10 Things You Didn't Know About Back To The Future
7. There's A Sneaky Nod To Dr. Strangelove In Doc's Garage
Homages and sly little secret nods to other films are always fun to find right? Well, Back To The Future features several, and apart from perhaps the film's homage to the silent film Safety First! at the beginning of the first film, the most prolific one is a nod to Dr. Strangelove Or: How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. When Marty first ventures into Doc's garage and plugs his guitar into the enticing amplifier just sitting there, there's a label above one of the jacks that reads 'CRM114'. A pretty unremarkable and obscure reference sure, but the CRM114 label is actually the name of the radio equipment aboard the B-52 bomber used in Dr. Strangelove. It plays a pivotal role in that film (it's destruction prevents the plane's crew from hearing bomb cancellation codes), but in Back To The Future, the only people likely to notice anything remiss (other than massive Stanley Kubrick fans), are likely to be those that hold an electric guitar in their hands every minute of the day.
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