BBC推薦：9月必看的9部電影

4.《小丑回魂》（It）

上映時間：9月8日（美國）

For many Stephen King fans, the definitive portrayal of It's Pennywise, an evil clown that's really a malevolent spirit that feeds off fear, was by Tim Curry in a 1990 TV miniseries. So Bill Skarsg?rd has big clown shoes – and pantaloons – to fill. In this film version of the 1986 novel, It is much more clearly a metaphor for how powerful forces can divide and destroy a society, in this case the small town of Derry, Maine, by playing off people's greed, ambitions, and fears – the evil spirit that manifests as Pennywise only appears to people in the form of something that will scare them the most. So for a group of children in Derry, the thing that scares them the most is an evil clown. And, like the children in Stranger Things, these kids have to fight back against the evil facing them.
對于史蒂芬?金的眾多粉絲來說，湯姆?克里在1990年的電視短劇《小丑回魂》中定義了小說《死光》中Pennywise的形象，這個邪惡小丑是真正令人戰栗的惡魔。因此，出演小丑對于比爾?斯卡斯加德是巨大的挑戰。根據這部1986年的小說改編的電影版《小丑回魂》中，“死光”被更明顯比喻成一種可以分裂、毀滅社會的強大力量，緬因州德里小鎮的故事就是一個例子。通過釋放人們的貪婪、野心和恐懼，這個化身為Pennywise的惡魔只會以人們最恐懼的事物形態出現。而對于德里鎮的一群孩子們來說，他們最害怕的就是邪惡小丑。和《怪奇物語》中的孩子們一樣，這群孩子也要向他們面臨的惡魔發起反擊。