This guy’s sister must be very forgiving. I do believe that if I did this to my sister she might slap me silly just for the sake of it. Of course she’d laugh afterwards but only when the irritation had passed. After all it’s not every day that a lot of people have their special engagement photos, and somehow I get the feeling that Pennywise from IT just doesn’t say “I love you” in the same way that his sister might think is appropriate. It’s kind of a funny effect, almost like Pennywise is photo-bombing the scene, but still I think the photographer might have been wiser to email these pictures to his sister rather than deliver them in person.
It’s amazing how integrated Pennywise has been in American culture, especially now. Back in 1990 and before then he was a figure within the horror genre that was known to a lot of folks that had read the book and then watched the miniseries, but he still wasn’t quite the name that he is now. Of course back then we didn’t have full use of the internet on a global scale and so things had be transmitted via newspaper, TV, and through other methods that weren’t as quick and weren’t always as reliable in getting the word out.
Now that we have the internet and it’s fast enough to convey an image or anything else within a matter of seconds it’s far easier to gain more attention and become a lot bigger sensation. Pennywise was already a star before word of the IT remake came out, but status in the horror genre has hit a new high now that he’s been able to terrorize people all around the world. Now folks can look back to the 1990 miniseries to compare Tim Curry’s Pennywise to Bill Skarsgard’s and debate on who played the clown the best, even if it’s a debate that will never be fully settled.
Plus, no matter who plays the clown there is an element of fear that comes from the creature that is unlike anything else that’s come before. It’s best to read the book to really get an idea of how vast and terrible IT really is, but in the films you at least get a sense that there is something else behind the clown that is so horrible and ultimately powerful that the form of the spider-like thing in the miniseries didn’t do it justice. It was kind of a letdown really and if the second chapter of IT is anything like it I’m anticipating that lot of people are going to be more than disappointed, they’re going to start swearing off Stephen King stories altogether.
After all the idea of the story is to be scared out of our minds and still enjoy it, not be allowed to grow more and more excited and almost drool with anticipation just to be presented with a final bad guy that’s little more than a giant spider with a weirdly illuminated belly.
My sister asked me to shoot her engagement pics so I hid Pennywise the Clown in every photo. Countdown until she notices. pic.twitter.com/Z7QZPsq2ym
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 22, 2017
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