Stand By Me The song, “Stand By Me”, is one of my favorite songs. The original version, sung by Ben E. King (1961) is my favorite. Till this day, “Stand By Me” remains a very well known stong. I’ve heard different versions, yet never anything similar to the version Playing For Change created. This version incorporates people from different cultures and ethnicities all around the world from the United States, Amsterdam, France, Russia, Spain and South Africa to name a few. All these people from all over the world coming together and contributing to the completion of this song by singing or performing music. I’ve turned to this song at one point or another in my life. It is an inspiring song and the way it was performed by Playing For Change, made it even more inspiring. …show more content…
The video starts off with Roger Ridley from California speaking the following message: “ This song says, “No matter who you are, no matter where you go in life, at some point you gonna need somebody to stand by you.” This message really grasped my attention. Roger starts to sing the song and it’s as if you could feel his troubles through his singing. Roger along with Grandpa Elliott from New Orleans, Louisiana, joins him on the next verse; both provide such a soulful vibe and both voices complement each other beautifully. About two minutes into the video, a plane is seen ascending as if it were letting the viewer know that a journey across the world was about to begin. Clarence Bekker from Amsterdam, Netherlands begins the next verse. Shortly after the Twin Eagle Drum Group from Zuni, New Mexico, along with other vocalists and musicians across the world join
What roles do characters play in a story? What shapes someone's behavior? What different types of people are they? These questions can be asked while watching Stand By Me directed by Rob Reiner. They can also be answered with the help of literary criticisms. There are two criticisms that fit perfectly with this movie. These two are archetypes and gender.
The movie Stand By Me is based upon a novel by Steven King. It doesn’t have the same eerie feel as some of his other books and is generally a more serious movie. It takes place in the small town of Castle Rock, Oregon. It is the middle of the summer in approximately the early 1960’s. The kids are bored and that is the setup for their adventure to go find a dead body in the woods.
It also was aired in New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The song is four minutes and forty-one seconds long and tries to send out a powerful message to everyone. During the song Ludacris and Mary J Blidge try to communicate with the youth
This is a very emotional song because it is a tribute to the late Paul Walker. It is especially emotional if you have seen the movies or are a fan of Paul. However it is still evocative even if you have never seen Paul Walker before because of how the video is formatted. The director uses cars as an rhetorical tool in the video because Paul was most known for his role in the Fast and Furious series, and he was killed in a car crash because he was speeding. The cars in the video help remind us that he died doing what he loved and that even though he left this world to early he was most likely enjoying himself in the moments before his death.
To really understand someone's point of view, you have to walk in their shoes. People cast blame without knowing the whole truth. Sometimes the truth is that the person blamed is as innocent as a mockingbird. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is used to teach us good behaviors such as, being a committed and loving father, treating everyone fairly and equally, and standing behind his beliefs.
Stand By Me is a movie based on a novel by Stephen King. It tells the story of four preteens, who during a boring summer day, embark on a journey to find the body of a dead twelve year old, who has been missing by news accounts, but known to them, to be lying in the woods near a river bank. The story is told as an historical narrative about the lives and relationships of the four main characters in this movie, Gordy, Chris, Teddy, and Vern. In this essay, I will discuss how communication, and self-concept, affects the characters, and their interactions.
The film, Stand by Me, can be studied as an example of good literature by noting the use of well-built characters. An adequate amount of symbolism can also be found throughout the film. Near the end of the story, the main character has an unexpected epiphany that notes a radical change in his character development. The film carries a fantastic example of a coming-of-age theme for each of the main characters.
The movie Stand By Me based on the book The Body written by Stephen King, is about a group of four boys who go on a journey to find a body of a dead boy. It’s a flash back that one of the main characters, Gordie, is having after he reads that his best childhood friend gets stabbed. He is writing a story about this experience. This movie was filmed in 1986 directed by Rob Reiner. The functionalist theory, the conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism are all good sociological ways to analyze this movie. There are also a few other concepts that are present in the film, agents of socialization, mechanical solidarity, deviance, and the control theory.
A theme that can be found within almost any film is the importance of friendship. The four texts I have chosen are Stand By Me (the novel), Goonies, Stranger Things and The Sandlot. Each of these text display the importance of friendship through compelling stories of each individual's personal experiences with friendship. I will explore multiple sides based on the truth behind friendships and how they can impact the individual. One side, touching on the bad experiences within friendships, where the characters can find a way to positively build off it to better their friendship. The other, exploring the pure heartwarming relationship between friends.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” Many of us don’t realize how true our friendships were when we were young. Back then you just get along with other kids, and it’s all smooth sailing. Eventually we all get to that turning point in each of our young lives, and we realize for the first time the people in our lives won’t be a part of our lives forever. This is what Gordie Lachance comes to realize in the 1986 hit movie, Stand by Me. Stand by Me was a very intriguing movie with many heartwarming scenes, good characters, and the perfect amount of humor, but it is also quite vulgar and dirty for a teen movie.
There is truly a fine line between physical discipline and abuse, and many times in the black community, that line is crossed. This topic is centered on discussions found in both Brittney Cooper’s article published on The Salan entitled “The Racial Parenting Divide” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel “Between The World and Me” . Both parallel one another in the ideas exhibited in their pieces. The article written by Cooper confesses the often times TOO authoritative parenting style that black parents use to discipline their children while Between the World and Me gives a first hand acknowledgement of that. Coates’ life testimonials throughout Between the World and the examples given by Cooper in her article both serve as a prime example to the fine
In the film Stand by Me Reiner describes the character Chris Chambers as a boy with a terrible family that treats him and others badly which leads to him having a bad reputation. He is shown as rebellious and tough but also caring and kind-hearted to his friends and others. To his friends he acts as a mature big brother or parent for them, especially towards Gordie. Chris has a bad and abusive family that almost doesn’t care for him at all. His father is an alcoholic that abuses Chris and his brother, Eyeball, is parts of Ace’s gang, showing almost no love or care towards Chris.
Growing up the movie, Stand by me, was kind of a staple in our family. My grandfather, mother and uncles often quoted movie lines. My grandfather said, if you want to learn how to be a good friend watch the friendship between Chris and Gordy in Stand by Me. So it was only natural for me to go to this movie when looking for examples of psychological concepts. Even though I thought I knew the movie like the back of my hand, I rewatched the movie in order to explain specific scenes with psychological concepts. I will discuss those concepts and scenes in this essay.
Life is fragile, everything that knows life will eventually meet death; it is impossible to mention one without the other. Humans have grasped the concept of life and death more so than any other species, yet we still consider it one of the great unknowns. All man knows in regards to life, he learns from his experiences with death. Man can look to many classic and religious texts searching for the meaning of life, but the only way one can truly learn it is through experience. To many, finding happiness means first coming to terms with the finite stretch of life one has and then making the most of it. Many films try to breach the subject of the preciousness of life, but only a few seem to hit as deeply as ones told through the eyes of a child.
The sheet music for this song was written very steady and simply. This allowed the song to be understood and the audience could focus more on the lyrics. More than anything, this song stood out to me because it is an anthem for peace. This song is over four decades old and civilians are still familiar with the words and messages this song portrays. One of the main parts of the song was the lyrics, “Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope one day you will join us, and the world will live as one.” Their is absolutely no reason the world shouldn't live as one! We are one