Nostalgia is a heavy tool, but it doesn’t mean anything if it’s not era-appropriate.
When you’re making a show or film set in a specific period and often references back to that era’s pop culture, it is important to do some heavy research to nail that era. If not, you will probably have someone who lived through that era sighing, saying that you’ve got it all wrong.
This is what happened with Matt and Ross Duffer on the set of Stranger Things. Winona Ryder, who plays Joyce Byers on the Duffer Brothers’ series, often made sure that the creators maintained 1980s accuracy on set.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, David Harbour revealed that the Duffer Brothers would often have to change the scripts after Ryder fact-checked them.
“She’d tell them, This song actually came out in ‘85, and you have it in ‘83,” Harbour said. “She knew all of the minute, tiny details they didn’t even know, and they had to change things in the scripts based on that… It’s just kind of epic how wild her mind is and how it goes to all these different corners.”
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
