Although the reasoning behind Marty landing in 1955 is simple arithmetic, the period couldn't be any more ideal because the era essentially gave rise to teenagers, and it's the decade that originated rock 'n' roll.
The skeptical teen accidentally travels back in time to when his parents were of similar age. With the help of legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg, therein lies the brilliance of Back to the Future. While expressing what a downer adults are, Marty sums up the story's theme wonderfully when he thinks his mother must have been a boring, square, unhip nun. Fox), his ordeals at school and with the way he talks about his parents long before we meet them. Almost instantly, we identify with Marty McFly (Michael J. The masterful script conveys this without making it blatantly obvious, and the end result is practically perfect in its structure and delivery, starting with how quickly the story wins over audiences. Written by producer Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis, the entire plot revolves around this straightforward, nearly universal idea of hanging out with one's parents as teenagers and discovering they were drastically different from the adults they grew into. The concept of Back to the Futureis deceptively simple, but something most people can easily relate to.
