“In 1985, Back To The Future sent 17-year-old Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) hurtling 30 years into th
“In 1985, Back To The Future sent 17-year-old Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) hurtling 30 years into the past to the year 1955 and, in the film’s final moments, 30 years into the future to the year 2015. For writer-director Robert Zemeckis and his writing partner Bob Gale, the years were likely just a matter of math needed to make the plot work. For 17-year-old Marty to meet his middle-aged parents when they were his age, he’d have to land in 1955. Ditto the leap to 2015 made by Marty, his scientist pal Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), and Marty’s girlfriend Jennifer (played here by the soon-to-vanish Claudia Wells and in the sequels by Elizabeth Shue). Yet staring down those years from the perspective of the 2015—the real one, without the hoverboards and flying cars—the years seem to take on an added significance. We’re as distant in time from 1985 as 1985 was from 1955 (and connected to the tacky 2015 of Back To The Future Part II mostly by videoconferencing and widescreen televisions). Yet, thanks to movies and memory, the past seems as close at hand as it does impossible to reach—and impossible to change.”Our Movie Of The Week discussion of Back To The Future kicks off with Keith Phipps’ Keynote essay on how the film bends time, but never breaks it, then continues in the Forum discussion on the film’s big legacy and small moments. Join in! -- source link
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