The scene of George finally standing up to Biff was incredible. You can hear a slight hint of fear in his words, but in that moment, he was willing to accept the consequences of what he was saying/doing. Anyone who's been bullied in their life and never mustered the courage to stand up for themselves can celebrate this moment.
I think that's the real moral of the story. A young man learns to stop being a puss and become a man by teaching his dad to not be a puss and become a man. Except they skipped a bully generation for Marty, he didn't have a Tannen (or O'Doyle) making his life hell the way his dad and later son did. Of course at some point they realized this and invented the poorly thought out Needles character.
I never thought that Marty was having an anxiety attack during “Earth Angel”. I always thought he was unable to perform because he was being “erased from time”. The same thing happens to Biff in part 2 when he returns the Time Machine back to 2015.
@@trekkiejunk @Chubbs426 Yet, after pointing out the discouragement from Strickland, the committee at the audition, and possibly from George at home; I can see the anxiety attack angle here making sense.
There may be no evidence to prove my point, but I can see how, IF the erasure process was somehow NOT instant, it WOULD priovide overwhelming anxiety that could not be handled
Is that why Old Biff was able to return to the original future timeline? Because from Old Biff's perspective the "change" happens slowly (like when Marty is slowly starting to disappear)? Hmm this actually makes sense now (well, it doesn't actually, because when Biff changed the past, the future would instantly change, but not in BTTF), in BTTF it always takes some time until a change happens... but does it make sense that Marty gets the letter from Doc from 1885 in this timeline? Probably not because what we see is yet another timeline... maybe, I dunno😵💫
I'm in my mid forties and have seen BTTF a hundred times and just realized the amp was specifically built for Marty. I always just assumed it was a weird science thing that happened to be in the lab. But now realizing, yeah, there'd be no reason for Doc to use his time and talents on building a huge amp just for the sake of having a huge amp. Really solidifies their relationship and friendship.
I’ve seen BTTF easily 100 times and I’ve watched dozens of TH-cam breakdowns of “things we missed” / “Easter eggs”, and this is the first video I’ve seen in at least 10 years that has actually given me something new to think about when analyzing the movie. Thank you for all the hard work that went into putting this together.
Adding on (and forgive me if they cover any of this in the comics) - I had the thought while watching your video that I would have loved to see a Doc Brown movie that chronicled the years from 1955 to 1985. I kind of envision it as a completely different type of movie compared to anything else in the series, but there is potential beneath the surface for them to have told an intriguing and emotional story centered around Doc living with the pressure of having to build the Time Machine, meeting Marty for the first time (without knowing exactly when and how it would happen, etc.). They could have even further developed his romantic history and tied in elements of Part III. Like I said, definitely a very different movie, but would have been interesting. I have a feeling a lot of this is covered in the comics, but still fun to envision.
I've been watching the film for the past 35 years (I am 41 now) and it NEVER gets old. It's in my top 5 films ever made, along with another time travel film called Donnie Darko (which even references BTTF and also takes place in suburban 80s).
It's somehow a film that does everything you want it to without doing much at all. I've also watched it a silly amount of times 😀. They say it's being remade. I hope they don't ..
Same. I clicked this video expecting to be “yeah, already knew that” at every single bit of trivia, but there were quite a few things in here that I’d never noticed or knew before. Impressive work!
It's my favorite movie too, but for 30 years I have felt quite alone because I never met anyone else who really liked the trilogy. In fact it was never mentioned on TV or in the media, just totally forgotten. And when I told anyone my favorite film was BBTF, they would usually laugh at me, as if to say: "That's like a baby's film!" It's only this last few years I am now finding mentions of BTTF online, and encountering other fans. On one hand, it's nice to finally feel I'm not alone, though on the other hand it's slightly annoying because all of a sudden there just seems to be BTTF fans absolutely EVERYWHERE now. Like, where have all these people been hiding over the last 40 years? It's hard to know if the film is popular or not. If it's popular, why was it barely even mentioned in the media during the 90s and 00s?
Doc and Martin are friends, cause "they've always been". Doc knew he needed to befriend Martin, the same way he knew he needed to built his time machine.
This video was great. This is my favorite movie of all time and everytime I see an article or video about it, I almost get frustrated because I feel like I know all the nuances and trivia of the film by now. This is the first video in years I've watched that is pointing things out I never knew. That's incredible!
Right…I’m the same way..seen all 3 about a hundred times and every time I see a article or video about..there’s nothing that I already knew, but the way Voss broke it down blew my mind 🤯
THANKS so much for this comment! I started watching the video but gave up on it early on as I found the presenting style very shouty and annoying. But then I read your comment and it inspired me to watch the whole video. I'm so glad I did. I too thought I knew everything there was to know about this film, and I get tired of the same old boring observations being made. But this video is actually really fresh. He noticed things I've never noticed before. Quite an incredible level of observation, really.
I was gonna say almost the EXACT same thing! Lol It's my absolute favorite movie series ever. I always wondered what significance Red played since everyone played some part. Also all the little things being brought up. Great great video. Thanks so much for making this!
I always read the part of Doc having a massive amp as the reason for Marty being friends with him. But watching this made me realize that from *Doc's* perspective, if he had to work to *make* the time loop close (and the timeline isn't self-healing and self-correcting) he would have been in a situation where he *had* to get Marty mixed up in the experiment in a way that made it possible for what was written in the letter to happen! So it might have been more a case of Doc getting a massive amp *because* that would make it easier for him to befriend this high school kid?
Doc is naturally friends with Marty. The Doc from the beginning of the movie had not met Marty in the past. So he doesn’t have a huge amp purposely to be friends with him. They became friends like real friends (and fortunately).
One of my favorite parts about Back to the Future is that everything is telegraphed. There's always some event that subtly or blatantly explains why certain things happen. One of my favorite payoffs is related to the note that Marty gives Doc. You never see him actually throw the note away; he puts it into his pocket after tearing it up. And when Marty tells Doc that his dad had never stood up to Biff, you can see the gears turning in Doc's head... until he's interrupted. But he then has 30 years to ponder and decide that certain things are okay to change.
Those are called plants and the effective use of them in BTTF is a big reason why this movie is so highly regarded. Every single plant flies completely under the radar until the payoff and the subsequent ah-ha moment alerts you to the plant. One of the best plants is of course the pine tree and the Twin Pines Mall/Lone Pine Mall sign. It's never even spoken but occurs 1 hour and 25 minutes apart from plant to payoff.
Thank you for giving a shout out to the composer. Silvestri did an absolutely fantastic job of blending "sci fi Lydian strangeness" with classic "American Hero fanfare" in the score. I studied film music back in around 2008, and this was always one of my favourites.
I absolutely love this movie and now I think you’ve set yourself up by doing such a good job that you have to do the entire trilogy. If you do, I would love for you to address how in this movie, Marty literally parrots his father’s words when he says, “I’m not sure I can take that kind of rejection” yet in parts two and three, he gets into trouble because he doesn’t want to be called a chicken. So, it always made me wonder if this was done to show that even though we think Marty was the same person as before, given that he remembered his old life, we also have to assume that in returning to this alternate 1985, Marty may have started to embody the traits of his self that grew up with these parents who probably would have taught their son not to back down or let anyone make him think he can’t do something. This likely made Marty more arrogant and self-destructive, because growing up he didn’t back down from a fight or a challenge, even when he knew better, going from a life ruled by fear to one more driven by pride.
