Return to the future, Easter Easter Stanley Cubrick

In 2025, most of the cinema pioneers are used on the concept of Easter eggs and other hidden references in films to other media. Most of these references are used in ways that exceed just a greeting, especially since their presence becomes more common. It is rare to see the Easter Egg A 40 -year -old movie It contains multiple layers of meaning. But “Back to the Future” is not an ordinary movie.

The movie still stands after all these years One of the greatest time travel films everOne of the reasons is that the participating adults Bob Jill and Robert Zimikis (who are also directed) passed the scenario with an accurate teeth comb for every possible preparation and reward. They were simply responsible for their selected types of science fiction and comedy: travel stories work through time better when focusing on symmetry between different periods, and each joke needs a pierced line. In addition to this, Zameckis was also working with its functional topic of looking at American history through a deviant lensAnd both men, graduates of the cinema school from the University of Southern California, were not above the honor of their influences.

For this reason all these layers contribute to the Easter egg in the movie, which happens early and so quickly that you have missed you. During the opening title sequence, when Marty Mcfly (Michael J To make the loudspeaker, Marti must use a key. Under the key hole, there is a label that reads “CRM 114”, which is barely on the screen before covering the Fox hand. If you are lucky enough to arrest him, you may discover that it is a reference to one of the best Stanley Kubrick films, not only that it is genius, but it works on several levels.

The name “CRM 114” appeared for the first time in the 1964 political satire “Dr. Strantjev or: How I learned to stop anxiety and love the bomb.” This film revolves around the repercussions of (craftsmanship and group), which occurs after one of the Air Dean of madness moves in moving a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, which no one can stop. One of the reasons for this is a fictional device called CRM 114, a thing that the army uses during red alert periods to communicate with their bombing aircraft secretly. Not only the crazy general is the only person who carries the code to allow communications through, but there is CRM 114 who is disrupted on a bombardment, which means that even the successful summons symbol will successfully will not prevent them from carrying out their destroyed mission.

These various tests, balances, and failed safe systems that the actual American army developed during the Cold War or their use in another way can be sabotaged in the heart of “Dr. Strangjelov”, however the idea of ​​control systems is a key theme for the work of Cubrick as well. For this reason the director continued the signals to CRM 114 ended Many of his subsequent filmsConvert it into a running Easter egg. In “2001: A Space Odyssey, it is the registration number in the Discovery spacecraft, the same ship run by the Hal 9000 computer that is disrupted in the end. In “A Clockwork Orange”, the formula granted to the late, violent movie in the movie “114”, which means “Serum 114”, is a small kubrick game on the reference. In the latest movie Auteur, “Eyes Wide Shut”, which is the besieged doctor in Tom Cruise, where it is located or not a plot at “level/wing C, Chamber 114”. This means, “C Room 114.” Kubrick used the term several times not only to be a subjective reference, but to draw attention to these other cases of technology and/or society.

With all this in mind, CRM 114 screams in “Return to the Future” is intelligently multi -layer. At the level of the obsessed films, it is the advice George Lucas “ThX 1138” referencesOr Brad Bird and the Pixar crew keep “A113” reference. At the level of comedy, it is a (brief) preparation for the immediate follow -up: CRM 114 indicates a piece of broken technology, and in fact, Doc Super amp in an amazing way when Marty turns all aspects to the maximum. At the level of the text program, it is part of our introduction to both DOC and Marty characters. DOC is a well -intentioned but eccentric world, its irresponsible nature is clear all over his home (including stolen plutonium plots point that sits below its bed), and the CRM 114 reference draws attention to this. It also indicates how Marti, in conjunction with DOC technology, can increase bad situation. Amir would have exploded if Marti was not using it, just as it was later, he would not have returned to 1955 if he was more cautious.

The most interesting thing is how the reference helps in creating film themes as well. “Back to the Future” is a satire in addition to an explicit scientific adventure. This element is often ignored by the informal viewers of the film, Those who believe that elements such as Marti’s mother, Lauren (Lea Thompson), fall in love with her son in the future, are supposed to be taken by the nominal value. The film is intended to look at the American morals, values ​​and history, and Zemeckis and Gale are approaching those aspects with both loving and critical eye. America is a country that promises beautiful things like freedom and prosperity, but it is less clean than the image you want to display; The idea of ​​Ronald Reagan may look as funny in 1955, but in 1985 Marti did not laugh. DOC can invent a car that travels through time, partly due to an unjust deal concluded with the terrorists (who crossed it dual). However, the car is not an example of the sterling pound of engineering, but Delorean, a car famous for its failure to catch it.

CRM 114 does not call again to Kubrick on the surface level, but on a very objective theme. Whether discrimination or Delorean causes the problem, both indicate the beautiful extent of the United States excluding.