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Now and then12/31/2022 Now then points the switchblade to his chest as he, like he did earlier, pulls up his skin to also reveal a large stitch mark. Now finishes dissecting Then's chest, revealing lots of items and resources inside. The text is shown this way to have it look like its meant for only Now to read. Now looks at the message, and responds with, "Yeah, I know". While doing so, some blood squirts on Now's forehead, before the words, PACK LIGHT, appear backwards and in front of him. Now then takes out a switch-blade and cuts open the stitch mark on Then's chest. Now then pulls up the skin on Then's chest to reveal a giant stitch mark. The character is presumed to and is most likely to be called, Then. Now turns around and says out loud, "Hello, Then", before it then walks up to a dead white figure completely laying on the ground. The character's name or symbolism is revealed to be called NOW. The background then morphs away and the figure is abruptly out of its trance, now inside of an empty yellow void. It starts with a white figure in a complete trance behind a trippy custom spiral background, almost like it's being hypnotized or having an existential thought. The animation consists of a white figure named Now walking up to another dead white figure dubbed Then, and dissecting its body parts. Be it the girls and their relationship, or those kitschy bike-riding sequences, but Now and Then leaves you wanting to phone your own childhood companions in night games and sidewalk chalk to reminisce on your "then.Jack Stauber "now and then" is a cel-animated cartoon created and uploaded by Jack Stauber on December 31st, 2019, and few hours before New Years' Day and the start of the year 2020. It's like Now and Then envisions the sunniest version of what friendships from girlhood could look like - supportive then and years on - and playing their present-day camaraderie against a youthful, halcyon summer gives the depiction an even brighter feeling. As the grown-up Sam (aka Demi Moore) drives to her hometown for the first time in years, she narrates via voiceover, "Thomas Wolfe once said, 'You can't go home again.' Well, that's great for old Tom, but he wasn't a chick who made a pact with her friends when she was 12 to get together whenever any one of them needed each other." Although the adult timeline admittedly pops up awkwardly through the movie, the scenes speak to the staying power of female friendship. Similar to how Stand By Me ends, Now and Then opens with a line about how important the friends you have growing up are to you then, and long after. Despite the movie's autumn release date, here's why the sugary heaping of nostalgia about four friends reuniting in adulthood to reflect on that fateful summer when they set out to build a treehouse and investigate why a boy their age had died in the past is a summertime classic. Now and Then - which celebrates its 25th anniversary on October 20 and is available to stream on HBO Max - is also The Perfect Summer Movie. Marlene King (who later developed the show Pretty Little Liars) and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter (who'd go on to helm episodes of Freaks and Geeks and Homeland), has rightfully achieved cult-classic status as a sacred text on female friendship. NOW AND THEN MOVIESet largely in the summer of 1970 and focusing on four 12-year-old girls investigating the death of a boy who died in their small Indiana town in 1945, the movie was largely panned upon its release, with many prominent critics of the day (including Roger Ebert and The New York Times' Caryn James) deeming it little more than an all-girls version of Stand by Me.īut despite the simlarities and negative reviews, Now and Then, written by I. NOW AND THEN SERIESNot surprisingly, Stand by Me also likely inspired the release of a handful of subsequent narratives about adolescent friendships gone by, from 1993's The Sandlot to TV series like The Wonder Years. But the Rob Reiner film still overshadows the movie that most closely resembles it, 1995's Now and Then. Jesus, does anyone?" And because, well, no, not really, the movie, adapted from a Stephen King story, has gone down as one of the best coming-of-age films of all time, and is still a summertime favorite today. After reflecting on a summer adventure that he took with his childhood friends decades ago, the narrator of Stand by Me famously ends the 1986 drama by saying, "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12.
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