Thoughts: By far and away my biggest issue with this novella was that I didn't care for the characters. Part of this is that the novella feels a lot like a precursor to IT, and Gordon in particular feels like he's just a slight variation of Big Bill. I did feel pity for Chris and Teddy, though I couldn't tell you a single thing about Vern. The fact that it seemed so much like IT also effected my enjoyment of it, there were a lot of similarities here. The repressed memory of this incident was digested by Stephen King’s mind and became the tale of Ray Brower – who is technically the titular character in “The Body.” Nintendo Online Magazine. July 2000. Archived from the original on January 9, 2021 . Retrieved February 20, 2021. Tajiri: "[...] when you go down to the 1st floor [of the player's house] in Pokémon [ Red and Green Version], your mother is watching the movie Stand By Me on TV." ( 田尻：「たとえば『ポケットモンスター』で最初に１階へ降りると母親がテレビで映画の『スタンドバイミー』を観ているように」) A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King’s The Body is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story.

The ultimate circumstances of this are also rooted in Stephen King’s childhood, though they technically don’t come from his own personal memories. Instead, as he recounts in his 1981 non-fiction book Danse Macabre, they come from events from his life as remembered by his mother: King co-wrote the bestselling novel ‘ Sleeping Beauties‘ with his son Owen King, and many of King’s books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including ‘ The Shawshank Redemption‘, ‘ Gerald’s Game’ and ‘ It‘.Stud City is a very early published work, almost earnestly written and highly sexualised, and, as Gordie states, pretty sexist and in need of polishing. It is also influenced by his older brother, Denny, who died whilst on basic training. Since then, in an echo of Bill Denbrough’s parents in It, Gordie’s wander around the house like ghosts,barely aware they have another son who needs them to be responsible for him. r/movies - Rob Reiner here signing in for my first AMA. Here we go…". reddit. November 8, 2017 . Retrieved July 6, 2019. In a 2011 interview with NPR, Wil Wheaton attributed the film's success to the director's casting choices:

Weird,” I agreed, and for just one moment we looked in each other’s eyes and saw some of the true things that made us friends. Then we looked away again and watched Teddy and Vern throwing water at each other, screaming and laughing and calling each other pussies. Stand by Me (1986)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on December 30, 2018 . Retrieved August 22, 2019.This is a story of four boys on the brink of adolescence; the last moments of childhood told with occasional almost Bradbury-esque nostalgia but with the rose-tinted glasses mercilessly torn off. The blue-collar childhood in a small Maine town in 1960 is not a place of magic and wonder - these boys are no strangers to abandonment and abuse and prejudice. Traditionally coming of age stories do not tend to focus on a subject as dark as the one in this novella. More conventional storylines lean around the subjects of first loves, the protagonist place in society or their stance when confronted by the statue’s quo. But in this novella what ushers the boys into maturity is their first encounter with death. In the stories beginning all four boys seem to have regular childhoods, they spend their summers together and meet at a place that to many is the icon of childhood, a tree house. But it can be argued that King’s intention in writing this novella was not solely to explore a coming of age story. But to reveal the darker aspects of the adult world and to offer a criticism of the idealization of small-town life.