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Everyone knows the story of Back to the Future: teenager Marty McFly goes back in time from 1985 to 1955, interrupts his parents' first meeting, jeopardizes his existence in the process, so on, so forth, and what have you.Well... actually, not everyone knows that story, or at least the finalized version. One particular person, George Gipenote who novelized several other movies and co-wrote two film comedies with Carl Reiner and Steve Martin, was more familiar with the draft he was given in 1984 so he could write the novelization. Soon after submitting his manuscript, he died from an allergic reaction to a bee sting.And, for a while, that was it: the novelization was published, and not much attention was directed towards it since.At least, until January 30, 2012, when one particular man decided to create a Tumblr blog dedicated to recapping / reviewing the novelization. That man... was Ryan North.While "B^F"'s primary form of existence comes in the form of the Tumblr blog (which can be read in chronological order here, an ebook version was made after it finished, released on August 12th, 2012.If you thought you knew Back to the Future before, hold on to your hats... |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: What does Marty do after getting the keys to the 4x4?note Quote is shortened for simplicity. |
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Genre Shift |
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Genre Shift: As Ryan points out, there are two instances where Marty suddenly acts like he's in a Adventure Game. And when this happens, we are treated to "Marty Quest" just to hit the point home, Text Parser and all. |
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Date Rape Averted |
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Date Rape Averted: While that bit from the film is still intact in the novelization, here it's played up instead of downplayed. It even outright uses the word "rape" in one scene. |
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Grave Humor |
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Grave Humor: At a point in the story where Biff has yet to call Marty a butthead, Ryan reveals what he wants his epitaph to say: |
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Late to the Realization |
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Late to the Realization: It takes Marty a shocking amount of time to realize that by driving the time machine, he went back in time. And, sadly, it doesn't even take driving to his house, only to find a model home in an empty field, to clue Marty in. What does? Glancing at the "Destination Time" and "Current Time" readouts on the time circuits. |
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Foregone Conclusion |
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Foregone Conclusion: Page 118 ends with the 1955 Doc asking Marty who's president in 1985, and Ryan makes it a big Cliffhanger moment. Only problem? Even if you honestly don't know yourself for whatever reason, Ryan quotes the movie version of this scene at the start of the post. "Ronald Reagan, the actor?", remember? Even funnier is that one of the tags points this out: |
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Delayed Ripple Effect |
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Delayed Ripple Effect: Ryan discusses it here, using "metatime" as a thesis to explain how long (or quickly) the timeline takes to change in response to Marty's actions in the past. |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! |
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You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In playing "Marty Quest II", Ryan has trouble working the DeLoreannote Bold Text is lifted directly from the novelization.: |
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Race Against the Clock |
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What adds credence to Ryan's theory is that the last two chapters of the book speed through the clocktower scene and the ending. And in a book that averages at 17.71 pages per chapter, that amounts to twenty-four pages altogether. |
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Big "WHAT?!" |
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Big "WHAT?!": Upon reaching the novelization's take on Marty reacting to the altered 1985, Ryan wonders how long it's going to take Marty to realize the future's been chang— |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context |
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As Ryan points out, it's mentioned that Marty has a "new" Walkman with him as he leaves for Twin Pines Mall due to Strickland crushing his old one with a vice while Marty was in detention in an earlier scene. |
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Ambiguous Syntax |
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Ambiguous Syntax: When Mr. Strickland asks Marty about the "emergency" call at the beginning of the book (knowing full well about it due to tapping into their phone line), Marty lies and says it's about a crippled aunt and uncle in Wisconsin, claiming, "They were in a car accident about ten years." Ryan is left confused about whether Marty meant a past event or an "epic ten-year-long car accident STILL IN PROGRESS". |
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Surprise Incest |
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Surprise Incest: Page 199. Just... page 199. |
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Plot Hole |
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Plot Hole: invoked As Ryan points out, it's mentioned that Marty has a "new" Walkman with him as he leaves for Twin Pines Mall due to Strickland crushing his old one with a vice while Marty was in detention in an earlier scene. Similarly, the 1955 Doc picks up his Brain-wave Analyzer after learning Ronald Reagan is President in 1985... and it's intact, despite Doc having smashed it three pages ago: |
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Author Appeal |
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Author Appeal: invoked Ryan suspects that Gipe liked to name-drop brand names at every chance he got. |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Practically a Running Gag in the blog as Ryan has to keep pointing out that what he's describing is what actually happens in the novelization. |
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Faux Computer Code |
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Faux Computer Code: When Ryan describes the brief scuffle between Marty and Biff in Lou's Cafe after George's attempt to ask Lorraine out. |
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Freak Out |
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Freak Out: A minor change to one of Doc's lines causes Ryan to go nuts: |
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Doing In the Wizard |
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Doing In the Wizard: The novelization explains that the flux capacitor isn't what makes time travel possible, "it’s just a really good battery with a high discharge rate". Ryan even compares this to Star Wars introducing midichlorians to explain the Force. |
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Show, Don't Tell |
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Show, Don't Tell: At one point, the narration says, "Doc Brown truly resembled the stereotypical mad scientist on a mission that would shake the world." Ryan calls this "a new level of straight-up-telling-instead-of-showing crappy writing that I've never even considered before", and pokes fun of it by writing similar descriptions for Captain Kirk, Conan the Barbarian, and a generic mobster. |
