Back to the future is an inventive time travelling adventure starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
Teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is thrown back in time to the 1950’s when his scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) invents a time machine out of a DeLorean. With terrorists hunting Doc down over stolen plutonium, Marty escapes, travelling through time in the modified DeLorean. When Marty encounters young versions of his parents, he disrupts the time continuum, forever altering his parents destiny. He must make sure that his parent fall in love or he’ll cease to exist. Marty still has to return back to the future to save the life of Doc Brown.
Science Fiction and the future are often interpreted in various different ways in both film and text. However the way in which both Hover Car Racer, written by Matthew Reily and Back to the Future Part II, directed by Robert Zemeckis, show interpretations of the future intertwined with a reality similar to the one we know today. Both Zemeckis and Reily interpret the future in a different manner, yet the predicted future shares many similarities including the use of Hover Technology as a transportation method. Reily depicts the future and Hover Technology being used as more then transportation, with uses such as sporting events. Antagonists cause issues for the central characters in both Zemeckis and Reily’s texts and the eventual successes
Ultimately it is stressed that decisions have impact on the unknown, providing comfort as it implements two principles; that undesirable future events are able to be prevented and fixed and that desirable future events are able to be created. The comforting nature of these time travel principles illustrate that the notion of control alleviates fears as sublime ‘what if?’ scenarios are made possible and attainable.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like living as a teenager in the 1960s? Even though filmed in 1993, The Sandlot does an outstanding job taking you back to the summer of 1963. It takes you back in time to 1963 to a simple town in Utah. “The Sandlot follows a timid young kid through hard times, like moving to a new town and having to go through the struggle of finding new friends. The struggle comes to an end when a compassionate young man comes up to him and gives him a life changing opportunity. The Sandlot wonderfully depicts a unbreakable bond between a superstar athlete and an introvert. The characters and actors honestly makes The Sandlot become a classic. The setting and the plot really make you feel as if you were a teenager in 1960s time. The Sandlot consists of the essentials of a memorable classic such as connections with audiences, a perfect setting, tremendous characters, and an intriguing plot.
Many science fiction shows, films, and novels today have been influenced by science fiction novels from the past. A few examples are Frequency,The Butterfly Effect, and A Sound of Thunder relating to A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. These films all express Bradbury’s idea of the butterfly effect and that time traveling can change the past, therefore changing the future. Although they share the same idea, they each have different outcomes.
Since this is a classical narrative, the main character eventually will. Zemeckis uses incredibly smooth continuity throughout the rest of the film in order to express to the spectators the narrative logic and ideological conclusions. “Understanding how expressive cinematic techniques give distinct representation to social issues and conflicts and engage the viewer effectively allows a discussion of the social context to remain sensitive to film as a unique medium with its own expressive techniques”(Nicholas, 160). In the key scene where Marty goes to the Twin Pines Mall to meet Dr. Brown, Zemeckis uses plenty of techniques to effectively edit the scene. He uses three-point lighting, point-of-view shots, close-up shots and over-the-shoulder shots. When the time traveling car invention begins to depart the truck, a point-of-view shot is integrated so that we can view the car from Marty’s perspective. This shot is extremely important for the film because we as spectators are put into the cinematic space and it makes us feel as if we ourselves are physically in the scene and are experiencing the same thing. Not only does this shot allow us to feel like we are in the shot but it also helps us to identify with Marty and his feelings. Lighting helps to interpret how the car should be seen because of the key lighting on Marty, the lighting on Marty helps us to see his face expression and we can tell that it’s filled with amazement and astonishment. Just like Marty, we can see the car as this magnificent, “out of this world” invention. From here on we know that this is a shot that helps the narrative develope and automatically know that since Marty thinks this machine is amazing, he will then end up using it to his advantage. As we’ve gotten to experience the climax of Back to the Future, we prove that our ideological
Out of the Past is definitely an interesting movie with a lot of things to talk about. I will touch briefly upon two main things I have noticed during the screen: the film noire genre and the image of the femme fatale.
