Stranger Things - Netflix Original series

DrJohnZoidberg said:
That's a rather odd conclusion to come to. Movies don't disappear, I'm a year older than they are and I grew up watching all 80s movies. Guess I can thank the SABC for that as they never had anything new on. :D
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Americans are always exposed to new material because they have the facilities.
The guys that did Stranger Things are 20 something that didn't experience any of the 80's horror culture as it happened.

I'm thinking a serious interest and love for cinema that motivated them.

It's like asking a 40 year old to find enjoyment in 2001:ASO or a 50 year old to appreciate The Day the Earth Stood Still.

It's all about appreciating the art and forgetting when it was made.
 
SULACO said:
Americans are always exposed to new material because they have the facilities.
The guys that did Stranger Things are 20 something that didn't experience any of the 80's horror culture as it happened.

I'm thinking a serious interest and love for cinema that motivated them.

It's like asking a 40 year old to find enjoyment in 2001:ASO or a 50 year old to appreciate The Day the Earth Stood Still.

It's all about appreciating the art and forgetting when it was made.
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These guys are in their early 30s and almost certainly experienced the "classic" movies of the 80s as they grew up.
 
Stranger Things: Netflix boss says it would be 'dumb' not to do season two

The boss of Netflix has said the streaming service would be “dumb” not to commission a second season of Stranger Things, the 80s supernatural thriller that has proved the hit of the summer.

The show’s creators have not revealed whether they have written a second season, but have hinted that they plan an even darker follow-up to the eight-parter, which follows a group of children navigating shadowy government plots and terrifying monsters in search of a missing friend.

Critics have been taken with the young cast of relative unknowns, Winona Ryder’s performance as desperate mother Joyce, and the 80s soundtrack.

Asked by the Guardian whether Netflix would commission another series, chief executive Reed Hastings stopped short of confirming a deal had been done, but said “we would be dumb not to”.

Netflix does not release viewing figures for its shows, but Hastings pointed to the scores for Stranger Things on film and TV site IMBD as evidence of its success.

He said: “Because we don’t have advertising we are under a whole different model to not compare all the shows and rank other shows, because it kind of doesn’t matter what everybody loves the most it, matters what you or I love most.

“You can get approximations ... if you look on IMDB the most popular TV show right now it’s Stranger Things, so that’s a reasonable proxy. It’s not that there’s no data, just that we don’t give out our data.”

Stranger Things, he added, fitted into Netflix’s strategy of commissioning and buying shows with a “different angle”.

“Breaking Bad was the good guy gone dark to support his family ... You see Winona Ryder going crazy looking for her kid, it’s something especially with the 80s side of it hasn’t been seen before.”

Speaking at the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles last week, the brothers behind the series, Matt and Ross Duffer, said if it was green-lit a second series would follow a similar format of eight instalments running for between 45 and 55 minutes. They would however, ramp up the action more slowly opening where “Joyce isn’t at an 11 from the beginning”, said Matt.

He added: “We want it to feel a little bit different, maybe a little bit darker, but still have the sense of fun.”
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http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/stranger-things-and-the-role-of-the-demogorgon.php

Stranger Things tells a story that is familiar from the eighties. It tells the story of the placid small towns we grew up in, with their neat order and hierarchy, everything in its proper place. And it appeals to that particular horror, that the order was but a facade. That evil was with us, invisible and omnipresent, just one step over in a shadow world that mocked our reality. But these tales rarely dipped into the nihilism that could easily have dominated them. Because good triumphed. Children marched into the valley of the shadow of death, and then marched out the other side. Changed, yes, but not defeated.

We tell stories like this, to paraphrase Chesteron, not in order to teach that the monsters exist, for we already know that, but to teach that they can be defeated.
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Found that pretty evocative.
 
Very very minor (overall) rating drop...

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'Stranger Things' Poster Started Its Life on an iPad Pro

Mashable has the scoop, and in an interview with Lambert, the British artist behind that “Stranger Things” poster, the publication explains that an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil was indeed the first port of call when it came to designing the poster to fit Netflix's brief. The design of the poster, as per the classic cinema of the 1980s (read: “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” and more, for instance), required Lambert, “an artist that trained with oil paints,” to reproduce a traditional painting style for the poster. However, to help him in this, Lambert called on more modern digital tools: the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, a Wacom tablet, and Photoshop.

I chose to use the iPad Pro for the drawing stage of the poster because I find that I am able to sketch in a very natural way on the device using the Apple Pencil.

From here, Lambert “did some basic tonal blocking in Procreate,” before exporting the image to Photoshop where it was upscaled to a higher resolution and finished off. The need for a desktop-grade application, Lambert added, was due to the complex nature of the drawing itself: in the end, it featured hundreds of layers which needed tending to. However, Lambert wasn't finished with the iPad Pro.

Once the overall image was coming together, I exported a flat version of the poster back to the iPad, and used Procreate again to add layers of detail to areas that I felt needed to have a more fluid sketch style. I did several layer adjustments like this between the two devices and applications to give the poster a finished look.

It should come as no surprise Lambert was able to call on the iPad Pro in order to create such a fine piece of digital artwork. After all, this is the same artist who created a photorealistic image of Morgan Freeman using Procreate, an iPad Air, and his finger; before that, Lambert created a “Toy Story 3” drawing using the older Brushes app for iPad.

http://appadvice.com/post/stranger-things-poster-started-its-life-on-an-ipad-pro/718957
 
Watched this and was sceptical at first because of the acting being mostly done by the kids, but I was very surprised as the series kept me wanting to know what happens next until the last episode of the season. Can't wait for the next season! :)
 
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