Stranger things intertextuality

The Duffer Brothers created Stranger Things as a homage to the 1980s, using many repeated scenes/ideas from 80s films.


E.t. The Extra-Terrestrial:


There are many links between Stranger Things and E.T. such as comparing eleven to the alien through the use of similar shots and comparison of storylines. For example, in stranger Things, they try and hide eleven from the government, similar to E.T, by trying to dress her up in a costume, the same as E.T. Both films are also from a child's point of view.

The Shining:


Stranger Things takes much influence from Stephen king and his stories. The shining has links such as the scene where Joyce uses an axe.

Stand By Me:


Stand by me is also from the kids perspective similar to stranger things. There are links between the two as they both go on adventures. 

The Goonies:


The goonies is also from the child's point of view and Dustin is also compared to one of the main characters from the goonies. 

Other Films include:

- Carrie
- Fire Starter
- Alien
- Close encounters of the third kind
- A nightmare on elm street
- Poltergeist

10 comments:

  1. One, two, three, four
    Need a boy who can cuddle with me all night
    Keep me warm, love me long, be my sunlight
    Tell me lies, we can argue, we can fight
    Yeah, we did it before, but we'll do it tonight
    An afro, black boy with the gold teeth
    With dark skin, looking at me like he know me
    I wonder if he got the G or the B
    Let me find out and see, coming over to me, yeah
    These days, I'm way too lonely
    I'm missing out, I know
    These days, I'm way too alone
    And I'm known for giving love away, but
    I want someone who love me
    I need someone who needs me
    'Cause it don't feel right when it's late at night
    And it's just me in my dreams
    So I want someone to love, that's what I fucking want
    Look, you know it's harder to find in these times
    But I got nothing but love on my mind (my mind)
    I need a baby with love in my prime
    Need an adversary to my "down to marry"
    Like, tell me, "That's life" when I'm stressing at night
    Be like, "You'll be okay", and, "Everything's all right, " uh
    Let me in that thing, 'cause I'm not wanting anything
    But your loving, your body, and a little bit of your brain
    These days, I'm way too lonely
    I'm missing out, I know
    These days, I'm way too alone
    And I'm known for giving love away, but
    I want someone who love me
    I need someone who needs me
    'Cause it don't feel right when it's late at night
    And it's just me in my dreams
    So I want someone to love, that's what I fucking want
    I want (I) someone to love me
    I need (I) someone who needs me
    'Cause it don't feel right when it's late at night
    And it's just me in my dreams
    So I want someone to love, that's what I fucking want

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  2. As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
    I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
    'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
    Even my momma thinks that my mind is gone
    But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
    Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
    You better watch how you talkin' and where you walkin'
    Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
    I really hate to trip, but I gotta loc
    As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke
    Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
    On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight
    Been spendin' most their lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Been spendin' most their lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Keep spendin' most our lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Keep spendin' most our lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Look at the situation they got me facing
    I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the street
    So I gotta be down with the hood team
    Too much television watchin', got me chasing dreams
    I'm a educated fool with money on my mind
    Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
    I'm a loc'd out gangsta, set trippin' banger
    And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger
    Fool, death ain't nothin' but a heart beat away
    I'm livin' life do or die, what can I say?
    I'm 23 now but will I live to see 24?
    The way things is going I don't know
    Tell me why are we so blind to see
    That the ones we hurt are you and me?
    Been spendin' most their lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Been spendin' most their lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Keep spendin' most our lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Keep spendin' most our lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Power and the money, money and the power
    Minute after minute, hour after hour
    Everybody's runnin', but half of them ain't lookin'
    It's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin'
    They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
    If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?
    I guess they can't, I guess they won't
    I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
    Been spendin' most their lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Been spendin' most their lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Keep spendin' most our lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Keep spendin' most our lives
    Livin' in a gangsta's paradise
    Tell me why are we so blind to see
    That the ones we hurt are you and me?
    Tell me why are we so blind to see
    That the ones we hurt are you and me?

