Great Scott! Its 1985 again!
Great Scott! Its 1985 again! means exactly that. 30 years after the making of Back to the Future starring Michael J Fox the shirts prices of yesteryear are back and large as life! 1985 was a great year and so much was going on that we have got to just tell you about it.
First off we just have to talk movies and Back To the Future was a great one so for those of you who have watched it over and over again we thought you might find the following pieces of trivia interesting.
Back to the future film twists:
1. The farm where Marty arrives in 1955 belongs to a man called Peabody, and he calls his son Sherman; both names are a tribute to “Sherman and Mr. Peabody”, two cartoon time travellers.
2. Eric Stoltz was the original Marty. After filming quite a few scenes they realised he was being a bit too dramatic, so they cast Michael J Fox.
3. In the battle of the bands scene, when Marty introduces The Pinheads, Huey Lewis, who provided “The Power of Love” for the film’s soundtrack, plays the second judge from the left, and is the one who eventually says, “You’re just too darn loud.”
4. In the very beginning of the movie, there’s a cute little gimmick. In the first scene when Marty arrives at Doc’s place and all the clocks are being shown, they show one particular clock (amongst hundreds), but this particular clock has an hour hand and a minute hand and there is a man hanging off one of the hands – foreshadowing Doc’s perilous scene hanging from the clock tower much later in the movie. The man isn’t actually Doc, but the silent movie star Harold Lloyd, but still a deliberate inclusion, and worth a look.
5. The same set used as the town of Hill Valley is also seen as Kingston Falls in “Gremlins”. The same set was also used in the movie ‘Pleasantville’.
6. When Marty first goes back in time the mall is called “Twin Pines Mall”. In 1955 he runs over one of ‘old man’ Peabody’s pine trees. On his return to 1985 the mall is now called “Lone Pine Mall”.
Just a few of the many twists and turns found throughout this American inconic movie. No matter how many times you watch it you always seem to find somethign new that wasn’t there before. Call it fate, a turn of events or maybe the movie is perpertually in a state of change due to its time travel content. One will never know.
Speaking of coincidences did you know the date that Marty goes forward in the future to (November 5) is the same date that Malcom McDowell as HG Wells goes forward to in Time After Time. Who could have guessed that?
There had to be a military conenction. There really is. The amplifier that Michael J Fox blows up at the beginning is labeled as being a CRM-114. This is a reference to Dr. Strangelove, in which the B-52 crews receive their orders over a CRM-114. It was also the serial number of the Jupiter explorer in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) also directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Time for a little nostalgia from 1985. So what happened at the gas pumps, politically, relgisously, and more importantly who donend the cover of Playboy magazine cause we really knew you wanted to know.
Remember affordable gasoline at the pumps? Here were the gas prices at the pumps.
Hello Paula! How she managed to get out to the middle of the desert is anyone’s guess but she did! Sports Illustrated was goi9ng strong with its swimsuit issue.
President Reagan! We got along with Russia? The Berlin wall was still up and our Russian friends were talking to us and the spirit of peace was in the air while President Reagan was at the helm.
Playboy alive and well! Hugh was publishing, guys were still checking out centerfolds and the ultimate vodka recipes were still being introduced to America.
John Paul II was Pope.
Judge Dredd was the comic of choice and in the mid 80’s more comic titles and ideas were printed than at any other time in comic book history. Now I know why all my #1’s aren’t worth a thing. We move on.
85 was a good year and Back to the Future was a fun, entertaining movie that had more going on behind the scenes than one would image. Thanks to Marty and Doc we have a movie that can be enjoyed for decades more to come.