Back To The Future Roberty Mcfly Character Analysis

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INTRODUCION In “Back to the Future”, a famous movie direct by Robert Zemekis. Marty McFly is the main character that travels back in time to when his parents where both young. His mother is shown to be really popular, his father George McFly on the other hand is weak and he gets constantly bullied by Biff. By going back into the time Marty helped his dad to become a confident and positive role-model for him, something that he lacked in the original 1985. His father no longer gets bullied by Biff and is actually now the superior of the two. BP1 George McFly is first seen in a two shot talking to Biff in a gloomy, poorly lit house. George is hunched over and Biff stands upright looming over him. Biff is in absolute control this is established …show more content…

George clearly has no power even though he is in his own house. Biff crashed the car and he states he won’t pay for the damage “It’s your car”, he also says it is George’s fault “You never told me your car had a blind spot”. Biff walks around George’s house like he owns it, he eats lollies and gets beer out the fridge and he comments “I got your car towed all the way to your house and all you got for me is lite beer?” When Biff leaves George apologizes to Marty for being weak “I’m Just not good with confrontations”. He even defends Biff “Biff just happens to be my supervisor”. Marty is frustrated about the wrecked car because he wanted to go to the lake with Jennifer the following day “The car dad”. Marty is angry that his dad cannot stand up for himself. Marty and George are of the same flesh and blood they …show more content…

They are both very similar in the way they move, we see this when they are both sitting next to each other in the cafeteria. Marty does not know that his father is sitting next to him until Biff came in and called out “Hey, McFly!” From this point of the movie Marty realized that the roots of his father weakness comes from being bullied in his teens. Biff is in a low angles shot which makes him look more bigger and stronger, George is in a high angle shot which him look vulnerable. Biff is shown to be lazy because he counts on George to do his homework, this has turned into doing Biff’s paperwork when they are adults in 1985. Biff grabs George in the same way that he grabbed his tie. George and Biff have not changed “Do you realize what will happen if I hand in my homework in your handwriting? I’ll get kicked out of school!”. School has changed to work and homework has changed to paperwork. Biff has grown into a habit of not doing his work himself instead he relys solely on George. George does not want to do it but is to scared to speak up this is indicated when Biff said “You don’t want that to happen do you?” George hesitates ,Biff getting kicked out of the school is exactly what he wants but he cannot bring himself to say it. People must stand tall and defend themselves because "If you let people walk over you they’ll be walking over you for the rest of your life”. When

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