Dear Robert Zemeckis,
First of all, I’m a really big fan. And Ok, I’m going to be completely honest here. Back To The Future is probably one of the greatest films ever made. I know you did a lot of other great things in film, notably Forrest Gump, Cast Away – even Who Framed Roger Rabbit? All amazingly awesome movies. Cast Away might have been a little long, but seriously, I still dug it. Also, my Dad always said “Was it really necessary to kill Jenny” in Forrest Gump, but that too, I understood the whole thing and it really poured on that innocence in Forrest’s character. I saw it twice in theaters and literally everyone in there was crying….which is a little unsettling. But I got it, you know?
But watching Back to the Future again the other day, I picked up on a ton of things I didn’t really catch in all the years I’ve seen this movie. First of all, it’s such a quotable film. I know you probably don’t have people coming up to say this one to you, but one of my faves is “Biff, you’re breaking his arm!” I wish I could tell you why. I think Lorraine’s delivery is the kicker there. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t see how Biff could break his arm like that. I mean, I guess he could really break his arm like that, but still. It all worked out. One punch later, and Marty is saved. Except for I guess when that dude cuts in on their dance and Marty’s hand starts to disappear, but for the most part, the conflict of Marty’s existence is beginning to wrap up.
Anyway, when Marty and Doc are walking through Hill Valley High, and trying to figure out how to get the McFly’s together, Doc sees a poster for the Enchantment Under The Sea dance, and goes “Look, There’ a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up!” I seriously laughed pretty good there. Like cracked up. Never noticed that one before. And later, Marty goes to Doc’s house and he’s showing him that model. He goes “Now, let me show you the plan for you sending you home. Please excuse the crudity of this model – I didn’t have time to build it to scale or to paint it.” Marty goes “It’s good” and Doc goes “Oh thank you, thank you.” A line like that, I just lost my shit. Good stuff that I remember kind of happening the first million times I saw this movie, but I really just picked up on.
I guess I just wondered who came up with that line. Was it in the script, or was it sort of ad-libbed? I guess I also wondered why Marty didn’t just run away from Biff during the diner scene, instead of needing the skate board. Seems like he’d have been a little more elusive on foot. Also, Billy Zane was being a pretty huge dick to Marty there, throwing that shit at him like that. But regardless, I guess it added to the intensity of the scene. And Biff and his crew (Billy Zane included) got their just rewards for being such assholes to poor Marty when they ran into the manure truck.
Either way, great film. One of my favorites of all time. I’m still going to keep quoting it. Especially lines like “Flux capacitor…fluxing” and “RONALD REAGAN?! THE ACTOR?! And who’s the vice president? Jerry Lewis?!” Listen, one thing. Please don’t let anyone ever remake this movie. For some reason, movie execs are chomping at the bit to get these mega hits remade. Like Ferris Beuller. I saw somewhere they were going to remake that. God, that would suck. I even read they were remaking RoboCop. If they redo Back To The Future, I’m just gonna lose all hope in modern cinema. Just thought I’d tell you that. One fans perspective but I’m pretty sure I’m not alone there.
Anyways, thanks so much for the movies.
Sincerely,
Sam Terito
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