Behold: the third part in a series of Watch This Now interviews with “swede” creators. (See our previous posts on "sweding" and "Be Kind Rewind" here, here, here, and here).
Check out this hilarious Back to the Future trilogy video. (Warning: some not appropriate for work language)
After the jump, we talk to Ghraddar Ryan Jamil, the director of the six-minute video. Jamil, the founder of Counter Clockwork Films in Austin, reveals some behind-the-scene information:
-How he had to get the crew to suppress their professional filmmaking knowledge to keep the homemade feel.
-How to make a flux capacitor with a few LED lights, tubing and red tape.
-Finding purple underwear is pretty difficult. Convincing an actor to wear the pair on camera is even more so.
-Pimp Doc Brown does not like dying.
Watch This Now: How did the video come about?
Jamil: One of the company’s junior creative directors approached me and told me about the Filmmaking Frenzy competition for “Swedes” based on the Michel Gondry film “Be Kind Rewind” starring Mos Def and Jack Black. The rules were simple. “Swede” a movie as characterized in the movie. He approached me and said hey, do you want to “swede” the movie. I said sure, lets do Back to the Future.
WTN: Why a trilogy?
JR: We were toying with the notion, one, two or three? Then we said, let’s just do all three. We felt that would be more challenging. “Sweding” one is a challenge. But to “swede” all three is definitely a monumental task. We wanted to make it as challenging as possible on us. 
WTN: So then what?
JR: Then basically, we wanted to make it and follow the rules as close as possible. So we had to do everything by hand. We set up some guidelines. We could only spend $100 total. We had to cast people from wh