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  3. NASA scientists are excited

    over recent findings by the Mars Rover

    of fossilised organic compounds

    on the surface that indicate

    at some time in the past there

    may have been life on the red planet.

    Thank you.

    Was it really that hard?

    Every day with the trash!

    What is the big deal?

    Well, can you imagine

    what the world would look like

    - if nobody took out the trash?

    - Yeah, it would be awesome.

    And speaking of trash,

    have you cleaned your room yet?

    And don't forget to shut the door.

    Milo, sweetie, can you get that?

    I have to do everything around here.

    Stromboli's Slave Shack,

    captive 331 speaking.

    - Hey, stinker.

    - Dad! Hey, are you almost home?

    Because the movie starts at five, and

    then it starts again at seven, and I...

    Hold on. Slow down. Slowdown.

    I don't think I'm gonna

    make it back in time.

    Well, you can't miss the beginning.

    That's when the vampires take

    over the submarine...

    No, I know. I know. But...

    looks like my flight's canceled.

    And no one's flying till

    this weather lets up.

    I'm really sorry, Milo.

    I'll make it home as soon as I can.

    - I love you.

    - OK. Bye.

    - Hi, honey. What's up?

    - Stuck at the airport.

    That's too bad. Milo was

    really looking forward to...

    - I was looking forward to taking him.

    - Yeah, I know.

    I'm sorry.

    Well, maybe if he

    finishes all his dinner

    he could watch Zombie Dawn III

    on pay-per-view.

    Milo:
    Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

    (After Milo had his dinner, he leaves the broccoli, pushes the plate, and leaves off the table.)

    Milo's Mom:
    Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho! You didn't eat your broccoli.

    Milo:
    Broccoli makes me barf.

    Besides, it looks like brains.

    Milo's Mom:
    Well, you like zombies.

    Zombies eat brains.

    Milo:
    Mom, no one likes zombies.

    They're an abomination.

    I'm committed to their annihilation.

    Milo's Mom:
    OK. Well, no broccoli, no TV.

    (While Milo's Mom is holding the basket of clothes and walks in the hallway, Milo gives the broccoli to Cujo and got poisoned.)

    Ohhhhh...

    (Milo hides after his mom came)

    Milo!

    Come over here.

    (He comes close to mom to explain why he fed the broccoli to Cujo.)

    Is that broccoli?

    Milo:
    No. That's vomit,

    but I understand the confusion.

    Milo's Mom:
    I thought I told you to eat that.

    Milo:
    Well, you're not gonna make me

    eat it now, are you?

    (Milo's mom gets angrily at Milo and points to the stairs while looking at Milo)

    Milo's Mom:
    Go to bed.

    Milo:
    But you said I could watch...

    Milo's Mom:
    No. That was before you lied

    to me and poisoned the cat!

    Milo:
    That broccoli was poisonous?

    Milo's Mom:
    No!

    Of course the broccoli

    wasn't poisonous.

    Milo:
    Well, you just said that...

    Milo's Mom:
    No!

    I meant that it's

    poisonous to the cat.

    Milo:
    Well, how can it be good for me

    if it's poisonous to the cat?

    Milo's Mom:
    Because cats are not

    supposed to eat vegetables.

    Milo:
    Maybe I'm not

    supposed to eat vegetables.

    Milo's Mom:
    Milo! Just go to bed.

    Now.

    (So Milo walks upstairs to his bed. While mom is coming upstairs, she heard Milo jumping on the bed and walked so angry at him as she entered his room)

    I thought I told you to go to bed!

    Milo:
    You told me to go to bed.

    You didn't say get into bed.

    It's not specific.

    Milo's Mom:
    Milo!

    My life would be so much better

    if I didn't have to be a nagging mom.

    Milo:
    Yeah, well, my life would be so much

    better if I didn't have a mom at all.

    (Milo's Mom feels sad about what Milo said and walks out of his room)

    Cujo. Wake up.

    I can't sleep.

    I shouldn't have said

    what I said, should I?

    It wasn't a good thing to say.

    I feel really bad about it.

    I should go tell her I'm sorry.

