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Super 8

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Super 8	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Super 8 is a 2011 science fiction film written and directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is an homage to classic "adventurous children" movies, particularly those made/produced by Spielberg like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Goonies and especially Close Encounters of the Third Kind.A group of middle schoolers in a small Ohio town in 1979 are dedicated to making a zombie movie to enroll in an upcoming film festival, with Charles as script-writer and director, his best friend Joe as the make-up artist and other cast and crew members like Martin (lead actor), Cary (pyrotechnic/pyromaniac) and Preston (misc crew/extras). Charles manages to convince a girl and classmate, Alice, to play the part of the wife and she and Joe start to form an affection for each other. Unfortunately, there are some lingering emotions surrounding the death of Joe's mom several months prior, as well problems with his distant father, a deputy in the local sheriff's office.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })While filming a scene late at night, they happen upon a freak train crash and barely escape before the authorities show up. Shaken up by the experience, they find that they accidentally filmed something on their Super 8-mm film camera in the aftermath of the crash, and soon they're caught up in strange happenings and a secret military operation.An interactive version of the teaser trailer is bundled with Portal 2, found in the game's Extras section. There's also a prequel comic book that was bundled into the second issue of the Batman: Arkham City comic book tie-in. It details the 1958 events referred to in the film and how Col. Nelec got involved with the situation.Not to be confused with 8mm. Has nothing to do with the motel chain.
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Super 8 / int_10a262e4	type	Headphones Equal Isolation
Super 8 / int_10a262e4	comment	Headphones Equal Isolation: A gas station attendant is so busy rocking out to Blondie on his brand new Walkman that he doesn't hear the monster attack, nor feel the shockwaves from a police car being bounced off the ground 50 feet away.
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Super 8 / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Super 8 / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: The alien is thoroughly weird-looking. It has six arms, feet that end with digging "chisels," and a body with multiple gaps or negative spaces that do not exist in Earth vertebrates. Its face looks surprisingly humanoid at first glance, but the lipped mouth can split horribly into a fanged set of mandibles, and the human-like eyes are normally covered by a reflective membrane.
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Super 8 / int_1276a67a	type	Adorkable
Super 8 / int_1276a67a	comment	Adorkable: Joe, when it comes to his hobby of making train models or his obvious crush on Alice.
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Super 8 / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Super 8 / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: The Colonel's entire upper torso appears to splatter across the window when the alien bites him.
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Super 8 / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Super 8 / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: It is the name of the film and camera the gang uses and it is the name of the film festival that Charles wants to enter.
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Super 8 / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Super 8 / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: After being detained by the Air Force, Jackson tricks a guard and knocks him out, stealing his uniform to escape the base.
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Super 8 / int_1abf68d5	type	You Meddling Kids
Super 8 / int_1abf68d5	comment	You Meddling Kids: Mostly subverted, the kids are too scared by the threat of military action to actually do anything about the creature, it's only at the end of the second act when Alice is captured by the creature do the kids actually do anything important to the plot. JJ Abrams even mention on the DVD commentary that he didn't want the kids be the Scooby-Doo gang.
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Super 8 / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Super 8 / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Dan Castellaneta as the car dealer and composer Michael Giacchino as one of the deputies.
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Super 8 / int_1bf4581	type	Being Tortured Makes You Evil
Super 8 / int_1bf4581	comment	Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Upon being tortured and experimented on by the military, the alien came to believe all humans were a potential threat and lashed out at them, taking civilians for his food supply and kidnapping anyone who sees him. In this case, he's not so much evil as he is dangerously paranoid.
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Super 8 / int_1c0dbffc	type	Pyromaniac
Super 8 / int_1c0dbffc	comment	Pyro Maniac: Cary constantly totes a satchel of fireworks, blows things up at random intervals, and builds his own M80s. Lampshaded when Charles chews him out about his extreme obsession with fireworks.
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Super 8 / int_1d9a2764	type	Reality Ensues
Super 8 / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: A highly intelligent apex predator the size of a school bus has to eat a lot of food to sustain itself, and given that Lillian seems to have no farm animals, there's pretty much only one food source available.
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Super 8 / int_200c009a	type	Mook Lieutenant
Super 8 / int_200c009a	comment	Mook Lieutenant: Overmeyer, Nelec's loyal subordinate.
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Super 8 / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Super 8 / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: All of the U.S. military personnel under the Colonel's direction.
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Super 8 / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Super 8 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The "dungeon," Dr. Woodward's container in the school parking lot, is mentioned briefly after the train accident before it turns out that is where Dr. Woodward's research is located. Donny has a crush on Charles' sister Jennifer, who wants to go to Wendy's party next week, but their mother makes her babysit the twins. This comes in handy when Charles convinces her to flirt with Donny so that the gang can be driven back to town to rescue Alice in exchange for Charles doing the babysitting for her so she can go to the party. The film used during the train accident is later given to Joe's father by Preston, bringing him up to speed on the alien situation. The water tower is shown a few times in the background before it is given any relevance. The strange metallic cubes that the train was also carrying.
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Super 8 / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Super 8 / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Three: When several of Martin's scripts sheets blow away, he is seen chasing them across the screen behind Joe and Alice. A little later, when Joe is putting make-up on and having a conversation with Alice, Charles and Martin have a heated argument over one of his lines being changed slightly just before filming. In the same scene, watch Preston's mouth as he fakes conversation on the pay phone. Shortly afterwards he stops trying entirely when he's entranced by Alice's performance along with everyone else.
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Super 8 / int_27074b46	type	Holding Hands
Super 8 / int_27074b46	comment	Holding Hands: Joe and Alice at the end of the film.
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Super 8 / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
Super 8 / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: Joe and Alice both have neglectful fathers and missing mothers.
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Super 8 / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Super 8 / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To the Spielberg movies of the late '70s and '80s. Stranger Things is considered one to this movie.
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Super 8 / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Super 8 / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Alice, who is initially cold towards Joe but quickly warms up to him once they spend time together.
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Super 8 / int_29789a9d	type	Post-Kiss Catatonia
Super 8 / int_29789a9d	comment	Post-Kiss Catatonia: Averted with Joe and Alice. He looks astonished for a split second, but then hugs her right back.
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Super 8 / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Super 8 / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Joe's mother is dead, and his father attempts to send him away to a six week baseball camp over the summer, arguably so he doesn't have to deal with raising Joe by himself.
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Super 8 / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
Super 8 / int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: The Three Mile Island accident, which took place in the same year as the events of the film, is mentioned in the news in one scene.
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Super 8 / int_3007eabd	type	Censor Decoy
Super 8 / int_3007eabd	comment	Interestingly, the film was originally going to have a scene where Joe masturbates as a Censor Decoy, but the scene never made it past the script because the filmmakers decided it would be too creepy.
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Super 8 / int_308ac24f	type	Fantasy-Forbidding Father
Super 8 / int_308ac24f	comment	Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Deputy Lamb.
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Super 8 / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Super 8 / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Charles can be quite arrogant and bossy when it comes to his film, but he clearly wants to make it more in-depth by adding emotional investment to it, such as giving the detective a wife. Which makes the amusingly awful result all the more funny.
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Super 8 / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Super 8 / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: The sheriff is not impressed by the idea of everyone having their own Walkman. He isn't totally ignorant of its potential, though, and in fact sees how such an innocuous device could inspire an entire new trend. "It's a slippery slope," indeed.
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Super 8 / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
Super 8 / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: Joe's father has to punch out the soldier guarding him and steal his uniform to pull off Dressing as the Enemy.
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Super 8 / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
Super 8 / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: Alice tells Joe that her father wishes he had died instead of Joe's mother on the day of the accident and sometimes she feels that way about him too. Averted by Joe, who tells her she should never feel that way about her dad. And during the finale when the two fathers are together hunting down their missing kids, Alice's father tries to apologize and admit he should have died instead of Joe's mother. Joe's father, after a few moments of soul-searching, finally says, "It was an accident."
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Super 8 / int_34dcfc96	type	KickTheDog
Super 8 / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: One of the soldiers takes Joe's mother's locket. Joe gets it back later from the guy's corpse.
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Super 8 / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Super 8 / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: The cure for the zombie virus in "The Case."
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Super 8 / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Super 8 / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: As summarized by none other than James Rolfe, "Coming from a guy that says 'shit' a lot, these kids say 'shit' all the time." However, it's worth noting that if you pay attention, the swearing is mostly from Charles and Cary. The others either say bad words very rarely, or not at all.
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Super 8 / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
Super 8 / int_3678fbfa	comment	Mad Bomber: Cary, to the concern of the kids' parents and sometimes his friends. But boy, does it pay it off.
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Super 8 / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Super 8 / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: In the train crash scene, the only thing more broken than Woodward's truck are the laws of physics, but most people forgive it on the grounds that the scene is fucking amazing.
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Super 8 / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Super 8 / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: The Colonel appears to.
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Super 8 / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Super 8 / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Joe. He starts off as a bit of a pushover, constantly helping Charles with his film and initially letting him blow up his model train. After bonding with Alice, Joe starts standing up for himself, eventually directing the kids to help Charles and taking Donny with him to save Alice. As noted by Donny, "When did he get so bossy?"
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Super 8 / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Super 8 / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: A more grim version: It's never revealed how Joe's mother died, only that it was rather nasty and involved i-beams. A sort of in-story Violence Discretion Shot.
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Super 8 / int_3c88d6c2	type	Flat "What"
Super 8 / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What.": Cary emits one of these after Joe is able to convince the alien to spare him during the climax.
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Super 8 / int_3d480b53	type	Trauma Swing
Super 8 / int_3d480b53	comment	Trauma Swing: The film opens with Joe sitting alone on a swing mourning his mother's death.
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Super 8 / int_3d7b1b61	type	Twice Shy
Super 8 / int_3d7b1b61	comment	Twice Shy: Joe and Alice again.
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Super 8 / int_40126d90	type	Infant Immortality
Super 8 / int_40126d90	comment	Infant Immortality: Despite a number of other violent deaths in the movie, all the kids make it out unscathed.
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Super 8 / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Super 8 / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: "The Case," the zombie movie that the kids are filming, is shown during the credits. It is so bad. Joe in particular is a horrendous actor during his one scene in "The Case."
