Back to the Future III

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Movie
German title Back to the Future III
Original title Back to the Future Part III
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Zemeckis
script Bob Gale
production Neil Canton
Bob Gale
music Alan Silvestri
camera Dean Cundey
cut Harry Keramidas
Arthur Schmidt
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Back to the Future Part III (original title: Back to the Future Part III ) is a science fiction - film comedy from director Robert Zemeckis in 1990. The screenplay for the film wrote Bob Gale . The film is the third part of the Back to the Future trilogy . The first part Back to the Future was released in 1985, the second part Back to the Future II was released in 1989.

action

The plot begins by repeating the last two minutes of the second part: On November 12, 1955 at 10:04 p.m., lightning strikes the Hill Valley clock , Marty McFly travels in the one designed by Dr. Brown converted the DeLorean DMC-12 into a time machine back in 1985, and the other Marty (from the time travel of the second film) runs up to Brown shortly afterwards and speaks to him, whereupon Brown passes out. Marty brings Dr. Brown finally got to his house.

The next day Marty shows the Dr. Brown received the letter from Dr. Brown from 1885, when he was transferred towards the end of the second film. On September 1, 1885, Brown reported that he was living happily as a blacksmith in the " Wild West ". He hid the damaged time machine in a tunnel. 1955 Brown and Marty go to the gallery and find the car, but stumble upon the tombstone of Dr. Brown, who cites September 7, 1885 as the date of death, six days after he wrote the letter. Brown was shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a $ 80 argument.

The time machine can be emergency repaired using a circuit diagram with components from the 50s - a tiny IC “made in Japan” is replaced by a huge construction made of electron tubes on the hood - and Marty does not travel to the year as planned and instructed in Brown's letter 1985 returned but returned on September 2, 1885 to save Brown from death. The new journey begins in a drive-in theater , where Marty zufährt on a poster depicting Indians on horses. In response to his objection that he would go to the Indians, Doc Brown replied that there were no Indians there in 1885. (On arrival, however, Marty ends up in a chase between Indians and cavalry.) Marty hides the car in a cave. Marty falls down a slope while fleeing from a bear and passes out. When he wakes up, he is on the farm of the McFly family who immigrated from Ireland, his ancestors, and his great-grandfather William as a baby. Marty calls himself Clint Eastwood across from them .

In Hill Valley he visits the saloon and meets Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen and his gang. He gets into a fight with them and they are about to hang him when Doc Brown shows up and saves him. Marty tells him about the epitaph and that the inscription was made by a Clara who was apparently his lover. Brown doesn't know Clara though. Later we learn that the new Hill Valley teacher is called Clara Clayton. As a scientist, Brown doesn't want to change history or form bonds, so he decides not to meet the woman. Instead, Brown and Marty plan to go back to 1985.

Unfortunately the time machine was damaged by an Indian arrow and has run out of fuel. If you try to run the engine with high percentage alcohol, the injection system will be irreparably damaged. To get the car up to 88 miles per hour (about 142 km / h ), all that remains is to push it with a steam locomotive . Brown knows of a suitable, straight, level railway line that leads to Clayton Gorge. While inspecting the tracks, Brown encounters Clara, whose carriage horses had run through, and saves her. The two fall in love.

Buford Tannen wants to shoot Brown at the inauguration ceremony of the new town hall clock, which was destroyed by the lightning strike in 1955, but Marty intervenes. Tannen challenges him to a duel on the day of the planned departure. Brown has to choose between his love and his mind. He confesses to Clara the journey through time. Clara insinuates a cheap excuse he found with Jules Verne . Devastated, Doc Brown goes to the saloon, where he doesn't get drunk (he doesn't tolerate alcohol), but his stories from the 1980s give the impression of being completely drunk.

Marty can't avoid the duel the next morning, but throws away his gun, Tannen fires a shot, and Marty goes down. When Tannen stands before him, confident of victory, Marty disarms him. He was strapped to the iron door of an oven that caught the bullet (the trick is from a scene in the Clint Eastwood film For a Fistful of Dollars , shown to Marty in the second Back to the Future film) . Now the journey home should start.

Meanwhile, Clara realizes that Brown didn't lie to her. She finds the plans of the two and rides after them. She catches up with the two of them when the steam locomotive is already driving. After an acrobatic scene on the moving train, only Marty got into the time machine in time and went back alone to 1985, where the gorge is now called Eastwood Gorge, as it was believed that he fell into the gorge with the steam locomotive. When a modern train approaching on the track shortly afterwards, the DeLorean is completely destroyed.

At the end of the film, Brown and his wife Clara also arrive in 1985, in a steam locomotive that has been converted into a time machine. He introduces his two children Jules and Verne and says goodbye with the words: “That means that your future is not yet written. As with all people. Your future is always what you make of it. "

production

Filming began in September 1989 and ended on January 22, 1990. It was released in the US on May 25, 1990, and in Germany on July 12, 1990.

Production costs were estimated at around $ 40 million. The film grossed about $ 245 million in theaters; $ 88 million in the US alone.

The buildings for Hill Valley were built in the open air in Jamestown, California . In 1996 the western town was destroyed by fire; ironically sparked by a lightning strike. The spectacular end of the train journey was filmed with a 1: 4 scale model of the train that ILM had taken two months to build.

Trivia

  • In the film, the novel is from the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne quotes from the year 1865th
  • Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis obtained permission from Clint Eastwood to have his name featured in the film; he is also the last of the "Special Thanks" in the credits.
  • In the scene in which Marty and 1955-Brown search for the tombstone in the archives for Buford Tannen and come across a photo of Marty's ancestors, Doc Brown also tells part of his family history. Accordingly, his family came to Hill Valley in 1908 and was originally called von Braun , an allusion to the engineer Wernher von Braun .
  • Michael J. Fox was actually hung accidentally once during the scene in which Buford was hanging him and briefly lost consciousness. He describes this near death experience in his autobiography Comeback .
  • Joseph Glidden , the inventor of the barbed wire, appears in the saloon. He is played by Richard Dysart .
  • Some scenes showing Michael J. Fox during the railroad finale at the DeLorean had to be shot backwards because the insurance company feared that the train could derail while moving forward.
  • The Rail Town 1897 train in Jamestown, California has featured in many westerns, including Twelve Noon and Pale Rider .
  • Tom Wilson trained with the world champion and quick shot expert Arvo Ojala in order to skillfully use Buford's weapon and to become "the fastest shooter in the West".
  • At the inauguration of the town hall clock, the Battle Cry of Freedom will be intoned following the address of the mayor .
  • The three members of the band ZZ Top have a guest appearance in the film and play the drum and the two guitars in a dance band. They also contributed the title Doubleback to the film's soundtrack , which is also played during the credits.
  • The 2014 western film A Million Ways to Die in the West is set in 1882. Christopher Lloyd made a cameo as Doc Brown . You can see him working on the DeLorean in his workshop.

Awards

Reviews

“Not as mature as its two predecessors, after a confusing beginning, the film primarily delivers a western parody with anachronistic elements. The end product of a successful series that shows signs of fatigue, but is still good enough for an entertaining film experience. "

- Lexicon of international film

literature

  • Ralph Sander : Three times the future and back. Some comments on Robert Zemeckis' time travel trilogy "Back to the Future". In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1996 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-09445-X , pp. 293-302

Web links

Wikiquote: Back to the Future III  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Back to the Future Part III (1990) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Back to the Future III. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used