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- Back to the Future (1985)
116 min - Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi - 3 July 1985 (USA)
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In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson
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This opening is so jam packed with exposition, it's honestly unreal. We learn literally everything we need to know about Doc Brown from one tracking shot: he's obsessed with time, he's an inventor, his inventions don't often work, his mansion burned down, he has a dog named Einstein, somebody stole plutonium and - oh wait - there it is under the table.
All that information is given to you subliminally in less than 4 minutes before you're even introduced to any of the main characters.
Well said man.
2:23 best part.......That Clock Map !
And he has a young assistant by the name of Marty Mcfly!
It also shows that Doc Brown is quite eccentric and at times absent-minded.
Also note the clock with someone hanging from the minute hand -- a fun sneak preview.
@@WilsonFox123 What's special about the map clock?
I remember seeing this at the cinema in Dec 1985. It made such an impression, and was so good, that as I walked out of the theatre on that Friday night I was practically convinced that time travel was real. A brilliant, brilliant movie.
I really don’t know
it’s so brilliant, so jealous you got to see it in the cinema for the first time
I bet the hum from the amplifier in that theater was deafening...
As many times as I've seen this movie, I never get tired of this sequence. There's not much dialogue, but it says a lot about Doc...and Marty turning up the amps always makes me laugh.
What are the amps?
@@brendancarmichael5597
That's an abbreviation for amplifiers
@@Fireball409 oh. I see.
Yep. Poor fab schmuck - SO DUMB! is determined to Go Deaf: so like SO many poor, dang dumb hoomanz these days, eh?? so fast. ... STARTing to be one of our poor 21st C. robot zombies ... tho thii is just the 1980s ,.. WACK UP, y'all ... Don't you appreciate and love your own ears?? Jes' sayin' ... I mean, sure, loudness IS fun and cool - i do admit - but THIS loud, nowaydays?? Apparently kids are going deaf, early 40's, now. Jes
sayin' ... 😍
Am I the only one who never got bored by this movie even after watching it for many time ?? In my opinion, one of the best time travel movie of all time
always something new to find
One of the best movies, never mind the time travel bit.
I’ll never understand how doc could invent a time machine but couldn’t invent a self cooking toaster that worked properly
I think it did work properly, it was just that the toast kept cooking because he wasn't there so it burned. Of course, maybe he likes it that way.
@@sha11235 Einstein's bowl is proof of that they have not been home for some time.
The flex capacitor mate - when he came to he had a revelation 😊
Hm, and I'd bet that's why you never have, nor likely ever will, invent either. Wanna wager on that one...? hehehe
Hm, and I'd bet that's why you never have, nor likely ever will, invent either. Wanna wager on that one...? hehehe
I love Marty's jean jacket in this movie!
david fox it looks like a ladies jacket to me. Lol.
I think it's called a denim jacket
It's pretty cool man
you mean the life preserver
@@cyrezml916 Dork thinks he’s gonna drown!
The best movie i ever seen, thats for sure.
+Vinie Dixie notice how doc brown is in the picture hanging from the clock :P first time i ever saw that.
+lestat34208 Thats actually another Lloyd hanging from there :) to be precise, it's Harold Lloyd from 1923's Safety Last
LooksLikeVespa yeh but its showing us the ending of the movie as though traveling through time already took place.
+lestat34208 naw that's not the case.
+lestat34208 Marty's father is still a looser in the beginning. it's just a clock foreshadowing the movies end in a funny way.
I showed my dad this and he’s never heard of TH-cam. This place is like a time machine for him.
How has he never heard of TH-cam?
@@stevetraskell726 not everyone knows everything
steven spielberg, robert zemeckis, michael j fox, and christopher lloyd did a good job on making a classic!!!
@@directorkid3131 You didn't even mention Alan Silvestri. He wrote the the music. Without it.... ;)
Not even going to mention Jamie Foxx? Dude... okay here I’ll do it for you: And not to mention Jamie Foxx!
