The editing and writing of this essay really pays justice to the film. Amazing timing. And my god, what a masterpiece of a film. It's not that it's better because it was difficult to make, it's that it's great because of the sheer belief the makers had helping them see the project through, their sincere passion for the story. Faced with all kinds of obstacles from the major to the downright petty, they just course-corrected and marched on. Truly inspiring.
The "masterpiece" is largely in the detail they gave to it... Not only all the little references to itself all along the way but outstanding continuity. Silly things like the "Lone Pine Mall" joke or addressing the intricacies of time travel so the entire thing makes sense with itself... This certainly isn't matched by anything today comes up with (I'm not even sure what anyone is thinking anymore but that's another story)... It made a lot of what was made *ever* pale in comparison. They simply can't make them like this anymore. Pretty high bar to reach.
I can't believe that the clocktower and lightning bolt were a late script addition due to budget cuts. The clocktower is so iconic and feels central to the film's identity, it's hard to imagine things without it.
And how that worked with the time travel thing. I Really thought that was a central part of the film that they knew when the lightning would strike and the rest of the film was worked around it. -Fantastic Bob Ross 'Happy little accident'
@@perfectsplit5515 "What the hell is a jigowatt?? (maybe that's the joke, it's supposed to be "gigawatt"; perhaps Doc says "jigowatt" and Marty knows this is wrong and hence his question "what the hell is a Jigowatt?" - just a theory.
“BTTF as a comfort food”, is something I never thought of. But it’s perfect. The movie is charming, funny, uplifting, and just a fun ride. They really don’t make movies like this anymore.
Movies like this? Name one other. This is truly the best film ever. Only one other movie I can watch multiple times is "Hot Fuzz", but still it's on a different level
While Fox was an essential ingredient, you couldn't imagine anyone else playing Marty, Christopher Lloyd was even more essential, absolutely smashed it as Doc Brown
I loved Lloyd from the TAXI days. I saw him in Santa Barbara on roller blades in 2001. I said "Hey!" He responded with a much better "HEYYY!!!", then carved a turn into a skate park, did some crazy tricks to delight the teenagers there, then skated back out and kept going down the beach. Great moment.
I think you left out one big point Christopher Lloyd this guy held this movie together from beginning to end, he was the perfect actor for that role and still is today Christopher Lloyd is amazing and needs to be recognized.
And to think he first hesitated playing the role. This is the role he will always be remembered for. He was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and he was also in Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but if you'd ask anyone what Christopher Lloyd's most famous role is, most people would think of Doc Brown.
One of the great things about "Back to the Future" is that Marty (Michael J. Fox) always looks like he just jumped out of bed having slept in his clothes and is slightly bewildered to find himself awake. Like, "What's on for today? - I haven't had my coffee yet." Of course, one WOULD feel bewildered a lot of the time with a friend like Doc. Then to find out, in reality, Michael J. Fox had literally just jumped out of bed - a mattress in.a station wagon - having slept in his clothes and had to have felt bewildered much of the time during the filming of "Back to the Future" because he was ALSO filming "Family Ties" - one production in the daytime, the other in the evening! He was getting maybe 4 hours sleep on this grueling schedule. His grueling schedule helped create the character of Marty.
@@whatagreatnameaye1169 I'm not making any definitive statements here, but it's worth investigating. I'm speculating here but if it was involved I'd say he already had the genes/predisposition to develop it and that the BTTF shooting schedule hastened it's onset.
It cannot be overstated how much Silvestri's score played a role in the success of this movie. The script was great on its own, but just imagine that final clock tower sequence _without_ the iconic score.
It's my favorite part of the movie. Doc and Marty are finally going to send the DeLorean back. They're entering dangerous territory with one shot, but Doc knows this will work. The reprise of the main theme then kicks in.
There's a great story about the Marx Brothers responding to a cease and desist order from the producers of Casablanca, while they were making A Night In Casablanca, because the names were similar. The studio for Casablanca was Warner Brothers, so Groucho wrote back that if they can't use the name Casablanca, Warner Brothers can't use "Brothers," because the Marx Brothers owned it first.
Watching the clips of Eric Stoltz in those iconic scenes made me feel like I was in a parallel universe for a moment. Excellent piece and very informative.
I honestly teared up a little hearing about the audience reaction at 17:30. Making things is hard. Making complex things with lots of people is really hard. Making art under these pressures is almost impossible. For it to succeed and be a smashing success is a symphony of chaos, it's lightening in a bottle.
I just watched the Siskel and Ebert review where they praise the movie as the years best. And Siskel says "it's a movie with such a great screenplay and premise you could literally take the worst director and the worst cast from that directors terrible film (I forget which one) and it would still come out good." Apparently not... a movie with Eric Stoltz probably still would have been... decent... but not timeless.
I feel very empathic toward Michael, his career could have gone so much farther than it did if it weren’t for Parkinson’s. Although the Michael J Fox foundation is doing wonderful things, it’s still very sad. Such a talented actor.
Broke my heart at the end of Season 4 of Spin City. For those who never watch Spin City…find it and watch it. Those 4 seasons are just masterpiece and Michael J Fox just killed it.
Creativity was so high in the late 70s and 80s blockbusters. This one really stood out. Its a main stream picture but crafted with so much care and nuance. It's so cool they stuck to their guns and went for mj fox. He managed to portray a complex teenager, full of energy and a bit of a cool dude. However, also sometimes awkward shy, insecure and when buttons pushed hot headed.
Marty was never insecure or shy. He was only really awkward when it came to dealing with his parents in the past (particularly his mom), which is more than normal/understandable, because who wouldn’t be?!
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 He was insecure - there is a whole subplot about how Marty fears rejection in context of his music, mirrored by fear of his father that his sci-fi stories would be laughed at.
I remember walking out of the theatre with several friends, not realizing many other friends had been in the theatre as well.... We all literally walked outside on that sunny hot July day in 1985 and went nuts talking about how absolutely fabulous Back to the Future was......It is a memory I've never forgotten, literally the experience about seeing THIS movie....!
It's kind of ironic that slashing the budget led to a final act sequence far better than what would have been made if the money had stayed on the table.
Scriptwriters can go overboard because they're not limited by anything but their imagination. Actual budgets force practicality and for the director to be a little more choosy about what they put on screen. Think about what Ghostbusters was when Dan Aykroyd wrote it(time and space travel in addition to the actual ghost-busting) and what it became because the concept was way too expensive.
It’s the cutthroat kitchen analogy: when you’re unhindered, you instinctively go overboard to compensate and everything else suffers, limitation breeds creativity. It’s also why early Nintendo video games were far more innovative and creative than they are today.
@@Underestimated37 I disagree with the video games comment, but agree with the limitations comment. Larry David said that Seinfeld was such a success because of the censorship and how they had to creatively get around it. IMO Seinfeld is way better than Curb for this reason.
@@billS-c3n the video games thing isn’t opinion, it’s consensus from the community at large. Limiting the hardware forced the developers to become intensely creative, another great example is crash bandicoot 1; Naughty Dog literally had to delete chunks of the core OS libraries and invent an early form of data streaming in order to squeeze the game into RAM
Every single time I rewatch BTTF it just gets better and better. It isn't lightning in a bottle, it's the whole thunderstorm. Easily one of the best filmes of all time, the ultimate crowd pleaser.
There is just a maticulousness to movies made in the 80s and 90s that just made them endlessly rewatchable classics. Even tons of cult classics that flopped in cinemas but got big on VHS and DVD. These kinds of movies almost don't seem to exist anymore. Cinema just seems so disposable now.
I agree I still get nervous that Marty wont make it back to 1985 and over seen thisovie literally like 50 times!! I was 10 when it came out so I seen it at the movie theater which was amazing. My gram took me 3 times to the movies to watch it. They should rerelease it so younger folks can enjoy it on the big screen
“Endlessly watchable bite of comfort food” is the most apt description for this movie and perfectly explains why it’s my all time favorite. I never tire of watching it, and it was always my go-to movie when I just wasn’t in the mood for anything else.
George isn't happy just because he's rich, he's rich because he has the thing that makes him happy and that was all he was missing to be financially secure: self-confidence. At least, that's what I got from the final cut of the film as released.
He wasn't even that rich, still lived in the same house, just had enough that they went from struggling to comfortable. The fact that Glover argued this makes me think either he's never really struggled or he doesn't understand the difference.
It's funny to think that Spielberg included that scene as an homage to the original BTTF ending, but in reality I think the producer of this video just used it a semi-joke to bridge Spielbergs' connection to both franchises. I highly doubt the director did that intentionally.
I'm glad they went with the clock tower scene because when i saw the atomic bomb/refrigerator scene in the beginning of Indiana Jones is when i turned it off.
When the script changed the time machine to be a car instead of a fridge Ford was actually in talks with the producers about having a car of their brand picked for the movie. The producers told Zemeckis that if he agreed to the Ford deal they'd be able to add roughly 5 million dollars to the budget. However Zemeckis was adamant that "Doc Brown doesn't drive no fucking Ford" and insisted on DeLorean.
@@dbsti3006 You mean the Shelby GT40 MKII? Yeah, that would have been cool. But Ford cars of the '80s were anything but cool. Are you telling me... that you made a time machine... out of a Fiesta? I, figure, if you're going to the past... why not do it on a single gallon of gas.
This is more than a perfect movie. It changed my life. I was brought up in a continuous atmosphere of little encouragement and grudging praise in a poor part of the UK. Bullied at school and then in a dead-end first job, I WAS George (though I didn't recognise that at the time) and so wanted to be Marty (despite being four years older). Encouraged by the message that you are in charge of your own destiny, I got a new job and started to work my balls off, all the time subsconsciously working to George's statement that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it. In four years, I got four good promotions, moved to a far better part of the UK, made lifetime wonderful friends, and carried on maximising my financial opportunities. I retired three years ago at 54, never have to work again, live a life of comfortable pleasure and have never looked back. I owe this movie a lot. It was a better teacher and mentor than any human I personally ever met.
Sorry mate. Don’t want to be be a stickler but I am fairly certain the sentence “ you are in charge of your destiny” is spelled wrong. It’s “density” you bell-end!
I had a paper route in 1985. I spent just about every dollar I made going to rewatch this movie in the theaters at least 17 times. Most of the time I went by myself.
