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The rights to the film and its sequels are owned by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. In a 2015 interview, Zemeckis maintained that no reboot or remake of the franchise would be authorized during his or Gale's lifetime.
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Writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis actually received a fan letter from John DeLorean after the film's release, thanking them for immortalizing his car.
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The script was rejected forty four times before it was finally green-lit.
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In 2010, during a cast reunion, Michael J. Fox said that strangers still call him 'McFly!' constantly. Fox said that the most remarkable instance was when he was in a remote jungle in the South Asian country Bhutan, located between China and India in the eastern Himalayas. A group of Buddhist monks passed him and one of them looked at Fox and said, 'Marty McFly!'
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When Lorraine follows Marty back to Doc's house, she and Doc exchange an awkward greeting. This marks the only on-screen dialogue that Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson ever have, though they have appeared together in six movies.
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Apparently, Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown's disbelief that an actor like him could become President, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address, 'As they said in the film Back to the Future (1985), 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'
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According to Bob Gale, on October 26, 1985, a group of people showed up at the mall used to film the Twin Pines Mall location to see if Marty would arrive in the DeLorean. He, of course, did not.
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Biff's catchphrases 'make like a tree and get outta here' and 'butthead' were improvised by Thomas F. Wilson.
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Christopher Lloyd stated that he always wanted to do one more movie, in which Marty and Doc Brown time-travel back to Ancient Rome.
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When this movie was previewed for a test audience, Industrial Light and Magic had not completed the final DeLorean-in-flight shot, and the last several minutes of the movie were previewed in black and white. It didn't matter, as the audience roared in approval of the final scene anyway.
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Universal Pictures head Sid Sheinberg did not like the title 'Back to the Future', insisting that nobody would see a movie with 'future' in the title. In a memo to Robert Zemeckis, he said that the title should be changed to 'Spaceman From Pluto', tying in with the Marty-as-alien jokes in the film, and also suggested further changes like replacing the 'I'm Darth Vader from planet Vulcan' line with 'I am a spaceman from Pluto!' Sheinberg was persuaded to change his mind by a response memo from Steven Spielberg, which thanked him for sending a wonderful 'joke memo', and that everyone got a kick out of it. Sheinberg, too proud to admit he was serious, gave in to letting the film retain its title.
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The inspiration for the film largely stems from Bob Gale discovering his father's high school yearbook and wondering whether he would have been friends with his father as a teenager. Gale also said that if he had the chance to go back in time, he would really go back and see if they would have been friends.
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Claudia Wells, who played Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future (1985), gave her role up to Elisabeth Shue for Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990) when her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
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After the film's release, body kits were made for DeLoreans to make them look like the time machine.
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Doc's distinctive hunched-over look developed when the filmmakers realized the extreme difference in height between Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox; Fox is 5' 4½' while Lloyd is 6' 1'. To compensate for the height difference, director Robert Zemeckis used specific blocking where the two often stood far apart at different camera depths. For close-ups, Lloyd would have to hunch over to appear in frame with Fox. The same approach was used in the sequels.
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Musician Mark Campbell did all of Michael J. Fox's singing. He is credited as 'Marty McFly.' Mark was perhaps best known as the lead singer of popular 1980s band Jack Mack and the Heart Attack.
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In December 2007, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.
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Crispin Glover claimed to have seen the film only once, shortly after its release. In contrast, Christopher Lloyd stated that when he occasionally stumbled across a Back to the Future film while channel surfing, he would often sit and watch it.
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Sticker on the back of Doc's truck: One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
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Michael J. Fox had always been the first choice for Marty, but he was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts with his work on Family Ties (1982). As 'Family Ties' co-star Meredith Baxter was pregnant at the time, Fox was carrying a lot more of the show than usual. The show's producer Gary David Goldberg simply couldn't afford to let Fox go. Zemeckis and Gale then cast Eric Stoltz as Marty based on his performance in Mask (1985). After six weeks of filming Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale felt that Stoltz wasn't right for the part, and Stoltz agreed. By this stage, Baxter was back fully on the show and Goldberg agreed to let Fox go off to make the film. Fox worked out a schedule to fulfill his commitment to both projects. Every day during production, he drove straight to the movie set after taping of the show was finished every day and averaged about five hours of sleep. The bulk of the production was filmed from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., with the daylight scenes filmed on weekends. Reshooting Stoltz's scenes added $3 million to the budget.
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At the London Comic Con 2015, Michael J. Fox admitted that his four children (one son and three daughters in their teens and twenties) never saw this movie.
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Thomas F. Wilson almost had his collarbone broken in the scene where Marty and Biff are about to fight in the cafeteria, as Eric Stoltz roughed up Tom for real, take after take, despite repeated requests from Tom to tone down the aggression. Tom later said he was about to return the favor during filming of the car park scene outside the dance, but Eric was fired before that confrontation could take place.
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The parts of the script with references to President Ronald Reagan needed to be reviewed by the White House for approval, so as not to offend the President. Producers had some concerns over Reagan's reaction to Doc Brown's famous line mocking the improbability of his being President in 1985, but Reagan was said to get a real kick out of it.
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The DeLorean was deliberately selected for its general appearance and gull wing doors, in order to make it plausible that people in 1955 would presume it to be an alien spacecraft.
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Producer Neil Canton offered the role of Doc Brown to Christopher Lloyd after having worked together on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). Lloyd originally turned it down, but changed his mind after his wife convinced him to take the role. He improvised some of his lines.
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According to an interview he did on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), Crispin Glover lost his voice, due to nervousness, while filming this movie. For some scenes, he had to silently mouth his lines, with his voice being dubbed in later at a recording studio.
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According to Bob Gale, Johnny Depp auditioned for the role of Marty McFly: 'I looked through the notes, and I said, 'Geez, I don't even remember that we read Johnny Depp!' So whatever he did, it wasn't all that memorable, I guess!'
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A persistent myth is that Michael J. Fox had to learn to skateboard for the film. In fact, he was a reasonably skilled skateboarder, having ridden throughout high school. However, Per Welinder acted as a skateboarding double for the complex scenes. He also choreographed and coordinated the skateboarding action together with Robert Schmelzer.
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From the day the film wrapped to the day it was released was a mere nine and a half weeks, an unprecedentedly short lead time for a major movie release.
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It took three hours in make-up to turn the twenty-three-year-old Lea Thompson into the forty-seven-year-old Lorraine.
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While filming the 'parking' scene with Marty and young Lorraine in the car, the production crew decided to play a practical joke at Michael J. Fox's expense. The scene called for Fox to drink from a prop liquor bottle filled with water and do a spit take when he sees Lorraine with a cigarette. For a specific take however, the prop liquor bottle was switched for one which contained real alcohol inside. Fox, unaware of this, performed the scene and drank from the bottle, only to discover the switch after-the-fact. The full gag is featured on the 'Outtakes' section of the DVD.
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Marty McFly mimics famous rock stars during the later part of his performance at the school dance, when he starts playing heavy metal. His kicking of speakers (The Who), full circle guitar strum (Pete Townshend of The Who/Bruce Springsteen) playing the guitar while lying down (Angus Young of AC/DC), hopping across the stage with one leg kicked up (Chuck Berry/Young) and his solo (Jimi Hendrix/Edward Van Halen).
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Huey Lewis was asked by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale to write a song for the film. However, the two Bobs were not thrilled with the first song Huey brought back to them. After explaining what they were hoping for, Huey came back with 'The Power of Love'. He was then told they needed one more song, and so, upon viewing a cut of the film, Huey got the inspiration for 'Back in Time'.
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Doc Brown refers to 'jigawatts' of electricity. This is the now-obscure but once-standard pronunciation of the word 'gigawatt,' one billion watts. Nowadays it is usually pronounced with a hard 'g.' In neo-Latin languages, however, it's pronounced with a soft 'g.'
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During his time on the film, and being a method actor, Eric Stoltz refused to answer to any other name, but that of his character, Marty Mcfly. When Christopher Lloyd was told that Stoltz was to be replaced, he asked 'Who's Eric?' and after further explanation added 'Oh, I really thought his name was Marty'.
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When Thomas F. Wilson is asked about this movie by enthusiastic fans, he will often hand them a postcard of frequently asked questions as a timesaver.
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Although Eric Stoltz's scenes were all re-shot with Michael J. Fox, one image of Stoltz remains. During one scene in the 1950s diner, there is a close-up of Biff's face as Marty launches a punch at him, and this was not re-shot, so that as well as Stoltz's hand and arm, his head is also visible to the left of the screen for a few frames.
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The film was banned in China mainland for a while because the notion of time travel 'disrespects history'. The ban has been lifted by now.
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The test audience, to whom the movie was initially screened, was not told that the movie was intended to be a comedy. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale recalled that the atmosphere in the cinema started to get really tense during the scene where Einstein the dog is sent through time, because the audience was expecting that something gruesome had happened to the dog.
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In the opening sequence, all of Doc's clocks read 7:53 (twenty-five minutes slow, as said by Doc on the phone) except for some broken clocks on the floor. One of them, next to the case of plutonium, reads about 8:20 (unclear because of the angle) which would make it the only clock in the room right on time.
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The Screen Actors Guild can't have two people with the same name on their books. So Michael J. Fox inserted the letter J in his name to differentiate himself from an actor called Michael Fox. In Back to the Future (1985), Marty goes back to the year 1955. His dad is a huge fan of the show Science Fiction Theatre, something Marty uses to his advantage. The original Michael Fox starred in the real Science Fiction Theatre in the year 1955.
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The University of Southern California Film school's writing classes use the screenplay for Back to the Future as the model of 'The Perfect Screenplay'.
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When Robert Zemeckis was trying to sell the idea of this film, one of the companies he approached was Disney, who turned it down because they thought that the premise of a mother falling in love with her son (albeit by a twist of time travel) was too risqué for a film under their banner. In fact, Disney was the only company to consider the film too risqué. All other companies said that the film was not risqué enough, compared to other teen comedies at the time (for example, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Revenge of the Nerds (1984), et cetera).
