Alana Ouellette
Ms. Barbara Barklow
Monsters & Misfits
7 December 2018
Stranger Things
The themes of this story are still going to be in my adaptation except I’m going to change up some personalities and people. It’s going to be the same group of middle school boys in the 6th grade living a completely normal life but this time they have cell phones and the story was originally filmed in Jackson, Georgia but I think I’m going to move it to Dayton Maine, I feel like for this story there needs to be open land and farm looking land just for this story to kind of fit in with the original one. The girl Eleven who escaped from a science research lab is going to still be in the adaptation but this time she might have more powers. The group of boys are going to see Eleven but they are going to think she’s super weird and will post about her on social media but will have a hard time accepting her until they find out that she really needs the help so they become her best friend and it won’t be that hard to hide her from their parents because she could just be a “new student” at school. Eleven moves things with her mind and after she does that her nose starts to bleed and I think I’m going to keep this power because it makes the film more intriguing with what she does to people and how she deals with people that she know will hurt her so I’m definitely keeping this trait. I think I’m going to add that she can teleport so anytime someone needs Elevens help she will be there as soon as possible. I want her to be able to control the weather too so when she gets mad the sky gets darker and storms will appear and it will scare off the creatures that stole Will.
"Rose-coloured rear-view: stranger things and the lure of a false past." *
This website will help me with my adaptations because it actually gives a lot of information about the scientific research lab Eleven escaped from, and how the 1980’s was back then and how everyone expected things to be. One of the questions is does stranger things fit more with 2016 or 1980’s because it has a lot of pop culture. They were saying how the show runs up on the recent US presidential election so it’s kind of based off a political background so I should try to add some politics in with it probably using President Donald Trump. It defines nostalgia and really getting the point across as to why Stranger Things is titled that. “The past as depicted in Stranger Things is a very twenty-first century kind of place. There is, for instance, a little of the casual sexism or racism prevalent in Western society before 1990s political correctness kicked in” (Mark Bartlett)
“Stephen King And Science Fiction”*
“For me it was the end of the sweet dream...and beginning of a nightmare” (Hansen Brown) this will help me because I want to make things seem creepy in my adaptation to the point where readers will want to continue reading. Every adaptation sometimes starts out normal but then gets weirder and weirder as you keep going through a series because that’s what Stephen King likes to do. Stephen King gets many views from doing this because believe it or not horror is a very popular genre because all his books and movies are so twisted so having a twisted mind can pull all of this together.
“How does social media affect our lives”
“Earth has become a global village due to media. We can know about any part of the world within minutes through television and internet. Media is the best way to spread knowledge, information and news from one part of the world to the other.” ( Rahul Dahekar)Social media will be a major part of my adaptation because in the original stranger things they based it off the 1980’s, they just had landlines to contact one another. In my adaptation I’m going to make it more modern with the social media so they will have cell phone and all social media accounts such as Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook. That’s how they are going to find out everything about Eleven because social media will affect privacy and how Eleven is supposed to be hidden from the science lab she came from but everyone would be posting about this strange girl.
“Plot Summary Of Stranger Things”
“When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends must confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.” ( IMDB) Having plot summary’s will help me determine what I want to change and what can stay. Having the whole story summary right in front of me will help a lot because just that one quote I put in here helps me understand what happened at the beginning of the series and it will help me to all the way to the end of what I choose to do.
“How social media is helping news spread faster than ever”
“ Once upon a time, we had to wait for newspapers and news reports on the TV or radio to get the latest local, national and international news.” (Staff reporter) This is what happened in the stranger things this is how they got all their news fed back to them about how they lost Will and what was going on so that’s why I’m changing things around and making it more interesting by how social media spreads post so fast to the point everyone will find out about it in like two seconds if you promote a lot of post and everyone in your town will see it. I was thinking about every science lab in the country would find out and would want to take Eleven to their lab because she isn’t hidden anymore and I feel like that kind of twist on the story would be better.
“Fake News: Lies spread faster on social media than truth does”
“People are quicker to repeat something that's wrong than something that's true” ( Maggie Fox) This could actually be a good plot twist too when I look more into this website because this is completely true and when everyone post about Eleven some science labs will post and say it’s true but the town of Dayton Maine will get frustrated with this because they all are trying to protect her against these science labs because they are a small town community that works together so they will all try to post that this is fake news and it will go around fats so science labs aren’t so tempted to search Dayton Maine for her because they will get crazy about this.
Works cited
"Rose-coloured rear-view: stranger things and the lure of a false past." Screen Education, no. 85, 2017, p. 16+. General OneFile, https://link-galegroup-com.ursus-proxy-10.ursus.maine.edu/apps/doc/A490693234/GPS?u=maine&sid=GPS&xid=41097e28. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.
Hansen, Regina, and Simon Brown. "Stephen King and science fiction." Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 10, no. 2, 2017, p. 157+. Academic OneFile, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A506656464/GPS?u=maine&sid=GPS&xid=6d699509. Accessed 12 Dec. 2018.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-social-media-affect-our-lives
“Stranger Things.” IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/plotsummary.
