The first 30 minutes of Robert Zemeckis’s 1989 movie takes set in the distant future – 21 October 2015. Self-confessed Back to the Future fan Catherine Shoard takes a look at its accuracyWelcome to Back to the Future day. On 21 October 2015 we will finally be at the point in time to which Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) travels in Back to the Future II,the 1989 sequel to the time-travelling classic. The future he finds is one which has captured the imagination of millions – and one which has proved remarkably prescient. Save for a few key oversights (the internet, mobile phones) and a couple of over-hopeful punts in the gloomy (flying cars, and hoverboards),the world dreamt up by writer Bob Gale and then brought to the screen by director Robert Zemeckis resembles our own in outlandish and uncanny ways. Here’s an A-Z guide to the gaps between that fictional world and our own, in the hope that inventors will spend the next 10 months wisely. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com