12/19/2023 0 Comments Pennywise actor 2016![]() ![]() It is telling in 2017’s It that Mike is introduced as a child who is reluctant to shoot a sheep in the head with a cattle gun. Yes, arriving here millions of years ago, It has always been a piece of Derry, essentially turning humans into Its own livestock. Whether it was actually an asteroid or spaceship, King leaves ambiguous, but we tend to agree with director Andy Muschietti’s choice of leaning toward the former given It’s final form. ![]() The thing in the sky was gigantic, a flaming match-head that was nearly too bright to look at… A spaceship! Richie screamed, falling to his knees and covering his eyes. It was hot and searing, smoky and suffocating. It traced its way toward them, widening from an artery to a stream to a river of ominous color and then, as a burning, falling object broke through the cloud cover, the wind came. “The clouds in the west lit with a bloom of red fire. Read more: It Chapter Two Easter Eggs and Reference Guide This is confirmed by Richie and Mike seeing giant mammal bats as big as humans, as well as birds fleeing en masse from the approach of something terrible above. Those two lads have visions of It’s arrival in some period after the dinosaurs died out but before the ice age or humankind’s ascendency. Most of the Losers run coughing from the structure, but not Richie or Mike. Turning their clubhouse into a smoke house, they burn twigs and breathe deep the fumes that drift from them in order to jumpstart visions. Instead the Losers as children dabble in political incorrectness by copying what Ben read about “Indian smoke holes” in a book (it was a scene set in the ‘50s that was written in the ‘80s). ![]() In King’s writings, there are no Native Americans who teach Mike Hanlon the Ritual of Chüd. Later on in the film, when the Losers enter It’s Lair, they realize they’re standing in the ground zero crater of an asteroid right beneath Derry. Appearing like a comet or asteroid, It landed on Earth at what is initially a nondescript time long ago. They reveal an ancient weapon alleged to be part of the Ritual of Chüd, which includes markings based on visions of It’s arrival to this part of the world. ![]() Together, they have a trip based on Mike’s own previous experiences with Natives who live outside the borders of Derry, and therefore outside the reach of It. This occurs early on when Mike (Isaiah Mutafa) spikes the drink of Bill Denbrough ( James McAvoy) with a “root.” While 2017’s Itmostly sidestepped the science fiction elements of Pennywise in favor of the supernatural terror of an evil clown that can take the shape of whatever scares you most, 2019’s It Chapter Two dives headlong into the weirder side of King’s creation. It most definitely is not from around here, nor is It even part of our own universe. But just what are the deadlights, what is It, and how long have they been in Derry? It Chapter Two is vague on all those details, but by combining hints from the epic movie with some of King’s most grandiose musings in the 1,100-page book, we think we can answer your main questions about the Dancing Clown below… Is Pennywise an Alien? Rather Pennywise is just one of many forms an extraterrestrial, godlike being takes in order to lure small children into the deadlights. Technically speaking, Pennywise is not actually what It is. Yet for all its wistful melancholy about the agonies and ecstasies of youth that are better left in the past, It Chapter Two and its source material still boils down to one thing for most folks: a scary clown named Pennywise and the monstrous things he gets up to. ![]()
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