These movies are about a killer clown who eats children sounds like a childhood fear. The book focuses on the story of The Loser Club, or Lucky Seven. This is a group of seven people, who battle with the demonic clown as children, and then again as adults in the town of Derry, Maine. The two film adaptations have similarities, and differences. I will be talking about them. Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the main antagonist of the films. He is a seemingly ageless being that eats children and thrives on fear. Pennywise is practically the same in both movies, using fear and transformation to scare the children. There are not many differences between the films. The biggest difference is how Pennywise’s ‘true form’ is shown in the mini-series. …show more content…
In both films Eddie also has with asthma. The biggest difference for Eddie is that in the 2017 version his mother has him taking a lot of medications, which he finds out are fake. In the newer movie. Beverly Marsh is one of the Lucky Seven, as well as the lone girl. Beverly is the the love interest of two in the Lucky Seven, which creates confusion among them. In the 2017 film Beverly is kidnapped by Pennywise, which forces the rest of the group into action. Bill Denbrough is one of the Lucky Seven, and is seen as the scaredy cat of the group. Bill is Georgie’s older brother, with a really bad stuttering problem. In both films he is afraid of Pennywise the most, but overcomes it to avenge his brother. Bill only has one main difference, in the 2017 movie he is obsessed with finding Georgie. This leads to him memorizing the sewer system where he believes Georgie is, which helps the group later on. Richie Tozier is one of the Lucky Seven, and is the jokester of the group. Richie’s similarities are extremely important, because he makes the group laugh. Richie makes jokes that lighten the mood of the group in an otherwise grim situation. He has practically no differences in the films, except that he uses extreme language and crude humor in the 2017 …show more content…
Stan is afraid of it, but he takes it one step further. Stan rejects Pennywise’s existence, even after seeing him first hand. In the new movie Bill is the one who offers the pact to return to Derry, while the original miniseries had Stan play this role. Mike Hanlon is one of the Lucky Seven, and is the final member to join the Lucky Seven. Mike is raised by his grandfather in both adaptations, due to a house fire that ended up killing his parents when he was a baby. Mike is not a large character in the grand scheme of things as a child. The biggest difference between the new and old is that Mike brings his grandfathers picture book to show the group of Pennywise’s reign of terror on Derry. Henry Bowers is the stories human antagonist. Henry constantly torments the children, and later becomes a pawn of Pennywise. Henry is a bully with a racist father, and quick temper. He chases the group in the town, creating issues for them that Pennywise can’t. He mainly hates the groups black member, Mike. Henry has one huge difference, and thats his life. In the original film Henry grows up along with the Lucky Seven, but in the new film he is pushed into a well and presumed
why Bill wants to join them that’s pretty obvious when he starts asking questions and one guy stands up
was made for younger adults. The information that was different from both books is that
The main role of Gordie LaChance is played by Wil Wheaton. He is having trouble in his life at this time because he just lost his brother and his parents are having a very difficult time dealing with it. Chris Chambers was played by River Phoenix. Chris is considered a loser because of his family and everybody thinks he will do nothing in life. Through it all, the group of kids looks up to Chris and he is admired by them. The role of Teddy Duchamp is played by Corey Feldman. Teddy has a difficult time in life largely because his father was very mean to him before getting thrown in an insane asylum. The lack of discipline shows in that Teddy has a serious problem staying in control. He is always going crazy and his behavior presents a problem more than once to the group. Vern Tessio is played by Jerry O’Connel. He is the short little fat kid that remains a constant pest throughout the movie. Together the for kids embark on a trip through the woods that will be a challenging adventure for them all. Over the course of the movie the group has problems with individual group members, they have to work as a team, and leadership roles emerge.
As Jake travels to Derry to change the outcome of his student’s childhood, King references two characters that he has used in the past horror novel, IT, this automatically set the tone for past readers knowing the characters Beverly and Richie, who set a dark presence in Derry. I saw this theme as a huge red flag saying “danger
Golding specified that Piggy is one of the smartest boy on the island by “We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us” (Golding 71). Piggy is not good looking
I had a basic understanding of the show before reading the script and imagined Pennywise and a domineering villain. Upon reading the script I realized this wasn’t the case. Initially, I saw Pennywise as an exhausted middle aged women who hates her job and is just trying to keep everyone in line. With further analysis and our Director’s vision, Pennywise became someone completely different. Pennywise has a unique position in the show because she lives between the poor and rich worlds. She hangs in the balance and is on the front lines responsible for maintaining order. Because of this, she cannot show even the slightest bit of exhaustion. James made this very clear comparing her to Mother Courage and a “brick wall” when people question or oppose her. She too lived through the Stink Years and is just trying to maintain stasis. Pennywise definitely has a softer side which was really fun to explore. It’s evident from the beginning of the script that she has a soft spot for Bobby. I soon realized that this is due to the fact that she had to give up her daughter, Hope, around the same time Bobby was born, so she acts somewhat maternally to him. This maternal side comes out when Hope’s life is threatened by her father’s selfish choices and, just like Josephine after Bobby’s death, Pennywise loses all her inhibitions and has one objective: to save her daughter.
