25th Century. The humanity crawled until the underground to live as insects in a computerized beehive. Men and women work in state of lethargy caused by the use of tranquilizing drugs. They do not have names, identities, necessities, nor memory of the world they had abandoned...
THX 1138 is an anonymous and androgynous diligent human being who divides his cubicle with a female, LUH 3417. Suddenly, they start to reject the daily quota of the drug that they are obliged to take and begin a forbidden romance. Then they start to feel, to want, to think...
The first film written and directed by George Lucas - of the "Star Wars" saga - tells the history of a society ruled by a rigid machine totalitarianism. We can notice the deep influences of "Brave New World" of Aldous Huxley and "1984", of George Orwell. The narcotic isolation of this future world is transmitted by rich visual effects, taking "white" scenes on white backgrounds of a sterile and cold environment. Bitter parable, "THX 1138" makes an evaluation of the danger of the increasing technology dependence in our lives. But the director does not abandon the belief of that even a most common man can be a rebel... In these 1971 production, the anonymous hero runs away from this overwhelming society to meet himself under the sky of a new age. Puzzled... but triumphant!
Robert Duvall was the star in these film [the THX 1138 of the heading ] and for the release in DVD the movie was digitally restored. As he made with the original trilogy of "Star Wars", Lucas brought up to date the film with modern visual effects and new scenes. Among the extras, it is possible to know the first sketch of this landmark of the scientific fiction - a short movie that Lucas made when he still was a cinema student -, to see a documentary about the partnership with the director Francis Ford Coppola, that financed the film, and to hear the astonishing noises of the future. "THX 1138" is famous for its futuristic noises, transformed into a musical track. Don't miss it! Visit the official website of the film: http://www.thx1138movie.com/
In time: Lucas invented and patented a sophisticated system that improves the audio quality of electronic equipment and named it as THX.
THX 1138 is an anonymous and androgynous diligent human being who divides his cubicle with a female, LUH 3417. Suddenly, they start to reject the daily quota of the drug that they are obliged to take and begin a forbidden romance. Then they start to feel, to want, to think...
The first film written and directed by George Lucas - of the "Star Wars" saga - tells the history of a society ruled by a rigid machine totalitarianism. We can notice the deep influences of "Brave New World" of Aldous Huxley and "1984", of George Orwell. The narcotic isolation of this future world is transmitted by rich visual effects, taking "white" scenes on white backgrounds of a sterile and cold environment. Bitter parable, "THX 1138" makes an evaluation of the danger of the increasing technology dependence in our lives. But the director does not abandon the belief of that even a most common man can be a rebel... In these 1971 production, the anonymous hero runs away from this overwhelming society to meet himself under the sky of a new age. Puzzled... but triumphant!
Robert Duvall was the star in these film [the THX 1138 of the heading ] and for the release in DVD the movie was digitally restored. As he made with the original trilogy of "Star Wars", Lucas brought up to date the film with modern visual effects and new scenes. Among the extras, it is possible to know the first sketch of this landmark of the scientific fiction - a short movie that Lucas made when he still was a cinema student -, to see a documentary about the partnership with the director Francis Ford Coppola, that financed the film, and to hear the astonishing noises of the future. "THX 1138" is famous for its futuristic noises, transformed into a musical track. Don't miss it! Visit the official website of the film: http://www.thx1138movie.com/
In time: Lucas invented and patented a sophisticated system that improves the audio quality of electronic equipment and named it as THX.