The case study of Marty McFly was written using several sources of information, which includes the materials accompanying Marty upon his transfer from Navos Hospital. Other pertinent information was obtained during the patient's intake assessments conducted by both the social worker and psychiatrist assigned to Marty, in addition to, the discharge summary from his previous admission at WSH dictated by Dr. Brown. This is Marty’s second admission to WSH, with the first one in 2013-2014, at which time he was discharged to Hope Spring’s group home. Additional information pertaining to Mr. McFly was provided by self-report, and family members. To understand patterns of behavior and barriers for discharge with regards to the judicial system the patients’
Not a commercial success but a cult classic that gained popularity after its release. This was the same year that Back to the Future had come out starring Christopher Lloyd who plays an intellectual Professor Plum in the movie. Critically or commercially the movie did not make box office success, but - it has received mixed reviews from audiences. Six guests are invited for dinner to a mysterious mansion and over the evening there are a sequence of events that are funny and murders that take place. Their task is now to find out who is responsible for the murders before time runs out and
Movies or shows about time-travel are complicated, and never really make sense (I’m looking at you, Lost); Back to the Future guides us through potentially tricky subject matter by relying heavily – and very intelligently – on the tenets of classical narration listed above: Marty’s goals are very well-defined (to make sure his future parents meet, and then to get himself back to 1985); the chain of cause and effect is very clear: Doc Brown swindles plutonium from some Libyans → the Libyans, once they track down and shoot Doc, chase after Marty, Doc’s assistant → Marty tries to flee from the Libyans by speeding away in the DeLorean time machine that Doc has made → Marty hits 88 mph, sending him back to 1955, etc.
Marty goes back in time to escape from the Libyan’s, he is now stuck in the past, 30 years before he was even born. He is trying to achieve his ultimate goal of making it back home. There is only one person that can help him, younger Doc Brown, otherwise he is stuck there forever. He goes to Doc’s house for help, when he arrives Marty tries his best to convince him that he came from the future, unfortunately Doc dos not believe him. Marty recollects a few words Doc said before he was killed, how he thought of the flux capacitor.
In the film Marty, directed by Delbert Mann, many communication principles are demonstrated very clearly through the way Marty acted and interacted with those around him. The rudimentary principles of communication that were most evidently displayed throughout the film were: the stages of relationship development, conflict management styles, self-concept and its origins, and cultural dimensions, and each of their respective effects on Marty's life and daily intercommunication with those in his community. Each of these factors had a distinct influence on his life, and ultimately impacted every single action he took. In the end, the three components that were relationship development, conflict management
Teen years are the most complicated and overwhelming years of a child's life. Every teen goes through different stages while they are in the transition in becoming into an adolescent. For the Virtual Teen program I had a teen daughter, she was very outgoing and social. She enjoyed trying new things and was very involved in school. She also did well academically, and was part of the gifted program at her school. She lives with both her biological parents and a younger sister. Her relationship with her sister was like any sister relationship, they had little arguments once in a while but where are able to easily resolve on their own. As she transitioned to her teen years, she went through many stages like puberty, school transition and
12 Monkey's, directed by Terry Gilliam, stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt. This movie is a wonderful science fiction film wrapped around time travel. The theme of the movie has to do with society's perception of insanity. Throughout the film the viewer is plagued with questions of whether or not the main character, James Cole (Bruce Willis) is actually from the future or perhaps is just insane and suffering from delusions. This theme is thrown in with an amazing plot of time travel.
Now with that easy one out the way, time for the real brain busting stuff. At the end out the second movie and beginning of the third, Doc (Christopher Lloyd) gets struck by a bolt of lighting while flying still in the air and gets sent back to 1855 while Marty is on the street and sees this happen and is now stuck again in 1955. Right after that happens Marty gets a letter from Doc stating specific intrusions on where he left the time machine hidden and how to fix it. Shortly after Marty finds out that Doc was killed a week after he wrote the letter. Marty then decides to travel back to 1855 and save Doc. In the process of going back to 1855 he cuts a gas line so now the Delorean has no gas and Doc and Marty spend the rest of the third movie tiring to find a way to get the Delorean up to 88mph to be able to travel back home. Here is where there is three major plot holes.