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LGBTQ themes in “It: Chapter 2” reflects the need to overcome stigma and fear
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With the major release of director Andy Muchetis It: Chapter 2, it’s social commentary on small town homophobia surfaces vital discussions of the continuous battle for equality.
The movie opens with a gruesome hate crime of a gay couple almost beaten to death by the small town residents. The couple, Adrian and Don, are shown having a verbal altercation with the town boys due to the boys calling Adrian and Don a homosexual slur. The couple walks away but the boys stalk and defeat them. Eventually Adrian is pushed over a bridge, falling into the fluid below. Pennywise extends his arm out to Adrian and eats him.
“Even though IT looks love it’s a show about a clown from outer cosmos, it’s a film about how f-cked up humans are.” In an interview with TIME Magazine, Mucheti explains, “It would be ingenuous to omit [Adrian’s death], It’s part of IT‘s DNA.”
Many viewers were shocked after the scene however, Mucheti explains the homosexual hostility is a demonstration of how Pennywise feeds off of fear.
Many felt as though this opening was a “cheap shot” to
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Throughout IT Chapter Two, Pennywise taunts both the adult Richie Tozier (played brilliantly by Bill Hader) and his younger self (played in flashbacks by Finn Wolfhard) with threats that he is harboring a huge “dirty secret.” While neither character ever actually comes out and says what this secret is, it is fairly obvious by the end of the film that Richie is a queer character, and that he has harbored a longstanding crush on his childhood friend Eddie Kaspbrak all these years.
Richie carving “R+E” on the Kissing Bridge in Derry at the end of the film pretty much cements it. Still, it seems that some fans still don’t want to admit what’s right in front of their faces. But if there was any doubt that IT Chapter Two meant for Richie to read as LGBT, one fan just pointed out another giant visual cue to his being a closeted lgbtq+ character.
Writer BJ Colangeno noticed that the shirt mature person Richie wears is very similar in style to the shirt that performer Mark Patton wears in an infamous dance scene in A [Editor’s note: Spoilers ahead for “It: Chapter Two.”] “It: Chapter Two” has finally hit theaters, and the much-anticipated sequel to last year’s blockbuster Stephen king adaptation did not disappoint. In one of the most thrilling developments in director Andy Muschietti’s follow-up, which was written by Gary Dauberman, the pair depart from the original novel to support a long-held fan theory that a major character — Richie Tozier (played by Bill Hader and Finn Wolfhard) — is bisexual. During a terrifying flashback sequence involving clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), “It: Chapter Two” firmly establishes that Richie is not strictly heterosexual, and that the revelation that he is indeed interested in men is actually one of his biggest fears. Specifically, he has feelings for Eddie Kaspbrak (played by Jack Dylan Grazer and James Ransone). “It’s actually not really alluded to in the book,” Ransone told IndieWire during a recent interview. “I read the book. It’s a big departure f EJ Moreno on It Chapter Two and the gay community… I want this could be about Pennywise and The Babadook as the best same-sex attracted couple since Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, but no, this piece is a bit more serious. The newest blockbuster horror film It Chapter Two is now released, and it’s been met with mostly positive reviews. I saw the movie and personally loved it, proofreading it very positively on this site. This article is not about bashing the film, but looking at the problematic intro scene and the inclusion of a gay/bisexual nature into the story. For anyone who hasn’t seen the new film, this will contain spoilers, so readers beware. Reading the guide for IT prepares you for the film’s first scene; you know as soon as you spot the “I Love Derry” hat, this will not be a fun moment. I tensed up during my screening of the film and didn’t touch comfortable until a bit after that moment. I knew it was coming, and it was still rough. But at the time, I wasn’t offended by it and didn’t think it was more than just the opening to the source material. Then there’s a same-sex attracted character introduced into the fold, and themes are no “IT: Chapter Two” (2019) has been talked about a lot since its still fairly recent release, and the internet has already gone through multiple modes of discourse on its queer representation. The first consisted of people posting extremely necessary content warnings for the film’s opening scene, which features a forceful homophobic hate crime. The second occurred when many people took to Twitter to mock a recent Out article which labeled the character of Pennywise “homophobic”. But I think it’s age we moved onto the third level of discourse, actually breaking down and discussing the harmful representations of gender non-conforming people in this film. Because there is a lot to talk about. First, and most apparent, is that aforementioned opening sequence. Put in the modern-day, this scene shows an openly queer couple being stalked and beaten bloody before one of them is thrown off a bridge, then being devoured by Pennywise. It is a violent and discomforting way to open the film, and I’m very glad that many potential viewers were warned about it before seeing it. However, I don’t feel that the film’s problems with queer inclusion come direc
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