What the hell was the plot of “thx 1138”? It was confuding when i whatched it please help me under stand.
I’d help you out, but it put me to sleep.
After some sort of apocalypse, society moves underground. In the time of THX 1138 it is a totalitarian society. Reproduction is done artificially. THX 1138 has doubts about the way things are going. He falls in love with LUH xxx (I don’t remember her number).
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After being chased by the police and being warned that to go outside means certain death, THX 1138 and LUH (I think she lived) escape to a glorious sunrise.
Beyond that, a meditation on the individual/society dichotomy. I like the bizarro-world take on drug legislation: “Drug Evasion” a crime because it makes you less likely (or able) to conform to authoritarian expectations.
Trivia: All the characters in the movie are named for California license plates.
LUH 3417 doesn’t survive. There’s a point in the movie where THX sees a fetus in a glass artificial womb with “LUH 3417” on it, the implication being that as names were recycled, they killed LUH the elder, who was pregnant at the time they were captured, and removed the fetus. (The novelization of the screenplay is a little more explicit there.)
What’s it about? Well, you could interpret it as an allegory about the numbing effects of mass-produced culture on society, or you could interpret it as a bunch of hippie film students in the late 60s/early 70s commenting on sex ‘n’ drugs, but mainly it’s a showcase for George Lucas’s directing skills. The full-length feature was adapted from his final project for film school at UCLA.
Parts of this movie was filmed in my town. I drive through that tunnel at least once a month. Right now it’s under construction…I think earthquake retrofitting.
I remember this movie most from my childhood, because it was shown on late night TV unedited (Creature Features with Bob Wilkins). As a preteen kid, I was digging the nudity.
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Okay. I wasn’t sure if she survived, or if THX 1138 went outside alone. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
I don’t know about that one. When I was very small, California license plates had three letters and three numbers (my mom’s '66 MGB was TAA 951). Sometime around 1970 or so, California changed the plates from yellow-on-black to yellow-on-blue and also changed to three numbers and three letters (e.g., 123 ABC). I don’t think we ever had three letters and four numbers. When the new scheme started running out of combinations, the state changed to 1XYZ345 format. So Lucas may have gotten the idea for the names from California license plates, but I don’t think that there was an actual “THX 1138” plate when the film was made because it has too many characters.
More trivial: “THX 1138” appears in the equations Brain is writing on the blackboard in the “Pinky and the Brain” intro.
If you keep a sharp eye out in other Lucas films, you can find more references. E.g. Milner’s license plate in American Graffiti was “THX 138”, “Prisoner transfer from cell block one one three eight,” etc.
I think he’s having a comm system malfunction.
The full-length movie was much better than the film school project - a lot of talking heads reminiscing while THX ran away down some halls.
I go with the individual/society dichotomy - freethinking individual making his own choices and escaping the repressive society that barely notices he’s there except as a subject of experimentation. Heavy on the libertarianism, at least IMO.
Isn’t that the ID number of one of the stormtroopers who goes into the Millennium Falcon and gets blasted by Han in Star Wars:A New Hope? They call him and Han comes out wearing his goon suit?
Like I said…
The storm-trooper in question was SUPPOSED to be “THX-1138” but sadly he wasn’t. They changed it to
TK421. See http://www.tk421.net . Scroll down a bit and look at the “Tk421” heading for the full story.
I swear I’m not a Star Wars geek! I didn’t particularly like or particularly hate The Phantom Menace, either! Though I do think “Attack of the Clones” is an amazingly cheesy subtitle for episode II…
-Ben “Send in the Clones” Cantrick
It’s also printed on the back of one of the battle droids in Phantom Menace.