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From: ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Back to the Future
Message-ID: <384@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 09:56:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 09:56:36 1985
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> In article <4727@mit-eddie.UUCP> ronnie@mit-eddie.UUCP (Ronnie Schnell) writes:
> >Does it seem reasonable that when Marty was growing up that his
> >parents would be kind of suprised by the striking resemblence
> >between their child and that weirdo guitarist that played at their
> >``Enchantment under the sea dance''?  I would think that Marty's
> >father would definitely suspenct Marty's mother of cheating with
> >Marty(?)
> 
> Marty was the second born though, there would be a problem,
> nice try....
> 
> Another comment about Back to the Future, did you notice that there
> was only one black with a speaking part, if not only one black in the
> movie, also the female roles in the film fell a little bit short
> of what one might call full human poetential. The comment about
> Spielberg involved films (I'll come back to goonies) is that they
> are suburban, the suburbs are white bread and mayo, but still
> there is space for some other representations that Harrison Ford
> or some variant of his younger brother. Goonies was an exception
> but in the case of a group instead of one against the world
> the mix seeemed appropriate, but they were not real people at least
> not for kids to identify with....

How about the fact that all Spielberg movies seem to involve
rebellion against parents and authority figures?  At the very least,
such people are often made out to be irrational meanies, e. g. the
dean in Back to the Future.
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