30 Facts From the Making of 'Back to the Future' That Will Take You Back

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    Logo - 20 WARNER HOME VIDEO The script wasrejected over 40 Parrnqunt times by every maior studio, Acr-DisNEp MGM. PICTURES TM UNIVERSAL SONY PICTURES
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    Poster - STAR TREK BA TRFURE THE The film is banned in China, along with 'Star Trek Harry Potter' and 'Austin Powers because the notiono time travel disrespects histo of Polter
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    S MEG The time machine was originally conceived as a refrigerato rather than a car
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    Photo caption - It took three hours in make-up to turn the 23-year-old Lea Thompson into the 47-year-old Lorraine ODKA
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    Poster - STEVEN SPIELBERG P Synchronize your watches.. BACK TO FUTURE THE A ROBERT ZEMECKIS He was never in ime for his classes The Future is coming... He wasat in time for his dinner Then one day. he wasat in his tine at all BACK Ralph Macchio was offered the role of Marty McFly but he turned it down because he thought the movie was about "A kid, a car and plutonium pills" RISPIN GLOVER NEL CANTON FRANK MARSHALL STEVEN SPIELBERG KATHLEEN KENNEDY A ROBERT ZEMECKIS CNIVERSAL Picture em w
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    Motor vehicle - A persistent myth is that Michael J. Fox had to learn to skateboard for the film. In fact, he was a reasonably skilled skateboarder, having ridden throughout high school. However, Per Welinder acted as a skateboarding double for the complex scenes
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    Eating - Wendie Jo Sperber, who played Linda McFly, was in fact three years older than Lea Thompson who played her mother and six years older than Crispin Glover who played her father BUD LIGHT
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    Emblem - DEPARTMENT FBI ANTI- PIRACY WARNING JUSTICE OF INTEGRITY BRAVERY bootleg videos in order to fund the time machine This plot point was removed at Universal's request, as they did not want to be seen as promoting movie piracy. In the original script, Doc Brown and Mar TIGAT FEDERAL
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    Musical instrument - Michael J. Fox has said that Marty's being characterized as riding skate boards, chasing girls, and interests'in-playing music with hopes of becoming a rock star was the exact same way he was during his own high school days. AMAHA
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    Facial expression - Crispin Glover lost his voice during filming, so for some scenes he had to just mouth his lines and the dub the dialogue later.
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    Vehicle - The DeLorean was deliberately selected for its general appearance and gull wing doors, in order to make it plausible that people in 1955 would presume it to be an alien spacecraft. Snap Stills/REX
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    Hair - According to Bob Gale, Johnny Depp auditioned for the role of Marty McFly: "I looked through the notes, and I said, 'Geez, I don't even remember that we read Johnny Depp!' So whatever he did, it wasn't all that memorable,I guess!"
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    Eyewear - John Lithgow, Dudley Moore and Jeff Goldblum were all considered for the role of Doc Brown.
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    Vehicle - The production ultimately used three real DeLoreans.
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    Motor vehicle - The script never called for Marty repeatedly bang his head on the gull-wing door of the DeLorean; this was improvised during filming as the door mechanism became faulty.
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    Performance - only about thirtytwo special effects shots in the entire flm There are
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    Mode of transport - The jukebox in the diner in 1955 is the same jukebox in Doc Brown's home in the beginning of the movie.
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    Text - BACKSW R FUTURE TD Written By Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale The University of Southern California Film school s writing classes use the screenplay for Back to the Future as the model of "The Perfect Screenplay" PTS A14269
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    Photo caption - Robert Zemeckis dubbed the picture "the film that would not wrap He recalled that because they shot night after night, he was always "half asleep" and the fattest, mostout-of-shape and sick l ever was".
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    Text - Biff's catchphrases make like a tree and get outta herekand. "butthead" were improvised by Thomas F Wilson
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    Clock - In the beginning when we see all of the Doc's clocks,we see a clock with a man hanging from the minute hand. This is from a 12 1 scene in Harold Lloyd's film, Safety Last, and is reference to the ending when Doc is hanging from the clock tower. 3 AXIS 6 41 15 CO
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    Photo caption - Worried that people would shun a film with 'future' in its name, a studio exec tried to change Back to the Future to Spaceman From Pluto. Steven Spielberg sent back a thank you note for the 'humorous memo.'
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    Hair - Tim Robbins was considered for the role of Biff Tannen.
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    News - The parts of the script with references to President Ronald Reagan needed to be reviewed by the White House for approval so as not to offend the President. Producers had some concerns over Reagan's reaction to Doc Brown's famous line mocking the improbability of his being President in 1985, but Reagan was said to get a real kick out of it.,
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    Human - Christopher Lloyd stated that he always wanted to do one more movie, in which Marty and Doc Brown time-travel back to Ancient-Rome
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    Text - There's a nod to Stanley Kubrick in Doc's garage. The amplifier has a CRM114 label, which is the name of a piece of radio equipment in Doctor Strangelove. CRM 114
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    Text - I'm Tom Wilson. I was in all three "Back To The Future" movies. Michael J. Fox is nice. I'm not in close contact with him. Christopher Lloyd is nice. He is a very shy man. Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely. Lea Thompson is nice. Eric Stoltz originally played Marty, but was fired due to performance issues. The first movie was shot in 1984 and 85. The sequels were shot "back to back," never before attempted by a movie studio.
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    Guitar - EN NTMEN UN THE S Musician Mark Campbell did all of Michael J. Fox's singing. He is credited as "Marty McFly.
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    Advertising - According to Bob Gale, on October 26th, 1985, a group of. people showed up at the mall used to film the Twin Pines Mall location to see if Marty would arrive in the DeLorean. He, of TWIN PINES MALL Course, did not.
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    Land vehicle - After the film's release, body kits were made for DeLoreans to make them look like the time machine. DUTATIME 3CLorcan

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