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Sep 10, 2004 · The greatest casualty was George Lucas' "THX 1138," a science-fiction parable set in the 25th century and displaying remarkable visual mastery. The movie's strength is not in its story but in its unsettling and weirdly effective visual and sound style.
George Lucas' feature debut presents a spare, bleak, dystopian future, and features evocatively minimal set design and creepy sound effects. In the future, mankind lives in vast underground cities...
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- George Lucas
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- Robert Duvall
The citizens are force-fed drugs to inhibit their passions, but THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) cut down on their drug rations and discover that they have sexual appetites. Worse still, they are in love.
Robert Duvall (THX 1138 being his "assigned name") breaks the laws of the world by falling in love, engaging in sex and therefore rebelling, placing him and his love in danger. This is a very clear moral story and allusion to politics and so on and so forth.
THX-1138 Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand. Lucas borrows from George Orwell’s novel '1984' and Fritz Lang’s... 'Metropolis'...
Jul 24, 2013 · The story of THX 1138 is basically all you know from Brave New World and 1984 mixed into one movie. It has the compulsory use of sedatives and a totalitarian government that suppresses its people in every way possible, basically – of course, all sexual behavior is forbidden.
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THX 1138 was released to theaters on March 11, 1971, and was a commercial flop, earning $945,000 in rentals for Warner Bros. and an overall loss for the studio. A contemporary survey found seven favorable, three mixed and five negative reviews.
