Our class watched the movie "Stand By Me" directed by some guy I'm too lazy to look up their name for. In the movie it's a story of a bunch of kids who go off on a journey to find a dead body. They do this to be heroes in the town for finding a body before the police could. I didn't really notice to much of a change in many of the characters. Sure some of them seemed different, but they would have acted that way before had they been in better mood. I thought they would contrast the earlier side of the movie with the later side of the movie, but I guess not.
What I mean is, just look at Gordi, for example. At the beginning he's an aspiring writer and happy kid. At the end he's all serious and stuff. I don't however, think he was permanently scarred by this trip. The reason he pointed the gun at that jerk guy with the stubble whose name I have forgotten was probably just because he was in a horrible mood and he had a gun so.... Bad mood + obnoxious person + gun = Death threats. It's a simple equation. The reason he didn't stand up to him before is because he knew he had no chance when it came to a fight. Now he has a loaded gun, and could send that jerk kid, let's call him Jimmeth, he could send Jimmeth to the same place that dead kid was, slightly behind where Gordi was standing before he threatened to kill Jimmeth.
How did Teddy DuChamp change? HAH!
Chris Chambers didn't change that much, yet debatably a little. He did seem more vulnerable at the end of the play, but it might be because us learning more about what goes on in his mind so he could have been vulnerable before and have us not having known, heck he even showed it when he was in a fight with Jimmeth near the beginning of the move before they even head out on their massive journey/trek thing.
Vern Whatshisname? He was kinda just there. As you, the only person reading this, and the only person who will read this, Ms. Robbins, said, he's kinda just comedic relief. He seemed the same at the end of the movie that he did at the beginning unless I'm being a uncultured heathen and can't see the obvious changes in Vern's deep and immersive character. But it's late and I'm tired, so for the case of this Blog Post, Vern's just there for comedic relief.
So I don't understand how they supposedly "changed" when their characters emotions and feelings seem to remain the same generally throughout the film, except for learning a bit about some of the characters. I would apply some of the things we did for the conclusion today in this conclusion, but I still have no clue how to relate this to the real world. I-I'm just stuck. Sorry. I really am. I'll say how people are not how the appear to be a lot of the time, and through out the period of 2 hours and rough experiences a lot of the insides of that person (their brain) comes out. So the moral of the story is, Don't book a judge by it's cover.
(did you notice that?) Don't judge a book by it's cover is what I mean to say.
