It (2017)

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Movie
German title It
Original title It
Es-2017-logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Andrés Muschietti
script Gary Dauberman ,
Chase Palmer ,
Cary Fukunaga
production Seth Grahame-Smith ,
Barbara Muschietti ,
David Katzenberg ,
Roy Lee ,
Dan Lin
music Benjamin Wallfisch
camera Chung-Hoon Chung
cut Jason Ballantine
occupation
synchronization
chronology

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Es Chapter 2

It is an American horror film with elements of a coming-of-age film by Andrés Muschietti , which was released in US cinemas on September 8, 2017 and in German cinemas on September 28, 2017. It is the first part of a remake based on the Stephen King novel of the same name and is the second film adaptation of this book after the 1990 television film Stephen King's It .

action

Maine , a small town called Derry in October 1988. Six-year-old Georgie Denbrough is playing in the rain with his paper boat that his brother made for him. When the boat disappears into a drain and he looks into it, he sees a creepy clown figure who introduces himself to him as Pennywise. This engages the little boy in a supposedly friendly conversation and asks him to take the boat back. At first glance, this seems to be going well, but seconds later the creepy clown bites Georgie's arm off and pulls him into the darkness of the sewer.

Months later in June 1989: Bill Denbrough, Georgie's older brother, still doesn't know what happened to his younger brother. He was just one of several kids who went missing in Derry lately - a lot more than anywhere else in the United States , so there is a curfew at 7 p.m. However, the stuttering Bill has not stopped believing that his brother is still alive and waiting to be saved. He believes Georgie was caught in the rainwater and flushed into Derry's extensive sewer system. To find out what exactly happened to Georgie back then, he experiments with a self-made pipe system in the garage and has hung up maps of the Derry sewer system there, which his father does not approve of, because he does not believe that his son is still alive. Soon Bill asks his three friends to join him in searching the sewers for his brother. All of them are bullied at school and feel like outsiders: the Jewish boy Stanley Uris, a skeptic preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah , Eddie Kaspbrak, suffering from his overprotective mother, and Richie Tozier, who is constantly trying his hand at comedians. They are on summer vacation, and since this is a time when there is nothing for them to do, they do their best to help Bill find his brother, even if they're actually more interested in talking about girls and of the torments inflicted on them by some tyrannical youth, such as their tormentor, Henry Bowers.

Soon your group is growing. They are joined by the beautiful Beverly Marsh, who is not accepted by the other girls at her school because of strange rumors about her promiscuous behavior. Since her father tends to get closer to his daughter in a way that a father shouldn't, she soon feels more comfortable with her clique than at home and doesn't see the boys as losers at all. Then they take on the newly arrived Ben Hanscom, whom they meet and treat at the river after he was injured by Henry and his friends. Together they go cliff diving and swimming at the Derry Cistern. Ben is a fat, introverted boy who loves to spend his time studying in the local library. Both he and Bill quickly fall in love with the brave Beverly. While doing research in the library, Ben finds out that sleepy Derry has been haunted several times in the past by a creature that comes from another dimension. In his room he shows them documents from Derry's city history and tells his new friends that the creature has appeared in the city every 27 years, with catastrophes and strange deaths always occurring. In the year Derry was founded, all people disappeared from the city, in 1908 many children had died, in 1935 there were mysterious incidents, and people died in 1962 as well. All of this happened in places in Derry that are connected to the well house by sewers. Right now 27 years have passed again, and the mysterious power seems to be in town again. The children use old maps to find out where Pennywise is hiding.

The friends admit they've all had their Pennywise experiences. The members of the clique were confronted with their seemingly real and individual fears, and the power that is aimed specifically at children appears to each of them in its usual form or in another form, and its appearance is usually heralded by a red balloon floating through the air. Eddie is chased by a disgusting leper , Stan faces a creature that looks exactly like the creepy expressionist painting in his strict father's office, Ben Hanscom was chased by a headless boy in the basement of the library, and Beverly who found himself die Having cut hair short, it almost pulls it down the sink drain in her bathroom. Her father cannot see the blood that was spattered in the bathroom, but all of her new friends can. The African-American boy Mike Hanlon, whom they met on the river when he fled from Henry and his friends, tells of a house in which his parents were killed in a fire and which haunts his visions. Bill keeps seeing his missing brother. During a visit to a dilapidated house on Neibolt Street with access to the old fountain, Richie is ultimately confronted with his fears when he finds himself locked in a room with many clown dolls.

