#bttf part ii

[gxlds-doodles]

CRINGETOBER DAY ONE - Heterochromia hiii bttf fandom :3 i'm back with my first fanart since (checks notes) march of last year. god damn i did not realize it had been quite that long LMAOO i'll be participating in cringetober 2023 (prompt list by icryink, under the cut :]) this year!! for day one i did marty jr with heterochromia, since my friend charlie mentioned the idea a WHIIIILE ago way back in 2020 and i STILL love that concept <333 i won't be doing every day but i'll be doing most of them if all goes well!!

[random-jot]

For those not in the know, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (who co-wrote the first Back To The Future movie, and Zemeckis directed) were adamant that it would be a standalone - they didn't like sequels in general, and BTTF was a story near and dear to them, so they wanted to stop at one movie and let it be.

Hollywood producers had another idea. One particular figure, Sidney Shineberg was all but demanding a sequel. Let it be known, this is the same producer who wanted ‘Back To The Future’ to be called ‘Spaceman From Pluto’ because he thought ‘Back To The Future’ was too confusing a title. Yeah.

There was a back and forth between these guys which eventually came down to Shineberg giving Zemeckis and Gale an ultimatum — either you guys give us a BTTF sequel, or we will go ahead and make one without you. Remember, this is a story that means a lot to Z&G. They did not want to leave it’s legacy in the hands of Shineberg - the Spaceman From Pluto guy.

Thus, work on Back To The Future Part II is begun, which would eventually evolve into Parts II and III. But there’s a catch: Zemeckis had found himself a new passion project; from his point of view he’d told the story he wanted to tell with BTTF and wanted to move on to the next thing — Who Framed Roger Rabbit? At this point in time, this was the project Zemeckis really wanted to see through and put his heart into. However, that would mean pushing back work on the BTTF Sequels.

If word got out to Shineberg that Zemeckis was directing some entirely unrelated movie (Roger Rabbit was even a different studio iirc, so there really was no connection) instead of working on the sequels he’d promised, there was a real chance Shineberg might deliver on his earlier threats of making his own lacklustre BTTF sequels without the writer/director team who made the first so special, essentially stealing their story from them and corrupting it.

But Zemeckis and Gale had an idea.

A wonderful, petty, brilliant idea.

You see, Shineberg might have been able to get away with hiring a different writer and director. But he couldn’t make a sequel with a different cast.

The solution: Cast Christopher Lloyd as the villain in Roger Rabbit! That’s right, part of the reason Christopher Lloyd plays Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is so that he would be unavailable to reprise his role as Doc Brown during the time that was being filmed, which in turn meant Shineberg wouldn’t be able to make his own BTTF sequel unless he did the unthinkable and recast Doc Brown.

So Zemeckis gets to direct Roger Rabbit safe in the knowledge that he can return to direct his Back To The Future sequels once Roger Rabbit is completed. All thanks to the clutch casting of Christopher Lloyd.

It’s just such a great, lovely example of the creators of a franchise managing to get one up on the producers who would have otherwise ruined it. Love it.

the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the Back To The Future sequels is so fuckin' funny

[red-hot-moon]

Me watching the Back to the Future trilogy as a child: Hee hoo funny time travel movie :)

Me watching the Back to the Future trilogy as an adult:

[muzzable]

Watching Back to the Future and the Hill Valley citizens' impression of "Calvin Klein" must be wild. Some kid shows up for like a week dressed like a sailor. Apparently he's the nephew of the local crackpot inventor, and Lorraine Baines' dad hits him with his car. He has his name sewn into his underwear but tries to get people to call him Marty. He hangs around the school but instead of going to class he just has a very strong interest in getting two random students who've never met each other to go to the dance together. All the girls have a crush on him. He steals a kid's scooter and gets Biff Tannen to crash his car in manure. He turns out to be a square who won't smoke or drink or make out with Lorraine, but rumor has it he stole Biff's wallet. Afterwards he collapses while playing guitar at the dance, though he gets back up and finishes playing. He plays a song nobody's heard of, and Chuck Berry plagiarizes it. Biff swears he saw him flying away, and that was the last anyone had seen of him. Thirteen years later he starts a fashion brand.

[knickynoo]

You know, the whole Rolls Royce accident thing really gets sadder the more you think about it. Marty gets home from this incredible, terrifying trip to 1955, wakes up with this “improved” life, and finds the truck of his dreams in the garage. He takes it out for a spin with Jennifer, gets goaded into a drag race, and crashes. Not only does he get sued, but he breaks his hand—an injury that leads him to give up on his biggest dream of being a musician. The event singlehandedly sends Marty’s life on a downward spiral, and he never can recover his confidence or motivation for much of anything.

In the novelization for part II, Lorraine notes that if the accident had never happened, Marty, “—wouldn’t have just given up on life.”

I mean. It’s awful. Marty spends an entire week desperately scrambling to save his parents’ relationship, the existence of himself and his siblings, and Doc’s life only to get home and almost immediately go through a life-altering event that destroys his spirit. He fixes the lives of those around him and ruins his own.

[martyspurpleunderwear]

Is somebody gonna match my freak (being obsessed with Back to the Future)

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[thecaptainoutoftime]

*Doc is celebrating after he successfully sends Marty Back to the Future. He then heads to his car.* *Marty comes running up behind* "Doc, Doc, Doc." *Doc turns to see Marty and Screams* "Relax Doc it's me, it's Marty." "No! It can't be; I just sent you Back to the Future!" "No, I know; you did send me Back to the Future. But I'm back - I'm Back from the Future." "Great Scott!" *Doc faints* "Doc! Doc! Doc! Oh, fantastic."

