There is such a science fiction film, although it is not as good as the current science fiction blockbuster in terms of special effects, and the plot is a bit old-fashioned today, but it contracts the childhood memories of a generation, and many people may not guess the name. But say its name, many people will suddenly realize that it is it!
Back to the Future
Back to the Future poster
"Back to the Future" has a total of three films, each of which is a high-scoring work, and the Douban score is not less than 8.0. The film tells the story of a high school student named Martin who travels from the future to the past in a time machine made by Dr. Brown, trying to change the future of the family.
This storyline looks a little old-fashioned today, but in that era it set off a boom. At the time of its release, it not only ranked first at the box office for 11 consecutive weeks, but also successfully won the box office championship in 1985 with a global box office of 381.11 million.
Back to the Future was inspired by a serendipitous experience by director Robert Zemeckis. Once, he saw his father's high school commemorative album at home, and was surprised to find that his inconspicuous father was actually the president of the student council.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
This unexpected discovery triggered his inspiration, and he couldn't help but think in his mind, if he was lucky enough to meet his father when he was young, would he become good friends with him?
So he told his friend the screenwriter Bob Gale about this idea, and with the cooperation of the two, the characters in the film began to appear.
Martin is a young and vigorous teenager, and his mother is an introverted housewife who dares not face her true self.
Martin's mother
His father, on the other hand, is a cowardly and timid man who is always bullied by Beaver. But in fact, his father also had his own dreams when he was young, but because he was not confident enough and was always afraid of failure, he gradually became what he is now.
Martin's father
Back to the Future 1 is set in 1955, the year Martin's father and mother met. Martin, who travels back in time, meets his parents and matches them, changing the trajectory of their lives.
The time machine was initially set not as a sports car, but as a refrigerator, but because he was afraid that the child would shut himself in the refrigerator after reading it, he gave up this idea.
Subsequently, they envisioned setting the time machine in a house, but gave up because the cost of shooting was too high.
In the end, director Robert Zemeckis decided to use a sports car, plus some parts of the aircraft, to form a time machine, both technological and mechanical.
Time machine
However, when everything was ready, the Colombian company that signed the agreement with them repeatedly delayed and had no intention of making the film, because they felt that "Back to the Future", although it was a good film full of warmth, lacked the depiction of "sex".
This practice of Colombian companies had a lot to do with the United States at the time. In the early 1980s, the United States was at a climax of "sexual liberation", and many film and television companies added a lot of explicit sexual content to film and television works in order to cater to the audience.
In desperation, Zemeckis approached Disney and hoped they would make the film. But they were also rejected by Disney, who believed that the scene where the mother fell in love with her son was not suitable for release as a family film.
Stills from Back to the Future 1
As a result, "Back to the Future" was shelved again. The reluctant Zemeckis plans to ask Steven Spielberg to join, but he does not want to be mistaken for a man who is incompetent and can only rely on Spielberg to support the façade.
"Back to the Future" was shelved until 1984, after a "Emerald" directed by Zemeckis, a box office hit, when investors began to notice him, and "Back to the Future" was put on the agenda.
It is not easy for the work "Back to the Future" to be released, from a work that no one cares about to a global box office champion, it took four years.
Stills from Back to the Future 3
However, perhaps the director Zemeckis did not expect that this work, which had been shelved for four years, could cause such a strong response after its release, and its influence is still undiminished to this day.
In fact, long before the release of "Back to the Future", there were many film and television works that crossed the theme.
For example, "The Great Shift in Time and Space", released in 1960, created a precedent for cross-genre films. It is about a scientist who travels to the future 800,000 years later on a time machine, and the whole film is like a fantasy journey to another world.
Stills from "The Great Shift in Time and Space"
The 1962 French short film Dike, with its philosophical content, is regarded as a milestone in science fiction films.
Stills from The
In the following years, various types of cross-over films emerged in an endless stream, but the world only regarded this Back to the Future as the originator of the cross-over drama, far surpassing films such as Time and Space Shift and in terms of influence.
Although Back to the Future is not as exciting as Time and Space Shift and in terms of story, the story is very close to life. Everything shown in the film is the life that people in each era have really walked, and it contains the memories and feelings of American audiences for that period of history.
In addition, as a cross-over film, "Back to the Future" is the first film to truly show the interesting intersection of the two generations, and this also influenced some later cross-over films, such as Han Han's "Riding the Wind and Waves".
"Back to the Future" is enduring not only because of the storyline, but also because of the core of the story. From the first to the third, the idea that "history can be changed" runs through this work.
Now many people always say that "it is difficult to get out of the cold door", but they do not know that everything is possible in the future, the future is not doomed, through hard work, everything can be changed.