Nondiegetic Elements In Stand By Me

The plot of Stand by Me is the emotional loss that the Gordie Lachance feels in relation to the death of his best friend, Chris Chambers, and how the friendship was strengthened then torn apart through a childhood quest. The film’s use of chronological order to tell the story moves from opening scene, to a flashback of events that then leads to the climax, and a fall of action. During the flashback, I see the train tracks as the path of order for the story and the resulting plot. The train track allows for stops along the way where the story develops through lighting, music, and time and space references. Lighting the mood with shadows or bright light brings the audience closer into the characters emotions. Other diegetic elements found in the film are the automobiles from the time period, the costumes the actors wore, and the period music and voices on the radio. Some influential nondiegetic elements are …show more content…
The treehouse scene is where younger Gordie and friends establish the backstory with death and disappearance of a local boy. A diegetic element that lead the main characters is that of adolescent boy’s fascination with the macabre, as they discuss an occurrence of death. When the main characters decide to take on the trek to find this young boy who has disappeared; a bilateral movement is started with the main characters’ and the hooligans’ timeline jumping from one to the other as the climax closes in. This setup allows the audience to feel the emotions of the characters’ in the coming events during the journey. The discovery of the dead boy’s body has closed the narrative of all of these events on young Gordie and company’s fascination with the mystery of death. This leads to a loss of appeal and their fractured friendships which is mentioned by old Gordie in his closing