Daily Dialogue — May 26, 2014
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, future boy, who’s President of the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor? [chuckles in disbelief] Then who’s vice president? Jerry Lewis? [rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory] I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: [following Doc] Whoa. Wait, Doc!
Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is secretary of the treasury.
Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me.
Dr. Emmett Brown: [opens the door to the lab] I’ve had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
Closes the door leaving Marty outside.
Marty McFly: No, wait, Doc. Doc. The-the-the bruise on your head, I know how that happened. You told me the whole story. You were standing on your toilet and you were hanging a clock, and you fell and you hit your head on the sink. And that’s when you came up with the idea for the flux capacitor… which is what makes time travel possible.
Doc opens the door and looks at Marty with a stunned look on his face.
— Back to the Future (1985), written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Time Travel Talk, suggested by Bob_Reo_Inc. Today’s suggestion by David Proenza.
Trivia: Apparently Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown’s disbelief that an actor like him could become president, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address: “As they said in the film Back to the Future (1985), ‘Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.’”
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by David: “The scene and subsequent dialog is great because Marty’s got to convince the man who invented time travel that he will one day invent time travel. And Doc, incredulous to the whole story (at first) adds to the ridiculous notion of being presented with that fact.”
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