Word: docs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highpoint. Lloyd plays this gentle madman as a potentially brilliant inventor whose complicated schemes skirl the edges of insanity. His long, white hair flying and his glazed eyes wide open with wild intensity, Lloyd enters into the spirit of his role with a full and considered seriousness that makes Doc truly and artistically humorous...
Even though Back to the Future takes full advantage of its ability to make us laugh, it has its darker side as well. The film opens with a shot of Doc's house in which every nook and cranny is filled with clocks--clocks that tick the future into the present. Time, in fact, enters into every aspect of the movie, becoming so pressing an issue that the small clocks in Doc's house are transformed into a huge clock tower from which he precariously hangs in his attempt to send Marty back to 1985. Back to the Future explores...
...yeah? What's art, doc? You mean those six-minute strips of animated paint and ink that served as anarchic baby sitters for a couple of generations of Satur- day-matinee kids? A duck getting its beak blown askew by an irate hunter is art? Well, yeah, when the duck is Daffy and the hunter is the dully malevolent Elmer Fudd. In Rabbit Seasoning (1952), Daffy and Bugs are out to convince Elmer that the other is the legally blastable species. In the midst of an argument, Daffy encounters some pronoun trouble and tells Elmer, "I demand that you shoot...
...Warner's cartoons in 1943, "That ( the good ones are masterpieces, and the bad ones aren't a total loss." It would be fine if films with such titles as Porky in Wackyland (Clampett), Show Biz Bugs (Freleng), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Jones), What's Opera, Doc? (Jones) and Duck Amuck (glorious Jones) were embraced by the canons of academe. But imagining this, one can also hear Daffy grouse, "What a revoltin' development thith ith." Better, perhaps, for the Warner siblings to wear their garlands lightly, or let them fall off, while their antics continue to provide...
Before leaving for 1985, Marty finally gets his parents back together (advising them that if they ever have an eight year-old son who accidentally sets the living room rug on fire, to "go easy on him.") He also tries to tell Doc Brown, who in his younger days staunchly refuses to hear about the future, of his demise...