordie: Mickey's a mouse, Donald'south a duck, Pluto's a dog. What'due south Goofy?
- Teddy: He's a dog, he's definitely a dog...
- Chris: He tin't be a dog, he wears a hat and drives a car...
- Vern: Aye, that is weird. What the hell is Goofy?
- Gordie: Maybe you could come up into the higher courses with me.
- Chris: Aye right, that'll be the solar day.
- Gordie: Why not? You're smart enough.
- Chris: They won't permit me.
- Gordie: What practise you mean?
- Chris: It's what everyone thinks of my family in this town. It's what they think of me. I'm just one of those low-life Chambers kids.
- Gordie: That's non true.
- Chris: Oh wait, it is. No 1 even asked me if I took the milk money that fourth dimension. I but got a three day vacation.
- Gordie: Did you accept information technology?
- Chris: Aye, I took it! I mean, you knew I took it. Teddy knew I took information technology. Everyone knew I took it. Even Vern knew it, I think. But peradventure I was lamentable and I tried to give it back.
- Gordie: Yous tried to give it back?
- Chris: Maybe. Just perhaps. And perhaps I took information technology to Quondam Lady Simmons and told her, and the money was all there. But I still got a three twenty-four hours vacation because it never showed up. And perhaps the next week, Old Lady Simmons had this new adjust on when she came to schoolhouse.
- Gordie: Yeah, yeah! It was chocolate-brown and it had dots on information technology.
- Chris: Yeah. And so let'due south just say that I stole the milk money, simply Old Lady Simmons stole it back from me. Just say that I told this story. Me, Chris Chambers. Kid brother to Eyeball Chambers. Do you retrieve that anyone would've believed it?
- Gordie: No.
- Chris: And practise yous think that that bitch would take dared try something like that if it had been one of those douchebags from up on the view, if they had taken the money?
- Gordie: No style!
- Chris: Hell no! But with me?... I'm sure she had her eye on that skirt for a long fourth dimension. Anyway, she saw her chance, and she took information technology. I was the stupid one for even trying to requite it back. [begins to cry] I just never thought a instructor... Oh, who gives a fuck anyway? I just wish... that I could go some place... where nobody knows me. I guess I'g merely a pussy, huh?
- Gordie: [comforting] No fashion. No way.
- Vern: [looking at a pond in their way] Told you we should've stuck to the tracks.
- Teddy: Is information technology me, or are you the world'due south biggest pussy?
- Vern: I suppose this is fun for you.
- Teddy: No... but this is. [reaches up and dunks Vern while laughing crazily] You want some more?!
- Vern: Aah! Finish that! Come on!
- Chris: Come up on Teddy, human action your age!
- Teddy: This is my age. I'chiliad in the prime number of my youth and I'll simply be young once!
- Chris: Aye, but you're gonna be stupid for the rest of your life.
- Vern: [smiling] All right, become him!
- Teddy: All right, Chambers, you just signed your own expiry warrant. You dice, Chambers! [Teddy and Vern both lunge at Chris, dunking him and laughing loudly, as Gordie disgustedly wades off] Go him! Become Vern! Vern's gonna die!
- Vern: Teddy, you lot're gonna die!
- Chris: Gordie?
- Gordie: [to himself] Why did you take to die?
- Vern: What's the matter with Gordie?
- Chris: Nothing. Why don't you guys simply go for some long branches, okay?
- [Chris sits beside Gordie.]
- Gordie: Why did he take to dice, Chris? Why did Denny take to die? Why?
- Chris: I don't know.
- Gordie: It should accept been me.
- Chris: Don't say that.
- Gordie: It should accept been me.
- Chris: Don't say that, man.
- Gordie: I'thousand no good. My dad said it, I'thou no good.
- Chris: He doesn't know you.
- Gordie: He hates me.
- Chris: He doesn't detest yous.
- Gordie: [begins to weep] He hates me.
- Chris: No, he just doesn't know you.
- Gordie: He hates me. My dad hates me. He hates me oh oh God. [cries]
- Chris: You're gonna be a nifty writer someday, Gordie. You might even write about u.s.a. guys if you ever get hard up for fabric.
- Gordie: Gauge I'd accept to be really hard up, huh?
- Chris: Yeah.
- Gordie: [after shooting a gun into the air] You're non taking him. An' nobody is taking him.
- Ace: Come on child, only give me the gun before you have your foot off. You ain't got the sack to shoot a woodchuck.
- Gordie: Motility Ace. I'll kill you I swear to God.
- Ace: Come on, Lachance, gimme the gun. Yous must have at least some of your brother's good sense.
- Gordie: [quietly, aiming the gun at Ace] Suck my fat one, you cheap dime-store hood.
- Ace: [mocking] What are you gonna exercise, shoot u.s. all?
- Gordie: No, Ace. Merely yous.
- Chris: I'chiliad never gonna go out of this town am I, Gordie?
- Gordie: You can practise anything yous want, human being.
- Chris: Yeah, sure. Requite me some skin.
- Gordie: I'll run into ya.
- Chris: Not if I see you first.
- The Writer: [voiceover] Chris did get out. He enrolled in the higher courses with me, and although information technology was hard, he gutted information technology out similar he always did. He went on to college and eventually became a lawyer. Last calendar week, he entered a fast nutrient eatery. Just ahead of him, 2 men got into an statement; one of them pulled a knife. Chris, who'd always made the all-time peace, tried to break it up. He was stabbed in the throat. He died almost instantly.
About Stand past Me (movie) [edit]
- I idea it was true to the book, and considering information technology had the emotional gradient of the story. It was moving. I retrieve I scared the shit out of Rob Reiner. He showed it to me in the screening room at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I was out there for something else, and he said, "Can I come over and evidence you this movie?" And you take to remember that the movie was made on a shoestring. Information technology was supposed to exist one of those things that opened in half dozen theaters and then maybe disappeared. And instead it went viral. When the movie was over, I hugged him because I was moved to tears, considering it was so autobiographical.
- Stephen King Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview October 31, 2014)
Cast [edit]
- Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance
- River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
- Corey Feldman - Teddy Duchamp
- Jerry O'Connell - Vern Tessio
- Kiefer Sutherland - Ace Merrill
- Casey Siemaszko - Billy Tessio
- Gary Riley - Charlie Hogan
- Bradley Gregg - Eyeball Chambers
- Jason Oliver - Vince Desjardins
- Richard Dreyfuss - The Author
External links [edit]
Encyclopedic article on Stand up by Me (film) at Wikipedia
- Stand past Me quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Stand up by Me at Rotten Tomatoes
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stand_by_Me_(film)
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