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Small 'Stand By Me' Movie Details To Make You Nostalgic For More

Stand By Me is such an emotional, coming of age movie, that it's no surprise fans love to discuss certain poignant details. Since it's based on Stephen King's short story The Body, there are also fun King Easter eggs, such as the use of the very ominous number 237.


Scroll on for more memorable details, as well as fun facts and behind-the-scenes stories from members of the cast.


1. Life imitates art.


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2. The body symbolized the death of childhood.


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3. The journey helps Gordie come to terms with his brother's death.


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4. The boys' reaction to the body was genuine.


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5. The narrator never saved his story.


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Posted by Redditor u/only4reading:


Yes! It's a powerful scene. You realize it was intentional, right? It alludes back to the scene with the deer, a deeply personal, meaningful experience that he considered telling his friends about, "but I didn't; that was the one thing I kept to myself." At the end, with the computer scene, we see that the entire story was just like that. He writes it up, but decides it was too personally meaningful, something that has to have been experienced, not something he could actually share by writing.


6. Stand By Me has a special place in Rob Reiner's heart.


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7. Facing the train had a deeper meaning for Teddy.


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8. You may have felt a bit of deja vu.


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9. There's a funny reason for the title change.


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10. Filming was quite emotional for Jerry O'Connell.


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11. The train tracks represent facing your own mortality.


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12. I spy a certain familiar set of numbers.


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13. There's some really sad foreshadowing.


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14. Gordie's deer was important.


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15. Cabbage was a bigger part of this movie than you probably imagined.


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16. Adulthood is just around the corner.


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17. There was some method acting.


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18. Gordie foreshadows Ace's game of chicken.


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19. You may never look at cottage cheese the same.


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