I've probably seen that movie more than any other movie. Hundreds of times, it really is how you described it. Perfect, and comforting, it takes me back to my childhood.
There are plenty of plotholes, like how Doc and Marty retain memories of all the timelines, but no one else does. You could call this an observer effect, but then why when old Biff changes the world for 1985 in BTTF2 do Doc and Marty not immediately become different people, they should no longer know a life that isn't the new one they had to live in in the new timeline. It's a pothole, but the movie really wouldn't work otherwise.
@@c4kefrosty862Because the REAL Doc and Marty were in the wrong place. They shouldn’t have been in alternate 1985. They remember what others don’t because they were in the time machine.
BTTF is one of my favourite films of all time, but I always wonder, how did the Libyans figure out that Doc Brown was at the Twin Pines mall on that fateful night?
@@MainlineThruTheRockies They drove around randomly with their headlights off, then when they reach line of sight to Doc, then they turn them on. Makes sense!
I had the unbelievable honor of meeting the cast and some crew on location in Puente Hills, Ca while they filmed the Twin Pines Mall scenes. In the background you can see an old Robinsons department store and on the second floor of that store was a restaurant that catered the cast and crew during their breaks. My mom of the manager of restaurant. We would stay late into the night watching them film from the windows.
My grandma has lived in La Puente since the 60s and as a kid growing up I remember thinking how cool it was that they filmed those scenes at the Puente Hills mall, I would always think of it whenever we stopped by for Krispy Kreme haha ❤️
Everything worked out how it was meant to be. Can anyone imagine if they were given the green light in 81 or another studio decided to make this film before it was made?
If it had been made in 81, it would have starred Gary Coleman! (While he continued to work on Different Strokes.). “What chu talkin bout, Doc?!” It would have been ... adorable. “I think my mom just pinched my cheeks!” And Crispin would have definitely tried to do the role in blackface.
With the fridge and nuclear explosion too! Where they nuke the clock tower and destroy hill valley, 1955 to get back. Wait, this can tie in with the terminator movie hishe.
Lea Thompson’s words about Stoltz saying “it’s a tragedy” reminded me of a similar experience that I had in a screenwriting course when I was in film school. I wrote two pages of comedy. We had to give it to other students to present to the class. Of course the students, as actors, played it very, very seriously. And I couldn’t say a word. At the time, it was aggravating. But in retrospect... hilarious.
@@user-uy1rg8td1v I _agree. with you. I like to see all the Stoltz footage they shot. Please see my Comment and other Comment I made in response about Stotz acting like he went back in Time to see his Parents.
One thing that I never see mentioned is because the movie released in July 1985, all of the 1985 scenes were technically in the "future" as they took place in October 1985...
Now that I never considered, that there are zero allusions to Halloween. It's not that strange I guess, but you'd think maybe it would have at least been a theme for the dance Marty auditioned for or something.
13:35 it such a perfect time to hear the theme right when Michael J. Fox tells his story about the script and accepted the part. I literally teared up.
I really don't get how Glover could miss the message of that movie. It wasn't subtle. The point wasn't that money=happiness, it's that following your dreams=happiness. The wealth was just a happy side effect.
It's not like he became ridiculously rich either. At the end they're not in a mansion, they're in the same house with a happier marriage and a bit more class; his mom no longer has a drinking problem; his brother has a better job; his sister has a date. Also, it's ironic that he complained because his character has a LITTLE bit more money when he was demanding more money for the second film which is why he got fired from the second one. Didn't want his character to be "greedy" even though HE'S greedy in real life?
Goes for pretty much any film featured on this show. I find it very inspiring from a creative standpoint. When struggling and things aren’t going well.. it doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t end up being something fantastic if you have the right intentions
21:24 ok i watched this whole video and it was good and informative but the end when he said universal was going to make a sequal with or without them and it ends with doc saying great scott. That was priceless.
I remember how in 2015 young people who had been born AFTER the 1985 movie were going wild about its 30th anniversary. Now that´s what I call a movie with a legacy !
That highkey was one of the best days I've ever had! I was born in 98, my Dad introduced me to Back to the Future when I was a Kid and it's been my absolute favorite movie (trilogy) ever since. October 21st 2015 our local cinema, like probably so many other, had a BttF Event where they showed all three movies back to back to back. There were only limited tickets and I desperately wanted to go. My birthday is October 28 so my Dad surprised me with an early birthday present and two tickets for the event. We had an absolute blast that night! Popcorn and Drinks were all you can eat/drink, and I still have that epic plastic hoverboard every visitor got for free. You won't believe how many Martys and Docs there were! I went in my Marty Halloween costume myself. It was so fun! :D
@@TheMarslMcFly I can’t imagine sitting in a movie theater seat through three whole movies in a row lol. Hopefully they were at least the kind of seats that recline far back hehe.
@@TheMarslMcFly Ah, ok cool. Still, what a long time, eh? Haha. Any idea how much the event cost? Just curious. All you can eat plus a fake hoverboard and limited tickets sounds like it wasn’t a cheap event by any means. You have a great dad! ;)
I never knew they got bribed into making the sequel. You can tell the second one is them trying there hardest to do something creative with the sequel and they succeeded. I can't think of many sequels that are better than the original if it's a classic but they definitely managed to make something original and different.
@@countluke2334 There's another story about the sequels. Apparently, when the movie was shown on cable(!) it had a "To Be Continued" logo right before the credits roll. It caught everyone off guard because the ending was a final gag in the script. (This was somewhere on one of the early documentaries, maybe even the VHS box set.)
Never knew such an iconic movie had this turbulent of a history. Despite the process, the result is perfect and I'll always have most lines memorized, especially the original
@@longebane I gotta be honest, i also rewatched it recently, and I had some nostalgia goggles on, but I watched it with a friend that NEVER watched before. They still liked it a lot, and we're planning on watching the 2nd. And since i find the 2nd one very satisfying in how everything fits together, I totally disagree. I think the 3rd one is more bizarre and worse, but when thinking about how bizarre it is, it makes it funny again, which fits the tone of these movies. So my opinion is definitely mixed. I love the first movie for being something smart that is so very different but still works extremely well, I love the 2nd one for it's complexity (and i just find it interesting how people from the 1980-1990 envisioned today), and I like the 3rd movie for how bizarre and dumb it is. How said, I will be watching these with my friend that has no idea of BTTF, and i definitely want to know his opinion as well. But those are just my thoughts
Ian, you are a master editor. This piece is so good. Using scenes from the movie to support your commentary was brilliant. Spot on. I knew all the facts you conveyed, but I really enjoyed how you put this together. Your VO was well written and perfectly executed as well. I am a film maker and voice actor as well, and I am so impressed with your work on this. Thank you for your attention to detail while telling a story about a film, and it's sequels that will on in my life as my absolute heart-felt favorites. Alongside Star Wars and It's a Wonderful Life, BTTF is comfort food beyond reproach. THANK YOU!
Very impressed with your editing and tying shot selections in with the narration (eg Biff entering the room and coming to his seat and showing the gun when you say "The Bobb's walked into Scheinberg's office... and... made it explicitly clear" and that's just one example! You've clearly gone the extra mile. Well done!
The editing was fantastic. I actually forgot this was a RUclips video for a moment. It felt like an official documentary with a budget to pull from all sorts of media. 👌
So glad you interviewed Michael J. Fox, it was so good to see and hear him again. I loved Family Ties, thought it was the best TV show ever and I loved all of the Back to the Future movies. You're still loved, Michael, regardless of what life handed you.
I really wish some people would get over slamming Indy 4. Yeah it's not a masterpiece but if that 5th film is real bad, the indiana Jones will find themselves in the same spots as Star Wars fans from the letdown of the sequel trilogy.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral what does 5 sucking have to do with people hating 4. also people are overreacting over 5 its in good hands dude knows what hes doing
@@deanjustdean7818 it’s funny, I didn’t feel that about the last crusade, it’s my favorite Indy tied with raiders, I felt that ford and connery, played great off each other
It's a miracle when any film gets made. So many elements have to gel. It requires an alignment of the planets. Anyone who doubts the importance of casting should watch this excellent video. Begs the question how many potentially classic movies never made it to the silver screen due to any one of those numerous elements not slotting into place?
So basically, not only is it sometimes considered a perfect _film,_ it's also a perfect _encapsulation_ of the kind of behind-the-scenes ingenuity filmmakers need to display in order to pull it off in-the-moment
It is more then 10 miracles that this movie exists, such as the 2 Bobs being given so many chances, restarting the movie halfway in, MJF’s filming schedule, and so many other things. But it was definitely worth it, for my favorite movie.
You *really* have to hand it to everyone involved in this project -- not only managing to pull the film out of the dumpster fire it was smoldering in, but turning it all around and releasing an end product that would become a timeless classic.
A perfect example how you get a great product when you let the creative ones do their work and give them obstacles to overcome, not when you force them to do what some exec or their market-study group thinks.
I'm happy that more and more people have learned that sequels are a good thing, if they are made with love, passion and talent. BTTF could stand on its own, but man oh man i'm i happy we got a full trilogy.
Stoltz is a great actor but this movie wouldn't have been the national treasure that it is if he finished it. Michael j fox embodied the role and it just worked perfectly. His chemistry with Loyd was perfect and made it all work.
I agree, it's not that he wasn't right for the movie. The movie wasn't right for him and they should have known that from the beginning. He's not a comedic actor.
And we already knew and liked MJF. He was on television as the smart, but clumsy teenager, in a family show. His character basically transferred right into this movie. I did not know who Stoltz was until Some Kind of Wonderful years later.
@@richardday3136 Totally, and that's the irony of it all. He was the straight guy but it was his reactions & "working off" Christopher Lloyd that brought humor to the movie. Those two were the perfect comedic duo, like Abbott and Costello. It's almost like "Abbott and Costello do Time Travel"
I put this on for my 10 year old son and nephew last weekend they had no idea what it was other than an old movie from my days lol they loved it! All the little easter eggs I pointed out and even a couple they pointed out to me that I never noticed they told me it's better then the last spiderman movie I was surprised as much as they were how much they enjoyed it .timeless masterpiece and absolute classic
@@cattysplat i love it when they have a clash of 50s and 80s but they do it in a good way and i appreciate this film more than any other film i have seen hell even this film beats endgame
Michael j fox nailed it! he made back to the future into a thriller, sure his portrayal wasn't dead serious and his characters clumsiness came off as genuine and absolutely relatable. I didn't know the movie was meant to be a comedy for me as a kid the scene with him stumbling on the road side in the past was actually distressing, as it showed the character was in peril.
