IT 5 Things Chapter Two Does Better (& 5 Things Chapter One Does)

IT: 5 Things Chapter Two Does Better (& 5 Things Chapter One Does)

Chapter One and Chapter Two of Stephen King’s IT were very different, but each had qualities it did better than the other movie…

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Stephen King is continuing to experience something of a renaissance with adaptations of his books. Among the most notable of those adaptations in the past few years is both chapters of It.

Audiences may have gravitated more towards Chapter One, but Chapter Two wasn’t entirely without redeeming qualities. Here are some things that Chapter One managed better than Chapter Two and vice versa. Some minor spoilers lie ahead.

10 Chapter One: Terrifying Pennywise

Despite the special effects of the ABC miniseries being less than amazing, Tim Curry’s performance as Pennywise was nonetheless a standout. When the first images of Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise were released, there was a lot of wondering whether the clown could be as terrifying as Curry’s.

In Chapter One, Skarsgard proved to be more than up to the challenge, taking a completely different approach than Curry and making the dancing clown all his own, helping bring the worldwide box office cumulative to $700 million. In Chapter Two, a lot of the mystique his performance carried seemed to be lost. Pennywise was scary in Chapter 2, but not genuinely terrifying like he was in Chapter One.

9 Chapter Two: More Meaningful Deaths

Pennywise scares the daylights out of us in just the first few minutes of It, biting off Georgie’s arm and eventually eating him altogether. While Georgie’s death is the biggest thing that hangs over Bill’s head for Chapter One, the rest of the deaths mostly serve to increase the terror of Pennywise.

The deaths of It: Chapter Two carry a lot more weight. With the death of Stan, another kid that Bill can’t save, and Eddie, these deaths make the need to defeat Pennywise more real than in Chapter One. Our concern isn’t just with the Losers’ club, it’s with all of Derry.

8 Chapter One: Scarier Bullies

Bullies don’t just make fun of the Losers in Chapter One; they are physically threatening to them in a very real way. Henry Bowers, in particular, makes life hell for the Losers club, eventually carving into Ben with a switchblade.

Bowers returns in It: Chapter 2 as an adult as well with some kind of zombified friend in tow, but he takes a back seat to all the other things that The Losers are trying to deal with. He’s not completely off the threat board for The Losers, but he’s not the same kind of monster he was from Chapter One.

7 Chapter Two: More Adult Themes

Chapter One may focus on The Losers as kids, but it still deals with adult themes along the way. But if Chapter One is about seeing trauma take on a physical form of its own, Chapter Two is about really confronting it.

Chapter One ends with the temporary defeat of Pennywise and the hope of better days ahead. If only these kids can escape Derry and become adults, surely they will be able to leave their trauma behind. Chapter Two shatters that illusion, reminding The Losers that they may forget about the trauma, but if you don’t confront it, it remains as powerful as ever.

6 Chapter One: Better Pacing

There is no perfect length for a movie. Some movies aren’t long enough at 120 minutes, and some are too long at 90. That being said, Chapter One is more tightly wound at 135 minutes than Chapter Two at 170 minutes.

Chapter Two doesn’t just pad its running time with nonsense; it allows a lot of breathing room for The Losers to really confront their traumas and deal with them in a way they didn’t in Chapter One. But Chapter One maintains momentum more consistently than Chapter Two.

5 Chapter Two: Engaging With The Mythology

Where earlier drafts of the script of It: Chapter One featured more of Pennywise’s backstory and mythology, the draft that Andy Muschetti eventually used was mostly devoid of it. Perhaps knowing that many viewers would be at least somewhat familiar with his backstory, there were many questions about Pennywise left up in the air by the end of Chapter One.

Chapter Two doesn’t give us all the answers to Pennywise, but through Mike, they eventually learn about the ritual of Chud and how Pennywise can be defeated. It is a very long book whose mythology simply can’t be boiled down to a two-hour or three-hour film without getting in the way of The Losers’ story, but Chapter Two at least tries to answer some of the questions we have.

4 Chapter One: Better Chemistry With The Losers

Both Chapter One and Chapter Two have excellent actors who do a great job in their own roles. But as an ensemble, the kids in Chapter One just mesh better together. Most of them have grown up together and they feel completely comfortable around each other.

Perhaps because they’ve just been separated for so long, it is hard to capture the same energy of The Losers as kids in their adult forms. They do manage to have a fun time together when they meet back up at the local Chinese restaurant, but not until the very end do they recapture the spirit that brought them all together in the first place.

3 Chapter Two: Meaningful Horror

One of the criticisms that many have expressed with Chapter Two is that its scares aren’t really that scary, or that they’re jumpier than anything. Chapter Two’s budget was nearly double Chapter One, so why didn’t it translate into bigger scares, or even scares on par with Chapter One?

Chapter Two seems less concerned about making bigger scares and more concerned with meaningful horror. The Losers return to Derry to discover that they never truly forgot all their childhood traumas and they need to come to terms with them in order to kill Pennywise once and for all. Is there anything more horrific than dealing with real trauma, after all?

2 Chapter One: Has More Fun In Its Setting

One stark departure that Chapter One made from the book was its time setting change from the ’50s to the ’80s. The film relishes in its opportunities to give Millennials who grew up with the original miniseries a chance to engage with some nostalgia.

Chapter Two is firmly rooted in the 2010s and perhaps because we’ve only just left that decade, there really isn’t much to say or do with it. Maybe if Chapter One is remade in 20 years we’ll see it differently?

1 Chapter Two: Better Ending

While adapting It into a feature film may have seemed like a definite box office success, no one predicted it would go on to earn $700 million worldwide. As such, a great deal rested on the first film’s success and leaving an opening for a second film. It is hard to watch Chapter One and not feel like the story is incomplete, regardless of how much you like Chapter Two.

Chapter Two doesn’t try to leave the door open for another film at all. The door is firmly closed on The Losers’ story. They may never see each other again, but at last, they’ve experienced catharsis. In a day and age where franchises can’t seem to completely die, ending The Losers’ story here may be the most remarkable thing Chapter Two manages to do.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/it-chapter-one-two-better-worse/

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