It(2017)
Director
Andy MuschiettiCast
Jaeden Martell as Bill Denbrough, Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben Hanscom, Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh, Finn Wolfhard as Richie Tozier, Chosen Jacobs as Mike Hanlon
📝 剧情简介📝 Overview
在缅因州一个名为德里的小镇上，一群被称为“失败者俱乐部”的七名孩子——比利、贝弗莉、里奇、艾迪、本、斯坦利和迈克——各自承受着家庭的阴影、校园霸凌的折磨，以及内心深处的恐惧。他们发现，小镇上每隔27年就会发生一系列离奇的儿童失踪案，而这一切的源头，是一个以孩子们最深的恐惧为食的古老邪恶实体。这个怪物能变幻形态，却最常伪装成一名叫潘尼怀斯的小丑，用甜美的笑容和诡异的气球引诱猎物。当弟弟乔治失踪后，比利带领伙伴们展开调查，逐渐揭开小镇的黑暗历史。他们必须团结一致，直面自己的恐惧，才能对抗这股吞噬童年的邪恶力量。故事聚焦于孩子们的成长与羁绊，在恐怖中夹杂着温暖与勇气。In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
📝 评价分析📝 Review & Analysis
Director Andy Muschietti successfully brings Stephen King's classic novel to the big screen, striking a precise balance between horror elements and the theme of adolescent growth. Bill Skarsgård's portrayal of Pennywise is spine-chilling, with his expressive face and contorted body language endowing the clown with a dual charm of both absurdity and malevolence. The young actors also deliver outstanding performances, particularly Sophia Lillis as Beverly, who captures a delicate interplay of strength and vulnerability. Visually, the film employs gloomy tones and dense horror imagery, paying homage to the Gothic atmosphere of the original novel, though it downplays King's intricate exposition of the town's history and supernatural cycles. As a horror genre film, it successfully breaks away from the clichés of jump scares, focusing instead on the accumulation of psychological dread, making it a benchmark for 2010s teen horror cinema.
🎭 Full Cast
Bill Denbrough
Ben Hanscom
Beverly Marsh
Richie Tozier
Mike Hanlon
Eddie Kaspbrak
Stanley Uris
Pennywise
Henry Bowers
Belch Huggins
📖 与原著的主要差异📖 How It Differs From the Book
In the original novel, the children face Pennywise again as adults, but the film focuses only on their childhood, leaving the adult storyline for the 2019 sequel, which weakens the theme of "cyclical fear" from the book.
In the original novel, Mike is the team's strategist and historian, but in the film, he is more marginalized. Meanwhile, Beverly's background of sexual abuse in the novel is significantly downplayed, only hinted at through subtle suggestions.
The film removed a large amount of the ancient history of Derry town from the original novel (such as the cosmic myths of the "Deadlights" and the "Great Turtle"), making the story more focused on the children's adventure.
In the original work, Kim's dark humor and sharp satire of social ills (such as racial discrimination and domestic violence) are partially simplified in the film, while the horror atmosphere becomes more direct.
The film omits the adult emotional entanglement between Ben and Beverly from the original novel, as well as the detailed psychological depiction of Stanley's suicide driven by fear, which are only partially mentioned in the sequel.
