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From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Back to The Future (SPOILER)
Message-ID: <356@azure.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 21:16:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 21:16:20 1985
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Reply-To: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen)
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Summary: 

In article <2694@topaz.ARPA> Daniel.Zigmond@CMU-CS-SPICE.ARPA writes:
>From: Daniel.Zigmond@CMU-CS-SPICE
>
>
>***SPOILER***
>
>The one thing that bothered me about Back to the Future wasn't that it
>made use of parallel universes but that it seemed to use them wrong.  Marty
>changed both universes.  The changes to the universe he returned to
>were obvious: his parents had dfferent personalities, he had a new truck,
>etc...  However, he also changed the universe he left.  He invented
>rock and roll (essentially).  While he is playing Jonny B Goode at the
>dance (in 1955), the guitarist with the broken arm (whose name was
>something Berry) calls his brother "Chuck" to tell him about this great new
>style of music that Marty is playing.  This means that universe 1 (where
>Marty started) shouldn't have had any rock music in it because Marty wasn't 
>around in 1955 to let Chuck know about it.  Of course, it did because
>otherwise Marty wouldn't have known the song (or have been in a rock
>band).  
>
>	Dan (djz@cmu-cs-spice)

Huh?  Where in the movie is there a mention of parallel universes.  Marty
doesn't change two universes.  He changes the original universe into another
one.  Perhaps in the original Universe Chuck Berry did discover the new sound
on his own.  But in the changed universe, he had some help from Marty.
Where's the problem?

Chris Andersen



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