What details do you pay tribute to in the film? Where are the easter eggs?
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Mad Max episode 1
1. Tom Cruise poster
Nancy still has a poster of Tom Cruise from Season 1 on her bedroom wall, supposedly from Risky Business, and her love for the movie will show later.
2. "Drangon's lair"
Released in June 1983, the game was a hit. And the movie time is 1984, which means the kids spend a lot of coins on saving the princess.
3. Mad Max
High scorer MadMax on the consoles Dig Dug and Centipede is a tribute to the on-screen character from 1979's Mad Max.
4. Arcade game "Dig Dug"
Foreshadowing of Sheriff Hopper's later actions. In the game, the player plays the role of a cheerleader, finds the monster's launch tube by digging a tunnel, and keeps pumping to make it expand and burst.
5. The Terminator
The theater in the town played the 1984 "Terminator," which later grossed nearly $80 million worldwide.
6. Merrill's Farm
Merrell is a famous character in the Stephen King horror universe, and the main creators Matt and Ross Duffer are his fans. In addition, the creators drew inspiration from the film "Stand by Me" based on Stephen King's "The Body" for the first season. The film tells the story of a summer adventure of four heartbroken teenagers living in the small town of Castle Rock, Oregon, out of curiosity and embarking on a "corpse discovery" journey along the railway. Ace Merrill. In the first season of the show, there are also scenes of several protagonists looking for people along the railway, which is a tribute.
7. Cornfield
When Sheriff Hope goes into the cornfield to find the source of the noise, the scene is reminiscent of the scary scarecrow in Stephen King's The Scythe.
8. Unknown route
When Joyce was driving her son Will to Hawkins Lab, passing a narrow driveway in a secluded fir forest, the shot was the same as in The Shining, but ominous The omen is creepy. In addition, the main creator also let the character Billy in the play learn the madness of the characters in "The Shining".
9. Reese's Pieces
In the show, when Sam, the Hawkins lab doctor, tests Will and asks him what his favorite Halloween candy is, Joyce whispers to Chocolate Chip. And chocolate beans are the candy that the little heroine in Stephen King's "ET" used to draw out her good friend ET.
10. Cliff diving
At dinner, Mike's parents punish him for taking out two boxes of toys for "yard sale," which Mike is reluctant and argues that others do the same. This is his father saying, "Then if your friend jumps off a cliff, do you jump with it?" Mike rolled his eyes and said nothing. But the answer is yes. Because in the first season, Mike jumped off a cliff to save his friend Will and was rescued by 11 (Eleven). This also reminds us of the Stephen King movie "It" released this year. Wolfhard who plays Mike also has a role in "It", and also has a cliff dive, and a sweet relationship begins after the dive (although not his).
11. Millennium Falcon
Mike saw the Millennium Falcon while finishing his play, which 11 had thought to float in the first season.
There is also a monkey thrown in by him earlier in this paragraph, and that monkey is the symbol of "Monkey Massacre" by the creators of the Duf Brothers, which will be shown at the end of each episode of the show.
12. Camera
On Halloween, Bob held up the camera and filmed Joyce cooking. The camera and Back to the Future are the same ones Marty used to record Dr. Brown's time-travel experiments.
13. Jaws Poster
Will's bedroom also retains the same "Jaws" poster as in the first season, paying tribute to director Spiel Berger. The poster features a shark head-up staring at a swimming bikini girl, a bloody mouth with sharp teeth, alluding to the fate of Will and his companions.
14. The Movie Housewives
The movie "House Husband" that Bob rented to watch with everyone is Michael Keaton's first movie, famous for "Batman", "Birdman" and so on.
15. Will's Contacts of the Third Kind
After the Byers family fell asleep, Will went to the bathroom and entered the reverse world. There was lightning and thunder outside, and the door slowly opened. This scene is borrowed from Spiel Berger's "Encounters of the Third Kind," in which a young boy is also attracted to the light outside before being taken away by aliens. Likewise, the creator drew an analogy between Joyce's maternal love for Will and Roy's love for his son in the movie.
Episode 2 trick or treat, lunatic
1. El's Ghost Dressup
At the beginning of the second episode, 11 surprised Hope by pretending to be a ghost. This costume is also a tribute to the aliens in the movie "ET" who dressed up as ghosts and played "Trick or Treat" on Halloween.
2. “Who Ya Gonna Call?”
This is a classic catchphrase from Ghostbusters. The four little guys in the play put on their Halloween costumes early to go to school, only to find that no one changed into their holiday costumes this year, and they were laughed at and called "Who You Gonna Call?".
3. Mucus
Hope found the sticky liquid in the tree and rubbed some with his gloved hand to shake it off, the same thing Venkman did at the beginning of the movie Ghostbusters. Released in 1984, the film grossed $23 million at the North American box office and had a far-reaching impact.
