THX 1138

...become his own powerhouse. He digitally restored "THX 1138" at his own Industrial Light & Magic, put back the five minutes Warner Bros. cut out, and is using this brief theatrical release to push the restored DVD. So, suddenly, THX 1138's...

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...were forced to have abortions. The film director George Lucas needed a large group of people with shaved heads for the filming of his movie THX 1138, and so he hired some of his extras from Synanon. Robert Altman hired members of...

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Photo from LegalMovieDownloads.com. Those of us who like little movie secrets know that George Lucas likes to include a reference to "1138" in all of his movies in homage to his first movie, THX 1138. You'll find it in Raiders during the...

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...in San Francisco. Some of his better known roles include Gideon in Daniel Boone, Ongaro in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, SRT in George Lucas' THX 1138, and Sheriff Little in the 1980s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard. Don Pedro has a...

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...than deepening character or connecting with the audience. Like every movie Lucas would make later, "THX 1138" brims with arresting imagery, especially in his use of white, empty space. But his is an airless, hermetic world, devoid of pulse.

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Lucas points back to his very first feature film, THX 1138, a dystopian work of science fiction released in 1971, one that at the time he believed would be his one and only shot at directing a movie exactly as he envisioned it. (Its...

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...service. This however did not prevent him from appearing on the program. His first major film credit was as the voice of "OMM" in THX 1138, directed by George Lucas. During the late 1960s and 1970s, Wheaton appeared on some of the most...

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...than a decade before: that he would be a millionaire before he hit 30. Honestly, though, did any of those thoughts enter Lucas's mind when he was writing the film? "I don't read the reviews, that's for sure, so I'm not so familiar with...

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...may also have been influenced by Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey ''. The designs continued Lucas' work from his first feature film ''THX 1138, which featured a claustrophobic and Orwellian "subteranean world of black-and-white...

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