Loser's Club

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IT Book vs IT Miniseries Stephen King’s 1,153 page novel, It, is centered around a group of kids in the 50’s that call themselves The Losers Club, due to having qualities about them which make them out of the ordinary, facing off against an evil shape shifting clown that ravages their town, Derry, after it killed the leader, Bill Denbrough’s brother, then coming back as adults to fight the clown again. Many people who have read the book agree that It’s concept is much better than the execution. The book often steers in weird directions, including a telepathic mind battle between It in it’s true form and the leader of the Losers Club, Bill Denbrough, detailed descriptions of a child a murdering dog (twice), and an underage sex scene between …show more content…

This resulted in their friendship feeling rushed and almost unrealistic. The book and miniseries both begin with Ben Hanscom, the fat kid, running from the bully character, Henry Bowers, into Bill and Eddie Kaspbrak, Bill’s germaphobe friend. They start building a dam together with Bill’s other friends, Richie Toizer and Stan Uris, however in the miniseries, Ben invites Beverly to build the dam with them. The first major change between the book and series comes when the miniseries skips the subplot where Bill and Richie discover more about It by looking in Bill’s brother’s haunted photo album and trying to kill It in the house on Neibolt street. Instead, the series goes right to the rock fight between Henry Bowers and the Losers, where they meet Mike Hanlon. After that, the miniseries skips the rest of the subplots (such as the Smoke-Hole, where Richie and Mike hallucinate seeing the origins of It, and Eddie breaking his arm) and goes straight to The Losers entering the sewers. The book and the miniseries handle The Losers Club fighting It roughly the same, except in the book, It is in it’s true form and fights Bill in a psychic battle, where Bill meets the creator of the

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