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Michael J. Fox was allowed by the producer of Family Ties (1982) to film this movie on the condition that he kept his full schedule on the television show, meaning no write-outs or missing episodes, and filmed most of the movie at night. He was not allowed to go on Back to the Future (1985) promotional tours.
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A marketer hoped to get a prominent placement for California Raisins somewhere in the film. He suggested putting a bowl of raisins on a table at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. He had also told the California Raisins board that this would do for raisins what E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) did for Reese's Pieces. Bob Gale informed him that a bowl of raisins would photograph like a bowl of dirt. The only thing that appears in the film is Marty jumping over Red, sleeping on a bench that is advertising California Raisins. Unhappy with their product placement, the California Raisins representatives complained to the producers, and had their $5,000 refunded.
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Another deleted scene shows Marty peeking in on a class in 1955 and seeing his mother cheating on a test.
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Despite Marty and Jennifer crediting Doc as the origin of the repeated line 'If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything' (Jennifer claims it is something he always says), Doc never says the line once in any of the Back to the Future movies. It is Marty who says it first, to his father after the dance. Later, an even older George McFly uses the line.
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When Doc Brown first sends Einstein 'one minute' into the future, the time elapsed between when the DeLorean disappears and reappears is actually one minute and twenty-one seconds, just as the reappearance occurred at 1:21 a.m., and the flux capacitor required 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.
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Michael J. Fox has said that Marty's being characterized as riding skateboards, chasing girls, and interests in playing music, with hopes of becoming a rock star, was the exact same way he was during his own high school days.
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The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the gull-wing door of the DeLorean; this was improvised during filming as the door mechanism became faulty.
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The 1985 version of Doc's home is the garage that Marty and Doc hide the DeLorean in, in 1955. In the opening scene, an article shows that the mansion burned down years before, either for insurance money or due to an explosive experiment. The presence of the commercial development also implies that Doc sold the land surrounding the house for more money to fund his project. After all, he does state later that it took 'many years and his entire family fortune' to build the time machine.
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On November 5, 2010, a large number of fans gathered at the Puente Hills Mall to kick off a week long series of events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this movie. It was here that the city mayor declared October 21, 2010 officially Back To The Future Day for the city.
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During Doc's demo of the time machine, just before he is about to leave for the future, he tells Marty 'I'll get to see who wins the next twenty-five World Series.' At the time the scene was written and shot, no one was thinking there would be a sequel, let alone one where the hook Back to the Future Part II (1989) would be Marty wanting to get a hold of a 'sports almanac' so he could bet on games.
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When Marty pretends to be Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, he plays a tape labelled 'Edward Van Halen' to scare George out of his sleep. It is an untitled Edward Van Halen original, written for The Wild Life (1984), which featured Lea Thompson, and starred Eric Stoltz.
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Sid Sheinberg, the head of Universal Pictures, requested many changes to be made throughout the movie. Most of these he got, such as having 'Professor Brown' changed to 'Doc Brown' and his chimp Shemp changed to a dog named Einstein. Marty's mother's name had previously been Meg and then Eileen, but Sheinberg insisted that she be named Lorraine after his wife Lorraine Gary.
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According to Michael J. Fox on the 2010 DVD and Blu-ray interviews, the interior of the DeLorean was so tight due to the added props that every time he had to shift gears, he would repeatedly hit his forearm on the handle that turns on the time circuits and he would also rap his knuckles hard against the time display board. If you pay attention during the car chase with the terrorists, you can hear these hits every time Marty uses the shifter.
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When Claudia Wells temporarily dropped out due to scheduling conflicts involving the short lived television series Off the Rack (1984), Melora Hardin was briefly cast as Jennifer opposite Eric Stoltz , but had to be replaced after Stoltz was dismissed, and it was discovered she was taller than Michael J. Fox. Hardin was dismissed before she had a chance to shoot a single scene, having only posed for a picture with Stoltz on the set, which was to be developed into the snapshot Marty carries with him.
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Eric Stoltz insisted that the cast and crew address him as Marty, even when cameras weren't rolling. He would also wear Marty's wardrobe while travelling to and from the set each day. According to Tom Wilson, the only time that method-acting Stoltz would break character was when Eric would actively flirt with Lea Thompson in between takes.
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Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson who plays his mother, and is almost three years older than his on-screen father Crispin Glover.
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A Texaco gas station is shown in both 1955 and 1985. Interestingly, Christopher Lloyd's maternal grandfather was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company.
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The production ultimately used three real DeLoreans.
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Billy Zane makes his first on-screen appearance in this film as 'Match', one of Biff's cronies.
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Christopher Lloyd based his performance as Doc Brown on a combination of physicist Albert Einstein and conductor Leopold Stokowski. Brown's pronunciation of gigawatts as 'jigawatts' is based on the way a physicist with whom Zemeckis and Gale met for research said the word.
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According to Bob Gale, in one of the early drafts of the script, Marty's original last name was McDermott, but it was thought to have too many syllables. It was Robert Zemeckis who then came up with naming him McFly.
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The gas-powered struts that hold the De Lorean's gullwing doors open would fail during the course of filming a take, so crew members had to be on stand-by with hairdryers to warm them up to stop the doors from drooping.
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When Doc emerged from the DeLorean in a radiation suit, Marty asked him, 'Is that a Devo suit?' Devo was an American post-punk musical group, whose mainstream success was mainly in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The radiation suit Doc was wearing was similar to the ones Devo was known for wearing in music videos and live performances.
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When Marty first arrives in 1955, he crashes into the farm of Old Man Peabody, who has a son named Sherman. This was in tribute to a segment in the Rocky and His Friends (1959) television series, 'Peabody's Improbable History', featuring the intelligent talking dog Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman, who travel to different times in history using the W.A.B.A.C. Machine, and serve as a major inspiration for Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and the DeLorean time machine. In turn, the feature film Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), based on the 'Peabody's Improbable History' segment, pays tribute to this movie with not only its overall style, but a clever reference in a scene where Peabody and Sherman travel at unbelievably high speeds in the W.A.B.A.C., travelling at eighty-eight miles per hour (and higher), much like the DeLorean.
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When Marty McFly leaves Doc Brown's garage because he is late for school, Bob Gale mentioned in a commentary that the garage was actually a flat put next to a Burger King restaurant in Burbank. As part of their agreement with Burger King, the studio wasn't given any money from the restaurant for their cameo, but Burger King did allow the crew to film their scenes for free, and allowed them to park there.
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The space alien gag first appeared in the screenplay's third draft, with the primary difference being that it was to be done to Biff.
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In the French translation of the movie, Marty McFly is called 'Pierre Cardin' in 1955, instead of 'Calvin Klein'. In the Spanish translation, Marty is called 'Levi Strauss' in 1955.
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As of 2011, the Hill Valley clock tower set has been through three different fires. The first one happened shortly after the finishing of Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990) (filming was done simultaneously) where all the original surrounding buildings burned to the ground by lightning. The second fire in 1994 almost destroyed the structure. In 2008, the fire that destroyed the nearby King Kong (1933) ride/set, along with two archive vaults and the New York street, slightly scorched the tower.
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In the first scene at the diner, Marty asks for a Pepsi Free. This refers to a brand of Pepsi that was the company's first caffeine free cola. Ironically, in the same scene, Marty asks for a Tab, which was actually a diet cola brand produced by Pepsi's rival Coca-Cola. Regardless, both orders confused the man behind the counter.
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The set for Kingston Falls in Gremlins (1984) is the same one used for this movie. Both movies were filmed in the Universal Studios backlot. Additionally, Francis Lee McCain (who played Lorraine's mother Stella Baines) also played Billy's mother, Lynn Peltzer, in Gremlins (1984).
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In the original script, Doc Brown and Marty sell bootleg videos in order to fund the time machine. This plot point was removed at Universal's request, as they did not want to be seen as promoting movie piracy.
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There are only about thirty-two visual effects shots in the entire film.
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The main setting, 1955, is the year that Albert Einstein, the dog's namesake, died.
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Match (Billy Zane) is the only one of Biff's three sidekicks without a single line in the entire movie. It's not until Back to the Future Part II (1989) that Match finally has a line.
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The Burger King, Toys R' Us, and Adult Theatre that can be seen in the beginning of the movie was confirmed not to be product placement. It was confirmed by Robert Zemeckis that all those places just happened to be there while they were filming.
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Thomas F. Wilson disliked working with Eric Stoltz, finding him a little too serious and aggressive. Before Stoltz was released, they had already filmed the near-fight between Marty and Biff in the high school cafeteria. During takes of this scene, Stoltz would push back on Wilson so hard that Wilson got bruises. Although in real life, Wilson was nothing like the bully that Biff is, he wanted to get his revenge. He had planned to get back at Stoltz by giving him a real punch in the gut during the scene where he pulls Marty out of the car at the dance. Stoltz was fired before Wilson got that chance.
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Alan Silvestri's orchestra for the score of the film was the largest ever assembled at that time (eighty-five musicians).
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Alan Silvestri's score begins eighteen minutes into the movie, appropriately when the DeLorean time machine is revealed.
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In the Back to the Future trilogy, the 'present' date* is October 26, 1985 (2015 is the future, 1885 and 1955 are the past). Exactly twenty-five years later on October 26, 2010, the Back to the Future trilogy was released on Blu-ray in a 25th Anniversary Edition. *Except for the last scene of part one, where Marty wakes up the next day to find everything has changed.
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When Marty is playing Johhny B. Goode, and Marvin calls his cousin, Chuck Berry, on the phone to tell him about the new sound he is looking for, this is all taking place on November 12, 1955. On that date in actuality, Berry was named most promising new R&B artists by Billboard.
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The house used for Doc Brown's house is the Gamble House at 4 Westmoreland Avenue, Pasadena, California. It was the house of the Gamble family until 1966, when it was turned over to the University of Southern California. It is now a historical museum.
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Executive producer Steven Spielberg initially had some reservations about hiring composer Alan Silvestri, having been unimpressed by his score for Romancing the Stone (1984). During a preview screening, in which the film was accompanied by a temporary track that only used part of Silvestri's score, Spielberg commented to Robert Zemeckis that a particularly grand cue was 'the sort of music the film needed', unaware that it was indeed one of Silvestri's cues.
