BTTF - How did Marty and Doc first meet?

[CB2001]

Originally, in order to get some of the funding for the time machine project in one of the previous drafts of the screenplay, Zemeckis was originally going have Marty and Doc pirating video tapes. So, even with the script changed to where that element was removed, there could have been a chance that Doc met Marty at a video store and asked Marty for a video recommendation (Doc is a man of science. Until Part 3, he had no social life and probably didn't have any idea on what good movies were out at that time. There's even the possibility that Doc met Marty at a Sam Goody music store inside the Twin Pines Mall, and it was a music recommendation Doc asked about as a means of breaking the ice).

Just tossing that out there as a possibility.

 

[glunark]

I always wondered what happened to the other Marty who went back in time at the end of the first film, when original Marty saved Doc from the libians.

I mean that Marty had it all, rich parents, cushy lifestyle, and original Marty just walked in and took it all from him.

If rich Marty went back into the same scenario as before, would he even have the same set of skills to get his parents together, or were those events already in motion from the first Marty?

 

[Laspector]

Way back when the first movie came out, Starlog did an extensive article entitled "The two Martys" that addressed that question. Unfortunately I don't remember how it turned out. Anybody remember that article?

 

[FrancisB]

Way back when the first movie came out, Starlog did an extensive article entitled "The two Martys" that addressed that question. Unfortunately I don't remember how it turned out. Anybody remember that article?

I just found this thread and although it's very old, I hope nobody minds if I revive it

I just read the StarLog you mentioned and it's really a nice spin on the "Two Martys" theory ! Here's a link on Archive.org to read it on page 70-72. The Two Martys theory we can find the most online is the one where Doc "kills" the other Marty - to avoid him going back and getting involved with our Marty's actions.

The StarLog article is based on the fact that we see a silhouette running in the back of the parking lot the moment Doc throws the gun down. They state that this is the other Marty coming back from 1955.

Our Marty jumps in the Delorean and vanishes to 1955 to save him/his parents and comes running the other Marty, throwing himself at Doc Brown but he's dead. No bulletproof vest. So this Marty goes back home, terribly saddened. But that's not all! He no longer has cool parents or a sweet 4x4! He has a skateboard, family issues and the occasional visit from a loud and drunk Biff Tannen.

How did this Marty come back and not change anything ? Well this article assumes that Doc didn't actually think in four dimensions and thought he had a good plan !

As we know - Marty has come to him for help in 1955, so he figures - alright so I sent this kid back so I got a good 30 years before he arrives. Problem is, he's gonna be born soon too, so I gotta make a fail-safe for this kid.

He knows exactly what happens in that parking lot from the videotape, so he simply tweaks it a bit. Hell he's gonna wear a bullet proof vest, so might as well tweak this right.

He explains to the other Marty (rich, 4x4 Marty) not to talk to anyone/touch anything and come back ASAP from any time travel. He sets things up and the Libyans arrive.

The other Marty goes back in 1955 but he's one HELLUVA driver because of all that 4x4 driving, so he avoids the Pine Tree and stabilizes the car. He drives to a nearby road, fills up the plutonium chamber (which Doc also made sure wouldn't be a problem this time around) and comes back to the beginning of our movie. And then spends the rest of his life thinking about his sweet 4x4.

 

[Laspector]

Wow, I can't believe you found that article!! Obviously I was wrong about the title but that is certainly the article I was referring to.

I just remember that after I originally read it, that was when I decided that trying to figure out time travel paradoxes was futile. Just reading that article wore me out!!

 

[Halliwax]

I just found this thread and although it's very old, I hope nobody minds if I revive it

I just read the StarLog you mentioned and it's really a nice spin on the "Two Martys" theory ! Here's a link on Archive.org to read it on page 70-72. The Two Martys theory we can find the most online is the one where Doc "kills" the other Marty - to avoid him going back and getting involved with our Marty's actions.

The StarLog article is based on the fact that we see a silhouette running in the back of the parking lot the moment Doc throws the gun down. They state that this is the other Marty coming back from 1955.

Our Marty jumps in the Delorean and vanishes to 1955 to save him/his parents and comes running the other Marty, throwing himself at Doc Brown but he's dead. No bulletproof vest. So this Marty goes back home, terribly saddened. But that's not all! He no longer has cool parents or a sweet 4x4! He has a skateboard, family issues and the occasional visit from a loud and drunk Biff Tannen.

How did this Marty come back and not change anything ? Well this article assumes that Doc didn't actually think in four dimensions and thought he had a good plan !

As we know - Marty has come to him for help in 1955, so he figures - alright so I sent this kid back so I got a good 30 years before he arrives. Problem is, he's gonna be born soon too, so I gotta make a fail-safe for this kid.

He knows exactly what happens in that parking lot from the videotape, so he simply tweaks it a bit. Hell he's gonna wear a bullet proof vest, so might as well tweak this right.

He explains to the other Marty (rich, 4x4 Marty) not to talk to anyone/touch anything and come back ASAP from any time travel. He sets things up and the Libyans arrive.

The other Marty goes back in 1955 but he's one HELLUVA driver because of all that 4x4 driving, so he avoids the Pine Tree and stabilizes the car. He drives to a nearby road, fills up the plutonium chamber (which Doc also made sure wouldn't be a problem this time around) and comes back to the beginning of our movie. And then spends the rest of his life thinking about his sweet 4x4.

wait a minute what?! i have to read this again...

 

[Fenris]

that is confusing as hell. hahaha!

 

[Halliwax]

that is confusing as hell. hahaha!

it was, but kinda makes sense... both martys switch universes, just sucks for rich marty! lol

 

[Roland]

And now the Rolls Royce accident makes sense. Our skateboarding Marty 1 has no driving experience. Thanks for posting this StarLog article.

 

[0neiros]

You know it's lucky for Skinner that Doc Brown is a gentle soul. If I were a Phd. and scientist, and found out the local Principal was slandering me, there'd be a meeting with the schoool board pronto.