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Super 8 / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Super 8 / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Alice when she is captured by the alien.
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Super 8 / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Super 8 / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Justified in that Cooper—the alien—is not a monster at all. Although he's still scary.
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Super 8 / int_438cb385	type	Overprotective Dad
Super 8 / int_438cb385	comment	Overprotective Dad: Joe's and Alice's fathers when they forbid their respective children from spending time with the other.
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Super 8 / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Super 8 / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: "Don't Bring Me Down," "Easy", "My Sharona," "Heart of Glass," and "Silly Love Songs" all show up.
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Super 8 / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Super 8 / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: There's a crashed military train with an escaped alien loose, a town that needs to be locked down, people and dogs disappearing all over the place... and nobody seems to notice a group of kids filming all of it? Eventually Colonel Nelec notices, but by then Joe's dad shows up to take both camera and Joe away.
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Super 8 / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Super 8 / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Jackson's stolen Air Force uniform. Everyone from town knows that it's him when he uses it to infiltrate the evacuee center run by the Air Force. It works for the soldiers, since the military is, obviously, a very big organization.
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Super 8 / int_498a6a21	type	Badass Teacher
Super 8 / int_498a6a21	comment	Badass Teacher: Dr. Woodward, the biology teacher at the main characters' school, crashes into the train. The best part is that he survives the crash. Turns out he's also one of the scientists who studied the monster.
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Super 8 / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Super 8 / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The train crash. Explosions, scraping metal, flying train cars, and frightened kids are all captured in full detail to show the massive amount of destruction that takes place.
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Super 8 / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Super 8 / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Averted. There is an explosion of blood against the bus window as the creature kills the Colonel as well as a shot of the creature feeding on a human leg after he consumes one of the hostages. Played straight when a bone is said to be poking out of Martin's leg after an explosion in the house and it has to be physically arranged back, but neither the injury nor the process is shown.
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Super 8 / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Super 8 / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Basically, the creature itself has been stranded on Earth since the 1950s, and has been imprisoned and experimented on for the last couple of decades, and has only wanted to return home via its ship. More or less the reason for its aggression is because every human it sees (other than Dr. Woodward, with whom it establishes a mental link) is a potential threat, or expendable for the most part. Averted with Joe, whose chat with the alien in the tunnel — "Bad things happen" — reveals to it that in a way, everybody hurts. And since the alien is holding Joe at the time and establishes a mind link by contact, the alien can see that Joe — who had by then forgiven Alice's father for what happened — is right. From the prequel comic's tagline: "The Soviets sent a dog. The U.S. sent a Nuke." This is actually justified: the Soviets' probe was shot down, causing all the worst reactions...
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Super 8 / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Super 8 / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag to the second degree ensues as the credits of the in-film film playing over the credits of the film are interrupted by a zombie attack.
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Super 8 / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Super 8 / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Dr. Woodward, due to his guilt over being one of the scientists that kept the alien imprisoned, and finding out from a mental link that it's just scared and wants to go home. Alice's father turns out to be this as well, as he was indirectly responsible for Joe's mother's death and sought out forgiveness.
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Super 8 / int_51f46e82	type	JerkassFacade
Super 8 / int_51f46e82	comment	Jerkass Façade: Initially, Alice and Louis both treat Joe with anger and resentment. As it turns out, this is merely a front.
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Super 8 / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
Super 8 / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: Almost no one says "alien".
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Super 8 / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
Super 8 / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Joe. His talents are obviously placed outside school subjects. In one scene he hides a test marked "C-" from Alice.
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Super 8 / int_54cb0416	type	Dramatic Alien VTOL
Super 8 / int_54cb0416	comment	Dramatic Alien VTOL: It wouldn't be a proper '80s-style Spielberg movie without one.
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Super 8 / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
Super 8 / int_56863152	comment	Operation: [Blank]: Operation Walking Distance
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Super 8 / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Super 8 / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: At one time, Dr. Woodward was a military research scientist with a top-level security clearance. After he spoke out, he wound up teaching Middle School science classes in a steel-mill town in Ohio.
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Super 8 / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Super 8 / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The alien's home planet or much of anything about its race. Then again, it is a J.J. Abrams film.
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Super 8 / int_5a4f75a8	type	Esoteric Happy Ending
Super 8 / int_5a4f75a8	comment	Esoteric Happy Ending: In-universe: The kids' film, "The Case," ends with the hero saving his girlfriend from the zombie disease...by wasting the only remaining dosage of the cure on her.
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Super 8 / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Super 8 / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: It's eventually revealed that Alice's father blames himself for Joe's mother's death, as she took on his shift at the factory on the day of the accident.
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Super 8 / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Super 8 / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: The alien monster and its antics; the story is about Joe and his father.
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Super 8 / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Super 8 / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: Area 51 stuff happening in a small Ohio town somewhere west of Dayton, possibly tying into the rumors that the nearby Wright-Patterson AFB was the storage place of the alien bodies and wreckage from the Roswell crash.
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Super 8 / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Super 8 / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Alice Dainard is the only female in a group with 5 young boys making a film and navigating their way through their adventure. In fact, she's pretty much the only female in the entire movie, other than Charles's mom and sister.
