Author| Gyro Fanda Ke
The film "Walk with Me" adapted from Stephen King's novella "The Corpse" is a classic of youth friendship and growth in the minds of many fans. However, whether it is the original work or the movie, what impresses me the most is not how pure youth friendship is. Beautiful, but Stephen King portrays the evils of the adult world from the perspective of a teenager. In the story, the male protagonist is ignored by selfish and eccentric parents because of the death of his brother, while the boy played by Ruifan Phoenix was framed for theft by his teacher because of his infamous family. The "corpse" of the four children traveling long distances to find out is more like a metaphor. The cruel reality from the adult world.
Youth pain literature can easily be written as a horrible bullshit, but Stephen King’s youth story can always capture the struggle between the simplicity of adolescence and the cruelty of the real world. Soul is a perfect restoration of the confrontation described by Stephen King.
In the original book, Stephen King set the villain of "Joker" as "evil spirit", but used the identity of the clown. "It" is found in the sewers of the small town of Delhi. In contrast to the fact that clowns bring laughter to people in reality, "it" specifically brings fear. This is why "it" targets children who are more likely to be afraid. In front of different children, it is the most feared image of every child. The new version of "Return to the Clown" respects the original work very much.
The protagonist Bill was severely stuttering, especially after his young brother disappeared. His parents were also in a trance all day because of the loss of their youngest son. They completely ignored Bill's growth. This setting is actually the same as the male in "Walk with Me". The protagonist is exactly the same. Bill firmly believes that his brother's disappearance is related to the clown, and he is also the bravest and most determined person in the entire Loser team to fight the clown to the end.
The heroine Beverly, like many American girls, looks not much more mature than boys of the same age in appearance. However, she was labeled as a "soo girl" at school. Everyone is rumoring that she had sex with countless boys. She was also excluded and bullied by schoolgirls. But in fact, Beverly only kissed a boy, and she suffered from domestic violence and sexual harassment by her single alcoholic father for a long time.
Little Fatty Ben moved to the small town of Delhi with his parents. He is a newcomer to the school. He doesn't know anyone or friends. He spends a long time in the library and has a keen interest in architecture. Due to his fat body and a single figure, he is often bullied by the school bully Henry Bowers' gang.
The little boy who plays Richie happens to be the hero of "Stranger Things", and the film is even more like the horror version of "Stranger Things." Richie's family is not shown in the movie. He is also the only character among the protagonists who hasn't seen "it" or encountered any horror in the early stage, probably because the most feared one in the world happens to be the clown. Richie's characteristic is that she is very chatty, her mouth is very broken, she likes to imitate celebrities, and running trains with her mouth full is full of dirty jokes.
Mike is the only black character in the film. Even if the new version of "The Clown" changes the background from the 50s to the 80s, racial discrimination and exclusion still apply in small American towns. So Mike, who watched his parents burned to death, always thought he was an "outsider." He taught himself at home and didn't go to school. He was herding sheep with his grandfather on the ranch outside the town. The campus bully Henry Bowers group will let him get out of Delhi as soon as they see him.
Eddie has had asthma since he was a child, at least his mother told him that. His mother also told Eddie that he was frail and sick, and that he had to stay at home often and take medicine regularly. So Eddie is afraid of everything with bacteria and diseases, even a little like obsessive-compulsive disorder. However, Eddie later learned that everything was a lie of her mother's overspoiling him, and that the medicines he took were just ordinary vitamins.
When I watched the new version of "Recall" for the first time before reading the original, I always thought Stanley would be Gay when he grew up. He is a Jew in the Loser group, and he is the most elegant in dress and behavior. His father was a Jewish rabbi, and he put a lot of pressure on Stanley in religious education. Stanley is also the timidest of the Loser group. What he fears most is a distorted portrait of a woman in the library on the second floor of the synagogue.
Stephen King's original book "It" tells the story of the "Loser Club" formed by these children in the small town of Delhi in the 1950s against the scary clowns, and 27 years later they returned to the town again. In 1991, the TV movie "Return to the Clown", adapted from the original book, squeezed the content of the entire novel, and drastically deleted the story of the boyhood 27 years ago, focusing on the adult part 27 years later. .
And this year’s new version of "Return to the Clown" follows the retro wave of the 1980s set off by "It's Behind" and "Stranger Things". It tells about the teenage years and puts the adult part after 27 years in the sequel to be released in 2019. In this way, the new version of "The Clown's Recall", leaving the adult part aside, has become a purer Stephen Gold story of dark youth.
Therefore, it can be said that the new version of "Return to the Clown" is not a pure horror film. Its shocking horror scenes are not new or even completely immune to today’s audiences. The horror images in the film are all The projection of the child's own inner fears, therefore, has a sense of fun of a dark fairy tale instead of a Wen Ziren's adult nightmare.
Like Stephen King’s other juvenile stories, the protagonists of "Return to the Clown" are also a group of teenagers who are regarded as "Loser". The family problems of each of them, or the "crime and cruel reality of the adult world", are more or less. At least it had an impact on their growth, and even became a shadow of their psychology. Therefore, the real outstanding feature of the new version of "Return to the Clown" is that it captures the youthful atmosphere of the 1980s. The outstanding young actors vividly presented these characters, which made the audience quickly like these children. Began to care about how their story will develop.
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