[Music]
you love it we love it how much do you
really know about this fabulous
throwback to 1980 sci-fi fantasy and
horror welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 stranger things facts for
this list will be ranking the most
interesting and notable facts about
stranger things its creators the duffer
brothers and the cast and characters
that have captured the imaginations of
kids and adults alike holy shit number
10 netflix bought the show within 24
hours how was I supposed to know I was
gonna take 10 hours sometimes you just
know you got a good thing when you see
it this was exactly the case when
Netflix first saw stranger things as a
streaming media giant snapped up the
show for an eighth episode debut season
within 24 hours of hearing the pitch we
started talking about what you know if
we were going to do a television show
what that would look like and what would
be cool and what hasn’t been done on
television before producers and
co-director Shawn Levy assisted the
duffer Bros and pitching their idea to
Netflix as a dyed-in-the-wool genre show
indebted to such directors as Steven
Spielberg yet possessing a darkness all
its own the rest as they say is history
as stranger things became a runaway
success almost immediately
number nine the boys auditioned by
reenacting stand by me that cheap
dime-store the duffer bros auditioned a
staggering amount of child actors before
narrowing things down to their main cast
for stranger things over nine hundred
boys and three hundred girls to be
specific but none were actually made
privy to the real plot of the show
for example Milly Bobby Brown knew very
little about her character eleven and
performed her audition with dummy sides
scenes that are used to test an actor’s
ability without giving too much away
about the plot ah yes yes too bad
meanwhile the boys were called upon to
reenact scenes from the classic Stephen
King adaptation stand by me which itself
parallels stranger things with its young
protagonists and heavy coming-of-age
narrative more you guys are dragging
your candy asses halfway across the
state and back I’ll be waiting for you
on the other side relaxing with my
thoughts
number eight Milly Bobby Brown shaved
her head because of Imperator furiosa
you want to get through this
do as I say a lot of actors are
dedicated to their craft so dedicated
they may make some drastic changes to
their personal style but 12 year old
actress Millie Bobby Brown hadn’t
expected to apparently there was no
mention of a haircut during her initial
Skype call with the duffer Bros it was
only when they first met in person that
the stranger things creators informed
Brown that she’d have to shave her head
for the role of 11
although Brown’s mother initially
objected the duffer bros managed to get
Milly to agree to that buzz cut by
showing her a photo of Charlize Theron
character furiosa in Mad Max fury road
now that I trifle warig this is the best
shot I’ve ever had with that Milly was
transformed into the telekinetic kid we
know and love
number seven Steve Harrington’s
character arc was tweaked Hagerman
anyone who likes 1980 cinema knows that
the teen villains generally stay jerks
right until the end without much
redemption not so with Steve Harrington
you need to listen up okay mister his
dump and the duffer bros have actor Joe
Keary to thank for this trend bucking
decision as a duo was so impressed with
the young man’s likable personality that
they actually tweaked his character’s
story arc to make him more developed as
a love interest for Nancy sure it
doesn’t often happen that the local
bully sees the error of his ways and
starts running with the right crowd but
this is just another great example of
the depth stranger things adds to its
characters
number six the demagogue and wasn’t
completely CGI the demagogue and was one
of the central antagonists of stranger
things and possessed a fearsome presence
on set thanks to the fact that the
special effects Department combined
modern CGI with some very convincing
practical effects the demagogue and
itself was portrayed by a man named Mark
stager a body based performance artist
who wore a partially animatronic suit
for many of the scenes the end result
was so effective in fact that the young
twins who played Holly on the show were
terrified of the demagogue on the
production team had to calm them down by
comparing the monster to something out
of Pixar’s monsters ink
what happened we could almost touch me
she got this close to me she wasn’t
scary you she was only six I could have
been dead number five 80s influences
galore
younger audiences may not be able to
point out all the references to 1980s
culture and cinema but older stranger
things fans will likely welcome the
opportunity to revisit some of their
favorite styles and tropes the duffer
Bros pulled stylistic and conceptual
references from such diverse artists as
Stephen King John Carpenter and the
aforementioned Steven Spielberg and also
asked the cast to watch films like Stand
By Me poltergeist and The Goonies for
inspiration when it came time to shoot
back
there was also a technical homage though
it was shot digitally stranger things
utilized a layer of scanned grain in
post-production to lend at the feeling
of vintage film stock what do what I
want to know I did it
how I did one number for a fake trailer
was cut to test the soundtrack
[Music]
you already know the dubrow’s were
highly influenced by directors like John
Carpenter and Steven Spielberg
but this inspiration wasn’t only limited
to how stranger things looked but also
how it sounded eyes at all Caucasian
male doesn’t appear armed wearing
sunglasses the show’s creators wanted to
use a synthesizer based soundtrack to
highlight the show’s 1980 setting and
style but also to differentiate it from
Spielberg and the traditional orchestral
accompaniment found in such films as et
so the duffer bros put together a fake
trailer with scenes from over 25 of
their favorite movies to test their
musical idea the result dark John
Carpenter asked drones won out over
sweeping strings and horns to create the
final product of stranger things musical
universe
number three gate in Mathura Joe’s voice
changed too during filming do you
remember when we’ll haul off his bike
