I loved all three of these movies and the Trilogy is on my list (behind about 15 other “must have” movies).
In case anyone is interested…
If you are ever in Hollywood, go to the corner of Franklin and Highland Blvd. There stands the United Methodist Church. This church was used for the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance and you can se the parking lot where the fight took place.
Also, in Pasadena, you can go check out the “Gamble House”, which was used as Christopher Lloyd’s home in the movie.
Just thought I would share. Movie locations are a bit of a hobby for me.
Hey glee, By “in jokes” you mean the causality thing right?
Some examples are: 1. The mall in BTTF 1 where Marty first travels back, was originally called “twin Pines mall” When he goes back and escapes the ranch where the mall will be, he accidentally runs over 1 of 2 pine trees growing near thee entrance to the ranch. By the end of the film, the mall is now called “Lone Pines Mall”
2. When Doc breaks the peice of ledge on the clock tower near the end of BTTF 1, it remains broken in the future.
These are 2 of the several causality things. I guess you could throw in that Marty invented Rock 'n Roll, skateboarding, and the life preserver fashion as well! :eek:
The big ravine that you see in BTTF 3, (which the train falls into) was originally called “Shonash Ravine” Some old Native name.
Then, Clara Clayton the new school teacher arrived at the Hill Valley Train station. Nobody volunteered to meet her, so she ended up getting a horse and trailer and heading off toward her home on her own. On the trip, some snakes spooked her horses and they ran off out of control. The wagon breaks off from the horses and plunges into the ravine with Clara on top. She dies, and the town renames “Shonash Ravine” to “Clayton Ravine”
In the time where Doc goes back, he volunteers to pick up Clara from the train station and successfully takes her back to her home and the Ravine is still named, “shonash Ravine” But! After Doc gets shot in the back by Griff, Apparently Clara so distraught over his death plunges herself into the Ravine, thus the ravine is named “Clayton Ravine”.
In the time where Marty joins doc, Marty tells Doc of a love named Clara, Doc has not met her yet and decides to not pick her up to try and change events. Marty and Doc leave to scout around the track locations by the unfinished bridge and the ravine. They hear Clara’s Screams for help and Doc manages to save Clara before her wagon rolls into the Ravine. Not realising this was the person he was trying to avoid.
At the end of the film, everyone in the 1885 Hill Valley beleives “Clint Eastwood” fell into the ravine with the train in an accident. They rename the Ravine. “Eastwood Ravine” in honour of his death and how he beat up Griff.
You can see the sign as the Delorean rolls down the tracks in 1985.
Whoa… thats a big causality.
Personally I would pick Galaxy Quest but yeah BTTF is up there.
The scene where Marty first sees Hill Valley in 1955 ,with Mr Sandman in the background, is one of the great moments of movie magic, right up there with Dorothy walking into Oz and when we first see dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
BTW, when the car pulls up to the Texaco station, four guys rush out and start fueling the car, checking the tire and oil pressure and cleaning the windshield. Was the service ever like that?
Not I, as it happens, but my teenage son and I did watch all three BTTF movies in the last week or so. The first is still hands-down the best, but the second and third were actually better than I remembered.
Maybe not four guys, but checking the tires, oil, radiator, battery, and cleaning the windshield used to be more or less standard practice. And given the cars of the 50s and 60s, all of those items needed more attention than they do today.
Historical note - it was the oil embargoes and ensuing “gas crises” of the '70s that killed full service. Gas stations cut the number of attendants, and offered “mini-service” or even self-service for a few pennies per gallon less than traditional full service. It became clear very quickly that the large majority of customers didn’t care enough to pay extra.
I remember some of that, vaguely. When you drove up to the pump, a bell rang inside (you had run over a “bell hose” to get to the pump) and a guy would come out to pump the gas and at least clean the windows.
