Eddie loves Richie: a bullet-point essay
(Combination of my thoughts and others' posts)
Ben/Richie are successful and living alone, while Bev/Eddie are in unhappy/abusive relationships with someone who resembles their parent.
Richie and Eddie also parallel the gay couple at the beginning of the film, where the asthmatic one is killed.
Eddie tries to avoid telling his wife he loves her.
Eddie gets defensive about his marriage (even before Richie says, "What, like to a woman?") in a way he doesn't about his job or mom.
He believes Richie when he says he got married. Bev rolls her eyes and says, "There's no way Trashmouth is married," but Eddie just says (in the tiniest voice), "When?"
"LET'S TAKE OUR SHIRTS OFF AND KISS."
Eddie triumphantly says, "I fucking knew it!" when Richie says he doesn't write his own material--when the only material we see is Richie talking about having a girlfriend.
Resident germaphobe Eddie Kaspbrak removes his shower cap just because Richie thinks it's stupid.
The hammock scene.
The shorts with the little rainbow stripes.
He and Richie are the only two Losers to come back to the hotel after getting their tokens, refuse to tell anyone what happened, and slink off to their rooms.
Both Eddie and Richie encounter Pennywise holding balloons making the shape of an inverted triangle, a symbol used to denote gay men in concentration camps.
Richie and Eddie encounter a scary door with a closet inside. If we were only supposed to see Richie as gay (and in the closet), you'd have him in this scene alone, but they're both present.
Eddie's the only one of the Losers obsessing over AIDS. He's also confronted by a leper, another highly stigmatized disease.
"But he married a woman!" So did Elton John. THEY MAKE MISTAKES.
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