Zhou Xingchi and Han Han paid tribute to this time-travel movie 34 years ago.
"Anxiety" is a very precise word that can summarize the mental state of modern people. What to do after anxiety? Want to "live elsewhere", want to "travel".
As a result, time-travel has become a cultural genre: in Internet Shuangwen, more than half of the protagonists are diaosi counterattacks after time-travel and reach the pinnacle of life. The means of crossing are also varied, from being hit by a stone, struck by a bolt of lightning, and even when someone wakes up, they cross into a different time and space. No wonder many netizens jokingly said: This is a big era for the whole people to cross.
The major protagonists can not only travel to the past, rewrite history, and compose glory. You can also travel to different worlds, two-dimensional planes, and various film and television dramas. The glory of the army of transmigrators has spread to all the corners that the brain hole can reach.
However, although there are more and more movies and novels about time travel, the most influential and classic one must be the "Back to the Future" trilogy more than 30 years ago.
This series was shot by the famous Hollywood director Robert Zemeckis . Everyone may not know the name Robert Zemeckis very well, but when it comes to his most important work "Forrest Gump", everyone must know it. And his warm and inspirational film style was established during the filming of "Back to the Future". It can even be said that if there was no "Back to the Future", there would be no "Forrest Gump" later.
Movies were born in the 1980s. One day, director Robert Zemeckis came home and stumbled across his father's high school yearbook. Looking at the young father in the photo, a wonderful idea suddenly popped into his mind: If he could meet a young father, would he become friends with him?
Just like Newton who was smashed by an apple, the young director was instantly attracted by his sudden brain hole. He found his friend and screenwriter Bob Gale and decided to write the idea into a script and make it into a movie.
They make up a fictitious Frankenstein who always wears a white coat, has gray hair, and is crazy. This image has become the appearance of a strange scientist in many people's minds, and has been used by countless film and television dramas since then. For example, in Stephen Chow's "Variety Star", the role played by Xu Jinjiang is a tribute to this Frankenstein.
Frankenstein invented a time machine. After careful consideration, the director used a silver-white sports car with aircraft parts as an image of a time machine, because many years ago, some farmers used the avant-garde sports car as a UFO for aliens.
The director also created a typical American family in the 1980s: a timid and often bullied father, a rigid mother who likes to discipline her children and promotes that she did not smoke or fall in love when she was young (although the truth is quite the opposite), and their three children , the boss who has nothing to do, the daughter who wants to fall in love, and the youngest son in the rebellious period.
The protagonist of the film is this young son, 17-year-old Martin, who took a time machine back to California 30 years ago and met his parents of the same age and the Frankenstein when he was young. And help parents meet and fall in love, changing the future of their family.
This story is now a bit old-fashioned, and even at that time, it was not very new. As early as 1960, there was a movie that traveled through time and space like "Time and Space", and it traveled to the future 800,000 years later, which was very fantastic and exciting. In contrast, "Back to the Future" is extremely bland. Only one high school student traveled to the past to help his parents fall in love, so as to avoid disappearing into the river of time.
But the bland story did not hinder the classic significance of the film, because it was close to life and fit the American mental state at that time. Speaking of which, do you remember the plot of Han Han's Lunar New Year film "Riding the Wind and Waves"? There are also many similarities.
In "Back to the Future", the director selected two time points ingeniously: 1985 and 1955. In the 1980s, the United States had just recovered from the various movements and divisions of the 1960s and 1970s, and the whole society began to call for reconciliation and forward-looking. It can be said that it was in this era that the United States truly became confident and fearless. Like a movie "First Blood 2" that appeared in the same year, the protagonist Rambo returned to the battlefield of the Vietnam War and won. On the screen, Rambo won for the United States, single-handedly killing a company of Vietnamese troops.
In 1955, it happened to be "Eisenhower's holiday period", from 1953 to 1957 when the Korean armistice ended. This is an era that older Americans miss most. The Great Depression is over, the U.S. economy is booming, life is getting richer, and more importantly, the civil rights movement and youth culture have yet to unfold.
From 1985 back to 55 years, this is exactly what the Americans at that time talked about in the past. They demanded to restore the glory of the past and change the bleak past and move towards prosperity. Just as Martin finally changed the past in the film, turning his father from a cowardly loser to a powerful success, his mother became enlightened and full of life. His family has regained the dignity and ambition that belongs to human beings.
When talking about the significance of filming, the director also said that he wanted to tell American audiences through this film that the future is not doomed, and through hard work, everything can be changed. As the film begins, when Martin is mocked by his teacher, he vows: "History can be changed."
" History can be changed ", this meaning is the reason why the "Back to the Future" series is truly enduring. From this point of view, it is much stronger than many brainless time-travel dramas that follow.
As a result, the film's North American box office reached 210.61 million US dollars that year, and the global box office totaled 381.11 million, making it a well-deserved annual box office champion. You know, that was 34 years ago.
And its sequel was a huge success, with Back to the Future 2, where the Doctor and Martin traveled to October 21, 2015. This day is called "Back to the Future Day" by fans.
Even on October 21, 2015, then US President Barack Obama tweeted: "Happy Back to the Future Day! Have you ever thought that we are living in a future we once fantasized about?"
A sneaker brand also released the same sneaker from the movie to commemorate the great franchise. And invited Dr. Brown in the movie to shoot the "Back to the Future" theme advertisement.
There are many, many more such examples. Just imagine, which other time-travel movie has achieved the influence of the "Back to the Future" series? The answer is no.
At present, basically all the top comedy filmmakers have sent film and television works with the theme of "travel", "Charlotte Troubles" by Happy Twist, "Riding the Wind and Waves" by Han Han, "Frozen Man Time Traveler" by Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng's "Cohabitation in Time and Space"...Why are there so many time-travel themes?
In addition to the mentality of "living elsewhere", it is precisely because: in the past few decades, people have experienced all kinds of regrets and hope to change by traveling back. But like America in the 1980s, the past is over, and we are now looking to the future and changing history.
Looking forward to the domestic time travel drama, like "Back to the Future", can also express the voice of people in our era.
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