"Literally parrots?" That's an interesting phrase. "Parrots" used in this way is a euphemism, but you modify it with "literally", indicating that it's NOT a euphemism, and an actual live bird should be involved. When you parrot someone, you say their actual words. That's what real parrots do, and why it's a euphemism. You actually changed the definition away from what you meant when you added "literally." LOL
This is my all time favorite movie. This breakdown gave me some even more Easter eggs I never knew existed. Thank you, Voss, for this. Now do parts II and III!!
after all these years watching the movie and these type of youtube video's i was convinced I knew all the easter eggs. Unbelieveble that there were still more to learn!
biggest easter egg is the fact a hollywood director new they were going to take the twin towers down in 1984 85 while making this film how the hell did he know is what i would like to know
@@kennethstewart-hj6go the twin towers? Are you referencing the Twin Pines Mall, in which later only one of the trees was destroyed? Thats more of a stretch than a pole vaulter at the Olympics *eyes roll so far back i can read the washing instructions on my tshirt*🙄
Wow…I never thought anyone could show me something new about BTTF that I didn’t already know, but you pulled it off amazingly! It really just makes my appreciation of this movie go higher! You guys should be proud of what you made here!
So true... I've watched BTTF and its sequels many many times and have seen several analyses by YT creators over the years. I thought just about everything that could be said about the films had been said and every easter egg had been uncovered. To see that almost 40 years later there's still more easter eggs and interesting facts/theories to be had is truly astonishing. This demonstrates why BTTF (the first movie of the trilogy in particular) is one of the best films of all time.
One of my favorite film trilogies of all time. Growing up in southern CA, it was cool to actually be able to go check out some of the film locations, many of which are still standing. The chase scene was filmed at the Puente Hills Mall and if you stand at a certain spot, you can see the layout for the entire scene. Doc's mansion is also in Pasadena.👍🏽
I've been an insane "Back to the Future" fan my whole life, and there was foreshadowing and parallels I never got until your deep dive here. I LOVED this video!! Thanks so much for putting it together! Here's to hoping you do parts II and III. 🙂
Eric, you are a hero to us all. You gotta spend so much damn time looking for all these details and thank you so much for it! I’ve been following new rockstars for a while, watching all the marvel videos, then your other videos peaked my interest. But you Eric really just keep me coming back! Thanks for all the little things you’ve been able to point out! 🤙
Jumping ahead a bit, in Part III the Marshall was telling his son something (I just rewatched it last week) and I was puzzled by the unnecessary line. Then I realized that the Marshall was Strickland, a forefather of the teacher. These movies are full of internal references and connections, which is part of what makes them so interesting. As with the opening clocks scene, there are little bits of cleverness that are not obvious. Like the Twin Pines Mall becoming the Lone Pine Mall. Most directors would have zoomed in to make sure we noticed.
There's no way that the young kid is Principal Strickland however. There's no way Strickland could have been the age he was in 1955 or even alive in 1985 if he was a child in 1885. If he was like ten years old in 1885, he would have had to been born in like 1875. He could have still been alive in 1955 (around age 80 years old), but there's no way that Strickland was 80 years old in 1955, as he appears far younger than that. If he was still alive in 1985, he would have been around 110 years old. Now, it still could make sense, but that young kid would have had to been Principal Strickland's father and not Principal Strickland himself. If Mr. Strickland was like 40 in 1955 and like 70 in 1985, he would have been born around 1915, which is 30 years after 1885. The young kid would have been around 40 in 1915, so, he totally could have been Mr. Strickland's father. But there's no way the young kid was Mr. Strickland, as he would have been WAY older in 1955 and 1985 than he was. Though it's implied the young kid is supposed to be Principal Strickland, making a joke that he is ancient. But in reality, there's no way in the glorious name of Issac Newton that young kid is Mr. Strickland in the future.
@matthewcastleton2263 And I believe here's where a deleted scene makes all the difference. In Part III, there is a deleted scene between the festival and the morning of the duel where Burford Tannen killed Marshall Strickland, and the Marshall's last words were to his son was the "Discipline" quote. I always believed that this left a mark on the young Strickland, and the whole thing became a family motto/belief.
@@matthewcastleton2263Gerald as we learned is the principal's first name in the game was born in 1925 so in 1955 he would've been 30 in 2015 he was 90 and 1885 he was not even born yet (-40)
Honestly, its real easy to say the time loop had started with Marty saving Doc the first time. Hence Doc knowing to hire Marty. Hence it creates a new loop of Doc ALWAYS knowing about Marty, hence already knowing all bout him. Then after the bonding with Marty getting to know him, then going back to build the friendship with 1955 Doc.
I’ve watched this movie probably hundreds of times since I was 6 years old and you explained the hell out of it. It works on so many levels and while somethings I always caught into. There’s this small details that I’ve never caught. Thank You! 🙏🏾
What a great video. The scene of Doc realising he'll have to zipline down to reconnect the cables mixed in with the music and Marty getting close is one of my favorites of all time.
This was awesome! I was in high school when Back to the Future came out. It has remained one of my favorite movies of all time. I consider it a timeless classic. The deeper narrative of the story that you describe in your breakdown made me feel a greater appreciation for the creative story telling of film's creators. So glad you posted this breakdown. I'm looking forward to the next time I watch the movie. Thanks!
Think Marty was carrying a Duffel bag not a punching bag , Korean War ended in 53 so probably alot of vets and army surplus had those from WW2 and Korea, no biggie! These deep dives are so great! Thanks Erik!
I'm so glad this popped up on my feed. BTTF is my favorite film trilogy of all time (with the controversial choice of part three being my favorite, as it's usually considered everyone's least favorite) and seeing you so thoroughly analyze and point out such minor details was amazing. I loved this video so much.
This rekindles my desire to make a FanEdit turning the trilogy into a single film. It jumps around the timelines like a coked out Tarantino and Nolan are behind the wheel, but it's awesome.
@The Deep Dive It all started with me doing my own Deep Dive, putting all the overlapping and mirrored scenes next to each other. The FanEdit pretty much plays in reverse like Memento or Irreversible opening with Marty going back to the old west, but we get some Tarantino style jumping around. I'd love to finish it, but cleaning up the audio is such a pain. I wish i could get movies without the score. Eric would like my Lost The Movie, it's all the post plane crash stuff, minus the flashbacks, up to the hatch opening as a film.
My greatest FanEdit achievements are: Turning seasons 1 of both Stranger Things and Daredevil into movies. And despite Peter Jackson's wishes turning the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy into a single film. It's weird, it begins as a heros journey that fails half way and turns into a war movie. My ending is way better too. Coming next though, I'm polishing up the MCU Phase 1 as a single Avengers film.
Great video, but I object to one point. Nitpicky, I know, but: I think George's hair only went gray in the timeline where he was a success. Because he actually took risks and didn't avoid conflict and confrontation. He may have avoided gray hair in the initial timeline, but he also avoided countless opportunities to better himself.
This is phenomenal stuff! Liked and subbed. May be too much to ask for considering a half hour deep dive is serious editing and scripting work but will you do part II?
