35 years of the Back to the Future
On July 3, 1985, the release of Robert Zemeckis' sci-fi film "Back to the Future" started in 1,200 cinemas in the USA and Canada.
The script of the film was conceived by Bob Gale back in 1980, and in the same year its first version was presented to the film company "Columbia Pictures". And was rejected. After that, various versions of the script were rejected by various film companies another 44 times. The "adult" film companies thought the script was too childish. And the "children's" film companies, such as "Disney", considered the topic of a love relationship between son and mother rather slippery for themselves. Finally, in 1984, the Universal Pictures film company showed interest in the script by Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.
The film "Back to the Future" was awarded a total of 20 film awards. It is curious that there are practically no most prestigious American awards among these prizes. More precisely, only one technical Oscar for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing. But the film won the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Foreign Film and two Italian awards, David di Donatello, for Best Foreign Producer and for Best Foreign Screenplay.
The perception of this picture by western film critics was generally very benevolent, although not without comment. As a generalized assessment of foreign criticism can serve a rating of Roger Ebert at 3.5 stars out of 4 possible.
Approximately the same rating was appreciated by the Russian leading film critics. For example, Sergey Kudryavtsev, who gave the film 7.5 points out of 10, noted in his review: “Perhaps this picture is somewhat protracted, not as light and elegant as we would like. And yet it is distinguished by a glorious humorous intonation, unusual special effects.”
But by the audiencies of almost all countries the film was literally adopted with a bang. (By the way, in China, the film was banned for some time. The reason is that, according to the Chinese mentality, time travel means disrespect for history. But quite quickly this ban was lifted.) The worldwide box office gross of this picture was $ 380 million. And with a budget of $ 19 million.
81% of IMDB and Kinopoisk users around the world gave this film a rating of 8 to 10. And 31% generally rated it at a maximum of 10 points.
The success of the film among the audience encouraged the filmmakers to create a sequel that was not originally planned.
Based on the above success indicators for this film, its rating according to FilmGourmand was 9.553, which allowed the film to occupy 72nd place in the Golden Thousand.
