In ‘Back to the Future,’ a white teenager was basically credited with inventing rock & roll. But Chuck Berry’s son says his dad didn’t mind: “We didn’t think of any appropriations, didn’t think it was any rip-off.”
as Marty McFly onto the 2023 Broadway stage. Beloved artifacts like Marty’s down vest, Doc Brown’s souped-up DeLorean, and that banging theme song “The Power of Love” all make the jump, but other, shall we say, more problematic scenes were cut or altered. Here’s what we noticed from the seats:
Marty McFly, a white teenager, is no longer responsible for a rock & roll classic written by a Black pioneer. In the movie, Eighties Marty is a wanna-be rock star, but when he’s transported back to 1955 he gets to live out his fantasy at the school dance. As we all recall, the guitarist in the band injures his hand, so Marty borrows his axe and leads the all-Black band through a romp ofThe band member — “Marvin Berry” — is seen calling his “cousin” in the movie and holding up the phone so that Chuck could hear this mysterious kid play this rollicking new song.
Charles Berry Jr., Berry’s son, says he was unaware that the telephone gag was cut from the musical version. But according to Berry, neither that scene from the movie, nor anything else about the cinematic, bothered his father or anyone in the family, and he laughs off the appropriation accusations. “In my perspective, I know the facts,” he says. “My family knows the facts. The world knows the facts. It’s a movie. We didn’t think of any appropriations, didn’t think it was any rip-off.
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