For a while the members of the clique, which now call themselves the Losers' Club, go back to their usual lives, but when Beverly disappears without a trace shortly afterwards in August after she finally defended herself against her father, the boys leave again in the dilapidated house. Bill firmly believes Beverly's guess is true that as a group they can beat Es. But the creature seizes its tormentor. Henry, whose friend Patrick Hockstetter has meanwhile also disappeared into the sewer, receives a package with a knife. First he kills his father with it, then a voice tells him to kill the members of the Losers' Club too. He pursues her into the dilapidated house, but Mike overpowers him and pushes him into the well. Down there they find Beverly - along with the many other disappeared children - floating in the air, and after they can awaken them from their deep sleep, they try to suppress and defeat the fears that feed Pennywise on It. However, Bill couldn't find his brother in the sewers.

In September, Beverly tells her friends about a vision in which they are all older but fearful again. They take a blood vow that they will all get back together should It return. Before they part ways, Bill gives Beverly a kiss.

Film analysis

Film genre and structure

The film was repeatedly described by critics not only as a horror film , but also, in particular, as a coming-of-age film and a darker version of Stand by Me . References to the youth film The Goonies are not unintentional, admitted producer Dan Lin.

Lukas star of the Berliner Zeitung said that the coming-of-age story wedges in the fear fantasy: "On the surface, is it actually a very general account of fears and their modes of action, on the way they grow, the more you give them up and the dilemma that the more you gain weight, the more you are forced to give yourself to them. And at the same time this takes place against the backdrop of a basically just as general story about growing up, about puberty, about bullying at school, about first erotic experiences, about the emancipation from parents driven with aggressive vigor. "Both strands, so Stern, ran next to each other in the first part of Muschietti's film with a ghostly distance, but the levels required each other, because it is precisely in the collision of these generalities that the unpredictability arises that makes you tremble so breathlessly in the armchair.

Ralf Krämer from Berliner Morgenpost says in his review that Muschietti tells the film in a dreamlike safe balance between classic coming-of-age drama and horror film. He takes time for his protagonists, who are consistently superbly cast, says Krämer, and takes the needs and longings of their roles seriously, while at the same time playing a beguiling double game with the familiar means of the horror genre.

Camera work and film editing

Lukas Stern says that the faster the cutting frequency, the horror manifests itself: “A severed head lies in a fork of a branch, a clown stands in a crowd of people celebrating. The camera penetrates deeper and deeper into the old and still press photos from past decades, it moves ever closer to the horrific element in them, to the head, to the clown. "This evil, this" it "appears to everyone. different, so Stern. It materializes as a croaking leper, as an inexhaustible fountain of blood from the sink drain, as an animated impressionistic portrait, because the creature knows the fears of children, creates illusions, seduces, weakens, numbs and eats them.

production

Staff and literary original

The director took Andres Muschietti . The script was written by Gary Dauberman and Chase Palmer, who adapted parts of Stephen King's 1986 novel Es , which was made into a film in 1990 . It was produced by Muschietti's sister Barbara together with David Katzenberg , Roy Lee , Dan Lin and the author Seth Grahame-Smith .

The film, which ends up being referred to as Chapter 1, focuses on the parts of the thousand-plus-page book that tell of a group of friends in their youth who try to stop a presence lurking beneath their city and renounce thus on their experiences 27 years later in adulthood. The creature, conversely, confronts them with their worst fears and usually appears in the form of a clown, but can take other forms as well. In the cinematic reinterpretation, the plot was moved around 30 years to the end of the 1980s. Other elements of the original book have also been reinterpreted. Regarding the kind of orgy in the sewer that is reported at the end of the novel, Muschietti said that for him it was just a metaphor of the end of childhood and a transition into adulthood: “I don't think this really is in the film was necessary, apart from the fact that it is difficult to imagine that we would have been allowed to shoot an orgy in the film. ”However, the blood oath does appear in the film, in which they see each other as a complete group one last time and after that There is no longer any need for them to be together, according to the director, since it was apparently destroyed. This scene marks a very similar moment, because at this point too, her childhood ends and her adulthood begins, according to Muschietti.

