Back to the Future. Interesting facts (84 photos)
Back to the Future is a cult sci-fi trilogy about time travel. One of the most beloved films made by producer Steven Spielberg and director Robert Zemeckis is the second part of it - "Back to the Future 2". In the film, created in 1989, the main characters are sent almost 30 years ahead - to October 21, 2015, to the present day.
Before us appears a world that did not yet exist. We see him as the filmmakers imagined him to be. Of course, we have not yet lived up to the sky filled with flying cars, but otherwise the writers, producers and director managed to predict the future with amazing accuracy.
On this very day, immortalized in the legendary film, AiF.ru decided to see what inventions, which in 1989 could hardly even be dreamed of, were predicted in the film Back to the Future 2.
1. Smart glasses
In the very first episode, Doc Brown, one of the main characters of the film, the inventor of the time machine, appears on a flying car - he came from the distant future - from October 21, 2015. to his friend, young man named Marty McFly, steel-colored glasses immediately catch the eye, hiding a good half of Doc's face. A microphone extends from them to the scientist's mouth. It becomes clear that this is not just protection from sunlight, but some kind of cunning device, perhaps even by voice command, displaying the desired image on a screen built into the lenses of the glasses. Yes, and then Marty's son also sits at the table, watching TV in similar glasses.
And what do we have today? Google Glass smart glasses immediately come to mind. They are able to recognize voice commands, connect to the Internet, display the necessary information on a small screen, so that it is available for reading to the owner of the glasses. In addition, these glasses are capable of shooting video enough good quality and take photos at the right time.
Smart glasses Photo: Film frame
2. Smart watch
After Doc, Marty and his girlfriend return to the future, they are caught in a downpour that prevents them from getting out of the car. At this point, Doc glances at his watch and says that the rain will stop in five seconds. The signal goes off and the rain stops. After that, throughout the film, the scientist periodically glances at the clock, and not only at those moments when he needs to know the time. It becomes clear that the watch gives out some additional information.
Today, one of the most popular products on the electronics market is the Apple Watch, a smart watch that also allows you to go online, monitor your health, control your phone, tablet and TV, view photos, watch text broadcasts of sports events and play games. It is quite possible that Doc Brown used them in the future.
Doc uses smartwatch Photo: Film still
3. Digital binoculars
Being in the future, the main characters tried to be as accurate as possible in order to have the least possible impact on the course of time. To do this, Doc Brown periodically observed what was happening from a distance. A small device helped him do this, which, using digital technology, zoomed in on the image and even highlighted the necessary characters.
In fact, in its form and function, the device in the hands of a scientist is similar to modern digital cameras, which have the function of multiple digital "zoom", that is, an increase. In addition, they can naturally take photos and shoot videos. Doc, on the other hand, could well use the same camera simply as binoculars.
The Doc's device zooms in on what's going on Photo: Frame from the film
4. Flying camera
At the beginning of the film, skaters chasing Marty fly into a huge stained-glass window located on the facade of the city hall, smashing it to smithereens. They are immediately taken away by the police, and everything that happens for the news channel is filmed by a camera hovering in the air.
Today, the dream of any novice operator is a quadcopter - a device with four propellers that can fly under control from a smartphone. At first, quadcopters were used simply as entertainment, but in Lately cameras are attached to them and they shoot weddings, birthdays, as well as news stories in places where access to a person is difficult.
Detention of hooligans filmed by a flying camera Photo: Frame from the film
5. Tablet computer
When the cops find Marty's friend lying unconscious on the trash cans, they try to identify her with an electronic device that looks like a book. This device reads the girl's fingerprint and displays all the information about her on the screen.
It immediately becomes clear that in front of us in the hands of the police is a prototype of modern tablet computers. Moreover, the filmmakers were able to take into account even the possibility of this device to read fingerprints. It's no secret that modern tablets have the ability to recognize the owner by fingerprint.
Police officers use a tablet computer Photo: Film frame
6. Information about traffic jams
Gathering in long way out of town Doc Brown casts a glance at the huge scoreboard installed in the middle of the city. It informs the scientist about severe difficulties on the roads - traffic jams.
In 1989, there were no traffic jams in Moscow yet, but today there are colored panels on the main highways that show the state of traffic on the nearest streets, helping drivers choose the shortest route. In addition, smartphones have a special application that performs the same function.
Screen with information about traffic jams Photo: Frame from the film
7. Fingerprint login
When the cops deliver Marty's friend to her future home, they open the door simply by placing her hand on a special device. It, reading the fingerprint, lets the hostess home.
Today, in many business centers, fitness clubs and other institutions where a personalized entrance is required, special turnstiles are used that let in not only with a magnetic card, but also with a fingerprint. This ensures that the right person enters the building or room.
The door opens with a fingerprint Photo: Film frame
8. Home projectors
In Marty's future house, instead of the view from the window, various photographs are projected onto a special screen. the most beautiful places on the ground so that it seems that this view is now outside the window.
Perhaps in 1989, home projectors were considered something out of the ordinary, but now a home theater with a projector that can display any image either on a wall or on a special screen is a common thing.
A projector at home today is a common thing. Photo: Frame from the film
9. Cashless taxi payment
Biff, following Doc and Marty in a taxi, pays the driver not with money. He simply puts his finger near some device that reads his fingerprint and debits the funds from the account.
Today, in many cities of Russia, you can pay for a taxi ride without even bothering to raise your finger to a special device. At the end of the trip, the money is simply automatically debited from the account linked to the application for calling a taxi on your smartphone.
