Some spoilers for It (movie, 2017) are below. Malformed and oozing, the leper represents Eddie's greatest fear: infectious disease. His phobia seems to stem from a mental illness his mother suffers from known as
The leper is representative of Eddie's fear of disease. When seeing the leper, Eddie felt that if it had touched him he would instantly catch every disease that it had and rot from the inside out.
Unfortunately, Eddie is a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy with his own mother as the abuser. This means Mrs. Kaspbrak has been faking all of Eddie's illnesses in order to have unlimited control over him.
In each adaptation, Pennywise attacks his victims by manifesting the thing they fear the most. For the boys in the Losers Club, that fear includes werewolves, mummies, lepers, evil paintings, and even giant birds. When we finally see Bev's fear, it is something a bit simpler and much more rational than any of the boys.
In the novel and miniseries, Richie is afraid of the teenage werewolf from the movie he and the losers watch at the movies. A comparison can be made between the teenage werewolf and Richie's hidden sexuality. In the 2017 adaption, Richie has a “fear” of clowns.
As a paranormal entity who shapeshifts into children's worst fears and appears where you least expect it, Pennywise defines Sagittarius.
Ben and Beverly often serve as a parallel to Richie and Eddie and Ben's claim still applies–Bill will never love Eddie the way Richie does because of his sexual preference. Eddie loves Richie, but he also very much loves Bill and this love triangle is yet another parallel to Ben and Beverly.
As well as having his right arm bitten off, Georgie is trying to crawl away but he was dragged into the sewers and devoured by Pennywise, with an unnamed older woman and her cat being the sole witnesses of the horrific scene, including before Georgie lost his arm.
Muschietti — along with the film's former director and main screenwriter Cary Fukunaga, as well as several other writers — ties Beverly's anxiety about her own sexual maturation to her sexual assault at the hands of her father, and her fear of both these things to the bathroom itself.
According to It, when humans got scared, "all the chemicals of fear flooded the body and salted the meat". This is why he prefers to feast on children -- their fears are simple, pure, and powerful compared to the complex, pathological fears of adults. Basically, children are delicious.
He is the oldest of the seven members of The Losers' Club, and the only member Pennywise is afraid of.
Unlike the novel or miniseries, Alvin is sexually abusive towards his daughter, Beverly. After she came home from the pharmacy, her father shows up in front of her and passionately sniffs her hair. This cause Beverly to have an emotional breakdown and cuts off her ponytail.
And Eddie wants to say something, and he dies in the middle of his sentence. He says, "Richie, I..." And then goes. It was two different ways of solving the scene. I felt it was a little bit bit overkill, to find, after all that time, to come back and Eddie was still alive.
Some spoilers for It (movie, 2017) are below.
His phobia seems to stem from a mental illness his mother suffers from known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which manifests in her relentless “worrying” about his health.
Eddie's breathing had changed and doctors said he didn't have much time left. She described Eddie's passing as coming in "slow motion." "'I love you' are the last words Ed says to Wolfie and me, and they are the last words we say to him before he stops breathing," Bertinelli writes.
Psychologically abused by his overbearing mother, Eddie Kaspbrak finds his inner strength as a child, but trauma follows him into his adult life.
Beverly Marsh's father and Elfrida Marsh's husband. Like Richard Macklin and Butch Bowers, he is physically abusive. He slaps and punches Beverly but also sexually abuses her by masturbating over her while putting her to bed.
Kersh is Pennywise's daughter.
However, Mrs. Kersh is revealed to be a form of Pennywise and Beverly escapes. She reunites with Ben, and shares a romantic encounter with him, but Ben realises that Beverly is another form of Pennywise. The Losers Club return to Neibolt Street to face Pennywise for the final time.
Throughout Stephen King's It, Pennywise is referred to as a male, but author Stephen King pulled a fast one on readers in the It book ending by revealing the creature's true form was a pregnant spider, implying that it is, in fact, biologically female.
Humiliated, Pennywise begins to shrink, transforming into an almost Benjamin Button–like, melted clown-baby.
Myra Kasprak is a minor character in Stephen King's IT and its film adaptation sequel. She is Eddie Kaspbrak's wife. They have been married for five years and have no children.
In the other part of the novel, when Eddie was just a mere eleven-year-old, he found that, unlike the other Losers, he wasn't attracted to Beverly. He was unsure about losing his virginity to her, and did not seem to enjoy the intercourse.
Even if they don't ever share a love confession or a kiss, the parallels between Richie and Eddie both coming into their own throughout the film strongly lend themselves to a reading that Richie and Eddie's feelings were requited, even if they are never said on screen.