The following article cannot be considered original. Most of the easter eggs are translated, organized and expanded based on an article on the Den of Geek website. The original address is attached at the end of the article. The original text has more than 10,000 characters, and the author's carefulness is almost pulling the film, and his elegant attitude is comparable to textual research.
After reading these easter eggs, we will find that most of the techniques used by the Duffy Brothers in the last season are still superficial in paying tribute to and imitating the movies of the 1980s: imitating the settings of classic movies in the general direction, and imitating the settings of classic movies in small details. Use dialogue, comics, posters to highlight character tastes and create a sense of age.
In this season, the perverted Duffy brothers have made an extremely detailed plan for these techniques: imitation of lens scheduling (such as 14, 27, 41), imitation of plot setting (6, 43, 55), and character modeling. Imitations (7, 16), applications of pop culture and popular objects (2, 8, 34), Easter eggs, and even breaking the fourth wall to pay homage to the movies the actors have starred in (9, 15, 18). The most important thing is that they are all closely integrated with the plot (including the plot of the previous season), so these memes are buried very naturally and are very difficult to detect. This is a more advanced and clever way to play.
S02E01: Mad Max
[1] 06:48 The boys were playing "Dragon's Lair" in the arcade. It was released by Cinematronics in 1983. Video games with moving images (so 50 cents to play, double the price of other games). The animation was hand-painted by former Disney animator Don Bruce, and the player as a samurai will break into the dragon's lair alone to rescue the princess who was imprisoned in the castle by the evil wizard. Speaking of princesses... does anyone remember what Lucas said after Dustin lost the game? "You just don't play flexibly, you will always succeed. But before that, the princess is mine." A prophecy.
[2] 07:30 The Cheetos in the hand of Keith, the clerk in the game hall, was launched by Lay's in 1971. The play uses the retro packaging it launched in the 1980s.
[3] 07:40 Dustin's "Dig Dug" record was broken by Max with 751,300 points. The game was released by Namco in 1982, and the latest world record was 5,225,260 points set by Ohio player Ken House in 2013, so the 750,000 points in the play are completely reasonable. In addition, the games that flashed in the background include: "Pac-Man/Pac-Man", "Big Bee/Galaga", "Ms. Pac-Man", "Twin Win", "OXO" .
[4] 09:32 The next shot after the game hall transition is a bundle of newspapers. The left column is an article "Hawkins' Halloween", which reports the pumpkin crisis in the town; Heart" article. In October 1984, doctors at Loma Linda Hospital in California transplanted a baboon's heart into baby Faye. In official records, this was the first attempt in human medical history to replace human organs with animal organs, but the girl died 20 days after the operation.
[5] 09:39 "Terminator" released on October 26, 1984.
[6] 10:30 Conspirators/public-known Murray suspects that the Soviet Union used super-powered children to attack the town of Hawkins. This plot may refer to the 1984 version of "Red Dawn".
[7] 14:23 The proportion of the old metal soundtrack will always be included in the appearance, and the hairstyle and image refer to Rob Lowe, the teen idol of the 1980s. For more questions about the use of "wigs" in this play, please click on a Weibo posted by BtoZ: https://weibo.com/5440374917/FuspyjF2t?from=page_1005055440374917_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime
[8] 16:09 In the store where Wilma works, there are several Halloween masks that look very much like the Ben Cooper/Ben Cooper company. From Superman to Darth Vader, Frankenstein to Michael Max, the 70s and 80s, Cooper's shoddy and wide variety of masks ruled "poor kids" Halloween.
[9] 16:50 Sean Austin's Bob is the favorite character of the Duffy brothers in this season. The two originally wanted to kill him in the fourth episode, but the more they wrote, the more they liked it, and it was delayed until the eighth episode to let him take the lunch. According to the brothers, Winona Ryder swears when she sees Bob's tragic death when she first reads the script. In fact, Sean Astin starred in "The Seven Treasures" (second from left) as a child before he became known for his role in "The Lord of the Rings", which is also one of the classic "Boyhood" movies that inspired "Stranger Things". one.
[10] 17:42 The first person to ask the Sheriff for help was Mel Farm. "Merrill" is a well-known surname in the Stephen King universe, Ace Mayer, the dynamite-handling villain in The Essential Shop, and the four-boy bully in Corpse, the Super Handsome The character played by Kiefer Sutherland in "Stay With Me."
