Lourdes Garcia-Navarro (Host): We have arrived. It’s the future—or one version of the future imagined in 1989.
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Christopher Lloyd: (as Dr. Emmett Brown) Marty, you’ve got to come back with me.
Michael J. Fox: (as Marty McFly) Where?
Lloyd: Back to the future.
Garcia-Navarro: “Back to the Future 2,” part of the ’80s 1)sci-fi 2)trilogy starring Michael J. Fox, finds the characters Doc and Marty McFly traveling in a flying car to the year 2015.
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Lloyd: At 4:29 p.m. on Wednesday, October 21, 2015.
Fox: 2015? We were in the future.
Robert Siegel (Host): Well, that exact date is still in the future, but we thought it would be fun to take a look at how much the movie got right in its version of 2015.
Garcia-Navarro: And what was a little off. First, flying cars...
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Lloyd: Where we’re going we don’t need roads. Garcia-Navarro: Not quite standard issue, as predicted, but the idea may not be so far off. A company called AeroMobile successfully tested a two-seater car-airplane 3)hybrid last year.
Siegel: And speaking of flying, yes, we do have 4)hoverboards. They cost $10,000, but the Hendo hoverboard company has created a working model that looks surprisingly similar to the one in the movie, minus the bright pink paint.
Garcia-Navarro: Speaking of, we can’t seem to escape the’80s neon fashion craze. Even that’s still around today. But this trend hasn’t caught on.
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Lloyd: All kids in the future wear their pants inside-out.
Siegel: No, the kids don’t wear their pants inside-out, at least not on purpose. But there was another thing Marty McFly put on in the movie that will apparently be a reality this year.
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Fox: Power laces, all right.
Siegel: Power shoelaces—it’s not clear exactly when they’ll be ready, but Nike is working on the concept.
Garcia-Navarro: And while the film did forecast a 5)clunkier version of Google Glass, there are no smartphones to be seen. But the movie shows fax machines, which are still a thing—well, kind of.
Siegel: The McFly kitchen of the future features a food 6)rehydrator to instantly prepare a pizza.
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Unidentified actress: (as food rehydrator) 7)Lithium mode on.
Siegel: But in the real 2015, there is 3D-printed pizza technology. This native New Yorker has yet to try it though.(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Lloyd: Great Scott!
Garcia-Navarro: And Robert, thankfully in the real 2015, we’re not on our 19th 8)sequel of the 9)hologram “Jaws.”But “Back to the Future 2” did do well with its prediction of 10)drones. They didn’t call them that in the movie, but in the film, a little flying robot walks a dog and also takes photos for “USA Today”.
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Fox: Oh, this is heavy.
Siegel: Wait Lulu, there were still newspapers in that version of the future and gladly there still are. And one more thing, the real 2015 is only a couple of days old. And with Jon Lester recently traded to Chicago, what seemed like a low-blow gag in the movie...
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Fox: Wait a minute—Cubs win World Series.
Siegel: Hey, it could happen.
(Soundbite of film, “Back to the Future 2”.)
Fox: Against Miami?
Garcia-Navarro: Who knows what the future holds?
(Soundbite of “Back to the Future” theme song.)
