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Jeudi, 14 Octobre 2010 23:27

Inside Back to the Future's Novel Take on Time Travel

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What does time travel look like? In 1985 sci-fi comedy Back to the Future, it barely looked like anything at all. The filmmakers’ basic concept, as revealed in this exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Blu-ray collection, was to make the temporal jump immediate and understated.

“[Director Robert Zemeckis] and I quickly came to the conclusion, ‘You know what?

It’s not about the visual effects,’” says Back to the Future producer Bob Gale in the video. “It’s not about how long does it take them to travel through time. Because traveling through time should be instantaneous.”

Unlike other films with dizzying time-travel special effects, Back to the Future’s version, created with the help of Industrial Light & Magic, translated mostly into flaming tire treads, a flash of light, glowing neon and not much else.

The approach paid off: Back to the Future became one of the most successful sci-fi films in history, empowered by the manic comedy of Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.

Win Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy

We’re teleporting five free copies of the $80 Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Blu-ray collection, which hits stores Oct. 26, to five clever readers who let us know in the comments section below what they think about Back to the Future’s conception of time travel.

With a caveat: No one should make the argument that Eric Stoltz should have stayed in Marty McFly’s time-traveling DeLorean. That spaceship has sailed. Entries must be received by 12:01 a.m. Pacific on Oct. 27, 2010.

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