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  4. Right? I'm gonna go

    tell her I'm sorry. Right now.

    Mom? Are you still up?

    'Cause I wanted to tell you that...

    Mom?

    Mom?

    Milo?

    Mom?

    Mom!

    Mom?

    Mom!

    Let her go! Let her go!

    Let her go!

    Let her go!

    Mom!

    Let me go!

    Hey! I'm... I'm caught in here!

    Let me...

    Wow! I'm in a spaceship!

    This is so cool!

    Did I get superpowers?

    Hello? Is anyone there?

    Hello?

    What's going on?

    Low gravity!

    Keep it together!

    Jump down chute number three.

    What? Who's there?

    Hey, keep it quiet,

    and jump down chute number three!

    You want me to jump in there?

    Why?

    Jump down chute number three!

    Just jump down the chute!

    Relax, it's like... a water slide...

    ... without the water!

    Or the slide.

    A world of trash!

    It is awesome.

    Zombies!

    Don't come any closer!

    I'm warning you!

    I know karate!

    Well, at least on the Wii.

    No! I don't... I don't...

    I don't want any trouble.

    I'm just trying to find my mom.

    - I want to find my mom.

    - Mom?

    Don't you understand? My mom.

    - Mom? Mom!

    - Yeah, my mom.

    No, my mom. She's the one

    that feeds me. She feeds me...

    - Feem? Feem?

    - Yeah, my mom. She feeds me.

    No, no, she... she...

    she washes my clothes.

    She washes my clothes.

    You know, my...

    No, my... No, she... she...

    My mom. She vacuums the house.

    You know, she vacuums the house.

    Yeah, she's the one...

    No.

    No. No, that's not it.

    Stop. No! My... my mom.

    She's the one that...

    She tucks me in at night.

    She tucks me in? My mom?

    Can you... can you?

    No. No!

    No, you can't...

    What are you doing?!

    Let go of me.

    OK. All right. Chill out, Chachi.

    You seriously don't want to get

    dropped right now.

    You!

    You sent me down a

    trash chute, you jerk!

    Yeah. Sit back,

    relax and enjoy the ride.

    Prepare to disembark the aircraft.

    Let him down easy, TwoCat.

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  5. - Hello?

    - You like video games, man?

    Check it out. Space flight simulator.

    I programmed it from the manual

    so it's just like the real thing.

    I'm just messing with you.

    Hey, brother!

    Yeah. You're not a Martian.

    You're a kid.

    Man, it's been so long since

    I've seen another kid.

    Hey!

    I'm excited, too, buddy.

    My name is Gribble.

    Gribble the First.

    What's your handle?

    No, wait, let me guess. Maverick.

    - No.

    - Wolfman?

    - No.

    - Iceman.

    - No.

    - Did you see Top Gun?

    - It's Milo.

    - Milo. How low can you go, Milo?

    How 'bout I call you "My Bro"?

    Check it.

    You're a person...

    ...from Earth!

    - Shut up!

    What, are you crazy?

    I'm part of Ronald Reagan's

    secret astronaut programme.

    The Secronauts.

    You might have heard of us.

    We're here to stop the threat

    of interplanetary Communism

    throughout the galaxy.

    Why else do you think

    they call it "the Red Planet"?

    I do crazy stuff like

    that all the time, man.

    You're gonna have so much fun here.

    It's wobbly and shaky here.

    Come on! I wanna show you something.

    You gotta move pretty fast

    to keep up with me, buddy.

    - Wait.

    - Come on down!

    Hey, check my room out, bro!

    Oh, man.

    You're not used to the low gravity yet?

    OK, OK, OK. Don't worry, man.

    I can totally fix that.

    I can fix anything.

    There we go. I got an extra.

    Listen, I just wanna try

    and find my mom.

    This'll hold you down.

    - What is it?

    - Right here. OK? I'm gonna patent it,

    call it the Gribblemeister 3000.

    It's working, right? That's awesome.

    I wanna show you something cool.

    - What?

    - Hold on tight. Banzai!

    The weight belt helping you?

    Check this out, man.

