Eps 1: Back to the Future II as a prediction
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Alex Lynch
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The time-travelling DeLorean and the self-blading shoes of Steven Spielberg's Back to the Future are icons of their own right, whether you have seen or not the film. Demand for sneakers became so great a decade after Back To The Future Part II was released that Nike created a special replica of the shoes in 2011. They're not real, but the power laces are, and the world is still waiting for the first real pair of power lace sneakers. The hats look like metallic bowls of cereal, and the double ties are the ones that tie together so as not to be uncomfortable in the future, which takes the fashion base of 2015 even further.
Some of the cool gadgets in the 2015 version of Back to the Future Part II are things we saw in the 1989 movie that we're glad didn't happen. Anti-gravity seems to be widespread in the future of 2015, but one of the dumbest uses of anti-gravity is the suspension belt that George McFly holds to heal his bad back.
It's one of the introductory quotes from Back to the Futures Part II and leads to one of the greatest films of the 1980s, and it's probably the greatest escapist piece of science fiction ; it's a look into our future. When Marty McFly is sent 30 years later as part of the plot of the film, he arrives at a time when hoverboards are in circulation, people are wearing homemade shoes and flying cars are the norm. The film sets the bar so low that it looks as if 2015 is a long way from the reality of 1989.
The actual date used in one of the best films of the 1980s and a great escapist piece of science fiction, 21 October 2015, is now before us, and it gives us the opportunity to look at the film version of the future in comparison to the tech life we live today. The new set includes a feature called "Doc Brown Saves the World," in which Lloyd in his role as Doc Brown explains the reasons for the differences between the 2015 Future portrayed in Back to the Future Part II and the real life that comes from it. The 2015 innovations in the film are heavy on pressure, the USA Today world comes with thick sheaves of fax machines in every room, and the second-hand seller mentions the invention of dust-repellent paper.
Some content themselves with analysing 2015 predictions for Back to the Future Part II, while others got their kick out of deceiving Marty and Doc on Facebook by falsifying the date they travel to the future, all the better to deceive unsuspecting grandparents. In the current 2015 season, the Chicago Cubs qualified for the postseason for their first postseason appearance since 2008 , but lost on October 21, 2015 to the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series the same day Marty McFly came to the movie in 2015. After inventing a sport called slamball 25 years before its release, baseball has become one of the biggest sports in the country.
It follows Marty McFly and his friend Dr. Emmett Brown on their journey from 1985 to 2015 to prevent Marty's son from sabotaging the future of the McFly family, only to have their nemesis Biff Tannen steal the Docs DeLorean time machine and use it to change the story in Biff's favor so that they can return to 1955 and restore the timeline. The film's target is the time-traveling teenager Marty McFly, inventor Dr. Doc and her flux-capacitors-equipped DeLorean car, the time machine, as they try to fix the future mess caused by Marty's nemesis Biff. In the strangest moment of the film Back to the Future, Doc Brown a few minutes off his schedule to change Marty's fate and reveals that he had extensive plastic surgery at what he calls the Elektrore Rejuvenation Clinic, removing all wrinkles and altering his blood to give him many more years of life.
This visit is necessary so that Christopher Lloyd in the third film is not too reminiscent of his romance with Mary Steenburgen, a plot that was conceived alongside Back to the Future Part II. Doc is also complemented by his silver visor and tie, which turns out to be plastic, one of several strange ties featured in the 2015 film's segment.