Blogdayafternoon: What Year Is This?

They say "HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF". I don´t know how many times i´ve seen all three Back to The Future films, but i can tell you this, they have stood PERFECTLY "the test of time". I was seven years old when i saw the first one at a movie theatre and it changed my life, i was amazed! Seeing Marty McFly TRAVEL through time was the best thing since RETURN OF THE JEDI or RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Bigger than Indiana Jones and more believable than Luke Skywalker. He was the average kid. The every day dude. All i wanted was to be like him. He loved music and skateboarding.

HAVE YOU NOTICED how director Robert Zemeckis uses photographs and the printed WORD (newspapers) as narrative tools on all three movies?

WARNING!!!!

SPOILER ALERT: MANY PLOT POINTS AND IMPORTANT TWISTS OF THE STORY WILL BE REVEALED

FROM HERE ON.

If you haven´t seen The BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy, please STOP.

Go watch them

and THEN return to read Blogdayafternoon.

In Back to the FUTURE:

Marty is given a flier to "save THE CLOCK TOWER" because 30 years before it was struck by lightning. Giving us: 1) The engine of the story AND 2) The solution of the story

As he arrives to 1955, in old man Otis Peabody´s farm. They all run to the barn and as they see the crashed DELOREAN. Peabody´s son takes out his comic book saying "that aint no airplane LOOK!!!"

"TALES FROM SPACE" and it´s weird ressemblence to the Delorean and the spaceman.The urban legend says: A Universal Studios Executive wanted to call the movie "SPACEMEN FROM PLUTO" so Zemeckis added the comic book as a gag.

Marty altered history by interrupting his parents from ever meeting , so he has to arrange that and figure out how he can travel BACK to the future.

Doc in the background, Marty at the front in the middle the written word. Thanks to the flier they now know when and where a bolt of lightning will HIT. So Marty can travel to the future.

Marty must reunite his parents quickly or he will dissapear as his siblings have begun to in the photograph. ERASED FROM EXISTANCE.

At the end, Marty has reunited his parents, traveled back to the future, BUT Marty can´t stop the terrorists from shooting DOC. By some miracle, he realizes Doc is still alive and wearing a bullet proof vest. He is shown the letter he wrote in 1955 warning him of the Libians, it was not destroyed.

And notice, once again Doc in the background, Marty at the front in the middle the written word.

In Back to the FUTURE PART 2 : Marty travels with Jennifer and Doc to the year 2015. To rescue his son from getting into prison. Notice how Doc is in the background, Marty at the front in the middle the written word.

After solving that, Marty sees an antique store and buys a SPORTS ALMANAC, so he can change the past and win big money. GIVING US:

1) The engine of the story 2) The solution of the story

As he travels to the future 1985, he finds out it is a different 1985. Biff has changed history, he now is wealthy and married to his mom, Doc is commited and George Mcfly was murdered.

Then again he only believes what is written

in the NEWSPAPER.

Marty must travel bacl to 1955 to destroy the ALMANAC preventing Biff from ever changing history as he knows it. When he destoys the ALMANAC by burning it the newspaper he brought from the changed 1985, changes from GEORGE McFLY MURDERED to GEORGE McFLY HONORED. But... the DELOREAN gets hit by lightning leaving Marty trapped in 1955.

In Back to the FUTURE PART 3: After receiveing a letter from Doc from the year 1885, where he leaves instructions to where to find and repair the Delorean. Marty stumbles into a grave yard finding Doc tombstone. Marty decides to travel further back in time to 1885 to save Doc from being killed by BUFFORD TANNEN.

He travels to 1885 and is carrying a photograph of the tombstone as proof, to tell Doc what his fate will be.

1) The engine of the story 2) The solution of the story

Again, Doc in the background, Marty at the front and in the middle the written word.

TRIVIA FACT:

Many people know Eric Stoltz was supposed to play Marty McFly, but after several weeks of shooting, Director Robert Zemeckis found Stoltz acting lacked the proper humor for the story. So he decided to call back Michael J. Fox to work with him and reshoot every single frame.

Not only were scenes shot, but also the now legendary photograph of the 3 Mcfly´s.

Here is proof of how linked are PHOTOGRAPHS to the BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY.