In the first unit of the course Ollywood, we studied pre production. Ollywood is a film critique class. We are studying the elements necessary in order to create a great movie. The first unit studies the screenplay, costume design, set design, lighting, and location scouting. For our first action project, we critiqued a film that was considered to have great elements of pre-production. I chose to critique Back to The Future because I have seen it before. Throughout this project, I learned how to write an effective movie critique. I am proud of the research I did for this critique.
Back to The future. 2014
Back To The Future is a 1985 American comic science-fiction film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. The screenplay was rejected many times by the studios until Steven Spielberg took the opportunity and helped them produce it. The lead actors are Michael J. Fox, Christopher lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The actor Fox, who played Marty McFly had some difficulties in making the movie because he was filming a show called Family Ties at the same time and the producers of the show wouldn't let him film the movie. Eric Stoltz was cast to play Marty McFly but as time went they realized that he was a miscast. so Fox was called back in and this time he worked out time management with the show so he was able to do both.
The movie was released on July 3, 1985 and became the most successful film of the year. It cost 19 million dollars to produce the film,but the end it was worth it because the film grossed more than 383 million dollars. For the great effort in making the movie, the movie won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, and the Academy Award for Best Sound Effect Editing.
Back to the Future is based in 1985 in Hill Valley, a fictional town in California. Hill Valley is a small, residential town with a high school. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is our protagonist, a 17-year old who dresses like any 80’s rebellious, skateboarding teenager dressed in jeans, Nike shoes, a maroon shirt, a square pattern button-up shirt, a jean jacket, and an orange vest. Marty’s desire is to get back home to 1985 after he accidentally time-travels in a car, the Delorean to 1955. While he is stuck in 1955, he runs into trouble by having interrupted his parents’ meeting and the timeline of history. In order to make both time periods believable, the production and costume designers had to pay close attention to details. For example, the high school set in 1955 was believable because there were checkered-tiles on the floor. The costumes also reflected the 1950s style with the girls dressed in square-pattern skirts with button-up shirts and the boys wore khakis with button-up shirts and blazers.
Throughout the movie Marty always said “If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything” Marty was inspired to say this quote by his dad because his dad alway said it, although he doesn't set his mind to accomplishing higher goals. Marty’s obstacle was a person...Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson), our antagonist. Biff is a big, buff, rich and he is a bully. Since Biff was a bully he would always tell people “ What you lookin’ ar, butthead?” when people try to stop his bullying.
A brief summary of the movie Back to The Future, Marty's desire had two desires one was that he wants to get his parents fall in love again because he interfered with their meeting so by that he and his siblings won't exist. His other desire was that he wants to get back to his time 1985 because he accidentally traveled back to 1955. It all started when “Doc” (an scientist inventor) invented a time travel car with a DeLorean DMC-12. He showed Marty at 1:06 am at the twin pines mall parking lot. Two mad terrorist attacked them and killed Doc. Marty panicked so he got on the car and tried to get rid of the terrorist by going fast. The thing was that if the car goes more that 85 miles then it would travel to the date that is indicated on the display board, the date was 1955 where Doc came up with the machine the would make the car travel. So he traveled back in time and for trying to look for Doc in 1955 he accidentally met his dad and followed him. His dad was spying on a girl on a tree when he accidentally fell and was going to get run over but Marty saved his dad from the car accident but he actually interfered with his parents meeting because his mom told him how she met his father when her dad almost ran over his dad and they took him inside and thats where they met and fell in love. Now Marty must have his journey in finding and convince Doc that he is from the future and that he needs help from him to get back. He also needs to get (his dad) George to become brave, for his mother to fall in love with George instead of him. The climax was on the day of the dance (where his parents are suppose to kiss and fall in love) he sets his parents up but then Biff interferes locks Marty inside of a truck. Biff tries to abuse Lorien when George sees her and he stands up to Biff. In that moment Lorien falls in love with George and enter the dance as dates. The resolution of this intriguing movie was that after a few dances Lorraine and George kissed and stayed together, by them kissing they kept their children's existence (from the future) Marty was able to get his parents back together and he was late to his meeting with the his future time. When Marty got back his family changed because his family was rich the reason why was because since his father stood up for him self he didn't let Biff determine his future which he did in the beginning of the movie.
My favorite scene would be at the end when Marty makes plans with George so he can ask Lorraine to the dance. The plan was that Marty would bother Lorraine and George would come and hit Marty to stop bothering her. When he was going to bother Lorine Biff came punched Marty and locked him in a trunk and Biff started to harraz Lorraine. George came along and was going to proceed with the plan, he opened the door of the car and said:
George- Hey you get your damn hands of…
But as soon as he saw that it was Biff and not Marty he hesitated.
Biff- I think you got the wrong car Mcfly.
Lorraine- George help me please
Biff- Just turn around Mcfly and walk away. Are you deaf Mcfly close the door and beat it.
George- No Biff you leave her alone.
Biff- Alright Mcfly. You're asking for it and now your going to get it.
Mcfly tries to punch Biff but fail and he torches him. Lorraine tries to intervene but also fail and Biff throws her to the grown. Thats when George get courage and punches Biff by surprise and knocks him down.
This was my favorite scene because George was able to stand up and not let Biff bully him anymore and other people. Meaning that people should not be afraid of an obstacle or let anyone bully them, stand up and fight for yourself. Also because this was the part where Lorraine had a beautiful pink fluffy dress and George was cleaned up with a white tuxedo. Reflecting on the dialogue of this movie I think that the dialogue is believable because Bullies always try to act tough and by acting tough they say mean things and have attitude. Of Course the person that is being bullied won't say nothing because they are usually the people that are shy and don't talk much, so they won't defend themselves.