羅德絲·加西亞·納瓦羅(主持人):我們到了。這就是未來(lái)——或者說(shuō)是1989年想象的一個(gè)未來(lái)的版本。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
克里斯托弗·勞埃德:(飾演埃米特·布朗博士)馬蒂,你必須跟我一起回去。
邁克爾·J.??怂梗海椦蓠R蒂·麥福來(lái))去哪里?勞埃德:回到未來(lái)。
加西亞·納瓦羅:上世紀(jì)80年代由邁克爾·J.??怂怪餮莸目苹秒娪叭壳弧痘氐轿磥?lái)2》,講到片中角色博士和馬蒂·麥福來(lái)乘坐一輛飛行汽車(穿越)到2015年。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
勞埃德:現(xiàn)在是2015年10月21日,星期三,下午4點(diǎn)29分。
??怂梗?015年?我們回到了未來(lái)。
羅伯特·希格爾(主持人):嗯,這個(gè)確切的日期還沒(méi)有到來(lái),但是我們覺(jué)得,看看影片中對(duì)于2015年的描述有多少是符合現(xiàn)實(shí)的,這會(huì)很有趣。
加西亞·納瓦羅:還有多少是與現(xiàn)實(shí)不符的。首先,飛行汽車……
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
勞埃德:我們要去的地方不需要公路。
加西亞·納瓦羅:不是很符合預(yù)言的情況,但是這個(gè)想法離現(xiàn)實(shí)不遠(yuǎn)了。去年,一家名為AeroMobile的公司成功測(cè)試了一部雙人座飛行汽車結(jié)合體。
希格爾:說(shuō)到飛行,是的,我們已經(jīng)擁有了磁懸浮滑板。它們?cè)靸r(jià)一萬(wàn)美元,但是Hendo磁懸浮滑板公司研發(fā)的工作模型與影片中的(飛行汽車)驚人地相似,除了亮粉色的外殼之外。
加西亞·納瓦羅:提起這個(gè),我們似乎不可避免地會(huì)談到上世紀(jì)80年代的霓虹潮流熱,甚至今天仍可以見(jiàn)到,但是這種流行趨勢(shì)并沒(méi)有延續(xù)。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
勞埃德:未來(lái)的所有孩子們都將他們的內(nèi)褲外穿。
希格爾:這個(gè)不對(duì),孩子們并沒(méi)有將他們的內(nèi)褲外穿,至少不會(huì)故意這么穿。但是馬蒂·麥福來(lái)在影片中所穿的另一樣?xùn)|西顯然今年將會(huì)成為現(xiàn)實(shí)。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
??怂梗鹤詣?dòng)系帶鞋,太棒了。
希格爾:自動(dòng)系帶鞋——還不能明確清楚什么時(shí)候會(huì)面世,但是耐克公司正在努力把這個(gè)概念變成現(xiàn)實(shí)。
加西亞·納瓦羅:盡管影片預(yù)言了谷歌智能眼鏡的笨重版本,它卻沒(méi)有預(yù)言到智能手機(jī)的出現(xiàn)。但是影片里還有傳真機(jī),現(xiàn)在依然有——嗯,有點(diǎn)類似。
希格爾:(影片中)麥福來(lái)未來(lái)的廚房有一種食物水合器可以馬上做好一個(gè)披薩。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
不知名女演員:(飾演食物水合器)鋰模式啟動(dòng)。
希格爾:但是現(xiàn)實(shí)中的2015年,有披薩的3D打印技術(shù)。而這個(gè)當(dāng)?shù)氐募~約客仍在對(duì)披薩進(jìn)行嘗試中。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
勞埃德:天啊!
加西亞·納瓦羅:還有羅伯特,謝天謝地,現(xiàn)實(shí)中的2015年,我們沒(méi)有迎來(lái)全息立體的驚悚電影《大白鯊》的第19集。但是《回到未來(lái)2》預(yù)言了無(wú)人飛行器。它們?cè)谟捌胁⒉皇沁@個(gè)名字,但是影片里有一個(gè)會(huì)飛的機(jī)器人既能遛狗又能給《今日美國(guó)》拍照。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
??怂梗号叮@太重了。
希格爾:等等,露露(主持人羅德絲·加西亞·納瓦羅的昵稱),影片中的未來(lái)里仍然有報(bào)紙,值得高興的是,我們現(xiàn)在也有。還有一件事,現(xiàn)實(shí)中,2015年才過(guò)了沒(méi)幾天。喬恩·萊斯特最近加盟了芝加哥(小熊隊(duì)),這和影片中一個(gè)胡謅的惡作劇情節(jié)有點(diǎn)相似……
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
??怂梗旱鹊取⌒荜?duì)贏了棒球聯(lián)盟世界大賽。
希格爾:嘿,這可能會(huì)發(fā)生的。
(影片《回到未來(lái)2》原聲片段。)
??怂梗号c邁阿密對(duì)戰(zhàn)嗎?
加西亞·納瓦羅:誰(shuí)知道未來(lái)會(huì)是怎么樣的呢?
(《回到未來(lái)2》主題曲片段。)