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#50 - Back to the Future (1985)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Night in Galef

In the original draft, there was no motivation given for why she connects with him and falls in love with him. That backstory about George almost getting hit by a car and her having to help nurse him to help didn't exist. So I mean, that's huge. What did they do to make Marty interfere with that? I don't know. They just explained it with the butterfly effect, like his mirror action. From Marty's urgency, the early drafts had no photo. And this is the last one is Jamie, the climax in the, in the first draft, they didn't leave town and go to some other desert, low base location. The stakes were the same. It's

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