4) Back To The Future
Back To The Future is one of the greatest feel-good family movies. Which, if you think about it, is kind of odd considering it’s largely built around a mother having the hots for her son. The darker edge to the movie was much more pronounced in the early iterations of the movie, though. To the extent that Marty was a chronic depressive who tried to commit suicide.
No, really. In early versions of the script, Marty entered Doc’s time machine – then a converted refrigerator that ran on Coca-Cola – because he thought, for some reason, that it was some kind of suicide booth. Screenwriter Bob Gale later admitted: “We thought that was a good idea for way longer than we should have.”
The ending of the movie is also hugely changed. When Marty and Doc Brown – actually referred to as Professor at this point – return to the future, they find a completely different 1980s; one similar to the idyllic space-age version of the future imagined in the 1950s. The only drawback was that rock n’ roll had never been invented, somehow due to Marty’s performance in the past.