I've come to the realization that Eric Stoltz should've played Marty McFly, which would've prevented all of this from happening.
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If "Back to the Future" kept Stoltz and allowed him to play McFly as the frightened, unsettled character his instincts keyed into, American audiences would've viewed the film - and 1950s nostalgia - differently. The film would've flopped, and the trilogy never would've happened.
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McFly would've ended up in a post-atomic wasteland upon his return, & America would've continued forward progress without locking into the fake 50s Revival that allowed Boomers to claim America for themselves for the next 40 years. Until every last one of them is dead, we're stuck in Hill Valley.
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Not really blaming Boomers themselves for this, just saying that post-WWII American Exceptionalism created a cult of personality around the Boomer generation, convincing them (and the entire world) that the America of the 1950s and 60s was peak humanity, when it was far from it.
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So here we are, with Biff Tannen as president, Needles as Secretary of Destruction, no flying cars, and bottomless corruption devouring whatever decency was left in our brainwashed, traumatized nation.
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