[11] 24:41 When the doctor asks Will's favorite candy flavor, Will's answer is not surprising. Reese's Peanut Chocolate is exactly the candy Elliott sprinkles along the way when he lures ET to the bedroom in "ET Alien."
[12] 30:35 "Max" and her ID are of course a tribute to "Mad Max".
[13] 34:48 Mike had to give away two boxes of toys. He put Seaman from "The Giant Seaman of the Universe" into the box, but he was not willing to put the Millennium Falcon from "Star Wars". This was the first item El used to show off his superpowers last season.
[14] 41:45 "Encounters of the Third Kind" imitated almost frame by frame.
S02E02: trick or treat, freak
[15] 07:15 On Halloween morning, El, who was dressed as a bed sheet ghost, had an unpleasant conversation with the sheriff, and a similar scene can also be found in Winona's "Master of the Underworld".
[16] 31:28 Nancy and Steve played Tom and Rebecca Money in "The Good Boys Are Crazy". As for why they want the Cos film, see the first season for details:
[17] 41:58 An Easter egg that is often misunderstood is that the girl Cos that Jonathan accosted at the party was not Loki or Robert Smith of The Cure. This cool look came from Siouxsie Sioux, the lead singer of the Succy Banshee.
[18] 32:46 "Would you like to dance with me, Count Dracula played by Frankenstein?" This scene pays tribute to Winona and Gary Oldman's previous "Four Hundred Years" In the dance, Bob is really humbler than Frankenstein. And Bob then suggested that the family head to Maine—the home of Stephen King, of course, and the place where the eternal story of Stephen's novels takes place.
[19] 34:49 Of course it's "Ghostbusters". By the way, really liked the boys' daytime bickering at school about who should play "Winston". Lucas: "I don't really agree with playing Winston. He's the last on the team, and he's not funny at all. No one wants to be Winston." Mike: "He's cool." "You think he's cool. Be it." "I, I can't." "Why? Because you're not black?" This way of mixing movie memes into the boys' dialogue scenes has not only created a group of Nerd boys who love monster movies, It also vividly portrays the small stumblings that they occasionally experience in their friendship.
[20] 34:00 Cool girls chose Michael Mys.
[21-25] 30:40-40:12 Other characters who flashed by are: Stallone in "Rocky", William Zebka in "Longwei Kid", Lynn of "Wonder Woman" in 75th edition Da Carter, Jason in "Friday the 13th" and...Mr. Pac in "Pac-Man".
[26] 36:54 Annoyed El was watching TV alone at home, the screen was the most heart-wrenching episode in Universal's 1931 version of "Frankenstein": Frankenstein and the girl threw petals into the lake (El is Not thinking which of them I am?). Great Mary Shelley, great James Weir!
[27] 44:16 Lee Gun-Bush '84
[28] 49:59 "Noisy Ghosts".
[29] 50:40 Mike called El for 353 days. Why 353 days?
S02E03: Tadpoles
[30] 00:45 "Alien": Never ignore the cat's reaction.
[31] 01:23 "Sorry, Yertle! This place is temporarily demolished." The name of the expelled turtle comes from Dr. Seuss's "Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories".
[32] 02:04 Remember the three pieces of advice the Chinese clerk gave Dad in "Little Elf": don't let it see the light; don't let it touch the water; in the middle of the night, no matter how hard it cries or how hard it is begging, Never feed it - apparently Dustin forgot the last point.
[33] 02:25 Dustin's brain circuit is like this: you like to eat "Three Musketeers" brand nougat - think of "The Three Musketeers" - think of D'Artagnan - then call you Dada Niang Bar - Little Dada for short.
[34] 02:49 Dustin's room is a treasure trove of '80s pop culture symbols (Shadow Valley in Season 1 and Mind Flayer in Season 2 are both from him). A large ET figure can be seen on the table, along with the Ogre/Odious Ogre toy from Dungeons & Dragons. A "Ghostbusters Certificate" can also be seen on the wall of the room. It comes from a "Ghostbusters Official Training Manual: Ghostbusters Guide" children's book, which contains various movie-related prop analysis and sticker-style quizzes. After completing all the tasks, you can see the "Ghost Hunting Certificate" on the last page, which is printed with the signatures of the three protagonists. Yes, no Winston.
