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*POSSIBLE BOOK AND MOVIE SPOILERS FOR VARIOUS STEPHEN KING STUFF AHEAD*
Quote: Originally posted by sam-chan
Dont see the film, but read the book... Thanks
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The film wasn't
too bad, I believe that Tim Curry did a fabulous Pennywise. Plus crazy Stephen King fanatics like me have a base look for the clown now when we want to build something in its likeness. The only real downside to the film was the low budget, as evidenced in the final battle. Speaking of which...
Quote: Originally posted by IluvSimsxp
Pennywise I never was sure what Pennywise was in the Movie he looked like a gaint spider in his lair. Never read the book anybody know what he was did the book tell?
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It's been a while since I read it, but I'll tell you all that I remember. The kids at one point used an old Indian ritual involving smoke to witness the Origin of IT, which still left a good deal of questions unanswered. It turns out that IT came to earth during the age of the dinosaurs in a device that looked suspiciously like a meteor. This raises the possibility that IT
might have been the true reason why the big lizards died out. It doesn't explain
why IT came to earth, but chances are it's the same reason as many alien beings in these types of stories: looking for more food and resources after wringing the last planet dry. Some also have also considered the idea that IT came to earth with the Tommyknockers, another alien race made by King, but this comes into question when some of the Tommyknockers actually see Pennywise and believe that they were just having delusions.
Now on to what Pennywise looks like in the book. He did indeed look like a giant spider/scorpion thing, but if I recall correctly the book heavily stressed that it wasn't his
true unaltered form. The "Big ass bug thing" appearance was something the human mind used as a mental shield of sorts, used against a form so terrible and alien that even trying to conceive it's appearance would be the equivalent of setting a cherry bomb off in your brain. But if he wanted to IT could use this to his advantage, revealing his unaltered form to his victims using the "Deadlights". Oh yeah, and in the book IT didn't look like paper mache.
I always hated it when the elderly used to pinch my cheeks at weddings and say "You're next!". That all stopped when I started saying it to them at funerals.