- Star Wars is one of the largest film franchises of all-time of which the second film in the original trilogy was released in 1980
- The Empire Strikes Back was released three years before the first episode of Stranger Things
- The film was of massive popularity with a male-adolescent audience in the 1980s
- in the Stranger Things poster, "eleven" stands with her outstretched which is a reference to the 'force' that is such a key part of the Star Wars story
- Mike shows Elle a Yoda toy and refers to her "Jedi-like powers" and Dustin refers to Elle as "Lando" whenever he feels betrayed but this never applies
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- References to parents whose obsession with the supernatural which comes across like madness
- in the film Close Encounters Richard Dreyfuss' character terrorises his family to follow his obsession with aliens
- Joyce (the mother) realises her missing is trying to alert her through the electrical wires in her house, so she buys a load of Christmas lights in an attempt to reach him
- Her system of communication with a multitude of flashing lights throughout the programme pays homage to the ending of Close Encounters
E.T: Extra Terrestrial
- The show pays many great references to the classic Steven Spielberg's ET with the story of a lonely American boy befriending an alien in need
- The landscape of a suburban town in the forest with boys dashing around their bikes and many chaotic houses with supernatural creatures hiding without their parents knowing a few examples of the references
- The relationship between Mike and Eleven directly resembles the powerful friendship between ET and Elliott
No comments:
Post a Comment