Bill Skarsgård played the lead role Pennywise

The second plot level of the book is also to be filmed later, with the members of the Losers' Club being forced to return to their hometown as adults because It is back. This film will therefore be set in the 2010s.

occupation

The Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård took over the role of the clown Pennywise, Javier Botet plays The Leper, Nicholas Hamilton took over the role of Henry Bowers, Owen Teague by Patrick Hock Stetter, and Logan Thompson plays Victor Criss. The Losers Club members are played by various child actors: Jaeden Lieberher plays Bill Denbrough, Finn Wolfhard played Richie Tozier, and Chosen Jacobs plays Mike Hanlon. Jeremy Ray Taylor played Ben Hanscom, Wyatt Oleff played Stanley Uris and Jack Dylan Grazer played Eddie Kasprak. Sophia Lillis took on Beverly Marsh as the only girl in the Losers Club.

Commenting on the cast of Pennywise with Skarsgård, producer Dan Lin said : “His stature is quite interesting; he's really big and lanky and his movements are a bit like a clown. ”Lin explains that with Skarsgård they wanted to create a character in this role who would stand for himself and not be like Heath Ledger as a joker or Tim Curry as a clown.

Filming and equipment

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The Forces of Madness has already been filmed on this wooden bridge in West Montrose
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The Port Hope chapel has been transformed into the Derry City Library

The shooting took place in locations in the USA and Canada where a number of other well-known productions in horror film and series history had already been made, for example in the US city of Bangor in Maine, where the film was shot in January 2016. In Canada turned in Toronto in the 450 Pape Avenue and in the local Pinewood Toronto Studios in Portland , in the townships Pickering and Hamilton and the local town of Port Hope , also in Oshawa , Elora (in Elora Quarry) and in West Montrose at and on a late 19th century covered wooden bridge that spans the Grand River. All of these places are in Ontario .

The filming of John Carpenter's The Powers of Madness had already taken place on this bridge . James Wan shot Dead Silence in Elora, Silent Hill (2006) and Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) were shot in Oshawa . In Pickering, the filming of Chucky and his bride (1998) and large parts of the television series Hannibal took place. Orphan - The Orphan (2009) was already filmed in Port Hope . Crimson Peak (2015), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), a remake of Poltergeist (2015) and several episodes of the television series The Strain were filmed in Hamilton . Last but not least, filming had taken place in Bangor, where they were already filming the cemetery of the cuddly toys . The local Mount Hope Cemetery on 1048 State Street can be seen in several scenes of the film.

Places in the townships of Pickering and Hamilton served as a backdrop for Derry. For this purpose, from July 8, 2016, the stage builders in Port Hope changed the cityscape accordingly, and the parish hall of Port Hope was transformed into the library of the city of Derry and the tourist center into a parish office.

A photo of the film set released in August 2016 showed an iron gate with house number 29 on it. In the novel It hides behind this house number on Neibolt Street an empty house, where the members of the Losers Club in Derry meet, but they are also tormented by Pennywise. Weeds and dead grass were seen in the photos in front of the gate, which looks very scary overall, according to Ananda Dillon from moviepilot.com. The abandoned house on Neibolt Street in the film was erected in Oshawa as a backdrop. Dietmar Dath from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describes the sets and props between the sewer system, the haunted house and the school corridor as unobtrusively perfect in his review of the film.

Costumes and film music

The costume designer was Janie Bryant , who was awarded a Primetime Emmy for her work on Deadwood . In an August 2016 interview with Entertainment Weekly , Bryant stated that she drew inspiration from clothing from earlier eras, including the Medieval , Renaissance, and Elizabethan and Victorian eras, when designing Pennywise's costumes . This highlights that Pennywise is a clown from another time, according to Bryant, and designed his costume with a ruff with an almost crepe-like effect, but which seemed less stiff than those from the Elizabethan age. By incorporating multiple eras into the costume, Bryant wanted to emphasize Pennywise's immortality. The main color of his suit is a dark gray, but also has some color accents.

The film music was composed by Benjamin Wallfisch . Wallfisch also used the songs Six Different Ways by The Cure in the film , which the children hear when they clean the bloody bath, Antisocial from Anthrax during the stone battle on the river, and Dear God from XTC . The soundtrack for the film comprises 38 pieces of music and was released on September 8, 2017 by WaterTower Music as a download and as a double CD.

