One of the biggest pop-culture movies turns 30 on Friday: On July 3, 1985, "Back to the Future" debuted in American theaters with a turbocharged DeLorean, the futuristic concept of the flow capacitor and Marty McFly. detonating "Johnny B. Goode" on the guitar.

To commemorate the date, check out 30 Back to the Future trivia:

1. Cost of production

"Back to the Future" cost just $ 19 million to produce.

2. Premiere

The movie premiered on Wednesday and made $ 11 million in the first weekend of screening in the US.

3. Collection

The first film was the 1985 box office champion, grossing $ 210 million. Worldwide, $ 380 million was raised.

4. Premiere in Brazil

The film took almost six months to land on Tupiniquin lands: it only opened on Christmas 1985!

5. Oscar

The film won the best sound effects category, but was also nominated for the best original screenplay, best sound and best song (by “The Power of Love”).

6. Golden Globe

In another major award, the Golden Globe Awards, “Back to the Future” was nominated in four categories: best movie (comedy / musical), best actor (comedy / musical), best song and best screenplay.

7. Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly

The actor even recorded for a month, but was fired from the role and his scenes had to be redone with Michael J. Fox.

Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly

8. Ralph Macchio turned down the lead role

What about the Karate Kid performer who turned down the role of Marty McFly? Yeah, Ralph Macchio must be sorry today.

9. John Litgow turned down the role of Doc Brown

But if regret killed, Ralph Macchio would not be the only one. John Litgow had other commitments, and the role of the lunatic inventor ended up in the hands of Christopher Lloyd.

10. Age of the actors

Michael J. Fox is only ten days younger than Lea Thompson, who plays his mother in the movie. Also, he's three years older than his father's actor Crispin Glover!

11. Time Machine

Before choosing DeLorean as the vehicle of time travel, the film's producers even considered a refrigerator in the early versions of the script. But they were afraid the children would play time travel at home and end up locked in the refrigerators.

12. DeLorean

The car with doors that open upwards is from an Irish manufacturer and had only 9, 000 units produced. However, it is believed that there are still about 6, 500 scattered around the world.

13. Energy and speeds required for time travel

Time travel occurs when the DeLorean reaches 141 km / h after the flow capacitor releases 1.21 gigawatts by nuclear fission.

14. Special Participation

Do you know who the teacher rejects Marty McFly's band? Huey Lewis, author of the main theme of the movie.

15. Most Played Music

"The Power of Love" came first in the Billboard Hot 100.

16. Tribute to Kubrick

The great film genius is honored by the producers in a scene where Marty McFly plugs her guitar into an amplifier in the Doc Brown lab. In doing so, a sign with CRM 114 appears. The letters are the name of the decoder that appears in "Doctor Fantastic" and the numbers refer to Jupiter's exploration code in "2001 - A Space Odyssey."

17. Tribute to Spielberg

In a 1955 scene, a movie theater appears that is showing the films "A Boy's Life" and "Watch the Skies." These are two early film titles by Steven Spielberg, who is one of the producers of the work: “ET - The Extraterrestrial” and “Immediate Contacts of the Third Degree”.

18. Tributes to science fiction classics

Although there is a certain rivalry between the fans of "Star Wars" and "Star Trek", the tribute to the two sagas is unanimous. In 1955 Marty McFly introduces himself as Dart Vader to his father to convince him to go to the prom and, in short, makes the Vulcan salute.

19. Same Scenario

Have you ever had the feeling of seeing the main street of the movie in some other production? Well, you're right: the scenario was shared with 1984's "Gremlins."

20. Back in the Past

In the first movie, McFly returns on November 5, 1955 - the same date as the time travel of 1979's "A Century in 43 Minutes."

21. Marty McFly Changes the Future

Marty meets Doc Brown in the parking lot of the Twin Pines mall. Brown explained that the property had been built on an old farm that had two trees together. Back in time, in 1955, McFly bumps into DeLorean in one of the trees and upon returning to 1985 finds that the mall is now called Lone Pine.

Before and after

22. Timing Error

The movie contains some timing errors. Marty meets her family in November 1955 watching an episode of The Honeymooners which only passed a month later! In addition, the Gibson ES-345 guitar he uses to play at the ball was not produced until 1958.

23. Real dog?

Do you remember that Doc Brown puts a dog inside DeLorean to test the time travel? Well then: in the distant scenes, this is a person dressed as a dog! We only see a real dog when the scene is in close.

24. Chimpanzee

Originally, Doc Brown's pet was not a dog but a chimpanzee.

25. Palindrome

The scientist's full name is: Doc Emmett Lathrop Brown and hides some jokes. Read backwards, Emmett looks like "time, " and Lathrop forms the word "portal."

26. Skateboarding with Expert

The sport was not very popular when the film was shot, but the producers had the help of a guy who would later become a skateboard legend: Tony Hawk. In addition to it, Per Welinder, European champion of the sport, is also a consultant of the film.

27. Playboy

When the first movie aired on US television in 1990, it contained a bonus scene: Doc Brown appears flipping through a Playboy of that year.

28. Calvin Klein

Marty McFly uses the name of the famous designer when traveling to 1955 - Calvin Klein was already famous in the 80s.

"It's written on your underwear"

29. Hanging from the tower

At the beginning of the movie, a miniature clock tower appears with a man hanging from it. At the end of the movie, we find that Doc Brown hangs on the clock.

30. Proceedings

While filming the sequel, which was set in 1885, the producers thought they had material for two films. Thus, the first idea of ​​continuation became the third part of the trilogy, and the second movie takes place in the future: precisely in the year we are living, 2015.

Via InSummary.