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Super 8 / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Super 8 / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The credits show the entire film the gang was working on. Credits Gag to the second degree ensues as the credits of the in-film film playing over the credits of the film are interrupted by a zombie attack.
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Super 8 / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Super 8 / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Charles (the fat kid, duh!). Lampshaded. The alien also, to judge by the massive hunk of beef being provided to it in an old video clip.
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Super 8 / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Super 8 / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: The alien monster, thanks to The Power of Friendship.
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Super 8 / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Super 8 / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The sound designers in this movie really earned their overtime pay: The creature's demonic-sounding roars and growls are terrifying. Especially during the bus scene.
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Super 8 / int_629de9ad	type	'70s Hair
Super 8 / int_629de9ad	comment	'70s Hair: Farrah Fawcett hairdos and long sideburns all over the place. However, most of the male kids' hair isn't all that different from 2011 fashions.
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Super 8 / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Super 8 / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The alien is first briefly seen in the reflection of a gasoline puddle.
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Super 8 / int_63b3597	type	Shoot the Fuel Tank
Super 8 / int_63b3597	comment	Shoot the Fuel Tank: Deputy Lamb blows up the truck carrying the fuel used to create the "wildfire" that prompted the evacuation to create a distraction for him to make off with a car.
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Super 8 / int_647ce68	type	Family-Unfriendly Violence
Super 8 / int_647ce68	comment	Family-Unfriendly Violence/Death: The alien kills a lot of people in rather brutal ways. Although it's only visible for a few scant moments, it's clear that the Colonel's entire upper body pretty much disappears in a splatter of blood across the window when the alien bites him.
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Super 8 / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
Super 8 / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: The mysterious things that are happening in town are overall dismissed by the kids as they try to make the film, but the moment Alice is kidnapped is the moment they all race to try to figure out what is going on so they can rescue her.
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Super 8 / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Super 8 / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Joe's mother is dead, and Alice's mother has left her family.
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Super 8 / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Super 8 / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: The noises made by the creature before it crushes the Colonel to paste sound suspiciously like a very nasty chuckle.
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Super 8 / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Super 8 / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Eventually, the kids find the footage and the recordings that explain what the creature is — an alien who crash-landed years ago who only wanted to rebuild his ship and go home, but government officials got a hold of him first and kept him in captivity for experimentation. The alien did not take this treatment well and therefore was not shy about killing people as he gathered the equipment necessary to rebuild his ship, though it is clear that he eats human beings for sustenance despite being less than fond of them. A bit ruined if you happened across the prequel comic.
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Super 8 / int_6d2c31e0	type	Car Skiing
Super 8 / int_6d2c31e0	comment	Car Skiing: Happens when the creature slams into the military bus transporting the gang. Of note is that while the driver does succeed in getting the car back on the ground, the raised tires are totally destroyed on impact, forcing him to stop.
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Super 8 / int_6db06839	type	The Stoner
Super 8 / int_6db06839	comment	The Stoner: Donny.
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Super 8 / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Super 8 / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Colonel Nelec gets killed about 3/4 of the way through the movie - the climax of the film is Joe convincing the alien that it doesn't have to act like a monster.
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Super 8 / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Super 8 / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: After the train accident, the gang find blood on some of the train wreckage and think that it's Alice's. Alice appears behind them and is uninjured; the blood is just fake blood from Joe's make-up box.
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Super 8 / int_71a223fc	type	Up to Eleven
Super 8 / int_71a223fc	comment	Taken Up to Eleven in the first draft of the script, in which the alien was never supposed to be shown at all.
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Super 8 / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Super 8 / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey and Gray Morality: The conflict between the army and the alien. The army is highly xenophobic, and willing to go to grand lengths to bring the alien down. But they're mostly just doing their jobs, and even the worst of them has his redeeming qualities. Namely, sacrificing his life to let the kids escape the alien. Meanwhile, the alien has no problem with killing or kidnapping innocent people that get in his way, using kidnappees as a food source while he rebuilds his ship. However, he's more interested in leaving Earth than causing harm, and the whole reason he's attacking humans at all is because his terrible and inhumane treatment at the hands of the military has led him to believe that all humans are a potential threat.
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Super 8 / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Super 8 / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Cary calls Martin "Smartin", to his displeasure
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Super 8 / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Super 8 / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Mild case. Joe's police officer dad strongarms Mr. Dainard into the back of his police car and drives him away, apparently for the crime of... showing up at a wake. Subsequent events explain his motive, though.
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Super 8 / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Super 8 / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: Anybody who was a pre-teen between 1975 to 1985 is gonna get misty-eyed watching this movie.
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Super 8 / int_77494f30	type	X Days Since
Super 8 / int_77494f30	comment	X Days Since: A rare non-comedic example. Used at the very start of the film to instantly tragic effect. Joe's Mom broke the streak.
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Super 8 / int_7950239f	type	Humanity Ensues
Super 8 / int_7950239f	comment	Humanity Ensues: In "The Case", Det. Hathaway is about to reluctantly shoot his infected wife when the antidote starts taking effect.
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Super 8 / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
Super 8 / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Humans develop this link with the alien if they are touched by it.
