I saw the third movie in theaters as a kid. I’ll be ok. Something about his head on the pavement has always made me recoil. I’m blaming the sound, which someone else said was the sound of a cracking egg.

Oh thank you! 38 years later and I can rest easy for poor Michael J. Fox’s head. The hairs on my neck are still going to stand up when I see that scene though.

We rewatched Back to the Future a couple nights ago with our kids and the part where Marty’s grandfather hits him with the car and you see and hear Marty’s head hit the rough road surface … it gave me chills. I don’t like that sound. I was trying to figure out how they did it. The medium shot is certainly Michael J. Fox’s double. But the close-up is all Fox. They either used a semi-soft surface made to look like road, or maybe some kind of plate in his hair or under a wig. Or Fox just let his head hit the payment, which seems unlikely. Whatever protections should have been in place for Raising Hope must have worked for *Back to the Future.”

Just watched it. Not a doctor, so I don’t know, but that fall looked rough. The stiff arms seemed to happen really fast, but maybe that’s normal. I hope they were ok.