Back in Time Page #7

I didn't know

he was planning anything.

I was just excited

to go see the play.

So it was definitely

a big surprise to me.

Meghan, I love you more than

anything in the entire world.

In front of everybody here...

Get on your knee.

Will you join me in the future

and be my wife?

Will you marry me?

Of course. Yes.

I did not know

Christopher Lloyd, Bob gale,

Claudia wells,

and Jeffrey Weissman

Were right there

in the front row.

It was just very overwhelming.

Earth angel, earth angel

please be mine

My darling dear

love you all the time

I'm just a fool

A fool in love with you

That's so nice.

I got to work

on a show called "American dad"

Where an episode of the show was called

"the delorean story-An,"

Which was partially inspired

by me getting my own delorean

And my fandom

of "back to the future."

Take it easy out there,

Mr. Smith, Mr. Kerkhoff.

I mean, what kind of a rush

could you two be in?

You're in time machines.

You got all the time you need.

They let me have the honor

of being animated

And get to do my own voice

in the show.

Hey, that's not your delorean.

Oh, whoops. My mistake.

Are connected to things I've done with

the car or as part of the fandom.

And it inspired

my interest in sound.

The sounds in the movie were very

impactful and very effective,

And my interest and my career

in sound came from that.

It's definitely influenced

my world as a whole.

And it'll always be

a positive thing.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yes.

I'd be lying if I said it

was easy growing up with a disability.

I actually kind of connected

a little bit with George McFly.

He's a guy that was an outcast.

He had big dreams.

He had big goals

Of being this person that no one

else thought that he could be.

I have cerebral palsy,

And in my case,

it's called spastic triplegia.

That affects my two legs

and my right arm.

The connection in living here in the area,

essentially, where mike grew up

I mean, I know some of his family

members and his nephew Jeff.

For me to be able

to go out into the world

And know that I'm actually

from the same community,

And that here's mike, a guy from Burnaby,

growing up with his family,

And he's done so much

for himself and his family,

And was able to sort of

go off into Hollywood,

And find a new home in New York.

If he's showing that

that was possible for him,

Then I knew that for me, and what I

wanted to do in following my passions,

Then it was possible

for me as well.

My dad was an immigrant.

He came here from Italy.

And I've said this

in my presentations before,

He had huge dreams

of me being a soccer star.

Well, obviously,

being in a chair,

I'm not gonna necessarily

be the next soccer star.

But I wanted to show him

that these things were possible.

So instead of getting involved

in one sport,

I went ahead

and got involved in five sports,

Wheelchair basketball, horseback riding,

weight lifting, swimming.

And I was able to go on to compete

in the BC summer and winter games

For athletes with disabilities.

And I did earn 22 gold,

10 silver, 2 bronze medals

In various sports

throughout the time.

And I remember

thinking to myself,

"Well, I wasn't able to do it in the

traditional fashion, but I was able to do it."

I was always looking

for motivational figures,

Figures that could push me through

the next day, and the next day,

And, of course, right away,

I connected with Michael J. Fox

As far as just a figure

that I could look up to.

I started my own speaking business

to help inspire other people

And show them that if you creatively

utilize your best energy,

In your own life, with the right

people and the right team around you,

Then anything is

really possible.

The fans are instrumental in keeping

"back to the future" alive.

Probably if

my wife had a time machine,

She probably would have steered

me away from ever seeing it.

But it was not

until a year later

When the movie came out on VHS,

on home video for the first time,

That I really got involved,

really got my geek switch turned on.

Bttf. Com, which is now

backtothefuture. Com,

Has become the go-To site for all

information about "back to the future."

It's the best place to find

"back to the future" merchandise.

Stephen has become

a good friend over the years.

We use him now as a consultant,

Because he's got

such great fan insight.

One of the other things

that we do is

Get involved with the licensees

of official product.

We've worked with Mattel, and Lego,

and a lot of the other companies.

I've written

a lot of the material

That goes on the back

of the packaging for products,

The booklets

inside the products.

And kind of authenticate

their efforts.

And he does it so well

That it becomes the portal,

the source authority, really,

For all news

about "back to the future."

To such an extent that he does the

job better than the studio could do,

Because he has

the passion for it.

There's a lot of books

in the works now

That we're actively working

with the book authors on.

Currently, I actually have

a book coming out

Called "the back to the future

almanac 1985-2015,"

Which is about all the "back to the future"

memorabilia that's been made.

The first one is the lexicon.

Inside is a breakdown of every person,

place, or thing.

When I say every, I'm kind of anally

compulsive about this sort of thing.

If it's a license plate,

and I was able to read it.

Or if it's a license plate,

and I wasn't able to read it

Until I spent a half an hour

staring at a screen

That had been blown up six times too many,

it's in there.

Everything, basically,

that appears in the movies,

In the cartoons,

in the comic books,

The video game

from telltale games,

The collectible card game, the old draft

scripts, we mined everything we could.

My interaction with fans,

I worry sometimes frustrates them,

Because they know more

about the movie than I do.

I mean, people come up to me and ask

me questions about flux capacitors,

And I say, "I was just standing

in a parking lot in Puente hills

"With flames

running between my legs.

"I had no idea

what was happening."

I started out

just as a superfan.

I was one of those guys that

was looking for information.

And I know there's a lot of other folks

out there looking for that information.

And we've got

a world-Wide audience now.

"Back to the future" knows no

boundaries within a certain country.

It's world-Wide.

Secret cinema

is a film organization

That essentially creates

immersive film experiences

Where the audience become part

of a story.

For me, "back to the future"

is one of my favorite films,

And it represents a sort of

nostalgia of this innocent time.

And the 1955 part of "back to the future,"

I think represents

This kind of

dream-Like Technicolor,

Which I think has such resonance with what

we're trying to do with secret cinema,

Which is this sense of romance,

This sense of ambition, this sense

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