Stand By Me Themes

In the Film Stand By Me by Rob Reiner, there are 4 boys that go a journey to find the missing body of Ray Brower. Friendship was key theme shown throughout the entire movie it was shown by the director's use dialogue, shot types and actions.

In Stand By Me, 4 boys go through difficult times by helping each other out, through their friendship. As the film went on the boys bond and friendship grew stronger and stronger as they faced many difficult challenges such as food, shelter, and leeches. Their friendship helped when they were dealing with the leeches from the water by helping each other get rid of leeches and by thinking about what had happened to Gordie. The Director help show their friendship by using dialogue like “Gordie, Man, Are you ok?” and a point of view from Gordie’s eyes to show the expression on the faces of Chris, Teddy and Vern when he was down on the ground. This helps the audience see that they care for each other and it shows that they are good friends because good friends care for each other and help each other out when needed.

The Director helps show the audience their friendship and loyalty with camera shots like a close up of Gordie pointing the gun at Ace when he was about to cut Chris and also medium close up of Gordie and Chris standing side to side show Gordie standing up for Chris and also dialogue from Gordie “I’ll Kill you.I swear to god.” to show that he is standing up for Chris and that he is angry at Ace for bullying him and stealing his cap. This shows the audience that loyalty is a very important part of friendship and that good friends will stand up for you no matter who it is and they are always there for each