{"id":149,"date":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2017\/2017\/02\/22\/christopher-lloyd-takes-the-audience-back-in-time-at-proctors\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"christopher-lloyd-takes-the-audience-back-in-time-at-proctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2017\/2017\/02\/22\/christopher-lloyd-takes-the-audience-back-in-time-at-proctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lloyd Takes the Audience Back in Time at Proctors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confession: I used to mow the lawn while listening to a cassette of the Back to the Future<\/em> soundtrack. There’s all the great Huey Lewis and the News a pre-teen could ask for, plus that score that brought you right back to Hill Valley. I could step back (or ahead) in time with one of my favorite movies, and thanks to Marty (who had a\u00a0Sports<\/em> poster in his room), became a Huey Lewis<\/a> fan overnight. So when Christopher Lloyd was announced to hold a viewing and conversation with an audience at Proctor’s Theater, naturally this was a can’t miss event for myself and nearly 2000 other Doc Brown fans.<\/p>\n

\"Christopher\"\"Before the D<\/span>oc came out, we were treated to some film trivia and the full movie beforehand. Having seen the other two movies in the series nearly as many times as the original, revisiting the original, devoid of time-twisting and altering events from the sequels was like seeing the film for the first time. When the film ended and the curtain lifted, two chairs and a small table were on the stage, to which Christopher Lloyd was welcomed by the audience with a standing ovation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He shared with the audience general thoughts on the film, as well as responded to audience submitted questions. He recounted that people who have met him over the years have told him that the movie was a life-changing event, shifting their careers towards science, engineering, physics and the like. But the movie may never have had the iconic Doc Brown without giving the script a second look while on film location in Mexico City. When he met with director Robert Zemeckis shortly thereafter, they discussed the role, who Doc was and what he would look like. Lloyd revealed that Doc’s look, particularly his hair, was derived from seeing an animated, white haired conductor at a performance of Gustav Holst’s\u00a0“The Planets<\/a>.”‘<\/p>\n

With regard to the casting of Michael J. Fox, after 6 weeks of filming with Eric Stoltz as Marty, Lloyd recalled the recasting led to “chemistry that was automatic between us. He was perfect, and it worked out.” Among the three films, his favorite was the finale of the trilogy, partially due to his love of westerns and gaining a love interest in the film. He wishes that not only were true<\/em> hover boards around today but also that big apparatus Doc is wearing on his head<\/a> when he first meets Marty in 1955, as well as Mr. Fusion for the conservation aspect.<\/p>\n

\"Confession:Stepping away from\u00a0Back to the Future<\/em>, Lloyd began to discuss other iconic roles, including one that he said he would love to play for the rest of his life, Uncle Fester, from\u00a0The Addams Family,\u00a0<\/em>the comic of which he was a fan of at at early age, and spoke highly of co-star Raul Julia, remarking he was both ‘intelligent and gracious.’ On\u00a0Taxi<\/em>, he played Reverend Jim Ignatowski, initially a one-off appearance where he would marry Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman) to a prostitute so that he would have a Green Card to remain in the country, but he ended up being a recurring character, and cited the ‘Yellow Light’ scene as one of his personal favorites. Kaufman, he said, “went to the beat of a different drummer” and could be irritating and odd on the set because that’s who he was.\u00a0He loved the 1998 biopic\u00a0Man on the Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n