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denem

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Sun Feb 16, 2020, 01:06 AM Feb 2020

Remind you of anyone?



Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump

There’s a very specific analog between Biff Tannen, the bully and bad guy in almost every timeline in Back to the Future Part II, and a certain political figure who is rather popular in the United States right now. He’s been handed the keys to fortune, he’s unrepentantly used that fortune exclusively for himself, and he’s even become a public advocate for plastic surgery for women in his family.

We thought about (trump) when we made the movie! Are you kidding?” (Bob Gale—writer) says. “You watch Part II again and there’s a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there’s a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there’s one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.”

Of course, in the movie, Biff uses the profits from his 27-story casino (the Trump Plaza Hotel, completed in 1984, is 37 floors, by the way) to help shake up the Republican Party, before eventually assuming political power himself, helping transform Hill Valley, California, into a lawless, dystopian wasteland, where hooliganism reigns, dissent is quashed, and wherein Biff encourages every citizen to call him “America’s greatest living folk hero.” ...

Of course, in Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown fix it all just in the nick of time. They save themselves and America from Donald Tr… Biff Tannen

https://www.thedailybeast.com/back-to-the-future-writer-biff-tannen-is-based-on-donald-trump







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Remind you of anyone? (Original Post) denem Feb 2020 OP
OMG! calimary Feb 2020 #1
kick denem Feb 2020 #2
... denem Feb 2020 #3
Well, we'd all like Trump to make a like a tree Dagstead Bumwood Feb 2020 #4
"it's leave, you idiot" :) denem Feb 2020 #5
BTTF 2 has its faults Dagstead Bumwood Feb 2020 #6
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