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The 1990ITtwo - part miniseries did some thing much better than the 2017 film version and its 2019 subsequence . The original level comes from the 1986 horror novel by genre masterStephen King . The plot centers on seven champion ( the Losers Club ) populate in the fictional town of Derry , Maine . They are stalk by an malign entity , " IT " , that uses their bad fears against them . Most of the time , particularly when the Losers are children , IT have the manakin of Pennywise the Dancing Clown .
The book is told though the points of view of each supporter — Bill , Beverly , Richie , Stanley , Eddie , Ben , and Mike — and alternate between two time period , their childhoods and adulthoods . While both the miniseries and the modern movie versions are based upon this same story , they often portray scenes and characters in unlike way , with the former staying truer to its informant material . Plus , the miniseries take plaza in the ‘ 50s and the ‘ 80s , as does the book , while the motion-picture show are set in the ‘ 80 and in 2016 .
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The 1990 miniseries based on King ’s far-famed Bible was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace , while 2017’sITand 2019’sIt Chapter Twowere directed by Andy Muschietti . The former certainly does a good job of convey the slow - paced dread that King publish into the volume ; the whole clip , the viewer has an nervous notion , dread Pennywise ’s reappearance . The movie versions , meanwhile , incline to opt for leap scare and tight , peril - filled aspect . This might be partially due tothe portrayals of Pennywise . In the miniseries , Tim Curry play him as a ostensibly normal clown who can well and calmly use his words to master thing , while in the moving-picture show , Bill Skarsgard ’s Pennywise is portrayed as more alien - similar and unremarkably hem in by special effects . Overall , the miniseries did more with less , relying on eery talks and childlike makeup rather than CGI scares .
IT: What The 1990 Miniseries Did BETTER Than The Movies
One major matter the 1990 miniseries does better is its depiction ofHenry Bowers , the Derry rowdy . In the book , Henry is a in full fleshed out character ; lector get to understand his life and see the reason for his cruelty . The miniseries dives a bit into this version of Henry , but the movies do n’t . They only show Bowers as a violent , angry bully , then later as a regretful , deplorable Word — without evidence the full arc in between . Also , the moving picture do n’t fully excuse why IT end up rely on Henry to endeavor to drink down the Losers .
Another big fictional character change made in Muschietti’smovies — Mike Hanlon has a small office . In the book , though , Mike is a huge part of the story , going on to search and pen a book about IT and , as an adult , become the Derry town historiographer . Mike recount a good chunk of the book , and he ’s the one who summons all of the Losers to revert to Derry as adults . This is all portrayed dependably in the 1990 miniseries . In the 2017 pic , it was Ben who takes on the role of the researcher . In the 2019 sequel , viewer check that Mike ’s parent were drug junky who break down in a fire — a backstory that ’s treasonous to the book and , asSlatereported , has racist undertones .
Overall , theITminiseries from 1990 is the Graeco-Roman telling of the King story that has popularized the scary clown trope . The 2017 flick and its 2019 subsequence were strong in their own shipway — the filming , casting , and dialogue being just some of those strengths — but overall , it ’s the older version that people remember . The movies seem to be aware of this , too , as the filmmakers used it as a acknowledgment , and even paid court to it in various ways ; there ’s adoll replicaof Curry ’s Pennywise inChapter One , anda cameo from Brandon Crane , who played young Ben in the miniseries .
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