As someone who loves Bill (he is only second to Eddie because nobody can beat him) I fully get people that don’t like him in the movie because… I was one of them.
LET ME EXPLAIN: I love Bill, as most people who have read the book can agree he’s one of the best characters, but the reason he’s so much better in the novel than in IT 2017 is that there he is a more human character.
Novel Bill cares about his friends and interact nicely with them often, ofc him and Eddie, but he is nice also with Ben and Mike, 3 friendship completely removed from the movie. IT 2017 Bill cares only about two things: his dead brother and Bev, while book Bill barely considers her at all for most of the novel, and if he does, it’s in a friendly way like he would treat Stan or Ben of and of the losers.
Then without the internal monologue we lose so much of those character: we hear about his emotional neglect, his struggles with grief, his relationship with his friends, his struggles with being a leader (a role he never asked to be but now he has to do to protect his friends) and all the worries that make him a kid like the others.
Another very important thing is that a lot of scene that humanize him in the novel got taken out/completely changed: when he cried because he thought that Eddie was going to die, when he was sobbing thinking that he’s the reason George died, when he’s playing as a normal kid… they removed that only to make him this adult hero he never was meant to be.
PS. If I wasn’t clear enough, I’m only talking about CHILD Bill, both adults versions pmo.
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