STAND BY ME

                     

                 Stand by Me (1986) - IMDb    

Had a weekend off the King films. Watched some Bette Davis. While Bette had been dead a year by the time Misery was released, just imagine Bette as Annie Wilkes.

The first time that I was aware of the film Stand by Me was the music video of Ben E. King's song of the same name - it had River Pheonix and Wil Wheaton bopping along with him. Also the first time I saw a child smoke a cigarette. Not long afterwards, I smoked my first. I would have been 11. 

The Ben E King video can be viewed HERE

The videotape would have come out in 1987 and I would have watched probably a few years later. Never have I wanted a group of friends as badly as I wanted Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern. I loved them all.

Watching this as a 45 year old man has given me the same feelings that I had when I watched Trainspotting 2 at the cinema a few years back. I blubbed my eyes out. Time marching on is a motherfucker. Friends lost and found.

This film is a masterpiece, it becomes richer with each and every viewing.

I would have read Different Seasons, the book where this novella came from when I was 17/18.It was good, but it was a piece of fiction ruined for me by a much superior film.

Good to see a young John Cusack in there, too. Forgot he was in it.

 




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