Post by Mist On Fire on Jun 22, 2015 22:29:00 GMT -5
The story....
We follow the life of high school student Marty McFly and his eccentric scientist friend Emmett "Doc" Brown.
Marty's life is far from perfect,no car to get around,parents one would be embarrassed to have,and a music career destined to go nowhere if he can't a break from someone.
Late one night,he meets up with Doc in a large mall parking lot to assist with a new invention,a time machine built from a Delorean automobile.
After a successful test run things go horribly wrong and Marty finds himself in the car evading the trouble and is accidently sent back in time to 1955.Confused about his new situation,he returns to town and inadvertently disrupts the first meeting of his parents before finding his way to Doc's 1955 home and explains the situation and shows him the time machine as proof.
Together Doc and Marty must now repair the damage to the "space time continuum" which has now endangered Marty's future existence. He doesn't have an easy time of it but eventually things are set right and Marty returns to his own time.However,due to his interference in events of the past,he has returned to an alternate 1985...all for the better!
Before Marty has a chance to enjoy his newfound present,Doc appears in the time machine and calls for Marty to join him on a trip into the future.
Now we arrive at the ending of the 1st film and beginning point of the second film.
This is where real space time continuum theories get really confusing so I'll keep it very short.....
Doc and Marty travel to 2015 to save his son from a street gang problem by impersonating his future son in a local shop.
(blink and you'll miss a very young and future star of "Lord of the Rings" Elijah Wood in this scene)
After solving the problem with his son,Marty buys a book of sports trivia with the intent to take it back in time to gamble and make a little money,Outraged Doc trashes the book in an alley. The entire exchange is overheard by Biff,the antagonist of Marty's father in his youth,Biff retrieves the book and follows Doc and Marty and waits until they leave the vehicle.Leaving 2015,Biff travels back in time to give the book to his younger 1955 self with Marty's money scheming idea.Biff returns to 2015 as doc and Marty re-emerge with intent to return home to 1985.
When they arrive,they discover a world completely turned upside down with Biff in charge of just about everything.Once Marty and Doc assess what happened,they travel back to 1955 to stop future Biff from changing events.
I'll skip the explaination of paradoxes and being in two places at the same time which is what happens a lot throughout this film.
so now,Doc and Marty have repaired the timeline (again!) by capturing the trivia book from young Biff and burning it. Mission accomplished they prepare to leave 1955,Doc is about to collect Marty when the car is struck by lightning and sends the car off in time,leaving Marty stranded alone in 1955. But not for long,only minutes later a Western Union rep delivers Marty a letter from Doc dated 1885. Excited to learn where Doc "went", he seeks out 1955 Doc again to present him the letter.
This brings us to the third film.
We begin in Doc's home of 1955,the same incarnation who had JUST finished sending Marty home to 1985 in the 1st film.Marty brings Doc up to date and Doc reads aloud the letter from 1885 to Marty.
In the letter,Doc recounts the events following his arrival in 1885 with instructions to repair the car and it's location.He adds at the bottom of the letter specific instruction to Marty NOT to attempt to travel back in time and rescue him,but to return to his own time in 1985 and destroy the time machine once Marty is safely home.Doc is happy with his new life and does not wish to have any further disruption of time events from unessessary travel.
Marty and 1955 Doc go to the location on the map near a cemetery to retrieve the time machine.As they prepare to go back to the lab and begin repairs,Marty discovers a gravestone with Doc's name on it,time of death only 1 week after the letter was written. Defying Doc's wishes in the letter to return home,Marty instead travels back to 1885 with the intention of saving Doc's life and bring the both of them home to the time where they belong.
Upon arrival,Marty is chased by Indians and hides the car in a cave to escape them. During the chase,the fuel line is damaged and gas runs out empty on the cave floor. Marty must now walk to town to find Doc at his new home.Along the way he meets his first American ancestors who help him find his way.
