The fukunaga script does have elements of physical horror that hew more closely to the book. Beverlys father is the most alarmingly abusive parent of the children in the losers club, but the rest are controlling or neglectful in their own ways. In the interactions between sophia lillis beverly and her father, played by stephen bogaert, he strokes her hair in an immensely creepy way. But on another, given the rooms association with beverly s sexual abuse, its a form of gaslighting. It takes the shape of whatever its target fears the most, so mr. Reading stephen kings it is an exhausting way to spend a. After a tense encounter between beverly and her abusive and predatory father, who cant see any of the blood, the male members of the. There is one scene in the book where alvin marsh tells beverly if shes intact and wishes to see it. Both the book and film versions of it feature young beverly in an ongoing war between her abusive father as well as her maturing body but the movie takes it one step. Like butch bowers and eddie corcorans stepfather, richard macklin, al abuses his daughter. Mike was the one to call her about its return so she immediately packed her things to travel to derry. The new it is a compelling comingofage storyfor the. Again, it does feature in the book but i think another thing to consider is that beverly is a child in the 1950s in the book.
Eddie kaspbr ak has moved to new york city, where he runs a limousine rental company and has married a hysterical codependent woman similar to his hypochondriac mother. When we leave beverly, she is on the path to gaining that control, leaving her father and the twisted town of derry behind for the relative. But the book doesnt clearly state if he molests beverly, but it may be implied and he may have sexual interest in her. Stans father ari cohen watches stan wyatt oleff bumble through the. Though we dont actually see him touch her, its clear that beverly s main trauma is rooted in her father s abuseand unlike in the book, its sexual, not just physical. It movie beverly father sexual abuse disturbing scene refinery29. Beverly fight with her husband and leave her husband it chapter two 1080p hd ftend duration. How the new it movie deals with the child orgy scene vulture. What the it movie gets right and wrong about beverly marsh. He is the widowed spouse of the late elfrida marsh though, in the original novel, elfrida is alive, at least in the segments taking place when the losers club were kids and the abusive father of beverly marsh.
Her mother does actually briefly question her about her relationship with her father but its pretty much dismissed as soon as its brought up. Many viewers commented on twitter that the scariest. Beverly bev marsh is a fictional character created by stephen king and one of the main. Beverly was the only female member of the losers club.
Beverly isnt just tormented at home though in a change up from kings novel, the film makes her fathers abuse even more blatant. But he may have been under the influence of pennywise. Alvin marsh is a supporting antagonist in stephen kings it. Marsh and beverly occurs in the novel, king makes it clear that bevs father is actually possessed by it. Bills father geoffrey pounsett is severe and emotionally removed. Beverly marsh is a fashion designer in chicago, who has married an abusive man named tom rogan, who is similar to her abusiv e fathe r. Why it made that major change to beverly in the movie. Her luck went downhill when she married an abusive man named tom rogan. In the second half of kings novel, those years had passed and beverly was a fashion designer in chicago. Beverly has a crush on bill denbrough, but as an adult and towards the end of book, she lets go of her feelings for bill and falls in love with ben hanscom. She was dating a man named tom rogan at the time and he had the same abusive tendencies as her father. She lives with her abusive father, alvin marsh, but she killed him after he tried to have sex with her. Throughout the book, beverlys abusive father berates her, bullies her, and beats her, but he never tries to sexually abuse her until hes possessed by it. Throughout the book, beverly is not only selfconscious about her.
Beverly s father is the most alarmingly abusive parent of the children in the losers club, but the rest are controlling or neglectful in their own ways. What the it movie gets right and wrong about beverly. Beverlys father, alvin marsh, is a horrible man, poisoned further by the inherent. Remember that it becomes what you fear, and while it becomes a mummy, a wolfman, and the creature from the black lagoon for the boys, for beverly it takes the form of a gout of blood that spurts out of the bathroom drain and the threat of her father raping her. Beverlys screams attract the attention of her father, who cannot see the blood. Beverly isnt just tormented at home though in a change up from kings novel, the film makes her father s abuse even more blatant. The original script of it horrified parents of child actors with gross. This comes after several earlier, absurdly long passages in which beverly is beaten by her husband or her father, and in that context, it feels more than a little bit gross. Alvin al marsh is the spouse of the elfrida marsh and the insane, abusive father of beverly marsh in the it book. Although it is confirmed in the book that he only physically abuses her bad. She suffered a lot of trauma during her childhood, having been abused by her father. Marsh is used as a conduit to embody beverlys worst fears of abuse.
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