2015年10月21日は、映画「バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー PART2」でデロリアンに乗ったマーティとドクが、過去からやってきた日です。いろいろなところで記事になっていますが、日本時間では実は翌日の10月22日です!(時差の関係)
2015年は第1作目の公開から30周年にもあたることに加え、この日付はトヨタにとっても特別な意味があります。同社の量産型として世界初のセダン型燃料電池自動車「MIRAI(ミライ)」が初めてカリフォルニアの顧客に届けられる日なのです。
この相乗効果を逃す手はない。トヨタは映画の中で主人公マーティ・マクフライを演じたマイケル・J・フォックスと、"ドク"ことエメット・ブラウン博士役のクリストファー・ロイドを起用したコマーシャル映像を制作しました。2人の掛け合いは台本なしで会話をしているように見えるほど、今でも息がぴったりです。
当初はショート・バージョンが公開されていましたが、その後ロングバージョンが公開されました。これだけの作品でありながら、日本語字幕・英語字幕共に、字幕がつけられた映像がありませんでしたので、そのセリフを聴き取り、書きだしてみました。
大体の意味は読み取れると思います。ぜひお楽しみください。
Marty, you've got to come back with me! Where?? Back to the future! I'm a huge back to the future fan. Especially all that crazy technology. That's why I got into science and ended up getting my masters in aero-mechanical engineering. I'm Nisha by the way, and I'm thrilled Toyota has picked me to meet my heroes and show them an amazing piece of technology that might inspire them! just like they inspired all of us.
Hoverboards? We haven't gotten them yet but we've got 3D movies! We have fingerprint technology, and those self tying sneakers. I've been waiting for those dog walking robots? We haven't gotten there yet can you believe fax machines are still around? Yeah I've got a fax machine who do you fax? I fax the people I fax! I know a guy in Ohio who has a fax machine, do you fax him? Well, I'll fax you! If you fax me I'll get back to you. You're rough (laughing)
This might be him. Hi guys! Nisha, I'm Michael. So you're like a real Doc Brown, huh? I wouldn't go that far, but I'm a scientist, yeah. So October 21st, 2015, I can't believe this day has nearly arrived. It's a big deal, you've got a pizza hydration or something? Flying cars? Hoverboards? Trash compacting robot? Almost. You remember the Mr.Fusion from the D'lorean? So that's why you had me bring this trash. So you're gonna turn that into energy? Precisely. I'm gonna show you how you can turn your trash into fuel. But I'm gonna need a lot more than this, I'll see you on the 21st.
Later, Nisha! I liked him. He's got a pep in his step. Nice ride! Thank you! Who's that? Some film crew that paid for our trash.
Didn't have the time to paint it or build it to scale, I see. that is the Toyota Mirai, it's a fuel cell car. It's powered by hydrogen which in its monatomic form.... English! Sorry, let's start at the beginning. So when I last left you guys I went on a little trash collection journey. You might recognize some of these locations. The end of the journey was at the landfill, where all the trash gets placed, decomposes, and produces an enormous amount of bio gas. a special facility then receives the purified gas, combined with natural gas from the grid where it all gets processed into hydrogen.
Hydrogen? Are you telling me this sucker's nuclear? No this sucker's electrical - all that hydrogen is piped and transported into a fuel station, where we can then fuel our vehicle. A vehicle, Which if my calculations are correct, should be arriving right about now. Give me a minute.
It works right? You bet your ass it works! Are we gonna take it for a spin or what? Let's get this baby up to 88! Just drive. Come on Chris, Give us a 'Great Scott!' Great Scott!