Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The greeting is friendly, and that is what makes it frightening: the monster says the child's name before anything else. The scene carries the film's whole mood, and the line has become the shorthand for a creepy hello, copied in memes, Halloween costumes and parodies. A cheerful yellow raincoat meets one of horror's best-known villains.
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In context
Spoilers for ItShow the scene
The opening of It (2017). In October 1988, in Derry, Maine, six-year-old Georgie Denbrough sails the paper boat his sick older brother Bill made him down a rain-swollen street, until it drops into a storm drain. Looking in, he sees a clown staring up from the dark. "Hiya, Georgie," the clown says, then introduces himself as Pennywise the Dancing Clown and offers him back the boat. Bill Skarsgård plays Pennywise in Andy Muschietti's film, and the scene sets up everything that follows.
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- It (2017) script, Springfield! Springfield!Opening scene (Georgie and the storm drain)Reference checked
- It (2017 film), Stephen King wikiPlotReference checked
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