THX 1138 (10/10) Movie CLIP - The Sun (1971) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
THX (Robert Duvall) climbs to his freedom.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Based on his award-winning student short, George Lucas's debut feature cerebrally celebrates the possibility for individual freedom against all odds. In a 1984-esque white-washed future underground dystopia where sexuality is banned, all humans sport shaved heads and the same shapeless outfits as they go about their work in a mandated state of sedation, listening to exhortations to "Buy and Be Happy." Black-clad robot cops chant a mantra to their victims that "everything will be all right" and automated confessional booths emit soothing therapeutic bromides. But unbeknownst to THX 1138 (Robert Duvall), his roommate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) has been reducing their meds, resulting in their mutual discovery of love and THX's subsequent imprisonment for drug evasion and sexual misconduct. Determined to find the pregnant LUH, THX breaks out of prison with the help of his cellmate SEN 5241 (Donald Pleasence) and an escaped TV hologram (Don Pedro Colley). With fugitive pursuits strictly budgeted, THX only has to evade the robocops until the funds run out, but surveillance is omnipresent and THX's vehicle keeps overheating. Making the only film produced through the first incarnation of Francis Ford Coppola's independent studio American Zoetrope, Lucas and his small crew, including co-writer and sound editor Walter Murch, shot THX 1138 in northern California with no interference from distributor Warner Bros. When Warners saw the austere result, however, they recut the film before its release. Neither the studio's nor Lucas's cut was a popular success, but THX 1138's coolly minimalist style and story-telling gained fans on the college screening circuit, just as Stanley Kubrick's poetic 2001: A Space Odyssey had attracted a large youth audience in 1968. When Lucas returned to sci-fi after American Graffiti, he traded restraint for nostalgic fun in the film that guaranteed his creative freedom in Hollywood: Star Wars.

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1971)
Cast: Robert Duvall, Robert Feero, Matthew Robbins, Johnny Weissmuller Jr., Claudette Bessing
Director: George Lucas
Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Edward Folger, Larry Sturhahn
Screenwriters: George Lucas, Walter Murch, Matthew Robbins

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[MICKEYISLOWD]

The message of the final scene is that he had become fully Meta-conscious and whether he could survive or not at the surface is irrelevant. He became what he always should of been which is a self aware, free agent in the world.

[cliffcox]

When I first saw this, when I was a child, I thought, the man has finally awakened and was reborn to his true self.

[plissken]

At the end, when THX makes it to the surface, you can see that George Lucas was really inspired by this visual and reused it for that famous twin-sun scene in Episode 4. Also, a fun fact is that the silhouetted THX in this scene is not Robert Duvall but rather Matthew Robbins (director of Corvette Summer, Dragonslayer, The Legend of Billie Jean and *batteries not included).

[benjamindiaz]

the best scenes in the history of cinema,

[alexroyster]

In the book he looks down on the landscape below him and sees a family eating at a picnic type setting and he walks down to them abd they invite him to eat good with them. That would have been a great ending but I like this one

[littleteethkeith]

This film is so important if you are someone that tries to be self aware. For me this movie is very depressing then when THX 1138 makes it to surface I always feel so happy and relieved for him.

[twmax]

Beautiful scene, set the stage for the binary sunset sequence in Star Wars. George Lucas had one hell of a mind for film!

[somethingtojenga]

Imagine seeing a small burning hole in the sky for the first time and creatures that swoop through the air. He must have been terrified.

[danwroy]

Once you learn he's actually crawling on the ground, you can't unsee it.

[kkroeger]

A movie by someone with a unique vision...

[Naminskia]

At 1:47, there's the LucasArts logo.

[smilesfordays]

They Terminated the Thx1138 capture mission because it was over budget. Reminds me of something.

[lucaspadilla]

I wish it were actually that sunny emerging from a BART tunnel.

[RRansomSmith]

The fact that he's crawling on the ground of a then unfinished train tunnel is insane LMAO

[ApolosaCakau]

THX 1138 A Concept that led to the creation of one of the most respectable sci-fi movie of all time [The Star Wars]

[башарал]

Song at the end is ihr Töchter from St Matthew Passion BWV 244

[sergeantvedara]

There is a bird flew over in the next scene, it's mean hope

[thedungeondelver]

I've often wondered what the conditions were that created the world of _THX-1138_ . War? Pandemic? A gradual societal shift? The "society" seems to combine both ends of authoritarian socialism and capitalism (consumption and entertainment are mandatory, but all rights to the self are suborned to the state), so the presentation seems to belie the old "Well... *they* finally took us over!" trope.

Anyway it's a fascinating movie and in another universe would probably have launched Lucas' career as an auteur.

[gamerlegion]

I watch a man go from an underground maze to get through the police to of the shackles of the lie to the real world such a great movie

[brianconner]

The music towards the end almost sounds similar to the music at the end of CASINO!!