Sunday, February 5, 2017

The Evolution of the 'Back to the Future" Town Hill Valley


To honor the date when fictional character Marty McFly in the "Back to the Future" trilogy arrived in the future on October 21, 2015, Joel Bocko created the following video tribute about the fictional town in Northern California called Hill Valley.


Depending when Marty visits Hill Valley it might be a frontier town, an idyllic 1950s neighborhood, a sleek 21st-century metropolis, or a dystopian alternate-universe hellhole. This video allows Hill Valley to inhabit all those modes at once, with four screens simultaneously depicting past (distant and recent), present, and future. Or is that the future? The day that Marty visited in Back to the Future Part II was October 21, 2015, so from today's standpoint we can compare not just he three or four time periods on display but the fiction onscreen with the fact offscreen. "Welcome to Hill Valley" explores the ways that fashion, architecture, and behavior have changed, as well as the ways they have stayed the same. As Biff Tanner says, "There's something very familiar about all of this..."


Via Uncrate.


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