The American writer Stephen King is famous for high-quality works in the horror genre, and many readers confirm the opinion that “It” is his worst novel. The book was published in 1986, and four years later it was filmed by Tommy Lee Wallace. However, this is not the only attempt to translate what is happening on the pages into the frames of the feature film, because exactly twenty-seven years later Andress Musketti also released It on the screens.
Many viewers, who have never become readers, believe that It is a penny clown who lures children with colorful balls and kills them. However, the dancing villain is just the face of that It. It - this is like a collective image of a monster, a werewolf transforming into what everyone is afraid of, and therefore - an absolutely creepy creature that can read minds.
The book has a double narrative system, where the main characters also study at school, forming the Club of Losers, and they are twenty-seven years later - matured characters called for revenge. On the first pages of the novel It kills Georgie - brother Bill, for whom the heroes avenge. In Derry, strange killings happened one after another, until the “happy seven” forced It to leave. However, when evil reigned in the city, the only Mike Hanlon left in place phoned classmates then to remind them of the oath that had forced them to return.
The book is quite voluminous, but really worth reading. In addition to the terribly inflating suspense, which more and more plunges into the plot, the reader reveals the topics raised in the novel. Basically, the work proves how important children's fears, and generally children's consciousness. Adult characters are not able to see manifestations It, simply because they cease to believe that atrocities may belong to a mystical monster who is difficult to even give a name. The imagination of children is much more developed, it is easier to scare a child, so children become the main target of a terrible creature, while adults continue to take care of everyday activities. Stephen King opens the familiar door with his key - with the help of the horror genre, focusing on the fact that it is a children's fantasy that can save the world.
Of course, for a horror naturally a significant number of terrible, unpleasant and truly scary moments. But some of them are not even related to the appearance of living in the sewer It. Say, the cruelty of children is described in detail, which horrifies no less than what is happening. The book so clearly contrasts good and evil that the reader understands how important true friendship is that saved the main characters in the final battle with a natural look It.
A significant advantage, both in the book and in the film, it should be noted that the characters are not faceless. Each has its own believable story and its own phobias. Let us pay attention at least to the only girl of the Club of Losers: describing certain Beverly acts, King cannot do without ordinary psychology. She married a man who has everything that scared her father so much - such a story does not seem fictitious, like the biographies of other heroes. The characters are real, and this is a huge plus of a terrible mystical book.
Staying on the adaptations, I note with what love for the old film Muschetti created his own picture. Attentiveness to the 1990 mini-series and the novel itself is embodied even in the fact that the film adaptation comes out 27 years later, as well as It in the book. The 2017 film is modernized with jokes of children, some monsters that are mentioned in the book are also removed (who are you scaring now with Frankenstein's monster or a “jaw shark”?). It is best to familiarize yourself with the two adaptations - so you can be nostalgic for the colorful shooting of the 90s and cover It with a fresh look. Well, of course, wait in September next year for the sequel “It” with the matured “Losers”.
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