4. "I'll Be Back"
If you didn't see the Terminator tribute in episode 1, you'll see part of the trailer when El is watching TV in episode 2. After the channel change, 11 was influenced by the super-long soap opera "All my children", which gave her the courage to run away.
5. Good boys are crazy too
Nancy went a step further by expressing her obsession with Tom Cruise and "Risk Business", where she was dressed as the heroine of the movie at the Halloween party, while Steve was dressed as the hero and also Put on the classic Ray-Ban Wayfarers sunglasses.
6. Nancy and Tina
The name Nancy was inspired by Nancy Thompson, the heroine of Elm Street. In the film, Nancy goes to spend the night at her friend Tina's house, which ends in tragedy. So it's no surprise that Nancy went to Tina's party in the show. It's just that in the play, it's not Tina (blood) who is covered in red, but Nancy (wine).
7. Halloween costumes
At parties, we can see people dressed as Johnny from Dragon Power, Alex from Blitz, Rocky, Bluto from Animal House, and Scarface and "Hawaiian Detective" characters. In terms of music, some dressed as Madonna, and the girl Jonathan approached was dressed as Siouxsie Sioux of KISS.
8. Horror characters
On the way to ask for candy, the Dungeons and Dragons squad was taken aback by Max. The mask Max wears is from Michael Mayes in "Halloween". By 1984, the film had been shot for two more. Later, Will was scared and fell into the reverse world by a group of people who dressed up as werewolves, clowns and the killer Jason in "Friday the 13th III".
9. Frankenstein
While waiting for Hope to get home, 11 was watching TV at home and happened to see a scene from "Frankenstein". It left her wondering if she was a child or a monster, since they both came from the lab.
10. "They're Here"
The scene where 11 tries to contact Mike on TV is very similar to another Spiel Berger movie - "The Haunting", in which the youngest daughter Carol often sleepwalks and talks to herself to the TV that automatically turns on the snowflakes.
Episode 3 Tadpoles
1. Mews
Dustin's cat is the same breed as the "Alien" heroine's cat, and both make a vigilant "his!" sound when they detect a dangerous alien creature.
2.ET
Another nod to ET is that Dustin also had a goofy alien creature in his chest of drawers (as a kid, of course).
3. "Light, light"
When Dustin kept the world-defying creature Dart as a pet, he found that he was afraid of the sun and grew rapidly by eating, much like a comedy fantasy horror movie - "The Elf" (produced by Spielberg) The creatures in the movie), the bigger they eat, the bigger they get uglier. In addition, the scene where Dustin feeds Dada with a power bar and Chunk and Sloth in "Seven Treasures" are made good friends through a "Baby Ruth" power bar.
4. Mr. Bald
When Bob tries to help Will out of his nightmares, he tells him that he used to dream about the terrifying clown, Mr. Bald, and he would stretch out his fat white-gloved hand and ask Bob, "Hey kid, do you want it? balloon?"
Although The Clown was only published in 1986 (two years after the events of Season 2 of Stranger Things), the tone is very much like the clown in it, luring the little boy to his death: "Hey George, do you want a balloon? ?"
5. Beautiful and beautiful
The bedtime story Hope told Eleven was "Pretty Beautiful", the story tells the story of an orphan girl who was mistakenly sent to a place where an orphan boy was needed, and she succeeded in making a name for herself in the community with her ardent heart and unparalleled imagination. This part of the reading foreshadows Eleven's investigation into her own background.
Episode 4 Will the Wise
1. Cheers Bar
Get a glimpse of Sam and Diane from the sitcom "Cheers Bar" while watching TV on Eleven, if the timing is right, this will be the episode of "Sam Tolerance," which aired on November 1, 1984 .
2. Go all out
The music played during Steve's basketball practice was "Scarface (Full Push)", a Paul Engemann '80s hit song, as the title says, from the movie "Scarface" Soundtrack.
Episode 5 Drill Kid
1. Bacon bait
Another tribute to "ET", Dustin put a slice of bacon into the underground warehouse to lure Dada out, just as Elliott lured ET out.
2. Family Q&A
When Eleven found her mom, she was watching the TV game show Family Quiz, hosted by Richard Dawson. The host will play the villain in Schwarzenegger's "Crossing the Lines", and the screenwriter of the film is Stephen King .
3. Trailblazers
When Max goes to the arcade to make an appointment with Lucas, clerk Keith calls her "the trailblazer." This title is a tribute to "Mad Max 2: Trailblazer".
4. Pixie!
The Duffer Brothers are clearly big fans of Seven Treasures, a film about the adventures of a group of small-town kids and written by Spielberg .