The performance in time with the music really brings the fantasy alive, everything is the same for his hometown, but disturbingly foreign. This isn't just the 1950s, this is the literal past and it's very, very wrong for him to be there.
It is perfect. A rare perfect Gem. (Ok, It's strange that Lorraine & George don't realize their future son looks exactly like the person who brought them together.... But aside from that - PERFECT.)
The only movie I can think of with a similarly incredible fight between producer and director was the Wizard of Oz, which had the producers trying to cut parts of the film like the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but the director was fighting to keep it in, and winning. And that song ended up being one of the greatest movie songs of all time. Wait, I think I have an even better comparison - when the cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" was being made, they had to create it against the express orders from the producer. They had to hide the real script because the producers objected to it. After it was released, it won an Oscar. So the producers were wrong. I remember one other story: John Cleese's comedy "Fawlty Towers" was rejected by the BBC as being unfunny. Cleese framed the rejection letter because history looks kindly on that show as one of the funniest, if not the funniest, in TV history. And I see parallels between those stories and BTTF's rejection.
Probably not as intense an example as what you mentioned, but I recall hearing about how Gene Wilder was extremely adamant about keeping the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene in Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks didn't think it would work, but after seeing how Gene wouldn't give up on it, he appeased him by saying they'd do it and if it worked, they'd keep it, and if it didn't work, they'd scrap it. On the day of filming, it only took Mel one look at the whole crew stifling their laughter to let him know Gene's scene was gold. They bickered quite a bit while making that movie, probably the only dark spot in what was otherwise an ideal production, one so good they were writing new scenes to film because they were having so much fun.
Also the Robocop producers didn't see a point on the scene of him returning home, but Verhoeven insisted on the "paradise lost" theme it evoqued so finally got his way and filmed it. As a little kid even I got goosebumps although I didn't fully understand its significance, today I think it's the most defining scene of the "who am I?" machine-human dilemma in the movie.
16:24 Crispin Glover is so wrong about the end of Back to the Future. George isn’t happy at the end because of wealth…he is happy because he found his confidence and was able conquer and gain the life he was capable of achieving.
I’ve absolutely loved these movies since I was a kid, now as a guy in his 30’s I watch the entire trilogy on UHD Blu-Ray once a year. Absolutely brilliant movies
I can absolutely relate to Eric Stoltz's moribund take on the character, and I'd love to see his version in entirety, especially now that we know we actually live in the dark timeline from the sequel. Crispin Glover was also brilliant. Cannot believe they cast a lookalike in the sequel.
I'm impressed they were able to find time for him to do shoots that have daylight in them, if he was indeed (typically) working on BttF from 7pm to 4am! Clearly his handlers gave him to The Bobs for a few daylight hours but wow.
I'm a big fan of Crispin Glover. He has a unique personality that can be difficult to direct, but he shines on screen. His writing and directing is odd, but interesting as well. Dark.
100% agree. I remember seeing a memorable film with Mr. Glover in it along with a few other now familiar faces - "River's Edge". I think I know where the idea for "Twin Peaks" came from...
And I do agree with his argument at regarding the altered timeline at the end of the first Back To The Future movie, why their lives shouldn’t be better merely because they have nice things. Sadly, that got him booted from the sequel.
With respect to Glover, I've never thought them having money at the end equated to their happiness. I always thought the fact that George had alot more self esteem allowed him to live a life he wanted, all because he puched out Biff. In my eyes it had nothing to do with money, everything to do with confidence
The original opening for the film actually started with Marty in school and his class watching a 1955 film of a nuclear bomb test. Marty gets called to the office for a phone call from his "Doc" and gets detention when Principle Strickland finds out it's a personal call. Marty breaks out of detention with a very contrived way of setting off the fire alarm and sprinklers so he can get to his band audition and the rest of the film plays out roughly the same until Marty tells Doc about the bomb footage and SOMEHOW remembers the date the film was made and they go to Nevada with the DeLorean to drive the car towards the blast with a collector rigged on it to power the time machine and then drive the can back from Nevada and...ummm have enough time to save the Doc? It was a weird ending and a weird opening. You can read the original opening to the film in the novelization by George Gipe. I rather enjoyed it just for a look at elements from the original screenplay. Interestingly enough, the version of Marty in the book really is an Eric Stoltz type and they even dressed him like the depiction in the book more or less.
@@gabebartlett9680 Same. I'm kinda intrigued by Stoltz's darker take on the story. I like the Marty that just rolls with it that Fox gave it in order to let the comedy play naturally, but the traumatizing nature of the way Stoltz looked at the material is very interesting.
@@straker454 Agreed! I really do feel like it would really be like that if it happened in real life. That’s what intrigues me about it Eric’s take. Also the fact it would be a different Marty as well, he wouldn’t be seen as nearly as much of a “wimp” though I’m not saying that it was a bad thing with Fox
I had one encounter with Crispin Glover. It was far more insane (and annoying) than I even imagined. Let’s just say the man can really bore the hell out of an audience for 5+ hours and not care that he is boring.
I'm actually convinced he has a form of autism. Going by some of these stories and I have experience with it. And I'm not the only person who thinks so. It's been brought up often enough that it is specifically addressed in the FAQs on an official website for people looking to get his autograph. It says he has never been diagnosed with autism. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have it. It Just means that he hasn't been tested, despite the question being raised. And the fact that so many people have wondered the same thing, says he probably should have had it checked.
crazy that it soon will be 40 years old. one of the best aged films in history imo. it's definitely one of the best movies and definitely one of the best trilogies of all times. i love the fact that there will be no remake of it as long as the Bob's are alive. great video, even had some new infos in it that I didn't know about yet.
I think it would be fascinating to see the Eric Stolz version of this film. I always thought it was so interesting how two different actors view the same script.
I agree, I think a slightly darker, less cartoony version of BTTF is a fascinating idea with some interesting implications in terms of theme and resonance. Maybe you miss out on a handful of the laughs, but I bet Stoltz had a certain dry comedic edge to him, too. Some bittersweetness in this mix could have worked well. It is a story with some pretty tragic things happening after all.
@@jeffreyroedel9804 except that we got our dark and edgy BttF with BttF...2. Complete with Biff becoming Donald Trump and on a course to rule the world. We didn't need this with #1; we got this with #2 and we loved it the more for it.
Stolz acted like a kid who really went back in time and met his parents as opposed to acting as if you are in a movie where you go back in time ti meet your parents
Showmanship - it’s a very movie kind of movie (the Hill Valley town square is such a quintessential movie set) and thus demands a film star kind of performance.
@@IvaN-cf7qt Zemeckis is an expert in one of the primary responsibilities a director has - tone management. That’s why in his gut he knew Stolz was wrong. _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ is probably his most accomplished work in balancing light and dark tones.
Stolz would be great as Marty McFly in the 2010's nitty gritty reboot (let's pray to that never happening BTW), not for the cheesy yet lovable 80's flicks we all love and cherish
It amazes me how often throughout film history, a film that turned into a classic nearly was a disaster, often due to studio and/or producer interference (The Godfather, anyone?), but was saved because at least one person fought hard for the film that it would turn out to be. That's to say nothing of the times when those films had a hard time getting made at all.
Back to the Future remains one of my favorite films of all time. As a Los Angeles resident, it means even more that some of the shooting locations are not far from me, and I pass them frequently, such as Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry, or Gamble House in Pasadena, used as Doc Brown's home and garage laboratory. I drove a friend from out of town to Gamble House recently without telling him where we were going, and he recognized it right away. Thanks for an informative video!
So Crispen Glover assumed the idea was "George is only happy because he's wealthy" But he missed the point. It's the opposite way round. George is only wealthy because he is confident.
I think all of you are being a bit unfair to him. its not easy for actors to see the directors vision of the finished product. thats why directors exist. He protested because he cared about the film and wanted the message to be on point. I doubt you would find that kind of passion in big name actors of the current time period...
@@toddhowarddd To be honest, I don't think films should have messages, in that sense anyway. Modern Hollywood has proven what happens when you're allowed to preach to the audience. I'm not having a go at Glover, but I do think he missed the point. I think the idea was more that George is more confident and therefore has seized opportunities where he didn't before and thus become more successful and wealthy.. I remember Bob Zemekis actually acknowledging that in heinsight the film can come across like it's saying "rich = happy" but that it wasn't intentional. The other thing about their feud is that on the sequel, there seemed to be what I think was actually a misunderstanding. Bob Gale said that Glover asked for too much money; as much as the main stars. But Glover says he didn't ask for that much. He says he did ask for more, but only about the same amount as some of the other supporting actors. Now, he claims that Gale is lying and Gale says that Glover was getting way over his head.. I believe that perhaps they both got their wires crossed but the issue is neither of them are willing to swallow their pride and admit that maybe there was a misunderstanding. Also there was a law suit but this was due to something they did in his absence. They used a mold of his face to make another actor look like him in the sequel, effectively using his likeness, but he didn't give permission. A settlement was made and it also lead to some new rules within the filmmakers guild.
@@1000000man1 I'll believe Bob Gale over Crispin Glover immediately. Glover has gone to an entire career that shows he's eccentric, wants to do oddball projects, is not interested in normal movies, and really wants to be non-conformist. All of that lends credence to the way Bob Gale tells the story. The way Bob tells it, you can infer that Crispin simply had no interest in nor intention to do part II. Since he had no interest anyway, no harm in making a bunch of outrageous, unreasonable demands that he knew they would never grant, like four times the offered salary, top billing, personal limo, whatever. Crispin, on the other hand, is an obvious outlandish personality, it would be no surprise to think of him as exaggerating the story, twisting it for his own purposes, or just outright lying. Crispin did not know ahead of time that part II, and the entire series, would enjoy the legendary status that it has attained, making his pass on the role look foolish in retrospect. Not hard to imagine he would want to rewrite that foolishness.
I'm glad you finished it that way. For whatever reason on the Blu Ray copies I have of the trilogy the "to be continued" and "to be concluded" are edited out. When watching them on VHS when I was a kid I always used to get excited to put in the next one when I read that bit at the end.
