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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.

I love it when the Losers make Richie to keep watch for Beverly's dad when she shows them the bathroom.

That kid has ADHD and doesn't know how to shut the fuck up, let alone wait patiently.

You just know he was out there kicking rocks and spinning in circles while probably either talking to himself or acting out some sort of scene with the different accents/voices he does.

I laugh just thinking of it

HERE HE IS. 2017 Pennywise is such a nice design. a nice boy

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.

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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. :(

Yall may THINK you have nothing in common with a malevolent cluster of interdimensional lights but gUESS AGAIN

eats a lot sleeps A LOT

has a messy room

hair and makeup on point when you first meet, turn to trash as time goes on

eats children wait nO

frightens children

thinks is good at dancing - isnt

considers self to be a superior and powerful being but lives in a sewer & would 100 percent be swiftly defeated by a gaggle of determined adolescents

just a boy taking a stroll

every charcater in Welcome to Derry better be doomed by the narrative, I want this to be a tragedy

last batch of fresh dogman stuff

the rest is going to be some unfinished stuff