Posted on 08/30/2017 5:33:23 AM PDT by rktman
“It,” a horror film launching Sept. 8 about young boys in a fictional Maine town who face up against a creepy, child-killing clown-entity named Pennywise, is expected to be one of the highest grossing movies of the year.
Even the trailer for the film — an adaptation of the 1986 horror novel of the same title by Stephen King — broke industry records, prompting the entertainment industry to eagerly anticipate a break in the box-office slump.
But as the film’s drop date nears, one Boston University “Master Lecturer of Rhetoric,” Regina Hansen, has suggested a different storyline to focus on: the dominance of straight, white masculinity that pervades the tale.
In an article published this summer for Science Fiction Film and Television that delves into King’s novels, “It,” and additional on-screen depictions of his work, Hansen argues that his “white male underdog characters” achieve their heroic qualities “at least in part through the marginalisation of female characters, black characters, gay characters and characters with disabilities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
No make up required?
Pennywise should be in blackface instead of whiteface.
Boycott It. King wants to slam conservatives - let him be frightened for once with another box office bomb.
“Scholar” - the word has lost all meaning these days....it used to indicate a basis in knowledge and intelligence and has now been relegated into a basis in ignorant blathering.
I thought it was already a movie? Tim Curry played the clown? John Ritter, Richard Thomas had roles?... Or was that a different movie with a clown in the storm sewer?
Glad to see liberals get hoisted on their own petard.
Pennywise would get food poisoning the first time.
The End.
Not that exciting a book.
Hmmm. Made for TV movie?
***the first film was pretty close. I wonder what changes they’re making this time around? ***
Then ending of the made-for-TV version was lame. Big build up, then the let down. The critics said it was so it would not frighten the kiddies. Same for the Made-for-TV version of THE SHINING.
America was still suffering from the de-violencing of TV after the murder of Bobby Kennedy back in 1968.
Now excessive violence is back with a vengeance.
Pennywise is funnier
They could always rename him as "Poundfoolish".
Yeah, now that you mention it... I suppose that his writings do display a lot of crypto-racism and micro-aggressions.
(Don't ask me to cite specific passages where that is visible - I just feel that it's true. In fact, you're a racist if I have to explain it to you.)
I guess that the Liberals will now all have to boycott his books and the films based on them.
Sad.
Regards,
Keep up. White writers are not supposed to include AAs. It’s cultural appropriation.
King’s PC issues could not befall a nicer guy. wink wink.
One of the main characters in “IT” is mike Hanson, a black man who was the only one who stayed in Derry and was responsible from bringing the rest of the gang back when pennywise reappears. I would even say he was the main hero
Maybe if they casted podesta the molester as pennywise or is that too close to home?
Love it when they eat their own.
Spiderman Homecoming obviously got the message. They cast a Polynesian as Peter’s best friend, an Indian for Flash, and a black girl for his love interest. The black love interest even came from a mixed family, which was totally unbelievable, as she was 100% negro, not a white-black mix as she should have been genetically.
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