Should go and find the trilogy cut somewhere, I know people somewhere edited the three movies together into one big movie. It's perfect, well except for Shue and Marty getting bigger when he opens the garage door but you can pipe that up to time travel messing with the timeline a bit and it taking a moment to catch up?
A brilliant movie as a 80’s kid to watch and every kid these days should watch it because it’ll never grow OUTATIME...🔮 I’m currently 48 and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 46 but specialists say I’ve had it slowly progressing since I was in my early 30’s, so I know what Michael J Fox is going through and been through in a way⚡️💫
I’m sad they had so many problems with Crispin, I loved his performance it’s too bad he apparently difficult to work with. I’ll still always be sad he wasn’t in the sequels
Kind of a one sided description of what happened though, Crispin's critiques of the script were pretty valid IMO, McFly's even had black servants once they got rich. I guess they agreed with that part of his critique since that got removed. Bob Gale has went out of his way to talk shit about Crispin ever since.
@@VakieF1 I agree with removing the black servants for other reasons, but the message of the movie wasn't "money brings happiness"; it was "self-confidence brings success."
@@troodon1096 And of all people to preach against money bringing happiness, a semi-famous actor who wanted to be paid as much as the star of the most successful movie of the year. I don't know how well-off Glover is but I can't imagine he's exactly poor.
My all time favorite movie! Thank you for this wonderful video. Also, just wanted to mention that Lea Thompson is the nicest lady. I met her on a flight and told her how big a fan I was and she was so sweet and humble. Lovely lady!
Sucks that they had to struggle with it so much, but it's hard to imagine the movie turning out to be this great if they had it much easier. I hope in the end they felt like it was worth it. Was deifnitely worth it for the viewers, I watched the trilogy like 30-40 times just during my childhood!
And the family wasn't really wealthy. They had enough bucks to remodel their old house and buy a Toyota pickup, a BMW & make old "Make like a tree and get out of here" as their servant. They did have confidence, though. Mom's little brother was probably still in prison.
Hm maybe it's the American angle, but that was really the ONE thing everyone criticizes about the movie here (in Germany) - that "money makes everything alright" trope. But interesting to see how different perception on this can be. (Plus, it's any 80s movie after all...)
I first watched BTTF new years eve 1985 , i was 16 at the time. Never knowing, or even thinking that a life long love affair with a trilogy would be born . The amount of times I've watched them is easily into four figures . It's unreal to see what went on behind the scenes before this even started filming let alone during . Thank you uploader for this very entertaining blast from the past 👏 much appreciated 👍
@@Supersquigi yeah man! He must be full of shit. I mean come on who could have watched a trilogy of movies (combined) over a 37 year period . Well over FOUR figures....FOUR FIGURES start at 1000 btw........how unbelievable and full of shit does someone have to be to claim they've actually done that ? 👊
@@Supersquigi I agree. The writing is 'modern young', not a nearly 50 y/o person. Unaware of their own ignorance of how culture's changed since 1985 - making them different from an older generation, in expressing themselves. But who knows? Maybe they're just shallow enough to follow every trend ever. 😉
This channel is a gem. This is my second video, and I don't think I'll be able to stop (nor that I want to either, lol). I'm surprised this channel is not a mega-channel. Hopefully, it'll get there. This is way too good.
Great editing in BTTF. The spliced-together Stoltz scenes and Fox scenes are seamless. Compare that to Superman 2 where the tone shifts are jarring. But that movie had several years between the original shots and the reshoots.
Everyone complaining about Glover's take on the ending keep forgetting he was talking about the original ending, where the Family is rich to the point they have mansions and black maids.
Watching this and a tear came to my eye. This was the best movie I've ever seen in my life. I'm 46 and it meant so much then as a kid as it does now. There's not one flaw in this movie. You can watch it as a kid or adult. It takes you on highs and lows and that is what movies should truly be. An experience. An experience that hits you and never let's go. That is this movie summed up.
@@DirtySanchez943 sorry for your loss. Please try to dwell on the good times my friend. She left an impact on you and cherish those good times. Hopefully when it came out yall watched it together and enjoyed it.
She gave her all 4 my sister and Me. 100% selfless and was "rewarded" by getting I'll and dying before her time. My heart 💔 breax but life must go on 4 the living...
I’ve watched nearly every video about BTTF however yours was truly the best. I thought I knew everything about BTTF but you managed to surprise me with new info. And the ending montage was such a beautiful conclusion.
The editing and writing of this essay really pays justice to the film. Amazing timing.
And my god, what a masterpiece of a film. It's not that it's better because it was difficult to make, it's that it's great because of the sheer belief the makers had helping them see the project through, their sincere passion for the story. Faced with all kinds of obstacles from the major to the downright petty, they just course-corrected and marched on. Truly inspiring.
The difficulties were fate.
The "masterpiece" is largely in the detail they gave to it... Not only all the little references to itself all along the way but outstanding continuity.
Silly things like the "Lone Pine Mall" joke or addressing the intricacies of time travel so the entire thing makes sense with itself...
This certainly isn't matched by anything today comes up with (I'm not even sure what anyone is thinking anymore but that's another story)... It made a lot of what was made *ever* pale in comparison.
They simply can't make them like this anymore. Pretty high bar to reach.
GREAT SCOTT
@@dominichowell6896😊
It was a success also thanks to Michael J Fox.😂👍🏾
I can't believe that the clocktower and lightning bolt were a late script addition due to budget cuts. The clocktower is so iconic and feels central to the film's identity, it's hard to imagine things without it.
One-point-twenty-one gigawatts! Great Scott!
And how that worked with the time travel thing. I Really thought that was a central part of the film that they knew when the lightning would strike and the rest of the film was worked around it.
-Fantastic Bob Ross 'Happy little accident'
Pure serendipity!
@@perfectsplit5515 "What the hell is a jigowatt?? (maybe that's the joke, it's supposed to be "gigawatt"; perhaps Doc says "jigowatt" and Marty knows this is wrong and hence his question "what the hell is a Jigowatt?" - just a theory.
what was the alternative - spend most of the movie trying to break into a nuclear power station to steal - er sorry, "borrow" - some plutonium?
“BTTF as a comfort food”, is something I never thought of. But it’s perfect. The movie is charming, funny, uplifting, and just a fun ride. They really don’t make movies like this anymore.
Right-you know EXACTLY where it's going, but you enjoy the ride getting there
BTTF & Groundhog Day 💜
Movies like this? Name one other. This is truly the best film ever.
Only one other movie I can watch multiple times is "Hot Fuzz", but still it's on a different level
@@owlNolan The Mitchells vs The Machines is pretty good in this regard too.
Seems pretty a pretty stretched metaphor.
While Fox was an essential ingredient, you couldn't imagine anyone else playing Marty, Christopher Lloyd was even more essential, absolutely smashed it as Doc Brown
So true in everything you said
I loved Lloyd from the TAXI days. I saw him in Santa Barbara on roller blades in 2001. I said "Hey!" He responded with a much better "HEYYY!!!", then carved a turn into a skate park, did some crazy tricks to delight the teenagers there, then skated back out and kept going down the beach. Great moment.
Michael j fox beat show is not here
It’s on Frighteners
Lloyd and fox are best
Fox best show not on this film but Frighteners
Even his then-Wife convinced him to be Doc Brown!!
I think you left out one big point
Christopher Lloyd
this guy held this movie together from beginning to end, he was the perfect actor for that role and still is today
Christopher Lloyd is amazing and needs to be recognized.
Absolutely! The Doc-Marty combo is pure bliss, and MAKES the film.
And to think he first hesitated playing the role. This is the role he will always be remembered for. He was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and he was also in Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but if you'd ask anyone what Christopher Lloyd's most famous role is, most people would think of Doc Brown.
agreed - btw, did you know that Lloyd's grandfather founded Texaco and he lived at Waveny?
@@rikuruohomaki3230 Don't forget Reverend Jim!
@@rikuruohomaki3230 don't forget his iconic role in Food fight!
One of the great things about "Back to the Future" is that Marty (Michael J. Fox) always looks like he just jumped out of bed having slept in his clothes and is slightly bewildered to find himself awake. Like, "What's on for today? - I haven't had my coffee yet." Of course, one WOULD feel bewildered a lot of the time with a friend like Doc. Then to find out, in reality, Michael J. Fox had literally just jumped out of bed - a mattress in.a station wagon - having slept in his clothes and had to have felt bewildered much of the time during the filming of "Back to the Future" because he was ALSO filming "Family Ties" - one production in the daytime, the other in the evening! He was getting maybe 4 hours sleep on this grueling schedule.
His grueling schedule helped create the character of Marty.
he was also 23 years old at the time... you can only get away with that when you're young
@@sizlax he looks pretty damn good for a guy who's pushing 60 and been living with Parkinsons disease for half his life.
That lack of sleep for 6-8 weeks straight probably played it's part in him developing parkinsons at such a young age.
@@Lord_Thistlewick_Flanders you're saying temporary sleep deprivation can cause Parkinsons?
@@whatagreatnameaye1169 I'm not making any definitive statements here, but it's worth investigating.
I'm speculating here but if it was involved I'd say he already had the genes/predisposition to develop it and that the BTTF shooting schedule hastened it's onset.
It cannot be overstated how much Silvestri's score played a role in the success of this movie. The script was great on its own, but just imagine that final clock tower sequence _without_ the iconic score.
The INTRADA two CD release has the whole alternate score for a bit more serious tone. Love it!
I think that's part of why modern movies aren't as good. Everything has gone down hill even the music!
@@Drak976 Agreed. They got no heart anymore.
It's my favorite part of the movie. Doc and Marty are finally going to send the DeLorean back. They're entering dangerous territory with one shot, but Doc knows this will work. The reprise of the main theme then kicks in.
This!
Spielberg’s response to the request for a title change was absolutely brilliant.
There's a great story about the Marx Brothers responding to a cease and desist order from the producers of Casablanca, while they were making A Night In Casablanca, because the names were similar. The studio for Casablanca was Warner Brothers, so Groucho wrote back that if they can't use the name Casablanca, Warner Brothers can't use "Brothers," because the Marx Brothers owned it first.
@@playerpage Perfect.
*Spillburg
@@KurtRichterCISSP *Iceberg
Titanic
Watching the clips of Eric Stoltz in those iconic scenes made me feel like I was in a parallel universe for a moment. Excellent piece and very informative.
Oddly enough, I'd love to see what kinda of movie BTTF would have been, if Eric stayed, and the nuke scene would have happened.
