Back To The Future Essay

Great Essays
Back in Time
Are you looking for a movie that is from the eighties, fast paced, and hilarious? Back to the Future might just be the film for you! Written by Robert Zemeckis (the mastermind behind works like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Forrest Gump), Back to the Future was one of the most beloved films of the 1980’s. Featuring Michael J. Fox in his first lead in a film, and renown actor Christopher Lloyd, this movie is a must watch for fans of any genre. Back to the Future fits the picture for a quality film because of its well-paced plot, phenomenal acting, astonishing camera work, and award winning soundtrack.
The movie Back to the Future takes place in the year 1985 in the city of Hill Valley, California. At the beginning of the film,
…show more content…
In Back to the Future, phenomenal acting was present in all actors/actresses regardless of small or large roles. The casting of an actor or actress that portrayed their characters with ease is something that was seen as a must for this film to work. Zemeckis, having taken Steven Spielberg’s suggestion, actually had to refilm Back to the Future because the original actor that portrayed Marty seemed like he was forcing himself to act like a character that he had no similarities to in real life. When they picked up Michael J. Fox, Zemeckis knew he was a perfect fit because of his personality, being able to skateboard, and being able to play the guitar. Zemeckis undoubtedly chose the best actors/actresses for the film.
Camera work and effects were essential to Back to the Future’s success. Zemeckis and the film crew certainly had their hands full when filming scenes with the DeLorean time machine. They did a great job of making the car look as though it was flying and traveling through time, even though they had to work with the visual effects and technology of the early eighties. Looking at the action scenes, the camera actually seemed to keep up fairly decent with the many intense action sequences. All in all, the visual effects added a genuinely nice touch to promote the feel of the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The mise-en-scene was used in the movie by the clocks, time machine, and the actors outfits. The narrative was used throughout the movie by involving the characters, settings, and plot. Lastly, the special effects and cinematography was used in the movie to intensify it by creating the disappearing time machine, lightning striking the cable cords, and the fake gun shots. I would recommend Back to the Future to all ages, and to anyone who likes a comedy and an adventure movie. I would rate the movie a five out of five because this movie is a classic and it will continue to be a…

    • 994 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Who Is Marty Mcfly

    • 396 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The first person to play the role of Marty Mcfly was Eric Stoltz’s. Crispin Glover did not return for the two sequels because he asked for too much money. Tom Wilson (Biff) gets asked the same questions so many times he wrote a song. The Executive producer Steven Spielberg sent back a thank you note for the “Humorous Memo.” Ronald Reagan was offered the role of the Hill Valley’s mayor in Back to The Future 3.…

    • 396 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Comparison Paper: Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction Influences on film making in today’s industry occur often, with new skills and techniques being implemented by daring producers and directors and are typically recycled by the next movie premiere. However, being boldly different is how particular film makers succeed, inspire future artists, and even make their mark on the industry, such as Orson Welles and Quentin Tarantino. Both film makers have been notarized for their accomplishments with not only the use of typical film elements like mise-en-scene and all that encompass cinematography, but also how their films are depicted in terms of narration. The use of flashbacks, nonlinear storylines, and character revelations through dialogue are all…

    • 842 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Sandlot - An American classic The cracking of a wooden bat, hollers coming from the mouths of middle school boys, the pop of the ball falling into the glove, and the grunts from the effort to throw the ball back towards home. This American classic revolutionized movie production. Directed by David Evans, The Sandlot is a comedic motion picture jam- packed with terrific acting. The movie takes place in the San Fernando Valley in 1962. Scotty Smalls is the new kid in town, and with his mom bugging him about getting friends, he heads to the nearby baseball field.…

    • 450 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Back to the Future II and the Jetsons,they both predicted some part of the future. The Jetson movie predicted robotic vacuum cleaners. Back to the Future II predicted big flat screen televisions, and video calling. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury creates a dystopian society where the protagonist Montag realizes that society is obsessed with technology and he wants to change it.…

