I love THX*. It's a bit contrived in that utopia/dystopia-esque sort of way, but I vaguely feel like that whole vibe got a short canonical cinema-run anyway. Huxley, Orwell, Bradbury got some decent film versions, but nearly everything original always feels a bit eye-roll inducing (suggestions welcome). THX doesn't introduce anything that feels overwhelmingly new/significant, but it holds its own in trying to mix aspects of what its references.
Trivia item! pivotal industrial and techno bands of the 90s sampled the film heavily:
Front 242 (medicine cabinet) Ministry (torture telescreen scene) Orbital etc
i enjoyed it a lot, actually; it was just freaking me out a little bit, so i needed a break. i tend to get really freaked out by totalitarian shit--it's worse for me than any of the most violent, violating violence out there. it makes me feel claustrophobic and just...sad, somehow; i think because i always suspect/expect that they're going to come to a scene like in 1984, where winston has that horrible contraption on his head with the rats...and in order to avoid the rats, he rats out his girlfriend. i hate that it's even imaginable for people to do that to other people, in the name of power. but still, 1984 is one of my favorite pieces of literature (and i really liked the film version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/) i saw too...with john hurt, richard burton, and suzanna hamilton--which reminds me that i should really watch that again sometime soon; maybe i'll have a "crazy dystopia" film mini-fest in january, after glaucon gets back from PA).
i have to say, though...and this isn't that much of a stretch, i don't think, especially given the SW episode 1, 2, and 3 debacle...that THX 1138 is probably the most interesting film that lucas has ever done.
oh, definitely gets my vote as most interesting. Vadar's the great American Satan and that's nice and all, but certainly all his best work was when he was fresh out of college: American Graffiti, THX...okay that's pretty much it, innit :]
I love John Hurt and think he can do no wrong, so of course I love the film. I still question the notion that if he'd resisted at the end, he'd have brought down the entire government.
Hurt's also great in Jim Henson's The Storyteller. I highly recommend watching one a night. You'll sleep like a rock for weeks.
I can see how the totalitarian angle is a bit of a freak-out; it's a bit of a culture shock. I'm more disturbed by the fact it's not that much more of a culture shock though.
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Date: 2007-11-30 01:15 am (UTC)Trivia item! pivotal industrial and techno bands of the 90s sampled the film heavily:
Front 242 (medicine cabinet)
Ministry (torture telescreen scene)
Orbital
etc
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Date: 2007-11-30 01:43 am (UTC)i have to say, though...and this isn't that much of a stretch, i don't think, especially given the SW episode 1, 2, and 3 debacle...that THX 1138 is probably the most interesting film that lucas has ever done.
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Date: 2007-11-30 11:47 am (UTC)I love John Hurt and think he can do no wrong, so of course I love the film. I still question the notion that if he'd resisted at the end, he'd have brought down the entire government.
Hurt's also great in Jim Henson's The Storyteller. I highly recommend watching one a night. You'll sleep like a rock for weeks.
I can see how the totalitarian angle is a bit of a freak-out; it's a bit of a culture shock. I'm more disturbed by the fact it's not that much more of a culture shock though.
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Date: 2007-11-30 03:35 pm (UTC)i don't think i've seen the storyteller. perhaps i'll check it out. i do love my sleep. :-)