When Marty returns to 1985 from 55 you can definitely tell that Docs attitude is far more confident in their exchanges from there on out. While he remains lovable and goofy in the trilogy, there’s an obvious character arc. By Part 3 he’s even ready to ventilate Bufford Tannen with a rifle like frickin “Eastwood”. Hence why even to his own astonishment, he made something that actually works in 1955. Thirty years of being a Hill Valley social pariah, disgraced scientist and having failed countless experiments would probably take an emotional and mental toll no doubt. Just the mere fact of Marty finding Doc and him seeing his success alters time already, hence why Doc figures “what the hell”. He already altered time just by proving a successful experiment to his 1955 “counter part”.
yes, I noticed that also after watching the movies over 100 times.. Docs disposition changed soo much by bttf 3 , like when he tells marty " you have to do what you have to do , and I have to do what I have to do"
After watching this in theaters in 1985, I too thought it was strange that a teenager would hang out with a weird and socially awkward scientist, especially since he has an entire family at home. But as the years went on, I realized that the family was the reason for his friendship with Doc. You can tell at the beginning how dissappointed Marty is with his dad, George, and how weak George is and puts up with Biff. Marty was looking for that father figure that he wasn't getting at home. He needed a mentor and who better than someone who experiments, builds a massive amp for him, and has a pup :). This is why Marty hangs out with Doc.
Voss, you did it again, you rapscallion. Your video essays are truly works of art. Keep doing what you're doing. I have a new found love and appreciation for this IP now. Thank you for all you do!!
I did see this in theaters and I remember how it ended on such an insane cliffhanger without the to be continued. Because it was also the first VHS my family bought and when I saw the to be continued I recalled it not being in the theatrical version, thus I was bragging to all my friends that they were definitely making a sequel because they added that later.
I’ve seen this movie so many times including the documentaries and interviews. I was shocked to actually learn a few things. Love the deep dive into old movies with the same details New Age Rockstars puts into their reviews of current movies. Good job!
It's weird that George and Lorraine never recognize that their son Marty grows up to look exactly like their friend Marty from high school. And if Lorraine thought that "Marty" was a nice name, then why didn't Dave get named Marty?
Very well done. You can hear, and see the excitement emanating from you. An absolute timeless classic, and being born in '85 I've always felt this connection. Can't wait to see what you have next. Actually could you do 'Big Trouble in Little China' ?
I just realized Marc McClure was in Superman the movie in which Superman turns back time. Then he was in BTTF. Then he was in Zack Synder's Justice League, in which the Flash turns back time. Interesting.
This is the Deep Dive I’ve been waiting for. You did not disappoint. I thought I knew everything about this movie, but you showed me a few new things. Looks like I’m going to have to watch it again (as if I needed a reason). Would love to see a DD on 2 and 3. Keep up the great work Erik!
Erik out here just killing it dead. Lots of people have analyzed this movie over the years, but I love the obsession with detail juxtaposed with context that Erik brings to the show. Well done!
I thought that pretty much everything has already been said about this movie, but you brought some extra bits that were new and very inspiring for me. Thanks a lot for making this deep dive, and sorry that I could hit the thumbs up only once.
This dive was amazing!!! My favorite movie ever. That bit about Doc being a father figure to Marty has always been in my head. The two have more compassion for each other than Marry and his own dad. Look at the western union letter Doc gave Marty. Great job.
When you imagine what it would have been like if the film ended with Doc, Marty, and Jennifer jetting into the future, and no sequels afterwards, you know how we all felt for the next four years.
A few months before BBTF 2 came out, they released the book! I saw it at the Walden bookstore at the mall and read the whole thing in 1 night!! I was like 12
Something that you might have missed. Marty's brother is played by the guy who was Jimmy Olsen in the Superman movies and the first movie involved time travel.
Great video, BTTF is one of my favorites. BTW the red-haired guy from the Enchantment Under the Sea dance is Courtney Gaines, who w played Malachai in Children of the Corn AND the character Rags in Hardbodies.
I had expected as I aged, this movie would not age well..... And yet, here I am in my 40s now, and I STILL love this movie. I even enjoy the sequels. And to be honest, Rick and Morty have helped me appreciate these movies even more.
I loved the setup of this review... how you started talking about it being a son saving his father, only to reveal that Doc Brown was the father figure all along who needed to be befriended and saved... I love that....
I thought I knew everything about this movie....apparently not. Wow I'm totally blown away by the level of detail Eric goes into here. Best channel on TH-cam. Thanks guys.
Great deep dive video. Thank you for putting this together - some nuggets in there even for us die-hards who think we know all (or most) about the BTTF trilogy. Well done.
18:00 it does make sense because technically George still had a chance to go with Loraine to the dance but when Marty came into the picture it was erasing that future timeline slowly because she changed her mind and went to docs to ask Marty to go to the dance. Grandfather paradox.
The thing that makes the Doc is Marty's real "dad" angle really work is that, Marty's real dad is totally different person and Marty has missed all of that, his new dad might as well be a stranger to him. Whereas when it comes to Doc, Marty already was friends with him and knew him but then when the events of the movie happened he got to know him even better. So Marty now knows Doc way better than he knows his real dad.
@@DeepDiveNR I wrote one too where they repurposed the 4x4 into another time machine and went to medieval England to fight Sir Tannen...lol I was 10 and based it off the cartoon where nothing mattered and everywhere they went had a Tannen.
I'd always thought it would have been even better if, instead of tapping Marty's letter back together, Doc had said something like, "Do you think I wouldn't have prepared for them to come after me? I stole their plutonium!"
One thing you got wrong: Eddie Van Halen didn't write that song for the movie Back to The Future. It was written for the movie "The Wild Life" which stars Lea Thompson and Eric Stoltz.
E.Voss- did the kids fade from the picture in that order because of their age? Meaning Martys brother was born first so the closest to the timeline of events of the parents meeting and then his sister and finally Marty. Love the new channel- awesome work!!!
@@DeepDiveNR Dave disappearing first makes more sense when you consider he's probably not actually George's son in the original timeline considering context clues in the movie the odds are Biff got what he wanted because of George's failure to act originally.
I love the entire Back to the Future saga. It’s mentioned in the video that Marty saved the clock tower by diverting the lightning to the DeLoreon. In all actuality he didn’t save it, in the alternate 1985, the clock still looks burnt. In BTTFII, the older gentleman asks Marty for money to replace the clock tower.
I was so obsessed with this movie! I could quote nearly every line and knew all the history and behind the scenes stuff. Essentially my favorite movie until End Game. When I heard them mention Back To The Future with the time travel, it was an incredible cinematic “spiritual” moment for me…my jaw dropped and I got goosebumps! This Deep Dive was amazing…It’s like you’re the real life Parzival or Wade Watts! ♟🍻🥇🧩
this is interesting coincidence, i literally just got done rewatching the entire trilogy so it was nice surprise to find this video considering it was uploaded just 11 days ago, Voss is great on his New Rockstars channel
Oh man, Erik! This was awesome! When you have time, you should do a deep dive for BTTF 2 and 3. 😀 One little trivia point you should highlight. Did you notice the difference between Marty and his kids? For years I felt there was something different about Michael J. Fox when he played Marty Jr. and Marlene, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Then one day, I noticed their eyes. Marty has blue eyes, but Marty Jr. And Marlene have brown eyes. Very subtle, but effective. 😀
There is a paradox with the this movie. The friendship between Marty and the Doc, this is a classic example of a bootstrap paradox. After all who was friends with who first? As an added bonus it also mimics the classic friendship paradigm between a father and son. This of course also implies a deterministic representation within a many worlds theoretical universal construct. What will be, will be, as it were.
