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'Back to the Future' Writer Claims Biff Tannen Based on Donald Trump
NewsBusters ^ | October 21, 2015 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/21/2015 5:22:58 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Did you see Marty McFly and Doc Brown materialize today in a DeLorean car? Remember, today is October 21, 2015, the same day the two time travelled here in "Back to the Future II." If they did arrive today, I am sure they would be disappointed to see no hover boards. However, the good news for them is that they could easily conjure up a video of Marty McFly on a hover board simply by viewing the movie on a smartphone, a device absent from the movie.

Okay, your humble correspondent is a big fan of the "Back to the Future" series but I feel compelled to cast more than a bit of aspersion upon the veracity of "Back to the Future" writer Bob Gale who is claiming that the character of Biff Tannen was based upon Donald Trump despite the fact of no mention of this before Trump's presidential run. First let us analyze the claim made in the Daily Beast and then we shall see why it is probably not true.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bifftannen; bobgale; donaldtrump
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To: Chode

I don’t know who the are but they’re kinda cute.


21 posted on 10/21/2015 5:39:37 PM PDT by ASA Vet (PMOS - 98C40K3, SMOS - 96B40, AMOS - 32G)
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To: ASA Vet
it's Jennifer Lawrence, she was hot Hot HOT in American Hustle
22 posted on 10/21/2015 5:46:16 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: PJ-Comix

I’m sure there is a kernel- but only a kernel- of truth in this. That kernel is that Biff was a casino magnate in the second movie. And back in the late 80s any character who was a millionaire casino magnate was going to be based at least a little on Trump.


23 posted on 10/21/2015 5:56:55 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Pegged my BSometer. Bullshit is bullshit, case closed.


24 posted on 10/21/2015 6:15:15 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Candor7
Biff Tannen was the guy that would beat the shit out of Bob Gayle on a regular basis. The fag writer was out to even the score when he wrote the script. The movie was just a rerun of Bobby's life with the trick car added for effect.
25 posted on 10/21/2015 6:20:29 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: PJ-Comix

Hey Jeb, why don’t you make like a tree.....and get out of here.


26 posted on 10/21/2015 6:21:52 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dr. Sivana
I guess that the Marty McFly character was based on Bobby Jindal.

He actually looked liked President George H. W. Bush.

27 posted on 10/21/2015 6:22:06 PM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: bankwalker

McFly (M. Fox) is a shrimp. George the Elder was a tall man, taller than 6’1” Reagan.


28 posted on 10/21/2015 6:29:07 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Graybeard58

Marty changed the future and wiped away the Cubs Worlds Series win.

http://www.tvguide.com/news/back-to-the-future-day-doc-brown-chris-lloyd-message/


29 posted on 10/21/2015 6:34:04 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: PJ-Comix

Whatever! Dude needs to make like a tree and get outta here!


30 posted on 10/21/2015 6:39:13 PM PDT by vpintheak (A Free Man! Death before disarmament!)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Was it his father, then?


31 posted on 10/21/2015 6:39:31 PM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: bankwalker
Was it his father, then?

Must be. Marty's father is named "George".
32 posted on 10/21/2015 6:46:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: PJ-Comix

And Al and Tipper Gore were the inspiration for Love Story.


33 posted on 10/21/2015 6:48:56 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag necessary?)
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To: PJ-Comix

Biff Tannen was a terrible character in the movie. He based that on Trump? Horse stuff.

To my knowledge Trump has never abused his wives, been a crook, or acted as the Tannen character did in the movie.

What a terrible curse it must be to have been born with a brain that thinks up idiotic stuff like this.


34 posted on 10/21/2015 6:51:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I once saw an interview with the guy who actually played the Biff Tanen part, and he said he based his performance and interpretation of the character on a bully he had to contend with in HIGH SCHOOL, which I’m sure reminded most of us of the same.

Insorfar as this bogus story, I’ll quote Biff: “Manure! I hate manure!”


35 posted on 10/21/2015 7:01:42 PM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: PJ-Comix
A retroactively convenient memory.

That is typical dimocrat BS. Rewriting history isn't enough now they are rewriting their memories.

36 posted on 10/21/2015 7:03:01 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Candor7

“Biff Tannen reminds me of Joe Biden.”

Are you really sure you didn’t mean to type ‘Hillarious Klintoon?’


37 posted on 10/21/2015 7:41:04 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: PJ-Comix
Biff Tannen's character was originally created in the 1980 draft of the script, years before Trump owned a casino or was even nationally well known.

This claim by Gale is probably bogus, but is it for this reason? Originally the film was not made with a sequel in mind, so would the script in 1980 have included the "alternate timeline" Biff from the second movie having the big casino released in 1989?

38 posted on 10/21/2015 8:40:22 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Bullshit.


39 posted on 10/21/2015 9:05:35 PM PDT by Rodamala
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40 posted on 10/22/2015 4:26:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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