Back to the Future 3 : the conclusion of a cult trilogy
Just a year after the release of the second work, the trilogy Back to the future ends with the release of the third part in 1990. Still packaged by Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future 3 this time he sends Marty and “Doc” to the 19th century.
After the events of the second film, Marty receives a letter from his friend who tells him that he has been sent back to the Wild West eraasking him not to try to visit him. The high school student then returns to see the 1955 “Doc” to return to the future, but learns that Biff Tannen’s descendant, Buford, killed the Emmett Brown of the past shortly after he arrived in the Wild West era. Marty then decides to go and warn his friend, and finds himself catapulted back to 1885, five days before the assassination of “Doc”…
Back to the Future 3 it is still co-written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and carried forward by the main actors of the previous part. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd find their Marty and Emmett Brown characters. Thomas F. Wilson still plays Biff Tannen, as well as his ancestor Buford, Elizabeth Shue lends her features to Jennifer again after appearing in the second film and Leah Thompson she plays both Lorraine and Maggie McFly. With regard to Mary Steenburgen, makes her appearance in the saga in the role of teacher Clara Clayton.
A very real hanging scene
When Marty arrived in 1885 a Back to the Future 3find the town where “Doc” has settled. But before he could find his friend, meets the ancestor of his old enemy, Buford Tannennicknamed “Molosse”. The latter, a famous outlaw in the region, perpetuates the tradition of opposing the young high schooler, but this time it goes beyond his descendants. He first captures Marty with a lasso before dragging him several dozen meters with his horse, and ends up hanging him. That’s when Emmett Brown appears and saves his friend from certain death, before sending Tannen and his henchmen off.
And if Marty narrowly escapes strangulation in this scene, this was also the case for his interpreter. The scene was largely shot with a stuntman. But close-ups of the actor were needed for the film. The fox climbed onto a box with the rope around his neck and began to feign strangulation. But Robert Zemeckis didn’t find the scene realistic enough, and the actor then offered to play it without the help of the box under his feet. The plan was to hold the rope by placing your hands in specific places to get enough air to breathe.
The technique in question worked for the first two shots. But in the third Fox put his hands in the wrong place, and started to actually get strangled by the rope. The actor even fainted before anyone noticed something was wrong. As he himself recounted in his autobiography, Lucky man :
I staggered, unconscious, for several seconds before Bob Zemeckis, fan of mine, realized that I’m not a good actor either.
So, if you find that Michael J. Fox plays the scene in question particularly well, it’s because the actor was actually choking at the time, as this is what was used for the final edit From Back to the Future 3. This accident, similar to the one that happened to Brendan Fraser on the set of The Mummyreminds us that some actors sometimes have extreme experiences on set, which end up appearing in the film.
Source: Cine Serie
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