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Child characters are about finding one's place in the world, while adult characters are about understanding one's place in the world.
I genuinely enjoyed this movie. This film isn't trying to be scary; it's aiming to be ridiculous with its outlandish circumstances.
The movie is about how adults help.
The kid characters in this movie, the Losers, begin as being menaces; they are cruelly mean to each other and are unnecessarily nuisances to each other. Each Loser has an unconventional yet _. The acting in this movie is "off". It feels like
Bill has speech disfluency. Beverly has everyone thinking she had sex with many boys in the past, as well as having her father get mad when she doesn't act as his "little girl" by doing "womanly" things like buying feminine products, he also gets mad that she's part of a friend group of just boys and she's the only girl. Ben is the "new kid" who gets bullied for being chubby. Eddie has very bad asthma, and his mother has it too. Sophia Lillis (Beverly) and Finn Wolfhard (Richie) are two of the best child actors. Both of them have an equally difficult attachment to them, Lillis having to _, and Wolfhard having to tell lots of obnoxious sex jokes that are uncomfortable to hear when spoken by a middle schooler. Wolfhard has a lot of natural charisma as an actor for the role, but he occasionally stumbles over his lines or seems to rush through them. Lillis is the best child actor in the movie, probably because her character doesn't have the same type of awkwardness as the rest. She has a lot going on inside, a lot of sadness, a lot of fear, a lot of negative emotions. That is just such a rich performance where you can see that through slight mannerisms, where she's not reacting because it's not that she's a bad actress, but because her character doesn't show her emotion.
Being a good child actor and giving a good child acting performance is very different from being a good adult actor and giving a good adult acting performance. Kid performances have a natural response that's less about covering up; adults respond in dishonest ways, and children haven't developed that yet. Timidness and stuttering are part of how children speak rather than how adults speak. Children feel more fear than adults. Romance at a young age differs greatly from romance at an older age. Children also improve as the filming continues, becoming more comfortable. They find security and they find solving as a way to escape their lives. Classic Americana.
They are affected by Pennywise's haunting. The characters with _ traits abandon them by the end of the movie. I can't blame the kids for having "off" performances because it's how their characters are written, and the director's fault. In their other performances, filmed either before or shortly after this one, they don't exhibit faltering speech problems. Jack Dylan Grazer's other performances are just the
The film's opening attempts to establish the movie's tone and atmosphere, but it fails. The scene of the two brothers bonding
The scene where Pennywise eats Georgie is poorly directed.
Pennywise's depiction is very good. The first thing that stands out about Pennywise in this movie is his amber eyes, each eye looking like it belongs to two separate people as his right eye's pupil is looking directly at Georgie, but his left eye's pupil is not. This is because the white of the eye (not the sclera) of his right eye has the pupil behind it, but the white of the eye in his left eye does not. Also, each Iris, while both amber, looks as if they are eyes from two different people with amber eyes. He also makes a low growling sound. The voice that Bill Skarsgård puts on for Pennywise is trying to sound happy and high-pitched. He achieves this by projecting the voice, likely keeping his jaw very still, a little bit open, and not moving, while the center of his tongue is used to speak rather than the front. This is all while everything but his eyes is covered in black. He moves forward, and his eyes have the same look to them, but instead, they look ocean blue instead of amber. We see his skin is hard and white, looking like melted chalk that was painted on him instead of face paint. His lips are also dark blood red, and he's wearing some big white thing that looks like it's from a time period around the parts of him we can see, his neck with the white thing around his neck and his sleeve cuffs (can't see his hands) holding the paper boat. Skarsgård also then very slightly changes his voice to sound a little raspier but happy in one phrase of his dialogue. His voice then changes to a gruffer tone, yet he remains happy. It then becomes a little happier, not growly. It then becomes a little grolier. Then it goes back to being raspier. It then becomes growly and raspy. During this, Skarsgård either has his mouth smiling, showing his teeth, or in a pouty lip pose. His eyes also stay in one position the entire time.