    • 817 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1950s Vs Today Essay

    • 1098 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Life in the 1950s vs. Today In comparison with recent times, throughout the 1950s, there was equal unemployment, more births, less women employed, a movement from large cities to the suburbs, housing shortages, changes in health, changes in transit, and multiple corporations maximized. Although some of these can be deemed negative, it always shapes history and leads us to where we are today. The 1950s decade became known as the “Baby Boom”.…

    • 1098 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the preset controls the past.” The quote is a representation of what the party believes in. In the novel 1984, this quote is used to illustrate to the audience that the party controls its citizens and how this quote is also used as the Party’s slogan and what the Part represents. This is quote establishes a tone for the novel, which is darkness and illustrates to the audience that the party was falsifying the records and changing the past.…

    • 478 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    To time travel might be the most awesome and impossible ideas that humans have come up with. If it was possible there is no doubt in when and where i would want to go. Watching and playing baseball are two of my favorite things to do. I would want to go to Chicago in 1932. Emerging, Babe Ruth was becoming a household name in the 1930’s.…

    • 187 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The film Fast Times at Ridgemont High directed by Amy Heckerling is a “drama and teen film” involving the students in Ridgemont High coming of age. This film shows many different people’s views of their life in high school and how they have had many challenges to face and how these students were able to come over them. It is hard to say who is the protagonist is this film because there are so many to pick from. I would say the top two protagonists in the film are Stacey Hamilton and Jeff Spicoli. Although these teens are both dealing with two different situations they are able to overcome them in the end.…

    • 958 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Founding sociological theorists such as Karl Marx, Emilie Durkheim, and Max Weber analyzed society in different ways, but all aimed to discover and bring to light how it functioned. The ideas of all three of these theorists, along with Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Martineau, and W.E.B. DuBois can all be found in the film Elysium, directed by Neill Blompkamp, a story about a society divided by class, status, and political implications, whose main character finds a way to overcome the struggle that the citizens of Earth are facing in comparison to the elite society of Elysium. The film is set in a very distant future in the city of Los Angeles, which has turned into a dry and poverty stricken land, causing all the incredibly rich to set…

    • 938 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Life In The 1920s Essay

    • 391 Words
    • 2 Pages

    When the surviving soldiers returned to the United States after World War 1, they found themselves in a placed changed by the war. Many chances took place during this time period. Africans Americans started to move to cities in the north, women fought for their right to vote, nativists and the KKK developed hatred towards immigrants. It was also a time of inventions and economical prosperity. The 1920s were a time of chance, often referred to as the “Roaring 20s”,”Th jazz age” and “The age of Paranoia”.…

    • 391 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mud Stained Nikes Only in the movie Forrest Gump can one witness the late JFK being mooned by an imbecile. A comedy, drama, and romance all packed into one hundred and forty minutes. This simple-minded man lives a life of wandering filled with action and adventure. This is a movie one could watch on repeat and find themselves on the edge of their seat each time.…

    • 858 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Chapter nine of John Hollitz’s novel, Thinking Through the Past, tells about the Civil Rights Movement in the mid nineteenth century. Not only does this chapter talk about civil rights, but it also talks about the grassroot struggle in Mississippi during the sixties. The Civil Rights Movement itself can be categorized as a time when a large group of citizens lead a movement to give equality to all, especially African Americans. The main problems in Mississippi at the time were voting and education. These programs were lead by Freedom Summer and Student Involvement Coordinating Committee.…

    • 518 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Future. That’s probably one of the scariest words I know. The future is unpredictable, it’s often wrapped in wrapping paper, ready to be opened and it can both be exciting and disappointing. While I was in Elementary, I dreamed of being a chef, a cop, a fashion designer, a softball player, a singer, and an actor. As soon as I was in middle school, I wanted to be one thing, a singer, I had decided that I liked singing enough for it to be a career, although my vocal range disagreed.…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    A Snapshot of the Future Photographers in today’s society make the world go around. Without them we wouldn’t be able to capture events and even maybe see a glimpse into our future. Photographers are creative. No one picture ever looks alike. I will have to work my way up to achieve this.…

    • 1100 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays

Related Topics