Once in town,Marty stops in the saloon to ask the locals where he could find the blacksmith shop where Doc is now living.A local gang arrives in the saloon and starts trouble and Marty runs from them only to get caught anyway and the gang decideds to hang him by the new clock tower under construction. Doc rescues Marty and then exchanges threats with the gang,at which time Marty learns this is the cause of Doc's imminent death.The gang departs and Doc scolds him for coming back but is happy to see him.
Back at the blacksmith shop,Doc learns about his death coming in a week and decides to return to the future with Marty before that happens.Enroute to the cave where Marty had hidden the time machine,they rescue a woman named Clara before here wagon overturns and falls off a cliff. Doc is smitten with her beauty and then discovers from Marty later on that she was supposed to die.
Back at the blacksmith shop,Marty and Doc devise a plan to get the time machine running,since the car has no fuel,they must hijack the train to push the car up to speed to return home.Clara arrives to ask Doc if she can repair her telescope which was damaged in the accident and he agrees to meet her at the town festival to return it.
At the festival,Marty and Doc pose for a souvenir photo. After commenting what a shame it is that they could never show it to anyone,they arrive at the dance area as Clara arrives. Doc and Clara dance together as the saloon gang arrives to stir up trouble and carry out the threat to kill Doc.Marty saves Doc from getting shot and the death threat has now shifted to Marty instead. They arrange for a showdown on Monday morning,the same day as the train passing through that must be hijacked.(don't miss the cameo of ZZ Top as the festival band)
Doc has fallen in love with Clara and tells Marty he wants to stay with her in 1885. Marty reminds Doc they don't belong in 1885 and must return home to their own time. Heartbroken,Doc visits Clara at her home to say goodbye. Clara is hurt by the truth he reveals about traveling through time and throws him out calling him a liar and collapses on her bed crying,equally heartbroken.The following morning Clara buys a one way train ticket out of town.That night,Doc goes drinking.
Monday morning arrives and Clara boards the train out of town as Marty arrives at the saloon to collect Doc so they may return home. The gang arrives early and calls Marty out to finish what started at the festival. Doc and Marty sneak out a back door and run,but Doc is caught as Marty hides from them in a shed. A metal door has fallen off a wood stove and before stepping back outside he makes a shield from it under his clothing.
The gang leader shoots Marty and approaches the "body" to make sure he's dead. Marty kicks the gun from his hand and knocks him out cold with the metal shield.The train is fast approaching and Doc and Marty must now ride fast to catch the train.They hijack the train,cut the cars and begin the plan to return home.
Meanwhile on another train,Clara overhears the conversation of the gentleman behind her describing a heartbroken man at the saloon. Realizing it is Doc whom the man is talking about,Clara stops the train and runs back to town on foot to find him. She arrives at the blacksmith shop and finds the model railroad layout of the time travel plan. She then takes a horse from the barn to ride out and intercept them. She gets to the train and boards it behind the tinder car while Doc and Marty are up front. While Marty is seated in the car reading off speed,Clara is making her way up to the cab and Doc has crawled outside the boiler to the time machine ready to join Marty.Clara blows the train whistle to get their attention and Doc calls her to join him.She slips and Doc uses the hoverboard from 2015 to lift her up and save her. As the two move off,the train gets ups to speed and returns the time machine to 1985 with only Marty on board. It stops on the tracks as a modern train is coming up fast and Marty leaps free just before impact destroys the time machine forever.
Later that afternoon,Marty returns to the wreckage on the tracks with his girlfriend Jennifer. As they inspect what is left,a blast of air and sonic boom throws them backwards and a steam train appears with Doc at the controls. He introduces them to his new family,Clara and two sons.They have a present for Marty,the souvenir picture from the festival in 1885. Doc wishes Marty and Jennifer good luck with their future together and departs.the train hovers above the tracks and takes off into the skies.
THE END
Whew!!!! That's a lot to compose from memory and type out.I know I left out a lot of detail on the first two but....we all know what happens,right?