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Literal Metaphor |
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Literal Metaphor: The coverage of the most racist page in the novelization ends on this note: Also, during the scene where Mr. Strickland confronts George McFly over being bullied: |
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Rimshot |
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Rimshot: Ryan links to this SNL clip everytime Marty makes a quip in the 1985 dinner scene. |
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Who's on First? |
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Who's on First?: This is how Ryan describes the "bit" where Marty confirms with Doc about "[meeting him] at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 tomorrow morning": |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Somehow, the Lybians manage to miss shooting at Doc, with an AK-47, at point-blank range. |
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Deadpan Snarker |
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Deadpan Snarker: Apparently either Gipe or Zemeckis and Gale (who wrote the draft Gipe used) thought Marty should engage in some stand-up in the movienote the only surviving remnants of this in the final product is Marty's "Uncle 'Jailbird' Joey?" quip and his quiet "Doc, is that a Devo su-" being cut off by Doc. This is especially prevalent in the 1985 dinner scene, where Marty "throws out one-liners [at] EVERY SINGLE CHANCE HE GETS". |
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A Simple Plan |
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A Simple Plan: Originally, Ryan was simply going to talk about 20 pages that he had dog-eared that interested him for various reasons. Instead, he wound up talking about the whole novelization page-by-page, which ultimately (at least going by the ebook) wound up being longer than it. |
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Everyone Has Standards |
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Everyone Has Standards: The only reason why Ryan did this at all was because George Gipe was too dead to see him eviscerate the book. |
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Crazy Is Cool |
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Crazy is Cool: invoked This is Ryan's reaction to Marty worrying that Doc will wind up in "a society of robots that takes [him] prisoner": |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band: Ryan's reaction when the Libyans' van was decribed as an "ominous van": |
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Precision F-Strike |
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Precision F-Strike: Here's the novelization's take on Doc correcting Marty's questioning where Einstein and the DeLorean went after it vanished; Ryan took it well: |
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What the Hell, Hero? |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Ryan really lays into how the novelization handles the "Marty being too forward with Lorrane at the dance" plan, where instead of downplaying that it's an assault, it emphasizes it, even going so far as to... well, let's just say Ryan labels a certain line as the worst line of the book... In fact, Ryan calls out that portion of the film in all contexts. Ryan states that by only giving himself 10 minutes to try and prevent Doc's death in 1985 in the movie, Marty acts like his book counterpart. |
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I'm Mr. [Future Pop Culture Reference] |
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I'm Mr. [Future Pop Culture Reference]: Unfortunately, Marty shoots down Lorraine's assumption that his name is "Calvin Klein" by telling her that's the name of the underwear manufacturer. Sigh. Luckily, the Darth Vader scene is still intact... Except Marty ties in a lot more references into it. |
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Vitriolic Best Buds |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Say, you know how Marty and Doc are friends? Kinda hard to tell here... |
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Ensemble Dark Horse |
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Ensemble Dark Horse: invoked Ryan really loves Mr. Strickland. Parodied in the ebook announcement, where Ryan lists people the ebook would be the perfect gift for: |
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Writers Cannot Do Math |
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Writers Cannot Do Math: Minor contradiction aside, Ryan is weirded out by Doc's flawed calculation between dates when explaining how long he had been working on the time machine. He then imagines a weird number system inspired by Doc's faulty math. |
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Rage Quit |
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Rage Quit: "Marty Quest II" comes to an abrupt end when, as Marty travels through time, Ryan gets fed up: He only gets 1.21 out of 88 points as a result. |
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Antiquated Linguistics |
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Antiquated Linguistics: Ryan constantly points out instances of the novel using these, often dubbing them "old-man-itis". He, in particular, enjoyed the use of the word "suzerainty". |
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Giving Up on Logic |
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Giving Up on Logic: Discussed: the scene where Marty escapes from detention is so far removed from the realm of logic that not only does Ryan hypothesize that this exact scene caused the entire script to be rewritten outright, but also, as stated above, Ryan presents the scene as a point-and-click adventure game, as it is the only way for Marty's actions to even make some amount of sense. |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Ryan has a theory that Gipe (thought he) was paid by the word, and really, it shows... What adds credence to Ryan's theory is that the last two chapters of the book speed through the clocktower scene and the ending. And in a book that averages at 17.71 pages per chapter, that amounts to twenty-four pages altogether. |
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Verbal Backspace |
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Verbal Backspace: After his "When this baby hits 88 MPH, you're going to see some serious shit" line, Doc realizes that Marty is filming this and quickly rewords his statement without colloquial language: |
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Artistic License – Physics |
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Artistic License – Physics: Discussed. |
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Pet the Dog |
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Pet the Dog: For all the book's faults, Ryan still admits that it's a better novelization than the ones for Parts 2 and 3. He even goes out of his way to mention two points that the novelization does better: Doc punching in December 25th, 0000 as Jesus' birthdaynote Doc gives a mini explanation about how that date has been under dispute, while also revealling that the DeLorean only moves through time, not space and Marty managing to only give himself 10 minutes to try and save Docnote The car died before Marty could give himself more time. |
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