![]() And if your parents are too fucked up to do it, then maybe I should. It works.Ĭhris: Kids lose everything unless there's someone there to look out for them. Come the climax, Gordie threatens Ace with a gun to get the older teen to back off. Took a Level in Badass: Gordie, like every kid in his town, was deathly afraid of Ace.Time-Shifted Actor: Although Richard Dreyfuss is only credited as "The Narrator," the older and younger Gordie are played by two different actors.The Storyteller: He has a penchant for writing and telling stories.He's not afraid to be a Mouthy Kid around his friends, but he's still the most mild-mannered of the four. Shrinking Violet: Downplayed, but he's very shy and soft-spoken.And while his parents loved Denny, they mainly ignored and barely tolerated Gordie. Denny was outgoing, athletic, popular and confident while Gordie is bookish, shy and has only a small circle of friends. Sibling Yin-Yang: With his brother Denny.Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Chris' Manly Man.Parental Issues: He has emotionally abusive parents who treat him like The Unfavorite over his now-deceased older brother.Only Sane Man: He's the most mature in his group of friends.The One Who Made It Out: He grows up to become a successful author.Nostalgic Narrator: The Writer (aka the adult Gordie) recalls and narrates the events of the film after learning that his friend Chris was stabbed to death while trying to break up a fight at a restaurant.Nice Guy: The most mature and kind-hearted.Most Writers Are Writers: This is a Stephen King adaptation, after all.Good Parents: If the brief interaction we see at the end is any indication, Gordie is a much better father to his own son than his dad was to him.Girly Run: Used by Wil Wheaton as an acting technique.Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic - friendly and supportive, but still suffering from the loss of his beloved older brother.Earn Your Happy Ending: The ending shows that Gordie went on to become a successful author and has a much better relationship with his own son than he had with his father.Deadpan Snarker: His younger self when he interacts with his friends, but also his older self as the narrator.In the swamp scene, he's the only one who ends up with a leech in his pants. He was behind Vern in the Railroad Tracks of Doom and is nearly run over by a passing train. After he loses a coin toss, he must buy food for all his friends and then run from Angry Guard Dog Chopper through the junkyard. Butt-Monkey: Not as much as Vern, but still gets more bad luck than the others.Brainy Brunette: Gordie is the smartest one of the gang (aside from Chris, who is the wisest), who can create his own stories, and eventually goes to college and becomes a professional writer.Book Smart: Gordie is noted for being the only one among his friends to actually excel in academics.Averted in the book, however, as Gordie points out that the age difference renders Denny "just a guy." Big Brother Worship: Gordie greatly idolized Denny and his death really shook him.Beware the Nice Ones: He's a meek, good-natured and generally sweet kid but he can also be legitimately frightening when pushed as the finale shows when he makes Ace back down by threatening to kill him in a tone which heavily implies he's perfectly willing to do so.In the novel Gordie is the one who pulls Teddy off the tracks when he is trying to dodge the train. ![]() ![]() In the novella, Chris is the one who pulls the gun on Ace and threatens to kill him.The main protagonist and an aspiring writer. Played by: Wil Wheaton (child), Richard Dreyfuss (adult)
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