So the scene where Eddie is talking to his pharmacist (who is really pennywise) and he tells him the asthma medicine is just flavored water that tastes like medicine and doesn't really do anything, eddies asthma is just in his head. Did Pennywise tell him that so he wouldn't carry his inhaler around cause he knew eddie would use it as a weapon against him? And also along with that, why is it an effective weapon against him?
shareI disagree that the pharmacist was Pennywise. Mr. Keene, I believe, cared about his customers, and he knew the medicine was just a placebo. Hydrox: hydrogen and oxygen: water, with a little camphor mixed in to make it smell like medicine.
In the book, young Eddie seriously considered what Mr. Keene had said. If it was really medicine, why would the label say "Use as needed," when even aspirin labels limit how much you can take?
No, that wasn't Pennywise, it was Mr. Keene the pharmacist.
As for using it as a weapon against Pennywise, it was all about belief. Eddie said that it was battery acid, and Pennywise believed him.
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I agree. I think he actually felt sorry for the kid. I think Eddie's problem was his mother and a touch of anxiety. His mom had him on pins and needles all the time. I'm sure if he even sniffed too loudly he was put in bed for a week. He probably feared his mom as much as he did Pennywise.
shareHaha he wasn't Pennywise all along, he just possessed Mr Keene for those few seconds to scare Eddie.
shareAs others have said, Mr. Keene was not IT and seemed to be one of the few people around town who were above IT's spell, at least at that point. He helps out Eddie when Eddie was old enough to understand what was happening with the medicine thing.
shareThe power of belief and imagination is a big theme that runs throughout the book.This scene establishes the what the mind is capable of and gives the kids the tools to defeat Pennywise. It's not what they do that defeats IT, it's what they believe they are doing.
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Yeah, Keene wasn't It. He honestly thought he was helping Eddie, or at least trying to. The problem is that he came on a bit too strong. Eddie was old enough to understand, sure, but not old enough yet to shake off his mother's influence. Plus, as I recall, he even referred to Eddie's problem as being "mental weakness" or something like that. Not exactly the best way to inspire confidence. I think he meant well, he just totally screwed up his approach.
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Mr. Keene came across as a lot nicer in the miniseries than in the book. Even in the book I think he was ultimately trying to help Eddie by telling him, but part of him also got a perverse sort of pleasure out of the mindfûck he knew he was laying on the kid. The scene in the book where Mr. Keene tells Eddie the truth about HydrOx mist was pretty intense.
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I doubt it...Mr. Keene the pharmacist really did seem to care about Eddie. He hated the way Eddie's doctor gave into his mother's insanity when the doctor knew Eddie did not actually have asthma.....I think he just wanted Eddie to know the truth and felt at age 11 (soon to be 12), he was ready to hear it....
shareNot really an answer to your question but just here to pick a nit that the 90's inhaler he's using would not have been around in the 60's. The analgizer was introduced in 1968 and looked like this https://goo.gl/images/odMAS8
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