When the first rumors crawled about the new film adaptation, many were skeptical: not only did the source is one of the most multi -layered novels by Stephen King, so in addition and the first film adaptation with Pennyiz Tim Curry still casts a long shadow. Fortunately, the creators accepted the challenge, and after twenty -seven years the terrible clown again began to lure children in the city sewer.
We hasten to tell what came of it.
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Genre: horrors Slogan: “You will fly too!" Directors: Andres Muscatti Scriptwriters: Andres Muscatti and Gary Doberman Cast: Bill Scarsgard, Jaden Lieberer, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sofia Lillis, Finn Wolfard and others Premiere in the Russian Federation: September 7th Rating: 18+
The film, like the 1990 mini-series, reproduces the beginning of the novel almost built-in.
Dream Team
By mood, and partly in the composition of the “Club of Losers” resembles the guys from the series “Very Strange Things”, also encountered supernatural. The characters of the heroes are transferred from the book to the screen very carefully. Ben Hansky (Jeremy Ray Taylor) smart and romantic, but shy guy, Richie Tozer (star Stranger Things Finn Wolfard) – Balagur, who reinss such vulgar jokes that another adult will blush. Zaika-Bill is a brave and decisive leader, the exact opposite of the young hypochondric Eddie and the clamped skeptic of Stanley. The brightest scream of the company is Sofia Lillis: her Bev march turned out to be much more interesting and attractive than book. For all the guys, they picked up a couple of bright details that help to better understand the characters – take at least how some of them park great!
Due to the shift of the director, almost the entire cast. Finn Wolfard is the only one who remained in the project after the director's chair took Andres Muscette.
Friends are very interesting to observe: like all teenagers, they exchange cobbles, share secrets and sincerely rejoice at the coming summer. Friendship creates an invisible connection between the heroes, which protects against horrors prepared by Pennyiz. Only having united they will pass heavy trials and overcome their childhood fears, which, by the way, are much deeper than in adults.
Before the meeting of the “Club of Losers”, Ben's best friends were books.
Astmatik Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Grazer), stuck on his mother, tries to add coolness to himself.
Virtuoso of metamorphosis
And there is something to be afraid: a terrible clown-echoed Penniviz pursues children, lures into cunning traps and embodies their fears, turning into a nightmare in reality. The role of the monster went to the Swedish actor Bill Scarsgard, and he coped with her perfectly, replenishing the already decent collection of terrible clowns.
“Your hair –
Hot coals in winter.
I want to burn in them ".
The image of the Scarsgard differs from the Monster Tim Curry-he was more like an unbalanced clown-rinse: here Penniviz is the older evil that King portrayed him in the novel. It is not only part of the history of the city, but also the reflection of the mythology of Derry, which lives in the subconscious of its inhabitants. Clown's costume to match his essence and resembles outfits of the fair gatherors of the 18th -19th centuries. The final scenes are no longer in doubt that if he is not the devil himself, then his right hand, climbing through the labyrinths of sewer pipes from hell.
Although Penniviz claims the title of absolute evil, terrorizing the town since its founding, he still does not appeal to primitive fears, horror, which leads to a numb. But this is a common thing for the film adaptations of King – in almost all books, fear penetrates the very heart, it is material, you can touch it. Otherwise, Scargard turned out a worthy and, most importantly, the right antagonist – if he had more screen time, he would not only overshadow the “losers”, but also tired the viewer.
And yet, it’s not so nice to look at Pennyiz.
The worst thing is indifference
The indifference of adults scares even more. If, in “Very strange deeds”, the search department, led by the Sheriff, worked with a bang, then here the problem with the disappearance is solved only by the introduction of a commandant. One announcement of the child’s disappearance is calmly glued right on top of another, clearly making it clear that everyone in Derry is generally spitting, what is actually happening.
Separate characters are no better: the weak -chased Mr. Denbro does not even try to find the missing son, and the glossy pharmacist Kin is only engaged in the fact that he shamelessly looks at schoolgirls, forcing the viewer to fuck in his chair in disgust.
Stanley – pragmatist and skeptic. The supernatural monster does not fit into his picture of the world, and therefore he is worse than all.
It is much worse that most parents are a real threat to their offspring: Eddie's mother poisons him with her care, not suspecting that she also nurtured his childhood fears, and Father Bev is a lively example of the most terrible disgrace of the parent.
Older teenagers are also not a gift, but Henry Bauers' gang convinces that all ages are submissive to evil. Derrian hooligans do not know pity, are ready to cut, or even kill for skin color or a pretty trinket.
The magic of the eighties
The first film was deliberately transferred to the end of the eighties. Argentine director Andres Muskatti, whose short horror “Mom” noticed Guillermo Del Toro himself, masterfully conveyed the spirit of the time: here are the posters of the Kinghills Casino “Nightmare on the Street of Vyamy” and the popular Dungeons & Haste Dragons, and the famous “Apocalyptic battle of stones” from the book will be held under Antisocial Anthrax; From time to time and other perky compositions interrupt the instrumental soundtrack, from which the chill involuntarily runs along the skin. By the way, not only hobbies changed, but also the fears of adolescents – a much more frightening modern painting, which sometimes frighten an adult, came to replace the good old mummy.
Compared to its own way in the first film, Derry turned out to be incredibly comfortable.
The general stylistics of the film is clearly inspired by the cinematiclassic of the 1980s-in the spirit of “Stay with me” Rob Rainer, one of the best film adaptations, and “Balbes” Richard Donner. It is worth noting the work of the operator John John Hun, whom the viewer knows from the film “Oldboy”: he does not spare the viewer at all and does not stop shaking the footage of the peaceful Derrian wasteland with claustrophic library corridors. By the way, the creators did not regret children's blood, so the age rating of 18+ is fully justified.
All this resembles the good old horror films of the 80s, and at the same time makes you remember the book, although the plot at the end deviates to the side: then Bill will jump onto the bicycle with the cry of “Hai Yo, Silver!", Then a photograph of the famous water tower flickens in the frame.
For fans of the original source, the film was prepared by a whole pile.
Muscatti shot a picture of growing up, friendship and the shame of childhood – what Stephen King himself has invested in history. We are looking forward to the second part of the movie dyspology to find out how the lives of members of the “Club of Losers” developed, and see the new terrible tricks of Penniviz.
A magnificent adaptation of a cult novel, in which horrors are far from the main thing. “It” tells the story not about the monster that eats children, but about the struggle with himself, about faith and friendship.