Stand By Me- Literary

Stand By Me- Literary

Rob Reiner directs this very unique adventure and dramatic film. This movie stars Wil Wheaton as Gordie LaChance, River Phoenix as Christopher Chambers. Also starring Corey Feldman as Teddy Duchamp, Jerry O'Connell as Vern Tessio. Stand by Me is and adventure of four mischievous children that are experiencing a change of life when they transfer from grade school to junior high. They are all terrified that they would lose touch with one and other when this transformation occurs. They grow much closer together when they go on the hunt for a dead body of a young boy just like them, that was hit by a train. The reward for this body is a lot of fame and fortune. This film is very good and reminds the viewers of what the true meaning of friendship is. Many parts of this movie were very literary. The literary aspect is what makes this movie interesting.
The main character in this film is Gordie LaChance. Gordie LaChance is a young boy with the big hopes and dreams of becoming a writer in the future. In one scene the boys are sitting by the fire and listening to Gordie LaChance’s story. Literature within this story is very exquisite. The story is about a boy named Lardass who is very fat and un-liked. When Gordie LaChance describes Lardass’s physical features and his personality, he uses extremely great wording and vocabulary. This is just one of many examples of Gordie LaChance’s marvelous literature.         
Gordie LaChance  eventually ends up becoming a writer and the way he writes is very much upgraded from the way he wrote when he was a kid. The last scene where he is typing on his computer, the few sentences read are very informative. The first sentence he types on his computer was, “He was stabbed in the throat. He died almost instantly.” This sentence was being typed on Gordie LaChnace’s computer while it was being narrated. This is a great example of the literacy in this movie.
The whole movie had acting as well as narration. The dialogue in the narration was very knowledgeable and good. The narration was done in first person speech by Gordie LaChance. This means whatever was being narrated was being portrayed in Gordie LaChance’s point of view. The literature within the narration was very unique and descriptive. The narration usually occurred when none of the actors were speaking and it was quite. Narration really benefits in this film because it occurred a lot and if a bit of narration was missed then the whole movie falls out of context. The narration of this film is one of the greatest aspects of the literary effect in this film.

The boy in the red is Gordie LaChance who uses great literature.

Stand by Me is a type of film that deserves a lot of attention towards the literary part of the film. The writers of this movie did a stupendous job in writing the script for Gordie LaChance’s scenes. In this movie, if you even miss a bit of the great literature you lose track of what’s going on. This is why Stand by Me fits under the title of a movie with a great literary aspect.