Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 107

to find a pirate’s treasure. In vice to Dustin at the Snow
season two, Lucas uses a Ball. The 1980 horror film, The
slingshot. This could be a ref- Shining, follows a family on
erence to the 1990 film, It, be- their way to the Overlook ho-
cause Beverly uses a slingshot tel where an evil spirit influ-
to defend herself against Pen- ences the father into violence.
Stranger The shot of the family on the
Things mostly resembles hor- way to the hotel resembles
ror, action, adventure, and sci- the shot of Joyce and Will’s
ence fiction movies, there are car trip on their way to Haw-
some similarities to a few 1980 kins Lab. Billy, Max’s older
teen drama movies, like Six- brother and the human villain
teen Candles, The Breakfast in Stranger Things, studied
Club, and Pretty in Pink. Steve Jack Nicholson role in The
Harrington, the popular kid, Shining to nail the role as a
falling for the studious Nancy villain. It shows when Max
Wheeler is very similar to grabs the wheel from him to
what happens in most teen swerve out of the way from
dramas. Stranger Things fol- hitting
lows the social status tropes creepily says “that was a close
from the teen drama genre. one, huh,” in a very Nicholson
Nancy over like manner. The 1984 film,
popularity when she chooses Gremlins, follows a boy whose
Jonathon over Steve and her new pet turns into a monster.
dancing with and giving ad- This is what happens to Dart,
nywise.
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