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The 'present day' date, on which the initial time travel occurs, is October 26, 1985. However, the film debuted before that date (the U.S. premiere was July 5, 1985). This means that, from the film's perspective, audiences who saw the film during its initial release in some markets (U.S., Australia, West Germany, and Italy) were actually seeing the 'future', which is a nice coincidence, considering the film's subject.
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A very brief scene was cut in-between the scenes of the McFly family dinner and Marty being woken up by Doc's phone call. It involved Marty preparing to send his demo tape to a record company. Marty decides not to do it, and leaves the empty manila envelope on his desk. In a scene that remains in the film, he goes to breakfast with the manila envelope sealed, suggesting he decided to send it in.
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When Marty tells Doc that Ronald Reagan is President in 1985, Doc scoffs by asking if Jane Wyman is the First Lady. Wyman had actually been married to Reagan from 1940 to 1948, though Reagan was already married to Nancy Reagan in 1955.
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Steven Spielberg gives a nod to Stanley Kubrick in the first few minutes of the film. When Marty is first over at Doc's house looking for him and doesn't find him, he hooks up his guitar to Doc's electrical equipment. The first dial he turns up is labeled CRM 114, which Kubrick used as a reference throughout many of his films.
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Doc Brown's car in 1955 is a 1950 Packard Super Eight convertible.
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When Marty is walking down the street to the Soda Fountain in 1955, the music score is the The Four Aces singing 'Mr. Sandman'. He passes a record shop with a poster in the window advertising The Chordettes' original version of the song.
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The Twin Pines Mall is, in fact, the Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry, California. Today, JCPenney is no longer an anchor there.
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This is the only film in the trilogy in which Marty is not called a coward by Biff or any of his family members.
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The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside. (See also Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).) The Nevada desert bomb test was left out in order to reduce the budget. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean, but in order to send Marty back to the future the vehicle had to drive the DeLorean into an atomic bomb test.
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Lea Thompson was cast as Lorraine McFly because she had acted opposite Eric Stoltz, the original actor cast as Marty, in The Wild Life (1984).
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Biff Tannen is named in homage to Ned Tanen, one-time head of Universal, who threw Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis' script for I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) on the floor in a heated meeting, accusing it of being anti-Semitic. This was despite the fact that Bob Gale is Jewish.
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The first episode of The Twilight Zone (1959), 'Where is Everybody?', opens with a young man wandering a town square in confusion, asking himself if he is having a bad dream. This sequence not only greatly resembles Marty's arrival in the Hill Valley of 1955 in this movie, but was shot on the same Courthouse Square backlot at Universal Studios.
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The owner of the home where the tree from which George McFly (Crispin Glover) dangles is a small-time producer who does documentaries and biographies. Several years after this film was released, he put together a fifteen minute documentary on the tree on Bushnell Avenue that was used in the film, featuring never before seen footage.
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The reference to Calvin Klein in the bedroom scene is a reference to a fad of the 1950s where people would have their names stitched into their underwear.
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When 1955 Doc Brown sees the videotape of himself explaining the need for 1.21 'jigawatts' of power, he goes back to the house and is seen talking to a picture frame that he refers to as 'Tom'. When he returns the picture to the mantle we can see that is was Thomas A. Edison, with whom he was speaking. To Edison's left on the mantle are Sir Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin, to his right is Albert Einstein, Doc's inspiration for time machine invention.
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Robert Zemeckis dubbed the picture 'the film that would not wrap'. He recalled that because they shot night after night, he was always 'half asleep' and the 'fattest, most out-of-shape and sick I ever was'.
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Lea Thompson's character Lorraine is demonstrated to have an alcohol problem to varying degrees throughout the entire trilogy. Lea's name first appears in the film right at the same time as the 'drinking man' clock in Doc's lab is shown.
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After Einstein travels into the future, Doc compares his watch to Einstein's watch to show the difference. Physicist Albert Einstein described a stationary clock versus a moving one in order to illustrate Relativity (the latter clock moving more slowly).
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On November 10, 2010, Bob Gale received a plaque from the principal of Whitter High School (Hill Valley High School) in dedication of the film. This plaque can be seen by the students of the school near the front end of the building, stating that this movie had been shot there.
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Wendie Jo Sperber, who played Linda McFly, was three years older than Lea Thompson, who played her mother, and six years older than Crispin Glover, who played her father.
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John Lithgow, Dudley Moore, and Jeff Goldblum were all considered for the role of Doc Brown.
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On June 2, 2008, a massive fire broke out in the backlot destroying two archive video vaults and the New York City set used for Spider-Man 3 (2007), which is right across from the Hill Valley clock tower, which was minorly scorched by the time the fire was out.
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Ranked #10 on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the genre 'Sci-Fi' in June 2008.
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When the DeLorean is introduced and Doc Brown comes out of it, smoke is pouring out of the interior of the car. This never happens again, and is never explained.
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Doc's van says, 'Dr. E. Brown Enterprises 24 Hr. Scientific Services'.
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The two red labels on the flux capacitor say 'Disconnect Capacitor Drive Before Opening' (at the top) and 'Shield Eyes From Light'.
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Doc's phone number in 1955 is Klondike 54385. The letters 'K' and 'L' are both on the digit 5; thus, the number still begins with the 555- prefix, indicating a fictional number.
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When the McFly family is sitting down for dinner before Marty travels back in time (early in the movie), Michael J. Fox is seen drinking a can of Pepsi. Fox was a major endorser of Pepsi in 1985, and some viewers criticized this scene as being a thinly-disguised commercial.
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Crispin Glover based his performance as forty-seven-year-old George, in the early part of the film, on Jack Nance's portrayal of Henry Spencer in Eraserhead (1977). While filming George's writing scene in 1955, Crispin attempted to have the scene shot with his hair standing straight up, like that of Henry Spencer. When Robert Zemeckis rejected the idea, saying it would not match what was shot the previous day, Crispin allegedly replied, 'Brando never matched.'
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Though the film Marty (1955) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1955, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale say in the DVD Q&A session, that they were not aware of this fact when they named their main character Marty. Both films also have a diner owner named Lou.
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The DeLorean time machine is a licensed, registered vehicle in the state of California. While the vanity license plate used in the film says 'OUTATIME', the DeLorean's actual license plate reads 3CZV657.
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The Back to the Future trilogy is ranked at #9 on IGN's Top 25 Movie Franchises of All Time (2006).
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Ralph Macchio was offered the role of Marty McFly, but he turned it down because he thought the movie was about 'A kid, a car, and plutonium pills'. Had he accepted, he would have been reunited with his girlfriend in Parts II and III since Elisabeth Shue played Jennifer Parker, Marty McFly's girlfriend, who also played Daniel's girlfriend in The Karate Kid (1984). Ralph's character played electric guitar in Crossroads (1986), and Marty McFly plays guitar in this movie.
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According to Marty's supposed age of seventeen (by 1985), he was born in 1968, thirteen years after his parents met, during his first adventure in the past (in 1955).
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In 1955, Doc Brown scoffs at the notion of Ronald Reagan becoming the President, he says 'I suppose Jack Benny is the Secretary of the Treasury!' This is a reference to Benny's stage and screen persona as a 'tightwad' with money.
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The film went on to inspire the animated adult comedy Rick and Morty (2013) , which has gone on to be a equally popular franchise, and is the most viewed series on Adult Swim. The show focuses on a stuttering scientist named Rick and his young, often fearful, companion Morty, both complete spoofs of the original characters.
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There are several mentions to the Davy Crockett craze that took place throughout the mid 1950s. When Marty first walks through 1955 Hill Valley, he sees a sign advertising new Davy Crockett records. When he goes into Lou's diner, 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett', sung by the title star Fess Parker, is heard on the jukebox. When Marty sits down to dinner with Lorraine's family, Lorraine's younger brother is wearing a coonskin cap.
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According to Bob Gale, when the movie was shown recently on broadcast television, the lines about 'Libyan terrorists' were altered for 'political correctness'. This is similar to the issues Gale and Robert Zemeckis had with a terrorist scene in Used Cars (1980).
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In 2006, it was voted the 56th best screenplay of all time by the Writers Guild of America.
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Melora Hardin was originally cast as Jennifer, but was let go after Eric Stoltz was dismissed, with the explanation that the actress was now too tall to be playing against Fox. Hardin was dismissed before she had a chance to shoot a single scene and was replaced with Claudia Wells.
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DeLoreans are still built today in Texas using old stock and reproductions. The models built now feature a flux capacitator - which of course is just for decoration.
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The man driving the Jeep to which Marty hangs on at the beginning of the movie is stunt coordinator Walter Scott.
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Tim Robbins was considered for the role of Biff Tannen.
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The speedometer shown is not an original DeLorean speedometer. It has a top speed of ninety-five miles per hour. This allows the movie DeLorean to reach eighty-eight miles per hour, as judged by that speedometer, although that speedometer shown does not exist on a real DeLorean. The original DeLorean vehicle can reach eighty-eight miles per hour, but the speedometer tops out at eighty-five miles per hour, and the needle would be pegged at the limit of the speedometer giving no ability to judge the speed. This is because of a 1979 traffic safety law that insured all speedometers in cars released after September of that year to top out at eighty-five miles per hour, in an effort to encourage drivers to travel at 'safer' speeds. The law was overturned less than two years later, but by that time, DeLorean had gone out of business. There is the possibility, however, that Doc modified the instrument panel of the DeLorean for this very reason.
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When George McFly says 'density' in lieu of 'destiny', the Japanese version has him say 'unten' (drive) when he meant to say 'unmei' (destiny).
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Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's Oscar-nominated screenplay was written just after they'd made Used Cars (1980).
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During filming, Crispin Glover would appear to be so nervous (because he was still starting out as an actor), that he would be speechless, but this improved his character of George McFly, since George is a nervous guy. Glover even had do voice over recordings for his character, because he was too nervous to speak.
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As Marty is entering his high school in 1985, the building appears run down and has been covered with graffiti. One of the pieces of graffiti reads: 'Lea loves Calvin'. It serves as an Easter Egg of sorts, as it points to Lea Thompson's 1955 character falling head-over-heels for 'Calvin Klein'.