@@VonArmagedda same
Mandela effect
There is even an episode in a tv show about alternate timelines where Eric Stolz played Marty MacFly and never left the set.
@@Kalle0490
What tv show?
I honestly teared up a little hearing about the audience reaction at 17:30. Making things is hard. Making complex things with lots of people is really hard. Making art under these pressures is almost impossible. For it to succeed and be a smashing success is a symphony of chaos, it's lightening in a bottle.
I just watched the Siskel and Ebert review where they praise the movie as the years best.
And Siskel says "it's a movie with such a great screenplay and premise you could literally take the worst director and the worst cast from that directors terrible film (I forget which one) and it would still come out good."
Apparently not... a movie with Eric Stoltz probably still would have been... decent... but not timeless.
*lightning
Michael J was a lovable and sought-after actor. His devotion to his craft was also next level.
He's still alive, but definitely retired
@@WhereTheGustGoes before he got Parkinsons I should have said.
Agreed. Hes one of my all time favorite actors!
I feel very empathic toward Michael, his career could have gone so much farther than it did if it weren’t for Parkinson’s. Although the Michael J Fox foundation is doing wonderful things, it’s still very sad. Such a talented actor.
Broke my heart at the end of Season 4 of Spin City. For those who never watch Spin City…find it and watch it.
Those 4 seasons are just masterpiece and Michael J Fox just killed it.
Creativity was so high in the late 70s and 80s blockbusters. This one really stood out. Its a main stream picture but crafted with so much care and nuance. It's so cool they stuck to their guns and went for mj fox. He managed to portray a complex teenager, full of energy and a bit of a cool dude. However, also sometimes awkward shy, insecure and when buttons pushed hot headed.
Marty was never insecure or shy. He was only really awkward when it came to dealing with his parents in the past (particularly his mom), which is more than normal/understandable, because who wouldn’t be?!
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 yeah your right I got that wrong. I guess what I meant was he showed some vulnerability even though he was confident.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 He was insecure - there is a whole subplot about how Marty fears rejection in context of his music, mirrored by fear of his father that his sci-fi stories would be laughed at.
That _high_ creativity in the 80s probably has to give a partial thanks to cocaine lol.
@@LilyoftheLake14 so true, it was pretty pure then
I remember walking out of the theatre with several friends, not realizing many other friends had been in the theatre as well.... We all literally walked outside on that sunny hot July day in 1985 and went nuts talking about how absolutely fabulous Back to the Future was......It is a memory I've never forgotten, literally the experience about seeing THIS movie....!
this is what I miss nowadays. Everyone's watching entirely different stuff, and you can barely find tv series/movies/games to talk about.
It's kind of ironic that slashing the budget led to a final act sequence far better than what would have been made if the money had stayed on the table.
Scriptwriters can go overboard because they're not limited by anything but their imagination. Actual budgets force practicality and for the director to be a little more choosy about what they put on screen. Think about what Ghostbusters was when Dan Aykroyd wrote it(time and space travel in addition to the actual ghost-busting) and what it became because the concept was way too expensive.
It’s the cutthroat kitchen analogy: when you’re unhindered, you instinctively go overboard to compensate and everything else suffers, limitation breeds creativity. It’s also why early Nintendo video games were far more innovative and creative than they are today.
Spontaneity is the key to creativity.
@@Underestimated37 I disagree with the video games comment, but agree with the limitations comment. Larry David said that Seinfeld was such a success because of the censorship and how they had to creatively get around it. IMO Seinfeld is way better than Curb for this reason.
@@billS-c3n the video games thing isn’t opinion, it’s consensus from the community at large. Limiting the hardware forced the developers to become intensely creative, another great example is crash bandicoot 1; Naughty Dog literally had to delete chunks of the core OS libraries and invent an early form of data streaming in order to squeeze the game into RAM
Every single time I rewatch BTTF it just gets better and better. It isn't lightning in a bottle, it's the whole thunderstorm. Easily one of the best filmes of all time, the ultimate crowd pleaser.
Agreed. Sometimes they'll run the whole trilogy and I'll sit down and watch all three back to back to back.
"Thunderstorm in a bottle" -- I'm stealing this!
There is just a maticulousness to movies made in the 80s and 90s that just made them endlessly rewatchable classics. Even tons of cult classics that flopped in cinemas but got big on VHS and DVD. These kinds of movies almost don't seem to exist anymore. Cinema just seems so disposable now.
I agree
I still get nervous that Marty wont make it back to 1985 and over seen thisovie literally like 50 times!! I was 10 when it came out so I seen it at the movie theater which was amazing. My gram took me 3 times to the movies to watch it. They should rerelease it so younger folks can enjoy it on the big screen
“Endlessly watchable bite of comfort food” is the most apt description for this movie and perfectly explains why it’s my all time favorite. I never tire of watching it, and it was always my go-to movie when I just wasn’t in the mood for anything else.
George isn't happy just because he's rich, he's rich because he has the thing that makes him happy and that was all he was missing to be financially secure: self-confidence. At least, that's what I got from the final cut of the film as released.
Exactly.
he’s rich with both money and happiness, big W
He wasn't even that rich, still lived in the same house, just had enough that they went from struggling to comfortable. The fact that Glover argued this makes me think either he's never really struggled or he doesn't understand the difference.
I watched this film for the first time at about age 7 on TV and even I understood that his life changed because he stood up to his bully
This is what bob shouldve told crispin. Lol
The fact that the beginning of Indiana Jones 4 is actually the original ending to Back to the Future is blowing my mind on so many levels.
Same here!
It's funny to think that Spielberg included that scene as an homage to the original BTTF ending, but in reality I think the producer of this video just used it a semi-joke to bridge Spielbergs' connection to both franchises. I highly doubt the director did that intentionally.
@@syphon583
You highly doubt the director did it intentionally? Where else do you think he got the idea from??
I'm glad they went with the clock tower scene because when i saw the atomic bomb/refrigerator scene in the beginning of Indiana Jones is when i turned it off.
When the script changed the time machine to be a car instead of a fridge Ford was actually in talks with the producers about having a car of their brand picked for the movie. The producers told Zemeckis that if he agreed to the Ford deal they'd be able to add roughly 5 million dollars to the budget. However Zemeckis was adamant that "Doc Brown doesn't drive no fucking Ford" and insisted on DeLorean.
If it was a Ford GT 40, then yeah that would have been cool too.
@@dbsti3006 You mean the Shelby GT40 MKII? Yeah, that would have been cool. But Ford cars of the '80s were anything but cool.
Are you telling me... that you made a time machine... out of a Fiesta?
I, figure, if you're going to the past... why not do it on a single gallon of gas.
@@joelwillems4081 Yeah, you're not wrong. The only cool 80s Ford was the 5.0 Fox Body. Hell, they could use the 2017 GT 40. It doesn't have to be 80s.
I thought they chose delorean because delorean is a dead company so they don’t get to pay that much for licensing
@@staringcorgi6475 they chose it because John Delorian almost did time for that machine so it makes it the perfect time machine
This is more than a perfect movie. It changed my life. I was brought up in a continuous atmosphere of little encouragement and grudging praise in a poor part of the UK. Bullied at school and then in a dead-end first job, I WAS George (though I didn't recognise that at the time) and so wanted to be Marty (despite being four years older). Encouraged by the message that you are in charge of your own destiny, I got a new job and started to work my balls off, all the time subsconsciously working to George's statement that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it. In four years, I got four good promotions, moved to a far better part of the UK, made lifetime wonderful friends, and carried on maximising my financial opportunities. I retired three years ago at 54, never have to work again, live a life of comfortable pleasure and have never looked back. I owe this movie a lot. It was a better teacher and mentor than any human I personally ever met.
Sorry mate. Don’t want to be be a stickler but I am fairly certain the sentence “ you are in charge of your destiny” is spelled wrong. It’s “density” you bell-end!
That's the power of love
Same thing for me when i was a younger boy
It didn't teach you about Jesus so, you're screwed.
@@orandachildren1051 *cough Matthew 7
*cough
I had a paper route in 1985. I spent just about every dollar I made going to rewatch this movie in the theaters at least 17 times. Most of the time I went by myself.
Are you still alone?
Michael J Fox is an Icon not just for this role, but for the innate charm and warmth he possesses. He is loved in this world.
yeah he is a real icon
It sucks that amazing people like him suffer from diseases, but very shitty people live in perfect health.
I saw him run up to a cornered cat and punch him. The cat hissed and Fox then screamed at him tossing death threats at him.
I've probably seen that movie more than any other movie. Hundreds of times, it really is how you described it. Perfect, and comforting, it takes me back to my childhood.
Yes!
agree
- from Indonesia -
I've watched the movies 100+ times. And still never found an anachronism or plot hole. Indeed a perfect trilogy.
There are plenty of plotholes, like how Doc and Marty retain memories of all the timelines, but no one else does. You could call this an observer effect, but then why when old Biff changes the world for 1985 in BTTF2 do Doc and Marty not immediately become different people, they should no longer know a life that isn't the new one they had to live in in the new timeline. It's a pothole, but the movie really wouldn't work otherwise.
@@c4kefrosty862Because the REAL Doc and Marty were in the wrong place. They shouldn’t have been in alternate 1985. They remember what others don’t because they were in the time machine.
BTTF is one of my favourite films of all time, but I always wonder, how did the Libyans figure out that Doc Brown was at the Twin Pines mall on that fateful night?
they probably drove all around town until they saw a random dude and a kid in the parking lot
@@MainlineThruTheRockies They drove around randomly with their headlights off, then when they reach line of sight to Doc, then they turn them on. Makes sense!
I had the unbelievable honor of meeting the cast and some crew on location in Puente Hills, Ca while they filmed the Twin Pines Mall scenes. In the background you can see an old Robinsons department store and on the second floor of that store was a restaurant that catered the cast and crew during their breaks. My mom of the manager of restaurant. We would stay late into the night watching them film from the windows.
is the JCPenny still behind the parking lot like it is in the 1st movie? lol
@@MrSirWivd It's a "24 Hour Fitness"
Hey I lived in La Puente from 1963 to 1989 went to LPHS (class of 78) and was there for the Grand opening of the Puente hills Mall!
Amazing. What an honor.