and broke his finger he sounded a lot
like that working on a film or
television show takes time and while
it’s all fine and dandy not to get a
haircut for a few months when kid actors
are involved some other factors come
into play that can’t be controlled hello
this is just an industry secretary and
treasurer of halkans middle AV Club de
kangaroos for breakfast actor Gaytan
matarazzo was going through purity
during shooting and had to record
additional dialogue for his role as
dustin well thankfully they’re skipping
a year ahead for next season okay oh
that makes sense gonna be in the fall
because you’re gonna have a mustache but
really this process also known as
dubbing is often done during the
post-production work to clean up scenes
but in moderate his voice had changed so
much that it no longer matched up with
what had already been shot for his
character he’s not gonna get cranky you
come back you kill you you hear me
number 2 conspiracy theorists surmise
real-life Elevens might exist incredible
stranger things was no stranger to
rewrites
but it was actually almost called
something else Montauk seemed random
it’s actually a reference supposedly
camp hero in Montauk New York plays host
to a series of secret government
projects conspiracy theorists have
claimed that these projects involved
anything from time travel to what is
deemed psychological warfare or the
attempt to intimidate another person
using whatever means necessary thus far
Network was a tremendous success but it
also literally destroyed the mind of the
men on the ship mmm Preston Nichols
author of the Montauk Project series of
novels claims to have repressed memories
of his own involvement with the project
some of what Nichols describes seems
pretty close to what ended up in the
show like a creature coming into the
real world from the mind of a patient
before we reveal our strangest pic here
are a few honorable mentions I will be
here submit another we’re gonna find out
I think we know the most about each
other
[Music]
[Music]
number one there’s a 30-page explanation
of the upside-down fans loved watching
the twisted bleak and unique visual
flair the duffer bros brought to their
stranger things netherworld the
upside-down this otherworldly dimension
was still very much a mystery by the
time season 1 ran its course however
leaving plenty of room for questions and
interpretation from the audience you
create a doorway like a gate sure but
the duffer brothers have more up their
sleeves they actually wrote a 30 page
document that explained both the
demagogue n’ and the upside down but
purposely kept much of it under wraps
during the debut season future seasons
promised to reveal more info about this
realm of darkness and monsters and we
can’t wait to find out
[Music]
so do you agree with our list which
stranger things facts do you find the
most fascinating okay so the gate has a
really strong electromagnetic field and
that can change the directions of a
compass needle for more ego eating top
10s published daily be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
[Music]
you love it we love it how much do you
really know about this fabulous
throwback to 1980 sci-fi fantasy and
horror welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 stranger things facts for
this list will be ranking the most
interesting and notable facts about
stranger things its creators the duffer
brothers and the cast and characters
that have captured the imaginations of
kids and adults alike holy shit number
10 netflix bought the show within 24
hours how was I supposed to know I was
gonna take 10 hours sometimes you just
know you got a good thing when you see
it this was exactly the case when
Netflix first saw stranger things as a
streaming media giant snapped up the
show for an eighth episode debut season
within 24 hours of hearing the pitch we
started talking about what you know if
we were going to do a television show
what that would look like and what would
be cool and what hasn’t been done on
television before producers and
co-director Shawn Levy assisted the
duffer Bros and pitching their idea to
Netflix as a dyed-in-the-wool genre show
indebted to such directors as Steven
Spielberg yet possessing a darkness all
its own the rest as they say is history
as stranger things became a runaway
success almost immediately
number nine the boys auditioned by
reenacting stand by me that cheap
dime-store the duffer bros auditioned a
staggering amount of child actors before
narrowing things down to their main cast
for stranger things over nine hundred
boys and three hundred girls to be
specific but none were actually made
privy to the real plot of the show
for example Milly Bobby Brown knew very
little about her character eleven and
performed her audition with dummy sides
scenes that are used to test an actor’s
ability without giving too much away
about the plot ah yes yes too bad
meanwhile the boys were called upon to
reenact scenes from the classic Stephen
King adaptation stand by me which itself
parallels stranger things with its young
protagonists and heavy coming-of-age
narrative more you guys are dragging
your candy asses halfway across the
state and back I’ll be waiting for you
on the other side relaxing with my
thoughts
number eight Milly Bobby Brown shaved
her head because of Imperator furiosa
you want to get through this
do as I say a lot of actors are
dedicated to their craft so dedicated
they may make some drastic changes to
their personal style but 12 year old
actress Millie Bobby Brown hadn’t
expected to apparently there was no
mention of a haircut during her initial
Skype call with the duffer Bros it was
only when they first met in person that
the stranger things creators informed
Brown that she’d have to shave her head
for the role of 11
although Brown’s mother initially
objected the duffer bros managed to get
Milly to agree to that buzz cut by
showing her a photo of Charlize Theron
character furiosa in Mad Max fury road
now that I trifle warig this is the best
shot I’ve ever had with that Milly was
transformed into the telekinetic kid we
know and love
number seven Steve Harrington’s
character arc was tweaked Hagerman
anyone who likes 1980 cinema knows that