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The film was initially rejected by every other major studio. Most studios rejected the film because it wasn't raunchy enough, as the most successful teenage comedies at the time were of such nature. Disney rejected the film, as they felt the angle of a mother falling in love with her son was inappropriate for their films. In addition, studios were wary of Robert Zemeckis's work, as the films he had previously directed were largely flops. The unexpected success of Romancing the Stone (1984), which was directed by Zemeckis, boosted his profile, resulting in studios taking a second look at his movie proposals.
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It was included on the New York Times' Best 1000 Movies Ever Made in 2003, and Total Film's 100 Greatest Movies list in 2010. It was ranked #28 on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies in 2006, and #15 on Entertainment Weekly's 20 Best Summer Blockbusters Of All Time in 2014. In 2008, it was #23 on Empire Magazine's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time, and in 2014, it was #17 on Empire Magazine's 301 Greatest Movies Of All Time. In that same year, it was ranked #2 on Rolling Stone's 25 Greatest 80's Movies.
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The comic book 'Tales from Space' pays homage to EC Comics, a controversial and influential line of 1950s comics. If you look carefully at the cover of the comic, you can see the EC logo in the upper left. Although there was no 'Tales from Space' by EC (Their science fiction titles were 'Weird Science' and 'Weird Fantasy'), there was a comic titled 'Tales from the Crypt.' Robert Zemeckis is a fan of the now defunct EC, and served as an Executive Producer, and directed some episodes of Tales from the Crypt (1989).
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J.J. Cohen originally considered for the role of Biff after Eric Stoltz was cast as Marty. He was replaced by Thomas F. Wilson because Cohen was considered not physically imposing enough next to the six-foot-tall Stoltz. Cohen was cast as one of Biff's gang. According to Bob Gale, had Michael J. Fox been cast from the beginning, Cohen would have probably won the part, because he was much taller than the five-foot-four Fox.
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In the first draft of the screenplay written in 1980 and 1981, Marty was a video pirate. The films that he pirated included Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Stir Crazy (1980), and Superman II (1980). This element was removed from subsequent drafts, as no studio wanted to make a film in which the hero was a video pirate.
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James Tolkan was the first and only choice for Mr. Strickland.
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This movie holds the record of staying at number one at the box-office for three solid months.
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In July 2015, it was ranked #56 on BBC Culture's 100 Greatest American Movies in a poll of 61 Film Critics.
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According to the website of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, President Ronald Reagan watched the film for the first time at Camp David on Friday, July 26, 1985 (three weeks after its release). Watching the film alongside the president was his wife, Nancy, and several aides including speechwriter Mark Weinberg. Although Reagan's fondness for the film is well-documented, Weinberg later recalled that the mention of Jane Wyman's name during one of the scenes made for a very awkward and uncomfortable moment in the room for the president and first lady. Apparently the subject of the president's first wife (from whom he had divorced in 1949) was such a sensitive one that White House staff members abided by an unofficial ban on ever speaking her name within earshot of any member of the First Family, according to Weinberg.
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Crispin Glover was very argumentative and difficult during the making of the film which is one of the reasons why he wasn't called back for Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990).
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The school that served as Hill Valley High School was Whittier High School in Whittier, California, just outside of Los Angeles. Richard Nixon is an alumnus (class of 1930) and Pat Nixon taught there from 1937 to 1941. Also, just beyond the school is where Strickland's house is, as seen later in Back to the Future Part II (1989). The back side of the school can be seen as Marty jogs up to the porch.
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The name 'D. Jones' appears on the side of the manure truck. This is a reference to unit production manager Dennis E. Jones.
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When a policeman asks Doc for a permit for the weather experiment, he (Doc) can be seen opening his wallet in the background while Marty is sneaking his warning note about the future. This could suggest that Doc is bribing the policeman.
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During the production of Used Cars (1980), Zemeckis and Gale had a production assistant named 'Marty' (Martin Casella) whose name they then used for 'Marty McFly'.
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The town square and clock tower can be found at coordinates: 34.141426,-118.349783, located on the Universal backlot.
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In a bonus outtake scene, Marty impersonates a 'cholo', or Latino gangster while watching his mom cheating on a test, many crew members can be heard laughing in the background. The scene can be found on the DVD bonus features.
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C. Thomas Howell was considered to play the role of Marty McFly.
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The lion statues in front of the Lyon Estates subdivisions were inspired by two like statues in the University City Loop in St. Louis, where writer Bob Gale grew up.
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Several Pepsi references are visible through time in the movie: During the opening sequence, when all clocks ring at 8:00 a.m. (twenty-five minutes slow) there's a Pepsi board visible in the upper right corner of the frame. 1985: A Pepsi Cola can is visible when Marty's band is playing in front of the jury at Hill Valley High School. 1985: Diet Pepsi can when Marty and his father are talking about the wrecked car. 1985: Diet Pepsi can next to Marty when he sleeps, before Doc calls. Clock shows 12:28 a.m. 1955: When Marty enters Lou's Cafe, Pepsi thermometer on the upper right of the wall. 1955: When George meets Marty at the Texaco gas station, a Pepsi machine is visible. Marty takes a can out and drinks it. 1955: When Marvin Berry & The Starlighters are playing at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance, a Pepsi-Cola suitcase is standing under the amp. 1955: Pepsi bottle in Marvin Berry & The Starlighters' car, when the brats put Marty in the trunk.
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'Marvin Berry & the Starlighters' consists of:
Harry Waters Jr. - Lead Vocals Tommy Thomas - Saxophone Granville 'Danny' Young - Double Bass David Harold Brown - Drums Lloyd L. Tolbert - Piano
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In the opening scene, all the clocks are set 25 minutes slow (per Doc Brown) except for the 2 clocks used to trigger automation: the one on the coffee maker and the one that turns on the TV.
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The jukebox in the diner in 1955 is the same type of jukebox in Doc Brown's house in the beginning of the movie.
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Marty's guitars used throughout the movie: Erlewine Chiquita ('big amp' sequence); Ibanez black Roadstar II (scenes of Marty's band performing in the 80s); and a Gibson 1963 ES-345TD (Marty performing at the dance).
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Included among the '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', edited by Steven Schneider.
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Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines McFly) turned down the role of Kristine Evelyn-DeLuca in A Chorus Line (1985) to appear in this film.
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Another of the numerous notes sent to Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale from Universal studio head Sid Sheinberg were to change Doc Brown's original sidekick from a chimpanzee to a dog (Sheinberg argued that no film with a monkey in it ever made money, disregarding the recent Clint Eastwood hits Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980)). Sheinberg retorted that the simian in those films was an orangutan, not a chimp.
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James Woods was considered for the part of Doc Brown.
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In the beginning sequence, when panning through all the clocks at Doc's house, there is one which has a man hanging off the hands of the clock. This is from a scene in Harold Lloyd's film, Safety Last! (1923).
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In reality, the episode of The Honeymooners (1955) Marty watches at the Baines' house did not air the night of his unexpected visit on November 5, 1955. The proper episode should have been The Honeymooners: The Sleepwalker (1955) but instead it was The Honeymooners: The Man from Space (1955), which originally aired later, on New Year's Eve 1955.
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From November 5, 2010 to November 12, 2010, week-long events were planned to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary that was for the fans, and by the fans. The web page that hosted this was weregoingback.com. Since the ending of the events, the web page was devoted to the pictures and videos taken during the course of that week.
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Science Fiction Theatre: The Hastings Secret (1955) is the episode of Science Fiction Theatre (1955) that George McFly (Crispin Glover) missed when he took Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson) to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance on November 12, 1955.
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There is an adult movie theatre behind Marty McFly showing Orgy American Style (1973) in the 'Save the Clock Tower' scene. It's one of the things he looks at when he gets back from the past, along with Red the Bum (George 'Buck' Flower) on a bench, before saying 'Everything looks great!'
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There are two scenes in the 1985 parking lot chase scene where the miles on the odometers don't match. On the DVD commentary, director Robert Zemeckis says this is due to multiple DeLoreans being used in the shoot.
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October 21, 2015 was celebrated as 'Back to the Future Day' on UK television. All three films were shown, along with a mockumentary and time travel suggestions tweeted by viewers. For this movie, the censors usually changed Doc Brown's line 'When this baby reaches eighty-eight miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit' to 'serious stuff.' On this screening, the censors cut the whole line.
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Canadian pop singer Corey Hart was asked to screentest for the part of Marty.
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In the scene where Doc is reviewing the video tape from 1985, Doc would have had to fashioned some sort of an adapter to hook into his television set, as videotape technology of any type was not developed until 1958.
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The license plate on a car outside the band audition (which says 'FOR MARY') is a tribute to Mary T. Radford, Personal Assistant to Second Unit Director Frank Marshall.
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The backlot used as the town of Hill Valley, was also seen in the first episode of The Twilight Zone (1959).
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Terence McGovern filmed a deleted scene, in which his character forces George McFly to buy a whole case of his daughter's peanut brittle.
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In the earlier drafts in the screenplay, the flux capacitor was called the temporal field capacitor.
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The video camera Marty picks up at Doc's house after he gets a call from Doc Brown at night is seen during the opening credits when the camera pans around Doc's house.
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When Marty first arrives in the past, the song 'Mr. Sandman' by The Four Aces plays. It is a remake of a song by the same name by The Chordettes. When the camera is showing the record store, a record of The Chordettes can be seen in the window.
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The DeLorean used in the trilogy was a 1981 DMC-12 model, with a six-cylinder PRV (Peugeot, Renault, Volvo) engine. The base for the nuclear-reactor was made from the hubcap from a Dodge Polaris. In the 2002 Special Edition DVD of the Back to the Future trilogy, it is incorrectly stated that the DeLorean had a standard four-cylinder engine.
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While the McFlys were at the dinner table in 1985, George McFly was watching The Honeymooners (1955) episode where Ralph Kramden was dressed up as a man from space. While the Baines family was sitting down for dinner in 1955 with Marty, the family was watching the same episode.
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While it was planned to use the date, November 5 in the film, which happens to be Bob Gale's father's birthday, as well as Mary Steenburgen's, interestingly enough, based on accurate calendars, November 12, 1955 occurred on Saturday.
