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- Back to the Future - 1.21 Gigawatts: Marty (Michael J. Fox) and Doc (Christopher Lloyd) concoct a plan to harness 1.21 gigawatts for the DeLorean.
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In this 1980s sci-fi classic, small-town California teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is thrown back into the '50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) goes awry. Traveling through time in a modified DeLorean car, Marty encounters young versions of his parents (Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson), and must make sure that they fall in love or he'll cease to exist. Even more dauntingly, Marty has to return to his own time and save the life of Doc Brown.
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Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Michael J. Fox
Producer: Bob Gale
Screenwriter: Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd have fantastic onscreen chemistry. No one ever questioned why a teenage skateboarder and an elderly scientist were hanging out together, seemingly with no other friends of their own!
0:53 1.21 gigawatts
The original script had it where Doc put an add in the paper for an assistant. Marty took the job. Doc helped Marty to believe in himself & sorta became a second father figure to him.
0:53 1.21 gigawatts
Basically the Arthur and Merlin dynamic.
If you know a Doc, you better hang out with the guy as much as possible. The knowledge available! 🤯
But when the flux capacitor comes out better take two steps back
Doc looking at the picture of Thomas Edison and calling him “Tom” is absolutely priceless.
It's quite possible Doc met Thomas Edison when he was a young boy
@@Kobobble Looked up when he died, yeah that is possible! He would of been a living national hero at that time.
So glad this is a movie has never been remade, a true classic
Prepare for the reboot where Doc Emeria Brown and her lab assistant Martina McFly travel back in time to fight the patriarchy.
@@BookshelfQBattler lol yeah
Agree and their other films that should not be remade.
@@BookshelfQBattlernooooooo
It can never be remade as long as the director and writer (I think those two) are alive. Basically part of their contract that it cannot be remade without their approval and they said it will be over their dead bodies.
That being said there are games, including a TellTale adventure game, that act as a spiritual sequel to the movies that cover a lot of the same ground that is in the movies.
When Marty says 'what did you say?' Doc Brown says 'Bolt of lightning...' in the exact same cadance, pitch and tone as he literally just said it... Doing exactly what Marty just asked. Love it!
Love that part😅
The very definition of "running it back."
"No wonder your president has to be an actor. He's got to look good on television."
Joking aside. One needs to remember that in 1955, television was still a new medium. Harry Truman had been the first president to make ocassional televised speeches, and even have his inaugural address covered by TV stations. His successor, Dwight Eisenhower slowly inched things further with more TV addresses, but it was really five years after 1955, when the JFK era really ushered in the age of television being essential to a politician's career.
It's generally agreed that JFK's momentum accelerated from the first televised debates. Kennedy melted hearts while Nixon literally melted
Still, it seems a bit odd to find the notion of a famous actor becoming president an odd one, considering they at that very moment had a sitting president elected on his public fame as Supreme Allied Commander in WW2. Fame is fame...
@@BDNeon I disagree that fame is fame. It is common now for people to run for office when their only qualification is being famous (Jesse Ventura, Steve Garvey). But it was unusual in the 1950s. Being Supreme Allied Commander involved a lot of strategic thinking, cooperation and leadership. Acting provides name recognition and some powers of communication but little else. Reagan did have experience as governor of California, but Doc wouldn't know about that (yet).
and he we are just a few decades later with them making twitter accounts now
Thank you for the info.
God bless everyone.
Doctor Brown: “Look at me! I’m an old man”
Me: “Well you look exactly the same”
He probably thinks about wrinkles 🤨
The make up artist tried to do their best to make him look as young as possible
2:45-I like how Doc points at the direction of the audience when he says that. Kind of looks like he's breaking the fourth wall.
what really sells it is the performance, he stops and looks confused as if he actually sees the audience but shakes his head like "no no, thats ridiculous" and goes back into the scene.
That's exactly what he's doing. He's pointing at audiences in 1985 watching the movie for the first time. He's pointing at the future.
