Stand By Me co-star Kiefer Sutherland says he gave Rob Reiner the thought of adjusting Stephen King’s supply story title.
Kiefer Sutherland performs a small however key character in 1986’s Stand By Me as bully Ace, who tries to foil the core group’s journey to discovering the corpse of Ray Brower…and getting into a untimely manhood. But behind the scenes, his position could have been much more essential, as Sutherland says he was the one who impressed the film’s title.
Based on Stephen King’s brief story “The Body”, the unique title was questioned as a result of it apparently sounded extra like a porno or a straight-up horror film extra akin to one thing that, effectively, Stephen King would possibly write. Fortunately for the studio — and possibly the movie’s legacy general — Kiefer Sutherland was adept on the guitar and tinkered round a bit whereas filming. As he advised Jimmy Fallon on his late night time present, “We were making Stand by Me, which was a Stephen King short story called ‘The Body’ and River Phoenix was learning guitar and playing guitar, and he was actually very, very good…He said, ‘Oh, I love the melody of that song,’ and he hadn’t heard it before…So I was teaching it to him, and Rob Reiner walked by and said, ‘Oh, I haven’t heard that song for a long time. I love it.’ And then that was the end of that discussion.”
While others have attributed the title change to director Reiner, we do not less than have proof that the screenplay wasn’t all the time titled Stand By Me, as drafts do state that the title of “The Body” was deliberate to look onscreen.
Whoever formally determined that “The Body” must be modified to Stand By Me deserves plenty of credit score not only for the film’s success but additionally the resurgence of a basic music. Even if the film primarily takes place a few years earlier than Ben E. King’s music was launched, the quantity’s utilization within the coming-of-age important put the then-25-year-old music again on the charts.
On the brink of its fortieth anniversary, Stand By Me is a must-see, nonetheless feeling like a rite-of-passage film that one shouldn’t get out of their teenage years with out experiencing. So if you happen to’re of that age and nonetheless haven’t had the prospect, do your self a favor by grabbing a copy of the film and cuing it up along with your closest buddies. And don’t neglect the cherry-flavored Pez!
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