Click to download this book: https://ghostbustersinc.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/gbtrainmanual.pdf
[35] 22:16 Dustin pointed out two types of terrestrial tadpoles in biology books: the Indian brown jumping frog/Indirana semipalmat and the South American slender toad/Adenomera andreae, both of which are true. But Christian Canmore, curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, tweeted: "Monster Story 2 is set in 1984, but the frog species the boy talks about (Indian brown) Jumping Frog) wasn't named until 1986." In fact, the first episode of the second season had a similar minor error. Nancy and Steve go to Barbara's for dinner and Steve says "I love KFC". Before the 1990s, KFC had not officially changed its name to an acronym, and people had always called it "Kentucky".
[36] 29:44 El remembered the bedtime story Hooper read to himself: "If she's disappointed in me, I think I'll be sad. Because not long after, she died. She died of a fever when I She's only three months old. Wish she lived longer, at least remembered that I called her mother." This passage comes from "Anne of Green Gables" by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, the novel tells It tells the growth story of Annie, who lost her mother since childhood, and met all kinds of people. And in the last episode of last season, we saw in a flashback that Hooper had read the book to his daughter as well.
[37] 36:54 In the audio-visual room of the school, Mike smashed the little Dada with the microphone, just at the moment it landed!!! The classic theme melody from "Little Elf" suddenly appeared in the soundtrack! ! ! (1111 empty 17, 1111 empty 17, 666 empty 6766#5#5).
[38] 47:30 Regarding the design of the ultimate monster mind flayer this season, you can refer to what Duffy Brothers said in an interview with Rotten Tomatoes in October this year:
"Last year we made Demogorgon like "Jaws" , making them sharks on another level. When we did this season, we tried to think, are there any higher creatures on the food chain? We thought of Sauron, Voldemort, and naturally, H.P. Lowe Fcraft. So we started talking about cosmic fears and Cliff Barker about the things that really scared us when we were growing up. After exchanging ideas with a couple of great concept designers, eventually, this The monster developed into what it is now."
Many fans think that the image of the mind flayer is a reference to the monster in "The Mist", which actually makes sense. Stephen King has made it clear that "The Mist" is a tribute to Cthulhu.
[39] 46:02 The little monster Dada escaped to the toilet, and Dustin found it in the last side pit. The graffiti "Evil" on the door indicates that it is about to transform into a monster that is no longer cute.
S02E04: Will the Wise
[40] 15:22 After Hooper had a big fight with El, Hooper apologized to El through the door the next morning, while he kept playing with a blue bracelet on his wrist. That was the sheriff's daughter's headband from last season. Hopper wears it all the time.
[41] 25:24 The classic looking up shot in "Ghost Playing People". Too bad there is no Book of the Dead in the basement.
[42] 26:45 Dr. Owens took Nancy and Jonathan on a tour of the laboratory, quoting a famous quote from George Sutton: "Scientists have made countless mistakes of all kinds." Sutton is regarded as the subject of the history of science The founder of the father, he founded the publications "Isis", "Osiris", wrote the masterpiece "Introduction to the History of Science", established a huge database of the history of science by collecting and reviewing important documents.
[43] 30:46 In the final exorcism scene of "The Exorcist", Regan's house is as cold as an ice cellar (you can see the white gas in the priest's mouth), when William Friedkin asked the crew to bring in giant ice Blocks and hide them in various corners of the house with the scenery to create a real "cool" effect. In this episode, Will's mother felt that the room suddenly became cold, and the open windows were featured many times in the episode, all paying tribute to "The Exorcist".
S02E05: Digging a Tunnel
[44] 07:13 Nancy and Jonathan have the same scars, because in the last episode of last season, the two cut their palms together to seduce the Demon King. The plot is actually a bit reminiscent of "The Clown's Soul".
[45] 11:24 The newspaper in Lucas's father's hand turned out to be the one from "Baby Faye" in the first episode. The props team was lazy.