A gigawatt is equal to one billion watts, and most of us are familiar with a watt. The light bulbs in our homes are typically between 60 and 100 watts. So 1.21 gigawatts would power more than 10 million light bulbs or one fictional flux capacitor in a time-traveling DeLorean.
The light bulbs in our home are about 10w on average (led and similar). The old incandescent light bulbs (the 60-100w ones) are illegal at least in Europe afaik
So I don’t know if my calculations are correct but an average family home consumes about 33000 watt-hours every day, and watt-hours is watts*hours, so 33000/24 = 1375 watts every day? I think?
Using that, 1.21 gigawatts can power 880,000 family homes for one day
1.21 GW is not that hard to come by. Hydropower, Windfarms, and Nuclear Power Plants are measured in GW. Using plutonium as fuel would absolutely provide the needed energy, but as doc found, getting ahold of nuclear material is not easy
@@adamrussell9389I'm sure that in your country you can find plutonium at any corner drugstore, but here it is a bit hard to come by.
Also, 1.21 gw can be generated by mr fusion but no power can be spared for the car.
I like how Doc just assumed there would be atomic wars in his lifetime.
Considering what was going on in his native time period - it's not hard to imagine
We were all pretty much afraid of that
And that plutonium would be available in every drugstore.
People back than were as optimistic about advances in nuclear technology as people are today about I dunno AI and electric cars.
considering the heat between the soviets and USA then (Cold War)
Marty: "I can't be stuck here, I got a life in 1985, I got a girl."
Doc: "Is she pretty?"
Marty: "Eh, kinda thinking of replacing her with another Jennifer as soon as I get back."
To each his own but the first one was better looking than the replacement shoe.
agreed still it's not that noticeable
In the remake, Marty will get home to be DUMPED by Jennifer, who is a strong, independent woman who don't need no man.
@@SeattlePioneer dont bring them ideas😅
@@SeattlePioneer Not only that, but Jennifer herself will be the new main character and Marty will be the goofy clumsy incompetent comic relief who she's always gretting frustrated at.
These movies are LEGENDARY, and the timing between Michael and Chris is a big reason for that.
Best movie of all time!! I could watch it a million times and never get bored of it🔥
It's a timeless movie. My Ironic comment.
True
"We're sending you back to the future!!!!!!!!"
Such a classic line 😊
Ok , that's great.
It’s as if Doc is pointing towards the audience.
Rolllll credits...ding
We have a title!
I got electricuted on a job once. While i was stuck there being electrified, this scene kept playing over and over in my head. Lol.
0:33 The JVC was so futuristic, it just lost the black cable and still transmitted the video to the TV.
Bluetooth 😅
1.21 gigawhatts. And next it runs on trash. What masterpieces these films are cinematic genius ❤
Well to be honest that was kinda explained away with Mr. Fusion.
😂 they never explained why mr fusion didn't power the car it'self.
Later…”IT RUNS ON STEAM!”
Despite the fact in 2015 we don't have the technology
Right, we havent figured out how to make electricity power a car.
This movie is pure heart and optimism.
My God this movie is so good, it's truly timeless. What a wonderful movie, everytime I watch it I feel so good.
For those of you who don't know, 1.21 GW is enough to power an entire city area.
The movie so timeless nothing can campare to original and to think nobody wanted to produce this masterpiece ❤ who wouldn't want to time travel
Fun Fact : Christopher Lloyd has also played Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit in addition to Emett Brown in Back to the Future
Both by robert zemeckis. Seems like those two have great synergy when working together.
He also played the teacher in the scary as hell Amazing Stories episode "Go To the Head of the Class" which was also directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Spielberg.
And the Klingon Commander Kruge in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock."
DUde. Watching this makes me want to rewatch it.
Just cant stop smiling! What a great movie.
