ELC

THX 1138 (1971)

Actors: George Lucas (director), Walter Murch (writer), George Lucas (writer), Lalo Schifrin (composer), Francis Ford Coppola (producer), George Lucas (writer), George Lucas (writer), David Ogden Stiers (actor), Sid Haig (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Marshall Efron (actor), Ian Wolfe (actor), Donald Pleasence (actor), George Lucas (editor), Terence McGovern (actor),

Plot: In an undefined future, a dystopian underground society is oriented to production and consumption in the malls. The population is controlled by drugs and people do not feel affection or sympathy for others. Sexual intercourse is absolutely forbidden and roommates are chosen by a computer. Faceless androids are responsible for the surveillance of the behavior of the dwellers and people pray in Unichapels for their god OMM 0910 that responds through recorded electronic messages. The worker THX 1138 handles radioactive materials in a factory and lives with his roommate LUH 3417. When she decides to stop using drugs, she becomes lucid and replaces the drugs of her partner for harmless pills. THX becomes emotional again and falls in love with LUH. He plans to escape with LUH to the superstructure, where they expect to live in freedom. But when SEN 5241 manipulates the computer to live with THX, he reports a complaint to the authorities and SEN is arrested. When THX commits a mistake in his work, the Powers That Be discover that THX and LUH are not taking drugs and having sexual intercourse and they are sentenced to be imprisoned in a weird white place. THX and SEN plan to escape with SRT and THX discover that LUH was killed by the authorities and he decides to find the way out to the surface.

Keywords: avant-garde, baldness, based-on-comic, based-on-short-film, car-chase, character-name-in-title, computer, confessional, credits-rolling-down, critically-acclaimed
Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime. The Future is here. A Love Story Filmed on Location in the 21st Century

Quotes:

Female voice (medicine cabinet): If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.

OMM: Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses.

Male voice (medicine cabinet): What's wrong?::Man: I need something stronger.::Male voice (medicine cabinet): Take four red capsules. In 10 minutes, take two more. Help is on the way.

Female voice: What's wrong?::Man on monitor: I just bought one of these yesterday, and it doesn't fit my consumer, and the store doesn't have any of the other kind.::[LUH presses a button]::Male voice: For more enjoyment and greater efficiency, consumption is being standardized. We are sorry ...::Man on monitor: This is - [cut off]

Male voice: That accident over in Red Sector L destroyed another 63 personnel, giving them a total of 242 lost to our 195. Keep up the good work and prevent accidents. This shift is concluded.

Female voice: A libido leveler has been mislaid near the pulse-leveling gate. If you have accidentally ...

Hologram Newscaster: - units of detuned escalatories have not, however, prevented virus and ordnance from invading our centers.

[hologram plays in background while THX looks for LUH]::Hologram: Combined with economic advantages of the mating structure, it far surpasses any disadvantages in increased perversions. A final tran - An infinite translated mathematics of tolerance and charity among artificial memory devices is ultimately binary. Stimulating rhetoric...::THX 1138: LUH?::Hologram: ...absolute. The theater of noise is proof of our potential. The circulation of autotypes. The golden talisman underfoot is phenomenon approaching. And, in the history of now, all ethos are designed.

Chrome Robot: Everything will be all right. You are in my hands. I am here to protect you. You have nowhere to go. You have nowhere to go.

Trial Prosecutor: Economics must not dictate situations which are obviously religious.