Mentions (5)
"When I was a kid, the first job I told people I wanted was "mad scientist" or "inventor". Not an engineer, not a chemist - no, I wanted to invent things. Within this desire, I think there lay a certain narcissism: I didn't want to be an anonymous white coated employee in a lab, I wanted new products"
"From Back to the future to Euphoria - what is it that makes this life stage so prevalent in media depictions?"
"i never saw Back to the Future or Star Wars until I was 14, but when I finally had my first thought was 'I've seen this'. Every scene and incidental line of dialogue has been parodied, quoted or references by Gen X babies in some way or another so that the films have lost all potency."
"Teenage tastes now dominate mainstream moviemaking, and that's where Zemeckis and Gale are working. The movie is their fantasy about becoming mediocre—i.e., successful. Marty doesn't have the consciousness of an adult hero, and he doesn't have a child's imagination, either; he's a hero for the young"
"If I can't work up much enthusiasm for it, it's because I'm not crazy about movies with kids as the heroes—especially bland, clean-cut, nice kids like Marty"