Today, you don’t even need to take a fingerprint to pay for a taxi ride Photo: Film frame
10. Flat TV showing multiple channels
When Marty's son-to-be returns home, he flops down in a chair in front of a flat-screen TV and displays six different channels on the screen, which he tries to watch at the same time.
The technology that allows you to display multiple channels on the screen is not even real. For us, this is already the past, which turned out to be practically useless. But flat and thin TVs are a reality. Some of them are even capable of displaying images in 3D.
For us, such TV is already the past Photo: Frame from the film
11. "Smart home"
In the future, the McFly family, being in the house, controls all household appliances by giving voice commands. By the same principle, the TV, lights and many other electrical appliances turn on and off.
Today, this system is called "smart home" and is widely used in modern society.
Home devices of the future understand voice commands, just like they do today Photo: Film frame
12. Video phone
Future Marty in his office communicates with colleagues on a video phone. During a conversation, he can see his interlocutor, and all information about him is displayed on the TV screen hanging on the wall.
Today, you can arrange entire video conferences with friends using applications such as Skype. Many TVs that can connect to the Internet even have a special application that allows you to communicate with friends, relatives and just acquaintances directly from the TV.
Video communication today is not a luxury, but a means of communication Photo: Frame from the film
13. Hoverboard
The main dream of fans of the famous trilogy is a flying skateboard, which in the film was called a "hoverboard". It floats above the asphalt and is used in the same way as a skateboard.
Today there is no fully functional hoverboard. But developers are working on its creation. In the meantime, a flying board can hover not over any surface, but over a specially designed surface. Yes, and it weighs quite a lot.
The flying board already exists, but it is not yet as functional as in the movie Photo: Still from the film
The action of the second part of the film "Back to the Future" takes place, as you know, in 2015. After a thorough revision of the technology predictions from the film, it was found that almost all of them came true - even flying skateboards already exist.
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1. Video chat
Video conferencing technology was once predicted by everyone and sundry, Robert Zemeckis is no exception. And so it happened: Skype appeared in 2003, later Facetime, Viber, and so on joined it. Only hardly anyone discusses scams on Skype, as old Marty McFly and his dishonest partner Needles do in the film. In addition, there is no Internet in the Zemeckis universe, the video here is a telephone option. Hence a couple of touching moments: before entering the chat, McFly asks his absurd children to release the line, and then receives a paper about dismissal by fax. Faxes are notoriously dead, but at the end of the day, this isn't a fortune-telling agency, but a comedy-adventure film for young adults. Better to pay attention to the following revelations: the flat screen, unthinkable in 1989 households (and even with an aspect ratio of 16:9 instead of the then TV standard 4:3), text messages on this screen, and the hunch that you can also be followed in a video chat.
2. Flying car
4. Flying board
More precisely - a board hovering a few centimeters from the ground. Useless over water. It involves many modifications, including with a jet engine (and then the board can be affectionately called "Pit Bull"). The first - rather dubious - sample hoverboard appeared five years ago. In the past year, money for industrial production more or less realistic models were collected by the whole world. “More or less” here means that the hoverboard is terribly noisy, flies for about five minutes and only over a metal surface, the price of a prototype is something around 10 thousand dollars. The release of boards in one form or another, the Hendo Hoverboard company promises, as expected, in October - we recall that Doc, Marty and his girlfriend were in the future on October 21, 2015.
5. "Smart" sneakers
Self-lacing sneakers were tried by enthusiasts from the Powerlace project. Nike also once released a small batch of Air Mags to fans for a few thousand dollars a pair - they were instantly taken apart (but you can always find something on eBay). This year, the designer of the company seems to have confirmed that they will release new version sneakers. In October, of course.
6. Gesture controller
In the nostalgic cafe "Eighties", where a young McFly demonstrates old art shooting from a gaming pistol, schoolchildren laugh at him (one of them is little Elijah Wood). Because games that you have to play with your hands are for children. The prediction came true in half. We have touchless Kinect and Wii controllers, and now they are just more suitable for children. Most players, and these are quite adults, still have to deal with a gamepad, mouse and keyboard.
7. Bionic prosthesis
The paper edition of USA Today gives many interesting details about life in the imaginary year 2015. Although for the most part the authors did not guess: Diana, unfortunately, did not become queen, a woman was not elected president of the United States, Switzerland has no problems with terrorism yet. But, say, the report of a suspended pitcher using his "uncalibrated" bionic hand in a game isn't all that fantastic. It's not about the pitcher - about the hand. The first successful tests of bionic prostheses controlled by the power of thought took place last year. Cholesterol, by the way, was also rehabilitated.
8. Big iPhone
If you wish, you can even see in the film a prototype of an iPhone, or at least a mobile device for accepting payments, presumably with a display and a fingerprint sensor. This is the thing in the hand of the old man who asks Marty to donate money to repair the city's legendary clock. Let's say that the device looks like an android from 1989, but the idea is correct: a portable screen for wireless communication with the world is the protagonist of our time.
9. Hologram
Holographic advertising, like the non-existent "Jaws-19", is not shown to us yet. But still, this parody episode contains an allusion to several phenomena that are popular in the present 2015 at once. Endless sequels, the 3D format in all its manifestations and, perhaps, the coming flowering of holography itself. Let's remember performance digital Michael Jackson last summer in Las Vegas.
