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● The Duffer Brothers ● Genres: ● Relationships

○ Sci-Fi ○ Friends
● Target audience:
○ Horror ○ Family
young adults
○ Drama ○ Romantic
○ Supernatural
 ETHOS: Accuracy of time period and popular conspiracies.
Casting methods for all characters.

LOGOS: Relationship dynamics and fighting abilities. Can’t win all the time.

PATHOS: Strong connections give characters a reason to fight.

The audience can resonate with this.
● Drives the story
○ Russians and cold war
paranoia
○ Lack of technology and
widespread information

● NOSTALGIA
 Conspiracies of experiments during
the Cold War

Clocks connect
to evil → Vecna Mirrors the
characters’ reality
Greenstone, Ellen. “10 Life Lessons Fans Learned From Stranger Things.” ScreenRant, Aug.
2022,screenrant.com/stranger-things-life-lessons-fans-learned/#:~:text=Love%2C%20
friendship%20and%20family%20are,no%20one%20to%20help%20her.

Vanity Fair. “‘Stranger Things’ Auditions and How the Cast Landed Their Roles | Vanity Fair.”
YouTube, 10 Aug. 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO6hJAUBWmA.

DiLillo, John. “Where Did Vecna Come From in ‘Stranger Things’?” Netflix Tudum, Nov. 2022,
www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-duffer-brothers-geek-out-on-dungeons-and-dra
gons#:~:text=D%26D%20isn't%20just%20a,world%2C%E2%80%9D%20Matt%20Duffer
%20says.

Head, Kaitlyn. “Stranger Things Creators Tease What to Expect From Season 5.” MovieWeb, Nov.
2022, movieweb.com/duffer-brothers-stranger-things-season-5-tease.

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