Happy 35th Anniversary to Back to the Future Part II

November 22nd 1989-November 22nd 2024

[first-ex-wife]

Michael J Fox as Marty McFly Jr/Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II

[inevitablemoment]

What Your Favorite Michael J. Fox Character Says About You

(No hate intended, I love all of these characters. I'm just having a little fun based off of this video that I found.)

Marty McFly - You're choosing the safest option. Maybe a little bit overrated, but it's still a good one.

Jamie Conway - Is this one your favorite because it's good, or are you just really horny?

Alex P. Keaton - ALRIGHT! WE GET IT! YOU LIKE THIS ONE!

Milo Thatch - This may not be everyone's favorite, but it's yours, and you're totally chill with that.

Mike Flaherty - You're into the Classics.

Seamus McFly - You're old.

Danny McTeague - You're really old. Your social security number is 2.

Brantley Foster - You are one pretentious hipster.

Stuart Little - Officer, it's this one! Right here!

Joe Rasnick - Oh, you're cool. I like you.

Maxwell Eriksson - No way! You actually know that one? Can we be friends?

Scott Howard - This one's just a phase; you'll grow out of it when you grow up.

Marty McFly Jr. - You will never grow up.

Mikey Chapman - Oh, you picked this one to be different. How clever.

Mike Henry - If you chose this one, you are a liar. This is no one's favorite.

Frank Bannister - If you chose this one, you are correct. This is the best one.

[urfavtimetravelgirlie]

Time Travel Rating: Back to the Future

I’m starting with an absolute classic, my favorite movie series of all time!

Synopsis: Released in 1985-1990, Back to the Future tells the story of high school student Marty Mcfly who accidentally time travels to 1955 and ruins his parents’ meet cute. The first movie deals with him frantically trying to set them up. In the second movie Marty travels to the future of 2015. A future Biff Tannen steals the Time Machine and uses it to make his younger self Donald Trump rich. Now Marty has to go back to fix it. He is stranded in 1955 as doc Brown has been sent back to 1885. In the third movie, Marty has to survive the Wild West and somehow make it home.

Type of Time Travel: Type 1, as seen by him ruining his parents’ meeting and that resulting in his slow disappearance from reality, as well as Biff making his younger self rich, and the ravine no longer being named after Clara.

Technicality- do they explain how the time travel works?

Imma give this a 8/10. They explain a lot about the limitations of the Time Machine. It needs a huge amount of energy (1.21 gigawatts) which can be obtained from plutonium or a bolt of lightning. Eventually this problem is solved as by 2015 technology to produce energy through food waste has taken off so they just need compost to power it. It only works if you can get the car to go 88 miles per hour, an issue when they run out of gas in 1885. It all gets channeled through the flux capacitor. Very detailed, very simple to understand. They don’t explain the time travel itself.

Purpose- why did the media put in Time Travel, and is it just a narrative cop out?

10/10. time travel is the main point in the movies. It creates problems and then can be used to fix them.

Consistency- does it stick with one type of time travel, and are the pre established rules followed?

9/10. For the most part, it stays with Type 1 time travel throughout the three parts. With the exception of two jokes in the first movie, one in which it implies Marty inspired Goodie Wilson to run for mayor, and one in which it implies Marty inspired Chuck Berry to write Johnny B. Goode. This tightens up in both the subsequent parts and are pretty harmless gags.

Genre- does it work with a larger message, and/or does it reflect the genre/themes of the narrative?

10/10. Back to the Future is a story about generational cycles with a focus on 30 year nostalgia cycles. How parents have always said they were perfect as kids and things were better in the good old days when really things aren’t that different. Marty seeing his sixteen year old mother smoke and drink and express sexual interest does a really good job of this. The whole movie has a message that people have always been people, and it’s really well done. Plus, being a kids movie, it does a great job of explaining the time travel specifically yet in a way kids can easily understand.

Fun- do they have fun with it?

10/10. Back to the Future is a very fun movie series. Seeing everything interconnect and the parallels across movies make the whole series so engaging. The comedy is funny, the characters are relatable, and the action is intense. They clearly had a lot of fun dressing up Michael J Fox in different outfits too. Very entertaining.

overall that gives Back to the Future a solid 9/10!!

[gxlds-doodles]

CRINGETOBER DAY THREE - Unnecessarily Complex Fit I'm baaaack :D probably gonna take a few days break for Cringetober after this one tho bc I have school work I gotta get done </3 Ms. Leslie "Spike" O'Malley. I love you to death. but yeah she fits the prompt perfectly the complexity of her outfit hurts my brain and I 100000% missed some details but I am Sleep Deprived and gotta go do homework so I'm not gonna worry about it too much LMAO

[mjf-af]

Scott Reader, a tv and movie prop master, visited the Earl Hays Press and shared a video of some of the paper props this printing press has made for movies over the years. Amongst them was a closer look at the car decals for the Hill Valley Police in BTTF 2!

How corrupt does the law enforcement have to be to feature Biff’s Pleasure Paradise in their logo.

[red-hot-moon]

biff tannen || nails, hair, hips, heels

(inspired by x)

[thejagermeister]

"drink up, biff!" — an appreciation for 3-D's gremlin energy in back to the future part ii

[brokehorrorfan]

Mondo will release Back to the Future Part II poster - which doubles as Jaws 19 artwork! - by Danny Haas on tomorrow, October 20, at 1pm EST. Priced at $80, the 24x36 screen print is an edition of 215. It's expected to ship in February.