Love love love :-) I’ve always loved this one and I find I still love it now.
It starts right after the second movie, so just after Doc from 1955 sent Marty back to the future, which was how it went the first movie. But now, Marty reappears on foot behind him and explains what happened. Doc struggles to believe him but Marty has the letter that Doc sent him from 1885, at the end of part 2. After going back in time, Doc hid the Delorean so now they find it and plan to use it to send Marty, once again, back to 1985. One problem: Copernico, lovely dog that he is, finds Doc’s grave: apparently he was shot and killed in 1885, just a week after he wrote the letter, over a matter of 80$ by Buford Tannen.
So of course now Marty has to do something about that.
Marty wants to go there - well, then - and bring him back alive. Doc repairs the car and gives him what he thinks are right clothes for the 19th century… only the boots don’t fit.
He sets the car to September 2, 1885. He arrives in the middle of a chase: the cavalry chasing Indians.
He hides the car in a cave - like Doc told him to - and lets them pass. He takes the pictures he brought and the boots, then he sees that there’s a bear in the cave and starts running, throwing away the boots to better run, then he falls and hits his head. He wakes up at the ‘McFly farm’, to Maggie McFly, to he calls himself since he can’t give his real name. Maggie’s husband is Seamus. Her little baby is William, the first McFly born in America.
Seamus asks: “exactly how is it that you came to be way out here without a horse, or boots, or a hat?” - “well, my ca… horse broke down, and… and a bear ate my boots, and I guess I just forgot my hat” - Maggie: “how could you forget a thing like your hat?”
Seamus wants to help him, but it’s still a long walk to Hill Valley. It’s easy to find Doc, but he finds Buford first. He calls him Mad Dog an makes him angry. Marty runs, they catch him with a lasso and are about to hang him when Doc saves him.
They want to leave and go back to 1985 of course. Doc should meet the new schoolteacher, but when he hears her name - Clayton, Clara, as in the ‘beloved Clara’ written on his grave - he chooses not to go. But then Marty tells him that he “tore a hole in the gas tank”, thinking it’s no big problem, but it is, the engine still needs gasoline, so they try pulling the car with horses but only reach 24 mph. They try the strongest whiskey, then finally they think of the train.
I’ve always loved the “you’re not thinking fourth-dimensionally!” - “right, I have a real problem with that”.
While they’re planning it, a woman cries for help so ‘Doc to the rescue’, he saves her life and meets Clara, and it’s love at fist sight for them both.
She also likes science, and he is “a student of all sciences”.
Now there will be no “Clayton Ravine” since she didn’t fall into it.
They attend the festival and Doc dances with Clara - because ‘Doc can dance’ - and Marty shows off his shooting skills that he learned at Disneyland.
Buford comes to bother Doc and Clara during their valzer ‘Clementine’, and he’s about to shoot Doc when Marty sees and throws a pie-plate/frisbies.
Now Buford challenges Marty, and as usual when people say that he’s a coward they can get him to do anything… so they arrange it for Monday morning…
Good Seamus and Maggie tell him of his brother, poor Martin, who got killed because he got himself in trouble because he didn’t want people to think he was a coward.
Doc and Clara talk and look at the stars… *sigh* … and he quotes Verne and she also knows From the Earth to the moon by Jules Verne.
Doc comes home in the morning all happy, but the discussion is inevitable. Doc tells Marty that he wants to stay because he’s in love with Clara, but Marty convinces him that the right thing to do, the rational one, is to go back to his own time… so Emmett goes to say goodbye, but she obviousy thinks he just played her ad doesn’t want to see her anymore. I mean, the truth is rather bizarre…
He stays awake all night, and when Marty comes to get him, Doc drinks his whiskey… just the one and he’s out. While they revive him, Buford arrives. Marty refuses to duel, but while he’s going out the back with Doc, they’re caught. Doc is now in their hands, so Marty comes out. He gets shot but doesn’t di because he saw “fistful of dollars” in BBTTF part 2 - Biff was watching it - and he copied Eastwood’s character’s tactics.
Marty now knocks him out and rides away with Doc. The catch the train, stop it, and prepare to use it.
Clara is looking for him, after hearing a man say how heartbroken Doc was, and then she sees his model with time machine written on it, so she goes too.
She’s really tough, this Clara, absolutely adorable and magnificent ^_^
At the end the locomotive is about to explode so Marty gives Doc his hoverboard - from BTTF part 2 - and he uses it to take Clara in his arms and fly away.
Marty gets back to 1985 alone.
His family is ok, and so is Jennifer. While they’re driving, Needles challenges Marty to a race, Jennifer doesn’t want him to, but this time Marty has learned his lesson and doesn’t do it. Good thing too because he would have crashed into a Rolls Royce ruining his future.
Then Doc appears on a flying train ,with a steam engine. He’s already been to the future, and has two kids with Clara. Poor little kid, his older brother got named Jules and he got stuck with Verne… :-‘(
He explains to Jennifer why her fax’s words disappeared - again, that she took in BTTF 2 - because their future is not written yet, so they better create a good one for themselves.
Marty is Michael J. Fox
Emmett Brown is Christopher Lloyd (Doc)
Clara Clayton is Mary Steenburgen
Lorraine/Maggie is Lea Thompson
Jennifer is Elisabeth Shue
P.s. I’ve read complaints on the internet, like: why didn’t Doc remember that he’d be killed in 1885 and simply avoid getting killed? Doc from 1955 knew and yet when Marty sees Doc in 1885 he doesn’t know about it, or even about the clothes Doc from 1955 gave him.
Well, we can’t really say that at the end of BTTF 1 he ‘remembered’ anything… as far as we know he put the letter away and only read it in 1985, it does fit with the character, you know, telling himself he shouldn’t read it but then doing it when the time had come because it was important. Of course the right time would be when he would start hearing about the clock being repaired, as in the flyer that Marty showed 1955-Doc, which would mean he remembered…
So, my best guess is this:
The quantum mechanics, the time physics, it’s all a big ball of wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuff that I don’t fully understand, and neither do you.
A different matter is the car.
There is now, in 1885, Marty’s car in the cave and Doc’s car in the mine, but Doc’s car must stay there because Marty will use it to get from 1955 to 1885, and Marty’s car comes back with him so after 1955 there will be no hidden car in both places.
But, the real question is: could they put Doc’s car’s gas tank into Marty’s car? Because 1955-Doc could have repaired it, right? On this one, I only reply that they probably didn’t think about it ^_^ since they didn’t discuss the matter at all. Because there are reasons why they wouldn’t do it: maybe Doc’s car tank was out of gasoline too, so even if they exchanged the broken tank with a good one they would have nothing to fill it with, or maybe it’s simply that you don’t take the tank out of the car while it’s full… the fact is, they didn’t even discuss it for a second, so they didn’t even think about it.
Still, it doesn’t bother me all that much, I still love this movie with all my heart.
BUT, remember that the letter in part 1 did not change the future because nobody had seen Doc dead, only shot, but 1955-Doc learned about him going to 1885 and being killed only after it happened, and it was written down, it could not be prevented any other way without creating a paradox. After all, knowing that someone will shoot you in the back can save you how? Never stepping foot outside your house ever again? Or never going to 1885 at all? Then Marty would not gave gone to 1955-Doc and he wouldn’t have known in the first place… wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey… and they could not use Doc’s car because Marty found it like that and it could not be changed… wibbly…..
ITA Ritorno al futuro parte III
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