My grandma has lived in La Puente since the 60s and as a kid growing up I remember thinking how cool it was that they filmed those scenes at the Puente Hills mall, I would always think of it whenever we stopped by for Krispy Kreme haha ❤️
Everything worked out how it was meant to be. Can anyone imagine if they were given the green light in 81 or another studio decided to make this film before it was made?
The delay from '81 to '85 is what led to Marty gaining his older siblings so the ages would match
What….!? The fuck:)
You're talking about an alternative timeline? Don't go there.
If it had been made in 81, it would have starred Gary Coleman! (While he continued to work on Different Strokes.). “What chu talkin bout, Doc?!” It would have been ... adorable. “I think my mom just pinched my cheeks!” And Crispin would have definitely tried to do the role in blackface.
With the fridge and nuclear explosion too! Where they nuke the clock tower and destroy hill valley, 1955 to get back. Wait, this can tie in with the terminator movie hishe.
I cannot describe in words how much I adore this film (and the sequels). I'm glad it got made.
Lea Thompson’s words about Stoltz saying “it’s a tragedy” reminded me of a
similar experience that I had in a screenwriting course when I was in film school.
I wrote two pages of comedy. We had to give it to other students to present to the class.
Of course the students, as actors, played it very, very seriously. And I couldn’t say a word.
At the time, it was aggravating. But in retrospect... hilarious.
Release the Stoltz cut! They practically shot the whole movie with him and I want to see it as a big BTTF fan.
You should have added "Surely, you can't be serious" with the reply "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley" to the dialogue.
@@user-uy1rg8td1v I _agree. with you. I like to see all the Stoltz footage they shot. Please see my Comment and other Comment I made in response about Stotz acting like he went back in Time to see his Parents.
@ Michael G, sounds like it could have been British comedy, read that way 😎
Now that you bring that up I would love to see something like a 3 stooges episode filmed entirely with 100% serious actors playing it deadpan.
One thing that I never see mentioned is because the movie released in July 1985, all of the 1985 scenes were technically in the "future" as they took place in October 1985...
You know, for October, it’s kind of weird how you saw like no Halloween stuff around.
Now that I never considered, that there are zero allusions to Halloween. It's not that strange I guess, but you'd think maybe it would have at least been a theme for the dance Marty auditioned for or something.
In years gone by people didn't put up Halloween decorations weeks in advance.
@@jb888888888 Halloween is the whole month, dude. It’s like Christmas.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 It is NOW. It didn't used to be.
13:35 it such a perfect time to hear the theme right when Michael J. Fox tells his story about the script and accepted the part. I literally teared up.
I really don't get how Glover could miss the message of that movie. It wasn't subtle. The point wasn't that money=happiness, it's that following your dreams=happiness. The wealth was just a happy side effect.
Right? It’s literally his line in that scene.
It's not like he became ridiculously rich either. At the end they're not in a mansion, they're in the same house with a happier marriage and a bit more class; his mom no longer has a drinking problem; his brother has a better job; his sister has a date.
Also, it's ironic that he complained because his character has a LITTLE bit more money when he was demanding more money for the second film which is why he got fired from the second one. Didn't want his character to be "greedy" even though HE'S greedy in real life?
@@liquidbraino he didn't even act in it. They just use old footage from the first film of him
@@ClaudetteVioletta It's "act" not "acted". And we're not talking about the second movie, were talking about the first one, Zoomer.
@@liquidbraino are you gonna be okay? 😅
Back to the Future is proof that just because a film had a troubled production doesn't mean it's quality can't be amazing
I respect film crews a lot for what they do.
Goes for pretty much any film featured on this show. I find it very inspiring from a creative standpoint. When struggling and things aren’t going well.. it doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t end up being something fantastic if you have the right intentions
Also The Godfather 1
Those double negatives break my brain!
@@deanjustdean7818 greatest film ever made?! Have you only seen one movie?
21:24 ok i watched this whole video and it was good and informative but the end when he said universal was going to make a sequal with or without them and it ends with doc saying great scott. That was priceless.
I remember how in 2015 young people who had been born AFTER the 1985 movie were going wild about its 30th anniversary. Now that´s what I call a movie with a legacy !
That highkey was one of the best days I've ever had! I was born in 98, my Dad introduced me to Back to the Future when I was a Kid and it's been my absolute favorite movie (trilogy) ever since. October 21st 2015 our local cinema, like probably so many other, had a BttF Event where they showed all three movies back to back to back. There were only limited tickets and I desperately wanted to go. My birthday is October 28 so my Dad surprised me with an early birthday present and two tickets for the event.
We had an absolute blast that night! Popcorn and Drinks were all you can eat/drink, and I still have that epic plastic hoverboard every visitor got for free.
You won't believe how many Martys and Docs there were! I went in my Marty Halloween costume myself. It was so fun! :D
@@TheMarslMcFly An evening to treasure for the whole of your life, through both good and bad times !
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I can’t imagine sitting in a movie theater seat through three whole movies in a row lol. Hopefully they were at least the kind of seats that recline far back hehe.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Yeah you could recline them and everything. Also between each movie was a, I think 30 minute break, so it was alright lol
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Ah, ok cool. Still, what a long time, eh? Haha. Any idea how much the event cost? Just curious. All you can eat plus a fake hoverboard and limited tickets sounds like it wasn’t a cheap event by any means. You have a great dad! ;)
I never knew they got bribed into making the sequel. You can tell the second one is them trying there hardest to do something creative with the sequel and they succeeded. I can't think of many sequels that are better than the original if it's a classic but they definitely managed to make something original and different.
i think threatened would be a more appropriate term haha
I always thought they intended to make the sequel before even making the first one. Seems like a perfect overlap.
@@dan-bz7dz No, on the contrary, they always said had they known there was gonna be a sequel they wouldn't have made the DeLorean fly.
@@countluke2334 There's another story about the sequels. Apparently, when the movie was shown on cable(!) it had a "To Be Continued" logo right before the credits roll. It caught everyone off guard because the ending was a final gag in the script. (This was somewhere on one of the early documentaries, maybe even the VHS box set.)
The BTTF rankings, in my opinion, go likie this:
1. The Original
2. the Western
3. The Futuristic one
Never knew such an iconic movie had this turbulent of a history. Despite the process, the result is perfect and I'll always have most lines memorized, especially the original
No movie is perfect, but BTTF is one of those films I would not change a thing about. I'm so happy I got to grow up with it.
I concur!
Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines!
The imperfection made it perfection.
Idk man. I loved it as a kid. Rewatched it recently. Didn't have Nostalgia goggles.. It wasn't great. The second was even more bad
@@longebane I gotta be honest, i also rewatched it recently, and I had some nostalgia goggles on, but I watched it with a friend that NEVER watched before. They still liked it a lot, and we're planning on watching the 2nd. And since i find the 2nd one very satisfying in how everything fits together, I totally disagree. I think the 3rd one is more bizarre and worse, but when thinking about how bizarre it is, it makes it funny again, which fits the tone of these movies. So my opinion is definitely mixed. I love the first movie for being something smart that is so very different but still works extremely well, I love the 2nd one for it's complexity (and i just find it interesting how people from the 1980-1990 envisioned today), and I like the 3rd movie for how bizarre and dumb it is. How said, I will be watching these with my friend that has no idea of BTTF, and i definitely want to know his opinion as well. But those are just my thoughts
@@LeoTheVampire thanks for your thoughts brah
Being a teenager in the 80s was absolutely awesome!!!
Ian, you are a master editor. This piece is so good. Using scenes from the movie to support your commentary was brilliant. Spot on. I knew all the facts you conveyed, but I really enjoyed how you put this together. Your VO was well written and perfectly executed as well. I am a film maker and voice actor as well, and I am so impressed with your work on this. Thank you for your attention to detail while telling a story about a film, and it's sequels that will on in my life as my absolute heart-felt favorites. Alongside Star Wars and It's a Wonderful Life, BTTF is comfort food beyond reproach. THANK YOU!
Very impressed with your editing and tying shot selections in with the narration (eg Biff entering the room and coming to his seat and showing the gun when you say "The Bobb's walked into Scheinberg's office... and... made it explicitly clear" and that's just one example! You've clearly gone the extra mile. Well done!
Thank you! Glad you noticed the editing. It’s a lot of work that we’re super proud of.
The editing was fantastic. I actually forgot this was a RUclips video for a moment. It felt like an official documentary with a budget to pull from all sorts of media. 👌
Also loved the cut from Indiana Jones and the gopher to George McFly laughing.
I agree!
I noticed the editing as well, very well done! =]
So glad you interviewed Michael J. Fox, it was so good to see and hear him again. I loved Family Ties, thought it was the best TV show ever and I loved all of the Back to the Future movies.
You're still loved, Michael, regardless of what life handed you.
I grew up watching this film. The final clocktower scene STILL takes my breath away.
Well done good sir.
I love the cut from Indy in the fridge to McFly laughing. I could feel your distain for Indy 4.
I really wish some people would get over slamming Indy 4. Yeah it's not a masterpiece but if that 5th film is real bad, the indiana Jones will find themselves in the same spots as Star Wars fans from the letdown of the sequel trilogy.
I do that laugh every time someone around me says a shit joke. 😂
Sir.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral what does 5 sucking have to do with people hating 4. also people are overreacting over 5 its in good hands dude knows what hes doing
@@deanjustdean7818 it’s funny, I didn’t feel that about the last crusade, it’s my favorite Indy tied with raiders, I felt that ford and connery, played great off each other
The music composure was also perfect I think. It made every scene so epic
Yes
It's a miracle when any film gets made. So many elements have to gel. It requires an alignment of the planets. Anyone who doubts the importance of casting should watch this excellent video. Begs the question how many potentially classic movies never made it to the silver screen due to any one of those numerous elements not slotting into place?
So basically, not only is it sometimes considered a perfect _film,_ it's also a perfect _encapsulation_ of the kind of behind-the-scenes ingenuity filmmakers need to display in order to pull it off in-the-moment
They worked like hell to overcome all the crises they had in production, and karma rewarded them in the end.
It is more then 10 miracles that this movie exists, such as the 2 Bobs being given so many chances, restarting the movie halfway in, MJF’s filming schedule, and so many other things. But it was definitely worth it, for my favorite movie.
The perfect trilogy. I’ll never tire of watching them.
You *really* have to hand it to everyone involved in this project -- not only managing to pull the film out of the dumpster fire it was smoldering in, but turning it all around and releasing an end product that would become a timeless classic.