Let’s not forget Lea Thompson either.
I totally agree. Back To The Future is the best film ever! ❤
@@lucidlocomotive2014 Not a clue.
Saw this in the theater when I was a kid with my family. I think it's still one of the most fun times I had at the movies ever. There was such a fun-spirited connection in the audience to each other through the film; and a complete knowing that we were all seeing a really great, brilliant and different kind of movie. It was an experience.
I was born in 1983.....First memory ever is of this opening scene!!!! PURE NOSTALGIA!!!!
Born same year same memory. We had this on Betamax!
That's as good a first memory ever as anyone can get for sure!
Not only is this my favorite 80's Movie, but it is my favorite film of all time. I couldn't stop talking about this movie. As a child, I had my parents rent this for me at least five or more times (my parents may as well have bought the VHS tape). Between this and Family Ties, I became a die hard Michael J. Fox Fan.
i love die hard too
I was like that with Space Jam. Every opportunity I had, I rented that damn cartoonish movie!
Marty getting his ass blown away by the amp overloading is gonna live rent free in my head till the end of time.
@ 1:01 .... never noticed the "doc hanging off of the clocktower" clock until now!!! cool easteregg!!
I think its meant to be Harold Lloyd
It’s not actually doc brown it’s from another movie but it is in fact supposed to foreshadow what will happe later in BTTF
It was never there before. Fans would have noticed and talked about it decades ago.
Is Buster Keaton.
It's not. That's Harold Lloyd in a famous scene. However, it is a joke to foreshadow what will happen later.
The original opening was much different. I've read how it was supposed to be in the original script. They shot part of it when Eric Stoltz was playing Marty.
It starts off with a light flashing off a video projector. It's a classroom filled with students watching a documentary about atomic testing going on in the 1950's. There's a reflection of a mushroom cloud off a pair of reflective porshe sunglasses being worn by Marty. Marty is listening to his walkman in class while taping his foot, not paying attention to the film. But the teacher catches him, she removes his sunglasses to see that he's got his eyes closed. She takes off his headphones, where he opens his eyes and smiles weakly at her. She tells him, "Detention!" Marty reports to Strickland's office. Strickland takes Marty's walkman, puts it in a wooden vice attached to his desk and crushes it with the vice. He hands it back to Marty,
Strickland: That's number 3, isn't it?
Marty: Four.
Strickland: You don't like school, do you, McFly?
Marty:(being a wise guy) Oh no, sir, I LOVE school.
Strickland: You've got a real attitude problem, you know that? You're a slacker, McFly. You've got aptitude but you don't apply yourself. You're just like your father. He was a slacker, too.
Strickland tells Marty that Marty has 2 weeks detention for slacking off and having an attitude problem starting this afternoon. Marty tells Strickland that he has a band audition this afternoon but Strickland just says, "Too bad, McFly. I guess this isn't your day." Later, in detention with Strickland in charge, Marty figures out a way to get out. He attaches some gum to a matchbook and uses a rubber band to slingshot it up to the ceiling near a smoke detector. He takes the lens from the projector and uses it and his shades to magnify sunlight onto the matchbook causing it to ignite setting off the fire alarm and the sprinklers(one of which sprays Strickland in the face). Marty borrows a skateboard from someone, promising to return it. He skateboards out of the school and across town, grabbing onto cars and gets to the YMCA where the auditions are being held, makes it just in time for his band's audition and of course is rejected. Later, when he and Jennifer are walking around the part of town where the clocktower is, Doc shows up in an RV. He invites them and it's filled with clocks(just as we see here in this video) all in perfect sync. When they all chime at once, Doc says that he loves that sound and reminds Marty about meeting him at the mall at 1:15 am. Marty also mentions to Jennifer that he met Doc a few years ago and that Doc hired him to sweep out his garage and that he pays him $50 a week. He mentions that Doc's cool and fun to hang around with.
