THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film directed by George Lucas in his feature film directorial debut. It is set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions. The film received mixed reviews from critics and failed to find box-office success on initial release. It has subsequently received critical acclaim and gained a cult following, particularly in the aftermath of Lucas’ success with Star Wars in 1977.
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THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film directed by George Lucas in his feature film directorial debut. It is set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions. The film received mixed reviews from critics and failed to find box-office success on initial release. It has subsequently received critical acclaim and gained a cult following, particularly in the aftermath of Lucas’ success with Star Wars in 1977. A director’s cut prepared by Lucas was released in 2004. A novelization by Ben Bova was published in 1971. It was developed from Lucas’s student film Electronic Labyrinth: THx 1138 4EB, which he made in 1967 while attending the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Bros. and American Zoetrope. It stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence, and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Lucas and Walter Murch, it was released by Warner Bros., and released by Zondervan, in 1972. The movie is considered one of the most influential films of all time, along with The Godfather, The Matrix, and The Matrix Revolutions. The novelization of the film was published by Bova in 1971, and it was later adapted into a TV series by the same company, which aired it on PBS stations from 1973 to 1974. The TV series is based on a novel written by Michael O’Neill, who was also the author of the novelization, “The Godfather”, which was released on PBS in 1978.
The book was adapted into the film by O’Neill and Zondevan, who also co-wrote the film’s sequel, “ThX 1238”, which aired on PBS on September 22, 1978. It also was released as a DVD by Zodiak, in which it was re-released by Warner Brothers, and later released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Blu-Ray, as well as on DVD, with an audio commentary by the co-creator of the original film, Michael O‘Neill, and a trailer for the second film, “THX 1338” The film is about a male android named THX, who works in a factory producing android police officers. In the future, sexual intercourse and reproduction are prohibited, whereas use of mind-altering drugs is mandatory to enforce compliance among the citizens and to ensure their ability to conduct dangerous and demanding tasks. Emotions and the concept of family are taboo. Instead of names, people have designations with three arbitrary letters and four digits, shown on an identity badge worn at all times. At the beginning of the story, THX finishes his shift while the loudspeakers urge the workers to \”increase safety\”—and congratulate them for only losing 195 workers in the last period—to the competing factory’s 242. THX flees to the city limits of the city and escapes into a ventilation shaft, but he is undeterred.
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