“Back to the Future Part II” What is the self-restraint that Robert Zemeckis put into “Chicken!”

Pop culture and the two “Stevens”

Marty arrives in the future (2015) and heads to Cafe 80' to stop his son's crime.

``Jaws 19'' is being shown at a movie theater along the way. The 3D movie was directed by Max Spielberg. This is the real name of Steven Spielberg's son. By the way, the name comes from " Mad Max ".

A police spinner from `` Blade Runner '' is parked on the roadside, and an antique shop sells faded stuffed animals from `` Roger Rabbit ,'' which was released in 1988, and Magnavox's home The Game console ``The Martian 2.'' '', the first ``Macintosh'' released in 1984 was labeled with ``Antique Computer'' POP.

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At ``Cafe 80','' CGI Michael Jackson, former President Ronald Reagan, and Ayatollah Khomeini appear on the monitors serving customers while stuttering as if they were scratching their heads. This is a parody of the pseudo-virtual character ``Max Headroom,'' which was all the rage in the 1980s. In this way, it is packed with 80's pop culture.

In recent years, works that feature 80s pop culture have been produced, including Tarantino's series of works and the Netflix drama ` `Stranger Things '' (2016~). Spielberg also featured extensively in `` Ready Player One '' (18).

``Back to the Future Part.2'' can be said to be a forerunner of those, but ``another Stephen'' was already a popular author at the time. Stephen King's influence cannot be ignored.

King, who continues to write horror stories set in the present as a standard-bearer of modern horror, creates reality by introducing real products, comics, pop songs, movies, etc. into the fictional world of his works. It created the illusion that it was connected to the world and made fear more familiar.

In Back to the Future Part.2, by introducing ``new products'' at the time of release as ``antiques,'' the future of the real world was presented as something more realistic and familiar.

By the way. Pop culture in the 80's was a revival of 50's culture, but it is still fresh in our minds that the 2010's was a revival of the 50's. ``Back to the Future Part 2'' unexpectedly depicts eras such as the 1950s, 1980s, and 2010s, where anxieties were hidden behind bright, fun fluorescent exteriors.

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