the teen villains generally stay jerks
right until the end without much
redemption not so with Steve Harrington
you need to listen up okay mister his
dump and the duffer bros have actor Joe
Keary to thank for this trend bucking
decision as a duo was so impressed with
the young man’s likable personality that
they actually tweaked his character’s
story arc to make him more developed as
a love interest for Nancy sure it
doesn’t often happen that the local
bully sees the error of his ways and
starts running with the right crowd but
this is just another great example of
the depth stranger things adds to its
characters
number six the demagogue and wasn’t
completely CGI the demagogue and was one
of the central antagonists of stranger
things and possessed a fearsome presence
on set thanks to the fact that the
special effects Department combined
modern CGI with some very convincing
practical effects the demagogue and
itself was portrayed by a man named Mark
stager a body based performance artist
who wore a partially animatronic suit
for many of the scenes the end result
was so effective in fact that the young
twins who played Holly on the show were
terrified of the demagogue on the
production team had to calm them down by
comparing the monster to something out
of Pixar’s monsters ink
what happened we could almost touch me
she got this close to me she wasn’t
scary you she was only six I could have
been dead number five 80s influences
galore
younger audiences may not be able to
point out all the references to 1980s
culture and cinema but older stranger
things fans will likely welcome the
opportunity to revisit some of their
favorite styles and tropes the duffer
Bros pulled stylistic and conceptual
references from such diverse artists as
Stephen King John Carpenter and the
aforementioned Steven Spielberg and also
asked the cast to watch films like Stand
By Me poltergeist and The Goonies for
inspiration when it came time to shoot
back
there was also a technical homage though
it was shot digitally stranger things
utilized a layer of scanned grain in
post-production to lend at the feeling
of vintage film stock what do what I
want to know I did it
how I did one number for a fake trailer
was cut to test the soundtrack
[Music]
you already know the dubrow’s were
highly influenced by directors like John
Carpenter and Steven Spielberg
but this inspiration wasn’t only limited
to how stranger things looked but also
how it sounded eyes at all Caucasian
male doesn’t appear armed wearing
sunglasses the show’s creators wanted to
use a synthesizer based soundtrack to
highlight the show’s 1980 setting and
style but also to differentiate it from
Spielberg and the traditional orchestral
accompaniment found in such films as et
so the duffer bros put together a fake
trailer with scenes from over 25 of
their favorite movies to test their
musical idea the result dark John
Carpenter asked drones won out over
sweeping strings and horns to create the
final product of stranger things musical
universe
number three gate in Mathura Joe’s voice
changed too during filming do you
remember when we’ll haul off his bike
and broke his finger he sounded a lot
like that working on a film or
television show takes time and while
it’s all fine and dandy not to get a
haircut for a few months when kid actors
are involved some other factors come
into play that can’t be controlled hello
this is just an industry secretary and
treasurer of halkans middle AV Club de
kangaroos for breakfast actor Gaytan
matarazzo was going through purity
during shooting and had to record
additional dialogue for his role as
dustin well thankfully they’re skipping
a year ahead for next season okay oh
that makes sense gonna be in the fall
because you’re gonna have a mustache but
really this process also known as
dubbing is often done during the
post-production work to clean up scenes
but in moderate his voice had changed so
much that it no longer matched up with
what had already been shot for his
character he’s not gonna get cranky you
come back you kill you you hear me
number 2 conspiracy theorists surmise
real-life Elevens might exist incredible
stranger things was no stranger to
rewrites
but it was actually almost called
something else Montauk seemed random
it’s actually a reference supposedly
camp hero in Montauk New York plays host
to a series of secret government
projects conspiracy theorists have
claimed that these projects involved
anything from time travel to what is
deemed psychological warfare or the
attempt to intimidate another person
using whatever means necessary thus far
Network was a tremendous success but it
also literally destroyed the mind of the
men on the ship mmm Preston Nichols
author of the Montauk Project series of
novels claims to have repressed memories
of his own involvement with the project
some of what Nichols describes seems
pretty close to what ended up in the
show like a creature coming into the
real world from the mind of a patient
before we reveal our strangest pic here
are a few honorable mentions I will be
here submit another we’re gonna find out
I think we know the most about each
other
[Music]
[Music]
number one there’s a 30-page explanation
of the upside-down fans loved watching
the twisted bleak and unique visual
flair the duffer bros brought to their
stranger things netherworld the
upside-down this otherworldly dimension
was still very much a mystery by the
time season 1 ran its course however
leaving plenty of room for questions and
interpretation from the audience you
create a doorway like a gate sure but
the duffer brothers have more up their
sleeves they actually wrote a 30 page
document that explained both the
demagogue n’ and the upside down but
purposely kept much of it under wraps
during the debut season future seasons
promised to reveal more info about this
realm of darkness and monsters and we
can’t wait to find out
[Music]
so do you agree with our list which
stranger things facts do you find the
most fascinating okay so the gate has a
really strong electromagnetic field and
that can change the directions of a
compass needle for more ego eating top
10s published daily be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
[Music]
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