The shots at the school were filmed for sure but not the scenes where the clocktower is because when they made the movie, they shot all the 50's scenes at the clocktower first and then aged the set for the 80's shots. There was no way they could've done that all over again for the Michael J. Fox scenes. They recycled the sequence of grabbing onto cars while skateboarding when Marty's late for school.
@alexanderpytko Very detailed does this actually exist on film?!
watched this film for the very first time yesterday. i wish i could relive the feeling. i was born very much in the late 90s, on the cusp of 2000 so you'd think i would've seen this movie at some point, but i had to voluntarily sit down and watch this myself because i don't think this has ever crossed my path naturally. i kind of don't want to watch the sequels - i feel like the first one ended so satisfyingly, but i'd miss out on more doc and marty interactions.
This is my childhood movie! I will never, ever stop watching it!
me too ! I was a Japanese unversity student!
As a clock collector (new, vintage, and antique and mostly grandfather, wall or mantle clocks) I love this scene a LOT. and actually own some of the same clocks, like the kit cat clock and emperor grandmother clock. I also am a jeep enthusiast and the 3 jeeps later on in the opening (The cj-5 he holds onto while skateboarding, and the cherokee chief xj and grand wagoneer sj in the background) are awesome.
A bit unrealistic scene though (if this movie was realistic to begin with). Imagine winding up those clocks every single day to keep them going, how much time and patience would you need.
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@@Phoenix_cataclysm_in_2040 you only have to wind clicks once a week. 31 day clocks also existed then, along with plug in (non digital) clocks
@@noahbones1221
Didn't realise they were long life clocks. ⌚ 🤔
To me this is the most perfect movie ever made. Truly magical joy.
Steven Spielberg had a great eye for scripts and for taking talent under his wing.
I remember one day, my father turned on Back to the Future, and I kept hearing and seeing the name Michael J. Fox and thought in my head, "I just heard and read the name 'Michael J. Fox. ' Well, WHO IS HE?!"
The guitar amp that Michael J Fox plays is so underrated that it needs a comeback.
One of the many things established right here in the first 5 minutes is that if the movie is portraying a young man being literally blown off his feet by the SOUND from an amplifier, then the movie is not to be taken THAT seriously. Light-hearted fun. It’s already ridiculous. I love that.
Damn that speaker goes ALL THE WAY UP!!!!! Oh and I can imagine the THX Theme playing on that big-ass speaker too LMFAO
I love the fact that this movie,which is characterized by fast-paced humor, explosive car chases, and rock and roll music opens up so quietly in a really slow long take. You can spot that contrast even within its own two sequels.
I just watched this about 3 months ago and has fallen in love with the franchise. Even i know how iconic the trilogy is
God knows how long it must have taken Doc to set the time on all of those clocks.
Watching this movie on tv. Can never get tired of it, super classic!!. "Wutter You Lookin' At Butthead"..
This the best movie ever as a grown up now. I still watch this movie. Very smart man I am now at 42 years old..this movie opened up my mind. To think outside the box..
10/10 Fantastic
Probably my favorite movie of all time. This one is often considered a cinematic classic, and for great reason!
I like how in part 3 they would re-use some of this opening sequence in one scene.
Wow, of all the times I've seen this movie, I'd never noticed the efforts at the clock tower are, indeed, foreshadowed at around the one-minute mark.
It's sort of like in Jurassic Park, when Sam Neil is in the helicopter on the way to the island and discovers his seatbelt has two female receptacles -- but he "finds a way" to make the seatbelt work.
+SDChargersFreak okay, cracked reader
I didn't notice it at first, but I'd say about my 3rd or 4th time watching BTTF, I caught the foreshadow with the Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock, clock.
I don't fully get about the seatbelts
@@ikagura in Jurassic park they only create female dinosaurs so they can’t reproduce and Jeff goldblum tells the scientists “life uh, finds a way” and Alan was able to “find a way” with two female ends of a seatbelt, foreshadowing that the dinosaurs still found a way to reproduce
I never thought about it that way. Good point
2:19-2:32 flat earth clock on the wall. Nice, Doc really is a genius
Best opening to a movie ever. Do not fight me on this .
