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that you can be anyone you wanna be,

secret cinema is about people

engaging with a film in a different way.

Experiencing it,

being part of the cast,

Feeling a little bit of what it must

have felt like making that movie.

And that's why everybody's here.

That's why everybody loves it.

It's kind of the social media

of old media.

Well,

we wanted to build the town of hill valley.

From the beginning, it was like we wanna

build the real town of hill valley,

One in which

every single shop is replicated.

And you go into the shop,

and there is a little world inside.

There is actors playing

the roles of the shopkeepers.

The audience themselves

were given characters.

And for us, the idea of it

Is inspired from

the "sandman" moment,

When Marty first arrives

in hill valley.

And he's thrown into this world,

and he has to find his way.

We actually built a

small farm with over 20 animals,

Which is Peabody's farm.

And the audience arrive

through the farm

Then the suburbia is having each different

house from the characters in the film

From George McFly, to Biff Tannen,

all the way through.

So that the audience literally

were taken into the world.

"Back to the future" is the greatest

'80s movie ever made.

- It's my favorite film ever.

- Favorite film ever.

I think because "back to the future"

represents something in people's hearts...

it's something that represents

a sense of ambition

And a sense of wanting to be

whatever you want to be.

And I think

when people come to this show,

Why they wanna come

is they wanna be that character.

They wanna be Marty McFly.

They wanna travel

back to the future.

They wanna fall in love with their mother.

I'm joking.

You know, they wanna

have an adventure.

- What's that thing he's on?

- It's a board with wheels.

I remember my mom

came back from the movie theater

And said to me, "I just saw this amazing

movie called 'back to the future.'

"It's about a boy who goes back

and falls in love with his mom."

And it was so interesting to me.

I was like,

"that sounds terrible."

Because as a kid with an overbearing,

Jewish mother,

I'm like, "who would make

a movie like that?"

I love you so much.

I love you, too.

- I love you.

- Mom!

I love you, Boopy.

I love you so much.

Hey, you with the window open,

tell my baby I love him!

Adam, if you need to make,

call me. I'll pick you up.

Of course, that's not

what the movie is about at all,

But I loved that my mom, to her,

that's what the movie was about,

A boy who goes back in time

and hangs out with his mom.

I was so excited about it.

I made my parents, who were separated

at the time, go see it with me,

'Cause it had such

a generational theme to it.

And maybe subconsciously

I was like,

"Maybe my parents

will get back together...

"if they watch this."

They did get back together.

And I got to work

under Zemeckis years later,

And one of

his development people,

As he was walking through

the lobby at image movers,

Said, "you got his parents

back together."

"His parents got back together

'cause of 'back to the future.'"

Which is not strictly true.

But assuming that it was,

Zemeckis's response was,

"eh, good."

Because he's probably

heard that 7,000 times.

Michael,

here we are at this royal premiere.

Huge, great crowd standing

behind us now as we're talking.

What do you make

of an occasion like this?

It's...

I mean, it's, uh...

it's a once-In-A-Lifetime thing.

If indeed it is only a once-In-A-Lifetime

thing for me, I'll die satisfied.

The greeting line

where we met the royals,

Princess Diana

and prince Charles,

And we had this little guy, this little

super-Serious protocol guy tell us,

"You can't speak

unless you're spoken to.

"You can't touch a royal. You can't..."

all these things you can't do.

And I was Canadian,

so I had some skin in the game.

I was a little careful

what I did.

I didn't wanna make

a fool out of myself.

So we do the thing,

and we meet them,

And I managed to avoid

any kind of royal gaffe.

And then we were

sitting in the theater,

And I realized that

the seat next to me was empty.

And we were standing waiting

for the royals to come in,

And it dawns on me that princess

Diana is gonna be sitting next to me.

And so, sure enough, she comes in.

She sits down next to me.

And the movie starts,

And it occurs to me

That I'm, like, a fake yawn

and an arm stretch away

From being on a date

with the princess of Wales.

She would chuckle now and then.

But when the truckload

of turds, manure,

Was dumped on biff and his gang

in the convertible...

sh*t!

She outright laughed.

You know, she just...

that conservative... you know...

dropped,

and she totally went with it.

And then the other thing I realized very

quickly was that I had to go to the bathroom.

Because I can't say to her, "excuse me,

your highness. I have to go to the loo."

'Cause I can't talk to her

unless she talks to me.

I can't tap her on the shoulder

and motion I'm going out.

And I can't get up

and turn my back on her.

So I'd have to kind of, like,

moonwalk backwards out of the theater

To get out of there.

And so I sat there,

and I was just in agony the whole time.

So the whole thing was

I sat in total pain watching the

movie with the princess of Wales,

And it was great. It was...

she was smoking hot.

Everybody has dreams, right?

And owning a delorean

was our dream.

But life gets in the way.

You know, reality,

day-To-Day things.

And I think everybody has probably

said at one time or another,

"If I ever win the lottery,

I'm going to..."

I'm gonna get me this.

I'm gonna buy something.

Yeah, but as you know

if you're into statistics,

We all have a better chance of

getting struck by a bolt of lightning

And we did get struck by a

bolt of lightning in a sense.

It was august 4, 2000,

Oliver was diagnosed

with cancer.

And the doctor gave me

six months to live.

You get your bucket list in

line when somebody gives you six months.

Yeah, it's pretty motivational.

So we made a will,

And we traveled a little bit, and visited family

and friends that we hadn't seen in a while,

Basically to say

goodbye to them.

And we got something in the mail

That said that we had been

approved for a credit card.

Yeah, a nice, big balance.

So we maxed out that card

on a delorean,

And we made it

into a time machine.

One thing that I think

we should mention,

We actually built

the time machine ourselves.

This was roughly 15 years ago.

All we had to go on

was a VHS copy of the movie.

But it was kind of almost a folk

art interpretation of the car,

'Cause when you got close,

they had just used what they'd found

To make this car.

It was fantastic.

We would pause

the videotape player,

And the picture would be

a little jerky,

And I would make little sketches and

notes about what we were seeing,

And then we would

fabricate it ourselves

Out of metal and scraps

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