Marketing and Publishing

Several photos showing Skarsgård and Botet, but also Muschietti, were released during filming. Photos during the film editing were also published and photos by Pennywise. In addition, some fictional mug shots, recordings of set decorations and concept art of a boy with his bicycle were presented. At the end of March 2017, the first teaser trailer was presented at CinemaCon. At the end of March 2017, Warner Bros Germany also published a German trailer on YouTube. At the Comic-Con in San Diego in July 2017, the director presented three more insights into the film, including two scenes depicting the friendship of the Losers' Club and their fight against Henry Bowers. FLOAT: A Cinematic VR Experience was also presented there. Another trailer followed at the end of July 2017, in which some scenes from the previous trailers were taken up again, such as the paper boat of Bill's little brother George or the scene in the basement of the Denbroughs.

There are 27 years between Stephen King's two publications Es (1990) and Es (2017), exactly the time interval in which the entity Es haunts the city of Derry in the novel. This connection was not intended from the outset by the production team, but rather a result of postponements and changes of directors.

The film celebrated its world premiere on September 5, 2017 in Los Angeles and was released in US cinemas on September 8, 2017 and in German cinemas on September 28, 2017. In addition, the original version was shown at the opening of the Fantasy Film Festival on September 6, 2017. It had its Austrian premiere as the opening film of the Slash Festival on September 21, 2017 . On August 21, 2019, he is to be included in the Netflix program.

reception

Age rating

In the USA, the MPAA gave the film an R rating for depicting violence and horror and bloody scenes, which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany the film is FSK 16 . In the release explains that: "The film focuses on the perspective of his young, positive-drawn heroes and told in the typical garb of the genre horror - thriller of topics such as friendship and growing up. Drastic scenes of violence can overwhelm children and young people under the age of 16. But 16-year-olds are able to place these never voyeuristic scenes in the genre context. They can decipher the metaphorical level of the plot and distance themselves sufficiently from the cryptic aspects of the film, as the fictionality of the event is clear to them. "

Social media

After the first teaser trailer was presented at CinemaCon in late March 2017, the film topped the social media charts in early April 2017.

Initial reactions from critics and viewers after previews and press screenings were largely very positive on social media such as Twitter. Said Dan Casey calls from Nerdist the film spooktacular , adding: ". Great cast, surprisingly funny and really nervenaufreibendem terror" Anthony Breznican of Entertainment Weekly shares this idea and says, "I think it's one of the best Stephen King Films that have ever been shot. "

Reviews

The film has so far won over 86 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics . At the 2017 Golden Tomato Awards , the film came second in the Best Horror Movie category .

Eric Kohn of IndieWire says that even if the two and a half hour horror adventure saga is a predictable adaptation of the novel and the film offers few surprises, horror fans could still get their money's worth. Andres Barker of Variety says fans of Stephen King would surely appreciate the clear effort and affection that went into adapting his novel to cinematography. Dietmar Dath from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung believes that only a third of the half of the novel that fits into such a feature film format will be left, but this is the correct third, and Muschietti delivers the best 80s with Es. Years Steven Spielberg film that is neither from Spielberg nor from the 80s.

Regarding the work of the director and the entire film crew, the Huffington Post says that the children's fears are sensationally visualized and that the sound effects also contribute to the ultimate horror. To do this, Muschietti uses stop-motion effects , which were also used in the 1990s version of the film , and uses them and other various allusions to refer to the original. The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore says it's a solid thriller that works best when only the teenage heroes are involved with no monster scenes. Collider's Matt Goldberg says the pace, visual effects, and soundtrack are excellent, but what really makes the film come alive is that it has heart.

Concerning the fact that it has become less of a horror film with teenagers than a teenage drama with horror elements, David Steinitz of the Süddeutsche Zeitung explains : “The small town of Derry is a ghost town in this film , it looks as if Donald Trump has been president for fifty years . The adult world is in a desolate state of isolation and exclusion, the teachers, parents and shop assistants look like the zombie version of guardians - the child heroes are left to their own devices . ”In his criticism, Steinitz particularly emphasizes the cast of the central roles says: “Andy Muschietti has found young actors who correspond exactly to the novel and who carry this film with flippant dialogues that you can only exchange at 13, but also with their fear and disbelief of the monstrous things in life. A coming-of-age story in which the appearance of the clown can almost be described as a disruptive factor - but that also corresponds to the spirit of the original. ”Sean P says about the young actors who make up the losers' club in the film Means from The Salt Lake Tribune that the seven are consistently good and that the chemistry between them is right. Barbara Schweizerhof says in the taz , fears never proved when viewing the film as unfounded, but were always a harmless premonition of things much, much worse, resulting in a relaxation of the audience make impossible and it purely physically demanding for maybe Make film of the year. The fact that you can endure this, says Schweizerhof, is due to his heroes of seven, the “Losers Club”. The seven are a stroke of luck in the cast, according to the film critic, and each and every one of them has so much charisma that the few moments that the film shows them in non-horror situations are literally burned in. Rachel Heine from Nerdist also says that the casting of these seven roles is the real strength of the film. About Sophia Lillis in the role of Beverly Marsh, Dietmar Dath says that her part could not have been cast better, and that evil should have known right away that this young woman cannot be bitten without heartily biting back. Andres Barker from Variety , however, particularly highlights Finn Wolfhard , who in the role of Richie steals the show from the other members of the club. About the older and sometimes adult characters, Barker says that large parts of the film take place in the absence of their parents, and when adults show up, they are mostly drunk, mean, manipulative or completely indifferent to the fears and worries of those who are supposed to protect them.

