The Plotline Of Back To The Future By Robert Zemeckis

In this essay I am going to discuss Wells' use of contrast in the Time

Since this is a classical narrative, the main character eventually will. Zemeckis uses incredibly smooth continuity throughout the rest of the film in order to express to the spectators the narrative logic and ideological conclusions. “Understanding how expressive cinematic techniques give distinct representation to social issues and conflicts and engage the viewer effectively allows a discussion of the social context to remain sensitive to film as a unique medium with its own expressive techniques”(Nicholas, 160). In the key scene where Marty goes to the Twin Pines Mall to meet Dr. Brown, Zemeckis uses plenty of techniques to effectively edit the scene. He uses three-point lighting, point-of-view shots, close-up shots and over-the-shoulder shots. When the time traveling car invention begins to depart the truck, a point-of-view shot is integrated so that we can view the car from Marty’s perspective. This shot is extremely important for the film because we as spectators are put into the cinematic space and it makes us feel as if we ourselves are physically in the scene and are experiencing the same thing. Not only does this shot allow us to feel like we are in the shot but it also helps us to identify with Marty and his feelings. Lighting helps to interpret how the car should be seen because of the key lighting on Marty, the lighting on Marty helps us to see his face expression and we can tell that it’s filled with amazement and astonishment. Just like Marty, we can see the car as this magnificent, “out of this world” invention. From here on we know that this is a shot that helps the narrative develope and automatically know that since Marty thinks this machine is amazing, he will then end up using it to his advantage. As we’ve gotten to experience the climax of Back to the Future, we prove that our ideological

In the war Billy experienced many things that a regular person did not. Falling bombs, gunshots, he was dead people, and many more disguisting things. Because of all of this we can conclude that Billy has a PTSD, fully known as post traumatic stress disorder. Billy went through the Bombing of Dresden, where Dresden was obliterated by Allied forces where 135 000 people died. Billy is a prisoner of war who in order to survive the war has to travel through time and escape the reality. Time travelling makes Billy comfortable, and relieves him of troubles he is experiencing at the moment. Billy’s first time traveling happened during the Battle of Bulge when he and three other Americans are captured by German troops. “Billy Pilgrim had stopped in the forest. He was leaning against a tree with his eyes closed. His head was tilted back and his nostrils were flaring. He was like a poet in the Parthenon. This was when Billy first came unstuck in time. His attention began to swing grandly through the full arc of his life, passing into death, which was violet light. There wasn't anybody else there, or anything. There was just violet light—and a hum.” (43) This qoute shows us how Billy Started time travelling. When Billy gets captured he uses time travel to travel to happy times when he becomes a good optometrist and marrying his wife that he did not like. When Billy is in the boxcar instead of facing the reality, he travels to Trafalmadore, and that helps him go through this hard situation. Vonnegut also claims that Billy does not control his time travel. “Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.” (23).

The Time Traveler climbs into the seat of the time machine, takes the starting lever in one hand, and the stopping lever in the other, and hurls forward into time. As he pushes the starting lever into the extreme position, he wonders if what he is experiencing is actually happening. As he tears his vision from the clock, the Time Traveler realizes a storm is forming around him and pushes the stopping lever. The machine stumbles in the sky and the Time Traveler is flung through the air! In the novel The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, a man travels through what he believes to be the fourth dimension, time, by using a time machine he created and goes on quite an adventure in

In the world that Back To The Future takes place in is very interesting but is extremely flawed. The 1989 classic Back To The Future, Marty Mcfly traveled to 2015 to see incredible things. In the film, Mary Mcfly, hacks and exploits different technology. Our Tech has a lot of similarities. The tech that people own is compromised just like the tech in Back To The Future.

He was trying to find a way to Doc’s house when he accidentally stopped his parents from meeting and falling in love. Instead, his mother falls in love with him. Also, the plan Marty and Doc come up with to get Marty back to the future does not go as smoothly as planned. The car runs on nuclear energy, which they have no access to. They do come up with a plan where they will harness energy from a lightening bolt that is planned to strike the town’s clock tower at the end of the week.

