18. Lloyd Was Too Tall
Christopher Lloyd is a tall man, six-foot-one. The challenge for Zemeckis was that Michael J. Fox was five-foot-four. On film, these difference would create a distraction. One old technique was to dig a trench for the taller actor, but that’s a messy, time-consuming solution. Shot-by-shot, Zemeckis positioned the two actors with Fox in the foreground, decreasing the obvious nine-inch gap between them. They varied this technique with side-by-side shots where Lloyd would hunker down to Fox’s eye level.
17. Everyone Loved it; Even Celebs
Fans of the BTTF franchise extend beyond the huddled masses who packed the theaters and raced to buy the collector’s BluRay sets. On BTTF Day, the day Marty traveled back to in the movie, October 21, 2015, fans came out to celebrate like it was a holiday. Musicians like the members of Coldplay and vocalist, Joh Mayer, popped on social media outlets espousing their fanaticism. Mayer bought a pair of sneakers like the ones worn by Fox in the movie. Aaron Paul, the younger half of the show “Breaking Bad,” drove around in a DeLorean that day and rocked out with a boom box, because why not?