18. IT

I saw the movie It this weekend, and I thought it was so good. I had never seen the original or read the book. So I did a bunch of research and found out some cool things about the movie.

***spoilers!!!***

Easter Eggs
  • When Richie goes into the room with all of the clowns, the clown on the left of Pennywise resembles Tim Curry's clown in the first It mini series
  • The lego turtle that Bill holds and drops was symbolism for Maturin
  • Eddie wore a shirt with Christine on it, the evil car
  • When Patrick sees the balloon that says "I heart Derry", that is a nod to the scene in the book when a gay man was killed wearing a hat that said the same thing
  • At the end of the movie, after the Losers Gang take an oath in a circle, they leave in the order they die
  • The lumberjack statue that is shown when the Loser's club is talking and Mike reveals his backstory is a reference to the manifestation of It that terrorized Richie in the books
  • When It says "beep beep Richie", that is a nod to the book, where all the kids would say that to shut Richie up
  • Pennywise showed his true form, the "Deadlights", when he captures Beverly

Things I found out about the story

  • Beverly saw the future when she was in a trance
  • Beverly wasn't that affected because she faced her biggest fear- her father
  • Stan saw the deadlights too when he was being eaten and it affected him a lot
  • The title of this film is actually "It Chapter One- The Losers Club"
  • IT isn't really dead, just injured and having to go into slumber
  • Henry isn't dead, and ends up confessing to the murders of the missing children


Differences from the book
  • They did not put in the sewer orgy scene between all the kids. Good choice.
  • They changed the manifestations of It, to make them more modern, instead of having a mummy and Frankenstein's monster
  • They also omitted the scene where the kids get high and hallucinate It's alien origins
  • Patrick was much more important in the book, having killed his baby brother
  • The other two bullies die in the book
  • The movie split up part one and two into different movies

Behind the scenes
  • The kid who played Stan also played young Peter Quill in the first Guardians of the Galaxy Movie!
  • Bill Skarsgard used to do the thing with his lip where he points it down and his friends used to think it was creepy
  • The kid actors are all very cute and fun together
  • Jack Dylan Grazer makes a lot of really weird videos where he starts sentences and doesn't really end them
  • The directors of Stranger Things wanted to direct IT but they said they didn't have enough experience, so that's why they went on to direct Stranger Things instead

Things I noticed

  • The scene where Richie and Bill fight was a lot like the scene in Stranger Things, which also involved Finn Wolfhard
  • In general it was a lot like Stranger Things (funny, 14 year old kids, bikes, vintage, chasing around a monster looking for a missing boy close to them)
  • Georgie was so cute!!! My goodness
  • Patrick looks a lot like the new Roderick in Diary of a Wimpy Kid

I haven't been able to sleep well, and it would be fine if I had just watched the movie, but I've been doing a bunch of research and have been thinking about it a lot. Still, I plan on seeing the movie again with my sister and mom.

Always with love, Bella Montague

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