This has been the re-release of “Back to the Future” 40 years later

XOAN A. SOLER

“Are you telling me you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?”

—I think that if you are going to build a time machine in a car, why not do it with class? Additionally, the stainless steel construction caused flow dispersion…

Camilo has seen the scene more than a hundred times. This Friday, it was, at least, the 101st, again on the big screen, like when she was 13 or 14 years old and met her for the first time. Marty McFly. It was 1985. Time has passed the same, because you don’t really need a DeLorean. Tomorrow always catches up with you. Forty years later, he is about to return. To return to the future. «It is super well told. There is no spoiler for those who did not see it, but in the end, when it seems that it arrives, that it does not arrive, that it hangs… That part still shocks me, even knowing that it ends well.

Next to him is Nicolás. For him it is the first time. Not for his mother, Irene. «I had the DeLorean toy and I have never seen the whole movie,” says the little boy. Inés highlights that it was a film ahead of its time. The key to all this is that word. Time.

October 26, 1985, 1:18 a.m. Dr. Emmett Brown arrives at the Twin Pines shopping center in his DeLorean. Marty McFly, with a video camera. Einstein, the dog, gets into the DeLorean, which when it reaches 140 kilometers per hour, disappears. The first time travel has occurred. It won’t be the last, because Marty McFly himself will end up in 1955, meeting his parents before they were that… His parents.

Bob Gale wondered one day if he would have become friends with his father if they had both gone to high school together. From that thought a script emerged, written with Robert Zemeckis, which was not easy to bring to the screen. It was rejected by several studios until Zemeckis had a box office success with Romancing the Stone. Universal Pictures then decided to give the green light to that time travel story. back to the future It was born and carried the seal of Steven Spielberg himself as executive producer.

“I think I must have seen her for the first time when she was… three months old?” says a young woman. This is what happens when your parents are fans of a film saga that resolved the second part very well, in which Marty McFly travels to a future that is now the past: October 21, 2015. “I think it was not planned that there would be a sequel,” says another of the film’s fans at the doors of room 5 of Cinesa As Cancelas. Indeed, but the success of the first back to the future It was such that two more were filmed.

«The second is very well married. “Everything fits perfectly.” So much so that when October 21 rolled around, the bottle of Pepsi Perfect that Marty drinks in the movie became a reality. The brand produced 6,500 units. Lexus, for its part, released a replica of the flying skateboard that the scriptwriters imagined 30 years earlier. No, the world of 2015 bore little resemblance to what they had represented. Deep down, they knew it: “We knew we weren’t going to have flying cars by 2015, but, God, we had to have them in our movie,” said Bob Gale.

“It’s my first science fiction film that I remember”. Ignacio is from the fifth of back to the futureso he never had the opportunity to see it in the cinema. Where he has seen it seven or eight times is on television. «The intríngulis of going to the future, returning to the past… this is something that makes a captive turn the foolish head, you think it would melt that it had passed».

What seems not to be cool is the third film in the saga, the one in which they end up in the Wild West. Essential for the majority of fans who gather at As Cancelas this afternoon. It is the least beloved of the three films, although it has its audience. “I like it,” says a spectator before entering the room and starting the flux condenser.