(December 31, 2016 at 6:00 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I can beat that. Back To The Future Part 2 predicted Trump's 2015 rise to power way back in 1989.
Quote:Trump has also been credited by the co-creator of the Back to the Future movies as the inspiration for Biff Tannen, the bullying bad guy character of the time-travelling 1980s trilogy.
In the second film, Back to the Future II, Biff has become “one of the richest and most powerful men in America” by cheating at gambling, formed a “vast empire” called Biffco, and successfully lobbied to legalise gambling and build an enormous casino hotel. When the film was released in 1989, Trump was already well known as a casino and property mogul.
Interviewed by The Daily Beast last year, co-writer Bob Gale confirmed he had Trump in mind when he created the character. “We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding? You watch Part II again and there’s a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there’s a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there’s one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.”
The interviewer notes that in the movie, Biff uses the profits from his casino to shake up the Republican party and assume political power himself, transforming his local town Hill Valley into “a lawless, dystopian wasteland where hooliganism reigns, dissent is quashed” and citizens are encouraged to call him “America’s greatest living folk hero.”
“Yeah, that’s what we were thinking about,” replies Gale.
That's hilarious! Thanks for sharing that, had not heard that before. Hopefully we don't turn into a dystopian wasteland lol
