I love Back to the Future III and it’s easily my favorite of the two sequels. Sure the second has the flying Delorean and the hoverboards, but the story was all over the place. The third combined a western with scifi comedy and that’s a feat that’s been attempted a couple times since (Wild Wild West, and Jonah Hex…although the second one wasn’t an intentional comedy) and it hasn’t really been matched.
In all the times I’ve watched BTTF3, I’ve never noticed this. At the end of the movie, right when Doc Brown is talking to Marty and Jennifer (and the totally Spielberg-influenced “When You Wish Upon a Star” is heard on the soundtrack), the kid playing Doc Bown’s son Verne does something…well just check out the video below.
I checked out the DVD and confirmed that this does happen and isn’t something just made up on Youtube.
August 24, 2010
#1
LOLLLL!!!
Ohhhh man… You guys have waaay too much time on your hands…
Who knows? Maybe he did it so you would look?
August 24, 2010
#2
Maybe. Or maybe he had to take a piss? Or maybe, just maybe, he was looking directly at Elizabeth Shue while touching his junk in hopes that she’d get the hint.
August 25, 2010
#3
take a look at michal j fox 21 min in it looks like he took a blow to the head.
August 27, 2010
#4
hehehe. It’s a great discovery
August 29, 2010
#5
For f*cks sake, as if the new Digg wasn’t lame enough, this sh*t makes it on there? Seriously? Talk about something from ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
August 30, 2010
#6
wow, I can’t believe that got in!
August 31, 2010
#7
I think I’ve got a partial answer.
Remember that classic blooper in the 1960′s Hitchcock film – I think it was North by Northwest? A gun is about to be fired off in a crowded cafeteria setting … and some kid playing an extra claps his hands to his ears just BEFORE the gun fires off?
Kids on film sets are like that. They don’t realize that alot of filming is hurry-up-and-wait. The same scene is shot over and over again. Soon they get bored or they forget they”re supposed to be acting as if each take is new, and they start reacting like … well, a kid!
In this case:
Notice that the camera dollies in to Doc Brown just as the kid starts making that “come here” motion.
The kid is obviously bored after multiple takes. i believe he is mimicking a director or AD who is making the same motion off-camera – “start the dolly in”. Either that, or the kid is just imaginary-directing. He knows where the camera starts rolling on the tracks, and he’s just trying to “help” or be an imaginary director.
Does that make any sense? It does in my brain, but I haven’t had quite enough caffiene, though.
Regards the second part … I dunno. Maybe he had an itch and started to scratch, but then stopped when he remembered he was on camera.
I think he’s just being a kid. And it’s funny that they chose this as the final take without noticing what the kid’s hand is doing.
Good catch, though!
September 20, 2010
#8
That’s a definate… “Hurry up! I gotta pee!”
November 20, 2010
#9
The story as I hear it is that the kid was celebrating his birthday that day, so Zemeckis let the kid direct the cameraman on that scene. The first gesture says to start the zoom, and the second gesture says to stop the zoom when I’m just at the end of the frame. The camera shots match this.