10. Smart glasses
During a family dinner, the children of Marty McFly sit in glasses - they watch TV in them and, it seems, chat with friends. It all looks like Google Glass and a helmet virtual reality Oculus Rift. It is impossible to use either one or the other at the dinner table in our 2015, but here you just need to replace glasses with a smartphone - and we can assume that the forecast has come true. Actually, in such details is the whole strength and charm of this film, especially for the 80-90s, when the future in cinema more often turned into space, utopia or an apocalyptic nightmare. Here the heroes find themselves in a relatively friendly town, where, in essence, everything is the same, only the little things have changed, and more cool gadgets have appeared. Cars fly, but many also drive them. People have been dressed up in utility uniforms, but there is always a grandfather in a cardigan and carrying a cane. There are smart glasses, but you can read the newspaper. New technologies only emphasize the eternal more strongly. For example, that fathers and children are sometimes separated by an abyss. It didn't occur to the filmmakers, however, that in 2015 a morbid passion for gadgets would cover fathers rather than their children.
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The director offered this idea of the film to various film studios. At the time (80s) big fashion on teen comedies with sexy jokes. Therefore, most film studios abandoned the project: it was too decent for them. When Zemeckis offered the film to Disney, they refused, considering the plot in which a mother falls in love with her unborn son, on the contrary, was too vulgar.
Sid Scheinberg, Universal's studio head, demanded that Robert Zemeckis and author Bob Gale change the script. First, Marty's mother was supposed to be named Meg, not Lorraine (Scheinberg's own wife was named Lorraine). Doc Brown was supposed to have a chimpanzee as a companion, not a dog. And finally: Scheinberg believed that a film with the word "future" in the title could not be a box office - and demanded to change the title to "Space Alien from Pluto" (Space Man from Pluto). In the scene where Marty McFly claims his name is Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan, he should have said "from the planet Pluto". Scheinberg sent a corresponding memorandum. Executive producer Steven Spielberg came to the director's aid: he sent back "Thank you Sid for the good joke - we had a lot of laughs." To save face, Scheinberg did not insist.
The film begins in the same way as The Time Machine (1960) - with a collage of different clocks.
At the beginning of the film, a clock is shown with a man hanging from it. This is the famous scene featuring comedian Harold Lloyd (Safe at Last, 1923). In this film, Harold Lloyd is hanging from the clock tower... and it is this scene that another Lloyd parodies - Christopher at the end of the film, hanging from the town hall clock.
The news announcer at the beginning of the film is actress Deborah Harmon, who had already starred with Robert Zemeckis in 1980's Used Cars.
At the beginning of the film, it is seen that Doc Brown has a hobby - he plays the saxophone.
The huge amp that Marty hooks up his electric guitar to in Doc's lab at the beginning of the movie is called the CRM-114. This is the name of the message decoder in Stanley Kubrick's film "Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned not to worry and fell in love with the atomic bomb." In addition, this is the number of the spaceship from the movie "2001 - A Space Odyssey", also by Stanley Kubrick.
The sunglasses that Marty wears at the beginning of the film were purely for promotional purposes and do not appear again in the trilogy. For the film, several contracts were awarded to position promotional products. Some of them are obvious (Pepsi, Texaco, Toyota), while others are not. California Raisin, the manufacturer of raisins, paid $50,000 to have their product appear in the film. But there was no place for raisins in the script, and, according to Bob Gale, "on film, raisins look like a pile of shit." Therefore, the company's logo was painted on the bench, on which the bum sleeps at the end of the film Red.The company protested - and the fee was returned to her.
In 1985, Doc Brown lives in the garage of his 1955 villa. The house itself burned down! At the beginning of the film, this can be read on newspaper clippings hanging on the wall. In addition, it also says that he sold his land to developers - therefore, in 1985, there is a Burger King restaurant next to Brown's house.
At the beginning of the movie, where Marty McFly competes in the Muses. groups, the role of one of the judges appears singer Huey Lewis, songwriter for the film "The Power of Love" and "Back In Time". It is he who, when Marty plays the instrumental version of "Power of Love", complains that the band is "loud".
The blonde next to Marty, who is shown in the same scene, is Paul Hanson, Michael J. Fox's guitar teacher who trained him for the film.
The license plate of the car that Marty and Jennifer pass after the audition says "FOR MARY" - in honor of Mary Radford, assistant director of the second crew, Frank Marshall.
All of the 1985 scenes in the square in front of the courthouse were filmed towards the end of filming. First, the backstage of the city was created in bright colors for 1955, and then "aged" and stripped for 1985. Many of the stores that existed in 1955 closed in 1985. The bench where Marty and Jennifer sit is emblazoned with the logo of the Zales jewelry store, now located in the Two Trees shopping center. In 1955, this store is still located on the main square!
At the beginning of the first part, the cornice in front of the clock face on the courthouse is intact, since Marty has not yet changed the past. After Doc trips and knocks down part of the eaves at the end of the film (in 1955), this piece is still missing in 1985. And in 2015 it's not there either!
Jennifer writes her phone down on a leaflet about clock restoration. Her number is 555-4823. In American films, all phone numbers begin with 555 so that no one really calls them, since this code does not exist in the USA.
When Back to the Future was released in cinemas in Australia, Michael J Fox had to make a TV spot for Australian television and warn the public about the dangers of clinging to cars on a skateboard.
The lion statues that stand at the entrance to the Lyon Estate area are created in the image and likeness of the same lions that adorn St. Louis, hometown screenwriter Bob Gale.
Crispin Glover, who played George McFly, Marty's father, is actually three years younger than Michael J. Fox.