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-technology-sc-internet-byo-119106.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fake-news-lies-spread-faster-social-media-truth-does-n854896
Ms. Barbara Barklow
Monsters & Misfits
7 December 2018
Stranger Things
The themes of this story are still going to be in my adaptation except I’m going to change up some personalities and people. It’s going to be the same group of middle school boys in the 6th grade living a completely normal life but this time they have cell phones and the story was originally filmed in Jackson, Georgia but I think I’m going to move it to Dayton Maine, I feel like for this story there needs to be open land and farm looking land just for this story to kind of fit in with the original one. The girl Eleven who escaped from a science research lab is going to still be in the adaptation but this time she might have more powers. The group of boys are going to see Eleven but they are going to think she’s super weird and will post about her on social media but will have a hard time accepting her until they find out that she really needs the help so they become her best friend and it won’t be that hard to hide her from their parents because she could just be a “new student” at school. Eleven moves things with her mind and after she does that her nose starts to bleed and I think I’m going to keep this power because it makes the film more intriguing with what she does to people and how she deals with people that she know will hurt her so I’m definitely keeping this trait. I think I’m going to add that she can teleport so anytime someone needs Elevens help she will be there as soon as possible. I want her to be able to control the weather too so when she gets mad the sky gets darker and storms will appear and it will scare off the creatures that stole Will.
"Rose-coloured rear-view: stranger things and the lure of a false past." *
This website will help me with my adaptations because it actually gives a lot of information about the scientific research lab Eleven escaped from, and how the 1980’s was back then and how everyone expected things to be. One of the questions is does stranger things fit more with 2016 or 1980’s because it has a lot of pop culture. They were saying how the show runs up on the recent US presidential election so it’s kind of based off a political background so I should try to add some politics in with it probably using President Donald Trump. It defines nostalgia and really getting the point across as to why Stranger Things is titled that. “The past as depicted in Stranger Things is a very twenty-first century kind of place. There is, for instance, a little of the casual sexism or racism prevalent in Western society before 1990s political correctness kicked in” (Mark Bartlett)
“Stephen King And Science Fiction”*
“For me it was the end of the sweet dream...and beginning of a nightmare” (Hansen Brown) this will help me because I want to make things seem creepy in my adaptation to the point where readers will want to continue reading. Every adaptation sometimes starts out normal but then gets weirder and weirder as you keep going through a series because that’s what Stephen King likes to do. Stephen King gets many views from doing this because believe it or not horror is a very popular genre because all his books and movies are so twisted so having a twisted mind can pull all of this together.
“How does social media affect our lives”
“Earth has become a global village due to media. We can know about any part of the world within minutes through television and internet. Media is the best way to spread knowledge, information and news from one part of the world to the other.” ( Rahul Dahekar)Social media will be a major part of my adaptation because in the original stranger things they based it off the 1980’s, they just had landlines to contact one another. In my adaptation I’m going to make it more modern with the social media so they will have cell phone and all social media accounts such as Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook. That’s how they are going to find out everything about Eleven because social media will affect privacy and how Eleven is supposed to be hidden from the science lab she came from but everyone would be posting about this strange girl.
“Plot Summary Of Stranger Things”
“When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends must confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.” ( IMDB) Having plot summary’s will help me determine what I want to change and what can stay. Having the whole story summary right in front of me will help a lot because just that one quote I put in here helps me understand what happened at the beginning of the series and it will help me to all the way to the end of what I choose to do.
“How social media is helping news spread faster than ever”
“ Once upon a time, we had to wait for newspapers and news reports on the TV or radio to get the latest local, national and international news.” (Staff reporter) This is what happened in the stranger things this is how they got all their news fed back to them about how they lost Will and what was going on so that’s why I’m changing things around and making it more interesting by how social media spreads post so fast to the point everyone will find out about it in like two seconds if you promote a lot of post and everyone in your town will see it. I was thinking about every science lab in the country would find out and would want to take Eleven to their lab because she isn’t hidden anymore and I feel like that kind of twist on the story would be better.
“Fake News: Lies spread faster on social media than truth does”
“People are quicker to repeat something that's wrong than something that's true” ( Maggie Fox) This could actually be a good plot twist too when I look more into this website because this is completely true and when everyone post about Eleven some science labs will post and say it’s true but the town of Dayton Maine will get frustrated with this because they all are trying to protect her against these science labs because they are a small town community that works together so they will all try to post that this is fake news and it will go around fats so science labs aren’t so tempted to search Dayton Maine for her because they will get crazy about this.
Works cited
"Rose-coloured rear-view: stranger things and the lure of a false past." Screen Education, no. 85, 2017, p. 16+. General OneFile, https://link-galegroup-com.ursus-proxy-10.ursus.maine.edu/apps/doc/A490693234/GPS?u=maine&sid=GPS&xid=41097e28. Accessed 11 Dec. 2018.
Hansen, Regina, and Simon Brown. "Stephen King and science fiction." Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 10, no. 2, 2017, p. 157+. Academic OneFile, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A506656464/GPS?u=maine&sid=GPS&xid=6d699509. Accessed 12 Dec. 2018.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-social-media-affect-our-lives
“Stranger Things.” IMDb, IMDb.com, www.imdb.com/title/tt4574334/plotsummary.
https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-technology-sc-internet-byo-119106.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fake-news-lies-spread-faster-social-media-truth-does-n854896