To wonder why the orgy scene appears in neither version of 'it'?

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Just that really. When I read the book it's an integral part. I know it would have to be shot in a very sensitive/abstract way but to avoid it completely seems odd.
I've read why the directors say but it doesn't sit right.

this is not about Information Technology is it ?

Bev had not had sex before the "bonding/pinky swear with the other Losers.

It doesn't add anything to the story, so it doesn't need to be included in the films.

Because Stephen King can't write female characters for shit

Once you realise this about literature in general, it becomes very obvious.

I first read IT as a young teen and don't remember this part of the book standing out as particularly shocking. I too saw it as Bev taking control and bringing the group together on her own terms. I was far more disturbed by the scene where she sits on her father's 'uncomfortable' lap... (think I'm remembering correctly this is the same book - I've read most of them and we're going back some years here).

Like pp I disagree that SK can't write female characters...I also love the main character in Misery, and Carrie and her mother were very well written imo

Bev's father is sexually abusive as well as physically but he arouses himself sexually by hitting her, which is what Tom Rogan does too.

It doesn't work on any level. It is like Eddie making everyone puff his inhaler to bring them back together.

I haven't read Rose Madden for years but I might read it again.

The uncomfortable lap was a different book. Dolores Claiborne I think.

Eddie was the hypochondriac.

The book about the abused wife was Rose Madder.

/SK nerd

Argh knew I should have googled that Ten as I suspected I'd got the name wrong. Misery was about his addiction to cocaine in a way wasn't it? Must reread Gerald's Game too and see what I think of main female character now.

The main character in GG was abused by her father, too.

Mind you, I don't think that SK is any more focussed on child abuse than many other writers. Sadly, it's something that happens a lot IRL so it's going to feature in books, too (and be handled compassionately, clumsily, or creepily, depending on the author.)

Yes, in Gerald's Game she was - in fact it was her memories of her abuse that somehow enable her to escape. It's the glass used to view the eclipse and the glass to cut herself to lubricate her escape from the cuffs, if I remember rightly.

I'm glad they left it out, I feel sick even at the mention of it .
Was horrified when I read about that part, when looking up the book plot after watching the recent film. Really grim.