1989, the year Marty McFly went Back to the Future to 2015 and gave us a glimpse of what technology held for us. Well, here we are in 2015 and some predictions were right, others not so much. With these new technologies came consequences, consequences that even Doc Brown could not predict. Technological advances have obvious benefits, for example better security devices to keep people safe or medical advances that prolong lives and combat illness; however, these technologies can also have what is referred to as unintended consequences, those less obvious outcomes that cannot be seen during the initial onset of a technological advance such as creating power struggles and unduly influencing society. It is those consequences that appear after

Marty Martian was sent to Earth to find life, and he succeeded in finding a car. The car is living because it uses energy, and it feeds on a liquid substance. Marty said that , “they appeared to have a great deal of energy, some of them moved faster than 60 kilometers per hour”. Every living thing has energy, and so does this car. If the car was not living then it would not have the energy to move. Marty also stated that he, “observed that they would stop to feed on a liquid substance”. All living things need a stimuli to live, which is why a car needs gas. If the car was not living, then it would not need gas to drive.

A DeLorean which was used to time travel back in time. As he went back in time he encounter a younger version of his parents, he must make sure they fall in love or else he is ceased to exist. In the novel Kindred, and the movie Back to the Future the theme is that for them to survive in the past they must change who they are in order to survive in the past. This is explored through the main character Dana and Marty, and in order both Dana and Marty to exist they must find their parents or ancestor and get them together or else they’ll both cease to exist in their own time period. One similarity between Dana and Marty is that they both travel back in time before they were ever close to being born.

A cool car, good rock music, and terrific actors...what more do you need for the backbone of a good movie? The complex script of a teenager going back in time and meeting his parents when they were teenagers is simple enough for an elementary child to follow as proven by my two young boys who watched it over and over. They even had matching "Back to the Future" outfits, rode the ride at Universal Studios Florida and saw the train from "Back to the Future Part III". The cool car, a DeLorean, is as much a character in the script as Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd). The DeLorean was the "car of the future" in 1985, with its stainless steel body and gull-wing doors (doors that are hinged at the roof rather than

Movies or shows about time-travel are complicated, and never really make sense (I’m looking at you, Lost); Back to the Future guides us through potentially tricky subject matter by relying heavily – and very intelligently – on the tenets of classical narration listed above: Marty’s goals are very well-defined (to make sure his future parents meet, and then to get himself back to 1985); the chain of cause and effect is very clear: Doc Brown swindles plutonium from some Libyans → the Libyans, once they track down and shoot Doc, chase after Marty, Doc’s assistant → Marty tries to flee from the Libyans by speeding away in the DeLorean time machine that Doc has made → Marty hits 88 mph, sending him back to 1955, etc.

The films “Boyhood” and “Run Lola Run” explore the manipulation of time in varying ways. Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” follows Mason from the age six to 18 as he grows and learns to navigate through life. The movie is organized in chronological order and told in real time, allowing for the audience to gain heightened empathy towards Mason and his experiences. Tom Tykwer’s “Run Lola Run” follows Lola as she attempts to gather 100,000 for her boyfriend within twenty minutes in order to save her boyfriend’s life. The narrative repeats three times, until Lola wins the money and receives the ending she is happy with. “Boyhood” and “Run Lola Run” manipulate time in order to create an illusion of reality that connects the audience to the main character.

As an adolescent, Martin tried to make his father proud. His memories of his father at that time brought animosity. As the two men felt resentment for each other. Martin’s father articulates then when he tells Martin, “You did everything I wanted to do”. After reflecting on positive memories, Martin realizes that he should have let his father be a dad. Martin then heeded the advice of a close friend and worked

The “Back to the future” trilogy is by far my favorite of all time; especially the first one, that movie alone is on my Mount Rushmore of movies. The trilogy is about a teenager who accidently travels back in time prevents his parents from getting married which then prevents him from being born, so now he has to figure out a way to get back to the future and get his parents back together. The entire trilogy is great; even thought it has its bad moments, but hey, what trilogy does not? The series is a clever and fun string of movies that leaves you with a good feeling after watching them. Now with that being said, when you make a movie about time travel there are bound to be some mistakes and “Back to the future” is no exception. I can go

H.G. Wells's Presentation of Future in The Time Machine When Wells was writing "The Time Machine" in 1895 England was a country where society consisted of several classes. These were mainly the middle classes, these were the people who ran factories and had a lot of wealth. The other class was working class, the people who worked in factories and mines. Also there were a huge number of factories and mines.