Line #7 YMMV/StandByMe


1	* AccidentalInnuendo: Weeping in Chris's arms, Gordie looks up into his friend's eyes and echoes his choice words of encouragement.
2	-->'''Gordie''': Guess I'd have to be pretty hard up, huh?
3	* AdaptationDisplacement: Not a lot of people know the novella the movie is based on, much less that [[HeAlsoDid it was written by]] Creator/StephenKing. Even more unfortunately, though popular, it had largely faded from public awareness by the time [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption another movie]] from the same book, ''Different Seasons'' (a collection of four novellas) had debuted. What's more is that both movies downplayed that they were based on Stephen King works, so the audience wouldn't mistake them for horror films.
4	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Billy Tessio talks about how he's spent a month dating a girl who won't have sex with him. Given how Billy is a complete delinquent, is he still dating her after a month because he hopes she'll change her mind about sex, or [[PetTheDog because he cares about her even though she won't have sex with him?]]
5	* CantUnHearIt: It's hard to read "The Body" without hearing Creator/RichardDreyfuss narrating.
6	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Lots of people puking is normally gross, but Lard Ass Hogan sequence goes so over the top with the vomiting (and mixed with the SpecialEffectsFailure below) it loops back around from merely being disgusting into hilarity.
7	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film was massively popular in Japan, to the point where special versions of the movie were sold intended to teach English. (So the reference to this movie in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is ''not'' a {{Woolseyism}}.)
8	* HarsherInHindsight:
9	** Gordie and Chris' friendship becomes this as Creator/WilWheaton and Creator/RiverPhoenix's real-life friendship fell apart by the early 90s, and Phoenix, like his character in this film, died young.
10	** As depicted in the film, Gordie was TheUnfavorite of his parents. Years later, Creator/WilWheaton depicted a very detailed account of his father's verbal abuse towards him throughout his life and his mother enabling it; relatively similar to Gordie's upbringing.
11	** Creator/CoreyFeldman was abused by his parents like Teddy, to the point where he would eventually become emancipated. The actor had anger issues like Teddy, accordingly; and he would later have his own legal issues due to his drug addiction.
12	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: While Gordie never got his cherished Yankees cap back, years later filmmaker Hayden Schayde (a fan who has traveled around the world visiting various filming locations) met Creator/WilWheaton at Comic.com and gave him a replacement.
13	* HilariousInHindsight: At one point in the film Teddy threatens to rip Pressman's head off and shit down his throat. Several years after this movie's release, [[VideoGame/DukeNukem3D a certain video game character]] would not only use this same threat, but also follow through with it as well.
14	* HoYay: Chris and Gordie are incredibly close - and both get a scene where they cry into the other's arms. It is made clear that they see each other as family, but still.
15	* JerkassWoobie: Teddy is short-tempered, obnoxious, cruel and nasty but his home life sounds so horrible you can't help but feel for him. His fate later in life -- [[spoiler:denied entry in the army and doing jail time]] is even sadder.
16	* MoralEventHorizon: Ace pulls a knife on Chris and says "no problem" when the latter says he'll have to kill him. All over getting the credit for finding Ray Brower's body.
17	* NauseaFuel:
18	** The "Lard Ass" story, especially the ending, where the title character vomiting sets off a chain reaction of everyone present following suit.
19	** The boys finding leeches on their bodies after they swim through the swamp. Gordie finds one in his underwear and faints because of it.
20	* SignatureScene: The kids walking along the railroad tracks. Similar shots have since tended to pop up as a shorthand for childhood nostalgia.
21	* SpecialEffectsFailure: In the scenes of Gordie's StoryWithinAStory about Lard-Ass, it's obvious that the "vomit" streams are coming from a hose behind each actor and that there's nothing coming out of their mouths.
22	* ValuesDissonance: While not used all that much throughout the movie, several characters throw around the words "retard" and "faggot" as insults. These were just considered rude, bog standard insults back in the eighties, but nowadays are considered extremely derogatory slurs against the disabled and [=LGBT=] people, and are considered absolutely unacceptable to use today.
23	* TheWoobie:
24	** Gordie has been neglected by his parents his whole life and truly believes that he should have died instead of his brother (who was the only member of the family to care about him). At least the end sequence shows he has a good relationship with his own son.
25	** Chris comes from a troubled family, is bullied by his brother and gets taunted by a SadistTeacher. He truly believes he's worth nothing. And just when he makes something of his life, he dies stopping a mugging.
26	** Davey Hogan, the hero of Gordie's StoryWithinAStory.
27	** Ray Browers. He was just out picking blueberries when he was horribly killed. When the kids find his body, the full reality of it truly hits them and they see a kid no older than they are and how his life was cruelly ended by nothing more than bad luck.

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