The way Ransone turns a knife through the cheek courtesy of Henry Bowers ( Teach Grant) into something darkly slap-sticky, like a one-scene guest-directing spot by Sam Raimi. The slack-jawed look of sheer disbelief Hader locks on his face as Pennywise descends from atop a Paul Bunyan statue in a cloud of red balloons. We knew going in that these two would provide their fair share of whiz-bang banter and comic relief-it's an SNL alum and freaking Ziggy from The Wire, come on-but it's incredible the way both these actors navigate the subtler touches, not only between each other but in solo scenes. After Eddie's tragic death in It's lair, we do see Richie carving his initials into that bridge next to his fallen friend's, but we're left wondering-unlike the rest of the Losers, whose futures are pretty clear-if that blissful moment of truth carries on into Richie's post-Derry life.īut if the film doesn't commit, Hader and Ransone do, and it's a miracle to watch. But IT Chapter Two can't quite commit to the concept. In that light, Richie finally accepting his sexually should come hand-in-hand with Pennywise's defeat, a figurative and literal triumph over his deepest-rooted fear. It's a wonderful idea in theory it acts as a full-circle companion to the film's horrific opening, in which a gay man named Adrian Mellon ( Xavier Dolan) is tossed off a bridge by a band of smalltown bigots and quickly dispatched by a waiting Pennywise, proof that the primordial clown-spirit's evil runs deep through the veins of Derry and its people. This, of course, includes the film's biggest deviation from King's source novel, the reveal that Richie is a gay man who has lived his life in the closet, harboring feelings for his childhood friend Eddie.
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