Fun fact: in 1955, there actually was a power source capable of generating >1.21 GW of electricity, and it wasn't even that far away. The Grand Coulee Dam in Washing State had a nameplate capacity of 2.28 GW starting in 1949. However... there's no way they could convince the authorities to just *give* them that much power, even for a little while, since that would cause a blackout and mess up the grid in the region (and they'd laugh the idea of a time machine out of the room, and then a Federal agent would show up to confiscate the car for ARPA, the predecessor to DARPA).
And there'd be no hope of assembling enough money to purchase that much and all the equipment necessary to then channel it to the car. The dam generates its energy with a series of turbines, so the moment their transmission lines started to blow out, the electricity would disperse, causing their plan to fail. With the lightning strike, it's going to more or less keep going roughly where they channel it, and presumably once they get it into the time machine's systems, it can convert the energy into time travel instead of heat, avoiding the issue.
It was a movie dude.
It's a cool director's trick to make Doc look the same in 1985 and 1950s.
No worries, all you need is about 10% of the average daily power consumption of New York City as a whole. (Yeah, I was bored one day and decided to figure that out. And yes, yes, that's also dependent on a number of variables, I know)
"Why is everything so heavy in the future, is there a problem with earth's gravitational pull?"...
10:04 PM. But, by what second? Just because you link the car with the lightning at the same time doesn’t mean you caught it at the right time.
Well, at PRECISELY which means exactly 10:04:00.....
Heh heh. I remember the long antenna that would strike the power cable to hardness the power. I estimate it would stay in contact with the wire for a second or two, wire going up the antenna as the car went by. So maybe you have about two seconds of wiggle room?
Would help if the connecting wire could travel with the car for a while....maybe expand the window.
THE 1ST BACK TO THE FUTURE IS MY FAVORITE 🤔
Look at me I'm an old man yet looks basically the exact same now😂😂😂😅
If Marty didn't pocket that "Save the Clock Tower" flyer...he would never have found a Jigowatt lightning for Doc to use!
Fun Fact: Doc is 35 in 1955 (Born in 1920 according to the novelization) meaning his hair shouldn't be going white yet, however, my personal headcannon is that one of his experiments damaged his hair, causing it to begin turning white.
"She's crazy about me, look what she wrote here Doc"
Literally nothing on the back of the paper written that Doc looks at, lmfao
It said “I love you” and her phone number
It probably vanished due to the butterfly ripple effect taking place. With Marty about to fade from existence, there would be no reason for Jennifer to write that she loves him on the back.
@@MondySpartan nailed it ^ that’s the ONLY logical reason why it’s not written on the back, unless it was a fluke from the directors
I think they filmed that scene before the one in 1985
1:01 GREAT SCOTT!!!
1:04 Wha-WHAT THE HELL IS A JIGAWATT!?
00:53 1.21 GIGAWATTS?!?!
Old Doc: No no no no, this sucker’s electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts-
Young Doc: What did I just say?
Old Doc: The flux capacitor stores- (REWIND) this sucker’s electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts-
Young Doc: 1.21 GIGAWATTS?! 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!
Marty: Wha- What the hell is a gigawatt?!
Young Doc: How could I have been so careless! One point Twenty-One Gigawatts of electricity! How am I going to generate that kind of power? It can't be done, Tom, CAN'T!
Marty: Look, Doc, all we need is a little Plutonium.
Young Doc: Pfft! While I'm sure that in 1985 Plutonium is available in every corner drugstore but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by. Marty I'm sorry but I'm afraid you're STUCK here.
Marty: Whoa, Whoa Doc. Stuck here? I can't be stuck here. I got a life in 1985. I got a girl!
Young Doc: Is she pretty?
Marty: Doc, she's beautiful. She's crazy about me. Look at this. (SHOW'S DOC HER PHONE NUMBER) Look what she wrote here, Doc. I mean, That says it all!
(Doc looks away)
Marty: Doc, You're my only hope!
@@frederikbeelen459 Young Doc: Marty, I'm sorry. But the only thing capable of generating one point twenty-one gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
Marty: What did you say?!
Young Doc: A bolt of lightning. And we don't even know where or when it's ever going to strike!
