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'Cause it's tangential.

You know, "power of love," what does

that have to do with the plot at all?

The power of love

is a curious thing

But it turns out,

that works better in a way, you know,

Than a song written

specifically for the film.

Bob Zemeckis credits us

with the greatest rollout ever,

They released the song,

before this movie came out.

Because it took that long

to build the song.

So I think the week

that the film was released,

"Power of love" was on top.

So that was a real help

for the film in this country.

But then when the film

became such a smash,

And then it went international,

The film drove

the song internationally.

And so, from then on, it really opened up

all kinds of doors for us internationally.

The power of love

is a curious thing

We wanted

to take people back in time,

And music is really the ultimate

way to do that in our opinion.

Music is a time machine itself,

So we get to really, like,

exploit the whole time-Travel function

I think that's one of the main

ingredients of why we blew up so fast,

Is because we really hit that

emotional chord with people, you know.

And that's one of the common themes

I see throughout our shows is,

You know, we hit that emotion.

And having that reference

with "back to the future,"

"Back to the future,"

that gets that out of everybody.

After a little time went by,

We started getting into

the cosplay circuit

For comic cons, and comikaze, and all

the conventions that are going around.

We don't consider ourselves

cosplayers by any means,

But it's cool to be

a part of that world.

We did it

for the love of the film.

We didn't do it because we know

there was a world out there

With deloreans

and time machines.

We weren't aware of how big the

"back to the future" universe was.

So really quickly, we started

bumping into time machine owners.

And then don fullilove

came to one of our shows,

And he was digging it,

mayor Goldie Wilson.

And then we started

doing things with Claudia wells.

Last night, we had a rehearsal,

And mayor Goldie Wilson

stopped by with beef jerky

And just gave us beef jerky that

he picked up from a road trip,

And hung out,

listened to a couple songs.

And it's just like that's so cool

just to have those opportunities.

Since what we play and

what we represent means so much

To just the public in general,

We can do this

for years to come.

And that's one of the things

that we look forward to

Is sort of going

around the world

And bringing people

back in time.

I do remember the first preview

of "back to the future."

We all got on a plane

and went up to San Jose.

And those

are usually terrifying,

Because it's the first time you're

gonna show the film to an audience,

And you really don't know

what's gonna happen.

MTV was just getting

off the ground,

And the VJS,

and all that good stuff, tom petty.

And they were talking about win these

tickets to a movie, blah, blah, blah.

So I submitted my name.

I never win anything, you know.

And I won the tickets,

not really knowing...

there was maybe smoke signals telling you,

"hey, great movie!" No twitter, nothing.

So we were sitting there,

and there were these crowds of people.

And there's no pictures, nothing

telling you what this movie is about.

I'll never forget.

The lights came down in this theater.

We were all sitting

way in the back.

And on the screen,

It says,

"Steven Spielberg presents."

The place went crazy.

And then it said,

"a Robert Zemeckis film."

They went crazy.

I was just like this...

throughout the whole film.

Just like totally just loving every aspect.

I saw that, I think,

with "star wars."

I saw that with "Ghostbusters."

There's no accounting for it.

After seeing the film,

I wanted to buy a delorean.

I mean, I bet you everybody did.

Well, obviously,

at 18 years old,

With a couple of waiter jobs,

parking cars,

I'm not gonna buy a delorean.

It was one of those

bucket list things in life.

It's almost like some people want a Rolex

watch when they turned a certain age

Well, you know what?

I wanted a delorean time machine.

That's not too much to ask.

And I did it.

In the first two drafts,

the time machine was not a delorean at all.

It was not in a car.

It was not mobile.

It was a time ray

that shot into a time chamber.

And in the climax

That took place at a nuclear test

site in those early versions,

The time chamber, doc converted a

refrigerator and put lead lining in it.

And Marty was protected

from the nuclear blast

By being inside of a time chamber

made of an old refrigerator.

Four, three,

Two, one, zero.

The original ending

for the first movie

Turned out to be "Indiana Jones and

the kingdom of the crystal skull."

I don't know

if you're familiar with this,

But the idea,

the nuke the fridge thing,

Actually came out of an early

draft of the first movie.

I didn't know that.

That was a pretty big moment

for me

When I was reading the script

and said,

"Hey, wait a minute.

I've seen this before,

"And I didn't like it."

We started thinking about this

and thought,

"Well, if you really were gonna

build a time machine,

"You would build it

in a vehicle,

"Because you'd have to be able

to get around."

We came up with the idea

of the delorean

Simply because it had gull-Wing doors,

and we had this joke...

That ain't no airplane. Look.

In the '50s,

when the kid is in the farmhouse,

And they go in the barn,

and he thinks it's a Martian that landed.

So we thought what kind of a

car looks like a spaceship?

Well, a delorean

'cause of the gull-Wing doors.

Ron comes aboard,

a really amazing guy.

Gets to work, and designs

an initial version of the car,

And then leaves

to go do another show.

The producers looked at it

and said,

"You know,

we like what Ron's done,

"But can you take it

another step further?"

So, I was able to get in there

And take his basic car, and add a bunch

of stuff to it, rearrange some things,

And come up

with a final version.

I had worked on a TV show

that had been pretty successful.

I had made a car...

kind of a talking car for a TV show.

Welcome aboard

the knight two thousand.

Thank you.

What's all this?

"Knight rider"

was one of the biggest-Budget things

And what I would sketch was

something I knew I could build,

Or I knew someone could build.

If you're gonna build a time machine into

a car, why not do it with some style?

I mean, the whole story

of John delorean

Is sort of a classic,

American folklore story unto itself,

So I think that ties in to the whole

doc brown being an American inventor.

It's also unique in the fact that it's

the only car that the company produced.

If they would have lasted longer

and produced other models cars,

Maybe even the bus,

maybe even the snowplow,

You would see a lot more of them out here

today, and it wouldn't be so special.

If the delorean was still around

today, even though it was in the movie,

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