Back in time 2015 Patch#

The filmmaking team began their career with a nostalgia piece in part about the futility of trying to hold on to the past. The ’50s of the film is a place of coonskin caps and neat suburban lawns, but also racial prejudice, sexual menace, and the sort of general paranoia that makes a farmer take a shotgun to a visitor from another world.īack To The Future wasn’t Zemeckis or Gale’s first trip through time, nor would it be the last. There’s a lot going on in Back To The Future, including the persistent suggestion that it’s dangerous to try to get back to some past, and that any imagined golden age is never quite as golden as it’s remembered to be. It’s also, if Back To The Future is to be believed, the safest. But I remember it so well I can close my eyes and travel back there any time I like via the only kind of time travel any of us will ever really get to experience. Now it’s demolished, turned into a weed-filled vacant lot by a declining economy. In 1985, it was the busy retail heart of all the surrounding communities.

Back in time 2015 Patch#

In 1955, it was a patch of undeveloped land. I remember where I was the first time I saw Back To The Future: at a mall in suburban Ohio, my best friend and I doing our best Doc Brown impressions on the way back to the car of whichever parent drove us that day. Yet, thanks to movies and memory, the past seems as close at hand as it does impossible to reach-and impossible to change. We’re as distant in time from 1985 as 1985 was from 1955 (and connected to the tacky 2015 of Back To The Future Part II mostly by videoconferencing and widescreen televisions). Yet staring down those years from the perspective of the 2015-the real one, without the hoverboards and flying cars-the years seem to take on an added significance. Ditto the leap to 2015 made by Marty, his scientist pal Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), and Marty’s girlfriend Jennifer (played here by the soon-to-vanish Claudia Wells and in the sequels by Elizabeth Shue). For 17-year-old Marty to meet his middle-aged parents when they were his age, he’d have to land in 1955. For writer-director Robert Zemeckis and his writing partner Bob Gale, the years were likely just a matter of math needed to make the plot work. Fox) hurtling 30 years into the past to the year 1955 and, in the film’s final moments, 30 years into the future to the year 2015.

In 1985, Back To The Future sent 17-year-old Marty McFly (Michael J.