12 Things I Missed In The Stephen King's IT Trailer

A little over a week ago I made a video titled 25 Things You Missed In The Stephen King's
IT Trailer.
Here's a link if you missed it.
And in that video I asked you guys to offer up your input in the comments and I got an
amazing response.
You all had a lot of insightful thoughts about the trailer and things I didn't catch in my
initial video.
I've also been rereading the book, and it's been making me appreciate the finer details
of the trailer even more.
I read through all the comments on that video, which, at the time of writing, there are over
1,000, so HUGE thank you for all the support on that one; and I picked out some favorites
to talk about in this video.
Now a lot of you had interesting ideas about the meaning behind all the astronomy references,
and I'm going to save those theories for the end of this video because they may go into
spoiler territory, at least for the book, but don't worry, I'll give you a spoiler alert
before we get there.
Here are 12 Things I Missed In The Stephen King's IT Trailer.
The biggest thing I missed in my initial video was the setting.
This upcoming film actually takes place in the 80s.
Apologies for that misinformation on my part and thank you to each and every one of you
that pointed this out in the comments -- all 2 billion of you, thank you for pointing out
that this movie takes place in the 80s.
A couple of you let me know that more specifically, the film takes place in 1989 and this is backed
up by the technology you see in the trailer, and the fact that you can just look it up
online.
It takes place in the 80s.
But what's more interesting to me is why the filmmakers have chosen the 80s for this film.
Many of you confirmed my suspicion that the book will be split into two movies, meaning
that the second movie will take place in 2016, the same year that Part 1 was in production.
When you consider the fact that the first movie is technically a flashback, that kind
of makes this whole reboot series a modern day remake of IT, an interesting choice when
you consider the significance of creepy clowns in our culture today, such as the Staten Island
clown and his many copycats over the last few years.
We'll see if that plays into the second film at all.
I'll never forget that scene in the adult portion of the mini-series where Ben notices
Pennywise on the side of the road; something that seemed to happen quite a lot in October
2016.
This is our next item.
The film is scheduled to release September 8, 2017.
You might be wondering, "CZ, how did you miss this?
It says it right there!"
Well, it's not the release date that I missed, but rather, the significance behind it.
In the story, IT returns to the town every 27 years to terrorize Derry.
Commenter CynicalCatLady points out, "the first screen adaptation of IT was first aired
in 1990, and twenty-seven years later, the infamous dancing clown is re-emerging to breathe
fresh terror into a new generation, just as he does in the novel."
To me, that's so cool.
That's perfect timing for a new movie, I love when movies take real time into account.
In my video, I mention how Pennywise's eyes don't show up in the reflection.
Some of you mentioned that this could just be because the eyes are enhanced in visual
effects and they just didn't want to do the effect in the reflection as well.
That is something that crossed my mind, having done quite a bit of visual effects myself,
but then I saw this comment, which doesn't make any sense, but it got me thinking about
the novel, and how IT doesn't have a shadow.
So maybe no eyes in the reflection is the film manifestation of that, or at the very
least, one of those choices that's easy to make because you know it's going to save you
a lot of money in visual effects.
Oftentimes the reasoning for a choice made in a film is something simple like that.
For example, I questioned what that key might be around Beverly's neck.
A commenter named WhenTheSkyTurnsDark points out that it may just be her house key, which
she needs to keep with her because, unlike many of the others, she might not have someone
at home who can let her in all the time.
We already know her Dad is unreliable, and she may use the necklace for the key because
her Dad would beat her if she ever lost it.
Here's another thing I got wrong.
I pointed out these flower beds in the wide shot and said they were arrows.
Many of you took a closer look and discovered that they are actually crosses.
While we are on this landscape shot, I have to admire the choice of location.
This is a town called Port Hope in Ontario, Canada, one of three Canadian cities where
the movie was filmed.
You can see much more clearly here that they are indeed crosses, and as a couple of you
speculated, that that's because of the church right across the street.