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Super 8 / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
Super 8 / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Alice's father. He was drinking the morning of the factory accident, which led to Joe's mother taking his shift and her untimely death.
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Super 8 / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Super 8 / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: After the train derailment when the kids are all driving away, they're freaking out over Woodward's warnings. Charles is just as distressed, but not about entirely the same things. "You will die; your parents will die... this is not good information!" "I've never had a teacher aim a gun at me!" "That train could've killed us!" "Oh shit, the focus ring fell off my camera! The lens is totally cracked!"
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Super 8 / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Super 8 / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: How Cary explains why talking is bad in the silent reading section.
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Super 8 / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Super 8 / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: The kids do sneak out at night, but they also spend all day on their own.
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Super 8 / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Super 8 / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Charles' sister, Jennifer, who is constantly complaining to their mother about wanting to go to a girl's party, but can't, due to babysitting duties. Used as a plot point, it's the only way Charles is able to get them places during the events of the film by promising to babysit instead.
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Super 8 / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Super 8 / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: If you like old-school '70s cars, almost all of them.
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Super 8 / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Super 8 / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of a sort. The plot shows a grittier realization of an E.T.-style alien arrival and some Goonies-esque meddling kids' entanglement in it. Ultimately, the kids have next to nothing to do with the alien's escape from Earth. Rather, the story is about the humans learning to forgive and move on with their lives. Whether or not the alien learned about human emotions it's likely unable to comprehend is pretty much irrelevant. In fact, the kids' and the alien's paths only briefly intersect a couple of times. The creature is also a good deal more violent than most "crash-landed alien" movie characters, and after 20-something years of being tortured and experimented on, it's pissed off and ready to leave, and doesn't care who gets in its way. It's clearly some form of an apex predator, and thinks nothing of kidnapping the native To Serve Man "wildlife" to feed on while it builds its spaceship. An intelligent animal the size of a bus has to eat a lot of food, and given that Lillian seems to have no large livestock, there's only one food source it can turn to.
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Super 8 / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Super 8 / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Joe's mother.
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Super 8 / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Super 8 / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The Colonel finally meets his end at the hands of the creature he ordered experimentation on.
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Super 8 / int_920ca805	type	Night of the Living Mooks
Super 8 / int_920ca805	comment	Night of the Living Mooks: The zombie movie the kids are trying to film.
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Super 8 / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Super 8 / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: A few, courtesy of Martin. In the special features, cinematographer Larry Fong notes that this may the first instance of computer-generated vomit in a movie.
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Super 8 / int_9558599b	type	The New Rock & Roll
Super 8 / int_9558599b	comment	The New Rock & Roll: Parodied a little bit when the Sheriff makes a passing mention (upon finally catching the store clerk's attention) that the Walkman is "pointing down a slippery slope of juvenile distraction".
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Super 8 / int_9578e935	type	Bare Your Midriff
Super 8 / int_9578e935	comment	Bare Your Midriff: Charles has an older sister whose wardrobe choices consists entirely of this trope.
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Super 8 / int_95d5fa0e	type	Area 51
Super 8 / int_95d5fa0e	comment	Area 51: That's where the train's cargo comes from. So, obviously, it's trouble.
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Super 8 / int_960810e8	type	Recycled Trailer Music
Super 8 / int_960810e8	comment	Recycled Trailer Music: If the music from this trailer sounds familiar, that's because it was from the movie Cocoon. It can also be heard in this trailer for Cocoon: The Return.
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Super 8 / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Super 8 / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Colonel Nelec. While the creature gets its sinister musical motif, the Colonel gets his own, which sounds somewhat like a certain March.
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Super 8 / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Super 8 / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. The first violent scene in the movie involves a train crash, in which Dr. Woodward — a black guy — is apparently killed when his truck gets hit by the train. However, despite appearing dead at first sight, he is actually alive and scares the crap out of the kids who come to investigate.
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Super 8 / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Super 8 / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: A few times with the kids, who usually respond with a huffy, "I know that!"
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Super 8 / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Super 8 / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: The alien, which is a bit of a problem for Colonel Nelec when he's trapped in a bus by the alien with only an M-16. Even escalating to tanks doesn't help, as it's capable of making them veer off course with magnetism.
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Super 8 / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
Super 8 / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: The creature sort of resembles one. It has six (not eight, but still many) limbs, its face can open up to reveal a spider-like maw, it has black, spider-like eyes when hunting, it can produce web (which it uses to tie up its human prey), and it is a carnivore. It's also subterranean, possibly referring to funnel web spiders. The creature can be more accurately described as a giant spider-human hybrid though, considering its humanoid torso, hands, face, and most importantly, its incredibly human eyes whenever it's calm.
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Super 8 / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Super 8 / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Before the end, the creature, when seen, had predatory-looking black eyes, killed people, and for the most part seemed utterly monstrous. When it picks up Joe, after he makes it clear that he understands what happened to it and just wants the creature to leave in peace, the black lids slide back, revealing startlingly intelligent and human-like eyes. It then proceeds to put the boy gently down, lets him and his friends leave, and makes its own exit.
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Super 8 / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Super 8 / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: Invoked when a woman suggests that all the weird stuff going on in town is a prelude to a Soviet invasion.
