40 years ago, the return to the future box office ignited an eternal cinematic legacy

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“What we have started to do is to make a human, fun, public and exciting story and the idea of ​​travel through time will be used as a device for the story of that story.” Those are the words of director Robert Zimikis talking to her Reference In 1985 before the release of “return to the future”. Four decades have been removed, what started Zemeckis to accomplish through the time travel image seems strange to what it has become.

There are films that love people. There are films tolerated. Then there are films that will be used as a comment from humanity to prove that we are in the state of life as we know it. There with the likes of “Gone with the Wind” and “The Godfather” is “Back to the future, “Undoubtedly the greatest travel movie over time. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. It is safe to say, that Zemeckis and its co -author Bob Gil are more than achieving their goal. Humanitarian talented with one of the most popular cinematic classics at all times.

In the tales of this week of the box office, we look back in “Back to the Future” in honor of the fortieth anniversary of its founding. We will go to how the film appears, its very difficult way on the big screen, what happened when the theaters hit, what happened in the wake of its release, and how its legacy has grown over the years, and what lessons we can learn from it throughout these years. Let’s publish, are we?

The film focuses on teenager Marti McFly (Michael J. Fox), who was detonated to 1955 in the time of the time built by Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Then Marti finds himself in a series of events that are shattered with the time of erasing himself from existence unless he can make sure that his parents in the future end up together. Meanwhile, the past version of Doc Brown must try to repair the device to help Marty to return to the future!

Zameckis and Gale were trying to “return to the future” for a while, but they were rejected dozens of times. It didn’t help They wrote some fluctuations, such as Stephen Spielberg, “1941”. However, things changed after Zemeckis had a great success with the 1984 “Romance The Stone”. When the duo had finally had the opportunity to get a studio on board the plane.

previously, Disney had moved “back to the future” because she was “very dirty”, “very dirty.” Give Marti and his mother. Other studios did not think they are dirty enoughThe desire for something more like “Burke”. Ultimately, they made a deal at Universal Pictures. More specifically, Spielberg came as a product. This will become the first movie produced in his company, Amblin Entertainment, was not directed by SPIELBERG in person.

The presence of any movie not shy of a simple miracle. The manufacture of timeless classics like this is the cosmic frankly. “Back to the Future” appeared almost a refrigerator as a time machineInstead of Delorian now. Just the decision to focus on the past instead of the future was the key. They also assembled a team of the stadium crew, but it was not perfect at first.

The film was Christopher Lloyd (“Taxi”) in the role of Doc Brown, Lea Thompson (“” Red Dawn “) in the role of Lauren McVly, Crespon Glove (” Rivers Hafra “) in the role of George McFali, Claudia Wales (” Herbi, the Illumination of Love “) in the role of Jennifer and New Dimer Thompson in New Wilson. Hey, originally, Eric Stolz in the role of Marti.

To some extent, Stallz photographed a lot of “Back to the Future” as it presented the film before replacing it By Fox. In the end, after editing the shots together, zemeckis knew something required for change. Therefore, Universal agreed to reformulate the role and redesign a lot of the image, on a large account. As for why stoltz was launched? They needed a more comic person. Also, there were problems behind the scenes. Wilson explained in 2011…

“Eric was shot two days ago before he bombed his head because he was in the scene in the cafeteria … he was leading the heels of his hands strongly in the collarbone, I mean, he really paid.”

Three stories are almost close to the production that filled books. The broader point is, to the point that it could have been mistaken. Often there was a mistake. A lot of additional money has been spent. The fact that “returning to the future” made it to theaters in good condition was a tremendous achievement of the studio film. What happened next, no one predicted.

Universal launched a great marketing campaign for “Back to the Future”, which carried a budget of $ 19 million. This was not a small thing at the time. However, between an interesting trailer, attractive images, the growing attractiveness of Fox, not to mention the presence of “Stephen Spielberg shows” on stickers and trailers, there were many fans to connect him here.

“Return to the Future” hit the theaters on the weekend from July 5, 1985. It arrived in the middle of the week to enter the July 4 and faces very little direct competition. On the first weekend, the plans were easily topped with $ 11.1 million. The new coming “Emerald Forest” ($ 4.3 million) and Red Sonja (2.2 million dollars) was not identical to the Zemeckis and Gale time dust.

The attached Spielberg name was appropriate, When he invented summer films only 10 years ago with “Jaws”. Now, he was somewhat successful. “Back to the Future” kept the first place on the plans for 11 out of 12 weeks, as it lost just for a while in front of the “leave” before taking the crown again. It did not fall from the top 10 Until December. Such things cannot be imagined in the modern era.

Finally, with the International Aesthetics (and through its various release), “Return to the Future” raised $ 215.6 million locally to go with $ 173.2 million internationally for a total of $ 388.8 million. A house managed by any scale in the field of cinema.

Although Hollywood was not obsessed with distinction in the mid -1980s as it is now, success on this range still always means that it will happen, if it makes sense to do it. Viewers may remember the “to continue …” in “Back to the Future”, but it has not been added until the VHS version. In an interview with 2015 with HundredJill explained that they had no idea really about a complement.

“We had no idea that there was any complement. As Bob Zimikis says,“ If we knew that we will make a complement, we will not be at all in the car with him at the end of the first movie. “Because when it’s time to write the second and feel what we would have done -” What will we do with Jennifer? “

Although they did not facilitate themselves, Zemeckis and Gale returned to writing and directing “returning to the second part of the future” and “returning to the third part of the future”, which was filmed successively, was released in November 1989 and May 1990, respectively. Both have achieved great successes, with $ 332 million and 245 million dollars worldwide, with each of $ 40 million in production budgets.

While the origin It is still considered a large -scale “return to the future”It is considered a trilogy as one of the best trilogy ever produced. He also created nearly a billion dollars at the office box office, putting ZMECKIS and Gale on the A Hollywood menu. However, the effect of this film extends beyond the box office, it is difficult to determine.

In the era of broadcasting in which we live now, it may be extremely difficult to achieve a blow of any kind. However, there is this desire sometimes to try to manufacture a cultural spread. See only “Reebl Moon” from Netflix from director Zach Snyder. The films were here today, I went tomorrow. Mirch was rotting on the opponent’s shelves in Wall Mart.

Trying to buy cultural importance is a foolish task. As Zemeckis said, they only wanted to “make a human, fun, public and dramatic story” – making the best possible movie. Everything else? It is almost impossible to control. “Back to the Future” has become the result of the hard effort of Zemeckis and Gale and all concerned. They did not think: “We will do a classic Khaled’s classic that would lead to a park riding.” Madness in this way lies.

Moreover, there is something that can be said to control the soul. This privilege has not been restarted. ZEMECKIS and Gale have Balari explained that “returning to the future 4” will never happenAt least, it is not while they live and breathe. Certainly, you can make seven films “Jurassic Park”, but the decrease in revenue begins at some point. As it exists, this movie is special, and part of it is limited.

This is partly why the “Return to the Future” trilogy is still echo today. It was not touched by greed and modern Hollywood. The restriction is, in many ways, the form of its own success.