By far my favorite movie of all time. I love how Doc had to fake his death to the terrorist for the plutonium. Or how he almost burns his garage with his scale model of the town. Maybe a little foreshadowing his home burning (debatable). Also how right before Marty writes that letter he tells Doc "yea I'ma miss you too". Implying that although Doc may succeed in his invention he would never get to time travel for himself. Maybe causing him to repair the letter. It's crazy how deep you could break down this movie. Even now as an adult I can enjoy it even more. Thank you for the content.
I'm sure that several people have already mentioned this, but Mayor Red Thomas was played by Hal Gausman, the set decorator. Once Marty started to disappear, that means that someone in the future just took a picture of a well. Otherwise, the photograph itself should have disappeared. Imagine in 1985, Dave's at work and his head starts fading away. That would be a horrific way to go. Also, what if when Doc, Marty, and Jennifer got to 2015, they arrive to a time when Jennifer and Marty mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. That honestly is what should have happened. I once had a theory that at a young age, Marty's uncle Joey (according to the newspaper clipping, it would have been when he was around seven or eight) accidentally set fire to the Brown mansion and that's why it burned down. Once he got a taste for arson, he couldn't stop himself from doing it again, hence ending up in prison. Marty might have followed in his uncle's footprints when he accidentally set fire to the living room rug at eight years old, but the apparently harsh punishment his parents gave him curtailed that. Oh, and the red headed bully was played by Courtney Gains, who was in Children of the Corn. I've worked with him on a western that was filmed here in Tucson. Great guy.
I love this movie and part III how it book-ends the complete story. Part II is really odd to me partially because the movie really doesn't end up happening in their timeline... other than Doc and Marty's memories. BUT... a darker way to look at Part II is how many times Doc is there to catch Marty when he jumps off the roof, to lower down the flags to keep him from getting run over.... I think that Part II is an extension of Doc's "Oh what the hell..." and he has to loop back many, MANY times to save Marty from deaths that Doc has witnessed over and over and feels responsible for. With those thoughts, it makes MUCH more sense in III that Doc was like "Oh... Not this time" and decided to stay there and not screw up Marty's time line any further. ☮❤🎶
Man i love the insights you and your team are able to drum up. My brain just never picks up on these crazy things. Thank you for sharing this great work!
The choice of Marty to save his dad comes about AFTER he travelled back in time, the time travel was not for that reason, it was totally accidental. Also you state that Marty befriends his dad to be able to get back home. This is also not true! To get back home he needs to utilize the thunder storm which does not happen for days yet so he has to spend time in 1955 waiting for that night. Meeting his dad then helping his dad gain self confidence was an accident. Granted that does not mean you are wrong about the story being about him saving his dad, you just get some details wrong! And you claim it's one of your most favourite movies of all time! 😂 I've only seen it two or three times in the 80's and 90's, I don't think I've watched it in the past 20 years and yet those details are clear as day to me! lol
That's just not correct. Marty would have had to went DIRECTLY to Doc Brown and not run into his dad, for him to just utilize the thunderstorm. Unfortunately, he ran into his Dad and got distracted on his way to find Doc Brown. So, him helping his Dad was absolutely a requirement for him to get home or he wouldn't have had a home to go to. He would have been erased from existence shortly after returning to a different 1985.
That was the most in-depth analysis I've ever seen about this wo wonderfully iconic movie! It's been one of my top favorite movies since I first saw it in the 80's and after watching this video, I love it even more!
This was so great! Thanks for posting it. There were so many small tiny details that I missed. Great job! Please do the 2nd and 3rd as well. I would LOVE to see that.
I started watching this thinking this would be the same old stuff repeated again, but at olny 14 mins in, I am blown away by how much I didn't know! This is absolutely fantastic 👏
I have watched allot of back to the future analysis videos, this honestly is the best - Well researched, well presented along with not been too serious, absolutely brilliant. Totally subscribed, cant wait to get stuck in to your other videos!
Got to watch the full trilogy this weekend on the big screen! Seeing the conscious repetition of the films was great and I was happy to be able to pay better attention to the town square stuff, etc. Thank you!
You could truly break down these three movies all day. There's so much. And just so much to even talk about. "Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain." George Mcfly Greatest movie quote ever
The song played by the Pinheads was the actual demo of The Power of Love that Huey gave to Zemekis.. I watched a Huey Lewis bio on TH-cam to learn this
The scene of George finally standing up to Biff was incredible. You can hear a slight hint of fear in his words, but in that moment, he was willing to accept the consequences of what he was saying/doing. Anyone who's been bullied in their life and never mustered the courage to stand up for themselves can celebrate this moment.
Just like in back to the future 3 at the drive in dock says to infinity and beyond.
Thank you! Overcoming fear for a good cause.
I think that's the real moral of the story. A young man learns to stop being a puss and become a man by teaching his dad to not be a puss and become a man. Except they skipped a bully generation for Marty, he didn't have a Tannen (or O'Doyle) making his life hell the way his dad and later son did. Of course at some point they realized this and invented the poorly thought out Needles character.
George knew he had to do something. Lorraine was being raped by Biff!
I never thought that Marty was having an anxiety attack during “Earth Angel”. I always thought he was unable to perform because he was being “erased from time”. The same thing happens to Biff in part 2 when he returns the Time Machine back to 2015.
Agreed. I've never heard the "anxiety attack" thing either. That's quite a hot take.
@@trekkiejunk @Chubbs426 Yet, after pointing out the discouragement from Strickland, the committee at the audition, and possibly from George at home; I can see the anxiety attack angle here making sense.
Agreed. I think this theory is just his imagination.
There may be no evidence to prove my point, but I can see how, IF the erasure process was somehow NOT instant, it WOULD priovide overwhelming anxiety that could not be handled
Is that why Old Biff was able to return to the original future timeline? Because from Old Biff's perspective the "change" happens slowly (like when Marty is slowly starting to disappear)? Hmm this actually makes sense now (well, it doesn't actually, because when Biff changed the past, the future would instantly change, but not in BTTF), in BTTF it always takes some time until a change happens... but does it make sense that Marty gets the letter from Doc from 1885 in this timeline? Probably not because what we see is yet another timeline... maybe, I dunno😵💫
I'm in my mid forties and have seen BTTF a hundred times and just realized the amp was specifically built for Marty. I always just assumed it was a weird science thing that happened to be in the lab. But now realizing, yeah, there'd be no reason for Doc to use his time and talents on building a huge amp just for the sake of having a huge amp. Really solidifies their relationship and friendship.
I’ve seen BTTF easily 100 times and I’ve watched dozens of TH-cam breakdowns of “things we missed” / “Easter eggs”, and this is the first video I’ve seen in at least 10 years that has actually given me something new to think about when analyzing the movie. Thank you for all the hard work that went into putting this together.
