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GUESS you guys aren’t ready for that yet . . . but your kids are gonna love it.”

So said Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, inset) in “Back to the Future,” having just slayed his parents’ high school dance in 1955 with a demented version of Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B Goode.”

That scene, from the 1985 time-traveling comedy flick, remains iconic and is symptomatic of how a generation of Hollywood producers, writers and directors used the rock ’n’ roller’s pioneering electric-blues and vivid storytelling to bring their own tales to life. It is also how generations of pop-culture enthusiasts not old enough to remember Berry in his ’50s and ’60s pomp continue to be exposed to the late legend’s work and legacy.

Nine years after Marty McFly duck-walked all over the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance, Berry was again soundtracking movie history when Uma Thurman and John Travolta jived their way through a dance contest in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” (1994). The song playing this time was his 1964 hit “You Never Can Tell,” and now it’s impossible to hear it without thinking of the duo’s riveting on-screen chemistry. Berry’s music is also woven into many films that aren’t quite as iconic, but just never go away. To this day, parents still use 1992’s big-dumb-dog comedy “Beethoven” as a rainy-day movie of choice. It’s where curious kids might hear Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven” (albeit, performed by Paul Shaffer and the World’s Most Dangerous Band) and wonder where they can hear more. And Christmas simply isn’t complete without hearing “Run Rudolph Run,” but you’re just as likely to hear it coming out of the TV during the seasonal reruns of “Home Alone,” “Jingle All The Way,” and “The Santa Clause 2.”