"There's not a lot in common between Pennywise and Mickey Mouse. One is an otherworldly creature of alien origin who feeds on the innocent, the other is Pennywise. But both are avatars of dreams in their own ways. "One day, the big tent will come a'calling again. You'll see," the (human, not particularly evil) Pennywise tells his daughter. You can see in Skarsgard's eyes the longing for a life out of reach."
"IT: Welcome to Derry episode 7, "The Black Spot," plays out an inevitability: The burning of Derry's only Black-owned bar. What was just a few sentences in Stephen King's novel and described in retrospect is now fleshed out with all the necessary horror and rage it demands. The tragedy of a community in peril is that no matter who its perpetrators are, violence follows them."
Defunctland's deep dive into Disney's Living Characters Initiative and a Pennywise performance intersect through themes of unrealized dreams and theatrical longing. Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise displays a human yearning for a life out of reach while being juxtaposed with nostalgic details like kids who never experience a Game Boy. The series portrays inevitability through the burning of Derry's only Black-owned bar, expanding a few lines from Stephen King's novel into full horror and rage. The tragedy emphasizes how violence befalls vulnerable communities regardless of perpetrators. Visual motifs of eyes in darkness recur as a central, unsettling cinematic device.
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