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Super 8 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Super 8 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: As the kids drive away from the train accident, they pass the gas station that gets prominence a few scenes later. When the cube picked up from the crash site goes crazy in Joe's room and flies through a wall to the water tower, it notably passes through a poster of the space shuttle. And when Deputy Lamb is coming out of the press conference or whatever it was, a man comes up to him and tells him about "some kinda sinkhole" in his garage.
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Super 8 / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Super 8 / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: The first two poor bastards the Colonel sends out of the wrecked bus to tag the alien have "I hate my job" written all over their faces.
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Super 8 / int_a0daf3c2	type	Heartwarming Moments / Sugar Wiki
Super 8 / int_a0daf3c2	comment	Averted by Joe, who tells her she should never feel that way about her dad.
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Super 8 / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Super 8 / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Joe towards Alice. It turns out Charles had the same idea too.
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Super 8 / int_a412cd2b	type	Lens Flare
Super 8 / int_a412cd2b	comment	Lens Flare: A drinking game based on them would end very badly for all involved. It's a J.J. Abrams movie.
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Super 8 / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Super 8 / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Several: Joe's mother's funeral, which starts out very somber and then switches to the kids all arguing about the grisly manner in which she died. The climax, when Joe talks down the alien from killing him and his friends immediately followed by Cary's indignant reaction to the fact that it actually worked. After the moment where Joe lets go of the locket, followed by the ship leaving, the credits continue the sad music... only to cut to show the hilarious movie of the kids, "The Case". And then, "My Sharona".
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Super 8 / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Super 8 / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Both Joe's and Alice's fathers share neglect towards their respective child, Joe's father due to his work and emotional baggage carried from Joe's mother's death, and Alice's father due to his resentment over Alice's mother leaving him and his guilt over Joe's mother's death, which he is indirectly responsible for.
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Super 8 / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Super 8 / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Super 8 footage of the crash - although it doesn't figure into the plot as heavily as one might expect.
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Super 8 / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Super 8 / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The three male zombies in "The Case" are all played by Cary, who looks exactly the same in all three roles except with a change of clothes.
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Super 8 / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Super 8 / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The alien kills at least a dozen innocent townsfolk including the sheriff and a woman, yet the audience is expected to sympathize with it and feel good when it leaves Earth.
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Super 8 / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
Super 8 / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: Done by Nelec to Woodward.
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Super 8 / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Super 8 / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Justified, as the movie is set in the 1970s, but who really says stuff like "That was mint!" anymore?
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Super 8 / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Super 8 / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The woman and the Sheriff eaten by the monster in the cave.
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Super 8 / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Super 8 / int_ac320c0e	comment	From the prequel comic's tagline: "The Soviets sent a dog. The U.S. sent a Nuke." This is actually justified: the Soviets' probe was shot down, causing all the worst reactions...
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Super 8 / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Super 8 / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Cary's obsession with fireworks comes in handy later on when they need a diversion.
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Super 8 / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Super 8 / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: A double one. The alien's ability to bond, and Joe's passion for train models, come in handy when it is time to build a new spaceship.
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Super 8 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Super 8 / int_ad1db87c	comment	The train crash scene does this excellently as well. The entire movie-filming scene draws out the tension as much as possible, because the audience just knows there's going to be a train coming down that track. Sure enough, Charles spots one, and scrambles to get everything set up in time to capture it during a take. Then Joe spots a light on the track ahead of the train, and realizes it's a pick-up truck, driving straight towards the train.
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Super 8 / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Super 8 / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catch-Phrase: Charles has "That was mint!", "Shut up!", and "Production value!"
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Super 8 / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Super 8 / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming-of-Age Story: With, you know, an angry alien on the loose.
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Super 8 / int_b3c0ed0c	type	Spoof Aesop
Super 8 / int_b3c0ed0c	comment	Spoof Aesop: A drive-by line when the kids' driver is too stoned to get out of the car while the town is being blown to smithereens. Charles exclaims, "Drugs are SO bad!" before running away.
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Super 8 / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
Super 8 / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: One of the major themes of the film.
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Super 8 / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Super 8 / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Joe and Charles both have crushes on Alice.
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Super 8 / int_bb5e187b	type	Captured Super-Entity
Super 8 / int_bb5e187b	comment	Captured Super-Entity: The alien since The '50s, under less-than-humane circumstances.
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Super 8 / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Super 8 / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Other characters swear plenty of times, but "fuck" is specifically saved for the perfect moment towards the end:
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Super 8 / int_c04b1231	type	JumpScare
Super 8 / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: A few times. "Sir, is there a particular area you'd like me to-"
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Super 8 / int_c0abbbc2	type	Serkis Folk
Super 8 / int_c0abbbc2	comment	Serkis Folk: The creature is all motion-capture. Provided by Bruce Greenwood, of all people. Maybe Abrams just like hanging out with him.
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Super 8 / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Super 8 / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Types 1 - "The Case", the film that the kids are making for the Super-8 Film Festival. Their involvement in the greater plot mostly revolves about being in the right place at the wrong time as they try to film the thing.
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Super 8 / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Super 8 / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: "You can't drink that! It doesn't belong to you!"
