Welcome girls and boys to the Summer
Blockbusters of 1985! Today of course we need to start off big, bold
and brassy. Naturally we need to discuss the top grossing film of
the year bringing a Family Ties actor's name to households all over
the world and raking in more than 383 million worldwide.
Written by Bob Gale (I Wanna
Hold Your Hand, 1941, Used Cars, Back to the Future and Bordello of
Blood) and Robert Zemeckis and directed by Zemeckis (Used
Cars, Romancing the Stone, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump and
Contact)comes the story of love, romance, fist fights and
time travel.
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| Psst, Marty have a Coke instead. |
This is Back to the Future.
Our story opens with a house with a
Rube Goldberg machine to make toast, set off alarm, fire up coffee
and prep canned dog food, as Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox of
Class of 1984, Teen Wolf, Family Ties, The Hard Way, Greedy and The
Frighteners) goes to hang out with his favorite mad scientist
of the town, a pariah in the scientific community that is always
building crazy inventions with a hit or miss ratio while Marty
aspires to be a musician, impress his girl and get the truck of his
dreams. Belitted at school for slacking off, our lad heads home
for grub and be with his family. His dad, George (Crispin
Glover of Friday the 13th: The
Final Chapter, Twister, The Doors, Charlie's Angels, Willard and Epic
Movie) constantly bullied by his supervisor and his mom
Loranne (Lea Thompson of Jaws: 3-D, SpaceCamp, Howard the Duck,
Caroline in the City, For the People and Jane Doe: Vanishing Act)
is an overweight alcoholic who constantly reminisces over how she met
Marty's father.
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| Great Scott! My fly has been open all this time! |
Thoroughly depressed with this lot,
Marty thrashes his deck down to the shopping mall to meet up with his
buddy "Doc" Doctor Emmit Brown (Christopher Lloyd of
Taxi, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Clue, Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
The Addams Family, Quicksilver Highway, Tremors: The Series and
Piranha 3D) who has made a fully-functional time machine out
of a DeLorean luxury sports car. Powered by plutonium nabbed from
some Lybian terrorists, the flux capacitor can hurdle the car into
whatever time period he wants it to go. Marty filming this on VHS
sees the Lybians shoot Doc as Marty leaps into the car to escape but
accidentally sets the car 30 years into the past.
Caught in the past and unintentionally
interfering with his parents collective timelines, Marty must
correct these errors to insure he and his siblings birth and their
parents' marriage. Seeking out 1955 Doc Brown is the only way to
send him back to the future. With no plutonium at the ready, there
may be no way to alter the timeline and get back home.
Can Marty exact the timeline? Will Doc
Brown avoid his future fate? Can his dog Einstein get a new squeaky
toy?
A few bits of trivia on the film now.
Due to Pepsi's sponsorship, various
scenes showcase Pepsi products and memorabilia throughout the movie.
Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, the main performer of the
soundtrack is in a bit part as one of the judges for Marty's band on
whether or not they can play for the high school dance.
Eric Stolz was originally slated to
play Marty McFly but the fight sequence between him and Thomas Wilson
(Biff) damn near broke his collarbone. Wilson set to beat the
monkey crap out of Stolz was too late as Zemeckis had fired Eric a
half hour before.
The inspiration for the movie is
largely credited to writer Bob Gale looking through his dad's high
school yearbook and wondering if they would have been friends as
teenagers. The White House press had a field day of approval over
the script mocking the President when Reagan's actual reaction of
past Doc Brown finding in preposterous that an actor would be
President tickled him and gave him a good hearty laugh. "Whew,"
said the producers.
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| You damn kids and your Huey Lewis and the News... Bah!! |
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