Back to the Past!

Marty McFly (a time traveler from 1985) puts earphones on the sleeping teenager, puts a tape in the walkman, puts on the hood of his radiation suit, and turns up the volume really loud. The teenager awakes with a start to blasting rock'n roll in his ear. He sees a guy in a yellow suit pointing something at him. The music stops.

"Who are you ?" George (the teenager) whispers.

In answer, the "thing" turns the music on again, then stops. "Hello Earthling," the guy says in a Darth Vadery voice. "I am an extraterrestrial. I am Darth Vader from planet Vulcan."

" Darth Vader" looks exactly like the cover on George's science fiction magazine. He tells George he has to ask Lorraine Bates out to a dance, or he'll melt his brains.

The thing is, Marty McFly ("Darth Vader") has traveled back in time and needs to get his teenage parents (George and Lorraine) back together or else he will never be born. Back to the Future is about this guy who goes back to the past (1955) and accidentally messes up the timeline so his parents never meet! Then he has to try and fix it, and try to save the life of his best friend in the process!

Back to the Future was directed by Robert Zemeckis and was produced at MCA Universal Studio. Marty McFly is a kid who is bad at school, and his best friend is a mad scientist. Marty is played by Michael J. Fox. Doctor Emmett Brown ("Doc") is the mad scientist who invents the time travel machine and is played by Christopher Lloyd. Lorraine Baines is played by Lea Thompson, who gets a crush on Marty instead of on Marty's father to be and Marty has to fix it . Crispin Glover plays George McFly, a wimp in adulthood and adolescence, with greasy hair and an annoying laugh. Thomas F. Wilson is Biff Tanen, the bully who bullies George in adulthood and adolescence. Einstein, the floppy eared dog, is Einstein the floppy eared dog.

What I thought was really interesting was that what Marty does in 1955 changes some things in 1985. For instance, when he is saying good-bye to his teenage parents, his mother says, "Marty. What a nice name." That sort of gives you the idea that his mother got the name from him!

Also, early in the movie, while in 1985, his father says to him, "If you set your mind to it, you can do anything."

When his father (as a teenager) is not sure he can do what he should do, Marty tells him, "If you set your mind to it, George, you can do anything."

Then when his parents are saying good-bye to him, his father says, " I'll always remember your good advice."

Now do you see what I mean? It makes sense, but it is confusing.