So, we finally see Big Bill rediscover his roots (or at least unearth a few more). This is another situation where the mini-series is 100% wrong, so...
Bill doesn't even SEE IT, despite calling down into a sewer. He talks to a few kids, and finds/buys his old bike, Silver.
There's a really great segment when Bill is warning a few kids away from the unsafe bits of Derry where a child describes another kid's IT sighting: he saw a gigantic shark fin, 8-9 feet tall, in the local river, and nearly got eaten by a megalodon-sized Jaws.
It's another in the long-line of Universal movie monsters that IT has taken the shape of: We've had Jaws, the mummy, the creature from the black lagoon, and the werewolf. I love that classic and modern horror are embraced by both King and IT.
Bill finding Silver triggers a very important line: "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts." Bill doesn't yet recall that this phrase was a vocal exercise that he consistently failed, except at one key moment of his childhood.
But more on that later.
Next time, more with Derry's favorite historian, Mike Hanlon.
On a side note, 42 years of Jaws! Hooray! Enjoy this video about all the deaths across the 4 movies:
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Bill doesn't even SEE IT, despite calling down into a sewer. He talks to a few kids, and finds/buys his old bike, Silver.
There's a really great segment when Bill is warning a few kids away from the unsafe bits of Derry where a child describes another kid's IT sighting: he saw a gigantic shark fin, 8-9 feet tall, in the local river, and nearly got eaten by a megalodon-sized Jaws.
It's another in the long-line of Universal movie monsters that IT has taken the shape of: We've had Jaws, the mummy, the creature from the black lagoon, and the werewolf. I love that classic and modern horror are embraced by both King and IT.
Bill finding Silver triggers a very important line: "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts." Bill doesn't yet recall that this phrase was a vocal exercise that he consistently failed, except at one key moment of his childhood.
But more on that later.
SAFE.
Next time, more with Derry's favorite historian, Mike Hanlon.
On a side note, 42 years of Jaws! Hooray! Enjoy this video about all the deaths across the 4 movies:
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