Adding on (and forgive me if they cover any of this in the comics) - I had the thought while watching your video that I would have loved to see a Doc Brown movie that chronicled the years from 1955 to 1985. I kind of envision it as a completely different type of movie compared to anything else in the series, but there is potential beneath the surface for them to have told an intriguing and emotional story centered around Doc living with the pressure of having to build the Time Machine, meeting Marty for the first time (without knowing exactly when and how it would happen, etc.). They could have even further developed his romantic history and tied in elements of Part III. Like I said, definitely a very different movie, but would have been interesting. I have a feeling a lot of this is covered in the comics, but still fun to envision.
I've been watching the film for the past 35 years (I am 41 now) and it NEVER gets old. It's in my top 5 films ever made, along with another time travel film called Donnie Darko (which even references BTTF and also takes place in suburban 80s).
It's somehow a film that does everything you want it to without doing much at all. I've also watched it a silly amount of times 😀. They say it's being remade. I hope they don't ..
Same. I clicked this video expecting to be “yeah, already knew that” at every single bit of trivia, but there were quite a few things in here that I’d never noticed or knew before. Impressive work!
Never get tired of watching BTTF. My Fav movie of all time!
It's my favorite movie too, but for 30 years I have felt quite alone because I never met anyone else who really liked the trilogy. In fact it was never mentioned on TV or in the media, just totally forgotten. And when I told anyone my favorite film was BBTF, they would usually laugh at me, as if to say: "That's like a baby's film!" It's only this last few years I am now finding mentions of BTTF online, and encountering other fans.
On one hand, it's nice to finally feel I'm not alone, though on the other hand it's slightly annoying because all of a sudden there just seems to be BTTF fans absolutely EVERYWHERE now. Like, where have all these people been hiding over the last 40 years? It's hard to know if the film is popular or not. If it's popular, why was it barely even mentioned in the media during the 90s and 00s?
@@Scripture-Man did one of the people that said this to you happen to be Elija Wood? 😂😂😂
Same😊
Although my favorite is BTTF 2
Agreed!
Doc and Martin are friends, cause "they've always been". Doc knew he needed to befriend Martin, the same way he knew he needed to built his time machine.
Time is an illusion, you only remember the current state of the quantum field.
This video was great. This is my favorite movie of all time and everytime I see an article or video about it, I almost get frustrated because I feel like I know all the nuances and trivia of the film by now. This is the first video in years I've watched that is pointing things out I never knew. That's incredible!
Right…I’m the same way..seen all 3 about a hundred times and every time I see a article or video about..there’s nothing that I already knew, but the way Voss broke it down blew my mind 🤯
@@DeepDiveNR definitely got me with at least 2 things, soo..lol
THANKS so much for this comment! I started watching the video but gave up on it early on as I found the presenting style very shouty and annoying. But then I read your comment and it inspired me to watch the whole video. I'm so glad I did. I too thought I knew everything there was to know about this film, and I get tired of the same old boring observations being made. But this video is actually really fresh. He noticed things I've never noticed before. Quite an incredible level of observation, really.
I was gonna say almost the EXACT same thing! Lol It's my absolute favorite movie series ever. I always wondered what significance Red played since everyone played some part. Also all the little things being brought up. Great great video. Thanks so much for making this!
I never noticed Doc Brown's body lying to the side as Marty travelled through time.
I always read the part of Doc having a massive amp as the reason for Marty being friends with him. But watching this made me realize that from *Doc's* perspective, if he had to work to *make* the time loop close (and the timeline isn't self-healing and self-correcting) he would have been in a situation where he *had* to get Marty mixed up in the experiment in a way that made it possible for what was written in the letter to happen! So it might have been more a case of Doc getting a massive amp *because* that would make it easier for him to befriend this high school kid?
Ö big brain move
Doc is naturally friends with Marty. The Doc from the beginning of the movie had not met Marty in the past. So he doesn’t have a huge amp purposely to be friends with him. They became friends like real friends (and fortunately).
There will be alternative time streams where the amp just kept getting bigger as he optimised the process.
One of my favorite parts about Back to the Future is that everything is telegraphed. There's always some event that subtly or blatantly explains why certain things happen. One of my favorite payoffs is related to the note that Marty gives Doc. You never see him actually throw the note away; he puts it into his pocket after tearing it up.
And when Marty tells Doc that his dad had never stood up to Biff, you can see the gears turning in Doc's head... until he's interrupted. But he then has 30 years to ponder and decide that certain things are okay to change.
Those are called plants and the effective use of them in BTTF is a big reason why this movie is so highly regarded. Every single plant flies completely under the radar until the payoff and the subsequent ah-ha moment alerts you to the plant. One of the best plants is of course the pine tree and the Twin Pines Mall/Lone Pine Mall sign. It's never even spoken but occurs 1 hour and 25 minutes apart from plant to payoff.
Thank you for giving a shout out to the composer. Silvestri did an absolutely fantastic job of blending "sci fi Lydian strangeness" with classic "American Hero fanfare" in the score. I studied film music back in around 2008, and this was always one of my favourites.
To this day, still the best score in cinematic history.
I absolutely love this movie and now I think you’ve set yourself up by doing such a good job that you have to do the entire trilogy. If you do, I would love for you to address how in this movie, Marty literally parrots his father’s words when he says, “I’m not sure I can take that kind of rejection” yet in parts two and three, he gets into trouble because he doesn’t want to be called a chicken. So, it always made me wonder if this was done to show that even though we think Marty was the same person as before, given that he remembered his old life, we also have to assume that in returning to this alternate 1985, Marty may have started to embody the traits of his self that grew up with these parents who probably would have taught their son not to back down or let anyone make him think he can’t do something. This likely made Marty more arrogant and self-destructive, because growing up he didn’t back down from a fight or a challenge, even when he knew better, going from a life ruled by fear to one more driven by pride.
That’s really interesting! I never thought of it like that but it makes total sense.
"Literally parrots?" That's an interesting phrase. "Parrots" used in this way is a euphemism, but you modify it with "literally", indicating that it's NOT a euphemism, and an actual live bird should be involved. When you parrot someone, you say their actual words. That's what real parrots do, and why it's a euphemism. You actually changed the definition away from what you meant when you added "literally." LOL
@@trekkiejunk They created an oxymoron 🤣😂
This is my all time favorite movie. This breakdown gave me some even more Easter eggs I never knew existed. Thank you, Voss, for this. Now do parts II and III!!
this trilogy is one of the best ever made, theyre so well done and full of fun. i watch em over and over
after all these years watching the movie and these type of youtube video's i was convinced I knew all the easter eggs. Unbelieveble that there were still more to learn!
biggest easter egg is the fact a hollywood director new they were going to take the twin towers down in 1984 85 while making this film how the hell did he know is what i would like to know
@@kennethstewart-hj6go the twin towers? Are you referencing the Twin Pines Mall, in which later only one of the trees was destroyed? Thats more of a stretch than a pole vaulter at the Olympics
*eyes roll so far back i can read the washing instructions on my tshirt*🙄
Wow…I never thought anyone could show me something new about BTTF that I didn’t already know, but you pulled it off amazingly! It really just makes my appreciation of this movie go higher! You guys should be proud of what you made here!
So true... I've watched BTTF and its sequels many many times and have seen several analyses by YT creators over the years. I thought just about everything that could be said about the films had been said and every easter egg had been uncovered. To see that almost 40 years later there's still more easter eggs and interesting facts/theories to be had is truly astonishing. This demonstrates why BTTF (the first movie of the trilogy in particular) is one of the best films of all time.
