Conference noted::sf

                
                Re: last
                
                How is  THX-1138  anyway?    George  Lucas' first
                movie, right?   Never  saw it, should I?  Does it
                exist in video stores?
                
                Thanks, Rob who is  writing  this  in  the  wrong
                note...
                
                

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GIDDAY::CLARKE "Blessed are the cheese-makers..."    15 lines   1-JAN-1990 21:33
              -< see THX-1138, if only say that you've seen it ! >-
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    THX-1138 is not too bad.  It's very reminisent of George Orwell's
    '1984'.  Same sort of invasive 'Big-Brother' type of thing, using a
    variety of drugs to pacify and control the population.  It is worth
    viewing at least once, probably twice to get some of the deeper level
    nuances being thrown about.  The end is OK too.
    
    Lucas also slips a little reference to THX in Star Wars, during the
    garbage compactor scene (after rescuing Princess Leia), he calls to
    C3PO to stop the compacter 'THX-138' (I think).  It may have been
    '1138', but the reference is definitely there.  A little lazy, couldn't
    think of another name :*).
    
    harry :*)
    I have seen it (THX-138) in the video stores here in Australia, so I
    guess it must also be available in USA.

    
    Also, in American Grafitti, another Lucas film, one of the cars
    has a license plate with THX-138 on it.
    
    I caught the last half of THX-1138 a very long time ago, and though
    I cannot comment on the whole film, what I did see, I liked.
    
    					-Steve

    I fell asleep.  One of the worst movies I have ever seen.  There was
    nothing to it!  How long can a person watch a bunch of bald people
    barely moving around in a bald landscape?
    
    I KNOW that it was supposed to be "deep" and "have a message", but I,
    for one, just couldn't stand all of the nothingness!
    
    I am glad that Lucas got his act together after this one.
    
    -4 out of 10
    
    K.C.

I do believe that Princess Leia's Cell Block was ... cell block THX 1138.

seems that he dropped it in a whole bunch of places.

brad

    THX-1138 is also the license plate on the Hot Rod in his movie
    "American Graffiti"

    In contrast to .4, I think "THX-1138" is Lucas's best movie.  Every 
    movie thereafter seemed to be aimed at a younger and younger audience:
    teenagers for "American Graffiti", young teens for "Star Wars", 
    and kids for "Willow".  That's not to say that they aren't 
    enjoyable for older audiences (I liked even "Willow"), but that 
    there's less and less to them.  "THX-1138" had a number of interesting
    things in it: suppressing revolt by suppressing sexuality, the 
    hologram church, the infinite white prison, the cost-conscious 
    robot police.  Lucas managed to do an amazing amount with his 
    student film budget, mainly by using BART tunnels for underground 
    city scenes.
    
    My only complaint would be that the sound was bad.  Perhaps that 
    was deliberate - the future is noisy and hard to understand - or 
    it could be that that's where his money ran out.  Still, the 
    final scene of the movie is one of my favorites in all of film, 
    and one that still raises the goose bumps.
    
    /jlr

    Lucas made an earlier, shorter version of "THX-1138" as a student.  If
    you get a chance to see the short, grab it - I enjoyed it more than the
    long version.
    
    Ray

    	Where would one find it?
    

    re:.9
    
    At a film festival. It's not available on home video.
    
    --- jerry

    most interesting, as  .1 indicated it is available in the video
    libraries here in Australia, I've seen it at my local library.
    
    Regards
    	Mike

    THX 1138 is a great film! Robert Duval is perfect in his role.
    A combination of "BULL" Mitchum and "BOO" Radley. He carried 
    with him that narcotic confusion coupled with that always do 
    right,super responsible attitude.Complex,sensitive, detatched.
    
    The white room was a great metaphor for today's penal system;
    Boring , hopeless, neglected, misunderstood.
    
    Perhaps an idea taken from John Lennon ? " Keep them doped with
    religion, sex, and TV" .
    
    A real head trip.Check it out!
    Tom
    

    Anybody know if THX-1138 is available on videocassette?
    
    len.
    

    According to VIDEO MOVIE GUIDE it is.
    
    --- jerry

    
    It definitely is in the UK....I saw a copy in W H Smiths...

Re: .2 and .5

1138 was the cell block from which Chewbacca was being "transfered".  Neither
Princess Leia's cell block nor the trash compactor was numbered 1138.

Wook

    
    Re: .2, .5, and .17
    
    I don't know about the movie, but in the "Star Wars" novel, 
    THX-1138 is the number of the stormtrooper who searches the 
    "empty" Millenium Falcon and gets mugged by Han Solo after 
    it gets sucked into the Death Star.
    
    The name of the stormtrooper is different in the movie.
    
    					~chris

    RE .18  
    
    I remember in the movie that the troopers number was THX-1138 but
    for some reason it was changed in later version releases,
    
    Steve

    re:.19
    
    "Chapter IV" wasn't dropped, it was added.
    
    The trooper's number was never THX-1138, it was always TK-421.
    It was only THX-1138 in the novelization. That "1138" in STAR
    WARS was, as stated before, the cell block number that Chewie
    was claimed to be transferred from.
    
    --- jerry