Henry suffers from retrograde amnesia due to internal bleeding in the part of the brain that controls memory. This causes him to forget completely everything he ever learned. His entire life is forgotten and he has to basically relearn who he was, only to find he didn’t like who he was and that he didn’t want to be that person. He starts to pay more attention to his daughter and his wife and starts to spend more time with them.
These two films are not only similar on these surface levels, but also in their narrative structure and intent as well. Dorothy and Alice, both find themselves trapped in a world of their own fantasy, but with no context on how to navigate their way home. They are then lead by an array of strange characters who guide them on their journey. Dorothy meets the scarecrow, the tin man, the cowardly lion, and so on. While Alice crosses paths with the white rabbit, the cheshire cat, the mad hatter, and so on. With the assistance of their companions, both heroines maneuver their way through the challenges each fantasy presents. Perhaps the biggest similarity these films share narratively, is the underlying emphasis on empathy and perspective. Both
the point of view of Michael. We, as the audience, are being told the story through Michael’s
Another similarity in the book and movie is that the characters have to go against their morals in order to decide what to do in certain situations. An example of this in the book is when Skip realises he would have to trespass and steal in order for him to keep himself and his friends alive. Or in...
Throughout Bill and Stephen’s journey, they experience many mental difficulties and problems that leads to them giving up on their journey. Firstly, Katz is a destroyed man looking to shape himself through the hike. Katz was a drug addict and an alcoholic. Going on the hike means giving up all his bad habits and starting off the hike like new person. It is not easy, he always thinks about it and being away for it made him angry and grumpy most of the time. Eventually, Katz does break his promise, thus this effects their friendship greatly, as Bryson says “I was furious, livid - more furious than I had been about anything in years. I couldn’t believe he was drinking again. It seemed such a deep, foolish betrayal of everything - of himself, me, what we were doing out here” (251). This signifies how Katz had a bad mental breakdown when he took the break from the hike. He had to drink in order to calm down, which makes Bill furious, since he is attempting to make Katz a better man. Secondly, Bill’s starts to develop a fear of mental isolation. When Bill is walking through the claustrophobic forest he says, “personally, I would have been pleased to be waling now through hamlets and past farms rather than through some silent ‘protected corridor.’” (202), he explains that being trapped in a confined forest makes him feel isolated and he would rather be out in open spaces able to “breath”. Having Katz being a slow walker even made it worst for Bill. He had no one to talk to, no one laugh with, or discuss his problems with during his walk. This makes him miss home, he wanted his wife to love him and kids to play with. Lastly, Bill losing his stick made him extremely homesick, “that stick ... had become all but part of me. It was a link with my children, whom I missed more than I can tell you. I felt like weeping” (161). This shows how the stick was the
Billy is not happy to stay behind and tells the elderly couple not to mess with him because he knows they don’t really want to keep him and he knows that he has just been dumped off. The couple
“I’m a golden god,” Russell Hammond shouts from a roof top as he is about to jump off into a pool from a bad acid trip. The iconic rock-n-roll scene of inflated egos and strung out rock stars. However, this is a rare occurrence in Almost Famous. It is a story of a boy, William Miller (Patrick Fugit), becoming a man while learning about the rock-n-roll culture with his only true friend, his tape recorder. William, age fifteen, is traveling with the band Stillwater to interview them for a Rolling Stone article, along the way he has many interesting experiences. Some of these including letting all the groupies stay in his room, almost crashing on an airplane with the band, and falling in love with the illustrious Penny Lane.
Henry’s character is introduced in the movie when his cousin Mark, who is just about the same age as him, suddenly comes to stay with their family because his father had to go away on business. Mark’s mother recently passed away right in front of his eyes and he was still dealing with the repercussions of it all. Dealing with feelings of loneliness, Mark immediately developed a close bond with Henry. He found Henry to be adventurous and nice but was not aware of who Henry really was and what he was experiencing. At first, Henry seemed like a decent young boy who enjoyed experimenting with new things. On ...
In conclusion, these stories are very similar in many ways. Out of all the themes that could be used to compare the two, the most important ones are hatred, manipulation and hatred. Hatred is disliking some one or something and there are many characters that dislike each other. Manipulation is using your creativity to come up with a way to get someone to believe something that is not true. Lastly, jealousy, which is wanting something that someone else has and doing things to get it which is what Iago did in the play and Fernand did in the movie.