So, the losers are walking around town, waiting for IT to come to them, and horrible memories to be unearthed. These sections are relatively short, but packed full of prose and psychological baggage. Let's get crackin'!
Ben goes to the Library, the site of his positive (but solo) childhood memories. There's a lot of musing over the passage of time and how Ben now feels like an outsider before Pennywise shows up.
This scene plays a bit like the one in the mini series, despite Ritchie (for some reason) taking Ben's place.
Curry's Pennywise is spot on. What they don't get into is him becoming Dracula (hey, there's another Universal monster form I referenced before!). Ben is also not dumb enough to reply to Pennywise's taunts and come-hither words aloud. Also, there's no cloud of balloons, just one that constantly changes slogans.
Ben's holy ground being fouled by Pennywise, and by Dracula the unholiest of the Universal Monsters, isn't exactly deep, but it gets the job done.
What's more important is Pennywise's insistence (repeated insistence) that the Losers cannot stop him, as they're too old, and he will kill them if they try. These threats were present during the Loser's childhoods, but it wasn't insistant: IT was just telling them a fact. This time IT knows IT can be hurt, and the people that hurt IT have returned. IT is angry, and IT is sure...but not completely.
IT is scared. Not much, but the fact that IT can even feel fear is amazing. We'll get more on that later, when King delves into IT's mind.
IT uses a few more taunts, screaming that Ben killed the kids (of course, nobody else can hear), doing one of Ritchie's voices, etc. IT even offers to talk it out with Ben, as the library is neutral ground. I'm sure if Ben went up Pennywise would have simply pushed him over the railing, but it's still weird that IT even offered. Out of character is serious business: IT is spooked.
Next we'll walk with Eddie to a baseball diamond, and meet a few old horrors from his past.
SPOILERS
Ben goes to the Library, the site of his positive (but solo) childhood memories. There's a lot of musing over the passage of time and how Ben now feels like an outsider before Pennywise shows up.
This scene plays a bit like the one in the mini series, despite Ritchie (for some reason) taking Ben's place.
Curry's Pennywise is spot on. What they don't get into is him becoming Dracula (hey, there's another Universal monster form I referenced before!). Ben is also not dumb enough to reply to Pennywise's taunts and come-hither words aloud. Also, there's no cloud of balloons, just one that constantly changes slogans.
Ben's holy ground being fouled by Pennywise, and by Dracula the unholiest of the Universal Monsters, isn't exactly deep, but it gets the job done.
What's more important is Pennywise's insistence (repeated insistence) that the Losers cannot stop him, as they're too old, and he will kill them if they try. These threats were present during the Loser's childhoods, but it wasn't insistant: IT was just telling them a fact. This time IT knows IT can be hurt, and the people that hurt IT have returned. IT is angry, and IT is sure...but not completely.
IT is scared. Not much, but the fact that IT can even feel fear is amazing. We'll get more on that later, when King delves into IT's mind.
IT uses a few more taunts, screaming that Ben killed the kids (of course, nobody else can hear), doing one of Ritchie's voices, etc. IT even offers to talk it out with Ben, as the library is neutral ground. I'm sure if Ben went up Pennywise would have simply pushed him over the railing, but it's still weird that IT even offered. Out of character is serious business: IT is spooked.
SAFE
Next we'll walk with Eddie to a baseball diamond, and meet a few old horrors from his past.
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