    They're trying to figure out

    how you escaped. Watch this.

    Oh, my word! I cannot get out! Help me!

    Oh, wait, wait, wait.

    Watch this, watch this, watch this.

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  6. You wanna hear what they're saying?

    Sure you do.

    Wait. Gribble, I wanna find my mom.

    TwoCat! That is disgusting.

    Here we go.

    What is that?

    - That's a translator.

    - Wait.

    - Supervisor not likee.

    - Getting off me, you Martian!

    Unauthorised dogpile!

    - "Unauthorised dogpile"?

    - I know. They say that all the time.

    Come with me, man. This is so cool.

    Hey! Come on in.

    What do you think, bro?

    - About what?

    - About the room, bud.

    It's for you, man.

    What do you think?

    - For me?

    - Oh, don't mind this guy.

    I just tried to train him to be like my

    wingman, you know, but he's useless.

    It's more like a wing nut.

    Oh, gosh.

    I'm gonna get rid of him.

    But forget it, man. That's all history.

    - 'Cause I got you now!

    - Me?

    - Yeah.

    - What are you talking about?

    I'm talking about you and me, bro.

    Best buds hanging out forever.

    Playing video games all day,

    watching TV all night.

    There's no such thing

    as too much TV, man.

    Mom?

    Oh, yeah.

    Maybe there is such a thing

    as too much TV.

    - No. Wait.

    - I wanna show you something in here.

    What are they saying?

    Subject will be terminating.

    - Oh-four, oh-three...

    - "Terminating." Terminating?

    Terminating. I love that movie.

    Hey, you know what? Let's go. I wanna

    show you something cool, dude.

    No, wait. Gribble, what's going on?

    I don't wanna tell ya,

    and you can't make me. OK?

    - Just forget about it.

    - No, Gribble, tell me.

    - Please!

    - System overload! System overload!

    - Tell me!

    - Help! Hey!

    - Tell me!

    - Oh, my...

    Get... Uncle! Get off!

    Chafe-y.

    All right.

    All right, I'll tell you.

    Fact is...

    ...Mars needs moms.

    What the heck does that mean?

    These are hatchlings.

    They are baby Martians,

    and they pop out of the ground,

    like potatoes,

    every 25 years or so.

    And the Martians, they're terrible

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  7. at mothering, which is ironic, really,

    since the ones running the place

    upstairs, they're all female.

    - Can you get to the point?

    - I... All right.

    What they are good at

    is building robots, right?

    So they build these Nanny-bots

    to raise the girls.

    And each Nanny-bot gets one kid

    to raise, and then it's toast.

    It can't be reused after that.

    Who knew mothering was so hard?

    "Hard?"

    - So why did they take my mom?

    - OK.

    They have to program the

    Nanny-bots each time, right?

    So... they find someone

    who is really good

    at controlling their own kid.

    Hey, that's my house.

    And that's me!

    Are these my mom's memories?

    Yeah.

    See, all these Martians care about

    is order and discipline.

    What was that one about?

    Just tell me what they're

    gonna do to my mom.

    All right.

    Right up there.

    You see, they have this

    memory extraction machine.

    It takes the discipline

    out of the mom

    and it puts it into the Nanny-bots.

    It works on some kind of

    solar-wind focusing system.

    And when the sun rises...

    ...they extract what they need to

    program the Nanny-bots, and that's it.

    OK? That's it.

    Wait. So my mom is gonna

    lose all her memories?

    Yeah, something like that.

    No, that... that can't happen.

    - We've gotta save her!

    - Well, that's impossible,

    - so, like, get over it and move on.

    - But we've gotta try.

    - We've gotta try!

    - This, my friend,

    is a Martian wristwatch.

    You see the bars here?

    Counts down to sunrise.

    So you must have

    about 6.93 Earth hours left.

    Less than seven hours? That's all?

    Let's say that,

    for the sake of argument,

    that we do, we disguise you.

    And we use all this awesome spy gear

    to guide you up to the surface.

    Those Martians, man, they...

    They're gonna spot you.

    They're gonna chase you

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