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Trivia, behind the scenes, news, and even hidden secrets of "Back to the Future" and its filming!
Commercial success
Back to the Future grossed over $350 million at the box office worldwide.
performative character
In the closing credits of the film, Marty McFly, Michael J. Fox's character in Back to the Future, is credited with the voice on the song "Johnny B. Goode".
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Luxury producer
Among the executive producers of Back to the Future is director Steven Spielberg.
Do not try this at home!
Originally, it was Robert Zemeckis' intention that the time machine be built in a refrigerator. The idea was aborted because there was a fear that children would decide to climb refrigerators and even enter them, because of the film.
There were several modifications until the perfect time machine for Back to the Future was found. One was that the machine was installed in a Delorean, but only worked if the car was driven during a simulation of an atomic bomb explosion.
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Simple tribute
In Doc Brown's lab, when Marty McFly plugs his guitar into an amplifier box, a notice appears that says "CRM-114". This is an homage to two films by director Stanley Kubrick, as CRM is the name of Dr. Fantastic (1964) and 114 the serial number of exploration in Jupiter, 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968).
Sharing leases
The main street of the city shown in Back to the Future is the same used in Gremlins (1984).
Reference
The date Marty McFly travels to the past, November 5, is the same date as the time travel shown in the movie A Century in 43 Minutes (1979).
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Interesting allusions
A theater shown in 1955 has two titles on one poster: "A Boy's Life" and "Watch the Skies". They are none other than the opening titles of two major hits in Steven Spielberg's career, E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Cut scene
A scene filmed, but deleted in the final edit of Back to the Future, showed Marty McFly watching his mother cheating on a test at school.
Extra scene for TV
Only one particular scene from Back to the Future was shown when the film was shown on American TV in 1990: when 1955's Doc Brown rummages through his lab coat in the future and there he finds a copy of the Playboy magazine of the time.
Reusing everyday objects
The "Mr. Fusion Home Energy Converter", installed in the Delorean towards the end of the film, was built from a coffee bean grinder, among other objects.
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Too old for paper
The actor initially hired to play Marty McFly was Eric Stoltz, who even filmed some scenes as the character. But as the producers considered Stoltz to be unconvincing as a screen teenager, he was passed over by Michael J. Fox.
First collaboration between Fox and Zemeckis
This is the 1st of 4 films in which director Robert Zemeckis and actor Michael J. Fox have worked together. The others were Back to the Future 2 (1989), Back to the Future 3 (1990) and The Ghosts of Scrooge (2009).
Going back in the past and changing the present
The mall where Marty McFly meets Doc Brown before time travel is called "Twin Pines Mall". Dr. Brown comments that the old farmer Peabody planted two pine trees on his land, and that the mall would have been built on that land. When Marty travels back in time, he appears right at Peabody's farm, with the Delorean crashing into one of the pine trees. When he returns to the present at the end of the movie, the mall has another name, calling itself "Lone Pine Mall".
sequences
Back to the Future is the first in a series of 3 films based on the characters Marty McFly and Doc Brown. The others are Back to the Future 2 (1989) and Back to the Future 3 (1990).
Awards
OSCAR
Has won
Best Sound Effects
Indications:
Best Original Screenplay
Best sound
Best Original Song - "The Power of Love"
GOLDEN GLOBE
Indications:
Best Film - Comedy/Musical
Best Actor - Comedy/Musical - Michael J. Fox
Best Screenplay
Best Original Song - "The Power of Love"