The Almanac (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pseudohistorian) wrote in dontmentionlove, |
In the DVD commentaries, Zemeckis & Gale acknowledge that their ending for the first film constituted a very 1980's definition of "success," but only European reviewers really picked up on it at the time...
Looking at the details, though, I'm not sure how "filthy rich" the McFly family is supposed to have become. They still have the same house, and Dave and Linda appear to still live there, even though Marty has the truck now. A Match Made in Space is George's "first novel," so I also don't know how much of a "rock star" he is in the SF world, although the movie suggests that George and Lorraine's yuppiedom is a good thing. Since Marty (and we as viewers) don't have any further contact with this version of the family until a brief scene at the end of Part III, there aren't many clues there.
It's interesting that you mention your horror at the ending of the first movie, since the opposite happened to me when I first saw Part II--I didn't get that Marty's life in the future was supposed to be bad. I mean, he's married to Jennifer, he lives in Hilldale (a neighbourhood that his teenage self finds very exciting), he gets along with his aged parents, and his son now comes home for dinner instead of going to prison, so what's the problem? It was only later that I noticed the signs pointing to Marty not living up to his dreams.
Looking at the details, though, I'm not sure how "filthy rich" the McFly family is supposed to have become. They still have the same house, and Dave and Linda appear to still live there, even though Marty has the truck now. A Match Made in Space is George's "first novel," so I also don't know how much of a "rock star" he is in the SF world, although the movie suggests that George and Lorraine's yuppiedom is a good thing. Since Marty (and we as viewers) don't have any further contact with this version of the family until a brief scene at the end of Part III, there aren't many clues there.
It's interesting that you mention your horror at the ending of the first movie, since the opposite happened to me when I first saw Part II--I didn't get that Marty's life in the future was supposed to be bad. I mean, he's married to Jennifer, he lives in Hilldale (a neighbourhood that his teenage self finds very exciting), he gets along with his aged parents, and his son now comes home for dinner instead of going to prison, so what's the problem? It was only later that I noticed the signs pointing to Marty not living up to his dreams.