"What the hell is a Gigawatts!" LMFAO.
I used to play this scene when I taught students the metric system and how "Giga" is one of the prefixes.
2:44 the movie title drop!
Roll credits!
1.21 gigawatts!
Size of a Nintendo GameCube disc
1.21 Gigabytes!!!
"Wha...?! What the hell is a gigabyte!?"
“1.21 GIGAWATTS?! GREAT SCOTT!”
“What the hell is a Gigawatt?!” 😂
I love doc’s double wrist game 😎 looks like an elgin and a waltham!
Its sad when you sit back and realize we will never get movies this good ever again
Love the music at 2:15
"What the hell is a giga watt??"
Gigawatt? How about “Flux Capatchittor”?!
@@cbsteffen its what makes time travel possible
@@Dylannuyten And with the Old English/Italian/Romanian soft “c” (which would really be soft “chee” in this case).
Those were the days mate. 🙏🏽
Huge back to the future fan ❤
I like to imagine that the mispronunciation of gigiwatts was caused by a closed loop, considering Doc first said the word gigiwatts as a knee jerk reaction after hearing it from his future self.
I love this film as a kid and it partly inspired me to learn electronics. The funny thing is that I now know what flux is and what a capacitor is and I know it sure couldn’t create a time machine! 😂😂😂
Killjoy. Next you'll say I can't make a magic potion with eye of newt.
I did an oil painting of Doc on my channel. Awesome trilogy.
0:31 that's right, you're looking at the future right there!
I was only 15 then. This movie is a load of fun!
It’s wild that they shot this scene with Eric Stolts. And then WENT BACK and shot it again with Michael J Fox. The series deals with changing things, back in time, and different people taking roles. And then that’s EXACTLY what they did with the lead character. And he was ERASED from the film’s timeline. It couldn’t be more perfect if they tried.
1:17 Tom Edison right, what about Benjamin Franklin? he got a gigawatt of power when his kite was struck by lightning
>
My understanding is that Franklin's kite collected static electricity which was channeled to the ground so the electrical nature could be observed.
Lightning didn't actually strike the kite, is my understanding.
you say gigawatts, I say jigowatts lol
How about “Flux Capatchittor” instead of “Flux Capacitor”?!
Imagine being stuck in 1955. Would have been older than my parents!!
If you were good at remembering sports scores you would be very rich. Live the life of having everything.
@@karamjitdedyal752Yeah, just look at Part 2
Yeh marty would have been 46 years old
doc, youre my only hope... nice nod to steven's friend
1:25 "in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore" NO WAY, the U.S. government would never allow plutonium to be available in any drugstore
That's the joke, in the 50's everyone and especially in science fiction circles, wide-spread nuclear energy was imagined as part of the future in decades to come. Hell what we see in the Pre-Great War era of the Fallout games is what the 1950's thought the 1980's and beyond would look like. So of course Doc in 1955 might assume plutonium was everywhere to satsiate nuclear energy needs.
@@XenoJehuty84 oh yeah, I guess that is true, I get it now
@@XenoJehuty84 Yeah, I think it was Einstien who said something like the entire world would be powered by Nuclear energy or something like that.
God bless everyone.
Eric Stoltz was supposed to play Marty but they found his acting to be far too serious for a comedy.
Apparently, he found the script quite sad; maybe that influenced his serious take on the role. I don't think he really knew his way round a skateboard or guitar like Michael J Fox did either. I think I read that Fox basically said that he was just playing himself how he was in high school in BTTF.
@@edturner9670 And John Lithgow was supposed to play Doc Brown.
@tavellclinton9256 That's interesting and not something I was aware of. Normally, when you hear of the original casting choices with some films, you think: "Nah, I'm glad they eventually ended up with actor XYZ instead, I can't imagine anyone else playing that role." However, I don't think John Lithgow would have been a bad shout at all. I could definitely see him injecting some animated zaniness and charm but Christopher Lloyd did a brilliant job in the end as we all know.