One of my favorite film trilogies of all time. Growing up in southern CA, it was cool to actually be able to go check out some of the film locations, many of which are still standing. The chase scene was filmed at the Puente Hills Mall and if you stand at a certain spot, you can see the layout for the entire scene. Doc's mansion is also in Pasadena.👍🏽
Thanks for keeping the content coming Erik I appreciate you more than you know!
I've been an insane "Back to the Future" fan my whole life, and there was foreshadowing and parallels I never got until your deep dive here. I LOVED this video!! Thanks so much for putting it together! Here's to hoping you do parts II and III. 🙂
Eric, you are a hero to us all. You gotta spend so much damn time looking for all these details and thank you so much for it! I’ve been following new rockstars for a while, watching all the marvel videos, then your other videos peaked my interest. But you Eric really just keep me coming back! Thanks for all the little things you’ve been able to point out! 🤙
You wrote down exactly what I think - so I’ll join and say thank you so much too 🙏
Well put and agree whole heartedly. I look forward to see how far Eric goes in his career
His super power is to breakdown
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Although Mayor “Red” Thomas and the homeless guy are two different characters and people, the guy in the photo is Hal Gausman, set decorator.
@@DeepDiveNR The old lady that says save the clock tower was on the sitcom Amen.🤗👵⛪🙏
Jumping ahead a bit, in Part III the Marshall was telling his son something (I just rewatched it last week) and I was puzzled by the unnecessary line. Then I realized that the Marshall was Strickland, a forefather of the teacher. These movies are full of internal references and connections, which is part of what makes them so interesting. As with the opening clocks scene, there are little bits of cleverness that are not obvious. Like the Twin Pines Mall becoming the Lone Pine Mall. Most directors would have zoomed in to make sure we noticed.
There's no way that the young kid is Principal Strickland however. There's no way Strickland could have been the age he was in 1955 or even alive in 1985 if he was a child in 1885. If he was like ten years old in 1885, he would have had to been born in like 1875. He could have still been alive in 1955 (around age 80 years old), but there's no way that Strickland was 80 years old in 1955, as he appears far younger than that. If he was still alive in 1985, he would have been around 110 years old. Now, it still could make sense, but that young kid would have had to been Principal Strickland's father and not Principal Strickland himself. If Mr. Strickland was like 40 in 1955 and like 70 in 1985, he would have been born around 1915, which is 30 years after 1885. The young kid would have been around 40 in 1915, so, he totally could have been Mr. Strickland's father. But there's no way the young kid was Mr. Strickland, as he would have been WAY older in 1955 and 1985 than he was. Though it's implied the young kid is supposed to be Principal Strickland, making a joke that he is ancient. But in reality, there's no way in the glorious name of Issac Newton that young kid is Mr. Strickland in the future.
@matthewcastleton2263 And I believe here's where a deleted scene makes all the difference. In Part III, there is a deleted scene between the festival and the morning of the duel where Burford Tannen killed Marshall Strickland, and the Marshall's last words were to his son was the "Discipline" quote. I always believed that this left a mark on the young Strickland, and the whole thing became a family motto/belief.
@@matthewcastleton2263Gerald as we learned is the principal's first name in the game was born in 1925 so in 1955 he would've been 30 in 2015 he was 90 and 1885 he was not even born yet (-40)
Honestly, its real easy to say the time loop had started with Marty saving Doc the first time. Hence Doc knowing to hire Marty. Hence it creates a new loop of Doc ALWAYS knowing about Marty, hence already knowing all bout him. Then after the bonding with Marty getting to know him, then going back to build the friendship with 1955 Doc.
I’ve watched this movie probably hundreds of times since I was 6 years old and you explained the hell out of it. It works on so many levels and while somethings I always caught into. There’s this small details that I’ve never caught. Thank You! 🙏🏾
What a great video. The scene of Doc realising he'll have to zipline down to reconnect the cables mixed in with the music and Marty getting close is one of my favorites of all time.
The Back to the Future trilogy is my favorite movie(s) of all time and this deep dive made me appreciate it EVEN more!
Great job! Also when Marty tells Doc “all the best stuff’s made in Japan” that’s also a nod to the 4x4 Toyota Marty loves back in the future
This was awesome! I was in high school when Back to the Future came out. It has remained one of my favorite movies of all time. I consider it a timeless classic. The deeper narrative of the story that you describe in your breakdown made me feel a greater appreciation for the creative story telling of film's creators. So glad you posted this breakdown. I'm looking forward to the next time I watch the movie. Thanks!
Think Marty was carrying a Duffel bag not a punching bag , Korean War ended in 53 so probably alot of vets and army surplus had those from WW2 and Korea, no biggie! These deep dives are so great! Thanks Erik!
I'm so glad this popped up on my feed. BTTF is my favorite film trilogy of all time (with the controversial choice of part three being my favorite, as it's usually considered everyone's least favorite) and seeing you so thoroughly analyze and point out such minor details was amazing. I loved this video so much.
This rekindles my desire to make a FanEdit turning the trilogy into a single film. It jumps around the timelines like a coked out Tarantino and Nolan are behind the wheel, but it's awesome.
@The Deep Dive It all started with me doing my own Deep Dive, putting all the overlapping and mirrored scenes next to each other. The FanEdit pretty much plays in reverse like Memento or Irreversible opening with Marty going back to the old west, but we get some Tarantino style jumping around. I'd love to finish it, but cleaning up the audio is such a pain. I wish i could get movies without the score. Eric would like my Lost The Movie, it's all the post plane crash stuff, minus the flashbacks, up to the hatch opening as a film.
My greatest FanEdit achievements are: Turning seasons 1 of both Stranger Things and Daredevil into movies. And despite Peter Jackson's wishes turning the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy into a single film. It's weird, it begins as a heros journey that fails half way and turns into a war movie. My ending is way better too. Coming next though, I'm polishing up the MCU Phase 1 as a single Avengers film.
Do it..
@@DrewTrox I would be interested in that.
@@DrewTrox All of that sounds really awesome 👌
Great video, but I object to one point. Nitpicky, I know, but: I think George's hair only went gray in the timeline where he was a success. Because he actually took risks and didn't avoid conflict and confrontation. He may have avoided gray hair in the initial timeline, but he also avoided countless opportunities to better himself.
This is phenomenal stuff! Liked and subbed. May be too much to ask for considering a half hour deep dive is serious editing and scripting work but will you do part II?
When Marty returns to 1985 from 55 you can definitely tell that Docs attitude is far more confident in their exchanges from there on out. While he remains lovable and goofy in the trilogy, there’s an obvious character arc. By Part 3 he’s even ready to ventilate Bufford Tannen with a rifle like frickin “Eastwood”. Hence why even to his own astonishment, he made something that actually works in 1955. Thirty years of being a Hill Valley social pariah, disgraced scientist and having failed countless experiments would probably take an emotional and mental toll no doubt. Just the mere fact of Marty finding Doc and him seeing his success alters time already, hence why Doc figures “what the hell”. He already altered time just by proving a successful experiment to his 1955 “counter part”.
yes, I noticed that also after watching the movies over 100 times.. Docs disposition changed soo much by bttf 3 , like when he tells marty " you have to do what you have to do , and I have to do what I have to do"
After watching this in theaters in 1985, I too thought it was strange that a teenager would hang out with a weird and socially awkward scientist, especially since he has an entire family at home. But as the years went on, I realized that the family was the reason for his friendship with Doc. You can tell at the beginning how dissappointed Marty is with his dad, George, and how weak George is and puts up with Biff. Marty was looking for that father figure that he wasn't getting at home. He needed a mentor and who better than someone who experiments, builds a massive amp for him, and has a pup :). This is why Marty hangs out with Doc.
