Hopes and dreams for the newly announced IT film adaptation.

[César Hernández-Meraz]

and they can cut most of bill's personal ending, or maybe come up with something different. i always thought the bike ride revives audra thing was a little strange and kind of off, not sure it translates all that well.

Actually, I think that is one of the things that would translate very well, but it would need a director that remembers what it is to be kids. Think of the movies with kid protagonists Steven Spielberg created in the 80s. Heck, not only his, but many fantasy-mixed-with-reality movies from the 80s, like The Neverending Story.

The whole book is constantly telling us how this belief we have when we are kids and lose as we grow up is very powerful. We see how that is what ultimately defeats It and saves the portagonists. The whole point of the first day back at Derry was to try to reconnect to that.

We see it when Bill is contrasted to the kid who could so easily kill himself or someone else when riding his skateboard in the street. Bill used to do that, "knowing" he was immortal. Now that he is older, he knows he is not immortal at all, and the possible consequences of riding at that speed stop him from doing it.

This same belief that he can beat the devil just by riding at full speed is exactly the thing the book was going for during more than one thousand pages, and it has worked so well is so many movies (we have to open our inner kid's mind when watching them, a closed, cynical mind would not help us enjoy this or many other movies).

I am actually surprised you said that part was off for you.

 

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Actually, I think that is one of the things that would translate very well, but it would need a director that remembers what it is to be kids. Think of the movies with kid protagonists Steven Spielberg created in the 80s. Heck, not only his, but many fantasy-mixed-with-reality movies from the 80s, like The Neverending Story.

The whole book is constantly telling us how this belief we have when we are kids and lose as we grow up is very powerful. We see how that is what ultimately defeats It and saves the portagonists. The whole point of the first day back at Derry was to try to reconnect to that.

We see it when Bill is contrasted to the kid who could so easily kill himself or someone else when riding his skateboard in the street. Bill used to do that, "knowing" he was immortal. Now that he is older, he knows he is not immortal at all, and the possible consequences of riding at that speed stop him from doing it.

This same belief that he can beat the devil just by riding at full speed is exactly the thing the book was going for during more than one thousand pages, and it has worked so well is so many movies (we have to open our inner kid's mind when watching them, a closed, cynical mind would not help us enjoy this or many other movies).

I am actually surprised you said that part was off for you.

i mean, i get the concept, and i don't disagree with it, but as a tool for awakening audra it was a bit weird

 

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I find it annoying when I find film stuff in the book section cause I do not watch tv or movies. lol

 

[César Hernández-Meraz]

i mean, i get the concept, and i don't disagree with it, but as a tool for awakening audra it was a bit weird

My point is that it would be the only way it would work. Any "logical" and "adult" way would not have awakened Audra's soul.