Back To the Future Time Travel Question

[Patrick Chewing]

In Back to the Future, when Marty travels back to 1955 and runs into his parents, he has the hard challenge of making them fall in love with one another since it was supposed to be George that got hit by Marty's grandfather's car, and not Marty himself.

Lorraine is crushing over Marty, and George is too afraid to ask Lorraine out, despite Marty's insistence that she will say yes to him.

My question pertains to the line, "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." Here's the question. Who said that line first? Not in terms of who said it first in the movie, but in terms of who came up with that line first and used it as a piece of advice and encouragement.

Marty uses the line first in order to help George muster up the courage to ask Lorraine to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

But then at the end of the movie, George references that line and gives that advice to Marty when George's new book arrives at the house.


So here's where I'm on the fence about who would have come up with that line first. Does Marty tell George "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything" because it was George that had told him that all along throughout Marty's life, or does George begin to say that line only after hearing it from Marty back in 1955??

What say you guys??



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyhIsFshd1E

[highwhey]

OP is a homosexual.

[bladefd]

In Back to the Future, when Marty travels back to 1955 and runs into his parents, he has the hard challenge of making them fall in love with one another since it was supposed to be George that got hit by Marty's grandfather's car, and not Marty himself.

Lorraine is crushing over Marty, and George is too afraid to ask Lorraine out, despite Marty's insistence that she will say yes to him.

My question pertains to the line, "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." Here's the question. Who said that line first? Not in terms of who said it first in the movie, but in terms of who came up with that line first and used it as a piece of advice and encouragement.

Marty uses the line first in order to help George muster up the courage to ask Lorraine to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

But then at the end of the movie, George references that line and gives that advice to Marty when George's new book arrives at the house.


So here's where I'm on the fence about who would have come up with that line first. Does Marty tell George "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything" because it was George that had told him that all along throughout Marty's life, or does George begin to say that line only after hearing it from Marty back in 1955??

What say you guys??



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyhIsFshd1E

Did George ever say that line before Marty went time traveling for the first time?

Keep in mind that the George at the end is a different George from the very beginning because it's an alternative timeline.

[imdaman99]

It's the chicken or the egg, your choice

[Patrick Chewing]

Did George ever say that line before Marty went time traveling for the first time?

Keep in mind that the George at the end is a different George from the very beginning because it's an alternative timeline.


That's the conundrum. The pre-Time Travel George never hears that line until Marty travels back in time to tell him, but doesn't Marty only know of that line because George has "always" said it to him since he was born?

[Patrick Chewing]

Cause also, by Marty going back to 1955, he's also modified his own existence in 1985.

[bladefd]

That's the conundrum. The pre-Time Travel George never hears that line until Marty travels back in time to tell him, but doesn't Marty only know of that line because George has "always" said it to him since he was born?

The George at the beginning told Marty that line.
The George at the end heard that line from Marty.

So technically, George from the beginning is the one who told that line to the George at the end. Through Marty, of course.