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Voss, you did it again, you rapscallion. Your video essays are truly works of art. Keep doing what you're doing. I have a new found love and appreciation for this IP now. Thank you for all you do!!
I did see this in theaters and I remember how it ended on such an insane cliffhanger without the to be continued. Because it was also the first VHS my family bought and when I saw the to be continued I recalled it not being in the theatrical version, thus I was bragging to all my friends that they were definitely making a sequel because they added that later.
I never expected a sequel, because when the movie end it, I thought it was just a little Easter egg nod to what if and would never be addressed
I’ve seen this movie so many times including the documentaries and interviews. I was shocked to actually learn a few things. Love the deep dive into old movies with the same details New Age Rockstars puts into their reviews of current movies. Good job!
I always thought Marty and Doc's unshakable friendship made the film work.
As others have said, I also would love to see deep dives of BTTF 2 & 3. And possibly the Telltale BTTF videogame from 2010!
It's weird that George and Lorraine never recognize that their son Marty grows up to look exactly like their friend Marty from high school. And if Lorraine thought that "Marty" was a nice name, then why didn't Dave get named Marty?
Very well done. You can hear, and see the excitement emanating from you. An absolute timeless classic, and being born in '85 I've always felt this connection. Can't wait to see what you have next. Actually could you do 'Big Trouble in Little China' ?
I just realized Marc McClure was in Superman the movie in which Superman turns back time. Then he was in BTTF. Then he was in Zack Synder's Justice League, in which the Flash turns back time. Interesting.
This is the Deep Dive I’ve been waiting for. You did not disappoint. I thought I knew everything about this movie, but you showed me a few new things. Looks like I’m going to have to watch it again (as if I needed a reason). Would love to see a DD on 2 and 3. Keep up the great work Erik!
Eric, You're a damn genius. your editing, callbacks, continuity. The production is quite on point.
Erik out here just killing it dead. Lots of people have analyzed this movie over the years, but I love the obsession with detail juxtaposed with context that Erik brings to the show. Well done!
I thought that pretty much everything has already been said about this movie, but you brought some extra bits that were new and very inspiring for me. Thanks a lot for making this deep dive, and sorry that I could hit the thumbs up only once.
I can't wait to see how happy Eric is when he breaks down Alien 😄
This dive was amazing!!! My favorite movie ever. That bit about Doc being a father figure to Marty has always been in my head. The two have more compassion for each other than Marry and his own dad. Look at the western union letter Doc gave Marty.
Great job.
I loved this breakdown! Best video I've seen here in a while! Can we get breakdowns of the rest of the trilogy, please?!!!!!!!
@@DeepDiveNR Great!!!
@@paulsmith9192 What are you talking about?
When you imagine what it would have been like if the film ended with Doc, Marty, and Jennifer jetting into the future, and no sequels afterwards, you know how we all felt for the next four years.
A few months before BBTF 2 came out, they released the book! I saw it at the Walden bookstore at the mall and read the whole thing in 1 night!! I was like 12
Then I skipped school to go watch it the day it was released. I got in trouble but it was worth it!!
Something that you might have missed. Marty's brother is played by the guy who was Jimmy Olsen in the Superman movies and the first movie involved time travel.
Your reply deserves thousands more likes. Thank you, Sir.
To everybody else who still doesn't get it: Superman (1978).
Great video, BTTF is one of my favorites. BTW the red-haired guy from the Enchantment Under the Sea dance is Courtney Gaines, who w played Malachai in Children of the Corn AND the character Rags in Hardbodies.
How can you leave out the Burbs?
FINALLY eric this is my favorite movie the second I heard you all were doing this I got so hyped !
I had expected as I aged, this movie would not age well..... And yet, here I am in my 40s now, and I STILL love this movie. I even enjoy the sequels. And to be honest, Rick and Morty have helped me appreciate these movies even more.
That was truly a great Deep Dive on a movie I grew up with! Thank you!
I loved the setup of this review... how you started talking about it being a son saving his father, only to reveal that Doc Brown was the father figure all along who needed to be befriended and saved... I love that....
Thank you Erik and the whole deep dive team, I hope you go into the complete trilogy :)
I thought I knew everything about this movie....apparently not. Wow I'm totally blown away by the level of detail Eric goes into here. Best channel on TH-cam. Thanks guys.
Great Movie Analysis and Deep Dive, Keep up the great content
Great deep dive video. Thank you for putting this together - some nuggets in there even for us die-hards who think we know all (or most) about the BTTF trilogy. Well done.
just wait until you find out about all the esoteric symbolisms that this guy doesn't tell you about
18:00 it does make sense because technically George still had a chance to go with Loraine to the dance but when Marty came into the picture it was erasing that future timeline slowly because she changed her mind and went to docs to ask Marty to go to the dance.
Grandfather paradox.
This guy really inserts his own projections into a lot of his analysis.
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True, as most of us do. The difference here is that on most points, this guy is actually correct.
The thing that makes the Doc is Marty's real "dad" angle really work is that, Marty's real dad is totally different person and Marty has missed all of that, his new dad might as well be a stranger to him. Whereas when it comes to Doc, Marty already was friends with him and knew him but then when the events of the movie happened he got to know him even better. So Marty now knows Doc way better than he knows his real dad.
I'm pretty interested in seeing Eric's screenplay!
@@DeepDiveNRWe're going to need a full breakdown of it as well lol
@@DeepDiveNR I wrote one too where they repurposed the 4x4 into another time machine and went to medieval England to fight Sir Tannen...lol I was 10 and based it off the cartoon where nothing mattered and everywhere they went had a Tannen.
I'd always thought it would have been even better if, instead of tapping Marty's letter back together, Doc had said something like, "Do you think I wouldn't have prepared for them to come after me? I stole their plutonium!"
One thing you got wrong: Eddie Van Halen didn't write that song for the movie Back to The Future. It was written for the movie "The Wild Life" which stars Lea Thompson and Eric Stoltz.
E.Voss- did the kids fade from the picture in that order because of their age? Meaning Martys brother was born first so the closest to the timeline of events of the parents meeting and then his sister and finally Marty. Love the new channel- awesome work!!!
@@DeepDiveNR Dave disappearing first makes more sense when you consider he's probably not actually George's son in the original timeline considering context clues in the movie the odds are Biff got what he wanted because of George's failure to act originally.
I love the entire Back to the Future saga. It’s mentioned in the video that Marty saved the clock tower by diverting the lightning to the DeLoreon. In all actuality he didn’t save it, in the alternate 1985, the clock still looks burnt. In BTTFII, the older gentleman asks Marty for money to replace the clock tower.