So, when Sean Astin, who plays Mickey King in Seven Treasures, joins the show as Joyce's new boyfriend, Bob, it's a nostalgic tribute. To reinforce this signal, when Joyce asks Bob for help in deciphering Will's painting "Find X," he replies, "What's in X? Pirate treasure?" On the old map of , the X was used to mark the place where the pirate treasure was.
Correspondingly, Seven Treasures was filmed on October 22, 1984, which means that Sean Astin, who was 13 years old, was facing the camera and filming Halloween at the same time as "Stranger Things 2".
5. Playing with people
There are several clips in the play that pay tribute to "Ghost Playing People". For example, the poster in Jonathan's bedroom in the first season is the picture below. In the second season, Eleven found something under the wooden floor of the cabin in the woods.
More obvious tributes are the alarm ropes hanging outside the wooden house, and Hope being tangled in vines, all classic horror scenes.
Also in the eighth episode, when the camera zoomed in to Byers' house, it was also reminiscent of the "Ghost Playing Man" scene.
6. Sheriff Hope and the Legend of the Devil's Palace
When escaping the tunnel beneath Hawkins town, Hope took his hat off, reminiscent of the same scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark 2.
7. Human Alien
When the vines in the tunnel were burned, Will trembled, stared, opened his mouth and screamed in horror, reminiscent of the classic scene in "Human Alien".
Episode 6 Spy
1. Indy and Willie
Nancy and Jonathan were talking to themselves in their respective rooms, and then they couldn't help but find each other and spent the night together. This episode is also a further tribute to Indy and Willie in the legend of the magic palace.
2. Maine
As Bob was busy digesting the madness he had just experienced, he said to Joyce, "This thing makes the idea of me (together) moving to Maine sound less crazy." However, that's probably not a good idea...because Maine is where many of Stephen King's horror stories take place.
3. Endless Summer
The children's rooms in Stranger Things have posters about them. For Max, it was "Endless Summer," a surfing documentary about girls in California.
4. Buck
The laboratory director, Dr. Sam, played by Paul Leather, is clearly paying homage to James Cameron's Alien 2 character, Carter Barker. The connection between the two is even clearer when Dr. Sam watches in horror at the red dots on the monitor besieging his soldiers, much like the Alien 2 scene. In addition, as a little easter egg, when the soldiers entered the magic cave, the leader said in the same tone and lines as Corporal Dawn Hick in "Alien": " Keep calm ".
Episode 7 Missing Sister
1. Jedi and Eleven
When Eleven moved the container with his mind under the guidance of his long-lost "sister" Carly, it reminded us of "Star Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back", Luke Skywalker moved an X under the guidance of Master Yoda fighter. In the subsequent plot, Eleven uses her supernatural ability to almost strangle the man, which is also similar to the scene of the villain Darth Vader in "Star Wars".
2. Ponky Brewster
Eleven was watching the family comedy "Pangkie Brewster" when Eleven saw the man who gave her mom the shock therapy. The reason for mentioning the show is that it tells the story of an abandoned little girl who is eventually adopted by an old man who has a temper - like Eleven and Hope, the episode that's currently airing tells the story of Pang Ji going to Went to the doctor and was tortured by a large needle.
The eighth episode of sucking spirits
Jurassic Park
After Hawkins Lab is overrun by monsters, Bob volunteers to restore power, reprogram the system, and open the door. It reminds us of Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" where Sam L. Jackson sets out to get the park system back to normal. In addition, Sheriff Hope and Park Guard Muldoon both said the same line: "Where are those intruders?"
Episode 9 Door
1. Christmas lights
Earlier in the finale, Steve and Nancy pulled out a handful of Christmas lights when they went to the Byers family's backyard to find a heater, which played a big role in the first season, It is Will's tool to communicate with his mother Joyce in the reverse world.
2. The Exorcist
In the second season, a large amount of footage pays homage to the movie "The Exorcist", which tells the story of exorcising the evil spirits of possessed children. The most obvious tribute is the final scene in which Will is strapped to the bed, his skin changing color as the spirit emerges. In a further tribute, Will used Morse code to communicate with his family when he was unable to speak, and in The Exorcist, Reagan had the words "Help Me" appear on his skin.
3. Dark Phoenix
When Eleven used her ability to close the entrance to the reverse world, we couldn't help but think of the scene in "X-Men" when Liqin released her ultimate energy. Eleven, surrounded by flames and suspended, confirmed this. If you want to talk about the timeline, it can also be said to pay tribute to Stephen King's "Fire" (1984). In the film, Andy gave birth to a daughter, Shalin, after taking an experimental drug. Both of them have supernormal abilities, and Shalin The ability to set things on fire with thoughts.
So far, the translation of all the easter eggs in the second season has been completed. Thank you for your "useful" and "like" points, so that I am motivated to continue translating in the late stage of procrastination. Thanks for the support! ——2018.1.12
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