@@edturner9670 Of course!
@@tavellclinton9256They got the right people for the parts.
"Gigawatt" is my new catch-phrase! Giga-giga wat-wuuut? Yeah! Say that all the time
I always find it funny how Doc asks if Marty’s girlfriend is pretty. Its so random.
Is it me or can anyone else not tell how old Christopher Lloyd is at any time
It'll strike at 10:04! (and how many seconds? You've got to be *really* precise for this to work)...
Life wasn't fair with M. J. Fox.
Such a shame...
0:44 what did I just say?
0:22 Predicting Fallout?
God bless everyone.
doc: look at me i'm an old man!
me: you literally look the same, doc
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Any behind the scenes story about that 1.21 Gigawatts?
2:43 Doc breaks the fourth wall.
2:41
Don: Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!
Peter Griffin: Ah! Ah! He said it! He said it!
" … precisely 10:04pm … "
lol 🙄
😢
It’s funny that this revaluation gets fixed in part 2 with Mr. Fusion. Then in Part 3 the opposite effect happens where they desperately need gasoline to get the car moving to make the Mr. Fusion give it the power it needs.
Oct 5 1965
Can a 1955 TV set really have an input to playback video recording from a 1985 video casette camera???
If yes, then again it is truly amazing how exponential the jump in tech are... because I can't imagine any TV in 1993 is able to somehow read video data from today's phone memory. Heck, even today's dslr camera or video camera, I doubt they still have output jack for RCA connector.
Somebody actually got Fallout to display on a 50s TV so I guess anything’s possible.
usb c to hdmi, hdmi to rgb, rgb to rf - technically it could be posible
I'm pretty sure they said it wrong and it's Gigawatt (hard G) not "jiggawatt"
The soft “g” pronunciation of that word is not incorrect, only less common.
Also, in Old English, the letter “c” was probably named “chee” because it made a “ch” sound when soft and still does that in Italian and Romanian. That’s what my “flux capatchittor” (instead of flux capacitor) joke is based on!
Thank god they recast this with MJF. It would have been a disaster otherwise
IS SHE PRETTY?
Doc asking the important questions.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂what the hell is gigawatts 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😹😹😹🤣Michael J fox is truly a truly a great actor...
Roll credits! *ding*
I never noticed until just now, when Marty is fast-forwarding the tape, how the scene pans up so that the TV screen isn't in view and we can't see the sped up footage...lets the filmmakers not need to recreate Einstein's time jump again.
Just set the flux capacitor to 1.21 Gigawatts. Issue resolved 😂
The lightning strikes exactly 10:04PM on Saturday night. :D Yes, this is a very inportant information, but what was the seconds and the milliseconds ???
Either doc did the calculations for that or they got very lucky
@@Jasonwithadot I say both
Roll credits!
This is heavy, the time space continuum is at risk.
Fine, I will watch this movie for the 2,000th 😅
ONEPOINTTWENTYONEGIGAWATZ?!
> What the hack is a kilometer?!!
0:53 0:54 1.21 Gigiwatts
All we need is a little Plutonium.
0:53
0:53 0:55 0:57 0:59 1:05 1:06 1:10 1:12
Gonna start calling gigabytes "Jigabytes" 😂. Not enough phone memory to download new game: "1.21 JIGABYTES?! 😱"
Could a 1985 video camera really playback?
The one they use in the movie actually could, yes. It was very high-end for the time. The real question is, how did they get it hooked up to 1950's TV? They didn't have RCA or coaxial inputs back then.
You could hook it up to the antenna inputs. They used the same standard for transmitting analog TV until the shut down. Just need a composite modulator and you're golden @@Beefnhammer
Giga-what?!
Doc, get the DeLorean. We figured out how to get 1.21 gigawatts!
I always wondered how did Marty could up a 1980s camcorder to a 1955 tv with only antenna inputs
Title is wrong is Jigawatts
1985??, dang that was the year I wrote a love letter to my 😍 crush on a white 3M a4 size white paper.