A good way to perform “Show, Don’t Tell” in storytelling.
Too bad it cuts off at the best part, the mindbogglingly best part. After Marty gets up, the phone rings. He picks up and Doc says "Hello Marty? Yeah Marty I need you to meet me at 1:15 am ok?"
115 is an element on the periodic table known as ununpentium, it is said to be the key to interstellar and or time travel.
I've revisited this movie a few times and I could go on for days at the stuff that blows my mind each time.
Absolute Genius and curious all the while....
-HP
the 115th element is called moscovium and its been named for like twenty years dude. also its half life is less than a second so good luck with the time travel pal
Twin Peaks Mall = Twin Towers
You are a MORON!
IslandGirl 9152 Pines*
@@Cheesemonk3h ununpentium had only been named moscovium in 2016. So in 1985 it was not known in that name, and indeed already were a major thing in the UFO/pseudoscience/conspiracy culture.
Love the giant Amp explosion! When I would watch this in the 80's I would put it on the stereo & blast it as loud as possible, I play guitar & wish I had an Amp that big! 😁🔊🎸💥💗
Xxxxxxisko
4:17 and Marty would be deaf for life after that one.
cr4yv3n for sure
Thank christ he wasn't though
Probably why he was "just too darn loud" during his music audition 🤣🤣
Surprising he was not ?? Xd
@@takuo9779 Coming form Hughy Lewis himself.xd
You left out the best part when Marty says "Rock n roll." I'm sure a lot of people when they saw Steven Spielberg's name on there they were thinking, this oughta be an awesome movie!!! One thing that I noticed a while ago was that one of the clocks that Doc has becomes a foreshadow to the movie with the clock of Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock.
RIP Tony Pope 😢 🙏 💔 😪 😔 😞 (the radio announcer at 1:30). You were one of the most talented voice actors to have ever walked this earth 🌎. You really helped shape my childhood with the JumpStart computer games. I'll never forget those.
Didn’t he voice Goofy in Who Framed Roger Rabbit for one line? “Or a dog.”
@@freddyrichards878 Yes he did. He also voiced Goofy in 1987's "Sports Goofy in Soccermania," as well as in the 1979 song "Watch Out for Goofy," found on the album "Mickey Mouse Disco"
@@stevetraskell726 Gotta say, Tony kind of (ironically) sounded like Bill Farmer’s Goofy (his well-known high-pitched southern voice since Goof Troop, unlike the former dopey voice the character originally had in the classic years).
Everyone's talking about that hanging-Doc-easter-egg @ 1:00 but don't yall realize that it's Doc Brown's own past?
no, from the looks of it (glasses, hat) it seems to be harold lloyd in that classic scene from "safety last".. doc browns stunt was a parody of that scene.
I remember I was 12 the first time I saw this movie and instantly fell in love with Michael J Fox.
Hard to believe that Michael was 26 when she shot this thanks for the upload..xd
24 actually
@@victorianew900 Oh .
24. . XD
@@victorianew900 No, actually 23, in february of 1985.
i still remember watching this for the first time in 6th grade.. how time flies man..
I love the *Harold Lloyd clock at 1:01 mark. So cool. That *Harold Lloyd clock, for those that may not know, is a reference to the 1923 film "Safety Last". A novel recreation of the classic and iconic "hangin' from the clock hands scene".
Ok, 2 things. 1, I'm amazed Marty didn't go def after this, and 2? I'm amazed he's alive after that!!
I still can't believe this film was directed by Robert Zemicks who also directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit. However I love 80s films. I feel like that decade had the best films. From Virginia Clark. ☺🍒🐦🌍🌎🌏🏡
That's a lot of clocks!
Brilliant use of symbolism for the underlying theme of the movie.
They all show the exact same time too... weird
@@sosteam2797 Well, you’d want your clocks to be synchronized, wouldn’t you?