【46】17:07 When El found her mother, she was watching TV in the living room. This program is "Family Feud", a quiz program with prizes that was launched in the United States in 1976. The host Richard Dawson later participated in the adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Pass the Test".
[47] 20:55 Max saw a "disabled" note posted on the game console, and the clerk Keith said to her: "Sorry, Road Warrior." "Road Warrior" is the subtitle of "Mad Max 2".
[48] 26:00 Bob has been thrilled to discover that "Will's drawing is the Hawkins map". In "The Seven Treasures", it is Sean Astin's little Mike and his older brother Brandon who discovered the pirate treasure map. When Winona said to him, "Find the X!" Bob replied, "What's at the X? Pirate treasure?"
[49] 28:38 When Dustin called Lucas and issued a red alert, Lucas's sister answered the radio and took her brother's cosmic giant Seaman figure, and then let Seaman and Barbie play kiss...
[50] 36:50 The vines of "Ghost Playing People".
【51-53】41:30-42:00 To MC5, BillieHoliday, King Crimson!
[54] 45:17 "Alien 2".
[55] 54:16 Don't forget to take a hat when running away - Indiana Jones-style chic in Indiana Jones 2.
S02E06: Spy
[56] 01:21 Pay attention to the song in Steve's car, from Queen's "The Final Word": "As long as you surrender, it won't hurt you, all you can do is pray and wait for the hammer to fall. "In this season, the intertextual methods of plot, lyrics, and song titles have appeared many times, so I won't list them one by one. By the way, Steve has better musical taste than Billy :) Of course, Jonathan has better taste than Steve. Hope there won't be too many objections :)
[57] 03:07 Shaped skin.
[58] 06:41 In the hospital conference room, Will's mother said angrily to the doctors: "Can someone in this room tell me what happened to my child?" A similar scene also happened in "The Exorcist" In the movie, Regan's mother yelled at the doctors: "We've seen 88 doctors, and 88 doctors can't find the cause. Are you saying that those people were talking nonsense before?"
[59] 09:48 Nancy and Jonathan had a great night at the conspiracy theorist's house. The two were mistaken for a couple at the dining table, and when it was time to sleep, they were talking to themselves in their respective rooms, scolding each other, and hesitating whether they should further their relationship. The plot is old-fashioned and romantic, very much like the love scene of Indiana Jones and Willie in Raiders of the Lost Ark 2.
[60] 19:15 In Stranger Things, everyone has posters on their walls. Max's poster for 1966's "Endless Summer," a documentary about surfers in California, fit her perfectly.
[61] 26:30 Scattering meat and chatting along the railroad tracks, the episode of "Talking on the Railroad Tracks" also appeared in the last season, which is naturally a tribute to "Walk With Me".
[62] 26:56 In order to comfort Dustin, Jonathan did not hesitate to teach him the secret of how to maintain a perfect hairstyle: Faberge shampoo + Farrah Fawcett styling spray. Heather Locklear endorsed the spray in 1984.
[63] 43:10 "Jurassic Park".
[64] 47:00 The camera switches back and forth between the screen and the tunnel, "Alien".
S02E07: Lost Sisters
[65] 06:33 El, who ran away from home, went to Illinois to find his sister. At this time, the soundtrack was Bon Jovi's "Runaway", and the song title echoed the plot again. Interestingly, when El accepted the values of punks and decided to fight violence with violence, the soundtrack played Runaway's "Dead End Justice".
[66] 07:19 El was bumped by a strange man, she turned around and scolded "Mouth Breather", which was a word that the boys taught her last season, and was misunderstood by El who is not good at English. Similar words and the "Bitchin" that the punks taught her, it really doesn't feel like a dirty word coming out of El's mouth... Later she learned the new word from the sheriff. El is really cool, and pure cool.
[67] 23:09 In any well-made film and television program, if you look closely at the graffiti in the background, you will usually find a few Easter eggs. "O'Bedlam" and "King Mob" on the glass, from the DC Invisible Man series.
[68] 08:45 In "The Invisible Man", "Barbelith" is a planet on the dark side of the moon, which acts like a placenta, connecting humans and the realm beyond our space-time view. In 1998, comic fans set up a forum under the name "Barbelith", initially for the purpose of discussing Morrison's work, but since then its influence has grown and the forum has gradually developed into a comprehensive website.
