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Published: 2016-07-26 11:21:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 3919; Favourites: 122; Downloads: 9
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The clown Pennywise wants to give you a balloon, in Stephen King's "It".Related content
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"A clown will not bite me und throw me in the basement."Β "A clown is not a big Schpider." -- Dr. Scratchensniff, Animaniacs
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That's sort what I imagined whatΒ Β Pennywise really resembled in the book.
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That is the best reaction I could wish for
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The Tim Curry IT was scary, especially with theΒ sharpΒ teeth and claws but I wasn't really freaked out to the point of having nightmares. Β It just wasn't Β more foreboding and terrifying enough. Β
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Getting into more modern horrors, eh?Β There are so many minor stories lost in the shuffle that I wish more people could find (and draw pictures from).Β Edward D. Hoch's short tale "In the Straw," with its bear/homunculus/spontaneously growing thingy from under a haystack:
"The straw was still sticking to its moist body, the odor of fire still clinging to it like an aura.Β At first he thought it was some sort of mutant bear.Β But then he saw the claw, and before he could move it was upon him."
[I hope you don't mind if I occasionally make suggestions for future portraits . . .]
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I actually have "In the Straw" in a Swedish pocket book collection of horror stories. Magazine companies were publishing series of cheap paperback collections in the 1970's and I buy them today at boot sales, and such, for virtually nothing. They're real treasure troves of obscure stories.
Please go ahead and make suggestions
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Thanks 
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Β Um, excuse me, Mr. Pennywise, sir. ....What if I stab the body multiple times, deflate it, dismember it, place it under a steel weighted net, and put them in lead boxes...? Or just dissolve the body in acid completely?
Um....right... er...Well, my my, ...Β look at the time....let's dismiss class early, shall we?
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Beep beep Loneanimator.
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It's that thinly veiled disguise that I tried to depict here, a bit crudely perhaps. Somehow the disguised monster is always scarier than when you see it in its revealed form.
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Pennywise in the end seems a little less, at least on the first read-through, because the extraterrestrial emovore seems less threatening than the diabolical clown instigator, sort of like Randall Flagg in a Bozo costume. A re-read of the story, and a take two of sorts in the Dark Tower saga, made things a little clearer regarding Stephen King's intent. In Danse Macabre King stated his perpetual intent to always show the monster in the end, even if it felt flat. Author integrity I suppose.
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Well, I guess western literary norm demanded that he showed the monster. I was just surprised that it wasn't more effective or elaborate. I had expected something Lovecraftian, unnamable, something so horrid that it's difficult to describe.
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The miniseries did no one's imagination any good in the big finale which fell flatter than pita pockets. "Big spider thing" is how our minds translate it, but the creature is ultimately a weird thing that is outside the human experience. Tim Curry was definitely in character as Pennywise, and his personal brand of carpet-chewing and mugging was exactly what was required to scare the dickens out of all the kids..and adults who were still the traumatized kids on the inside. Pennywise as the spider-thing was one of those things that likewise have hindered Lovecraft-themed movies. Giving a form to the fearful and/or fantastic thing sometimes dramatically undercuts it.
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I think Pennywise was perfectly fleshed out by Tim Curry, but the spider thing at the end seemed to be such a different concept that it felt completely detached from the Pennywise character. The spider creature is a lumbering monster, while Pennywise is the classic mythological trickster, albeit a very malevolent one. The main blame is King's own, I think, since he could've chosen a different concept when he wrote the book. it's a very strange choice.
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So cool to see a different interpretation of Pennywise. I love Curry's take but that's the only fan art you ever see.
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It just goes to show how popular that version was. I hear there's a new IT adap in the works, and I've seen some concept art of Pennywise. That moves away in a different direction, as it should. I read two-volume IT before I saw the TV series, so I grew some own concepts of Pennywise, and they still stick.
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Keep your "Dead Lights" to yourself, Pennywise. Feets don't fail me now!
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