Doc and Marty's relationship was...questionable #BacktotheFuture #movies #80s #MartyMcFly #DocBrown

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00:00Back to the Future couldn't be made today, but maybe not for the reasons you think.

00:04It's been 40 years since the iconic sci-fi comedy came out,

00:07and co-writer Bob Gale and star Leah Thompson spoke with The Guardian about the film's legacy.

00:11And they argued that the movie just couldn't be made today, for a couple of reasons.

00:15Thompson pointed out that if you made Back to the Future in 2025, and they went back 30 years,

00:19it would be 1995, and nothing would look that different.

00:22The phones would be different, but it wouldn't be like the strange difference between the 80s and the 50s,

00:26and how different the world was.

00:28I mean, she makes a good point. Would dial-up modems and the baffling popularity of the Macarena

00:32be as big a shock to a teenager today as the squeaky-clean 1950s were to Marty?

00:37Probably not. But Gale had a slightly different explanation for why Back to the Future wouldn't fly in 2025.

00:42He said,

00:43We'd go into the studio, and they'd say,

00:44What's the deal with this relationship between Marty and Doc?

00:47Suggesting that people would maybe find this inappropriate.

00:49I mean, sure. I guess the premise that an elderly scientist who lives in a garage behind a Burger King

00:54has a platonic teen buddy who he hangs out with and occasionally lures into shopping mall parking lots

00:58in the middle of the night is a little odd.

01:00I mean, John Mulaney actually has an entire bit about it.

01:03Is a 17-year-old high school student whose best friend is a disgraced nuclear physicist.

01:11And I s*** you not, they never explain how they became friends.

01:16They never explain it. There's not even in a lazy way like,

01:20Hey, remember when we met in the science building? Like, they don't even do that.

01:22And we were all fine with it. We were just like,

01:26What? Who's his best friend? A disgraced nuclear physicist.

01:29All right, proceed.

01:30And sure, the stuff about Marty nearly hooking up with his own mother multiple times

01:34might also raise some eyebrows today.