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Alan Silvestri composed a short jingle for the Back to the Future logo at the opening credits, but it was scrapped eventually. Thus, Silvestri's first composition does not appear until eighteen minutes into the movie. In 2009, the entire orchestral score including the jingle was released for the first time on CD by the Intrada record label.
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Marty McFly was ranked #12, and Doc Brown #20 on Empire Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters in 2015.
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On November 12, 2010, the Hollywood Methodist Church, where the Enchantment Under the Sea dance was filmed, was opened for the fans along with J.J. Cohen, Claudia Wells, Jeffrey Weissman, Bob Gale, Courtney Gains, and a few other members of the cast and crew.
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Eric Stolz has stated that despite having worked on the film for several weeks, he has no memory of it.
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Einstein (Doc Browns dog) was a, Berger Picard mixbreed.
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This movie was one of the first to be shot at the Universal backlot, after an unusually long period of the studio not using their own site as a filming location.
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C. Thomas Howell was originally cast for two weeks as Marty McFly, even rehearsing with Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson. After Mask (1985) became a surprise hit, the filmmakers decided to recast the role with Eric Stoltz and replaced Howell.
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In the scene where Marty tells little baby Joey in his crib that he'd better get used to the (prison) bars, Joey is dressed in a striped outfit resembling the tradition black and white striped prison outfits of the past.
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Marty goes back in time to November 5, 1955. The same 'time travel arrival date' was used in Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982) (November 5, 1877), and Time After Time (1979) (November 5, 1979).
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Lea Thompson was cast as Lorraine McFly because she had acted opposite Eric Stoltz in The Wild Life (1984); the producers noticed her as they had watched the film while casting Stoltz.
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Michael J. Fox and Crispin Glover appeared in Family Ties (1982) and High School U.S.A. (1983).
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Marty, when dressed as a spaceman, claims to be Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, as a reference to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Trek (1966). Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) also played Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).
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The diner where Marty first meets his father and calls Doc Brown in this movie was filmed on the backlot of Universal Studios, and is the same diner interior in which Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) meets Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) in The Sting (1973).
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Wasn't aired officially with the sequels as a trilogy collection, until fall of 2005 on television.
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According to the documentary on the Blu-ray, the two cat sculptures standing beside the clock were originally created for Cat People (1982).
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The film takes place from October 25 to October 26, 1985 and from November 5 to November 12, 1955.
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The song 'Earth Angel' by The Penguins is played during the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance on November 12, 1955. It was also played during the Smallville High School reunion dance in Superman III (1983). Marc McClure (Dave McFly) also appeared in that film, in which he played Jimmy Olsen.
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In between takes, Michael J. Fox would enjoy conversations with Robert Zemeckis while smoking cigarettes.
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When the DeLorean leaves 1955, and fire tracks are visible on the tar road in Hill Valley, the movie showing at the theater is The Atomic Kid (1954). When he arrives in the alternative 1985, the cinema changed into an Assembly of Christ church.
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George as a fan of science fiction and author, reads magazines called Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories Magazine, and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Those were real magazines.
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Einstein the dog arrives after moving forward in time for a minute at 1:21a.m. The DeLorean needs 1.21 gigawatts of electricity.
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Voted number seven in Channel Four's (UK) 'Greatest Family Films'.
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Hilldale, a subdivision of Hill Valley, bears the same name as the town in which The Donna Reed Show (1958) and (theoretically) Dennis the Menace (1959) are set.
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In the early discussions of the DVD release format in 1997, when the format was first introduced, the Back To The Future trilogy made the 'short list' of films to clean up for a proper DVD release. Unfortunately, it would take five years until the first editions were released to the public. The official release for DVD was December 17, 2002, and it would take seven more years until the fans could purchase each of the three films individually on February 10, 2009. There's also a widescreen edition released for the trilogy individually that had exclusive jacket slips that have been long out of print. This version of the widescreen release was the incorrect version.
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The first Hollywood film to feature a DeLorean DMC-12.
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The donning of a Burger King uniform by Marty's brother, Dave, may have been a tribute to Lea Thompson's early acting gigs as a Burger King spokesperson.
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Harold Lloyd and Christopher Lloyd hang on the hands of a clock tower in their career. Christopher does that in this movie, and Harold did that in Safety Last! (1923). The two Lloyds are not related.
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The film was almost titled 'Spaceman from Pluto'.
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Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the four hundred movies nominated for the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.
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In the early scenes 'the Clock Tower' shows no damage to the concrete ledge below the clock. However the damage, caused by the Doc character, does exist when the Marty character returns to 1985. A Bell Jet Ranger helicopter flies overhead & directs a light to accentuate & clearly show the damage. The change clearly delineates that Marty returned to an alternate time line.
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The filming of the fictitious Hill Valley High School occurred at Whittier High School, alumni of which include President Richard Nixon and former Pixar Executive John Lasseter. As a child, Nixon's classmates elected him the president of their eighth grade class at East Whittier Elementary School. In a scene inside the fictitious high school, one can see in the background a campaign poster for Ron Woodward for Class President. Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward's investigative reporting eventually led to Nixon's resignation as President of the United States. Also, in the credits a set grip is identified as Ronald Woodward.
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The name 'Hill Valley' is a joke, being an oxymoron. However, an early script for Back to the Future Part II (1989) mentioned that Hill Valley was named after its founder, William 'Bill' Hill. There is an act at the Golden Horseshoe Revue in Disneyland's Fronterland called 'Billy Hill & The Hillbillies'. They have even released an album called 'The Billys'.
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Michael J. Fox did not actually sing 'Johnny B. Goode' by Chuck Berry, and Marty McFly's singing voice was Mark Campbell.
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George McFly's novel is called 'A Match Made in Space' and has a person wearing a radiation suit on the cover.
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When Marty dressed up as an alien is using a cassette player (to convince his father to ask out his mother) the model is an Aiwa MK-PO2 MKII.
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When Doc is preparing Marty to travel back to 1985, he states that lightning will strike the clock tower in 'precisely seven minutes and twenty-two seconds.' From the moment that line is spoken and the lightning strikes, the time is actually eight minutes and seven seconds. (oh, well!)
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Thomas F. Wilson got married three days after this movie's American premiere.
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1.21 'jiggawatts' is sometimes thought to be a mispronunciation of 'gigawatts', but this is actually the official pronunciation of the prefix 'giga' according to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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In early drafts of the script, Marty's girlfriend's name is Suzy Parker.
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The Back to the Future trilogy, Gremlins (1984) and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) are all produced by Steven Spielberg and all have eccentric inventors and madcap inventions with pet dogs, Einstein, Barney, and Uncas.
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The 'Tales From Space' comic book reappeared in at least two episodes of the television series Oliver Beene (2003), and in a commercial for McDonald's Mighty Kids Meals.
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A cartoon show called Mr. Peabody and Sherman is about a time-travelling duo, where Mr. Peabody is a dog. Einstein the dog in this movie, is the first time traveller. There's also a character named Mr. Peabody, who has a son named 'Sherman', when Marty first enters 1955.
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The only other actors to have screen time in the DeLorean time machine, are the cast members from Spin City (1996), for promotion.
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Claudia Wells and Huey Lewis share the same birthday, July 5th.
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Marty travels back in time to the year 1955. The winner of the Oscar for Best Picture that year was Marty (1955).
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Charlie Sheen was considered for the part of Marty McFly.
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Michael J. Fox was 23 when he played 17-year-old Marty McFly.
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In the background, there are nine people wearing the official Hill Valley High School jacket. The school's official colors are gold and red.
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This movie romanticized The DeLorean DMC-12, which is regarded as one of the worst cars of all time. The cast and crew reported on the DVD commentary that the cars often broke down causing minor delays in production.
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The film spend eleven weeks at the top of the US box office although it was knocked off the top for one week by National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985).
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Producer Sid Sheinberg insisted that Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale change Mrs. McFly's name from Meg to Lorraine after his wife Lorraine Gary.
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Both Crispin Glover and Eric Stoltz were hotheaded character actors who were associated with the franchise; who clashed with Bob Zemeckis and then ended up disconnecting with the franchise for these personal reasons.
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In various interviews Leah Thompson (Lorrane McFLy) has said on screen husband Crispin Glover (George Mcfly) was the most brilliant comedic actor in the whole franchise. And although Glover and the production parted ways; and he ended up suing Zemeckis and company for using his likeness in Part 2 without his permission; Leah Thompson says in spite of the all of the production team including Zemeckis secretly agree with her; that Glover is the #1 comic genius behind the whole series.
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The film was originally envisaged as a one off .
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Avengers Endgame is just an elaborate Back to the Future ripoff.
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Ron Cobb was originally hired to design the DeLorean time machine, but left for another project, and was replaced by Andrew Probert.
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In the movie's two time periods, the Mayors running for re-election are 'Red' Thomas (in 1955) and 'Goldie' Wilson (in 1985); and both have nicknames based on Hill Valley's school colors. Interestingly, their surnames form the name of Thomas F. Wilson who plays Biff Tannen.
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Christopher Cundey's scenes as Lorraine's classmate were deleted from the final print.
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Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd appeared on Spin City (1996) and The Michael J. Fox Show (2013).
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Alan Silvestri's score doesn't begin until Doc's reaction to the DeLorean being sent into the future in his initial test.
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The Comic 'Tales From Space' No. 8 Aug 54 is also seen in 3rd Rock from the Sun: Why Dickie Can't Teach (2000). At around twelve minutes and thirty seconds into the episode, Harry is reading the comic and talking to Sally.
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Even though you never hear mention of the sports teams played at Hill Valley High, their sports mascot is the Bulldogs.
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The phone number that Jennifer has written on the back of the 'Save the Clock Tower' flyer is 555-4873
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Jill Schoelen had also been considered to play Jennifer.
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Doc Brown's amp, to which Marty plugs in, is the face plate to a 1960s Gibson GA-5T amp, which is only around twelve to fifteen watts.
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Some dialogue from the film was used in a remix version of the song 'Violet' by Seal at 2:48.
