My Submission For The Losers Club Fanzine

they know that the feelings are mutual but have each been waiting for the other to make the first move

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(2019) it hid behind your teeth and you were too nervous to seek it out. you waited for the perfect moment until you couldn’t.

that’s why pennywise’s forehead is so big. it’s full of secrets

You know what? I am also offended… Offended that they didnt really roast Pennywise to death with some more sophisticated rude wordsmithing.  At least more sophisticated than repeating “YOU ARE JUST A CLOWN”

Camouflage

I love the idea behind Pennywise’s costume design to make it look doll-like and monochrome, “almost like a shadow”, as costume designer Jaine Bryant expressed (see full article below).  You see how he easily can stand out with his tall frame AND YET blend in with his surroundings with that dull grey silk.

Imagine if the costume comprised bright colours like the 1990 series: I would find him silly rather than menacing.

Photo: Marco Grob/Warner Bros.

Article  by Anthony Breznican - August 16, 2016 AT 12:00 PM EDT:

Imagine this staring at you from inside the concrete chamber of a storm drain.

We’ve already gotten a close-up of Pennywise the Clown from the new film version of Stephen King’s It (out Sept. 8, 2017), but here we step back for a fuller view of the creature that likes to take the form of a leering, sinister clown.

Bill Skarsgård is playing the ageless, supernatural beast who feeds on the fears of children, and it’s clear director Andy Muschietti (Mama) is steering away from the modern, baggy-suited, rainbow-hued clown for something a bit more… archaic.

For that, the filmmaker relied on Emmy-winning costume designer Janie Bryant (Deadwood, Mad Men) who crafted a form-fitting suit that draws upon a number of bygone times – among them Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan, and Victorian eras.

Pennywise, after all, is infinite.

“The costume definitely incorporates all these otherworldly past lives, if you will,” Bryant says. “He is definitely a clown from a different time.”

                                                                                                                                                                There’s a classic Harlequin quality to the elegant red lines, drawing up his cheeks like fangs to bisect his eyes. In this new image, we can more clearly see the fissures in the caked-on makeup atop his domed brow, resembling the sutures in the plates of a skull.

We even get a hint of his yellow, buck-toothed smile — or might those  be something sharper?

His neck is frilled by a thick, puffy collar, like a ruff from the late 16th century, and here’s where we zoom in and venture into geek-out territory for costume enthusiasts. Every part of the costume is meant to suggest something both ancient and disturbed.

                                 “That pleating is actually Fortuny pleating, which gives it almost a crepe-like effect,” Bryant says. “It’s a different technique than what the Elizabethans would do. It’s more organic, it’s more sheer. It has a whimsical, floppy quality to it. It’s not a direct translation of a ruff or a whisk, which were two of the collars popular during the Elizabethan period.”

For Pennywise, there’s no need to stay faithful to any era’s fashions. He is a manifestation of what an immortal, supernatural being thinks of as a clown, amalgamating various styles it finds appealing. …Or maybe he’s just thinking of a toy that once belonged to a child he devoured.

“There is almost a doll-like quality to the costume,” Bryant says. “The pants being short, the high waistline of the jacket, and the fit of the costume is a very important element. It gives the character a child-like quality.” Even the gloves are so tight and seamless they make his hands look like porcelain.

                                  At 26, Skarsgård is a much younger Pennywise than Tim Curry, who was in his mid-40s when he played the role in the 1990 TV movie. The costume accentuates his youth, making it look like The Blue Boy outgrew his dandy outfit.

“If you look at the sleeves, there are the two puffs off the shoulder and biceps and again on the bloomers, I wanted it to have an organic, gourd or pumpkin kind of effect,” Bryant says. That includes the peplum at his waist, the flared, skirt-like fabric blossoming from below his doublet.

“It helps exaggerate certain parts of the body,” Bryant says. “The costume is very nipped in the waist and with the peplum and bloomers it has an expansive silhouette.”

It’s all aimed at creating a subliminal suggestion of a creature with long, lanky limbs, a head and neck like a cephalothorax, and a bulbous, arachnoid abdomen. But this creature is walking upright, and calling to you with a fistful of balloons.

The main color of his costume is a dusky gray, but with a few splashes of color.

“The pompoms are orange, and then with the trim around the cuffs and the ankles, it’s basically a ball fringe that’s a combination of orange, red, and cinnamon. It’s almost like Pennywise fades into his environment. But there are accents to pull out the definition of the gray silk.”

While studying those pustule-like ball fringe around his shins, you’ll also note the red and white boots with a pompom at the tip aren’t actually standing on anything. They’re floating.

                                  While this isn’t the bright and cheery Pennywise, Bryant’s version of the character prefers to camouflage himself and strike rather than lure children with lively plumage.

“It makes him almost like a shadow,” she says.

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That fact that Richie is the first one to comfort/hug Bill when he finds Georgie's jacket at the end of the fight is so special to me. :(

365 Day Challenge | Favorite Characters | 11. Richie Tozier | It "You two look amazing. What the fuck happened to me?"

Billy appreciation post <3

He has to deal with so much, yet he still had the mental strength to lead everyone into the fights with Pennywise!!!! Even if he was a little guided by anger to kill the thing that killed his brother, he still guided all his friends and made sure they were safe above all <3 tbh I really like how the book focuses on a single person for a long time. I’m at a part where it’s Bill centric, it really opened my eyes to how caring he is to the people he loves!!!! He’s easilyyyy making his way up my faves list

(Also the fact that I (platonically) love Jaeden with a passion)

The losers club thoughts: the reason why the losers are so chaotic and unhinged in the second movie(besides you know the trauma and memories coming back) is because Stanley Uris was like 90% of their impulse control. With Stanley gone everything turns into pure chaos. Honestly Stanley should have been a lawyer instead of an accountant with how much chaos and law breaking all these guys get into.

Watched IT chapter one the other day and all I keep thinking about is this AU idea called “let’s make a deal” where Bill protects Georgie by making a deal with Pennywise telling him that he’ll bring him only the terrible people in Derry to which Pennywise agrees. He enlists the help of his friends and they agree to do this in order to keep the kids of Derry safe (and to get rid of the bullies and Bevs shitty dad). Maybe some bonding occurs between Pennywise and the kids? Maybe he sees them as his kids or little siblings and starts to genuinely want to protect them since no one’s ever given him anything or treated him kindly before?