![]() ![]() Android officers continue to pursue him as he briefly struggles with simian-like creatures identified as shell dwellers and arrives at a vertical shaft with an escape ladder. Pursued by two police androids on motorcycles, THX flees to the limits of the city. After the crash, SRT is not found in the vehicle. When SRT finally gets the car to move, SRT immediately crashes his car into a concrete pillar. SRT struggles to figure out how to drive the car. SEN attacks him and later wanders into a child-rearing area, strikes up a conversation with children, and sits aimlessly until police androids apprehend him. SEN eventually escapes to an area reserved for the monks of OMM, where a monk notices that SEN has no identification badge. Chased by the police androids, THX and SRT are trapped in a control center, from which THX learns that LUH has been "consumed", and her name has been reassigned to her fetus, numbered 66691, in a growth chamber. During the escape, THX and SRT are separated from SEN. ![]() SRT 5752 shows them the exit and suggests to them that they may have been going in circles. Eventually they are joined by hologram actor SRT 5752, who starred in the holobroadcasts. They walk and walk, with only a white space to be seen all around them. The other prisoners seem uninterested in escape. One of the prisoners is a "shell dweller", later called a "Wookiee". The prison appears to be an all white space with no walls. It is decided that it would be inefficient to terminate THX, so THX is sentenced to prison, alongside SEN. He enjoys a brief reunion with LUH, but it is disrupted shortly after she reveals her pregnancy.Īt THX's trial, it is stated that THX was clinically born. THX and LUH are arrested and THX undergoes drug therapy and medical analysis. After the release of the mind lock, THX makes the necessary correction to that work phase. Without drugs in his system, THX falters during a critical and hazardous phase of his job, and a control center engages a "mind lock" on THX which raises the level of danger. ![]() THX later is confronted by SEN, who attempts to arrange that THX become his new roommate, but THX files a complaint against SEN for the illegal shift pattern change. LUH and THX become involved romantically and have sex. LUH secretly substitutes pills in her possession for THX's medications, causing him to develop nausea, anxiety, and sexual desires. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy."Īt home, THX takes his drugs and watches holobroadcasts while engaging with a masturbatory device. A soothing voice greets THX, and OMM ends the confession with a parting salutation: "You are a true believer, blessings of the State, blessings of the masses. On the way home, he stops at a confession booth in a row of many, and relates his concerns and mumbles prayers about "party" and "masses", under the Jesus Christ-esque portrait of "OMM 0000". ![]() 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. LUH has a male roommate, THX 1138, who works in a factory producing android police officers. Instead of names, people have designations with three arbitrary letters (referred to as the "prefix") and four digits, shown on an identity badge worn at all times.Īt their jobs in central video control centers, SEN 5241 and LUH 3417 keep surveillance on the city. Workers are clad in identical white uniforms and have shaven heads to emphasize uniformity, likewise with police androids who wear black and monks who are robed. Emotions and the concept of family are taboo. In the dystopian future, sexual intercourse and reproduction are prohibited, and use of mind-altering drugs is mandatory to enforce compliance among the citizens and to ensure their ability to conduct dangerous and demanding tasks. A director's cut prepared by Lucas was released in 2004. The film received mixed reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office upon its initial release, but has subsequently received critical acclaim and gained a cult following-particularly in the aftermath of Lucas's success with Star Wars (1977). A novelization by Ben Bova was published in 1971. The feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Bros. THX 1138 was developed from Lucas's 1967 student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which he made while attending the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The film is set in a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotions. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by Walter Murch, the film stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence, with Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, and Ian Wolfe in supporting roles. THX 1138 is a 1971 American social science fiction film co-written and directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. ![]()
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