[69] 16:32 Douglas Adams, "Goodbye, thank you for all the fish."
[70] 21:00 "X-Men: First Class". In fact, it is not only the settings of teleporting objects, creating hallucinations, and finding people with brain waves, but the values of El and her sister's cooperation are also somewhat similar to the antagonistic relationship between Professor X and Magneto. They are also aliens with superpowers. They are also rejected, used by ordinary people, and feared by human beings. One of them chose to use violence to control violence, and the other chose to be kind to the world. But El did learn something from his sister, just like the values in "X-Men": to treat extraordinary abilities as a talent and use it rationally, instead of trying to hide it and pretending to be a normal people.
[71] 27:30 El and his party broke into the home of the doctor who abused them. The doctor was watching "Pangji Brewster". This is a sitcom that premiered in the United States in September 1984 and tells the story of orphan Pang Ji in a foster family. Interestingly, the episode the doctor is watching happens to be Pang Ji narrating her nightmare to her stepfather: "I dreamed that I was in the clinic, and suddenly the doctor started injecting injections into my arm. The needles got bigger and bigger. Bigger..."
[72] 28:14 The mask of the big bear is "Sunshine Baby Bear/Funshine Bear", which comes from a series of animated films in the 1980s such as "Care Bear Baby".
S02E08: Mind Flayer
[73] 02:13 The elevator bell rang, the door opened, the classic Partytime of "The Cabin in the Woods"! There is also a rear view lens that adds various monitors together, and the reference is also obvious.
[74] 06:26 Metallica's "Kill 'EmAll", Billy played "The Four Horsemen" from this album before going out.
[75] 27:43 Like last season's "Demogorgon", this season's "Mind Flayer" is named after "Dungeon and Dragon". In D&D, mind flayers are monsters that grow by feeding on the brains of intelligent creatures. They have their own central brain (or matrix), which connects and controls the nerves of all individual monsters, and is the center of the entire mind flayer society. The physical entity of the Matrix is a constantly wriggling mass of flesh about 20 feet in diameter, composed of the brains of dead mind flayers, and the juvenile monsters hatch like tadpoles in the matrix, feeding on its nutrients to grow. To put it bluntly, it is the Alien Queen.
[76] 38:43 In "The Exorcist", Regan, who is controlled by the devil, asks Father Callas for help by displaying fonts on his skin, just like Will's Morse code.
S02E09: Gate
[77] 05:06 One of the most exciting Easter eggs of the season: In the bathtub surrounded by candlelight, Mike's mother is drinking and bathing comfortably and reading a book - this book is Joanna Lindsay's romantic (erotic) novel "Heart" of Thunder", a short excerpt for a taste of the text: "No one could get the attention of a fiery Samantha Kingsley—until the rude, nasty, bankrupt gangster, Hank Chavez, showed up, causing a The anger and passion in her heart was long gone."
At this moment, the doorbell rang, and Mike's mother put on her bathrobe and opened the door to see Billy, and the two flirted. When we go back and look at this book again, we will find that the cover of the book is remade by the props team imitating the original book, but there are two people on the cover! Men's hairstyles are clearly Billy! The woman's hair color is clearly Mike's mother! Congrats to this middle-class daytime beauty, the sexual fantasy has come true.
[78] 33:53 Will, like Regan, grabs his mother's neck.
[79] 54:00 Nancy makes a clearance for Dustin and invites him to dance, just like the end of "Beauty in Pink".
[80] 57:48 The blue hair band is on El's wrist.
Good work, especially amazing work, always faces a similar problem: how to surprise people twice in a row? The answer from the Duffy brothers is that they nested the plot (Saving Will), style (nostalgia), and narrative (three generations, three lines) of the first season in a clever way, through the subplots and subplots. Adding branches and leaves to the characters, making monsters bigger and changing the way the easter eggs are played keeps the audience fresh. Even sensually, it can make us more addicted than the last time.
It's curious whether the next season will replicate this season's routine? —Anyway, the brothers have said in interviews that the series will end by the fourth season at most — or, they will make a new anthology drama with a different theme, like American Horror Story.
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Den of Geek Original text: http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/stranger-things/268557/stranger-things-2-complete-easter-egg-and-reference-guide
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