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This Page links to the chapter in
C.
Daiute & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), Narrative analysis:
Studying the development of individuals in society (pp. 135-157). London:
Sage. “Positioning
with Davie Hogan – Stories, Tellings, and Identities. It
provides the full transcript <below> and the sound line of the Davie
Hogan Story from 'Stand by Me'
(we are currently working to get
permission to provide the
video clip for viewing this excerpt here)
THE DAVIE HOGAN STORY (from the original
script)
Chris:
Hey, Gordoe,
why don't you tell us a story?
Gordie:
I - I don't
know.
Chris:
Oh come on.
Vern:
Yeah, come on, Gordoe. But not one of your horror
stories, okay? I don't wanna hear no horror stories. I'm not up for that, man.
Teddy:
Why don't you
tell us one about Sergeant Stone and his battling leathernecks?
Gordie:
Well the one
I've been thinking about is kind of different. It's about this pie-eating
contest. And the main guy of the story is a fat kid that nobody likes named
Davie Hogan.
Vern:
Like Charlie
Hogan's brother. If he had one.
Chris:
Good Vern. Go
on, Gordie.
Gordie:
Well this kid
is our age but he's fat, real fat. He weighs close to one-eighty. But you know
it's not his fault it's his glands.
Vern:
Oh yeah, my
cousin's like that, sincerely. She weighs over three hundred pounds. Supposed to
be Hyboid Gland or something. Well I don't know about any Hyboid Glands, but
what a blimp. No shit. She looks
like a Thanksgiving turkey. And you know this one time –
Chris:
Shut up, Vern.
Vern:
Yeah, yeah,
right. Go on, Gordie, it's a swell story.
Gordie:
Well all the
kids instead of calling him Davie they call him Lardass; Lardass Hogan. Even his
little brother and sister call him Lardass. At school they put a sticker on his
back that says 'wide load,' and they rank him out and beat him up whenever they
got a chance. But one day he gets an idea. The greatest revenge-idea a kid ever
had.
Mayor:
The thing on?
Can you hear me? Now the next contestant in the great tri-county pie-eat
Principal John Wiggins! And our celebrity-contestant from K-L-A-M in Portland,
the Bossman himself; Bob Cormier!
Cormier:
Hey, from the
racks and stacks it's the best on wax. How about another olden golden twin spin
sound set? With K-L-A-M in Portland . . . i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-t's . . .
Crowd:
Boss!
Mayor:
A newcomer to
the pie-eat but one we expect great things from in the future. Young master
David Hogan!
(Lardass Hogan trips on steps)
Travis:
Are you
alright, young man?
Heckler 1:
Hey, Lardass,
how was your trip?
Travis:
I hear you got
a big appetite, Lardass, don't even think about winning this.
Heckler 2:
Boy are you
fat!
Mayor:
Don't pay any
attention to those fools, Lardass -uh- Davie.
Crowd:
Boom-baba-boom-baba-boom-baba-boom-baba-boom.
Mayor:
And now the one
you've all been waiting for, the four-time champion, our own Bill Travis!
Listen, I got ten riding on you myself, Billy-boy. Alright, are you ready? Hands
behind your backs, gentlemen! Drumroll !
Twins:
Hey, Lardass!
Chow down, wide load!
Mayor:
Ha, ha, ha. GO!
Various:
Done!
Mayor:
You better pace
yourself if you wanna hold out, boy.
Crowd:
Lardass!
Lardass!
Gordie:
What the
audience didn't know was that Lardass wasn't really interested in winning. What
he wanted was revenge. And right before he was introduced he'd gotten ready for
it.
[Just before
the pie-eating contest, Lardass drank a huge bottle of Castor Oil and swallowed
a raw egg.]
Crowd:
Lardass!
Lardass!
Various:
Done!
Gordie:
By the time he
was eating his fifth pie, Lardass began to imagine that he wasn't eating pies,
he pretended he was eating cowflops and rat guts in blueberry-sauce.
Crowd:
Lardass!
Lardass!
Lardass:
Done!
Gordie:
Slowly a sound
started to build in Lardass' stomach. A strange and scary sound like a log-truck
coming at you at a hundred miles an hour. Suddenly, Lardass opened his mouth.
And before Bill Travis knew it, he was covered with five pies worth of used
blueberries. The women in the audience screamed. Bossman Bob Cormier
take one look at Bill Travis and barfed on Principal Wiggins. Principal Wiggins
barfed on the lumberjack that was sitting next to him. Mayor Grundy barfed on
his wife's tits. But when the smell hit the crowd, that's when Lardass' plan
really started to work. Girlfriends barfed on boyfriends. Kids barfed on their
parents. A fat lady barfed in her purse. The Donnelly-twins barfed on each
other. And the women's auxiliary barfed all over the Benevolent Order of
Antelopes. And Lardass just sat back and enjoyed what he created. A complete and
total Barf-A-Rama.
C,T,V:
Yeah!
Chris:
Now that was
the best, just the best.
Vern:
Yeah.
Teddy:
What happened?
Gordie:
What do you
mean?
Teddy:
I mean, what
happened?
Gordie:
What do you
mean what happened? That's the end.
Teddy:
How can that be
the end, what kind of an ending is that? What happened to Lardass?
Gordie:
I don't know.
Maybe he went home and celebrated with a couple of cheeseburgers.
Teddy:
Jeeze. That
sucks. Why don't you make it so that Lardass goes home, an' he shoots his
father. An' he runs away. An' - an' he joins the Texas- Rangers. How about that?
Gordie:
I - I don't
know.
Teddy:
Something good
like that.
Vern:
I like the
ending. The barfing was really good. But there is one thing I didn't understand.
Did Lardass have to pay to get into the contest?
Gordie:
No, Vern, they
just let him in.
Vern:
Oh! Oh great.
Great story.
LINKS to Stand by Me sites:
http://land.heim.at/podersdorf/221235/summary.htm
http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/s_archive/rep/main_4.html
http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/psych214/assignment1.htm
http://www.film.u-net.com/Movies/Reviews/Stand_Me.html
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=A46439
http://www.vaiden.net/barfarama.html
<from where the clip on top of the page originated>