THIS!!!! Stan was a great person, and he committed suicide. both things are true. we feel empathy towards him for the amount of fear and trauma that led him to that decision… they didn’t need to reframe that to make him a more “sympathetic” character. i know a lot of people view suicide as “selfish” but i really believe that audiences would still have so much love and respect for Stan despite it… he was suffering. and who could be mad at him for that. 😭
actually i think like. the craziest thing it 2019 did was change stan’s death from the suicide of a scared man to some heroic self sacrifice for the good of other people. he killed himself and instead of using this as an example of the mindbending terror to come (which is his deaths purpose in the book— our most well adjusted character thus far commits suicide), the film uses as not only a rallying point for another character but actually makes into a heroic gesture. be serious
My prof just played the Isaiah Mustafa Old Spice commercial in class as an example of good marketing and I just sat there tweaking like mIkE hAnLoN MiKe HaNlOn mIkE hAnLoN hE iS So MiKe HanLoN cOdeD!!!!
like Mike Hanlon did a few acting gigs to pay the bills when the library wasn’t cutting it 😔
Funny thing about Bill Denbrough is that in the book as an adult he’s bald, but in the miniseries he has a whole ponytail. Now I know most of you would probably prefer Bill’s hair in It Chapter 2, but if you had a gun to your head and had to pick, what hair would Bill have?