To go from 23-year-old Lee Thompson to 47-year-old Lorraine McFly, she had to spend 3 hours in the dressing room.
October 26, 1985 at 1:20 a.m. in the parking lot of the Puente Hills Mall, where he was filmed shopping mall"Two Christmas Trees", a mass of fans gathered to see if anything happened there. The film was released in the USA in June 1985, so the events of 1985 shown in the film were yet to come...
In the course of the script, the concept of the time machine changed many times. At first it was a laser device the size of a room. Then the time machine began to look like a refrigerator. Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the concept was scrapped for fear that small children would climb into the fridge and get hurt. There was another idea - to return to 1985, the DeLorean had to be taken to the atomic bomb test site. Even a version of the script with this idea has been preserved.
The film uses a 1981 DeLorean six-cylinder model. On DVD, it is incorrectly referred to as a four-cylinder.
Lid on nuclear reactor on the stern of the DeLorean is actually the wheel cover of a Dodge Polaris.
On the DeLorean in the movie, the speedometer goes up to 95 miles per hour. But on real DeLorean speedometers up to and including 1985, the scale reached only 85 miles! Not enough for time travel.
The colors of the time machine's time setting display (red, green, yellow) are a reference to the 1960 movie The Time Machine, which used lamps of the same colors.
There are two labels on the stream drive: "Disconnect drive drive before opening" and "Protect eyes from light."
Doc Brown always wears a few wrist watch. This is especially evident when he explains to Marty how the time machine works. This habit stays with him for a long time, as this photo from the second part shows.
To travel through time, you need to reach a speed of 88 miles per hour. The number 8 rotated by 90° means "infinity" in mathematics. However, Bob Gale said in an interview that the number 88 is arbitrary - it just sounds good.
In Robert Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her, Goldie Hawn says that on October 26, 1985, she drank the elixir of eternal youth. This is the date of the first time travel.
The date Marty travels in time is November 5th. This day is the target of the time travel in Time After Time (1979) and Timerider: The Adventures of Lyle Swann (1982). In addition, November 5th is the birthday of screenwriter Bob Gale's father. In addition, it was the father who unwittingly planted the plot of the film to Bob Gale. When Bob looked at his father's old school album, he wondered if they would be friends if they went to school at the same time. Thus was born the idea of a teenager who clashes with his parents-peers. The date was also chosen for the reason that balls in American schools, as a rule, take place in November.
The son of old Peabody, who lived on the site of the mall, is called Sherman. Sherman was the name of the boy in The Adventures of Rory and Bullwinkle who traveled through time with his dog. The dog's name was Mr. Peabody.
The fictitious comic strip Tales from Space appeared at least twice in the Oliver Bean series.
The script didn't say that Marty would bang his head on the DeLorean's door. This idea came about during filming, when the door mechanism was pretty worn out and the door didn't open fast enough.
According to the book published alongside the film, Marty hides the DeLorean in the garage of his parents' unfinished home in Lyon Estates. But the budget didn't allow for an entire street to be built unfinished, which is why Marty hides the car behind a billboard in the film.
In 1955, in addition to the film with Ronald Reagan, two more films are going to the cinema: "This Boy's Life" (the working title of Spielberg's film "E.T. - Alien") and "Watch The Skies" (the working title of Spielberg's film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" ). The same films go to the cinema in the film "Gremlins", which was also produced by Steven Spielberg. By the way, the Gremlins themselves were filmed backstage at the main square from Back to the Future.
The area in front of the courthouse from above looks like a stream drive.
The bell on the courthouse tower plays the same tune as the clock in the 1960 film The Time Machine, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. In addition, this is the melody of the bells of London's Big Ben.
Mayor "Goldie" Wilson was nicknamed so because of his gold tooth.
The surnames of mayors Red Thomas and Goldie Wilson together form the name of the actor who played Biff Tannen, Thomas Wilson.
The Calvin Klein brand was relatively unknown in Europe in 1985. Therefore, in the Italian dub, Marty is called "Levi Strauss" in 1955. In the French dub, his name is "Pierre Cardin"...
In Italy, television was state-owned, and the concept of "Rerun" (re-show) did not exist in this language. Therefore, in the Italian dubbing, Marty saw television show"on video". In the Russian translation, he saw it "on record".
Lorraine has a brother and a sister. Milton's brother is played by Jason Hervey, who later starred as the titular character's brother on The Wonder Years. Sally's sister is played by Maya Brewton, who later played the protagonist's sister in the television series Parker Lewis. Thus, they continued the tradition of playing the brother/sister of the protagonist.
Linda McFly's T-shirt reads "Class of '84". Michael J Fox starred in a 1982 film of that name.
Hill Valley School is actually located in Whitteer, California. Former US President Richard Nixon studied at this school.
In the scene where Marty visits George at school, there is a poster in the background that reads "Ron Woodward for Class President!" Ronald Woodward - "Key Grip", that is, the main production director of the film.
When Marty walks through the school with Doc, there is a Bulldogs vs. Indians. The Bulldogs were an Amer. football elementary school Bob Gale, and "Indians" - high school.
When Marty visits George in his Darth Vader costume, he plays Van Halen music through the player. However, this refers not to Van Halen, but to their main guitarist, Edward Van Halen. If you look closely, you can see a small postscript "Edward" on the cassette. In order to use the name of the group in the film, it was necessary to obtain the consent of all its members. Since this was not possible, the producers secured the consent (and name) only of the leader of the group. The song Marty plays on the player is called "Untitled" and was actually written for the movie The Wild Life (1984). This film stars Eric Stoltz and Lee Thompson in the lead roles.
