10 Things You Didn't Know About Back To The Future
6. Crispin Glover Lost His Voice During Filming
The fact that Crispin Glover lost his voice during filming of the first Back To The Future isn't nearly as amusing as how the production team opted to resolve the actor's speaking scenes. Instead of delaying the production of the film until Glover regained his ability to speak, the crew instead decided that Glover should mime his lines as if he were saying them. Obviously the film wouldn't be released with a hoarse, silent Glover trying to speak, so his mimicry was dubbed with a recording that Glover made after he recovered. It seems like a ridiculously convoluted method of bypassing such a problem, but the incident resembles a similar technique used by Eon Productions for the Bond film Goldfinger. Gert Fröbe - the titular villain of the film - spoke very little English and had to have his entire performance dubbed. Gert mouthed all the words phonetically but had to double the speed in which he spoke to make it match the tempo of the dubbing. Fortunately, Glover's native language was English, but we still don't see why BttF's crew couldn't just delay his scenes for a later date.
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