It (1990) vs It (2017)

The original movie of It was filmed and released in 1990. This was all based off of Stephen King's novel. But as time went on another film was released in 2017, a remake of the original film. Aside from the films being made 27 years apart, they both share the same general plot. A killer clown that comes back to the town of Derry every 27 years comes back to haunt and terrorize a group of kids known as the "Losers club". But although the general ideas are the same, there are many differences between the film. A couple examples could be Pennywise (the clown) and how his look and personality is different, the fate of characters change, and also changes in society in both movies.

Syntagmatic relationship: I'm still trying to find this in the movie, but right now I believe there is a syntagmatic relationship between Pennywise and the Losers club. Because the losers club is so low in popularity and are at the lows of society, pennywise sees them as easy targets, and keeps coming for the members of the club.

Adaptation: From the book written by Stephen King.  The novel and the movies differ to an extent with added characters and also some characters fate are different in the movie compared to the book.

IT Movie Differences

1: Pennywise look

1990: traditional clown look, nothing out of ordinary.

2017: clown with red lines connect mouth and head, more of outcast demon look, still clownlike but not traditional.

2: Pennywise personality

1990: Charming for his evil deeds, looks like society outcast.

2017: looks out of place and speaks danger. Obvious evil bad guy,

Filming differences:

1990: more pennywise scenes, a lot of angles and far away clips of killer to where audience can see full body and get full clown/circus thought.

2017: less pennywise scenes, but when he is shown he installs fear while he can. A lot of the scenes involve a closeup of pennywise for the audience to think about the killer more.