I was so obsessed with this movie! I could quote nearly every line and knew all the history and behind the scenes stuff. Essentially my favorite movie until End Game. When I heard them mention Back To The Future with the time travel, it was an incredible cinematic “spiritual” moment for me…my jaw dropped and I got goosebumps! This Deep Dive was amazing…It’s like you’re the real life Parzival or Wade Watts! ♟🍻🥇🧩
Such a great breakdown of one of my childhood favorites! Thanks Eric!
this is interesting coincidence, i literally just got done rewatching the entire trilogy so it was nice surprise to find this video considering it was uploaded just 11 days ago, Voss is great on his New Rockstars channel
LOVED this deep dive SO much! I learned so many things!
Erik continues to crush it. Best analysis work I’ve ever seen on yt
Oh man, Erik! This was awesome! When you have time, you should do a deep dive for BTTF 2 and 3. 😀 One little trivia point you should highlight. Did you notice the difference between Marty and his kids? For years I felt there was something different about Michael J. Fox when he played Marty Jr. and Marlene, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Then one day, I noticed their eyes. Marty has blue eyes, but Marty Jr. And Marlene have brown eyes. Very subtle, but effective. 😀
"Marty, something has gotta be done about your kids' eye color!"
There is a paradox with the this movie. The friendship between Marty and the Doc, this is a classic example of a bootstrap paradox. After all who was friends with who first? As an added bonus it also mimics the classic friendship paradigm between a father and son. This of course also implies a deterministic representation within a many worlds theoretical universal construct. What will be, will be, as it were.
Please do the same for BTTF 2 and 3!!!!
Yes please!
By far my favorite movie of all time. I love how Doc had to fake his death to the terrorist for the plutonium. Or how he almost burns his garage with his scale model of the town. Maybe a little foreshadowing his home burning (debatable). Also how right before Marty writes that letter he tells Doc "yea I'ma miss you too". Implying that although Doc may succeed in his invention he would never get to time travel for himself. Maybe causing him to repair the letter. It's crazy how deep you could break down this movie. Even now as an adult I can enjoy it even more. Thank you for the content.
It’s funny how Mr. Strickland didn’t age 30 years and they did that on purpose lol
I’ve watched many breakdowns of this movie and yours is by far the most encompassing. Really enjoying the Deep Dive. Thanks for all the content!
I'm sure that several people have already mentioned this, but Mayor Red Thomas was played by Hal Gausman, the set decorator. Once Marty started to disappear, that means that someone in the future just took a picture of a well. Otherwise, the photograph itself should have disappeared. Imagine in 1985, Dave's at work and his head starts fading away. That would be a horrific way to go. Also, what if when Doc, Marty, and Jennifer got to 2015, they arrive to a time when Jennifer and Marty mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. That honestly is what should have happened. I once had a theory that at a young age, Marty's uncle Joey (according to the newspaper clipping, it would have been when he was around seven or eight) accidentally set fire to the Brown mansion and that's why it burned down. Once he got a taste for arson, he couldn't stop himself from doing it again, hence ending up in prison. Marty might have followed in his uncle's footprints when he accidentally set fire to the living room rug at eight years old, but the apparently harsh punishment his parents gave him curtailed that. Oh, and the red headed bully was played by Courtney Gains, who was in Children of the Corn. I've worked with him on a western that was filmed here in Tucson. Great guy.
Thanks for pointing that out Paul. Yeah, it's weird that this video connected the homeless guy to the mayor. They look NOTHING alike.
That was Thomas Wilson, Courtney Gains played the skinny guy who cuts in at the dance. He was the creepy kid in The 'Burbs.
@@jasonbaum6284 Yeah, Courtney also bullied George in the earlier scene with the kick me sign.
Fantastic vid. I'm a thorough BTTF expert and rarely learn anything new about the film these days. Until I watched this. So much insight! Good work! 👏
Loved this! I’ve seen this movie a million times, but I learned so much from this deep dive. Nice work, buttheads.
What A Great Take On An All-Time Classic Film Well Done Anyone
I love this movie and part III how it book-ends the complete story. Part II is really odd to me partially because the movie really doesn't end up happening in their timeline... other than Doc and Marty's memories. BUT... a darker way to look at Part II is how many times Doc is there to catch Marty when he jumps off the roof, to lower down the flags to keep him from getting run over.... I think that Part II is an extension of Doc's "Oh what the hell..." and he has to loop back many, MANY times to save Marty from deaths that Doc has witnessed over and over and feels responsible for. With those thoughts, it makes MUCH more sense in III that Doc was like "Oh... Not this time" and decided to stay there and not screw up Marty's time line any further. ☮❤🎶
Man i love the insights you and your team are able to drum up. My brain just never picks up on these crazy things. Thank you for sharing this great work!
The choice of Marty to save his dad comes about AFTER he travelled back in time, the time travel was not for that reason, it was totally accidental. Also you state that Marty befriends his dad to be able to get back home. This is also not true! To get back home he needs to utilize the thunder storm which does not happen for days yet so he has to spend time in 1955 waiting for that night. Meeting his dad then helping his dad gain self confidence was an accident. Granted that does not mean you are wrong about the story being about him saving his dad, you just get some details wrong! And you claim it's one of your most favourite movies of all time! 😂 I've only seen it two or three times in the 80's and 90's, I don't think I've watched it in the past 20 years and yet those details are clear as day to me! lol
That's just not correct. Marty would have had to went DIRECTLY to Doc Brown and not run into his dad, for him to just utilize the thunderstorm. Unfortunately, he ran into his Dad and got distracted on his way to find Doc Brown. So, him helping his Dad was absolutely a requirement for him to get home or he wouldn't have had a home to go to. He would have been erased from existence shortly after returning to a different 1985.
Watching a deep dive on your theory of movies all stemming from Oz or Kane would be very interesting
Wow your interpretation of this movie couldnt be more wrong in every way
That was the most in-depth analysis I've ever seen about this wo wonderfully iconic movie! It's been one of my top favorite movies since I first saw it in the 80's and after watching this video, I love it even more!
This was so great! Thanks for posting it. There were so many small tiny details that I missed. Great job! Please do the 2nd and 3rd as well. I would LOVE to see that.
I started watching this thinking this would be the same old stuff repeated again, but at olny 14 mins in, I am blown away by how much I didn't know!
This is absolutely fantastic 👏
I have watched allot of back to the future analysis videos, this honestly is the best - Well researched, well presented along with not been too serious, absolutely brilliant. Totally subscribed, cant wait to get stuck in to your other videos!
Got to watch the full trilogy this weekend on the big screen! Seeing the conscious repetition of the films was great and I was happy to be able to pay better attention to the town square stuff, etc. Thank you!
There's a reason I have this trilogy on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital.
I just found the deep dive videos and I'm really impressed by them. Fantastic work Eric!
I have watched many, many, many analyses of Back to the Future. This is the best that I have ever seen. Thank you.
My God, Erik! You had me tear up a few times with these revelations! I thought I knew this movie but your analysis was amazing! Keep them coming!
22:31 That isn't a punching bag. it is a military duffel bag.
I love the whole trilogy!
And i love your cool videos, very high quality, thank you very much my friend.
You could truly break down these three movies all day. There's so much. And just so much to even talk about.
"Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain."
George Mcfly
Greatest movie quote ever
The song played by the Pinheads was the actual demo of The Power of Love that Huey gave to Zemekis.. I watched a Huey Lewis bio on TH-cam to learn this
Brilliant analysis!
Love this deep dive SO MUCH. Love the historical references at the beginning. It's like sociology of cinema but with movies I actually know!