The park over here is called Memorial Park, and I'm sure there are plenty of Memorial
Parks across North America, but that is also the name of an often mentioned location in
Derry in the book.
It's more of a coincidence than anything that would be super important to the movie, but
I found it interesting nonetheless.
Another useless but interesting location I noticed was right across the street from Memorial
Park, there's a restaurant called Turtle John's.
There are constant references to "The Turtle" the novel, and I'll actually discuss that
in more detail a bit later on in the video.
There's also this canal, which will play the part of the offshoot of the Kenduskeag Stream
that runs through Derry.
Not only is that where Ben first meets Pennywise in the book, but I was checking out some photos
of the canal and it's shallow enough to wade in, so I wouldn't be surprised if this also
the location for The Barrens, which if you aren't familiar with IT, is the place where
the group basically bonds and becomes friends when they get in trouble for building a dam
downstream.
Again, it's not like a dealbreaker for the movie, but it's just a nice touch to see when
locations are actually connected in a film, especially one that focuses so much on the
town it's located in and has scenes that move from location to location.
There's also a library right in the center of town here, which brings me to the next
thing I missed.
So in the mini-series, Richie has his confrontation with Pennywise in the library, which is obviously
an iconic scene.
In the novel however, it's Ben who spends all of his time at the library, especially
before he becomes friends with the other 6 kids.
He is at the library on the last day of school, which is what it would seem they are depicting
here.
For the record, in the book, he's also the one who goes back to the library as an adult,
seeing as how it was like his safe haven from the bullies as a child.
This flooded basement scene in the trailer sparked some debate in the comments as to
whose basement it was.
I naturally thought it was the Denborough basement just because Bill is down there by
himself, when he encounters the illusion of Georgie.
Some people suggested it could be the 29 Neibolt basement.
I don't think that's too likely considering the modern appliances seen here, and this
guy TaylorTV brings up another good point, which is that it would make sense that he
encounters Georgie in the cellar, because in the first chapter, Bill sends him down
there to get the turtle wax, which we'll get back to, essentially sending him to his own
doom in a way.
So IT takes advantage of this by using Georgie's image in the basement to guilt his brother.
Seems like a logical way of looking at it.
OK, so before I get into the astronomy stuff, there were a few things that people brought
up, that were not things that I missed, but things that I didn't really think anyone would
miss, so I'll just list those off real quick.
This could be the Leper that Eddie sees at 29 Neibolt.
This could be a depiction of the Black Spot fire.
It also might be a replacement for the junkyard bird scene.
I actually wouldn't really mind if it was.
Bill doesn't stutter at all in the trailer, but I'm not too worried about that, I feel
like the trailer was just cut with good audio from him to make it flow better.
OK with that out of the way, this next part is going to contain some spoilers for the
book regarding the origin of IT, so if you don't want hear, I'll see you in the next
video.
Assuming we both survive....
OK.
So You guys have been telling me that you think the astronomy stuff is a reference to
the fact that IT came to Earth from outer space.
This ties into the whole subplot about how IT is basically the Stephen King demon, and
how the counterbalance is The Turtle, which is like the creator of all things.
I'm not going to dig too deep into the lore for the sake of simplicity, but basically
what you need to know is that both IT and The Turtle come from this void in outer space.
Looking at the trailer with that information, I started to notice even more references to
outer space scattered throughout Derry.
There were some people in the comments who were not buying into this because of the fact
that in the first scene with the Denborough brothers, Bill seems to sealed Georgie's boat
with Gulf Wax, as opposed to the Turtle Wax that Georgie fetches from the cellar in the
book.
So their argument is that the filmmakers only really have a reason to do this if they are
not going to feature the turtle and the ritual and stuff.
I don't think this will be the case.
The ending of the TV mini-series is widely considered it's weakest point, and it doesn't
include the ritual.
Also, with this movie taking place in a different decade, it stands to reason that different
products would be more relevant in another time period.
And with the new time period comes a new audience and new fans.
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12 Things I Missed In The Stephen King's IT Trailer

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