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Post by Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda on Sept 15, 2019 14:07:28 GMT -5
I love Tim Curry! He was hilarious in the Clue movie.
Yeah I cast Bill Skarsgård because in the films he plays Pennywise very well in the scary department and when he smiles as Pennywise, it's really creepy. But Tim Curry was also portrayed Pennywise well too. The fun-loving appearance and the theatrics actually had me scared when I had first watched the mini-series. I may include both versions somehow, you never know.
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Post by Tim on Sept 15, 2019 17:05:27 GMT -5
The 1990 mini-series was the first time I'd heard of It (I bought the book afterwards). Loved the bit in the library (WA-HA, WA-HA, WA-HA).
Stephen King himself said that he as partly inspired by Lovecraft when he wrote this book, so it's fitting that our two series would dovetail together for this one.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 16, 2019 18:01:47 GMT -5
I've seen a couple Tim Curry movies 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' being the first and a made for television movie about the Titanic second where he played a member of the White Star Line who stole stuff from the wealthy first class passengers and assaulted a foreign third class passenger woman.
Not seen the miniseries or film of IT as that's too scary for me. Not a horror fan unfortunately though have seen a couple of clips of Tim as Pennnywise on YouTube when wondering who the character was obviously.
You could if featured both men as Pennywise maybe have him had split personality with one different from the other explaining the diferentoriating looks to some attribute that person has or perhaps have it Tim's the older version and Bill the younger which by killing children keeps him that way or Pennywise Tim if he doesn't then.
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Post by Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda on Sept 17, 2019 7:01:43 GMT -5
Yeah. And the second film delves some into his lore. I'm definitely going to incorporate both versions, even if it's major or not, I will find a way.
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Post by Tim on Sept 20, 2019 11:27:22 GMT -5
It all ties into his Dark Tower thing.
Never got into those books myself, so I'm guessing on a few things here.
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Post by Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda on Sept 20, 2019 21:17:15 GMT -5
I haven't got into them either, so we're in the same boat on that.
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Post by Tim on Sept 20, 2019 23:17:02 GMT -5
Yeah, it all connects together somehow.
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Post by Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda on Sept 21, 2019 21:37:48 GMT -5
Well Stephen King has a knack for connecting his stories. Harry Dunning and his family (11/22/63) lived in Derry, Maine. On Beverly Marsh's page on the Stephen King Wiki, she appears in 11/22/63 along with the rest of the Loser's being mentioned.
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Post by Tim on Sept 21, 2019 23:18:39 GMT -5
Well Stephen King has a knack for connecting his stories. Harry Dunning and his family (11/22/63) lived in Derry, Maine. On Beverly Marsh's page on the Stephen King Wiki, she appears in 11/22/63 along with the rest of the Loser's being mentioned.
Indeed, both Beverly and Richie make cameo appearances in 11/22/63.
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Post by Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda on Sept 21, 2019 23:54:02 GMT -5
That's right, Richie did make an appearance, I knew I was forgetting one of the Losers there.
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Post by Tim on Dec 17, 2019 17:26:56 GMT -5
Watched Chapter II on Saturday.
They made quite a few changes from the book.
In the movie, Mike is present at the final battle, in the novel, he was still in the hospital, because of Henry Bowers's attack on him.
In the movie, It never captures Bill's wife, Audra. In the novel, it does. Of course, in the movie, Audra doesn't try to travel to Derry, like she does in the novel (and the 1990 mini-series, in which she is also captured by It).
In the movie, Beverly's abusive husband, Tom, doesn't die, like he does in the novel. She just leaves him and that's it (he also survived in the 1990 mini-series, because, like in this movie, he disappears from the plot once Beverly leaves him).
No sign of the Turtle in the movie.
That whole bit with the kid living in Bill's old house is original to the movie.
That whole bit with spider Stan's head was original to this movie. It was also a tribute to a similar scene in John Carpenter's The Thing. Richie even utters the same line as a character in The Thing when he sees the spider head: You gotta be f**king kidding!
Despite these changes, I liked it.
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Post by Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda on Dec 17, 2019 21:01:09 GMT -5
I loved it! I really enjoyed Spiderhead Stan!
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Post by Tim on Dec 18, 2019 0:25:05 GMT -5
I loved it! I really enjoyed Spiderhead Stan!
As I said, this was clearly a tribute to John Carpenter's The Thing.
No such thing happened in the novel or 1990 mini-series.
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Post by Matt A, Heir to Bekka Pramheda on Dec 19, 2019 22:31:17 GMT -5
I also loved the idea of having a new family (with a young boy around Georgie's age) living in Bill's old house. It cements the fact the disappearances will repeatedly occur and an eerie feeling as a viewer to see it mirrored in that way..(if that makes any sense at all, I'm pretty sure I confused myself getting to the end of what I was saying)
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Post by Tim on Dec 20, 2019 0:20:31 GMT -5
Mr. King has hinted that It is still alive in some way. What the Losers destroyed was only it's Earthly form, however, the parts of It that were outside were not affected.
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