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that we found at the scrapyard.

It's like an impressionist

painting or something.

You get close,

and you see those brush strokes, right?

You got close, and you saw what

they used to put it together.

You stepped back,

the effect was perfect.

I think the conversion of his delorean to a

"back to the future" car

And what are they doing

with that car?

They drive around the country working

for Michael J. Fox's charity.

That's amazing.

We're volunteers.

We chose to do this because it was,

for us, the right thing to do.

Meeting Michael wasn't really

on the radar.

"Wouldn't that be nice?"

Was the thought.

When we did meet him,

he knew who we were.

He knew we were terry and Oliver from

south Carolina, and team fox members,

And that is humbling.

Have been hitting the road in their delorean

time machine to speed a future without pd.

They've raised

dollars and awareness

In more states and countries

than any other team fox member.

They've spent more time in a delorean than

even I have, which is saying something.

The people that are

big "back to the future" fans

Have been huge supporters of our efforts

to try to find a cure for Parkinson's.

And more importantly,

they've just shown interest

And an ongoing sense

of curiosity and concern

For me and for what we're doing.

It's great to have a bunch

of lunatics on your side.

'Cause they're crazy,

but they're crazy-Good.

Well,

we set a personal goal for ourselves

To drive the delorean time

machine to all 50 states.

Raising money and awareness

for the Michael J. Fox foundation.

We've raised over

a quarter of a million dollars.

When we built the car,

it was for selfish reasons.

We loved the movie, and we wanted

to drive a delorean time machine.

And that was a wonderful thrill

and an accomplishment personally,

But we never...

just like the car,

there were no blueprints.

And our life has taken us places we

really never knew it would take us.

We're one of their sponsors.

We do all their web promotion

for them,

To allow them to get out and travel across

the nation and into other countries

Raising funds for the Michael J. Fox

foundation for Parkinson's research.

We say this at every panel

we're asked to present.

Your future hasn't

been written yet, right?

No one's has.

No one's has!

Your future is

whatever you make it.

- So, make it a good one.

- Make it a good one.

Ta-da.

People always say to us, "well, you guys

must have known you were gonna do sequels

"Because of the ending

of the first movie."

And the ending of the first movie

is the heroes get in the car

And ride off into the sunset for another

adventure. That's just a classic ending.

Hey, doc, we better back up.

We don't have enough road to get up to 88.

"Where we're going,

we don't need roads."

and as Bob Zemeckis

has said many times,

If we knew

we were gonna do a sequel,

We would have never

put Jennifer in the car.

Because when it was time

to write the sequel,

We didn't know what to do with her,

and we end up knocking her out.

She's unconscious

for part two and part three.

Doc, what the hell

are you doing?

Relax, Marty. It's just a

sleep-Inducing alpha rhythm generator.

Home video happens in

between the two movies, basically,

Where we put "to be continued"

at the end of part one

When we released it

for home video.

If people saw it on a VHS for their

first time, that's what they think.

We took that off of the DVD.

The most fun perhaps was

"back to the future iii" for me.

There was horseback riding,

which I love doing.

Somehow,

"back to the future iii" is just as funny

As "back to the future"

I and ii.

I think that might actually be

a large part of it.

It's a trilogy

that doesn't suck.

There's no point where you watch it and go,

"that's the really bad one."

Two and three, I think...

come on.

I know you're interviewing gale

and I think Zemeckis.

I mean, these guys are my heroes

'cause they wrote "back to the future,"

But they took seven years

to write "back to the future."

And come on.

Everybody knows ii and iii suck.

"Back to the future ii"

has always been my favorite.

Because I like that it's dark.

I like that it get

into the headiness

Of what would happen

if just one little thing turned.

And I love the future idea.

The whole concept of

what's the future gonna be?

I guess you guys

aren't ready for that yet.

But your kids are gonna love it.

They went back into the first

movie. I mean, it's never been done,

What a brilliant,

brilliant stroke of creativity as a writer.

It suggested this digital

reality that we all live in now,

This kind of cyber-World

that we all occupy.

I had, as you know, been strung up and

put in an "ortho-lev" of the future.

It was rough, because being hung upside

down almost all day for two weeks

But then again, they didn't wanna get

me down in between takes all the time.

So they had built a ladder

with a board on it

That I could just do my sit-Up

and lie back down on.

They put it underneath me, so they wouldn't

have to get me down in between takes,

Which would have been

an extra couple of minutes.

And time definitely

was money on this shoot.

What's really cool about it is

The generational aspect of it

still plays.

I mean,

there's still that confused...

- I'm young!

- I'm old!

Not enmity,

but just kind of suspicion and befuddlement

Between the previous generation

and the next generation.

I mean, I have three teenage daughters

and a son who's in his mid-20s,

And I don't understand

what the hell they're saying.

A lot of times I get

asked about the special effects.

What did we do?

The clock tower,

the speaker gag,

Doc brown's lab,

the trails of fire.

A lot of work went into it on the

special-Effects level that were very common.

Wind, rain, fire, snow,

all of the normal stuff that we do.

A lot of prop creation

that we did.

And all of that

is our rote work.

And that was our trade

and our craft.

And the story didn't demand

Some of the bigger visual

effects that are now so common.

So it doesn't date itself.

People ask me about how come we

never had any CGI work on "jaws."

Well, we didn't have the C.

We never had computers.

We didn't even have cell phones.

Now, they make

whole movies on cell phones.

A lot of the work that we did on

"back to the future"

Was straight, across the board,

special, mechanical effects,

Along with a small dose of pyro,

and a great amount of prop creation.

That stands up.

Because a lot of times,

we'll see movies that are brilliantly done,

The cg gets better and better

all the time,

But a lot of people enjoy

a taste of the real way.

And I think that's

one of the ways

That it still endears itself

to an audience.

When we were making part two,

we always used to say,

"Wow, in 2015, we'll all get

together and see what we got right."

Yeah, you know, we did a pretty good job.

We hit about 50%.

We got the flat-Screen TVs

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