The new movie It is all my friends are talking about right now. When I went to Southside Works in Pittsburgh, I thought for sure the movie was going to be sold out and I would be pulling up the transit app to get back home. Luckily, I wasn’t turned away and I got to see what all the buzz was about. It is about a young boy named Bill who still has hope that his younger brother, Georgie, is still alive after a mysterious disappearance. Despite the fact that Bill’s parents have given up on figuring out what happened to their youngest; Bill decides to figure out the mystery for himself. Bill and his six friends all decide to devote their summer vacation helping Bill find his brother Georgie. Little did they know a clown named Pennywise would target …show more content…
The small group of school misfits, referred to as “losers,” are the outsiders of the school. They aren’t just chased around by Pennywise, but also by three of Derry’s well-known bullies. These bullies throughout the movie add a suspenseful feel to the film, with scenes where some of the characters are near a close to death experience with the leader of the bullies, Henry Bowers. Henry soon teams up with Pennywise and makes a pact to help kill the “losers.” Aside from the bullying conflict in the movie there is also a disturbing conflict going on in the background for the only girl in the group of “losers,” Beverly Marsh. All interactions made between Beverly and her father you could see that Beverly had been through some kind of distressful trauma. You could sense her fear whenever her father would be near. This added an interesting factor to the film. It became a mystery to the audience what exactly the conflict between Beverly and her father was. Pennywise attacks all of the children based on their greatest fear. He targets Beverly by transforming into her father. With the added conflicts of the bullies vs. the losers and the odd relationship shared between Beverly and her father it adds more depth to the film. Targeting every child’s fear is also what adds a spooky aspect to the film. It makes you, as an audience member, afraid of your biggest fears even …show more content…
Supposedly It has plans for a second movie and this was only representing the first half of Stephan King’s novel. Some people were disappointed and annoyed by this because of how long the film was. Orr writes in his movie critique, “What we’re left with is a solid but relatively conventional horror movie, above average but overlong – especially given the decision to limit its scope to half of King’s novel.” The movie was lengthy in my opinion, but I didn’t think that there was much that could be cut out from the film and still have the effect that it did. The kids wrap up the movie by all promising that they will come back to the haunted town of Derry if it makes its twenty-seven-year reappearance. I thought Muschietti did a great job with the film, and I will be most definitely be seeing chapter two in theaters when it’s
The three main characters in the movie are Gus, Clark, and Richie. These characters are the outcasts who play baseball to stand up to their past bullies. Gus is a landscaper, married, expecting a child, loves to play baseball, and is now the leader of the team. Supposedly, Gus didn’t want to play in high school because he didn’t want the reputation as a jock. Clark works as a newspaper boy and is always seen wearing a helmet. He was always picked on in high school. Richie works at a shop called Video Spot and he also had been affected by bullying in high school. Clark and Richie went to the same high school and dealt with the same bullies. Gus went to a different high school, which meant that the other two didn’t know the real truth about him back then. Towards the end of the movie, they come to find out that instead of being bullied like them, he was the bully.
One of the characters named Digby, goes to Cornell University, and has his father pay his tuition. The second character Jeff, was thinking of quitting school to become a painter/musician/head-shop. The third character is the narrator, who always wears a torn-up leather jacket and was also setting bad example to his friends and anyone around. The narrator started his badness by “sniffed glue, or somebody claimed it was cocaine and drank gin and grape juice,” (Boyle 687). Together the teenagers were being rebellious looking for trouble in the summer evening. Throughout the story the characters ran into some trouble, but what caught the narrator to change his appearance was when he saw the dead body in the lake. When the group reunited by the next morning, they appear to be disappointed of the action they had taken. The end of story changed the character’s actions from being bad to rebellious free. Boyle uses characters to provide a lesson for readers to understand that there are consequence for your
The titular characters have been shunned as scoundrels and wrongdoers, titles which they themselves don't seem to dispute. Uncle Billy, for his part, certainly seems to live up to the title by abandoning the group at the first opportunity. The rest are left to the task of survival, and the addition of Tom and Piney makes this all the harder. Despite that, the scoundrels and Innocents (as Oakhurst calls them) live together in unity, caring for each other. Simons plays music to keep morale high, Mother Shipton and the Duchess adore Piney as if she were a daughter, and Oakhurst neglects to burden the others with the facts of Uncle Billy's betrayal.
The movie is about two teenagers, David and Jennifer who get drawn into the 1950s fictional, black-and-white television sitcom, Pleasantville. The show portrays a very stereotypical image of the 1950s. In Pleasantville, both David and Jennifer are forced to take on the roles of Bud and Mary-Sue. As they play along in the perfect town of Pleasantville their presence influences drastic changes. As the citizens of Pleasantville discover sex, art, books, music and the concept of nonconformity, color takes over the black-and-white world.