About Bill Skarsgård in the role of It even says John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter , the film does not give him enough opportunities to develop the awful person that you saw at the beginning. Dietmar Dath thinks the actor chuckles and giggles with drool threads on his chin, so completely wrong that even his colleague Krusty from the Simpsons would run away.

Gross profit

After its release, the film landed at number 1 on the cinema charts in many countries, such as the United Kingdom, France and Russia. In the USA, where it opened in 4,103 theaters on September 8, 2017, the film grossed 123.4 million US dollars on its opening weekend alone. This meant the best horror film start there and the second best start for an R-rated film in history. With revenues of 327.5 million US dollars to date, the film advanced to become the most successful Stephen King film adaptation even before The Green Mile and the most successful horror film with this age rating even before The Exorcist . At the beginning of October 2017, It also overtook the film The Sixth Sense , making it the most successful horror film in the USA and worldwide. The production costs of the film of around 35 million US dollars are offset by worldwide income from cinema screenings of around 700 million US dollars, making the film 13th among the most successful films of 2017 and 117th among the world's most successful films of all Times is located.

In Germany, too, the film reached number 1 on the cinema charts after its start and has so far recorded a total of 3,170,231 visitors, making it number 7 in the annual ranking and the most successful Stephen King film adaptation before The Green Mile (2.11 million). ) and Shining (2.02 million).

Awards

On December 18, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Benjamin Wallfisch's work was on a shortlist from which the nominations in the category Best Film Music will be made at the 2018 Academy Awards . Below is a selection of nominations and awards from other film awards.

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2018

  • Nomination for best science fiction or horror film

Golden Trailer Awards 2017

  • Award in the Best Horror category

Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards 2018

  • Nomination in the category Best Sci-Fi / Horror

MTV Movie & TV Awards 2018

Saturn Award ceremony 2018

  • Nomination for Best Horror Film Release
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Bill Skarsgård)
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Sophia Lillis)
  • Nomination for Best Make-up (Alec Gillis, Sean Sansom, Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Shane Zander)

Teen Choice Awards 2018

  • Nomination as Choice Movie Villain (Bill Skarsgård)
  • Nomination as Choice Breakout Movie Star (Sophia Lillis)
  • Nomination as Choice Movie Ship (Sophia Lillis and Jeremy Ray Taylor)

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards 2017

  • Nomination for Best Young Actress (Sophia Lillis)
  • Nomination for best actor ensemble

continuation

In September 2019, the sequel Es Kapitel 2 , directed by Andrés Muschietti again, was released in cinemas. The focus is primarily on the club of losers in adulthood. Jessica Chastain , James McAvoy , Jay Ryan , Bill Hader , James Ransone , Andy Bean and Isaiah Mustafa were cast for the adult roles.

synchronization

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book by Klaus Bickert under the dialogue director of Tobias Meister on behalf of RC Production Kunze & Wunder in Berlin .

role actor Voice actor
William "Bill" Denbrough Jaeden Lieberher Oliver Szerkus
It / Pennywise Bill Skarsgård Leonhard Mahlich
Richard "Richie" Tozier Finn Wolfhard Ben Hadad
Beverly "Bev" Marsh Sophia Lillis Léa Mariage
Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak Jack Dylan Grazer Elias Kunze
Benjamin "Ben" Hanscom Jeremy Ray Taylor Finn Posthumus
Michael "Mike" Hanlon Chosen Jacobs Cedric Eich
Stanley "Stan" Uris Wyatt Oleff Maximilian Ehrenreich

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Commons : It  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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