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movies
and
television the nostalgia it brings from
shows they pay homage to in either watching a 1980’s mov-
Stranger Things . Most of the ie or television show for the
movies first time or growing up in
and
the
the
television
shows they pay homage to
the 1980’s.
are from the 1980’s because
that is the decade they were
There a many more movie
growing up in, which makes
references
even the year it was set in a
than
television
show references in Stranger
nod to movies and television
Things , and there are more
shows the Duffer brothers ref-
confirmed references in sea-
erence. The movies and tele-
son one than in season two
vision shows in the 1980’s
because season one has been
were the ones they were
out longer. The 1979 science-
growing up watching, but not
fiction horror film, Alien , is
all the movies and television
one of the many movies the
that they pay homage to are
Duffer brothers used as inspi-
from the 1980’s, some are
ration. The Duffer brothers
from earlier or later years.
have said that Alien is what
Whether the Duffer brothers
inspired the shots of when
intentionally had so many
the audience is first intro-
nods to older television shows
duced to the Upside Down.
and movies was intentional or
The egg that Chief Hopper
not, we will never know, but
observes in season one, and
no one is complaining about
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