A perfect example how you get a great product when you let the creative ones do their work and give them obstacles to overcome, not when you force them to do what some exec or their market-study group thinks.
I'm happy that more and more people have learned that sequels are a good thing, if they are made with love, passion and talent. BTTF could stand on its own, but man oh man i'm i happy we got a full trilogy.
AND we got Who Framed Roger Rabbit as an amazing bonus before part 2.
Stoltz is a great actor but this movie wouldn't have been the national treasure that it is if he finished it. Michael j fox embodied the role and it just worked perfectly. His chemistry with Loyd was perfect and made it all work.
I agree, it's not that he wasn't right for the movie. The movie wasn't right for him and they should have known that from the beginning. He's not a comedic actor.
@@liquidbraino Well fox was the straight guy playing off the absurdity around him. But he had that quintessential 80s optimism.
And we already knew and liked MJF. He was on television as the smart, but clumsy teenager, in a family show. His character basically transferred right into this movie. I did not know who Stoltz was until Some Kind of Wonderful years later.
@@richardday3136 Totally, and that's the irony of it all. He was the straight guy but it was his reactions & "working off" Christopher Lloyd that brought humor to the movie. Those two were the perfect comedic duo, like Abbott and Costello.
It's almost like "Abbott and Costello do Time Travel"
The end was beautiful. To see millions of people enjoy something the creators believed in even during hard times is just wonderful
Need the story behind 2 and 3 now. This was interesting... Didn't know how close it was to almost not happening.
Makes you wonder how many movies there are that would've been fantastic but didn't happen.
I put this on for my 10 year old son and nephew last weekend they had no idea what it was other than an old movie from my days lol they loved it! All the little easter eggs I pointed out and even a couple they pointed out to me that I never noticed they told me it's better then the last spiderman movie I was surprised as much as they were how much they enjoyed it .timeless masterpiece and absolute classic
My 70 year old parents love it for the 1950s throwback nostalgia and I also get to reminisce about my 80s childhood with them.
@@cattysplat i love it when they have a clash of 50s and 80s but they do it in a good way and i appreciate this film more than any other film i have seen hell even this film beats endgame
Michael j fox nailed it! he made back to the future into a thriller, sure his portrayal wasn't dead serious and his characters clumsiness came off as genuine and absolutely relatable. I didn't know the movie was meant to be a comedy for me as a kid the scene with him stumbling on the road side in the past was actually distressing, as it showed the character was in peril.
I like how he isn't a perfect protagonist.
The performance in time with the music really brings the fantasy alive, everything is the same for his hometown, but disturbingly foreign. This isn't just the 1950s, this is the literal past and it's very, very wrong for him to be there.
It is perfect. A rare perfect Gem. (Ok, It's strange that Lorraine & George don't realize their future son looks exactly like the person who brought them together.... But aside from that - PERFECT.)
Ironically, with the insane sleep schedule, Mike Fox was inadvertently method acting with that "just rolled out of bed" feel to his character.
The only movie I can think of with a similarly incredible fight between producer and director was the Wizard of Oz, which had the producers trying to cut parts of the film like the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but the director was fighting to keep it in, and winning. And that song ended up being one of the greatest movie songs of all time. Wait, I think I have an even better comparison - when the cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?" was being made, they had to create it against the express orders from the producer. They had to hide the real script because the producers objected to it. After it was released, it won an Oscar. So the producers were wrong. I remember one other story: John Cleese's comedy "Fawlty Towers" was rejected by the BBC as being unfunny. Cleese framed the rejection letter because history looks kindly on that show as one of the funniest, if not the funniest, in TV history. And I see parallels between those stories and BTTF's rejection.
Probably not as intense an example as what you mentioned, but I recall hearing about how Gene Wilder was extremely adamant about keeping the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene in Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks didn't think it would work, but after seeing how Gene wouldn't give up on it, he appeased him by saying they'd do it and if it worked, they'd keep it, and if it didn't work, they'd scrap it. On the day of filming, it only took Mel one look at the whole crew stifling their laughter to let him know Gene's scene was gold. They bickered quite a bit while making that movie, probably the only dark spot in what was otherwise an ideal production, one so good they were writing new scenes to film because they were having so much fun.
@@DeltaSpark8 That's a good story, too. I'll go watch that clip now.
Also the Robocop producers didn't see a point on the scene of him returning home, but Verhoeven insisted on the "paradise lost" theme it evoqued so finally got his way and filmed it. As a little kid even I got goosebumps although I didn't fully understand its significance, today I think it's the most defining scene of the "who am I?" machine-human dilemma in the movie.
16:24 Crispin Glover is so wrong about the end of Back to the Future. George isn’t happy at the end because of wealth…he is happy because he found his confidence and was able conquer and gain the life he was capable of achieving.
One of the very few ‘Perfect Movies’ I’ve seen during my lifetime. An absolutely timeless classic, no pun intended.
I’ve absolutely loved these movies since I was a kid, now as a guy in his 30’s I watch the entire trilogy on UHD Blu-Ray once a year. Absolutely brilliant movies
I can absolutely relate to Eric Stoltz's moribund take on the character, and I'd love to see his version in entirety,
especially now that we know we actually live in the dark timeline from the sequel.
Crispin Glover was also brilliant. Cannot believe they cast a lookalike in the sequel.
Poor Michael. I can’t imagine how tired he was doing the movie and Family Ties at once. These Actors and Actresses definitely are pros.
I'm impressed they were able to find time for him to do shoots that have daylight in them, if he was indeed (typically) working on BttF from 7pm to 4am! Clearly his handlers gave him to The Bobs for a few daylight hours but wow.
Nah, he was young and eiger to make it, he enjoyed every minute of it.
I'm a big fan of Crispin Glover. He has a unique personality that can be difficult to direct, but he shines on screen. His writing and directing is odd, but interesting as well. Dark.
100% agree. I remember seeing a memorable film with Mr. Glover in it along with a few other now familiar faces - "River's Edge". I think I know where the idea for "Twin Peaks" came from...
And I do agree with his argument at regarding the altered timeline at the end of the first Back To The Future movie, why their lives shouldn’t be better merely because they have nice things. Sadly, that got him booted from the sequel.
With respect to Glover, I've never thought them having money at the end equated to their happiness. I always thought the fact that George had alot more self esteem allowed him to live a life he wanted, all because he puched out Biff. In my eyes it had nothing to do with money, everything to do with confidence
The original opening for the film actually started with Marty in school and his class watching a 1955 film of a nuclear bomb test. Marty gets called to the office for a phone call from his "Doc" and gets detention when Principle Strickland finds out it's a personal call. Marty breaks out of detention with a very contrived way of setting off the fire alarm and sprinklers so he can get to his band audition and the rest of the film plays out roughly the same until Marty tells Doc about the bomb footage and SOMEHOW remembers the date the film was made and they go to Nevada with the DeLorean to drive the car towards the blast with a collector rigged on it to power the time machine and then drive the can back from Nevada and...ummm have enough time to save the Doc? It was a weird ending and a weird opening. You can read the original opening to the film in the novelization by George Gipe. I rather enjoyed it just for a look at elements from the original screenplay. Interestingly enough, the version of Marty in the book really is an Eric Stoltz type and they even dressed him like the depiction in the book more or less.
I would really love to see some of the Eric Stoltz footage. Even if it’s rough I’d be very interested and intrigued to see it!
@@gabebartlett9680 Same. I'm kinda intrigued by Stoltz's darker take on the story. I like the Marty that just rolls with it that Fox gave it in order to let the comedy play naturally, but the traumatizing nature of the way Stoltz looked at the material is very interesting.
@@straker454 Agreed! I really do feel like it would really be like that if it happened in real life. That’s what intrigues me about it Eric’s take. Also the fact it would be a different Marty as well, he wouldn’t be seen as nearly as much of a “wimp” though I’m not saying that it was a bad thing with Fox
I had one encounter with Crispin Glover.
It was far more insane (and annoying) than I even imagined.
Let’s just say the man can really bore the hell out of an audience for 5+ hours and not care that he is boring.
Yeah, he was terrible in every other role. I’m sorry you had to endure that.
He's quirky and good as an assassin in some movie who sniffs hair of victims.
@@sholland42 if I remember right, he was pretty good (albeit very weird) in River's Edge, but that's probably about it.
@@johnchedsey1306 Yeah, he was made for River's Edge. There's such an "offness" to him.
I'm actually convinced he has a form of autism. Going by some of these stories and I have experience with it. And I'm not the only person who thinks so. It's been brought up often enough that it is specifically addressed in the FAQs on an official website for people looking to get his autograph. It says he has never been diagnosed with autism.
But that doesn't mean he doesn't have it. It Just means that he hasn't been tested, despite the question being raised. And the fact that so many people have wondered the same thing, says he probably should have had it checked.
crazy that it soon will be 40 years old. one of the best aged films in history imo. it's definitely one of the best movies and definitely one of the best trilogies of all times. i love the fact that there will be no remake of it as long as the Bob's are alive.
great video, even had some new infos in it that I didn't know about yet.
I think it would be fascinating to see the Eric Stolz version of this film. I always thought it was so interesting how two different actors view the same script.
Me too. For me BTTF isn't a comedy flick but more of an 80s sci-fi modern fairytale... something. I'd accept it to be more serious.
I agree, I think a slightly darker, less cartoony version of BTTF is a fascinating idea with some interesting implications in terms of theme and resonance. Maybe you miss out on a handful of the laughs, but I bet Stoltz had a certain dry comedic edge to him, too. Some bittersweetness in this mix could have worked well. It is a story with some pretty tragic things happening after all.
@@jeffreyroedel9804 except that we got our dark and edgy BttF with BttF...2. Complete with Biff becoming Donald Trump and on a course to rule the world.
We didn't need this with #1; we got this with #2 and we loved it the more for it.
@@zimriel BttF 2 is pretty grim. No wonder I never see it on TV, it's always 1 or 3.
Stolz acted like a kid who really went back in time and met his parents as opposed to acting as if you are in a movie where you go back in time ti meet your parents
Showmanship - it’s a very movie kind of movie (the Hill Valley town square is such a quintessential movie set) and thus demands a film star kind of performance.
In a parallel universe stolz made a decent horror movie about time travel and incest.
