There is one more extremely important detail that’s different in the book in comparison to the film, and it is a detail that is crucial in the way the book is told by the narrator, who is the older Gordie. In the film, the beating doesn’t take place, and it’s instead Gordie who phones in the news to the authorities, which is of the missing boy’s corpse and its location near the railroad tracks. Another instance of the original story being altered in the film is the event of both groups’ convergence on the dead body, which in the book results in the older boys’ physical beating of their younger counterparts, and anonymous tip to the police leading to the authorities’ official discovery of Ray Brower’s corpse. In terms of character development and story-telling, Gordie’s non-existent relationship with his brother that’s made clear to readers by Stephen King is turned into a loving relationship by Rob Reiner, with the film adaptation of Gordie soberly grieving the recent death of his much-admired older brother Denny. The setting of the film is Castle Rock, Oregon, while in the book the boys’ residence is Castle Rock, Maine. Some notable elements of the novel’s story are made completely different in aims to tell a compelling visual story on film, which is seen when in comparing the film and novel. ![]() Changes take place in various aspects of the story, including its setting, character development, and numerous dialogues that are changed by the film’s director.Īs expected in any big-screen envisionment of a famous novel, there are different points of the original story that were drastically altered, thrown out, or newly incorporated into the film adaptation at Rob Reiner’s discretion. Although a few critics argue that the film doesn’t measure up to the book in terms of telling the original story accurately and capturing its purposefully emotional tone, I think that Stand By Me superbly delivers the same themes of teenage maturation that Stephen King did in The Body, but in a more entertainment-focused format that’s affable for movie-going viewers to enjoy. ![]() The movie became an instant classic, achieving massive box office success, and earning multiple Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations. ![]() In a similar fashion to its literary predecessor, the film Stand By Me was met with an overwhelmingly positive reception by both critics and moviegoers alike. ![]() The Body’s steady relevance in pop culture throughout the years led to its eventual adaptation into a 1986 film by director Rob Reiner, although it was to go by a different title, which is what we now know as Stand By Me. This coming of age novel tells the story of a tightly-knit group of four twelve year old boys, who journey along the railroad and into the wilderness with the youthfully brazen intent of finding the corpse of a similarly-aged missing boy that was reported missing from an accompanying community. King often draws inspiration for his stories from his humble upbringing in the 1950s in rural Maine, and The Body is one of the greatest examples of this self-inspired practice used by The Body’s author. Stephen King has said himself that this story is very loosely based on his childhood experiences growing up as the child of a single mother. One of Stephen King’s most popular novels, and also the shortest of all the numerous written works that he’s had published and received critical acclaim for, is named The Body.
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