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Questions after seeing IT (2017) (spoilers)

posted 7 years ago by [deleted]
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1. Did Beverly kill her father? She mentioned how he died when she saw the future when she was in IT's deadlights, but I thought she did a fatal injury to her father in the bathroom, he was certainly bleeding badly.

2. I thought Mike was the town historian and Ben the architect, building their dam in the Barrens as they did (or is that a miniseries alteration?).

3. In this movie, Henry Bowers apparently is knocked down the well and is never seen again. Didn't he see IT's deadlights, go insane and have his hair turn white and end up in a lunatic asylum?

4. When IT covers Bev's bathroom in blood, in the miniseries the rest of the Losers help out in cleaning it up so it never comes back, but here, Richie is left outside as lookout. Didn't it take all of them to drive IT away from doing that?

That's all for now, I think I have more, if I can remember them.

[–] GhostHeart (24) 7 years ago

I'm unsure if you want answers based on the novel or just trying to extrapolate from the movie, but I'll try my best to answer these. I've read the book, and have seen both the miniseries and got back an hour ago from seeing the movie.

1) I'm unsure what she said about her father in regards to her vision, if anything. I'd need to watch it again, as it seems I missed that, but it seemed like a pretty fatal head-hit to me, though head wounds bleed a lot, so it's up in the air.

2) Yeah, in the book and the miniseries Mike is the historian-lite, and Ben is an architect. Obviously they wanted to make Ben infinitely more interesting than Mike in this version, since they handed that off to Ben for some reason. But no, it wasn't a miniseries alteration, that's how it was in the novel.

3) Yeah, that's the basics of Henry's story in the novel. One could argue that It used it's abilities to somehow help Henry to survive to take the blame for the murders, but we'll not know into part two.

4) You're right that all of they helped to clean it in the novel and miniseries. This adaptation lost a lot of the 'magic of friendship' stuff that was in the book, so maybe they figured it was good enough to just have five of her friends help clean up the bathroom.

I'm unsure how good those answers were, but yeah, basically most of those are original things from the book that this version decided for one reason or another to change.

[–] bobbydallas (8681) 7 years ago

I was totally turned off about Ben having the historian-research role. It didn't make much sense because it means Mike's only role in the losers club was to provide the bolt pistol?! In the book Mike *completes* the losers club with his knowledge so not sure what the writers were thinking there....