haven't seen the movie yet, but what bothers me a bit is how young the pennywise actor is (27).
i would have expected a middle aged man. tim curry was 44 when he played the role in the tv adaption. now we have a pennywise who's almost still a kid himself. does that make sense?
I think he uses his youth to his advantage. He acts a little immature like a clown might but also like a child would. It really adds to the creep factor. I haven't seen the Tim Curry version in action but I think the new Bill Skarsgård performance is a worthy successor. He's different.
shareI agree, there is no age description of the clown in the book, even so Tim Curry played to perfection this pennywise was kind of cute at a time with he's front teeth resembling a rabbit then Got really scary for different reason
shareYeah, they really drew attention to the teeth in that first scene (or that's where my eyes went). They weren't necessarily scary just dirty and rabbity like you say.
shareI don't see a problem with it. He's something that doesn't really age like humans, especially since if I understood the history correctly of IT/Pennywise from the novel, he's been around since those 7 days God was creating Earth. Or something like that, but the pattern/record of him popping up and feeding on people (mainly children) only goes back a few hundred years. And Pennywise is just one of the forms the creature has. So when the kids get older, he can still appear young to them and be this young clown.
shareI haven't seen the movie yet myself. I see no problem with the age of Pennywise or the actor who plays him. Pennywise is just another form of IT
Read the book OR go to see this movie. I have heard that this is very close to what the book is all about.
Put aside your thoughts of the 1990 TV Mini series. Tim Curry was brilliant in that. He is unforgettable, but try changing your mindset and accept something new.... actually old. The book was written before the mini series.
The fact he is notably younger only makes me applaud his performance that much more. Perhaps, even slightly more than Tim Curry's. Don't get me wrong, Tim was as great as anyone could have been as Pennywise -- he's masterful in the part. But Skarsgard's take on the dancing clown is so spectacularly evil, he absolutely makes the role his own. With that in mind, I seriously don't see how his age negatively affects his performance whatsoever; if anything it's the opposite.
So, excluding those that made up their minds that Curry was the superior Pennywise even before they saw - or have yet to see even - this It, understandably there's going to be those that will hold Curry's performance in higher regard for various reasons. Nonetheless, everything about Skarsgard felt spot-on: from his rather different vocal stylings to his manic expressions, he simply made a Pennywise that is too perfect. And despite what's been said, he IS playful, albeit in a more twisted way than previously seen if you ask me.
27 is almost still a kid? That's long ways into adulthood.
shareNot in Obama's America. Those 27-year-old "kids" are still on their parents' health insurance. *rolleyes*
shareIf you are going to make a snark remark, then you should try to get it right. The limit is 26.
shareIt never fails. No matter what the discussion is about, there's always some right-wing fuckwit who'll try to make it about politics.
shareactually the youth plays into it as he is more enticing to children. When he laughs with George he is childlike, and then suddenly he stops. That was probably the most terrifying moment in the movie for me because it was seeing how twisted he was.
sharehaving seen the movie by now, it makes sense to me that pennywise looks young. it reflects the bullies in some way and juvenile waywardness.
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