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This is one of those movies that gets sandwiched in with the golden age of Steven Spielberg's career, even though he didn't write the script, or direct it, but rather helped Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale promote it, and served as executive producer.
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Although Disney/Touchstone allegedly passed on producing the film due to it being 'too risqué' company executives did agree to and provided the music 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett'.
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Marty never once addresses his sister Linda by her name in this, or any film of the entire trilogy.
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The first draft of the script ended with George McFly looking at a 1955 newspaper with a picture of Marty on stage, saying 'Nah, couldn't be. But it is..'
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A third track by Huey Lewis & The News called 'In the Nick of Time' was written for the film but ended up being used in Brewster's Millions (1985).
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Claudia Wells pulled out of Back to the Future Part II (1989) because her mother had cancer and was replaced by Elisabeth Shue.
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The town model Doc uses to demonstrate to Marty his plan to send him back to 1985 was the actual model set used for Hill Valley for the movie.
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In early drafts of the screenplay, grown-up George McFly wasn't a successful novelist but a prizefighter, an idea spurred on by the punch he lands on Biff.
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Contrary to popular belief, there are more than two versions of 1985; there are three:
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In the scene of Marty at the diner with the pay phone, the 'half past the hour chime' sounds on his Casio watch. In 1985, the most popular Casio models: SA50, FA90, or CFX400.
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At about the 12 min mark while the lady comes & asks for donations to save the clock tower , in the backround at the movie theatre bill board it says 'Orgy American style $5 per seat '
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When Marty shows 1955 Doc the picture in his wallet, he references what his sister is wearing, saying 'Look at her sweatshirt, Doc. Class of 1984!' The film, in which Michael J. Fox appeared, before his roles in this film and Family Ties (1982), was Die Klasse von 1984 (1982).
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At 1:46:40, just before Marty wakes up after having returned from 1955, the journal in his headboard bookshelf (the yellow one with the large RQ logo) is Research Quarterly vol. 22, no. 4, published Summer 1983. The just-barely-visible blue one underneath is a winter issue, as winter issues of this journal published around the time of the film had blue covers. Fall issues typically had red covers.
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As being a starring cast in the film, Christopher Lloyd was truly born in 1938, having made him the same age the year this film was made that Marty's parents' were as fictional people in this same year it starts off and ends in, because in the story Marty's parents were born in 1938.
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The sound-effects for the clock-tower's bell is actually a recording of Big Ben, which has traditionally been the 'ultimate classic' bell-sound used in old-time radio-shows --- especially for intense/dramatic scenes --- to represent a city-clock tolling the hour.
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
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The number of people shown in the movie poster/DVD cover matches which film of the trilogy it is: This one shows Marty alone, Part II shows Marty & Doc (two people), and Part III shows three people; Marty, Doc, and Clara.
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[35:10]When Marty first arrives in 1955, before he enters town, the billboard advertising Lyon Estates is Marty's house.
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Among the many clocks shown at the beginning, one in gray tones shows a man hanging off the clock's hands. This is a direct reference to Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! (1923) which inspired the climatic scene with Doc hanging from a building's clock.
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Doc Brown attempts to defend himself from the Libyans, with a nickel-plated Single Action Army fitted with pearl grips.
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Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson appeared in The Right to Remain Silent (1996).
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[1:48:55] The telephone number for Biff's Auto Detailing is 840-3851.
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November 5 happens to be the birthday of Bob Gale's father, who labored under the illusion that the date was chosen specifically as an homage to him.
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Both Back to the Future (1985) and the TV show Highway to Heaven (1984) were filmed in Pasadena during the same period. In the Highway to Heaven episode entitled 'Friends', a student is holding the same book with the Hill Valley 'bulldog' logo that was used in Back to the Future. George McFly is holding this book in his hands in the high school scene when he is being made fun of by his class mates.
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Both Back to the Future (1985) and Witness (1985) were honored by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in 2006 as one of the '101 Greatest Screenplays of All Time', #56 and #80 respectively. Despite being ranked higher on the list, 'Back to the Future' still lost Best Original Screenplay to 'Witness' at both the Writers Guild of America Awards and the Academy Awards in 1986.
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Courthouse Square, which features prominently in the film and many other Universal productions, actually burnt down in 2008. It was subsequently rebuilt.
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Marty travels back in time to November 5, 1955. That's the same date that features in the film Time After Time (1979).
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When Marty falls out of the tree, Mr. Baines (Lorraine's dad) yells, 'Stella, another one of these kids jumped in front of my car!'. Presumably, George was not the first to peep on Lorraine from that same tree.
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Marty McFly's house was filmed only ¼ mile (½ mile) from a scene in Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween (2015).
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First of three movies in which Michael J. Fox's character hits a fence with the car he is driving. In this one Marty hits old man Peabody's fence around his 'twin pines'. (2) In Doc Hollywood (1991), Ben Stone hits the judge's fence after running off the road. (3) In The Frighteners (1996), Frank Bannister hits Dr. Lynskey's fence after running off the wet road.
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Cameo
Huey Lewis: When Marty is being judged at the band auditions at the beginning, the judge who stands up to say he is 'just too darn loud' is Huey Lewis, whose songs, 'The Power of Love' and 'Back in Time' are featured on the movie's soundtrack, and also wrote Marty's audition song (which is a re-orchestrated version of 'The Power of Love.')
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Hal Gausman: The picture of Mayor Red Thomas on the election car in 1955.
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Deborah Harmon: Newscaster on television in the opening sequence.
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Walter Scott: Driver of the Jeep, on which Marty hitches a ride, during 'The Power of Love'.
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Spoilers
The mall where Marty McFly meets Doc Brown for their time travel experiment is called 'Twin Pines Mall.' Doc Brown comments that old farmer Peabody used to own all of the land, and he grew pines there. When Marty goes back in time, he runs over and knocks down a pine tree on the Peabody's property. When he comes back to the mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall identifies the mall as 'Lone Pine Mall'.
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'To be continued' was inserted into the end of the VHS release Back to the Future (1985), and was omitted from the 2002 DVD release. The cliffhanger ending of the film was not originally intended to set up a sequel, but rather just as one last joke. It was admitted by the writer that had they originally intended the following two sequels, the ending would not have had Jennifer get into the car with Doc and Marty. This is why Jennifer was almost immediately knocked unconscious at the beginning of Back to the Future Part II (1989).
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The only scene which appears in all three Back to the Future films, is that of Doc sliding down from the clock tower on a cable before the clock is struck by lightning. Stuntman Bob Yerkes, who doubled for Christopher Lloyd during this scene, got extra payment for parts II and III without having to do any work.
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Bob Gale confirmed that for wide shots, the wind during the storm at the Clock Tower was created by using a McBride, which was described by the writer as 'basically an airplane engine on a huge cherry picker', and was placed a good fifty feet away from the actors. The McBride was so loud, that all of the dialogue said by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd had to be re-recorded later. However, the McBride also had an effect on Fox's health: while filming the sequence where Marty yells up at Doc at the Clock Tower to tell him about the future, he coughed up blood after filming those scenes.
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In the original script, Marty's playing rock and roll at the dance caused a riot, which had to be broken up by police. This, combined with Marty accidentally tipping Doc off to the 'secret ingredient' that made the time machine work (Coca-Cola) caused history to change. When Marty got back to the 1980s, he found that it was now the 1950s conception of that decade, with air-cars and what-not (all invented by Doc Brown, and running on Coca-Cola). Marty also discovers that rock and roll was never invented, and he dedicates himself to starting the delayed cultural revolution. Meanwhile, his dad digs out the newspaper from the day after the dance, and sees his son in the picture of the riot.
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The dialogue where Lorraine says that when she grows up, she'll let her kids do anything they want was cut. That dialogue is re-inserted in Back to the Future Part II (1989) when the second Marty creeps past the car the first Marty and 1955 Lorraine are in. Lorraine states she'll let her kids do anything, Marty replies, 'I'd like to have that in writing.'
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In the shot of the clock tower of 1985, after Doc Brown sent Marty into the future (with a flying-by helicopter), you can clearly see that the piece of the ledge under the clock dial is broken off. It was broken off by Doc Brown in 1955.
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In the opening scene of the movie, as the camera pans across the clocks, a picture of a clock has a small figure of Harold Lloyd hanging from the minute hand, a reference to Safety Last! (1923), and a foreshadowing of the story's climax, where Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) clings to the face of the clock tower while trying to reconnect the cable.
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The 'Mr. Fusion Home Energy Converter', which is sitting on the DeLorean when Doc returns from the future, is made from (amongst other things) a Krups coffee grinder.
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The 'Mr. Fusion' energy converter at the end of the film originally had the Westinghouse logo on it. However, the company would not allow the logo to be used, so Art Director Todd Hallowell added some additional lines to the symbol to differentiate it.
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According to Back to the Future Part III (1990), the clock in the clock tower started running at 8:00 p.m. on September 5, 1885. The date is provided by the caption on the photograph that Doc Brown gives Marty at the end of Back to the Future Part III. The time is provided by the Mayor in 1885 in Back to the Future Part III, who starts it. The lightning strikes the clock tower at 10:04 p.m. on November 12, 1955. This means that the clock tower operated for exactly seventy years, two months, seven days, two hours, and four minutes.
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The scene in which George McFly (Crispin Glover) finds inner courage and saves his future wife Lorraine Baines (Lea Thompson) from being attacked by Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) is highly similar to the scene in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) in which the similarly wimpy character Larry Dubois (Marc McClure, who also played Dave McFly in this film) saved Grace Corrigan (Theresa Saldana) from Al (Claude Earl Jones). George and Larry both said, 'Get your goddamn hands off her!' before punching the attacker. Both this film and I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) were directed by Robert Zemeckis and co-written by him and Bob Gale. McClure is one of four actors to appear in both films, the others being Wendie Jo Sperber (Linda McFly), Read Morgan (Cop) and Ivy Bethune (Ma Peabody).
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Robert Zemeckis chose a DeLorean as the time machine, because it could play in with the joke that Marty was an alien, and the car was a spaceship in the 'Spaceman from Pluto' scene.
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In the opening sequence with all Doc's clocks ticking away, one of the clocks features what looks like a newspaper cutout of Doc that is attached to the big hand of the clock resembling the scene just before the clock tower being hit by lightning in 1955.