Eric Stoltz was even slated to play Marty McFly! Michael J. Fox was contracted to the TV series Family Ties and could not take part in the film. A few weeks after filming began, the producers realized that Stoltz wasn't right for the role of a teenager. So he was fired from the film and Marty McFly's entire wardrobe had to be updated.
However, when Michael J. Fox was filming Back to the Future, he was still under contract to Family Ties. Therefore, during the day he starred in the series, and at night he went to shoot the film. Therefore, the night scenes were filmed first (parking at the mall, returning to 1985, etc.). Daytime shooting took place on weekends.
Eric Stoltz can still be seen at one point in the film. He had already been filming for several weeks and many of his scenes had already been filmed. In the scene in which Marty knocks Biff down (in the cafe in 1955 before chasing the skateboard), Eric Stoltz's fist is shown. Stoltz is also rumored to be featured in the scene in which Marty dives into the DeLorean in the parking lot to escape the Libyans. Nevertheless, connoisseurs still argue over this scene: Stoltz had a completely different costume in these scenes.
Claudia Wells was supposed to play Jennifer alongside Eric Stoltz. However, the filming dates were constantly shifted, and in the end she was unable to take part in the filming. Actress Melora Hardin was taken in her place. However, after Stoltz was fired, Melora turned out to be taller than Michael J. Fox - and thus was not suitable for the role of his girlfriend. Claudia Wells, meanwhile, was released again and got the role of Jennifer back. Nevertheless, Hardin also managed to get acquainted with time travel: she starred in the series Quantum Leap and Time Patrol.
In addition, another actor was also planned for the role of Doc Brown at one time. John Lithgow, best known for 3rd Planet from the Sun. He even starred with Christopher Lloyd in Banzai's Baccarat Adventures in the 8th Dimension, where he played a mad scientist (!). And Christopher Lloyd played an alien there.
Christopher Lloyd played the character "Emmett L. Brown" as a mixture of Albert Einstein and composer Leopold Stokowski.
Lee Thompson (Lorraine) and Christopher Lloyd (Doc) have starred in six films together: the Back to the Future trilogy, Dennis the Tormentor, No Questions Asked, and the TV movie Haunted Lighthouse. However, in all this time, they had only one conversational scene:
Marty: This is Doc... my uncle! Doctor Brown.
Lorraine: Hello.
Doc: Hello.
The beginning of "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry is 1:1 the same as the beginning of "Fun, Fun, Fun" by the Beach Boys. "Johnny B. Goode" came out in 1958, "Fun, Fun, Fun" in 1964
During the performance of "Johnny B. Goode", the leader of the band at the ball, Marvin Berry, calls his cousin Chuck. Chuck Berry is the author of the song "Johnny B. Goode".
In the credits of the first part, it is written that the song "Johnny B. Goode" is performed by Marty McFly. It was actually performed by Mark Campbell and the guitar solo was played by Tim May.
For the scene in which Marty's brother and sister appear in the photo, the special effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) made the guitar neck 3-4 times larger than usual, and used an enlarged photo. This was the only opportunity to realize this effect in 1985.
In one of the older versions of the script, Marty caused a riot at the school prom with his rock and roll. To pay them off, a police squad arrives. Also, in that version of the script, Doc obtains a secret constituent part Coca Cola. And when they return to 1985, all the cars look like they did in the 50s - but they are able to fly ... Some traces of this concept can be seen in the second part, in the Goldie Wilson III commercial.
If you look closely at the keys to the DeLorean, the key fob says "555-1128 OUT-A-TIME" and on the back it says "Brown Dr. – JFK – Hill Valley, CA. This is Doc's phone number and address!
The DeLorean's headlights flash in Morse code: three dots, three dashes, three dots: SOS!
The bum on the bench, whom Marty calls "Red" is not former mayor Red Thomas from 1955. Michael J Fox improvised for this scene. This name was not in the script.
There is an opinion that the DeLorean stalls and does not start, because at this time there is a time jump. When it died out in 1955 a few minutes before 10:04 - in the second part, around this time, lightning strikes the time machine and sends Doc to 1885. When it returned to 1985 and stalled, just about this time (1:20) Einstein travels one minute ahead.
However, this theory is quite controversial: when the first part was filmed, there was no continuation in mind. In addition, the times of these jumps do not correspond to the time of turning off the motor.
At the beginning of the film, Marty drives up to meet Doc at the Twin Pines Mall. Since he crushed one of Peabody's Christmas trees in 1955, the mall is named Lone Pine Mall at the end of the film.
The alarm clock in Marty's room plays the song "Back In Time" by Huey Lewis And The News, who also performed "The Power Of Love". In addition, Marty has a promotional poster for Huey Lewis' Sports album on his wall.
There is an RQ magazine on Marty's bed. It is actually a magazine for librarians and is called "Reference Quarterly".
The new fusion reactor "Mr. Fusion - Home Energy Converter "on DeLorean is created from a Krups brand coffee grinder.
The scene where Marty asks Doc if they're going to be "assholes" in the future was filmed twice for the US TV version with less swearing dialogue.
Alan Silvestri's orchestra line-up for the score for Back to the Future was, at the time, the largest ever assembled for a film score.
In 1955, the Oscar for best movie went to the movie "Marty". But according to producer Bob Gale, this was not the reason for choosing the main character's name. They just liked the name.
