Stand by Me was based off the novella, "The Body," by Stephen King. Screenplay was by, Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans. And directed by Rob Reiner. It was made in 1986 by Columbia Pictures. It's a coming of age movie, about an adult male who is reminiscing about a time in his childhood around the age of 11, 12 years old, in the year 1959 where him and his three friends go off and try and find a dead body of a missing boy, to try and make a name of themselves and become the town's heroes. The adult who is over narrating is Gordie. Gordie as a young boy is played by Wil Wheaton. Who four months previously to him and his friends going on this adventure, his older brother dies in a car accident. His father is always comparing him to his older brother wishing that he was more like him. His brother played football, and Gordie just …show more content…
I know that they were all around the age that they were suppose to be in the movie. And trying to get young boys to cry when needed to on cue must not have been that easy, but they pulled it off. And back then having that young of boys cussing wasn't as normal as it is today. Jerry O' Connell (who played Vern) was talking about all the cussing in the movie to an interviewer said, "That he couldn't believe that he was even allowed to cuss that much in the movie." Since this film was made in the 80's all boy's costumes along with everyone else who played in the film seemed to fit around that time period. The boys' all wore t-shirts with jeans and or khakis, where they all had them rolled up right above there ankles. They also all looked a little dirty looking, for in that time with all the dirt roads they had, and them being young playful boys, were suppose to look. There were times when Gordie was very clean and fresh looking, those happened to be the times when he was in his flashbacks, with his brother and or family indoors, which would be expected of his