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The reason Marty has such a problem with being called a chicken in Back To The Future
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I want to stress, if you have a chance to meet Tom Wilson at a convention in the future, do it. The man is a giant joy.
I submit an alternative theorem:
People eat chickens.
Marty doesn't want to be eaten and actually has a deep seated fear of cannibalism.
Therefore, when he's called chicken Marty is worried people will eat him (and rightfully so, I've seen many people call him "a delicious piece of man meat").
People eat chickens.
Marty doesn't want to be eaten and actually has a deep seated fear of cannibalism.
Therefore, when he's called chicken Marty is worried people will eat him (and rightfully so, I've seen many people call him "a delicious piece of man meat").
It's because time is the fourth dimension, and time travel is about breaking the fourth dimension. And you know what's also breaking the fourth dimension? That the character played by Michael J Fox hates chickens.
Think about it.
Think about it.
Doesn't Marty experience time in a linear why though, so how would stuff he did when he went back in time change him? From his perspective time is still moving forward
The only closure I want is what happens with the Marty from Lone Pines universe. Dude was raised by a rich successful family vs Twin Pines Marty who was raised by a poor, gullable bullied average family. What world does he return to after he travels through time. Does he even get his parents back together? Does he return to Twin Pines Universe? thus creating a time loop where each marty creates the other?
It comes from "yellow-bellied coward" which was apparently a reference to a type of jittery bird during Cowboy Times, but originally in 1700s England was a reference to local eels.
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"Hey Kurt, this is your cousin Larry. Larry Cobain. You know that sound you been looking for? Well listen to this!"
Nah would be something with hip-hop or rap so white people could claim that.
They wrote 2 and 3 together, and needed something to do with Marty's character. While I appreciate the message of not bowing down to peer pressure or whatever, it's shoved in really badly.
He was called "yellow" as in yellow bellied, which means cowardly, which, as far as I can tell, isn't related to the racist ideas of Asians at the time.
He was called "yellow" as in yellow bellied, which means cowardly, which, as far as I can tell, isn't related to the racist ideas of Asians at the time.
I thought it was actually insecurities related to his dad. I remember in the beginning of the movie the dad was being wiped the floor with and Marty didn't want to end up like his dad.
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I've never really thought about where the terms "yellow" and "yellow-bellied" came from. Googled it and I guess it's a reference to some platoon of British soldiers out of Lincolnshire.
Ya learn something new every day.
I want you to personally know that I spent my afternoon reading this instead of working and now I'm turning the events over and over again in my head and probably will be for the rest of the evening.
So thanks for that. LOL
You're welcome, and pass on my apologies to your employer. :D
BTW, that's a RationalFic; if you liked it, you may want to check this one:
Caveats include it being, well, a Harry Potter fic (I fortunately read it years before Rowling outed herself as a transphobe; your own enjoyment may vary), and that, as the opening states, it starts out rather mediocre and doesn't get really good until later. But it does get pretty good.
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They don't need it; they got their pound of flesh out of me for the day. LOL
But seriously, that was an enthralling read.
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Yes he does and exactly it can't.
The OP's thesis is fun but wrong
Its always weird when a fan thinks x1000 deeper than the people who actually made the movie. I dont think its a negative thing necessarily but more often than not I find the creators to be more like "yeah I wasnt thinking about any of that" on subjects such as these.
Actually, he changes his dad behavior. It means that his father was a chicken in the first movie, but he was changeg by Marty behavior on the pst.
Marty grows to become more heat headed by his own father, that's why in the second movie they introduce the "chicken" angry behavior. It's subtle.
Marty grows to become more heat headed by his own father, that's why in the second movie they introduce the "chicken" angry behavior. It's subtle.
You're obviously not old enough to have lived in pop culture of 1985. Being called a chicken was considered a insult. You'd follow that insult up with making chicken wings with your arms and making bawk bawk bawk noises.
It was toxic masculinity plain and simple. It was a thing then (and now) but on the playground that was the go-to insult.
It was toxic masculinity plain and simple. It was a thing then (and now) but on the playground that was the go-to insult.
The timeline isn't impacted immediately. The changes sorta "ripple-out".
Remember how Marty didn't immediately disappear when he pushed George out of the way of Lorraine's dad's car? He altered the timeline at that point, but the effect didn't start catching up to him until a week later.
I guess I'll be the one to mention that there was a deleted scene that showed Old Biff disappearing from existence because Alternate Timeline Lorraine shoots him at some point in the past. That's why he looked like he was in pain leaving the DeLorean and then just collapses.
Wouldn't him not fading out immediately be linked because the timing of their first kiss though.
That was the pivotal moment, like if they hadnt kissed on the dance floor Marty would have disappeared once that event had passed immediately?
But yeah, i was aware of the deleted scene.
I thought it was from the deleted scene where he jumped universes to the one where chickens have enslaved the human race