Back To The Future Jennifer Differences.

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terryr

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This was spoken about before but not seen. By me anyway.

In Back To The Future part 2 + 3 had a different actress play Martys' girlfriend Jennifer, for whatever reason.
Part 2 also had a flashback of the end of Part 1. But what you may not realize was that this meant the flashback had to be re-shot with the new actress.

Someone finally put up a side by side comparison on Youtube.

YouTube - Back To The Future Part 1 & 2 Scene Comparison

It's interesting looking at the subtle differences.
 
I can't remember the exact reasons why they replaced the original but I think it was a scheduling conflict. I actually think the second Jennifer is taller.
 
From Wikipedia

Claudia Wells, who had played Marty McFly's girlfriend Jennifer Parker in the original Back to the Future was to reprise her role, but turned it down due to her mother's ill health. The producers cast Elisabeth Shue instead, which required re-shooting the closing scenes of Back to the Future for the beginning of Back to the Future Part II. The re-shot sequence is a nearly shot-for-shot match with the original with only minor differences such as the dialogue scene where Doc Brown noticeably hesitates before reassuring Marty that his future self is fine — something he did not do in the original film.

It was nearly 10 years before Claudia Wells returned to Hollywood, with a starring role in the 1996 independent film Still Waters Burn. She is one of the few cast members not to make an appearance within the bonus material on the Back to the Future Trilogy DVD set released in 2002. However, Wells is interviewed for the Tales from the Future documentaries in the trilogy's 25th anniversary issue on Blu-ray Disc in 2010.
 
There was another clip posted several months back that had the "Where we're going we don't need roads" line at the same time. Was fun to watch. This one is skewed out of sync, though.
 
i read on a message board a while back that melora hardin (jan from the office) was cast as jennifer when eric stoltz was still marty.
 
You know what, I honestly didn't really spot the differences until the set came out on blu ray. I guess I just wasn't paying attention all those times I saw the movie. But the resemblance is quite good.
 
I am a BTTF fanatic, and am now disappointed with myself for not noticing the change.
After all the times ive watched the trilogy's
Shame on you Jason :lol
 
d_osborn said:
i read on a message board a while back that melora hardin (jan from the office) was cast as jennifer when eric stoltz was still marty.
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Yup.

I've known Melora for years, and that was to have been her first big break. Some actresses might have been bitter, but not her. She was, and remains, a class act.
 
Some of you really never noticed there was a different person - and Elizabeth Shue at that - playing the part??

Claudia was sooooooo much hotter than Shue. And I don't know, MJF can still pass as a teen in the first movie (be it, he's pushing it) and so can Claudia (she probably was) - by the time two hits Michael has smokers throat and Shue looks like a a mom dressed in her best "just got divorced, hitting the bars" clothes.
 
True story - a friend of mine went to his sister's (Today Show co-host Amy Robach) wedding last year to Andrew Shue, Elisabeth's brother. Andrew and Elisabeth's mother was the priest for the wedding! (Episcopal, I believe).

Anyway, my friend and his wife got to sit with and talk to Elisabeth throughout the wedding reception. She's now technically his sister-in-law by marriage, I guess. Her husband was a producer for Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" film.

So, my friend gets back, tells my about hob-nobbing with the Today Show cast, and then says "And Elisabeth - she's still hot."

Andrew Shue and Today


:lol:lol:lol
 
I first noticed when they released on dvd for the first time, i noticed when i seen Shue on Karate Kid and Adventures in Babysitting that she looked different than in BTTF 1. The only difference in that comparison i noticed set-wise on my own is the blinds in the background. And the obvious dialogue pause that Doc does as an inside joke referring that they may (or do) become a-holes in the future but hesitates to tell him that they turn out fine.

Since Glover left they just used the same cutaway scenes for him, I think they did the same for the Delorean ramming into the garbage cans and when Doc takes the lid off the garbage can. During their dialogue in front of the house, you can see the neighbor houses behind Doc are a tad bit different as well.

Elisabeth Shue is hotter haha
 
Foxs' hair is darker. In 1 it is reddish but in 2 it is chestnut.

The plant by the neighbors house is taller.

The garbage can looks recreated to me. Very close though.

The pink pants are darker. Shue must be a different size.

All the cars on the street are the same. That must have been fun to track down.

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I did a quick google for Shue and she still looks good. Way better than BTTF2 said she would look in 2015!

She buffed up for Piranha 3D in 2009.

shueguns.JPG
 
Ummm... I first noticed it was Elisabeth Shue back in 1989... In the theater. A friend of mine and I looked at each other right away (with that "huh?" expression on our faces) as soon as she appeared in the reshot end of part 1.


Kevin
 
Going by what they look like TODAY - It's Shue all the way
But as for how these girls looked in the BTTF films - Claudia is MEGA HOT. Shue doesn't hold a candle to her back then.
 
The garbage can shot (which is split into two by a cutaway) is indeed reused, as is the subsequent closeup of Mr. Fusion being opened where you can only see Jennifer's shoulder. As well as the obvious ones: Delorean driving in/backing out, cutaway to parents (even if Glover had returned there would be no reason to reshoot it), and of course the flying shot. A closeup of the Miller can being dropped into Mr. Fusion is not used in the redo. It must've only been there to cover an edit of Marty's dialogue about taking the truck for a spin. It was also a sunnier day for the reshoot, FWIW.

Didn't like the recast either. Shue was way too aware she was playing a character younger than herself, and played it with a naive "oh golly" through the entire film. Awful. One could see why Marty was attracted to the original, confident Jennifer, but by II ya wonder why he's with such a ditz.
 
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