We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of Back to the Future by Caseen Gaines
The Book Pile
Kellen Erskine and David Vance
4.8 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Back to the Future was rejected 40 times by studios before getting made, a fact that |
| 0:05.5 | has definitely made some terrible screenwriters really stick with it. Today's book is We Don't |
| 0:10.5 | Need Roads by Kassine Gaines about the making of the trilogy. I'm Kellanerskin. I'm a comic, a father, |
| 0:17.5 | and up until I was 22, I had only seen the edited for TV version of Back to the Future. |
| 0:24.1 | So when I saw the real one, I was disappointed to find out that that Biff fellow has a bit of a |
| 0:29.4 | mouth on him. |
| 0:31.4 | Yes, swearing, definitely Biff's worst sin. |
| 0:34.9 | And I'm David Vance. |
| 0:36.0 | I had never seen a time travel movie where the time travel makes sense, |
| 0:39.2 | and I still haven't. |
| 0:42.9 | We Don't Need Roads is the story of the making of Back to the Future. It's also the slogan of |
| 0:47.5 | people who oppose the new infrastructure bill. And this is the book pile. So a quick reminder to please rate and review the book pile. |
| 0:56.9 | So a quick reminder to please rate and review the book pile. |
| 1:00.4 | If you don't, Kellan will go back in time and flirt with your mom. |
| 1:05.5 | So I grew up with this movie. |
| 1:07.5 | My grandparents had taped it off of TV. |
| 1:12.7 | And this was back at a time with the average person owned like 14 movies. |
| 1:19.1 | And half of them were recorded off of VHS tapes with commercial breaks and everything. So I wasn't kidding when I say that I saw it censored for TV, even cut for time. Like Biff's catchphrase was just |
| 1:26.1 | calling people a jerk. A jerk of butthead yeah so they made |
| 1:32.1 | him do ADR of jerk because they couldn't play butthead on TV yeah and if you can imagine it doesn't |
| 1:38.0 | you know my favorite show is Beavis and Jerk but I loved this movie as a kid I jerk. |
| 1:48.0 | But I love this movie as a kid. I still get goosebumps when I hear the soundtrack. |
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