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Super 8 / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
Super 8 / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Not entirely so, but army men are not pleasant guys to deal with, and one of them tortured the alien and turned him against humanity.
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Super 8 / int_cbde3dfd	type	Took the Bad Film Seriously
Super 8 / int_cbde3dfd	comment	Took the Bad Film Seriously: Alice, in-universe. Her character as the wife is just a Sacrificial Lamb, but during rehearsal Alice acts out the part so emotionally the entire crew is in shock. And then it gets mostly edited out of the film anyway.
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Super 8 / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Super 8 / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: The Colonel spends his last few moments of life shooting the monster in the face — despite knowing it won't work — and staring it down before it eats him.
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Super 8 / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Super 8 / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The classic version is used repeatedly when the monster abducts someone. The third version as well: when Joe and Cary are in the monster's lair, the sheriff's body is right next to them, though you might not spot it until they do, and when Alice is abducted, there appears to be something blurry in the background. Which starts moving. The attack on the bus is the "Wait for it" version, played straight as an arrow, complete with some poor bastard getting abruptly yanked out of the truck mid-sentence. Taken Up to Eleven in the first draft of the script, in which the alien was never supposed to be shown at all. The train crash scene does this excellently as well. The entire movie-filming scene draws out the tension as much as possible, because the audience just knows there's going to be a train coming down that track. Sure enough, Charles spots one, and scrambles to get everything set up in time to capture it during a take. Then Joe spots a light on the track ahead of the train, and realizes it's a pick-up truck, driving straight towards the train.
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Super 8 / int_cee9aeed	type	Alternate Reality Game
Super 8 / int_cee9aeed	comment	Alternate Reality Game: Naturally there'd be one. It involves a site about Ice Cream Lollipop called Rocket Poppeteers. There's Scariest Thing I Ever Saw, Hook, Line and Minker and S8 Editing Room. The editing room is especially good as you have to unlock clips and put them together forming one big video (which features the Truck Guy who apparently was involved in some experiments relating to the monster). Clips can be unlocked from looking through Super 8 standees in theaters and watching the title card after the trailer and using the Super 8 app.
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Super 8 / int_d139ffaf	type	Genre Throwback
Super 8 / int_d139ffaf	comment	Genre Throwback: The entire film appears to be honoring every late 1970s-1980s film that Steven Spielberg either directed or had a hand in: Specifically Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the midwest setting, power outages). ET (the kids on bikes, coping with an alien that only wants to go home, and dealing with uncaring military authority figures). The Goonies Even Deputy Lamb trying to find out what's going on with the disappearances in town is reminiscent of Chief Brody's investigations in Jaws. The deputy punching out bad guys to steal their uniforms is a pretty blatant call back to Indiana Jones.
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Super 8 / int_d705d771	type	Exposed Extraterrestrials
Super 8 / int_d705d771	comment	Exposed Extraterrestrials: The creature.
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Super 8 / int_d7345a5d	type	Let No Crisis Go to Waste
Super 8 / int_d7345a5d	comment	Let No Crisis Go to Waste: The kids take advantage of a train crash and the soldiers in town in order to increase the "production values" of their film.
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Super 8 / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Super 8 / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Alice, after Joe applies the zombie make-up.
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Super 8 / int_da4d59ae	type	Memento MacGuffin
Super 8 / int_da4d59ae	comment	Memento MacGuffin/Tragic Keepsake: The locket that belonged to Joe's mother. It ends up being the last piece of metal needed for the alien's ship.
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Super 8 / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Super 8 / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Between Joe and Alice.
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Super 8 / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Super 8 / int_de7b7cbf	comment	"Drugs are so bad!", Charles moans after their driver stones himself to sleep. Played for Laughs.
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Super 8 / int_dec54a8c	type	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
Super 8 / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Donny saying "fuck" (amongst other curses from the children) and Nelec's unusually gory death were probably put in to ensure a PG-13 rating. Interestingly, the film was originally going to have a scene where Joe masturbates as a Censor Decoy, but the scene never made it past the script because the filmmakers decided it would be too creepy.
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Super 8 / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Super 8 / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: When the kids play one of the rolls of film from Woodward's trailer, Woodward is shown at one of the windows of the alien's prison cell, dangling a hunk of meat near the bars. The guy is just begging to be yanked through the window by an alien tentacle or whatever, and the audience steels itself with anticipation when all of a sudden he's snatched up by the alien's arm, sticking through another window thirty-something feet off the ground.
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Super 8 / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Super 8 / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: At the end of "The Case," Charles talks directly to the audience, only to be interrupted by a zombie tearing out his throat. It's a Shout-Out to grindhouse movies that did the exact same thing, and to the framing stories of a few Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes being invaded by the primary plots.
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Super 8 / int_e2d7b14c	type	Made of Explodium
Super 8 / int_e2d7b14c	comment	Made of Explodium: Just what the hell was in that tiny little pickup truck of Woodward's to derail a massive military train like that?
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Super 8 / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Super 8 / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Dr. Woodward after a head-on collision with a train.
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Super 8 / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Super 8 / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: One implied, one stated. Joe's dad blows up a tanker truck to provide cover for his escape from custody, and Joe asks Cary to set off some fireworks so they can get out.
