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I purchased the Special Edition of this movie recently and couldn’t occupy that the audio was monophonic. I was thus pleasantly surprised to behold that in this edition of the DVD they restored the unusual multi-channel soundtrack. Even the casual listener will glimpse the inequity immediately.
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To my knowledge the movie itself is the same as on the Special Edition (no added or lop scenes) so I won’t slay your time commenting on that. I objective wanted to bring attention to the fact that the Deluxe Edition of this movie is the ONLY one any serious movie collector should judge.
“Stand By Me” is a classic coming of age movie about growing up and friendship and the afflict of disillusionment when the adults you depend upon let you down. Highly recommended.
In this review I’ll focus mostly on the relationship between the movie and the Stephen King novella it is based on, and the DVD extra material that closes the ring.
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The movie “Stand By Me” was made in 1986. It is based on a novella published in 1982 and the account takes plot in 1959 (movie) or 1960 (novella) . But the myth is timeless – the conflicts and the difficult transition from child to adult apply to every generation.
There is a lot of trivia (pop songs, slang expressions, TV shows, etc.) from 1959/1960 in the movie and the novella, but this doesn’t really anchor the fable to that era. Every generation has it’s have trivia that is very essential to that generation. But today’s generation can smile at the trivia of 47 years ago and calm observe the parallels between that trivia and their (to them) remarkable more incredible trivia.
The movie is based on a novella by Stephen King called “The Body”. This is one of Stephen King’s best stories, and is well worth reading or, if you like audio books, listening to. The audio version lasts almost six hours and is read by Frank Muller. Highly recommended. If you’d purchase to read the record yourself then you should select the book “Different Seasons”, a collection of four Stephen King novellas including “The Body”.
The movie and the novella are very similar. There are, of course, many cramped differences, for example the town of Castle Rock has been moved from Maine to Oregon, there is more coverage of the older juvenile delinquents and less coverage of Gordie’s stories and of Gordie as an adult, the location where the bloodsuckers are encountered is different, etc., etc. The biggest dissimilarity is that in the novella Chris is the main protagonist, or hero if you like, while in the movie it is Gordie. Level-headed, this movie is truer to the written source than most movies based on books are.
So why did Consume Reiner manufacture these changes, and what on earth did Stephen King believe of them?
Here’s where the magic of DVD extra material comes in. The “Special Edition” (2000) and “Deluxe Edition” (2005) DVDs both include a 35-minute documentary “featurette” called “Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand By Me”, which was made in 2000. Stephen King, Steal Reiner and all of the major actors in the movie (except River Phoenix, who died in 1993) participate.
In this documentary film Steal Reiner tells that he identified personally more with Gordie than Chris, and therefore decided to manufacture the movie Gordie’s legend. And Stephen King says that he respected Lift Reiner’s decision and thinks that “Stand By Me” was the first movie adaptation of his work that really fulfilled the spirit of the epic.
Stephen King also says that many of the things that happen in “The Body” and in “Stand By Me” are things he experienced himself in his childhood. This makes the myth somewhat autobiographical, with Gordie being in some ways the young Stephen King. In the novella “The Body” this is quite pronounced in that an adult Gordie is telling the myth in the first person, and also tells how he’s now become a successful writer of fear books.
So the bottom line is, if you like the movie then read or listen to the novella. And after you’ve read the novella and seen the movie, check out the DVD featurette that ties them together.
Rennie Petersen
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