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The phrase "back to the future" is really an oxymoron similar to jumbo shrimp. If you have seen the movie you would realize that it's about time travelers who go to the past then have to return to the future or "back to the Future"
Brock

2007-07-26 00:31:30 · answer #1 · answered by Brock T 2 · 2 1

Simply stated, it refers specifically to Marty going back, or returning, to the future, after meddling in the past. Doc actually says the line in the movie in the proper context.
On a deeper level, the title is purposely oxymoronic, in order to suggest that, due to the ability to time travel, the linear model of temporality is rendered irrelevant. Common sense would dictate that one is in the future, and one would go back into the past. Zemeckis, by turning this assumption on its head by making his title focus on the act of returning as a method of regression brilliantly encapsulates the jarring, paradoxical elements of time travel.
But literally, it means Marty's got to get his butt back to the future.

2007-07-26 00:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by damlovash 6 · 0 0

"Back to the future" is usually used when a person has been focusing on the problems he or she has had in the past. Often, people will try to get people to focus instead on what they can do to prevent these things from happening again instead of focusing on what they did or didn't do in the past.

"I've been going over and over it in my head, and I just can't understand it."

"OK, so let's get back to the future now. What are we going to do about this?"

2007-07-29 19:37:50 · answer #3 · answered by javi 4 · 4 0

To know the future just look to the past. You can know the end from the beginning. There is nothing new under the sun.

2016-03-29 09:53:27 · answer #4 · answered by Nancy Mordecki 1 · 0 0

Going to the future again, as in where he came from

2007-07-26 00:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Taking an old idea, and incorporating it in a future plan.

2007-07-26 00:42:42 · answer #6 · answered by Beau R 7 · 2 0

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