In the movie each of the main characters, Norman who is eighty years old, Ethel who is seventy years old and Chelsea who is forty years old go through some of the stages of psychosocial development. The first character in the movie I will be talking about is Norman. I recognized him first from the movie because I knew something seemed wrong with him. For example, in the beginning of the movie him and his wife Ethel goes to their vacation spot and he sees a picture of them and doesn’t recognize who the people are. His wife had to remind him that it was them in the picture. He is very forgetful and it seems that his mental is not as strong as it
The movie came with many emotional sides, seeing his mother (Renee) get raped, how the shock therapy changes the life of his mother and also how he was faced with the addiction to drugs, homosexuality and other trauma in his life. Coquette's self-dramatization made him
Finn Wolfhard, who plays Richie in It as well as Mike in the popular Netflix show, Stranger Things, is extremely recognizable to many and draws in a new, younger audience of Stranger Things fans to the film. We also see the name of the director, Andy Muschietti, who is known for his 2013 horror film, Mama. For those who recognize the director, or who have the ability to Google search, seeing that this director has a past with horror films creates a trust in this movie. The last, and most noticeable, credible moment in the trailer is the name drop of It author, Stephen King. While most know that It is a Stephen King novel, those unfamiliar with the book and miniseries may have read one of his books or seen one of the numerous movies based off of
The main character observed was Norman even though it was his birthday and the rivals of his daughter visit. He encounters many emotion’s while on the journey entering late adulthood. Biologically Norman faces fear of aging, but also feeling the past is fading away. Norman attitude changes to due to grief felt as he experiences physical and mental changes, yet it puts relationships in a warp of a tornado. As the movie progress you will see Norman reveal emotions, insecurity, and mental instability and becomes a serious challenge, for example when Norman was lost in the woods he came back running because he was not able to find his way back. With the disease he is encountered with a slow mental decline. Aging adults become very grumpy, arrogant, and impatient, however, Norman will not let go what was once familiar to him, and even if he struggles to claim a command with the younger ones.
“This scene not only expresses Billy’s rage, it visually represents his childhood. Billy is blocked by barriers of gender, class, and
The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an entity that exploits the fears and phobias of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. The creature, or “It” primarily appears in the form of a clown to attract its preferred prey of young children. The story starts off during a heavy rainstorm in Derry, Maine, six-year-old George "Georgie" Denbrough is chasing a paper boat down a gutter. The boat is washed down a storm drain to the dismay of Georgie, who had received the boat as a gift from his older brother Bill. Peering into the drain, Georgie sees a pair of glowing yellow eyes. Startled, Georgie is suddenly confronted by a man dressed in a silver clown suit who introduces himself as "Mr. Bob Gray", a.k.a. "Pennywise the Dancing Clown".
The three children of the separated family father Lester Billings are dead, like a psychiatrist tells, killed by the Boogeyman. The worst thing for Billings is that he has suspected that, when his first child died, and was sure, when his second child died. Still he admitted that the Boogeyman took his third child. Now he believes that the Boogeyman will take him too, and he is afraid to open his closets at home. His psychiatrist, Dr.Harper understands him well, too well. At the entering to the lobby, there is no one to help him and when he return into the room, Lester Billings finds the psychiatrist taking off his mask to show him that he is the boogeyman, the person who had killed his three children.
The finale of each of these “family memories” which is the cruel and gruesome passing of nearly the whole family, with one special case which is the possessed child. He also has a distorted hideous face and is a giant looming figure that many would find extremely creepy especially with the disfigurement of his mouth that is closed shut and along with that possessing children to kill their families and then later on having them as a meal is far from acceptable in what we consider being human and what we would consider cruelty and repulsive against
One of them, Will, is scared and later kidnapped by a strange creature without anyone knowing. The next morning, the authorities are notified of his disappearance and an investigation is underway. As the adults search for Will, his friends (Mike, Lucas, and
The predominant theme of this play was the chaotic father/son relationship. The message the play is trying to give is that children can go against their fathers, rioting against them and disobeying their orders and expectations, and how a stereotypical message of disobedience is sent. In the worst of cases, the father becomes nearly powerless, unable to act or alter the situation in anyway. I do agree with the message that sometimes children can have control over their parents, and how sometimes there is nothing that can be done about it. In the play, it was exactly like that when Christy tried to kill his father three times without ever obeying a single one of his commands and even getting in a face to face fight with him. I have also witnessed this situation in other TV shows and novels. I found that message to be extremely disturbing for me in The Playboy of the Western World. The idea of a son killing his father was a terrible idea for my brain to comprehend during the course of the play. However, I must say
Bullies in School Kathleen Berger 1 Bullying was once commonly thought to be an unpleasant but normal part of child's play, not to be encouraged, of course, but of little consequence in the long run. However, developmental researchers who have looked closely at the society of children consider bullying to be a very serious problem, one that harms both the victim and the aggressor, sometimes continuing to cause suffering years after the child has grown up. 2 One leading researcher in this area is Dan Olweus, who has studied bullying in his native country of Norway and elsewhere for twenty-five years. The cruelty, pain, and suffering that he has documented in that time are typified by the examples of Linda and Henry: Linda was systematically