The name Emmett comes from the word "Time" (time). It is simply written backwards, with the consonants doubled.
Doc's middle name, Lathrop, becomes "Portal" when read backwards.
The name "Tannen" is never mentioned in the first part. In the end credits, it says that this is Biff's last name. This name comes from the then president of Universal Studios, Ned Tannen. Biff was originally going to be played by J. J. Cohen (he played Biff's boyfriend "Skinhead" - "Biff, look at that vest! The kid is afraid of drowning."). But Eric Stoltz was taller than Cohen, so Tom Wilson was cast as Biff. But if Fox played Marty from the very beginning, then J. J. Cohen would still play Biff!
As another henchman of Biff, Billy Zane (“Titanic”) is filmed in his first film role.
In the music video for "The Power Of Love" released at the time, Doc Brown drives a DeLorean to a club where Huey Lewis And The News are performing. Several girls persuade him to go to the club, and several onlookers "borrow" the DeLorean at this time. The song follows, and at the end, DeLorean returns from time travel.
When the first film was completed, there were no plans for a sequel. Following the flying DeLorean, the final credits immediately went. When the second and third parts subsequently came out, and the first appeared on video, an insert "To Be Continued ..." was added between the final scene and the credits. For the DVD version, this insert was removed again, restoring the original film version.
No, we never intended to call this part "Back from the Future".
Bob Gale, screenwriter
The end of the first part was conceived as a joke. At that time, no one seriously thought about continuing, otherwise they would not have put Jennifer in a time machine. Due to the writers' difficulty in fitting her into the plot, Jennifer was put to sleep at the very beginning of her journey in 2015...
The second and third parts were conceived as one film under the working title "Paradox". But implementation would be too costly. However, a version of the "Paradox" scenario has been preserved.
In another version of the sequel, Marty would have to return not to 1955, but to 1967 - and meet his parents, who became hippies. But Zemeckis ruined this option, as it is too similar to the first part. In addition, the return to 1955 is much richer in terms of "a different point of view on the events of the first part."
In the second part, the actress who played Jennifer was replaced. Claudia Wells, who played her in the first part, left the cinema due to drug problems, so Elizabeth Shew played Jennifer in the second part.
The first connection between Clint Eastwood and "Back to the Future" - the opening sequence of the second part goes over the material (flying over the clouds), filmed by ILM for the movie "Firefox" with Clint Eastwood in the title role.
The taxi that the DeLorean nearly crashes into while going back in time in 2015 is the same taxi that Biff was carrying later.
When the doctor announces "We're flying into Hill Valley, time: 4:29 pm, Tuesday, October 21, 2015!" In the original, he says "4:29 PM" - and at this time the DVD counter shows exactly 0:04:29! True, only on the American version in NTSC, since the European version in PAL is slightly accelerated (25 frames per second instead of 24 film frames).
The reason Doc pulls the skin off his face is so he doesn't have to wear the "old Doc Brown" make-up for all the sequels.
In 1955, 1985 and 2015, there is a Texaco gas station on the square in front of the court.
In the future, the movie "Jaws-19" is in the cinema, directed by Max Spielberg. Spielberg does have a son named Max.
Marty visits an antique shop in 2015 and sees a figurine of Roger Rabbit in the window. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Robert Zemeckis directed and Christopher Lloyd played the main villain.
In addition, in the same showcase - Marty's jacket from the first part.
At the '80s Cafe, the waiters are electronic versions of Michael Jackson, Ronald Reagan and Ayatollah Khomeini. This is a parody of the 80s TV series Max Headroom. There was also a computer character, and he also stuttered.
Heads are hanging on the wall in the "80s Cafe" - images of different famous personalities. From left to right: Fidel Castro, Prince Charles, Mikhail Gorbachev, Howard Cosell, Ronald Reagan, Ayatollah Khomeini.
One of the kids that Marty shows the computer to. the game "Wild Shooter", easily recognize the sectarians of "Lord of the Rings" - this is Elijah Wood! He was then 8 years old, and this is one of his first roles.
Computer game "Wild shooter" - actually not used in slot machines but only on Nintendo consoles. For the film, it was built into a slot machine.
On the monitors in the "80s Cafe" there are serials of the 80s, and all of them are from Universal. Among them: "The Smurfs" (cartoons), "Cheers" (sitcom), "Family Ties" ("Family Ties" with Michael J. Fox!), "Taxi" ("Taxi" with Christopher Lloyd!), CNN, "Oprah Winfrey" (talk show), "Geraldo" (talk show), "Pee Wee's Playhouse", "Wheel of Fortune" (similar to "Field of Wonders"), "Miami Vice", "Magnum P.I.", "Dallas" (TV series) .
The second and third parts of the film were shot 4 and 5 years after the first, respectively. During this time, Michael J. Fox had already forgotten how to ride a skateboard.
In one version of the script, instead of a flying skateboard chase, there was a scene in the stadium of the futuristic Slamball game, in which players wear special running shoes for running on a vertical wall. But this option turned out to be too expensive, and so the filmmakers decided to make the skateboard chase scene more like the one in 1955. By the way, in this version of the script, George McFly dislocated his back not with golf, but with slamball.
When the scene where Biff's gang crashes into the front of the courthouse was being filmed, stunt performer Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, who was filling in for actress Darlene Vogel, badly injured her legs when she ran into a courthouse pillar and was hospitalized for several weeks. Since she, lying in the hospital, could not be re-shot, the scene was included in the film.