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Super 8 / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Super 8 / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Joe attempts to when his father forbids him from spending time with Alice.
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Super 8 / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Super 8 / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Despite killing a large number of people throughout the movie, it's made clear that the alien is primarily just trying to feed and/or defend itself, as a carnivorous creature that large would require a huge amount of food to survive. Except for when it has the Colonel cornered in the bus, the creature pauses and looks him dead in the eye, as if savoring the moment, then starts laughing.
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Super 8 / int_efa2d938	type	Homage Shot
Super 8 / int_efa2d938	comment	Homage Shot: The setup of the train crash is nearly identical to the one in Cecil B. De Mille's The Greatest Show on Earth. Indeed, it was Steven Spielberg's childhood attempts to replicate this train crash that led to his pursuit of a film career, which this film pays homage to.
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Super 8 / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
Super 8 / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: Takes place in 1979, and does a fabulous job of capturing the look of the time.
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Super 8 / int_f13643c4	type	Tunnel King
Super 8 / int_f13643c4	comment	Tunnel King: The creature is this.
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Super 8 / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Super 8 / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Averted. Most of the acting in the movie the kids are working on is believably bad. Joe himself was called upon to play a soldier and was particularly stiff. Martin seems to be alright, but Alice got so emotional and into character as the wife during the rehearsal take that she stunned everyone. Amusingly, the poor editing of Charles' movie (seen over the ending credits) conceals this, since he chose to use a take where she had to yell over the sound of the train. As a result, she sounds just as bad as the other kids.
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Super 8 / int_f300ca44	type	Cliché Storm
Super 8 / int_f300ca44	comment	Cliché Storm: In-Universe, "The Case" is all Night of the Living Mooks cliches rolled into one. A case of Reality Ensues, because it's hard to expect Andrei Tarkovsky material from a bunch of 13-year-olds who've been watching too many zombie movies.
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Super 8 / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Super 8 / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Joe, but hesitantly and only because it was the only way to wake her up so that they could run for their lives.
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Super 8 / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Super 8 / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Budweiser, 7-Eleven, and Kodak are all over the place. The last is more Company Name Placement than Product Placement, of course, as all of the Kodak products shown in this movie have been supplanted by updated versions or discontinued.
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Super 8 / int_f54f6082	type	Selective Magnetism
Super 8 / int_f54f6082	comment	Selective Magnetism: The magnetic field at the ends attracts guns, appliances, and even cars, but the military vehicles remain on the ground. Justified in the case of tanks and armored cars, which clearly weigh a lot more than civilian vehicles; done wince-inducingly straight with the metal chain Alice's dad wears around his neck and Cary's braces, which both remain firmly in place while Joe's locket goes floating off into the air. Could be justified: braces might have been made of different material back then, but today, dental braces are very rarely magnetic. The metal chain could be a similar example of a non-magnetic metal.
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Super 8 / int_f8394279	comment	Happier Home Movie: Joe and Alice watch a home movie of Joe as a baby with his mother.
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Super 8 / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: In the "The Case": "This fell out of the pocket of the attacker's pocket."
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Super 8 / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Super 8 / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: A whole train was pulled off the tracks by just a truck, whose driver survived. Tanks are shown firing their main guns in very close proximity to characters, which should have knocked them down and made them deaf at the very least.
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Super 8 / int_fc4f3b4f	type	Friend Versus Lover
Super 8 / int_fc4f3b4f	comment	Friend Versus Lover: Sort of. Alice wants Joe to stand up to Charles and not let him blow up his train model, while Charles is annoyed by Joe's new-found independence (or, as he puts it, "bossiness") due to Alice's encouragement. Although what really bothers Charles is that Alice likes Joe better than him.
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Super 8 / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Super 8 / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: A woman at the police department is looking for someone with brown hair and "rollers." She's one of the people taken by the alien. The Electronic Football. When the kids break into the "Dungeon" where all the confiscated items and Woodward's items were, the next scene has the kid it was confiscated from playing it in the background.
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Super 8 / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
Super 8 / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: The reason that Alice's father, Louis, initially acted like a jerkass to Joe was because he felt indirectly responsible for Joe's mother's death. Alice even tells Joe that he wished he had died instead of her.
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Super 8 / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Super 8 / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: All the dogs in the area run away to other towns because they can tell there's a monster running around. Either that, or the equipment it's assembling makes a noise or smell humans can't detect, but they don't like at all.
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Super 8 / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Super 8 / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: What does the Colonel do in his last few minutes of life? Buy time for the kids to escape from the creature.
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Super 8 / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Super 8 / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The alien is being transported to Ohio, as seen on the map. Wright-Patterson AFB, the home of the Air Force's Project Bluebook is in Ohio. In fact, if you look closely enough at the two maps that appear in the film, you find that the [fictional] town of Lillian is about twenty miles west of Dayton — the home of the aforementioned Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Woodward's map makes it clear that the train was indeed headed for Wright-Patterson before he intervened. In-universe example: For their age, the kids seem to be pretty well-versed in the process of film-making. Which in the end makes their final product all the more ironic, although for a movie made by kids, it's pretty solid.
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