Stand By Me

In the film the four main(prenominal) characters argon, Chris, who is the tough unmatchable, Teddy, who is the daring one, Gordie, Whos the sensitive one and Vern, whos just stupid because he asks stupid questions. They hear that a kid has been killed by a train and theyve gone to lookfor him. The tale is round them growing up and neat more mature, Friendship, Bullying and an adventure(themes).The Night scene takes place towards the end of the film. They be every smoking rough the campfire public lecture about daft things such as what is Goofy?(the Disney character). This scene is important because it essays their friendship and how they are all close friends, asking Gordie to tell them a story because they all believe he is a really good story teller/writer.The night scene opens with a shot of the moon and therefore calmly moves down and into the woods to were they are all smoking around the campfire. There is no harmony at the start of the scene, but there is music towa rds the end of the scene (once they have finished talking some music comes on, the music is 50s because it makes you feel as if the film is trim in the fifties. There are sounds of birds and crickets (wildlife) at the start which makes you feel as if its real life.The Gang ask Gordie to tell them a story, so he tells them a story about a boy called Lardass, who enters a pie eating competition, he doesnt pauperization to win the competition he just wants revenge. Lardass is a overweight kid who is very unpopular, his brother and sister even call him Lardass (Lardass is his nickname). Before the competition he drinks a bottle of castor oil and one raw egg, this is all to do with his revenge. Halfway through the competition his plan had started to work, he was sick all over the champion of last year, then the champion was sick all over another person. non until the smell reached the crowd did his plan really work, when the smell hit the crowd every body was world sick over everyb ody.Verns reaction to the story was that of stupidity, when he asks Gordie if Lardass had to pay to get in the competition. Teddy didnt want the ending probably because it didnt have anything to do with fighting or killing. He says the ending should be that Lardass goes home, shoots his papa then joins the Texas Rangers. Teddy says like that because deep down inside he hates his dad and thats what he would do to his dad. Chris thought the ending was brilliant, as he was being very supportive and also saying it was brilliant. The story relates to the gang, as they are all outcasts like Lardass. You can also tell the story related to them because it was set in a very similar town to theirs. You could see the story as if it was on the television, physically seeing the story made you feel as if it was going into Gordies imagination.Once they had finished talking about the ending of the story, Chris turned on the radio which was playing fifties music, the music was fifties to remind y ou what year the film was set in, it also set the scene, gradually fading away as they start to talk. They show their friendship by talking to one another about daft things, such as what is Goofy. The television camera fades from one person to another, it doesnt let you hear the whole conversation, it just keeps changing subject. It also shows the friendship with camera shots around the campfire, looking cosy and warm.The mood of the scene changes when they hear the noises of the wildlife, at first only Vern showed that he was scared. Teddy was scaring Vern even more by saying it was the ghost of the dead boy. Teddy was saying that he wanted to look for the kids ghost and then all of a sudden a big yawp echoed in the woods, at this point everybody was scared. Vern showed that he was the wimp of the gang by whispering I think we should stand guard. They gang approve of his comment and Teddy is first to stand guard, he was playacting as if he was in a War of some sort. When Vern w as guarding he was really scared, pointing the gun at every noise he heard.Gordie and Chris were talking because Gordie had a nightmare about his brothers funeral. His nightmare was that his dad mouth into his ear It should have been you.