heard that this movie is going to be released a month ago. I saw the trailer. The children’s group, the clown, and Stephen King’s keywords and the trailer are all very attractive, so I found out what was unexpected I read a very long original, and then I went to see the movie on the first day it was released, and briefly talk about the major differences between the movie and the original.
The beginning of the original book is very fascinating. It first describes several tragedies that have occurred in the past and the present. The little boy who went out to play was torn off his arm by something and died tragically. High-profile homosexual couples are persecuted by residents, and children continue to disappear. All this happened in a small place called Delhi.
Immediately after the plot turn, the author described the lives of six adults. They have completely different appearances and personalities, but they are all outstanding in their respective chosen fields. However, their glamorous appearances hide some faintly disturbing things. The vaguely remembered childhood is like a huge lingering magnet, shaping their personality and the way of dealing with others, causing them to perform some weird behaviors. . They are exceptionally talented and lucky. They seem to live happily and are in high positions, but their closest partners and friends still observe the flaws in their personality, their most feared nightmare, the fact that they all have no children, and they seem to have no children. The past that can never be put down.
It happened. After a mysterious call, one of the six people committed suicide in the bathroom without warning, leaving a message "It". The other five people went crazy and left their current lives and started to go to a place: They The town where I lived in my childhood, Delhi.
Why do they do this? What happened to them when they were young? The original book uses flashbacks to tell the story, allowing the protagonists to recall the mysterious and forgotten past when they return to their hometown to meet their friends. The movie tells the story of their childhood in order. It is conceivable that the story is not over yet, and the story of the adult group should be on the screen in the next movie.
I went to watch this movie with a friend who really likes watching thrillers and horror movies. We have also watched a few movies together before. Whether it’s a commercial or a literary movie, she didn’t have any reaction after watching it, only this time she went through the whole process. He covered his mouth, discussed the plot excitedly after the end, and said "good-looking!" sincerely many times. After the movie ended, the words "Chapter One" were typed on the screen. My friend was very excited and expressed his eagerness to watch the second one.
Personally, I don't really like to watch horror movies. I think I can satisfy my countless friends who read movies. First of all, the movie is very horrible. There are psychologically horrifying bridges that use the reflection on the door to scare people, and there are also physiologically uncomfortable shots such as layered blood basins and mouths. We sat in the front row of the movie theater, and the surround sound sound effect made the atmosphere. Even more terrifying, there are several shots that are very shocking, such as the scene where all the corpses are floating in the air, such as the scene of the clown crawling out of the cabinet, people can't feel that this is a low-cost film.
Just like in the book, the movie takes turns to take pictures of the scary things that the protagonists will see when they encounter clowns. (Know that the reason why the book is so long is that the author explains the experiences of the seven protagonists in almost the same pen and ink. Once again...) After two or three people, everyone was mentally prepared. Seeing that it was about to start scaring again, someone in the theater couldn't help but shout No, and couldn't help but laugh.
One thing that is good is that the director added some funny scenes that are not in the book in the horror scenes. For example, when Billy and Richard wanted to escape, they found three doors in front of them, with the words "not terrible", "terrible" and "super terrible". (I can't remember it), the two unanimously chose to open the door of "not terrible" and found that there was a screaming female corpse with only half left...
"It" can become the most feared appearance in the human subconscious, as in the book What's different is that many of the protagonists' fears are changed in the movie. For example, in the book Richard was afraid of the werewolf in the movie he saw in the movie theater, and canceled the movie scene in the movie, so what Li saw became the appearance of his own death. In the book, Stan was afraid of what he heard in the rumors, and the person who fell into the water tower and died became afraid of the portrait of a weird woman in his father's study in the movie. I think these adaptations are very suitable. Everyone can feel the same with the setting of the weird portrait, and the adaptation will not have a great impact on the plot.
However, there is a major change. Black Mike’s psychological shadow has become his parents who died in the fire, while the book contains the big bird who attacked him when he was infancy. I don’t know if this adaptation will change the plot afterwards. After all, the parents Mike's personality may also change a bit. The Mike in the book is the only one who did not leave Delhi and later became the director of the library. And the muscular appearance in the movie is a bit difficult to connect to the library...
I am not satisfied with the adaptation of the movie, that is, the protagonist group's early confrontation with the clown is basically reduced to zero. In the movie, the children basically escape by luck when they face the clown for the first time. For example, a passerby suddenly appears next to him, or he finds the sun, closes the door, and then it is all right. It seems that the clown’s ability is very weak, as if just Want to scare them. In the small climax, when everyone went to the clown base camp to find it, they had no plan, and went rashly. After going there, they made common mistakes in horror movies and scattered their actions, which made people anxious and angry.
In fact, in the book, the children flee desperately, relying on their own will and some weapons to repel "it", such as Eddie’s asthma spray. When facing the leper clown, he found that the spray can stop the clown from acting. For example, in Stanley's Bird Book, when the clown turned into a strange bird, Stanley shouted "I know you are not real" and the name of the bird blocked the clown. When the protagonists went to the haunted house to find the clown, they wanted to kill him, so they carefully prepared a bullet made of silver, and all of them entered the house, and finally united and wounded the clown. The weapons prepared by the children are actually not very lethal, but they can repel the clown, which shows that the clown itself relies on the fear and darkness in the human heart to act, and firmly believes that the courage and the pure heart of the children make the tiny tools too. Being able to exert tremendous power, it was even more pavement for them to completely defeat the clown by relying on spiritual confrontation.
The movie may think that these branches are too messy and cut off all, halfway to create the group's transition from division to unity, it has also done a bit extreme, and the attacks on the clowns in the final battle are basically physical. This makes me wonder if the movie intends to cut off the angle of spiritual confrontation, so that the next movie will completely defeat the clown with physical attacks and unity of everyone.
Apart from the horror, the children's campus life is also very happy. The role selection is so good, the little protagonists have their own characteristics, and the little actors of Billy and Beverly are so good-looking! Eddie and Richard are also very eye-catching. Most of the laughs in the original work come from Richard’s mouth shots. There is not much emphasis in the movie. The laughs are more focused on the troubles of boys and girls growing up. We play in the water together. The scenes of is so beautiful, I have begun to hope that these little actors can come back to guest appearances in the next movie...
The actor of the villain Henry is exactly the same as I imagined! The fact that his father is a policeman is also an adaptation of the movie. The unexplained disappearance of Henry at the end made my friend feel that it was a flaw in the film. It would be nice if I could come up with an Easter egg at the end and say that he was not dead or anything.
There are many adaptations of the film about Beverly. Buying hygiene products and flirting with pharmacists presents a more mature image. The episode where she was captured is entirely the experience of Billy's future wife in the book, and I don't know if the plot will be played again in the next part. Ben's kiss awakened her. Does it imply that the two of them are true love in the original book? I guess that audiences who have only watched this movie will basically support the relationship between Billy and Beverly. I don't know if the screenwriter deliberately wants to change the relationship.
Other details, such as in order to show their split state, make the teenagers other than Billy and Beverly seem not courageous enough. Or in order to highlight the image of Billy's protagonist, some lines and actions that belonged to other people were moved to Billy, which is also a bit regrettable.
But in general, the film's adaptation of the original is basically acceptable, and it has become a more complete, more commercialized film with a lower threshold for audiences. It is good for those who are interested in watching the film to watch the original.
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