Episode 336: THX-1138 (1971)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 243 minutes

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Summary

The first feature film from director George Lucas, THX-1138 (1971) features a world in which love is outlawed and mind-altering drugs are mandatory. The film stars Robert Duvall as the titular THX-1138 and Maggie McOmie as LUH-3417 as roommates who eventually develop into something much more despite the totalitarian regime in which they live.
Co-written by Walter Murch, the film ponders materialism, religion, and love.
Chris Bricklemyer (Outside the Cinema, Are You Serious?) and Jay Bauman (Red Letter Media) join Mike to discuss Lucas's freshman film, how its themes would echo in his other work, and how he revised it in the 2004 "director's cut."
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:08.5	All-Earth Council, in its infinite wisdom, has decided these two numbers are to be disposed of.
0:14.9	The biochemical forum has demands to make on their parts, however, before they are eliminated.
0:21.6	That's the kind of efficiency that makes you proud to live in this era.
0:25.6	This series, compared to 38.
0:41.9	You're over ready again.
0:43.2	And just back off, THX1138.
0:48.0	You have asked, are we happy?
0:50.6	Are we happy and effective?
0:53.4	Consultation with leading experts in the field makes it perfectly clear, perfectly clear
0:58.0	that we are all now programmed for perfect happiness, perfect happiness, perfect happiness, perfect happiness, perfect happiness.
1:09.0	Deliveral 3-8, we're correct. Are you all right? Perfect happiness. Perfect happiness.
1:13.1	Deliver three, eight, we're correct.
1:14.4	Are you all right?
1:17.3	What did they do to you?
1:23.6	There are, of course, occasional technical or electronic errors in programming and or surveillance which produce perverse exceptions.
1:30.3	I'm going to have a challenge. First they start skipping prescribed drug dosages,
1:33.3	then they begin touching, then indulging in various sexual acts,
1:37.3	and the ultimate perversion.
1:40.3	Love.
1:41.3	For such extreme psychobiological misfunction, only isolation will do.
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