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Zemeckis is an expert in one of the primary responsibilities a director has - tone management. That’s why in his gut he knew Stolz was wrong. _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ is probably his most accomplished work in balancing light and dark tones.
Stolz would be great as Marty McFly in the 2010's nitty gritty reboot (let's pray to that never happening BTW), not for the cheesy yet lovable 80's flicks we all love and cherish
I'm glad Fox got the gig.
It amazes me how often throughout film history, a film that turned into a classic nearly was a disaster, often due to studio and/or producer interference (The Godfather, anyone?), but was saved because at least one person fought hard for the film that it would turn out to be. That's to say nothing of the times when those films had a hard time getting made at all.
Back to the Future remains one of my favorite films of all time. As a Los Angeles resident, it means even more that some of the shooting locations are not far from me, and I pass them frequently, such as Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry, or Gamble House in Pasadena, used as Doc Brown's home and garage laboratory. I drove a friend from out of town to Gamble House recently without telling him where we were going, and he recognized it right away. Thanks for an informative video!
So Crispen Glover assumed the idea was "George is only happy because he's wealthy"
But he missed the point. It's the opposite way round. George is only wealthy because he is confident.
I think all of you are being a bit unfair to him. its not easy for actors to see the directors vision of the finished product. thats why directors exist. He protested because he cared about the film and wanted the message to be on point. I doubt you would find that kind of passion in big name actors of the current time period...
@@toddhowarddd To be honest, I don't think films should have messages, in that sense anyway. Modern Hollywood has proven what happens when you're allowed to preach to the audience.
I'm not having a go at Glover, but I do think he missed the point. I think the idea was more that George is more confident and therefore has seized opportunities where he didn't before and thus become more successful and wealthy..
I remember Bob Zemekis actually acknowledging that in heinsight the film can come across like it's saying "rich = happy" but that it wasn't intentional.
The other thing about their feud is that on the sequel, there seemed to be what I think was actually a misunderstanding.
Bob Gale said that Glover asked for too much money; as much as the main stars.
But Glover says he didn't ask for that much. He says he did ask for more, but only about the same amount as some of the other supporting actors.
Now, he claims that Gale is lying and Gale says that Glover was getting way over his head..
I believe that perhaps they both got their wires crossed but the issue is neither of them are willing to swallow their pride and admit that maybe there was a misunderstanding.
Also there was a law suit but this was due to something they did in his absence. They used a mold of his face to make another actor look like him in the sequel, effectively using his likeness, but he didn't give permission.
A settlement was made and it also lead to some new rules within the filmmakers guild.
@@1000000man1 I'll believe Bob Gale over Crispin Glover immediately. Glover has gone to an entire career that shows he's eccentric, wants to do oddball projects, is not interested in normal movies, and really wants to be non-conformist. All of that lends credence to the way Bob Gale tells the story. The way Bob tells it, you can infer that Crispin simply had no interest in nor intention to do part II. Since he had no interest anyway, no harm in making a bunch of outrageous, unreasonable demands that he knew they would never grant, like four times the offered salary, top billing, personal limo, whatever. Crispin, on the other hand, is an obvious outlandish personality, it would be no surprise to think of him as exaggerating the story, twisting it for his own purposes, or just outright lying. Crispin did not know ahead of time that part II, and the entire series, would enjoy the legendary status that it has attained, making his pass on the role look foolish in retrospect. Not hard to imagine he would want to rewrite that foolishness.
This has to be one of the greatest RUclips videos I have EVER seen!!! so thankful for the algorithm
I'm glad you finished it that way. For whatever reason on the Blu Ray copies I have of the trilogy the "to be continued" and "to be concluded" are edited out. When watching them on VHS when I was a kid I always used to get excited to put in the next one when I read that bit at the end.
Should go and find the trilogy cut somewhere, I know people somewhere edited the three movies together into one big movie. It's perfect, well except for Shue and Marty getting bigger when he opens the garage door but you can pipe that up to time travel messing with the timeline a bit and it taking a moment to catch up?
What a beautifully well done documentary! It lives up to its subject matter.
Oh thank you! I’m really proud of this one.
I religiously rewatch the whole trilogy every year or 2nd year. In the wintertime
They are perfect feelgood movies
Time to watch again, yeah buddy!
A brilliant movie as a 80’s kid to watch and every kid these days should watch it because it’ll never grow OUTATIME...🔮
I’m currently 48 and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 46 but specialists say I’ve had it slowly progressing since I was in my early 30’s, so I know what Michael J Fox is going through and been through in a way⚡️💫
The 1980's was one of the greatest periods for well written scripts.
“Dear Sid, Thank you for your humorous memo of November 14th. We all god a big laugh out of it. Keep them coming.”
What a move.
"Used Cars" was criminally underrated. It's a classic.
The second to last chapter of this video essay is just pure montage epicness. Great work bro!
I’m sad they had so many problems with Crispin, I loved his performance it’s too bad he apparently difficult to work with. I’ll still always be sad he wasn’t in the sequels
He’s such a tool
Kind of a one sided description of what happened though, Crispin's critiques of the script were pretty valid IMO, McFly's even had black servants once they got rich. I guess they agreed with that part of his critique since that got removed. Bob Gale has went out of his way to talk shit about Crispin ever since.
@@VakieF1 damn I didn’t know that, that would not have aged well if they kept the black help lmao
@@VakieF1 I agree with removing the black servants for other reasons, but the message of the movie wasn't "money brings happiness"; it was "self-confidence brings success."
@@troodon1096 And of all people to preach against money bringing happiness, a semi-famous actor who wanted to be paid as much as the star of the most successful movie of the year. I don't know how well-off Glover is but I can't imagine he's exactly poor.
It is a perfect movie. Literally every scene is flawless. Crazy something so perfect came from such chaos!
Yes, it was fantastic!
My all time favorite movie! Thank you for this wonderful video. Also, just wanted to mention that Lea Thompson is the nicest lady. I met her on a flight and told her how big a fan I was and she was so sweet and humble. Lovely lady!
What I don't understand: How is it possible that this channel has less than 10k subscribers? The quality of your videos is insane!
What a masterclass in storytelling and editing.
I mean this channel. I suppose Back to the Future ain't that bad either.
Had they went with the original idea of a time traveling refrigerator, we would've had Doc Brown say 'I WAS FROZEN TODAY!'
Is that a reference to an old Nostalgia Critic video, where he meets Christopher Lloyd?
"of course!" - M Bison
@@MasonJames007 Yup.
Sucks that they had to struggle with it so much, but it's hard to imagine the movie turning out to be this great if they had it much easier.
I hope in the end they felt like it was worth it. Was deifnitely worth it for the viewers, I watched the trilogy like 30-40 times just during my childhood!
This content was enjoyably put together. The people working on BTTF risked everything possible to secure a masterpiece.
George's happiness wasnt about wealth, it was about confidence.
Yeah the actor really had a bad take
And the family wasn't really wealthy. They had enough bucks to remodel their old house and buy a Toyota pickup, a BMW & make old "Make like a tree and get out of here" as their servant. They did have confidence, though. Mom's little brother was probably still in prison.
Hm maybe it's the American angle, but that was really the ONE thing everyone criticizes about the movie here (in Germany) - that "money makes everything alright" trope. But interesting to see how different perception on this can be. (Plus, it's any 80s movie after all...)
@@klausaschmid Money isnt mentioned once. And they live in the exact same house.
Ironic because Crispin Glover is all about wealth. He demanded more money for the second film but didn't want his character to seem greedy?
I first watched BTTF new years eve 1985 , i was 16 at the time. Never knowing, or even thinking that a life long love affair with a trilogy would be born . The amount of times I've watched them is easily into four figures . It's unreal to see what went on behind the scenes before this even started filming let alone during .
Thank you uploader for this very entertaining blast from the past 👏 much appreciated 👍
You’ve watched these movies thousands of times?!?! Wtf! Lol.
Yeah that and the emojis make me think this entire comment is BULLSHIT ......
@@Supersquigi yeah man! He must be full of shit.
I mean come on who could have watched a trilogy of movies (combined) over a 37 year period .
Well over FOUR figures....FOUR FIGURES start at 1000 btw........how unbelievable and full of shit does someone have to be to claim they've actually done that ? 👊
@@Supersquigi I agree. The writing is 'modern young', not a nearly 50 y/o person. Unaware of their own ignorance of how culture's changed since 1985 - making them different from an older generation, in expressing themselves. But who knows? Maybe they're just shallow enough to follow every trend ever. 😉
14:56 that sleep schedule might explains a few things Michael Jay.
This channel is a gem. This is my second video, and I don't think I'll be able to stop (nor that I want to either, lol).
I'm surprised this channel is not a mega-channel. Hopefully, it'll get there. This is way too good.
Great editing in BTTF. The spliced-together Stoltz scenes and Fox scenes are seamless. Compare that to Superman 2 where the tone shifts are jarring. But that movie had several years between the original shots and the reshoots.
They're spliced?
@@tadpolegaming4510 Any shot without Marty was reused from the Stoltz cut.
If you made this movie today, it would still be a blockbuster. I wish they still made movies this good
Everyone complaining about Glover's take on the ending keep forgetting he was talking about the original ending, where the Family is rich to the point they have mansions and black maids.
Watching this and a tear came to my eye. This was the best movie I've ever seen in my life. I'm 46 and it meant so much then as a kid as it does now. There's not one flaw in this movie. You can watch it as a kid or adult. It takes you on highs and lows and that is what movies should truly be. An experience. An experience that hits you and never let's go. That is this movie summed up.
When this came out, I had my first date with the hottest girl in my year at school watching this movie... 😍
It makes me sad now thinking of mum and all ppl who were alive back then 😟😟😟
@@DirtySanchez943 sorry for your loss. Please try to dwell on the good times my friend. She left an impact on you and cherish those good times. Hopefully when it came out yall watched it together and enjoyed it.
She gave her all 4 my sister and Me. 100% selfless and was "rewarded" by getting I'll and dying before her time. My heart 💔 breax but life must go on 4 the living...
Tnx brosky.@@faseforeal
I’ve watched nearly every video about BTTF however yours was truly the best. I thought I knew everything about BTTF but you managed to surprise me with new info. And the ending montage was such a beautiful conclusion.
Thank you! That means a lot.
10:43 George McFly laughing at the Crystal Skull prairie dog is perfectly in character.