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Hey, Do You Remember...?

The Back to the Future Trilogy

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8676 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2015

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

From the onset of this podcast, we've received so many requests to cover one of the Back to the Future movies . Now that we've hit our 50th episode, we knew we wanted to do something special -  so we decided to tackle all three!

Back to the Future was such a gigantic part of all of our childhoods and each of us explains why these films meant so much to us back then and why we think their legacy endures.  Then it's time to break them down one-by-one and discuss how our opinions of each entry have changed over the years.

Topics include: the one giant leap you have to make with the original film in order for any of it to work, some extremely divisive opinions about Part II, a few surprising reactions to Part III, who the unsung hero of this franchise is, a debate about  whether or not a sequel/remake/reboot could ever work,  and much much more!

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0:00.0

Hey, do you remember the Back to the Future trilogy?

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.

0:31.7

I'm Chris.

0:32.5

I'm Donna.

0:33.2

And I'm Carlos.

0:34.1

And today we're revisiting the Back to the Future trilogy.

0:57.8

Thank you. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Back to the Future trilogy. At this point, most of us are well aware of the enduring legacy of the Back to the Future franchise.

1:06.3

So it's amusing to consider that this worldwide phenomenon exists because screenwriter Bob Gale decided to dig through some junk in his parents' basement.

1:12.1

That's where he found one of his dad's old high school yearbooks and learned that his father had been class president.

1:16.4

He thought about his own class president and how they had never associated with one another.

1:20.2

This led him to wonder, would him and his dad have been friends in high school?

1:22.3

And that is how this all began.

1:27.6

Gale wrote the script with Robert Zemeckis, but they initially had difficulty finding a studio that was interested in making it. The other films of that era about and four teenagers were more

1:32.4

salacious. Hollywood was looking for the next Porkies or fast times at Ridgemont High, and compared

1:37.7

to those titles, Back to the Future, seemed too soft. One executive suggested that Disney

1:42.6

might be a more appropriate place to pitch the film,

1:45.1

but there they faced the opposite problem. The unusual subplot about a mother seducing her

1:50.2

son was deemed too risque. Through it all, Steven Spielberg remained interested in the project,

1:55.5

but since he had already produced two financially unsuccessful films that Zemeckis had directed,

2:00.3

Zemeckis was concerned that a third

2:01.7

unprofitable collaboration would cement his reputation as the guy who could only get his movies

2:06.5

made because he was friends with Steven Spielberg. He went off to make romancing the Stone instead,

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