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That Thing poster only shows up in his house because Stranger Things is that devoted to celebrating its time and place. It’s not that he can’t dig The Thing it’s that he’s secondary to Stranger Things’ overtones of ’80s fixation. He doesn’t figure into the lives of the Duffers’ kid protagonists in any other capacity than to indulge their love of AV equipment. Stranger Things is all about reminding us of ’80s horror classics even when there isn’t a good reason to a poster for The Thing appears on a wall in a character’s home and immediately reads as out of place for that character, a teacher whose purpose in the story is to, well, teach.
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This distinguishes It from other recent ’80s-set films and TV shows, which go out of their way to highlight their ’80s-ness with upfront nods to the decade’s sights and sounds. We’re told that the year is 1988, and then, later on, after the death of poor Georgie Denbrough (Jackson Robert Scott), 1989.
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It’s a 1980s movie in name, title cards and texture only. But if you can’t tell ’80s fashion from fashion of any other point in time in American history, and if you aren’t paying attention to the obvious Easter eggs or blatant references to ’80s pop culture, It doesn’t read like an ’80s story the way that Stranger Things, for example, reads like an ’80s story. Sure, there’s a recurring gag about New Kids on the Block yes, movie titles appear on the marquee for the lone theater in the film’s small town Maine setting, Lethal Weapon 2, Batman, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. He also made that change three years ago, before Stranger Things became a must-binge-watch, and before Guardians of the Galaxy opened in theaters, and since Muschietti wound up steering the ship for Warner Bros., the burden of It’s ’80s accoutrements falls on him.įunny thing, though: Those accoutrements are surprisingly few and far between.
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The change in decades was Fukunaga’s decision. Muschietti, of course, isn’t responsible for shifting It out of the 1950s, the period backdrop for the first half of King’s novel, and into the 1980s the screenplay, after all, passed hands from one author to the next, from Cary Fukunaga and his co-writer Chase Palmer to Muschietti and Gary Dauberman. And Andy Muschietti, director of the new and long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s It, ate up ’80s horror movies as a lad living in Argentina, much as the story’s villain, Pennywise, eats up children and the occasional teen.