Back to the Future Part III

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Template:For Template:Infobox Film Back to the Future Part III is a movie starring Michael J. Fox that opened on 25 May 1990. It is the third part of a trilogy, following Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II. It grossed $23 million in its first weekend of US release and $87.6 million altogether in US box office receipts – $243 million worldwide. It was not as successful as the second film but was not a disappointment either, especially given that it was released six months after the second film. On 17 December 2002 Universal Studios released Back to the Future Part III in a boxed set with the first two films on DVD and VHS which did extremely well when it was released. In the DVD widescreen edition there was a minor framing flaw that Universal has since corrected, available in sets manufactured after 21 February 2003.

The movie won a Saturn Award for Alan Silvestri (composer) and Thomas F. Wilson and an AOL DVD Movies Premiere Award.

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Back to the Future Part III may be described as a science fiction Western, since it contains elements of both these genres. This third installment of the hugely popular series is set mainly in the Wild West of America in the year 1885. Back to the Future Part III ends with a freight train destroying the original time machine. The film ends with a message to all viewers that one's future is not written yet, but depends on what we make it to be.

Rock band ZZ Top recorded the track Doubleback for the end credits. They also made a cameo appearance in the movie as a Wild West musical trio performing a very "unplugged" version of the song, played on period versions of their customary instruments.

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Plot

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Like Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III picks up where its predecessor left off. Doc Brown has been accidentally sent back to 1885. However, he is able to send Marty a letter, telling him where the time machine is. He encloses instructions for Marty not to come for him and to destroy the time machine once he returns to 1985. Marty works with the 1955 Doc, and they recover the De Lorean from a mine. Before leaving the mine, they discover the tombstone that shows where Doc was buried in 1885. Doc has been shot by Biff's great grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen over a matter of $80.

They haul the car back to Doc's mansion and restore it to working order with new white-wall tires, and a series of vacuum tubes to to replace the damaged time circuit control microchip. Instead of going back to 1985 as ordered, Marty goes back to 1885 to rescue his comrade. After surviving scares from Indians, a bear, and even the cavalry, he finds refuge with his own great-grandfather Seamus McFly (also played by Fox). He introduces himself as Clint Eastwood, and Seamus and his wife equip Marty with appropriate clothing. Marty finds out where the Doc lives and the two are set to return home, only for Marty to tell Doc that he ripped the fuel line. A devastated Doc tells Marty that "there won't be a gas station until sometime next century...", ergo they are out of gas and out of luck.

Doc devises a plan to push the De Lorean with a train locomotive across a bridge that has not been completed yet, but will be in use in 1985. However Doc finds himself infatuated with the town's schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Tannen, initially intent on shooting Doc in the back, is now hellbent on killing Marty. Marty is able to defeat Tannen (using a trick from an Eastwood movie, A Fistful of Dollars, which was foreshadowed in the second movie) and persuade Doc to come back with him. However, Clara sneaks aboard the train as they attempt to push the De Lorean back to 1985. As Doc is climbing on the outside of the train to reach the DeLorean, Clara blows the train's whistle. Doc goes back for her, making the decision to take her back to the future. Clara slips while trying to reach him, but Marty is able to slip Doc the hoverboard he took back with him from 2015. Doc rescues Clara and presumably floats back to Hill Valley. The DeLorean then hits 88 mph just before it hits the edge of the ravine, sending Marty back to the future by himself.

Upon arriving back to the year 1985, the De Lorean is hit by a train and destroyed. Marty reunites with his girlfriend Jennifer and his family at home - in relief that everything had returned to the normal 1985 after the events of Back to the Future Part II. He returns to the wreckage site with Jennifer where the De Lorean was destroyed. Thinking he would never see Doc again, Marty is in for a surprise as Doc returns before his very eyes in an new time machine, fashioned in the form of a flying locomotive. Doc is now married to Clara and they have two sons, Jules and Verne (named after Clara and Doc's favorite author, Jules Verne). Doc assures Marty that everything is back to normal in all times and that the future is not set in stone and that it's "Whatever you want it to be." Doc then flys the train toward the viewer, ending the movie.

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Trivia

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Universal Pictures had selected Back to the Future Part III to feature its then-new computer generated logo for the first time. This was in celebration of the studio's 75th Anniversary. The logo featured the "UNIVERSAL" "letters" rolling in from the right angle of the animated globe. It also featured a light orchestral tune by film composer James Horner. Universal continued using this logo up until 1997, when a more modern-looking revamp of this logo (and new music) was introduced.

According to the DVD audio commentary, Bob Gale had originally suggested that the studio should use the Universal logo from the 80s so that all three films would be consistent. But Universal executives wanted to use the "new" logo, because they felt that Back to the Future Part III would be the studio's biggest film of 1990.

  • Filmed simultaneously with Part II.
  • In the five years since the original film was made, Michael J. Fox had forgotten how to ride a skateboard.
  • In downtown Hill Valley in fictional 1885, the modern California State Flag is flown, incorrectly. This flag design was not adopted by the California State Legislature until 1911. Although in real life 1890, a photograph was taken of the Bear Flag (on record on Wikipedia under Flag of California), it is significantly different than the modern flag flying in Hill Valley. The words "California Republic" are not centered, and the bear logo is much smaller, and the five point star is much larger. All in all these are all collected in the upper left hand corner of the flag.
  • A scene with Buford Tannen killing Marshall Strickland was filmed but not included in the movie. Therefore there was no explanation in the actual film why it was not Marshall Strickland who arrested Tannen at the end of the film.
  • Gasoline, while not commonly available at gas stations in 1885, would still have been relatively easy to come by, as it was collected and burnt as a nearly useless waste byproduct of petroleum processing to obtain more valuable fuel / lamp oil and kerosene. However, with the time restraint placed by Doc's impending death, it may have been impossible to travel to a oil processing plant, and return, in time.
  • Features Christopher Lloyd's first on-screen kiss.
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Cast and crew

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Video and Computer Games

LJN released an NES game called Back to the Future II & III, a sequel to their game based on the first movie. An arcade Back to the Future Part III game was also released that would eventually be ported to several home video game systems, including the Sega Genesis.

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See also

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External links

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