25 Years Laters, What's Your Favorite Moment in Stand by Me?
Stand by Me's surviving cast, including Richard Dreyfuss, Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, and Corey Feldman, reunited with director Rob Reiner yesterday in commemoration of the iconic coming-of-age movie's 25th anniversary. For such a quaint and somewhat typical kid film, it leaves a devastating impression. What are your favorite Stand by Me moments?
For me, Stand by Me's shining moment is the made-up story that Gordie (Wil Wheaton) relays to the others around the campfire. The weirdly immature, yet pseudo-sophisticated nature of the pie eating contest nails the essence of childhood creativity in all its sweet crudity. There's no doubt that Phoenix gives the most assured performance, but Wheaton's character is so memorably dimensional and resonant. Damn you for perishing, Denny LaChance!
Stand by Me: 25h Anniversary [TMZ]
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"A pile of shit has a thousand eyes."
Holy Crap!! That was Jerry O'Connell?! I never knew... This is why I read Movieline.
1. Trying to outrun that train on the bridge.
2. The leaches!
3. The chunderous Lardass Hogan.
In no particular order, of course. I must've watched this movie a hundred times in the early '90s.
No John Cusak or Kiefer? Snub! I'm kidding
"Chopper! Sic balls!"
"Suck my fat one, you cheap dime store hood."
"My dad hates me!" "No! He just doesn't know you!" (This scene, when Gordie cries on Chris' shoulder, never fails to kill me.)
"If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy: cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it!"
Vern had all the great lines.
Yeah-what the hell is Goofy anyway?
All of this movie is Amazing ~ It's one of, if not my actual favourite film of all time (even though I'm younger than it) =)
I love River Phoenix (R.I.P) but the entire cast were great =)
I just love Stand by Me, always have, always will. Doesn't matter that I'm 34 now, I am (and always will be) 12, everytime I watch it.
My favorite moment is hard to define, I guess what moves me most is the speechlessness of all four kids when they do find "the body", this fleeting moment when they realize that what they found is the very real body of a very real - and very dead - boy. Without words, and thanks to great acting (cause communicating emotions to an audience in silence is not something that just about any teen actor can do, eg. Haley Joel Osment overplaying it constantly), you understand that their vision of life has changed forever. And I must say that I also love Richard Dreyfuss' voice-over narration of what happened to the kids. Somehow, it alays makes me cry. Weirdly enough, until very recently, to me the movie ended there, with the kids I still indentified with. But now that I have children of my own, I find the Dreyfuss' ending (him going outside to play with his kids) extremely fitting: life goes on, you're not 12 anymore but the 12-year-old in you is still there, go play with your children, the spirit of Stand by Me lives on.
Favorite moment has to be "Vern on guard with the gun"
extremely close second favorite
'...Now he said, "Sic'em, boy!" But what I heard was, "Chopper! Sic balls!"...'
peace
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Fantastic movie from beginning to end, but "Lollipop" always puts a goofy grin on my face.
One of my favorite parts of this movie is a very subtle moment between Chris and Gordy. The part where Ace takes Gordy's Yankee cap and Chris stands up for him and almost has a cigarette put out in his eye. The two bullies walk away and Gordy and Chris are watching them walk away. Chris puts his arm around Gordy and turns him around to the direction they were going. After a couple steps Chris does a little sidekick to Gordy's butt. Then Gordy returns the kick to Chris. Something about that little moment stuck out to me. That lighthearted moment of friendship after the dejection of losing his dead brother's cap to a bully.
Chopper, sic balls.
MAILBOX BASEBALL!!!! (And the scene w/the drag race... both never fail to make me laugh!)
You all missed it. River Phoenix's fade-out (while slightly cliche) at the end of the film is doubly poignant and tragic. Years later, it would mean so much...
I know you, you're Teddy Duchamp, your father's a looney, a looney up in Togis. He took your ear and put it to a stove and burnt it off...
"I don't shut-up, I grow up and when I look at you I throw up! Blehh!" I love that part, but then again, the entire movie is wonderful. I always feel so sad when it ends, I guess because it also means the end of the friendship of the 4 boys as they knew it (and of course the eerie parallel between the characters and the actors).
No one ever has friends like the ones they had when they were 12. 🙁
You want cliche? I've got a cliche: every moment is memorable. That's what makes a classic a classic; someone says name one moment, and you can name a hundred. That's what will make STAND BY ME last for a long time. Me? I will always have a soft spot for the pie eating contest.
"What are you gonna do? Shoot all of us?" - Ace
"No Ace. Just you." - Gordy
One of the most intimidating lines ever.
"I brought the comb."
The conversation right after the lardass story. It goes something like this:
Teddy: Then what happened?
Gordie: That's it. That's the end of the story.
Teddy: How can that be the end? What does he do next?
Gordie: I don't know. He goes home and eats a couple of cheeseburgers.
Teddy: What a lame ending. I know, why don't you have him go home, shoot his father, and run off to join the Texas Rangers!
My favorite part is the heart-to-heart that Gordie and Chris have at the campfire after Vern and Teddy fall asleep. Other good parts are Gordie's story, the train, and when they finally encounter "The Body"
If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? No doubt about it: PEZ. Cherry PEZ.
My favorite moment was when "Chris" is telling "Ace" to go home and amuse himself some more (not what he actually said, but trying to keep the G rating for the comments). I loved the look on Kiefer's face, but, then, I love looking at his handsome face anyway!!!! GO KIEFER!!!
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