Daily Dialogue — August 11, 2013

“He’s a peeping tom.”

— Back to the Future (1985), written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is talking to one’s self, suggested by camdeaver.

Trivia: The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside. (See also Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.) The Nevada desert bomb test was left out in order to reduce the budget. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean, but in order to send Marty back to the future the vehicle had to drive the DeLorean into an atomic bomb test. 
 
Dialogue On Dialogue: I guess if you discovered your father was a “peeping tom,” you’d be excused talking to yourself.

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