An old man who dreams of going back in time and betting on a winning baseball team is played by Charles Fleischer. He voiced Roger Rabbit in the Zemeckis film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
This old man's name is Terry. This is the same Terry who cleaned Biff's car of manure in 1955 and charged him $300. The bonus features include a deleted scene in which old Biff in 2015 is still chiding Terry with the $300.
Rick Carter, production designer for the second and third parts, suffers from legasthenia, so the inscriptions on many of the shields he created had to be corrected. In addition, he created many futuristic posters with Japanese characters, and claimed that they made sense - which was subsequently debunked by Japanese film studio visitors.
The second version of the newspaper "USA Today", which shows the arrested gang of Griff, reveals their real names. Under the nicknames "Data", "Spike" and "Whitey" Rafe Unger, Leslie O'Malley and Chester Nogura are hiding. Other articles in this newspaper: "Washington prepares for the visit of Queen Diana" and "The new finger gang raid." Since payment in 2015 is done with a fingerprint, naturally there are criminal gangs hunting for the fingers of the townsfolk!
The Almanac costs $32.19 including VAT. Marty paid for it with a fingerprint. Thus, the money for the almanac was withdrawn from the account of 47-year-old Marty McFly.
It is unlikely that the thin almanac shown in the film could fit 50 years of sports statistics, including regional results of college competitions. But the book was specially made so thin that it fit into Marty's jacket pocket and Biff's trouser pocket.
Doc says he left the dog Einstein in the Time Vacuum. This phrase was invented to describe what happened to Einstein: at the end of the first part, Doc went with him to the future, but returned without him.
Marty Jr. walks out of the "80s Cafe" and is almost crushed by a car. He angrily yells at the driver “I'm coming here! I'm coming here!" This is a quote from the movie "Midnight Cowboy"
The last names of two female police officers from 2015 are "Reese" and "Fowley". In all the films that were co-written by Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the police bear these names.
Futuristic cars from 2015 have already appeared in other films. For example, "Star Machine" from the movie "The Last Star Fighter" and "Spinner" from the movie "Blade Runner". The rest of the cars are modified Ford Probes, Mustangs, BMWs and a few oldtimers.
The taxi from the future that Biff drives is a modified Citroen DS. This car began to be produced in 1955, so it could well appear in the first part. This taxi is also shown as a burnt-out wreck in the alternate year 1985.
The flying robot that takes the dog for a walk is borrowed from the movie Batteries Not Included.
In 2015, the fashion for wearing two ties at once! Marty, 47, is wearing two ties. On Doc Brown too, but they are transparent, so it's not very noticeable.
The storyline about the death of George McFly was created because Crispin Glover refused to play this role in the sequel! Therefore, actor Jeffrey Weissman was hired to play George. In the Universal Tours attraction, Weissman played the roles of Stan Laurel, Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx. Scenes from 1955 showing Crispin Glover as George were taken from the first installment. After the film's release, Glover sued the producers and they had to pay him for using the material.
Glover as George
Weissman as George
George is hanging upside down in 2015 for three reasons:
- so that it is not visible that this is a different actor
- because it's funny
- if Crispin Glover did change his mind, he could be put upside down.
The role of Needles, Marty's colleague, who in the third part challenges him to a car race, is played by Michael Balzari, better known as "Flea" (Flea), the bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The fax notifying Marty of the termination has the address of the business: "11249 Business Center Road, Hill Valley, CA 95420-4345." In fact, this postal code belongs to the town of Kaspar. It is located five hundred miles north of Los Angeles on the Pacific coast.
In Hill Valley, someone is abusing graffiti. In 1985 (part 1) at the entrance graffiti "BOB" (in honor of two Bobs, Zemeckis and Gale).
In an alley in 2015, some careless schoolboy sprayed "Class of" 16. "The Address of Suckers" was made from the inscription "Hilldale - The Address Of Success" (Hilldale - Address of Success).
In the year 1985, someone remade "Hill Valley" into "Hell Valley" (hell valley).
Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise was modeled after the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
The neon sign with Biff Tannen's signature is similar to the neon sign for "Bob Stupak's Vegas World Casino".
A newspaper dated March 16, 1973 says that George McFly was found dead in an alley two blocks from community center Hill Valley. In this center, McFly was to receive an award for many years of fighting with the BiffCo concern.
When Biff takes the almanac out of the safe and hands it to Marty, it is seen that he keeps it in a plastic bag to protect it from dust. The dust jacket that the saleswoman was so touting was not - after all, he wrapped a pornographic magazine in it at a dance in 1955 to give to Principal Strickland!
Second "Back to the Future" connection with Clint Eastwood. Biff is watching Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars on TV. In the third part, Michael J. Fox will play his version of this scene from the famous Spaghetti Western.
The May 4, 1958 newspaper features a photograph of Biff winning $1,182,000 on his 21st birthday at the races.
To save time and money, in the second part, the backstage of Universal Studios was created piece by piece. The 1955 street was recreated on one side only, on the other side of the street were the backstage of 1985A with Biff Tannen's Paradise of Joy. Since the original scenes from the first part were not preserved, we had to recreate the whole street anew - and this bypassed
1. In the original scenario, Doc Brown from the 50s did not know where to get the energy of 1.21 GW, and decided that the source of such power could only be with a nuclear explosion. The heroes decide to go to the nuclear power plant. It was too expensive to shoot such an episode, and they decided to abandon it. A plot move was invented with lightning and a clock.
2. Doc and Marty pronounce "gigawatt" like "jigowatt". The fact is that Robert Zemeckis attended a seminar on physics and misheard this word.
