What is the name of the clown from it in English. "It": Who is Pennywise
(and originally - in the novel of the same name Stephen King), is famous for its ability to take on any desired form in order to “pump out” more primal horror from the victim. It mostly stuck to the appearance of a dancing clown. Pennywise, but we also saw his other guises - in the original book the creature was reincarnated as a werewolf, a mummy, a leper and a huge bird, and the new film adaptation added another interesting image to this list, conventionally called “the lady with the flute.”
In this form, It is one of the members of the Losers Club, Stanley Urisu- Let us recall that in the novel Stan wandered onto a water tower, where he encountered drowned children. The monster from the film is a tall woman with a highly distorted face and eyes without pupils. And at the same time, it suspiciously resembles the ominous ghost from Muschietti’s previous film, . This coincidence is not accidental - both “ladies” are inspired by the drawings of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Why did Andres like these works so much?
This is a literal transfer of my personal childhood fear to the screen. I had one of Modigliani's paintings hanging in my house, which seemed very creepy to me. And the thought of meeting such a woman in reality drove me crazy.
He (Modigliani) mostly paints "elongated" versions of people. In his vision, a person may have a disproportionately long neck, a twisted face and empty eyes. Due to such deformation, the child may not see the artist’s style, but can see the real monster.
A fairly correct and responsible approach is to include your own childhood nightmare in the script of a film about a creature that feeds on fears. And “the lady with the flute” really turned out to be a memorable incarnation, no less repulsive than the Leper! Which childhood fear would you suggest as an embodiment for It?
It's back! That creepy clown named Pennywise is back - now on the big screen. After making his debut in the 1986 Stephen King novel and 1990 film adaptation. The monster has a place of honor in the pantheon of horror films.
But what is it? Where did Pennywise come from and who is he? So let's go down into the sewer; after all, we are all floating there...
DESCRIPTION
Pennywise or "It" is an all-encompassing evil of different shapes and sizes (more on this later) that appears once every 27 years in the town of Derry, Maine. His main goal is to kill children, and what's the best way to achieve this goal? That's right: become an attractive clown? Because kids just love clowns! Seriously, who ever thought that clowns weren't the embodiment of pure evil?
ABILITIES AND SKILLS
The main power is the ability to transform into anything, thereby taking on the image of whatever the current victim fears, be it an animal or something uglier and more bizarre. Increasing fear, it stalks its prey to death and then feeds on it. He also has the ability to influence memory and manipulate the body, hiding and erasing knowledge of past events that would reveal his presence and the realm of death; in particular, it is well camouflaged from adults. In its original form from the cosmic dimension Deadlights the monster can control those who see it. The concept of this formless creature was inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. After all, if space has color, then surely evil has shape...
ORIGIN AND BACKGROUND
Where did evil come from? This thing existed before the universe we now live in. Pennywise has existed from the beginning, in a reality beyond our own, along with his enemy "Turtle" or "Mathurin". Having fallen to Earth from the Macroverse (which may be Todash Darkness from the Dark Tower series) as a celestial body, the creature slept under the lands that in the future became the town of Derry. There he waited for people to come and provide him with food. After the first "feeding" he began to wake up every 27 years, remaining conscious for a year. While awake, he stalked victims, mocking them, turning into what people feared most. He ate any person, but children were more easily swayed by fears, so he ended up sticking to the juvenile diet.
Speaking of Maturin, if you really want to delve into the cosmology of the King of Terror, check out the aforementioned Dark Tower series, where you'll learn more about the role of the Turtle and It, their creation of "The Other," and the eternal struggle of opposing forces. The creature has many forms, as well as many names, so the Dancing Clown is not its only incarnation. One of the famous ones is a huge spider. The 2017 film will add two new personalities: the headless boy and Judith. In fact, the creature's gender is uncertain. To defeat him, you will have to perform the “Ritual of Chud”.
BEYOND BOOKS
Of course, Tim Curry played Pennywise perfectly for that generation of TV viewers. He played the role in the 1990 miniseries, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. The film adaptation showed the world one of the scariest clowns imaginable. The viewer really believed that this guy could tear you to pieces.
The 2017 adaptation starred Bill Skarsgård. And, surprisingly, he is very scary.
The film is already in cinemas.
Dancing Pennywise(Pennywise Dancing) is a series of parody videos based on the episode with the dancing clown Pennywise from the 2017 film “It”.
Origin
On September 7, 2017, the remake of the film “It” based on the novel by Stephen King premiered. The main villain of the film is an alien monster who takes the form of the sinister clown Pennywise.
Even before the premiere of the film at the beginning of 2017, a meme ““ appeared, based on footage from the original film. And at the beginning of February, new memes with the same character spread on the RuNet - in these pictures there is a human clown.
In the West, the hype around the remake also gave rise to a bunch of folk art. When everyone was already tired of the footage of the clown in the sewer, the Internet came up with a new entertainment.
In one of the scenes in the film, Pennywise performs a small dance for the heroine Beverly. Users turned this creepy episode into a joke, making the monster dance to a variety of music.
Even appeared on Twitter on September 12 account, which collects similar clips. Thus, footage of Pennywise dancing goes well with the song Everytime We Touch by Cascada and Hello by Pharell Williams.
But the scary clown dances best to “Mambo No. 5.” This idea was proposed by Stephen King himself, who wrote the book “It”, on which the film was based.
Gallery
Seven schoolchildren from the horror film “It”, who made up the “Losers Club” and hunted the clown Pennywise, overnight became real stars - if not Hollywood, then certainly stars of social networks. They have hundreds of thousands (and some over a million) followers on Instagram. They are just as friendly in real life as they are in the movies.
