124 Back to the Future (1985)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
124 Back to the Future (1985)
- 'Eric Stoltz' (qv) originally cast as Marty McFly, but changed because he
didn't act enough like a teenager. When 'Michael J. Fox' (qv) was cast, his
costume was completely revamped.
- The ``main street'' is the same one used in "Gremlins (1984)" (qv).
- The theatre in 1955 is showing a double bill: ``A Boy's Life'' (the working
title for 'Steven Spielberg' (qv)'s
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)" (qv)), and ``Watch the Skies'' (the
working title for Spielberg's
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)" (qv)). See also
"Gremlins (1984)" (qv).
- The device in Doc Brown's lab that Marty plugs his guitar into is labeled
``CRM-114'', which was the name of the message decoder on the B-52 in
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)" (qv),
and the serial number of the Jupiter explorer in
"2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)" (qv), both directed by 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv).
- Doc Brown's dog is named Einstein. This may be a vague reference to
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)" (qv), where the inventor of a miracle car
owned a dog named Edison.
- The mall where Marty McFly meets Dr. Brown for their time travel experiment
is called ``Twin Pines Mall''. Dr. Brown comments that old farmer Peabody
used to own all of the land, and he grew pines there. When Marty goes back
in time, he runs over and knocks down a pine tree on the Peabody's property.
When he comes back to the mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall
identifies the mall as ``Lone Pine Mall''.
- Farmer Peabody's son is named Sherman. Sherman was the name of the little boy
time traveler in one segment of Jay Ward's cartoon show, ``The Rocky &
Bullwinkle Show.'' The dog who owned his time machine was named Mr. Peabody.
- One scene only shown in a 1990 TV was the 1955 Doc investigating his 1985
counterpart's suitcase, discovering a hairdryer and a copy of Playboy.
- The dialogue where Lorraine says that when she grows up she'll let her kids
do anything they want was cut.
- Another deleted scene shows Marty peeking in on a class in 1955 and seeing
his mother cheating on a test.
- The scene where Marty asks if he and Jennifer become ``assholes'' in the
future was reshot for television.
- The newscaster on TV in the opening sequence is 'Deborah Harmon' (qv), who
appeared in director 'Robert Zemeckis' (qv)' "Used Cars (1980)" (qv).
- When Marty gets back to 1985, he spots a bum on the bench. He calls him
``Red'': ``Red Thomas'' was mayor in 1955.
- The radio in Marty's room plays ``Back in Time'', by Huey Lewis and the News,
who wrote and performed some songs for the film.
- The ``Mr Fusion Home Energy Converter'', which is sitting on the DeLorean
when Doc returns from the future, is made from (among other things) a Krups
coffee grinder.
- The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the
gull-wing door of the Delorean, this was improvised during filming as the
door mechanism became faulty.
- CAMEO(Huey Lewis): the high-school band judge.
- CAMEO(Steven Spielberg): The driver of the pickup truck that gives
Marty a lift to school.
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