3. While showing Marty the time machine, Doc names various historical dates that he could have traveled to, including December 25 of the year zero - Christmas Day. But in the time reference system used throughout the world, there is no zero year: before the first year of our era, there was the first year BC. However, there is indeed a year zero for the date dialer.
4. In the future, the movie "Jaws-19" is going to the cinema, directed by Max Spielberg. Spielberg does have a son named Max.
5. The first time the time machine appears from the van, from which steam is pouring. It turns out that according to the original plan, this van, and not a car, was supposed to become a time machine, but during the filming the director changed his mind. The van scene was left in order not to throw away the money spent on the already shot takes.
6. Doc's camcorder - JVC GR-C1 - one of the first in VHS-C format. There is doubt whether it could be compatible with a TV set in 1955.
7. The famous Soviet comedy "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession" is known to the American audience under the name "Ivan Vasilyevich: Back to the Future."
8. Lea Thompson (who played Lorraine) and Christopher Lloyd (who played Doc) starred together in six films: the Back to the Future trilogy, the films Dennis the Tormentor, The Right Not to Answer Questions, and the TV movie Haunted Lighthouse. However, in all this time, they had only one conversational scene:
Marty: This is Doc... my... uncle! Doc... Brown.
Lorraine: Hello.
Doc: Hello….
9. In the scene where Marty visits George at school, there is a "Ron Woodward for Class President" poster hanging in the background. Ronald Woodward is the film's chief production officer.
10. Doc's laboratory has portraits of four famous scientists: Isaac Newton, one of the first modern physicists, Benjamin Franklin, who discovered electricity through a lightning strike, Thomas Edison, inventor of modern power plants, and Albert Einstein, who discovered the theory of relativity. Modern physics, lightning strikes, power generation and time travel are key to the film's plot.
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11. The Calvin Klein brand was relatively unknown in Europe in 1985. Therefore, in the Italian dub, Marty is called "Levi Strauss" in 1955. In the French dub, his name is "Pierre Cardin".
12. Mayor "Goldie" Wilson was nicknamed so because of his gold tooth.
13. Sid Scheinberg, head of Universal Studios, demanded that Robert Zemeckis and author Bob Gale change the script. First, Marty's mother was to be named Lorraine, after Scheinberg's wife. Doc Brown was supposed to have a dog as a companion instead of a chimpanzee according to the script. Finally, Scheinberg demanded that the title be changed to Pluto's Space Alien. Scheinberg sent a corresponding memorandum. In the first two cases, the authors of the film conceded, but categorically did not want to change the title. Steven Spielberg came to their aid: he sent a note in response: "Thank you, Sid, for the good joke - we laughed a lot." To save face, Scheinberg did not push for the film's title to be changed.
14. California Raisin, a raisin manufacturer, paid $50,000 to have their product appear in the film. But there was no place for raisins in the script, besides, according to Bob Gale, "on film, raisins look like a pile of dung." Therefore, the company's logo was painted on the bench on which the bum Red sleeps at the end of the film. The firm protested, and the fee was returned to her.
15. Doc Brown always wears several wristwatches.
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16. When Back to the Future came out in Australia, Michael J. Fox had to do a special for Australian television and warn the public about the dangers of clinging to cars on a skateboard.
17. October 26, 1985 at 1:20 am in the parking lot of the Puente Hills Mall, where the Two Pines shopping center was filmed, a crowd of fans gathered to see if anything happened there. The film was released in the United States in June 1985, so the events of 1985 shown in the film were yet to come.
18. At the beginning of the film, Marty drives up to meet Doc at the Two Pines shopping mall. Since he crushed one of Peabody's pine trees in 1955, the mall's name at the end of the film is The Lone Pine.
19. Ronald Reagan liked the film so much that he included a reference to the Zemeckis film in his 1986 address to the nation: "And as it was said in Back to the Future: Where we're going, we don't need roads!" He was also cast as the mayor who opens the Hill Valley festivities, but was unable to take part in the filming. Reagan really liked the Back to the Future trilogy, and when he first saw a scene from the first series - "Who is your president in 1985?" - "Ronald Reagan!" - "Actor?!" he laughed so hard that he asked the projectionist to rewind the tape so he could watch the scene again.
20. In the scene of testing the time machine, a license plate falls off from it, which says "OUT A TIME" (out of time). Until the end of the first part, DeLorean drives without a number, and only after returning from 2015, a barcode number appears on it.
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Outside in 2015. It's time to master the sports almanac 1950-2000 and get rich! So Marty thought in the second part of the film "Back to the Future", and after him the harmful Biff. We will not remind you of the whole twisted plot, deftly played with time travel, we simply invite you to become the owner of the Grace Sports Almanac.
Curious fact: Biff from 2015 gives himself a sports almanac in 1955. Glancing at him, he ironically says, "Florida will win the 1997 Baseball World Cup, of course." The film was released in 1989. Eight years later, Florida's team, the Florida Marlins, did win the World Cup. The most interesting thing is that in 1989 Florida did not have its own baseball team at all, and the Florida Marlins did not exist yet!
Product details "Sports Almanac Grace 1950-2000"
- Quality replica sports almanac Grace 1950-2000
- Contains real main sports results of matches in basketball, football, boxing, horse racing etc.
- The Almanac comes in a dust jacket
- Attached is a check from the Blast From store. The Past” (“Hello from the past”), which Marty received when buying an almanac
- Size: 22cm x 15cm
