6/1/2023 0 Comments Thx1138 scene mind lock hot![]() Nevertheless, he appears entirely corporeal. Late in the film, trying to escape, THX meets a black man, SRT 5752 (Don Pedro Colley), who talks of himself as a hologram. Speaking of which, everyone on the video screens THX watches in his tiny white home compartment is black. Then it’s time to viddy some naked black ladies and let the masturbation machine do its work. OMM’s computerized voice responds at pre-programmed intervals with pre-programmed responses regardless of what THX (or, presumably, anyone) tells it. Like everyone, he takes drugs to keep him complacent and calm and to enable him to do the precision work of building more silver-headed robot guards.Īfter work THX kneels before an image of Christ, known as OMM 0910, and confesses his malaise and confusion. Robert Duvall plays the title character, named as is everyone in this bare-headed, white-clothed future, with three letters and four numbers. It’s an effectively antiseptic, cold, mechinistic future-look. It’s shot with a striking minimalism, a very smart use of a limited budget, in wholly white rooms and the then futuristic white hallways and concrete train platforms of the almost-but-not-quite finished BART train network in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lucas wrote the first draft of the script, then had Walter Murch, future genius sound-designer and editor, help him rewrite it. ![]() There is precious little story and, to its credit, precious little explanation or exposition. THX 1138 plays out like 1984 minus the philosophy, plus Brave New World’s Soma. Or maybe not “and the like.” Those first two pretty much cover it. It’s inspired by 1984 and Brave New World and the like. THX 1138 is a dystopian science fiction film based on a short Lucas made at USC, and was produced by Coppola for his nascent American Zoetrope production company. He wants his legacy to consist only of what he wants his work to have been. Lucas is afraid to be known for the work he made when he made it. Can we just come out and say that now? Could anything be more obvious? I’m not a professional psychologist, but neither am I blind, deaf, and sporting a grapefruit in place of a human brain. Lucas is obsessed with covering up his early work. Or, to be more precise, to hide his past. I mean back in ’04 Lucas, without my noticing, retrofitted THX 1138 in much the same way he did the original Star Wars trilogy with new CGI effects, to better realize, as he is wont to claim, his original vision. I don’t mean in the philosophical, I’m older now, “we can never see the same movie twice” sense. I hadn’t seen George Lucas’s ’71 debut feature, THX 1138, for at least 25 years when I saw a screening of it last night.
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