That helps everybody get their head around it before they move forward and have a script,” said Sims. “We come on board early on, when they’re actually writing the script, to help shape the direction of the series, the tone, the look, the feel. With today’s primarily digital processes, this collaborative ideation process is often lost, and studios instead approach vendors later in the production process with an order to create a creature.ĪSC, however, sticks with the traditional collaborative method. In the ’80s, before digital effects became commonplace, VFX studios collaborated with a film’s producers to start creating models early in the production process. This isn’t unusual: according to Sims, many writers don’t include details of creatures or characters in their scripts because they’re focused on the story. “It’s a biped, it’s multi-limbed, it’s actually humanoid, very skinny, very thin, lanky, tall, and no face, but has to eat people,” said Sims. But fans paid a lot of attention to Barb’s short-lived life, and they’ve observed that she looks a lot like Stef (Martha Plimpton) in The Goonies.The Duffer Brothers originally came to Aaron Sims Creative for the creature designs for Stranger Things, but the VFX company ended up helping them design the whole world.Īside from the requirement that the Demogorgon elicit ’80s practical effect nostalgia, the specifications for the creature were fairly open-ended. We’ve already noted that no one on Stranger Things glanced at Barb’s face long enough to be able to describe her to a police sketch artist, which is why when she was yanked from third wheel hell to a way worse hell with slugs in your face. The main difference would be that those Goonies kids were looking for secret treasure because of this neat map they found, while the Stranger Things crew is on a quest for their dead (kinda!) friend.Īnother thing. And in Goonies, the squad is also very innocent. The kids in Stranger Things, who have never done a bad thing in their lives besides throwing an imaginary fire ball in Dungeons and Dragons, are supposed to come up with a master plan to overthrow an all-powerful creature from another dimension. In Stranger Things, we follow a band of noble cute kids who bond over X-Men (another reference to a story wherein a girl unleashes a force she can’t handle.) Anyway, these misfits have a lot in common with those other misfits in The Goonies. Eleven used her powers and the rest used what they could find to help stop it. So the kids decided to fight the monster giving everything they got to help Steve. when everybody sails over the cops on their bikes. Stranger things season 3 theory/ story with the new monster and Steve. Nancys vision of Vecnas intended future hinted that a new Dungeons & Dragons monster is coming and its something big and bad. This was an inversion of that unforgettable scene from E.T. Stranger Things has used Dungeons& Dragons monsters throughout the series run, utilizing the characters knowledge of the iconic roleplaying game to explain the unknown creatures of the Upside Down. And then there was that great moment when the vans full of evil people were chasing the kids and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) who was like, I could get captured, or I could just flip a van over with my mind. references, Mike, dear, sweet, innocent, these-are-all-my-science-fair-trophies Mike (Finn Wolfhard) protecting Eleven was the most E.T. Kid hiding an alien who somehow lives with them completely undetected. Creature taking off the blonde wig because let’s be real, it’s not like the other kids. Kids dressing up the creature like a normal in a blonde wig. Creature experiencing the wonders of television for the first time. Rocking long, dark locks and rings on nearly every finger, Eddie seems to run the Hellfire Club with a metal flair, especially since, in the trailer, we see him jam. Dee Wallace, the mom in E.T., was financially struggling and divorced, and in Stranger Things, Joyce (Winona Ryder,) is also a cash-strapped divorced single mom, who just can’t seem to hang onto her child during an alien visit. Joseph Quinn joins Season 4 of Stranger Things as Eddie Munson, Hawkins High’s resident head of the Hellfire Club the school club dedicated to all things Dungeons & Dragons. Instead of Reese’s Pieces, Eleven has her Eggo’s. The biggest reference point is E.T., which, like Stranger Things, was about a charming, but totally threatening creature from another world.
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