New answers tagged back-to-the-future
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If the clock had been fixed, it would greatly diminish the significance of the story, as though Marty and Doc's activities had no lasting effect.
Of course, a real community with such clock tower would naturally go to some trouble to fix it, probably even replacing the (presumably) melted mechanism. Otherwise such neglect would tend to attract vandalism ...
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Quite simply, it was never fixed.
Lightning from an electrical storm struck the lightning rod above the clock tower and travelled down a cable which was wrapped around the metal hands on the clock face at precisely 10:04pm on November 12, 1955. The sudden jolt of electricity damaged the clock mechanism and it has never worked since. The Hill Valley ...
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According to co-writer/producer Bob Gale:
We never explained it in the movie. But the history of the characters that Bob Zemeckis and I created is this:
For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so ...
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