#the conflict between “this is me liberating my cringe” but not having its own voice to stand on is a core theme in explorerz. that you need

[rexalogy]

rawring 20s

[reddieaddict]

Hi! I finally have the chance to respond, these few weeks have been insane and I think it’s gonna stay that way for a little while. 

I recently read something where someone theorized that Richie seemed to have potentially said he was afraid of clowns out of insecurity. Richie (in the novel at least) hides his emotions, thoughts and fears or camouflages them with voices and jokes. I’ve come to believe one of Richie’s real fears is for people to see or know how he actually feels. So it would make sense that he doesn’t actually share what his fear is and conveniently says he’s afraid of clowns. This is a reach though, so who knows. He does do voices and jokes and his backstory/home life is intentionally never explored to make the audience feel like he is neglected and like we don’t really know him, so maybe they will portray him like in the novel and reveal that he actually did have a different encounter with IT and it was regarding his real fear or whatever, like they did in the book.

I really hope that is something they do in the second chapter, lots of hidden memories and secrets that they kept from each other, or more subtle hints to underlying fears. 

I just rewatched It yesterday and realized I totally forgot that It asked Eddie “what are you looking for?” over and over and I honestly don’t know where they are heading with that. I know that some people speculate that it might be foreshadowing for his sexuality, but I don’t know. Its so vague that it could be about his religious fears or anything honestly. 

I think that something that you can really tell from this film is that Muschietti and Dauberman didn’t really understand the characters the way that Fukunaga did. . Like, I know his first script was a mess, but one thing he did understand was the actual characters. It makes me worry about how the second chapter will turn out since now Dauberman is writing the script (with that guy who wrote Agent Cody Banks *cringe*) without Fukunaga or the other guy. From what I have come to learn, Dauberman is the one that removed a lot of the more risky subplots and details. (I also heard he made the dynamic and dialogue between the characters colder and stale, but muschietti fixed that during production, but i dunno). 

Anyways, I think that’s why the movie raises so many questions, confusion, and uncertainty about the characters’ fears and secrets. There is a conflict in vision. But, no matter how much Dauberman changed, some of Fukunaga’s original ideas still kinda showed through. I mean, Reddie was canon in the original 2016 draft and even though Dauberman attempted to erase that from the story, so many fans (that had never read the book or watched the miniseries) still ended up shipping them. Their original storylines and dynamic still showed through, because the script was still pretty much Fukunaga’s, but like the coke-zero-version. lol. So my point with this is, I think Dauberman and Muschietti find themselves at a crossroads, they could easily make the second installment a completely original and different story or they could follow through with Fukunaga’s original ideas and either way it could work. (I mean either way its gonna be completely different because they are doing the whole ritual of chud thing out of order, so they could actually end up killing Pennywise permanently.) 

But there are so many chefs in the kitchen, that it makes it hard to predict. They have to appease the executive, make sure not to make it TOO risque’ and ending up alienating potential viewers, their own ideas blah blah blah. Like at the end of the day, this is a business and they point is to make money. They have to think like artist, but also business men and i get that. They have to make something that is going to be well received by ALL audiences (domestic, international, conservative and liberal whatever) so I understand if they end up making it safe af. 

I feel like I took this conversation on a complete tangent, but whatever. I hope you aint disappointed. lol.