Considering Back To The Future is about time travel, it's hardly surprising that there's several scenes across all three films that allude to certain events happening. The films may not be very accurate in portraying time travel (not that there is precise way to portray it, as it's not even possible), they're so endlessly entertaining because of their conjecture on how it would work and what people could do with it. The film may contain more than a few continuity errors, but it makes up for it in part by suggesting to the audience future events through mere aesthetic imagery. We've already touched on one of these in an earlier entry. The miniature clock-tower model that the Doc has in his residence at the beginning of the first film shows a man hanging from one its hands - directly alluding to the final scenes in Part I where the Doc himself hangs frighteningly close to death from the Hilly Valley clock. There is another cheeky scene where the end of Part III is alluded to too. In Part II, when the Doc laments Marty's out-of-place look in the future, Doc is wearing a 'futuristic' shirt that features a neat pattern of steam trains and mounted horses. It directly alludes to Marty's attempts to reach the DeLorean at the front of the steam train in Part III before he's left in the past forever. Are they any other scenes in the Back To The Future series that hold more interesting tidbits than these? Let us know in the comments below if you've got some sci fi knowledge that you think everyone should know about.
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