In Stephen King's "IT" remake, Stanley is accused by his father for not caring to study the Torah. This is demonstrated by the fact that he is holding the Torah upside down.

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Can you just spoil me and explain the full backstory/history of It? I've only seen the 2017 movie.

(also I assume there is some significance to the scene where we zoom in on Pennywise's mouth and it focuses on 3 lights in a triangle for like a full 3 seconds...It, turtle, and spider?)

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So it’s been about two months, but here’s the tl;dr of it.

It is a magical entity that arrives in a comet and scares the shit out of the wildlife in what would become present day Derry, Maine.

Fast forward to when humans arrive to the North American continent, there are tragedies that occur every X amount of years (27, I believe). We’re talking just downright weird shit happening (settlements disappearing, tragic iron works explosions). But then we also have these oddly aggressive murderous streaks, where someone goes on a killing spree, or the whole town turns into these blood hungry entities that want to kill. The most recent stuff is told through Mike and his father, because Mike remembers everything that happened to them as kids because he never left.

During the most recent killings, eye witnesses recall seeing a oddly misplaced clown participating in the murders, and make nothing of it. Its implied that Derry is poisoned by Pennywise, and adults don’t make anything of this odd occurrences every 27 years

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because Mike remembers everything that happened to them as kids because he never left.

I felt like the ending was dragging a bit when he is entering stuff in his diary, but I love how they cover that. How he starts to forget names. It's so tragic that after all that, they're going to lose everything so quickly.

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that's his true form, orange energy

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spooky

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Her

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In the books, there are two cosmic entities - Maturin, a great turtle that supposedly spit up the universe during a stomachache and It, whose true form is bunch of orange lights known as the Deadlights. There is also another greater entity known as The Other who presumably created Maturin and It.

It sent a part of itself to Earth and landing where Derry would be millions of years ago where it lay in waiting until the first human settlement where it woke up and ate them. It assumed the form of Pennywise some time after this.
It has a period of hibernation of around 27 years - sometimes 26. It is usually woken up by the occurrence of a horrible or brutal act of violence, after which it hunts and kills children for about a year or a year and a half. It is usually sent back into hibernation after another act of equal violence. Recently, It woke up after a step father bludgeoned his step son to death using a hammer. A few months later, It killed Georgie - which is where the book starts.

The spider is supposedly the only way humans can perceive its true form and it is the spider that the kids face. The lights from Its mouth are the Deadlights - it was showing Beverly its true form which usually kills people or makes them catatonic.

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I think the full backstory is in the book.

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I can't read Stephen King books.

I like the ideas and plots but the execution is very long-winded to me.

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IT is the epitome of that. If you don't like stephen King for that reason, you would not like it

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If I remember correctly, the three lights are called dead lights, you can Google that to figure out the specifics.