Stephen King Persuasive Speech

Of all the grimly iconic images Stephen King can be credited with thinking up – those leering hotel guests in The Shining, the pig’s-blood rinse in Carrie – there’s one that stands out as so evilly nightmarish, so plain wrong, it’s actively hard to watch. It’s the sight of an innocent young boy, Georgie, being dragged into a storm drain by a child-eating clown – the name’s Pennywise – and never seen, or at least not in living form, again.
Whatever warped part of King’s imagination poor Georgie’s fate in the 1986 novel It sprang from, the line-crossing horror of the idea is hideous enough to have powered two separate adaptations: first the Warners miniseries in 1990, starring an unforgettable Tim Curry, and now a two-part film version.
The biggest change is what’s been

Every one of the “Losers’ Club” – that’s Bill and his cohorts – is separately menaced by the thing they most fear, as well as being more straightforwardly persecuted, in classic Stand By Me style, by a group of older school bullies. As a vision of violence and depravity in small-town America, King’s book hardly pulled its punches: there’s a subplot about domestic child abuse, letters being carved into a fat boy’s stomach, racial assaults against the lone black kid (Chosen Jacobs), and so on.
But this is very much a ring-the-changes update, with the ramped-up set pieces and state-of-the-art grisliness to match. Muschietti, who made his debut with the Guillermo-del-Toro-produced wraith chiller Mama (2013), makes the most of every new apparition at his disposal, unleashing them all to do their bit with stadium-rock swagger. Differing from the more 1950s-themed ghouls in either the book or miniseries, they lunge forward at their intended victims with deranged Modigliani faces, or rotting ones, or none at