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When Marty gets into the DeLorean to travel from 1955 back to 1985, he says that he will give himself ten minutes to warn Doc about getting shot. But when he puts the new time into the time control panel, the time switches from 1:35 a.m. to 1:24 a.m., eleven minutes. However, Doc was shot at 1.34 a.m., so the time Marty gives himself is accurate.
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Feel free to add any I don't know about! (Noticeably missing from this list are all the licensed Back to the Future games ever made.)
The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel vehicle device featured in the Back to the Future franchise. In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett L. Brown builds a time machine based on a DeLorean car, to gain insights into history and the future. Instead, he ends up using it to travel over 130 years of Hill Valley history (from 1885 to 2015) with Marty McFly to change the past for the better and to undo the negative effects of time travel. One of the cars used in filming is on display in Paarl South Africa and the official Back to the Future DeLorean can be viewed at the Petersen Automotive Museum.[1]
Operation[edit]
The control of the time machine is the same in all three films. The operator is seated inside the DeLorean (except the first time, when a remote control is used), and turns on the time circuits, activating a unit containing multiple fourteen- and seven-segment displays that show the destination (red), present (green), and last-departed (yellow) dates and times. After entering a target date, the operator accelerates the car to 88 miles per hour (141.6 km/h), which activates the flux capacitor. As it accelerates, several coils around the body glow blue/white while a burst of light appears in front of it. Surrounded by electrical current similar to a Tesla coil, the whole car vanishes in a flash of white/blue light seconds later, leaving a pair of fiery tire tracks. A digital speedometer is attached to the dashboard so that the operator can accurately gauge the car's speed. Various proposals have been brought forth in the past by fans of the movie franchise for why the car has to be moving at 88 mph to achieve temporal displacement,[2] but actually the production crew chose the velocity simply because they liked how it looked on the speedometer.[2]
Observers outside the vehicle see an implosion of plasma as the vehicle disappears, while occupants within the vehicle see a quick flash of light and instantaneously arrive at the target time in the same spatial location (relative to the Earth) as when it departed. In the destination time, immediately before the car's arrival, three large and loud flashes occur at the point from which the car emerges from its time travel. After the trip, the exterior of the DeLorean is extremely cold, and frost forms from atmospheric moisture all over the car's body.[3]
A few technical glitches with the DeLorean hinder time travel for its users. In the first film, the car has starter problems and has a hard time restarting once stopped, much to Marty's repeated frustration.[3] In the second movie, the destination time display malfunctions and shows random dates (mostly January 1, 1885), which partially cause Doc to be sent to 1885.[4] In the third movie, the flying circuits (added by Doc in 2015), fuel line, and fuel injection manifold are damaged, preventing the car from moving under its own power.[5]
Back To The Future Games OnlineFuel[edit]
A back view of the DeLorean time machine
The time machine is electric and requires a power input of 1.21 gigawatts (1,620,000 hp) to operate, originally provided by a plutonium-fueled nuclear reactor.[3] In the first movie, Doc has no access to plutonium in 1955, so he outfits the car with a large pole and hook in order to channel the power of a lightning bolt into the flux capacitor and send Marty back to 1985.[3] During Doc's first visit to 2015, he has the machine refitted to hover above ground in addition to standard road driving, and he replaces the nuclear reactor with a Mr. Fusion generator that uses garbage as fuel.[3][4]
Although the Mr. Fusion unit provides the required power for the time machine, the DeLorean is still powered by an internal combustion engine for propulsion. The fuel line is damaged during Marty's trip to 1885 in Back to the Future Part III; after he and Doc patch it, they attempt to use whiskey as a replacement fuel since commercial gasoline is not yet available. The test fails, damaging the car's fuel injection manifold and leaving it unable to travel under its own power.
Doc and Marty consider options to reach the required 88 mph (such as pulling it with horses, which fails because the car barely breaks 20 mph) but ultimately settle on pushing the car with a steam locomotive. For the extra power needed to push the DeLorean up to speed, Doc adds his own version of 'Presto Logs' (a chemically treated mixture of pressed wood and anthracite) to the locomotive's boiler and chooses a location with a straight section of track long enough to achieve 88 mph.[5]
The power required is pronounced in the film as one point twenty-one 'jigowatts'.[3] While the closed-captioning in home video versions spells the word as it appears in the script, jigowatt,[6] the actual spelling matches the standard prefix and the term for power of 'one billion watts': gigawatt. Although rarely used, the 'j' sound at the beginning of the SI prefix 'giga-' is an acceptable pronunciation for 'gigawatt.'[7][8] In the DVD commentary for Back to the Future, Bob Gale states that he had thought it was pronounced this way because it was how a scientific adviser for the film pronounced it.[9]
Equipment[edit]Flux capacitor[edit]
A replica of the DeLorean time machine's flux capacitor
The flux capacitor, which consists of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a 'Y' configuration, is described by Doc as 'what makes time travel possible.' The device is the core component of the time machine.[3]
As the time machine nears 88 mph, light coming from the flux capacitor begins pulsing more rapidly until it becomes a steady stream. Doc originally conceived the idea for the flux capacitor on November 5, 1955, when he slipped on the edge of his toilet while hanging a clock in his bathroom and hit his head on the sink.[3] A similar, but possibly steam-powered, flux capacitor is also seen in the chimney headlamp of Doc's second time machine, the Time Train, at the end of Back to the Future Part III.[5]
Although the films do not describe exactly how the flux capacitor works, Doc mentions at one point that the stainless steel body of the DeLorean has a direct and influential effect on the 'flux dispersal', but he is interrupted before he can finish the explanation.[3] The flux capacitor requires 1.21 gigawatts of electrical power to operate, which is roughly equivalent to the power produced by 15 typical commercial airplane jet engines.
The instruction manual for the AMT/ERTL DeLorean model kit says: 'Because the car's stainless steel body improves the flux dispersal generated by the flux capacitor, and this in turn allows the vehicle smooth passage through the space time continuum.'
Mr. Fusion[edit]
A replica of the DeLorean time machine's Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor
The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor is the name of a power source used by the DeLorean time machine in the Back to the Future trilogy. It can be seen for the first time at the end of Back to the Future when 'Doc' Emmett Brown pulls into the McFly's driveway after a trip to the year 2015. It is a parody of Mr. Coffee machines, which were very popular at the time of filming.[10] The appliance from which the prop was made was actually a Krups 'Coffina' model coffee grinder.
The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor converts household waste to power for the time machine's flux capacitor and time circuits using nuclear fusion, presumably cold fusion. In the film, Mr. Fusion allows the DeLorean time machine to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts needed to travel to any point in time. The energy produced by Mr. Fusion replaces plutonium as the primary power source of the DeLorean's time travel, allowing the characters to bypass the arduous power-generation requirements upon which the plot of the first film hinges. The plutonium fission reactor was most likely left installed underneath Mr. Fusion as a backup power source.[3][4]
The Mr. Fusion can provide enough power to the flux capacitor but is not used to power up the DeLorean itself, which makes use of an ordinary gasoline combustion engine to reach the 88 mph speed necessary for it to time travel, a limitation that proved itself crucial in the third movie when Doc and Marty find themselves stuck in 1885 and unable to return with the DeLorean out of gas (due to a fuel leak). The vehicle's hover system is powered by Mr. Fusion and is capable of bringing the DeLorean up to the required 88 mph; the combustion engine was also probably left on board as a backup. However, the flight systems were destroyed as a result of a lightning strike, leaving Marty to rely on the original combustion engine, which in turn was disabled.
Fictional timeline[edit]
For most of the first film, the 1.21 gigawatts are supplied by a plutonium-powered nuclear fission reactor and, with the absence of plutonium, a bolt of lightning channeled directly into the flux capacitor by a long pole and hook in the film's climactic sequence.[3] At the end of the first film, and for the remainder of the trilogy, the plutonium nuclear reactor is replaced by a 'Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor' generator possibly acquired in 2015.[4] The 'Mr. Fusion' device apparently converts household waste into electrical power; the name suggests nuclear fusion. Due to a 'hover conversion' made in 2015, the car also becomes capable of hovering and flight, though it lost this ability at the end of the second film.[4][5]
The DeLorean returns to 1985 and proceeds to travel to October 21, 2015, to stop Marty's future son from committing a crime. While there, the DeLorean is stolen by Biff who then travels back to November 12, 1955, the same day as the climax of the first film, to give his past self a sports almanac to be used for gambling. Once Biff returns to 2015 without Doc's knowledge, the duo return to 1985, but find themselves in an alternate timeline where Hill Valley is ruled by Biff that Doc described as 1985A (alternate 1985). The DeLorean then travels back to 1955 to restore the timeline,[4] but in the aftermath, it is struck by lightning again in the very same electrical storm, this time by accident. According to writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis, the lightning causes the DeLorean to spin at 88 miles per hour,[11] and Doc later states in a letter to Marty that the bolt caused a 'gigawatt overload' which 'shorted out the time circuits and destroyed the flying circuits'.[5] The DeLorean then disappears from 1955, travelling back in time to January 1, 1885 (earlier in the film, Doc mentions that the time circuits are not functioning correctly; several instances in the film that show the time circuit display showed 1885 as the destination when the time circuits malfunctioned).[4]
Once in 1885, the DeLorean is hidden in a mine because suitable replacement parts to replace its destroyed microchip will not be invented until 1947 (presumably referring to the transistor, invented in that year). Doc and Marty recover the DeLorean from the mine in 1955, and Doc builds a vacuum tube circuit assembly to replace the destroyed microchip circuitry and restore the vehicle's time travel capabilities. The tires have disintegrated in storage, so Doc replaces them with whitewalls. The gasoline engine is still functional, but the flying circuits are not.
In a letter Doc wrote to Marty in 1885, Doc states he is happy in his new life there and requests that Marty not attempt to retrieve him, but instead to return to 1985 and destroy the DeLorean, believing that it has brought them and the world nothing but disaster. However, Marty and the Doc of 1955 learn of tragedy to come Doc's way when he is murdered by Biff's grandfather, Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen, on September 7, 1885; therefore, 1955 Doc agrees to send Marty back to the Old West to rescue himself.