@@NoTraceOfSense ye ig
4:14 me playing electric guitar on a tube amp for the first time
No dramatic loud music no intense stuff just clocks ticking its perfect how it is
Shows that the Doc was gone but hasn't been gone for too long. Excellent sequence.
Totally forgot about the pic of him hanging on the clock.
The jazzy poster type logo wasn't introduced until the VHS release. The original title was in the same font as the credits.
Nobody:
Me: Get's a Calvin Klein ad...
change my mind, this is the best movie of all time.
LOL Agreed
Opening credits differences for all 3 parts:
-In Parts 1 and 2, "Starring" appears above Michael J. Fox's name, but not in Part 3. Also in Parts 1 and 2, Lea Thompson is billed third after Christopher Lloyd, but in Part 3, she's billed last.
-In Parts 1 and 3, the opening credits are white. In Part 2, they're yellow. The title cards for Parts 1 and 3 are displayed over black screens. The one for Part 2 is displayed over clouds.
-In Part 1, there's no music playing when the title card appears onscreen. Just the sound of clocks ticking. In Parts 2 and 3, there is music playing when the title cards appear.
Did I miss anything?
who in their right minds would dislike this
The Libyans
We have the whole movie set on DVD and I remember watching all 3 so many times when I was super young. Such a good trilogy
All the clocks say 7:53 except for one on the ground sitting on its side near the plutonium that reads 8:18. Since the clock is on the ground on its side it was most likely was used in a DeLorean time travel experiment when Doc calls and says it worked.
No. Temporal experiment number 1 was conducted in Marty's presence at the Twin Pines Mall on Saturday October 26 1985 at 1:20am.
Russell Froggatt sorry but she's correct. Doc did travel through time already. That's why there's a hole in the timelines. How do I know you might ask? Doc was already wearing the bullet proof vest the first time he was shot.
@@talkobelch128 Erm... you sure? That only happened due to Marty's letter...
@@talkobelch128 I don't think so it happened only when Marty sent the letter to Doc
Doc was wearing the bullet proof vest because he choose to read the letter he destroyed. In 85A, his dog was the first to time travel. In 85B, he knew his invention already worked because helped since 85A's with Marty back into 1985, so he had to make sure to build the machine exactly like it was and make sure 85B's Marty is killed so 85A's Marty would be in the new timeline. How you guys are missing this is beyond me.
Einstein is da best science doge ever!
0:48. You see that clock with the man leaning on a pole swigging some alcohol? I think that might be a reference to Red Thomas, the guy who says "crazy, drunk driver" just after Marty returns to 1985 at the end of the film. He was drunk on a bench when Marty returned to the future at the end of the film.
Red Thomas isn’t red the bum.
@@Cuuuuuuurtis there’s a TH-cam videos arguing that Red Thomas is the mayor who lost the mayoral election and his life went downhill further and he eventually became a drunk. Check it out. It’s interesting.
I had me a pair of Nike's like Martys wearing back then in school!! But who didn't!! Lol
FUN FACT: At 1:30, the radio announcer's voice in this scene is done by none other than the late great Tony Pope, perhaps best known for his voice work on the original Jumpstart games produced by Knowledge Adventure. Here, he sounds very much like his Mr. Hopsalot voice from both the 1994 and 1998 versions of JumpStart Kindergarten.
I've always wondered if the clock experiment had anything to do with time travel.
most likely.
He calls that night and tells Marty he had a breakthrough. No doubt it was connected to the clock experiment
Probably there was some weird thing about time having a slight delay over time so he needed it for calculations
@@davemarin7340 That's the best theory I've seen so far.
@@grape512 but what i really mean is- i imagine that since time gets manipulated by spacetime its ending up slower than supposed to be, so doc probably made an experiment about that and the clocks delaying confirmed it. The results can be used to adjust the deloreans accuracy for actually reaching their destination
Those clocks are quite mesmerizing.