The film “It,” based on the novel by Stephen King, in which the evil terrorizing a small town appeared in the form of a clown, became one of the most successful horror films in the history of cinema, and the artists who played schoolchildren are now heroes of the media and social networks. Bill Skarsgård, who plays the clown Pennywise, received a large share of the fame. Soon after the premiere, viewers found out that he had formed a whole army of fans.
But the real stars among the film's target audience, teenagers, were the seven actors who played schoolchildren from the Losers' Club, who were pursued by Pennywise and who declared war on him. Each of them has an Instagram, and even before the premiere, thanks to smart marketing of the film, they already had quite a lot of subscribers. Now there are hundreds of thousands of them. Medialeaks looked into the accounts of these guys and tells what interesting things can be found in them.
Sophia Lillis
The actress who plays Beverly Marsh was born on February 15, 2002 in Brooklyn. Since the age of seven, she has been studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, and has been appearing on the big screen since 2014, when she made her debut in a small role in the film “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
"Hanging out with the guys."
In the book, she helped the main characters become “more friendly” and escape from the lair of a killer clown.
To bookmarks
Still from the movie "It". Photo: Warner Bros.
At the beginning of September, a new film adaptation of Stephen King’s famous book “It” opened in Russian cinemas, having already collected almost $200 million at the box office.
Viewers immediately noticed that Andres Muschietti’s film adaptation does not contain the most controversial scene of the novel. In it, the main characters, just entering puberty, have group sex. In the book, this scene plays an important role, but the authors of the film decided that today's world is not ready to see it on the big screen.
What kind of scene is this
King released the novel It in 1986, set in the summer of 1958. In the quiet town of Darry, Maine, a mysterious clown monster named Pennywise is terrorizing children. First he haunts and frightens them with visions, and then kills them.
The story revolves around seven eleven-year-old boys. Each of them encounters a monster, after which they unite in the “Losers Club” and decide to defeat it. Among the heroes there is only one girl - red-haired Beverly Marsh, who is liked by each of the boys. They are all bosom friends.
To find the monster, the guys go into the sewers, where Pennywise is supposedly hiding. After fighting the monster and forcing him to stop killing for a while, the children try to return home. Halfway there, they realize they are lost and begin to panic.
Beverly Marsh in the 2017 film It. Photo: Warner Bros.
Feeling the despair of her friends, Beverly decides to support them: she undresses and begins to seduce boys. Each of them loses their virginity to her, after which one remembers leaving the sewer. They make it safely to the surface, bound by a common memory of what happened.
The sex scene takes up several pages. King describes in detail the sex, awkwardness and embarrassment of the characters. Some of the boys refuse at first and agree only after persuasion. In the book, Beverly also loses her virginity in the sewer.
How they treat her
After the novel's release, the child group sex scene generated mixed opinions. Someone believed that in this way King symbolized the friendly bond between the heroes, who in the future, when the monster returns, will need to get together again.
Many are of the opinion that a resonant scene has no place in literature that children can read (in Russia, the novel “It” has a rating of 16+). There are also more radical versions that present Stephen King as a person with a penchant for pedophilia and homophobia.
Another scene from the novel is connected with the last accusation. Shortly before group sex, Beverly accidentally witnesses a homosexual relationship between two high school students, enemies of her friends. One of them masturbated to the other and offered oral sex.
The main characters of the mini-series “It” released in 1990. Photo: Warner Bros.
At first the girl reacts to what she sees with disgust, but later wonders if she can also hold the “thing” of her “loser” friend.
Some of King's readers have interpreted this passage as the author's position. Allegedly, he deliberately described homosexual relationships between the enemies of the “losers” in order to arouse disgust for gays in the reader. After all, Beverly, unlike the high school students, chose heterosexual relationships.
Although King did not give a direct response to these accusations, his attitude towards homosexual couples, whatever it may be, does not prevent the writer from having an excellent relationship with his daughter Naomi, an open lesbian.
Why did the authors of the film adaptations cut out this scene?
Scenes of teen masturbation and an orgy in a sewer are missing from both the 1990 and 2017 versions of the novel. In Tommy Lee Wallace's mini-series, after temporarily defeating the monster, the children do not get lost in the sewers, but immediately find themselves on the surface.
The new film adaptation has a slightly different situation. The film's main screenwriter, Gary Dauberman, wrote the plot based on sketches by Cary Fukunaga, director of the first season of the TV series True Detective. He worked on the original version of the It storyline, but later because he did not want to make a “second-rate horror film.”
Dauberman explained that they decided not to add a resonant scene, as it might be perceived incorrectly in 2017.
This is one of those scenes that everyone remembers and is ashamed of. Although this is a very important passage, it should not be considered the defining part of the book. We know what the point of that scene was and why he [Stephen King] added it, and we tried to implement that same message in a different way.
Gary Dauberman
Screenwriter of the film "It"
To avoid shocking audiences, Fukunaga suggested including a milder version of the sewer scene in the film. After a collision with a monster, the heroes were lost. To calm and support the boys, Beverly took each of their faces in her hands and thus encouraged them (as in the book, all boys like girls).
This scene is missing from the released version of the film. At the same time, during the course of the plot, it is emphasized several times that Beverly is not shy about showing her sexuality. For example, she wears her underwear in front of her friends or flirts with random people for her own purposes. Despite this, she acts like a child and does not show any sexual intentions.