When Marty arrives in 1885, the DeLorean's fuel line is pierced by an arrow during an Indian attack. He and Doc patch it and attempt to use whiskey as a replacement fuel, since commercial gasoline is not yet available; the test fails, destroying the fuel injection and ignition systems and leaving the car unable to travel under its own power. Its final trip, from 1885 to 1985, is propelled by a steam locomotive that has Doc's version of 'Presto Logs' (pressed wood treated with anthracite) added to the boiler to provide the extra power needed to push the car up to 88 mph; once this speed is reached, the Mr. Fusion unit provides the power required to activate the flux capacitor and make the jump through time.[5] Doc replaces the 1955-style wheels with cast iron train wheels that fit on the track rails. He uses the old tires and a wooden support to cushion the locomotive's 'cow catcher' and the car's rear end. Since each of the three 'Presto Logs' fire at different intervals with increasing power, Doc installs a boiler temperature gauge on the DeLorean's dashboard to indicate when the car will experience a sudden burst of acceleration.
Once the DeLorean makes its final trip from 1885, it arrives back in 1985 and is immediately destroyed by an oncoming freight train running in the opposite direction. Marty is able to bail out of the car seconds before the train strikes. Later the Time Train, which is Doc's second time machine, appeared in the same spot where the DeLorean was destroyed.
Other elements[edit]
The time circuits in a replica time machine
In the films, the DeLorean time machine is a licensed, registered vehicle in the state of California, where the films take place. The vanity license plate used in the film reads 'OUTATIME', a deliberate anomaly, as the maximum number of symbols on California plates is seven characters.[3] When Doc returns from 2015, it is a barcode license plate,[3][4] which implies that by that year license plates have moved to other more sophisticated means of tracking and registering.
In The Animated Series, Doc builds another DeLorean into a time machine, restoring most of its features, including Mr. Fusion and the hover conversion (Doc either rebuilds the one destroyed at the end of Part III or he simply builds a new one). He also seemingly adds the capability to travel through space in addition to time (i.e., appear at a different location from the one it departed), similar to the TARDIS from Doctor Who. The cartoon DeLorean time machine has many add-ons, including a back seat in normal two-door mode, the ability to transform into a four-door, a pop-out covered wagon top, a blimp, a rear video screen, and a voice activated time input.
Back to the Future: The Game features a chronal duplicate of the original DeLorean, which Doc Brown recovered from the timestream after the destruction of the original. This DeLorean is created at the end of Back to the Future Part II, when the original time machine was struck by lightning: while the DeLorean itself is sent to 1885, a fully functional duplicate appears (apparently unmanned and undamaged) in 2025, where Doc retrieves it with the Hover Train. He later traveled to 1931 and sent the DeLorean to 1986 to get Marty to rescue him from 1931 before he can be killed. This duplicate DeLorean is effectively the same as the Part II car, including the occasional glitches in the time controls (mostly affecting the last time departed time display), but with a new automatic retrieval feature that automatically brings the DeLorean to a set time and location of Doc's choosing every time Doc Brown doesn't return to the car in a fixed amount of time.[12]
This DeLorean is later badly damaged (Marty crashes the DeLorean into a billboard, and after Marty gets out, the DeLorean falls through the billboard and crashes onto the ground) and then restored by an alternate version of Doc Brown who has never developed time travel technology, having access to limited notes about the flux capacitor. As such, the chronal circuits of the duplicate DeLorean become even more glitchy, accumulating errors as severe as the interval of time traveled, with increasing damage with every attempt: as such, Citizen Brown, the Alternate Doc, has to install a diagnostic console made of materials available in 1931 (appearing as a plywood box with a lightbulb and several similar bulbs placed on the coils on the outer body).[13]
Apparently, part of the problem is chromium parts becoming unstable during time travel, according to Alternate Doc. This DeLorean is then stolen by Edna Strickland, one of the game's main villains. The more adept Doc Brown returns in another duplicate DeLorean due to earlier events in the game, although it is unknown where it came from. Then Officer Danny Parker nearly arrests Marty and Doc for allegedly having the car that Edna got away in. After they explain to him that there is more than one DeLorean, Marty explains that the other DeLorean had malfunctioning time circuits. To make matters worse, the entire town of Hill Valley disappears around them. They go to 'Mary Pickford's' house and see that the other DeLorean had been destroyed. After they get information from Mary, who was really Edna, they go to 1876. After they stop the fire that would've burned down Hill Valley, they chase down Edna, who is trying to get away in the first DeLorean. Marty synchronizes the two DeLoreans and hoverboards back to Doc's DeLorean, which is flying behind the one Edna's driving. They all travel back to 1931, with Edna's DeLorean duplicate vanishing because of the time ripples catching up with them, causing 'chronal decay' (i.e., since the Alternate Doc timeline ceased to exist, the alternated Clone DeLorean was folded back with the real Clone DeLorean).[14]
It is implied that the Hover Train stays with Clara, Jules and Verne, passingly mentioned as enjoying the same nomadic life around the time-stream of Doc, but it is never seen in the game. The ending introduces a blue DeLorean and a black DeLorean, but it is unknown how these time machines were created.[12][14]
In Back to the Future: The Ride, Doc, who now lives in a lab, had created an 8-passenger DeLorean that can fly just like the original DeLorean (which can be seen in the ride and in the outside display) and the Hover Train (which can only be seen in display outside of the attraction). Unlike the original DeLorean, the flux capacitor is in the front of the cockpit along with a small screen, the time circuits, and the speedometer. The original DeLorean is also shown to have its original 'OUTATIME' license plate instead of the bar code license plate, but it could just mean that this DeLorean is actually a new one being built into a time machine. However, in a post-credits scene, Clara Clayton, who has built Hover Train with Doc, currently repaired the DeLorean and travels back to 1947 to a farm.
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In Doc Brown Saves the World, there was a repaired DeLorean time machine which included new replacement parts from 2015. The DeLorean is also seen in a video promoting Doc Brown Saves the World, and it is unknown as to whether or not a flux capacitor was inside.
Behind the scenes[edit]Development[edit]
Inside the cabin facing front
Inside the cabin facing rear
The time machine went through several variations during production of the first film, Back to the Future. In the first draft of the screenplay, the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to a nuclear bomb test. Director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a car, as Zemeckis reasoned that if you were going to make a time machine, you would want it to be mobile.[15] The specific choice of vehicle was a DeLorean for the purposes of it looking like an alien spaceship[16] due to its characteristic gullwing doors (which were inspired by the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL). The original ending of the 1985 film Back to the Future was to have Marty outrun a nuclear explosion at a test site to power the DeLoreanâs flux capacitor in order to travel back to 1985. However, during the movie's filming, it went overbudget and behind schedule, and Universal refused to grant the producers any more money, as it couldnât afford the desert location to shoot such scenario. Ultimately, the power source was changed to lightning strike at the clock tower in Hill Valley as a result.[17]
When the filmmakers arrived at the point where the time machine would be built into a car, the art department was instructed to come up with designs for the DeLorean. Andrew Probert was the first artist to explore the subject (before Ron Cobb joined the production), but his designs were deemed 'too perfect' for the look the producers wanted, which was to make it look as if it had been built in a garage by Doc Brown. The idea was that it had been constructed with parts found in a hardware and electronics store, so it couldn't look too sophisticated. It also had to look dangerous, as Producer Bob Gale noted in the DVD commentary for Back to the Future.[16] The task was undertaken by Ron Cobb who added the coils to the back of the vehicle. The nuclear reactor was also a design choice made by Cobb. This choice proved to be important, given the direction the script had taken. Cobb complemented the nuclear reactor with one vent on the back of the car, since it was generally known at the time that nuclear reactors had vents. Once Cobb had left the production, the producers wanted to balance the design with another vent, keeping a symmetrical aesthetic. Probert was asked to step in and he brought the design to its final form. At the end of the first film of the trilogy these vents become the propulsion system for the improved DeLorean, which now had hovering abilities and could reach the time-traveling speed of 88 miles per hour flying. The production design team added other buttons and lights inside the car to make it look more appealing and complex in order for the audience to have something attractive to look at.
Different parts from three 1982 DeLoreans were used in the first film. Liquid nitrogen was poured onto the car for scenes after it had travelled through time to give the impression that it was cold. The base for the nuclear reactor was made from the hubcap from a Dodge Polara. Aircraft parts and blinking lights were added for effect. In one of the first scenes, carbon dioxide extinguishers were hidden inside the DeLorean to simulate the exhaust effect.[18] Ultimately, five real DeLoreans were used in the filming of the trilogy, plus one 'process' car built for interior shots. In the off-road scenes in the third film, a modified-for-off-road VW Beetle frame was fitted to the DeLorean with the whitewall tires and baby Moon hubcaps.[19] A seventh DeLorean was also used in the filming; however, this one was merely a full-sized, fiberglass model used for exterior shots where the vehicle hovers above the set as well as when the actors interact with the vehicle.[20]
Rather than use the sound of the stock V-6 DeLorean engine in the film, the sound of a DeLorean with a Legend Twin Turbo VIN 530 was used.[citation needed]
Replicas[edit]
Two DeLorean time machine replicas
A number of private auto customizers have built replicas of the DeLorean time machine. Starting with a stock DeLorean, they added most, if not all, the props used by the movie producers for the picture cars. In addition to the interior and exterior props, they feature working indicator lights and switches along with the actual sounds which duplicate the ones made by the movie car's controls when activated. These vehicles are, for the most part, roadworthy DeLoreans with stock drivetrains, and are frequently driven to car shows and Back to the Future-related events.
Replicas can range from a minimal 'obligatory mod' - typically in the form of an operational Flux-Capacitor prop on the rear firewall of an otherwise stock Delorean, all the way through to complete replicas, as described above.
As of March 2017, some 87 DeLoreans are known to be converted to Back to the Future Time Machines.[21]
Kit conversions for DeLoreans are actively sold. Other replicas start with a replica DeLorean instead of a genuine DeLorean, or with a similar car, such as the Bricklin SV-1.[22][23][24]
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