"Damn!!! I'm late for school!"
Unanswerable question:
What kind of temporal experiment could Doc possibly be conducting that would result in the thirty-five clocks in his house to be 25min slow?
Unanswerable question:
What kind of cool kid in 1985 did not wear a watch?
it made perfect sense to me bc I have dyscalculia--dyslexia with numbers. I have problems reading analog clocks/watches. Marty might have that too. And back then digital clocks were less common than they are today. My parents refused to get me a digital watch until high school in the 1990's bc they thought people would look at me differently.
shareIn 1985 Casio watches were ubiquitus.
In my elementary class every cool kid had it.
And BTW, Marty has one: its alarm goes off later in the movie.
So he really has no reason to not know the correct time at Doc's.
just bc you and your school had it doesn't mean everybody did.
the casio marty has is in the scene where he is in the 50's--vs the scene which opens the movie. that scene comes after marty cannot figure time out with all the clocks.
Nah, first Marty has his watch on throughout the film, including the first scene. The problem is that Marty's watch doesn't work (a joke).
In the first scene, we can conclude Marty was relying on the time displayed on the clocks in Doc's garage. A follow-up question would then need to be addressed, though:
If Marty knows he has to get to school on time, but likes to stop by Doc's garage beforehand, he'll need to leave home earlier. If Marty knows he's left home at a certain time, but arrives at Doc's garage at a relatively shorter period of time needed, why didn't Marty question that?
We're ALL overthinking this, but that's what this site's for so ...
How about this: Marty arrives, sees all the clocks, notes the time and thinks he's running 25 minutes early so he wastes time setting up the gigantic amp
that's why he didn't question the time ... he (mistakenly) noted it as a "bonus" and exploited it to rock out
This may warrant its own post, but how could he suddenly have 25 extra minutes in his morning commute/routine?
We all leave our houses at a certain time to be where we need to be. If he has a 15 minute commute to school on his skateboard, then added in 15 minutes to stop by Doc's, then he'd leave his house 30 minutes before school.
If he get's to Doc's place and suddenly has 55 minutes before school, he wouldn't be like "oh hey, I have all this time now!"
Imagine leaving your house for work, then stopping for gas. The gas station has a clock that shows you have twice as much time to get to work than you thought you did. You wouldn't be like, "oh cool, I have time to do all these other things before work. I left home 30 minutes before I have to be to work and now I have 55 minutes!"
Marty is literally looking at his watch on the movie poster.
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