Wednesday 1st July 2020. Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd are both wonderful. Michael suffers from Parkinson Disease and he still makes everyone smile. Such a star. ❤ Virginia Clark.?! ;) ;( :) 😀🎤🐶🦊
I love it when he runs over the tree and changes the name of the mall.
This has been my favorite movie for a while and since I have become a Black Sabbath fan I like it even more
One of the best movies of all time.
2:29 brilliant! A dog food machine!
Seeing this at the beginning of the movie brings me a mix of both curiosity and disgust simply because it’s canned dog food but at least the invention is cool.
Shame the dog food looks like shit! Literally!
4:15 I wish I could do that obe day
I love the part in this movie where it forewarns you about 9.II
Friday 7th February 2020. I love Back To The Future. One of the best 80s films ever. :) :( ;) Virginia
Did anyone else have a crush on MJF's hands from this sequence?
Back to the future pt.2 added the concept of paradigm shift to my vocabulary.
Thursday 9th January 2020. I love Back To The Future. It is one of the best films ever. ❤ Virginia
best movie of all time
Doc Brown must HATE daylight savings time
This was the first movie i saw alone. It blew my mind
"Rock n' Roll"
Honestly, this is the most random intro I’ve ever seen. Especially the guitar part. But I love it
Everything in this scene has a purpose, though.
That chord knocked his socks off. 🎸 💥
0:35 How me and the other clock collectors show our collections such as Clock TV, Clock 1010,Clock 5000,DannysClocks,Etc.
Yé:))
1:30 Statler Toyota Commercial
1:49 Television News
Huh, never noticed that Plutonium theft thing.
The opening was my favorite part
Living in Overdrived Mode is Fantastic !!! ...
I love that 1960's " kit cat owl clock" @ 1:06
I will never bored about this movies
Are GREAT!
One of the greatest films of all time ^^
I hope they never try to remake this movie
1985 looks better than 2019 now
When u want to be a the awesome guitar guy in a band when u grow up!
I like how this clock amount scene is probably about how some people have a craze about something that will be a critical object in the future
The clock experiment led to the breakthrough announced late that night
The reporter is Deborah Harmon, perhaps best known for her role in director Zemeckis’s 1980 comedy classic, “Used Cars.”
People think that the man hanging from the clock but i believe it's from an old black and white movie called "Safety Last" Where a man hangs from a clock
+TerminalJosh its Harold Lloyd
i remember when i watched this movie with my mom and laughed so hard when i saw that scene with the guitar as i was a little drunk
1:01 Emmet Brown hanging at the clock tower
It's actually Harold Lloyd hanging on a clock, which that painting or movie or whatever it was in the 20's inspired that scene of Doc hanging from the clock tower.
+sportsygirl8 It would've been pretty cool if both lloyd's were related to each other.
Yeah, it really would!
+sportsygirl8 Can't you just imagine?.i wonder if chris knows who harold is? not much at all.
I wonder that too, surprised no one ever asked him that question about Harold Lloyd after being in Back to the Future. I'm sure that Chris knows who Harold is, but as you said not much! I didn't know who Harold Lloyd was till I was reading Back to the Future: The Ultamate Visual History where Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock was inspiration for that clock tower scene. In fact in the book Steven Spielberg made a comment saying "Instead of Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock, it'll be Christopher Lloyd!"
Timeless
2:46 Seeing the shadow of someone shooting a scene of this part you can see the reflection through that clock.
I wonder how Marty and Doctor Brown got to be friends? Like what is a high school student who wants to be a musician doing hanging out with an older weird scientist guy? Not that that's a bad thing - I love the relationship between Marty and the Doc - but it's not the most likely pairing so naturally it makes me wonder what the backstory would be. My mind kind of just filled it in as "oh he must be a friend of the family and known Marty since he was little or something."
Have you guy wore your earbuds, turning up the volume and Marty to crank up the amp for his guitar? Rock and Roll.
This would be a great alarm clock sound.